Watches, on the other hand, haven't been useful in a long time.
I know, when I want to know the time I find it far easier to take my phone out of my pocket, press a button to wake it up and see the time then put the phone back in my pocket. It's so much more convenient than glancing down at my wrist.
I don't like to wear a watch on my wrist. Even a good waterproof one gets too dinged up. I especially don't want a good one on my wrist getting manure on it.
But you don't mind getting shit on your smartphone? Hmmm...
By the way, I just threw that bomb in to see if you were paying attention. Did you catch it?
I was beginning to wonder if I was the only one who didn't have my own bomb at home.
I don't think any of the use-cases you posed have a user-base of more than 0.1% of any population.
What, you've never had your phone run out of battery and either not had a charger with you or not been near a power outlet?
No, I think you're definitely the one who doesn't get out much. Hint: most restaurants, bars, sports venues and cinemas don't have handy phone charging points available, and even if they did, plugging in your phone is not going to win you any awards for being the coolest guy in the room.
Because they are delicate pieces of enginering and art,if by watch you mean a proper mechanical watch, if you mean quartz watche, well I don't know why people started wearing them in the first place.
Quartz watches mean that for less than GBP20 you can have something that is as accurate as the most expensive Rolex or whatever. Mechanical watches need winding, which IS something you forget to do.
Or, depending on how you wear your smartphone, you'd look more like Leela from Futurama.
Come to think of it, why HASN'T anyone made a bracer like the thing Leela wears on her arm, complete with a place to mount a cell phone? That seems like something some Futurama fan would've come up with by now...
I got one of those "sports" phone holders the other day. It holds your phone in landscape orientation perfectly if you put it on your forearm instead of your biceps, which is useful for, er, watching videos one handed on your phone. However, I wouldn't be seen dead with it like that in public.
Offline map is only available in certain countries or cities.
I'm sure that if your hobby is trekking solo across the Antarctic you'll be better off with a dedicated military GPS unit that costs twenty times more than your smartphone and is guaranteed to withstand temperatures down to -50C and small arms fire. Meanwhile in the real world, 99% of people will be perfectly happy with Google Maps.
About the only really useful function I can think of for a smart watch is be able to track your smart phone.
For an outdoors-y type of person, having your GPS, compass, altimeter, emergency light and whistle and basic phone on your wrist where you're less likely to lose it seems like a good idea.
Who doesn't save up at least a tiny bit of money (say 3 months salary) in case of a fucking emergency? Seriously, what would you have done if your fucking furnace suddenly needed fucking replacing? What the fuck would you have fucking done if your fucking roof had fucking leaked?
Unless you are earning an awful lot of money and have no family, social life or interests outside work, it takes a long time to save up 3 months salary.
Most of us normal people have to use credit cards for car/roof repair type emergencies.
Where exactly do you think the large amount of personal debt comes from if everyone is happily saving a large chunk of their income?
They were the largest protests, in absolute terms. Per capita, they were tiny, but world population is a helluva lot larger than it was 90 years ago during Labor Movement protests, or 180 years ago during slavery protests.
Most of the world's population (e.g. the billions in China and India) didn't need to protest because their governments weren't fucking stupid enough to even consider agreeing to invade Iraq.
You might say that 1 million marching in London out of a UK population of 60 million is not a high percentage. That overlooks the fact that a LOT of people sympathised with the anti-war movement but didn't/couldn't go on the demonstration. It's still a pretty huge demo though.
I was one of the idiots that believed that there were WMD and that the politicians knew more than we did (national security and all that). But I was young and naive.
The thing is, the politicians didn't say "look, we think there might be WMDs, but we can't actually prove it, however we might as well invade Iraq anyway because Saddam Hussein's an unpleasant dictator".
They said "Saddam Hussein has WMDs ready to hit the UK in twenty minutes".
You didn't have to be that much of an idiot to find that scary. In a way, it's surprising anyone was against the war.
You may not have noticed, but the difference between the Clinton and Bush administration's stance on Iraq was that only one of them actually started an illegal and pointless war there.
And you visited these weapon sites in Iraq? You personally reviewed the evidence, including classified data and the associated assessments, not just from the US but also from the UK, France, etc? And your qualifications for evaluating WMD evidence are?
So the only people who can comment on this thread are CIA and MI6 officers?
It is worth remembering that the US only had one real ally in the war (the UK) which is something I feel ashamed about as an Englishman. Pretty much the rest of the world was opposed to it.
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It'll probably need a daily charge, making it worse than the old clockwork watches in that respect.
Although it was slightly annoying and not difficult to forget to do, at least winding a watch only took about ten seconds (IIRC).
Watches, on the other hand, haven't been useful in a long time.
I know, when I want to know the time I find it far easier to take my phone out of my pocket, press a button to wake it up and see the time then put the phone back in my pocket. It's so much more convenient than glancing down at my wrist.
An internet connected wearable spice rack for your arms. Welcome to the world of the future.
The spice must flow.
I don't like to wear a watch on my wrist. Even a good waterproof one gets too dinged up. I especially don't want a good one on my wrist getting manure on it.
But you don't mind getting shit on your smartphone? Hmmm...
By the way, I just threw that bomb in to see if you were paying attention. Did you catch it?
I was beginning to wonder if I was the only one who didn't have my own bomb at home.
I suppose, in general, you don't get out much.
I don't think any of the use-cases you posed have a user-base of more than 0.1% of any population.
What, you've never had your phone run out of battery and either not had a charger with you or not been near a power outlet?
No, I think you're definitely the one who doesn't get out much. Hint: most restaurants, bars, sports venues and cinemas don't have handy phone charging points available, and even if they did, plugging in your phone is not going to win you any awards for being the coolest guy in the room.
Because they are delicate pieces of enginering and art ,if by watch you mean a proper mechanical watch, if you mean quartz watche, well I don't know why people started wearing them in the first place.
Quartz watches mean that for less than GBP20 you can have something that is as accurate as the most expensive Rolex or whatever. Mechanical watches need winding, which IS something you forget to do.
I prefer analogue mechanical watches, that way I do not have to worry about batteries
But you do have to remember to wind them up. The battery in a watch lasts 2 years or more, it's hardly a major problem.
Look, wrist watches were replaced by cellphones.
If you believe that either you've never actually tried to use a phone as a timepiece or you're just plain delusional.
Most likely they're under twenty and think it's cool because everyone else is doing it.
And one of those circular saws disguised as a diver's watch bezel.
Or, depending on how you wear your smartphone, you'd look more like Leela from Futurama.
Come to think of it, why HASN'T anyone made a bracer like the thing Leela wears on her arm, complete with a place to mount a cell phone? That seems like something some Futurama fan would've come up with by now...
I got one of those "sports" phone holders the other day. It holds your phone in landscape orientation perfectly if you put it on your forearm instead of your biceps, which is useful for, er, watching videos one handed on your phone. However, I wouldn't be seen dead with it like that in public.
Look, wrist watches were replaced by cellphones.
Only for children and hipsters.
I'm fairly sure iPhones already have a vibrating buttplug app.
Offline map is only available in certain countries or cities.
I'm sure that if your hobby is trekking solo across the Antarctic you'll be better off with a dedicated military GPS unit that costs twenty times more than your smartphone and is guaranteed to withstand temperatures down to -50C and small arms fire. Meanwhile in the real world, 99% of people will be perfectly happy with Google Maps.
About the only really useful function I can think of for a smart watch is be able to track your smart phone.
For an outdoors-y type of person, having your GPS, compass, altimeter, emergency light and whistle and basic phone on your wrist where you're less likely to lose it seems like a good idea.
Seller is "imissmyyouth1980". (heh, I miss mine too), located in Birmingham, West Midlands, UK.
Let's just hope they don't insist on collection in person.
I went to Birmingham once. It was shut.
Who doesn't save up at least a tiny bit of money (say 3 months salary) in case of a fucking emergency? Seriously, what would you have done if your fucking furnace suddenly needed fucking replacing? What the fuck would you have fucking done if your fucking roof had fucking leaked?
Unless you are earning an awful lot of money and have no family, social life or interests outside work, it takes a long time to save up 3 months salary.
Most of us normal people have to use credit cards for car/roof repair type emergencies.
Where exactly do you think the large amount of personal debt comes from if everyone is happily saving a large chunk of their income?
Because we might have to use social media to prevent an invasion of Iran?
I would take a fair bet that over half the US population now would be quite happy if you invaded Iran (ignoring the question of cost).
I doubt that most soccer moms and Christians are left wing.
They were the largest protests, in absolute terms. Per capita, they were tiny, but world population is a helluva lot larger than it was 90 years ago during Labor Movement protests, or 180 years ago during slavery protests.
Most of the world's population (e.g. the billions in China and India) didn't need to protest because their governments weren't fucking stupid enough to even consider agreeing to invade Iraq.
You might say that 1 million marching in London out of a UK population of 60 million is not a high percentage. That overlooks the fact that a LOT of people sympathised with the anti-war movement but didn't/couldn't go on the demonstration. It's still a pretty huge demo though.
I was one of the idiots that believed that there were WMD and that the politicians knew more than we did (national security and all that). But I was young and naive.
The thing is, the politicians didn't say "look, we think there might be WMDs, but we can't actually prove it, however we might as well invade Iraq anyway because Saddam Hussein's an unpleasant dictator".
They said "Saddam Hussein has WMDs ready to hit the UK in twenty minutes".
You didn't have to be that much of an idiot to find that scary. In a way, it's surprising anyone was against the war.
You may not have noticed, but the difference between the Clinton and Bush administration's stance on Iraq was that only one of them actually started an illegal and pointless war there.
And you visited these weapon sites in Iraq? You personally reviewed the evidence, including classified data and the associated assessments, not just from the US but also from the UK, France, etc? And your qualifications for evaluating WMD evidence are?
So the only people who can comment on this thread are CIA and MI6 officers?
But might is right, eh?
I felt like I was reading the same thing over and over again. This summary could have been cut way shorter without losing any substance what-so-ever.
So you think the whole thing could have been done in 140 characters or less?
"what if America set up a teleportation network to cut down on traffic congestion?"
Too socialist, it'll never happen. You can pry the keys to my 6 mpg monster truck from my cold dead fingers.