A good smart watch needs a bluetooth handset that looks like an ordinary cell phone. You could use it for voice calls, so as not to look like "that dork talking into his Dick Tracy wrist phone". But I suppose people talking to their wrists would at least be slightly less annoying than the bluetooth earpiece people who are indistinguishable from the mentally ill when encountered on a city sidewalk.
I will be amazed if in 20 years any more than 50% of all these fiddly little generators are still maintained and working. Just look at what's left of the old wind farms in CA and HI. It would be nice if they kept them up though, to give my boy something to do when the new armies of H1B's finally take the entire tech industry back home with them.
I don't know...that's 4 1/2 blocks from my office, and 3 1/2 blocks beyond my normal daily range. I think I'll just stay put and send ASCII-art diagrams to everyone in my company.
They were sold to Matsushita not too long after that, and slowly merged with, and were augmented by the Panasonic line over the following 30 years. My father, and later myself, sold and serviced the Quasar line for almost that entire period. On the whole, they were good performing, reliable equipment at a good value. Matsushita brought some interesting technology as well, such as early RGB monitors and teletext units, the "Great time machine" VX video recorders which preceded VHS and Beta in the U.S., checkbook-size pocket computers, excellent sensor cook microwave and micro/convection ovens, and plenty of advanced engineering, such as wide use of efficient switched-mode power supplies (like are ubiquitous in PCs and, well, everything now) well before their competitors.
Slashdot, but like it was before it had to make money, and maybe before JonKatz got too vocal. The first year was probably the best. (Back in those days, registering was for suckers, so my five-digit came months after I started hanging out here.) Anyway, money is the root of all this evil, and brings with it politics, slashvertisement, "broader appeal", and editors who must "look the other way" when a sensational submission needs to be corrected or ignored.
It doesn't matter who delivers it, Hollywood will eventually get $100 per month out of you. It happened with cable, then later with satellite, and in another few years it will happen with streaming. Just wait and see.
The online retailers should have invested in BB, fired all the saleskids, and supported keeping the stores around as showrooms. I would think that returns (costs!) will go up for the online shops when people are eventually forced to order blindly.
Go to a Microsoft store, if you can find one. All the machines they sell are crapware free, and they have a wide selection of popular hardware. Check it out online if you have to, but I highly recommend it.
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A good smart watch needs a bluetooth handset that looks like an ordinary cell phone. You could use it for voice calls, so as not to look like "that dork talking into his Dick Tracy wrist phone".
But I suppose people talking to their wrists would at least be slightly less annoying than the bluetooth earpiece people who are indistinguishable from the mentally ill when encountered on a city sidewalk.
Yeah right, and that same Harvard professor still thought it was credible when 30 other students submitted the same explanation.
HUZZAH! Trolling sig wins again!
I will be amazed if in 20 years any more than 50% of all these fiddly little generators are still maintained and working. Just look at what's left of the old wind farms in CA and HI. It would be nice if they kept them up though, to give my boy something to do when the new armies of H1B's finally take the entire tech industry back home with them.
I don't know...that's 4 1/2 blocks from my office, and 3 1/2 blocks beyond my normal daily range. I think I'll just stay put and send ASCII-art diagrams to everyone in my company.
Hmmm... ...that doesn't look like Mind.forth!? What's up, Arthur?
A hot meal in New Jersey probably costs $8.
They were sold to Matsushita not too long after that, and slowly merged with, and were augmented by the Panasonic line over the following 30 years. My father, and later myself, sold and serviced the Quasar line for almost that entire period. On the whole, they were good performing, reliable equipment at a good value. Matsushita brought some interesting technology as well, such as early RGB monitors and teletext units, the "Great time machine" VX video recorders which preceded VHS and Beta in the U.S., checkbook-size pocket computers, excellent sensor cook microwave and micro/convection ovens, and plenty of advanced engineering, such as wide use of efficient switched-mode power supplies (like are ubiquitous in PCs and, well, everything now) well before their competitors.
If we were the types to RTFA, we wouldn't be posting here. It's the Slashthropic principle.
Slashdot, but like it was before it had to make money, and maybe before JonKatz got too vocal. The first year was probably the best. (Back in those days, registering was for suckers, so my five-digit came months after I started hanging out here.)
Anyway, money is the root of all this evil, and brings with it politics, slashvertisement, "broader appeal", and editors who must "look the other way" when a sensational submission needs to be corrected or ignored.
It's just the opportunity we've been waiting for, to start our own *new* Slashdot, with hookers and blackjack!
We have a spare on Mercury.
Wow, with all the "Antarctic ice" link posts at the bottom, this place is starting to remind me of Digg. At least when I last saw it years ago...
The 820 pic looks too much like the HTC HD7 that I'm typing this with.
It doesn't matter who delivers it, Hollywood will eventually get $100 per month out of you. It happened with cable, then later with satellite, and in another few years it will happen with streaming. Just wait and see.
To whom shall I write the check as I securely invest my life savings?
The online retailers should have invested in BB, fired all the saleskids, and supported keeping the stores around as showrooms. I would think that returns (costs!) will go up for the online shops when people are eventually forced to order blindly.
Thanks, I hadn't seen that one before.
Yeah, how about a robust, resilient, and cheap USB i/o box, please.
It's effing cold in Seattle. Snowing every other day it seems. I want to be warm and dry.
Relatively speaking, of course. :)
Go to a Microsoft store, if you can find one. All the machines they sell are crapware free, and they have a wide selection of popular hardware. Check it out online if you have to, but I highly recommend it.
I thought it said "Porn'Far" and I was OK with that.
If you live in Seattle, it doesn't matter how old you are.
Debris will be both a weapon and a shield, and combat will devolve into a very tedious, counter-productive affair.