Yeah, I'm holding out for the hybrid mechanical smartwatch. Automatic movement with a physical dial to tell the time, overlaid by electronic features when the battery's charged.
e.g. https://kairoswatches.com/ would get my money if they did a titanium case/bracelet for that, even if it is a generic third party movement.
I must be weird. If I want to get off my arse and go running I need a decent pair of shoes or a nice clean bit of pavement.
I don't need expensive electronics. I guess my bluetooth headset and a pocket for my MP3 player (also known as my phone) would be convenient to stave off the inevitable boredom of running without going anywhere, but I can probably tell by myself when I'm knackered, when I've run enough and how far I've run.
Still, it could be worse. Fucking cyclists mount even more shit on their bikes and still have the electronic sensors letting them know how close to cardiac arrest they're getting..
It's so far from cutting edge as a timepiece that it implicitly fails to be a beautiful watch even before you start comparing it to the hand built works of art that are available for even modest prices.
I accept your 'phone unavailable' use case, but please, don't go pretending this is a thing of beauty. Function at best.
When my knees get hurt by your reclining seat I don't give a fuck what entitlement you think the airline gave you, you're in my personal space. Now fucking move, arsehole.
So Jane sleeps with Bob, Bob's wife finds out and slaps Jane while calling her a whore.
How is this sexist?
Anyway, why do you think Khyber was using the word 'whore' as an insult? He believes Zoe exchanged sex for something of value, that sounds like prostitution to me. 'Whore' would be an appropriate description.
Maybe more emotionally loaded than 'prostitute' but hardly a reason to rant at him. Shit, it's Khyber, there're plenty of better reasons to rant at him.
the fact that you think women need different types of games kind of make you misogynistic in your thinking
No it does not, and for two reasons: 1 - showing empathy for female gamers and trying to identify their needs is clearly not a display of hatred 2 - unless you have evidence that all game types are played in equal proportions by both genders, he's probably right
So your issue is that they die while badly dressed?
Challenge the way they're dressed, sure. I have no problem with that. But don't go pretending that this somehow promotes violence against women.
Shit, in your example game Peach gets kidknapped but Mario gets attacked, assaulted, killed multiple times. You're suggesting that the woman suffering loss of freedom is worse than the man suffering loss of life?
I have big issues with suggestions that games promote violence against women.
Most games promote nothing. Collectively they involve a lot of violence.
Some of that violence is against women. Most of it is against men. For instance earlier today I launched a major offensive against a 28000 man army, slaughtering around 79% of the enemy and losing a third of my own men. No women were harmed.
Perhaps someone standing up in public screaming 'me me me' shouldn't be surprised when some fuckwit goes 'yeah, you'. Just keep the rest of us out of it.
So you use a new OS for the first time, expect it to act like a previous OS, spend no time learning or configuring it, and blame it for doing something you didn't expect?
GCSE English, coursework graded as part of the exam back in '89: "Imagine a book in which the pupils take over their school in the same way that the animals take over in Animal Farm. Write the first chapter of the book."
I got an A, probably for the scene where the female maths teacher got thrown through a top floor window.
Creative writing is healthy, teachers should be allowed to encourage and practice it.
Do not base your opinion on someone by the subject of their degree.
You can be an engineer without ever attending university. You can get a Masters in computer science and still know fuck all about technology, information or otherwise.
I'd far rather have someone with in-depth hands-on industry experience making decisions than some academic with no real-world understanding, whatever their underlying academic discipline was.
It does matter, as it's not the same thing. One is open, honest, easy to understand and fair. The other is impossible for the customer to interpret or manage and is thus extremely unfair.
The price and total data transferred may be identical, but the propositions very much are not.
UPS aren't charging you for the weight of the trolley they used to load your package onto the delivery van though are they.
If I download a web page, I expect to pay for the bytes leaving my router and arriving back at it. If I download an encrypted web page, I expect those bytes to include that encryption overhead.
On neither occasion do I know or care about the encapsulation. That's the ISP's issue, not mine.
Just like the fuel in the van is UPS's issue, not mine.
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Yeah, I'm holding out for the hybrid mechanical smartwatch. Automatic movement with a physical dial to tell the time, overlaid by electronic features when the battery's charged.
e.g. https://kairoswatches.com/ would get my money if they did a titanium case/bracelet for that, even if it is a generic third party movement.
I must be weird. If I want to get off my arse and go running I need a decent pair of shoes or a nice clean bit of pavement.
I don't need expensive electronics. I guess my bluetooth headset and a pocket for my MP3 player (also known as my phone) would be convenient to stave off the inevitable boredom of running without going anywhere, but I can probably tell by myself when I'm knackered, when I've run enough and how far I've run.
Still, it could be worse. Fucking cyclists mount even more shit on their bikes and still have the electronic sensors letting them know how close to cardiac arrest they're getting..
I know a lot of women that put their phones in their rear pockets when wearing jeans.
I know some women that put their phones in their bra.
Both sets of women are going to be thwarted by larger screen devices.
WR to 30 feet means bad weather and doing the washing up at best. You even jump into a swimming pool and you're in trouble.
http://littlejewellers.co.uk/f...
My main watch has 100m water resistance and for swimming/watersports I wear the cheaper one that has 200m water resistance.
when it doubles as a beautiful watch
Whoa. At no point does it do that.
It's so far from cutting edge as a timepiece that it implicitly fails to be a beautiful watch even before you start comparing it to the hand built works of art that are available for even modest prices.
I accept your 'phone unavailable' use case, but please, don't go pretending this is a thing of beauty. Function at best.
After a few pages of spam from you I just have one question:
Does your host file based solution block your fucking annoying Slashdot comments?
Erm. Maybe a bit too much ganja, dude. You're now flaming yourself online.
That depends entirely on whether there's an empty seat behind me.
What I've done before is wander to a mostly empty part of the aircraft and lie down across five seats, but it's all down to circumstances.
Wait, that's physically possible?
If I lift my arse off the seat to create an optimal angle I can sometimes manage it but seat in front leaves large dents in my shins.
So yes, my knees will be like that woman's - sticking straight out in front, when I can put one leg into the aisle.
When my knees get hurt by your reclining seat I don't give a fuck what entitlement you think the airline gave you, you're in my personal space. Now fucking move, arsehole.
On my flight from London to California at the end of the month, the person in front is not reclining their seat.
I can and will use physical means to prevent them. Fully legally too.
a person using the insult "whore" is sexist
So Jane sleeps with Bob, Bob's wife finds out and slaps Jane while calling her a whore.
How is this sexist?
Anyway, why do you think Khyber was using the word 'whore' as an insult? He believes Zoe exchanged sex for something of value, that sounds like prostitution to me. 'Whore' would be an appropriate description.
Maybe more emotionally loaded than 'prostitute' but hardly a reason to rant at him. Shit, it's Khyber, there're plenty of better reasons to rant at him.
Meanwhile most men aren't on a fucking battleship, so why is it perfectly acceptable to shoot them with a Walther ppk?
Sorry but no.
the fact that you think women need different types of games kind of make you misogynistic in your thinking
No it does not, and for two reasons:
1 - showing empathy for female gamers and trying to identify their needs is clearly not a display of hatred
2 - unless you have evidence that all game types are played in equal proportions by both genders, he's probably right
"the typical Candy Crush Saga player is a woman aged 25-45"
-- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/maga...
Incidentally why are slasher movies misogynistic? Men die too. In fact, it's usually a woman that survives. Clearly they're feminist movies.
But.. I've seen people use the term SJW to belittle someone they've already labelled MRA.
I remain bewildered that there doesn't seem to be room for innocent bystanders in this discussion.
So your issue is that they die while badly dressed?
Challenge the way they're dressed, sure. I have no problem with that. But don't go pretending that this somehow promotes violence against women.
Shit, in your example game Peach gets kidknapped but Mario gets attacked, assaulted, killed multiple times. You're suggesting that the woman suffering loss of freedom is worse than the man suffering loss of life?
You're not really convincing me.
I have big issues with suggestions that games promote violence against women.
Most games promote nothing. Collectively they involve a lot of violence.
Some of that violence is against women. Most of it is against men. For instance earlier today I launched a major offensive against a 28000 man army, slaughtering around 79% of the enemy and losing a third of my own men. No women were harmed.
Perhaps someone standing up in public screaming 'me me me' shouldn't be surprised when some fuckwit goes 'yeah, you'. Just keep the rest of us out of it.
The real issue is the bunny hopping in the first place.
Rewarding people jerking around like epilectic cocks is just shit game design. Get your spasms off my fucking screen, I'm trying to play a game here.
So you use a new OS for the first time, expect it to act like a previous OS, spend no time learning or configuring it, and blame it for doing something you didn't expect?
I'm not sure the OS is the issue here.
GCSE English, coursework graded as part of the exam back in '89:
"Imagine a book in which the pupils take over their school in the same way that the animals take over in Animal Farm. Write the first chapter of the book."
I got an A, probably for the scene where the female maths teacher got thrown through a top floor window.
Creative writing is healthy, teachers should be allowed to encourage and practice it.
Do not base your opinion on someone by the subject of their degree.
You can be an engineer without ever attending university.
You can get a Masters in computer science and still know fuck all about technology, information or otherwise.
I'd far rather have someone with in-depth hands-on industry experience making decisions than some academic with no real-world understanding, whatever their underlying academic discipline was.
It does matter, as it's not the same thing.
One is open, honest, easy to understand and fair.
The other is impossible for the customer to interpret or manage and is thus extremely unfair.
The price and total data transferred may be identical, but the propositions very much are not.
UPS aren't charging you for the weight of the trolley they used to load your package onto the delivery van though are they.
If I download a web page, I expect to pay for the bytes leaving my router and arriving back at it.
If I download an encrypted web page, I expect those bytes to include that encryption overhead.
On neither occasion do I know or care about the encapsulation. That's the ISP's issue, not mine.
Just like the fuel in the van is UPS's issue, not mine.
Actually the statistics do suggest that most US citizens are religious fuckwits. e.g. http://www.gallup.com/poll/170...
I'll accept that doesn't make them bigots if you accept that European kids may also be paedophiles.
Bullshit.
Hypothesis: Bill Gates is poor and lives in a shack
Null-hypothesis: Bill Gates lives in a massive house near Seattle
Well, you failed to disprove the null hypothesis there. This casts considerable doubt on your hypothesis.