Oh, significantly cheaper. But I wouldn't carry or use it while swimming (and yeah, I've done a mile long swim in the Mediterranean Sea wearing a solar powered watch) or playing contact sports or various other activities.
Seiko Astron GPS Solar, Tissot T Touch Solar and Citizen Wavecenter are the three I'm contemplating. All with titanium case/bracelet, and indeed, all more expensive than anything other than the luxury brand boutique phones.
I want all three, I just don't think I can justify it. Hell, I can't really justify even one, as I only wear one watch at a time and I have three working watches already..
(I was wrong, the T Touch doesn't use GPS time signals. About the only thing it's missing though, for a non "smart" watch)
Well, a watch costing more than a house in the UK is beyond the reach of most people, whether it's a cheap house or an expensive one.
I'm sure he's not doing that to flaunt his wealth. I wasn't being sarcastic when I said he probably just likes it. But don't go pretending that it's not a very visible demonstration of his ability to buy things that are expensive.
Whether he intends a statement from it or not, he's wearing more cash on his wrist than many peoples' net worth.
So am I. It just happens to be a rather larger percentage of my net assets. Even if it is a Casio watch costing a tenner (check Amazon, they're cheaper there).
Google tells me that Warren Buffett wears a Rolex Datejust mechanical self-winding watch. Most people would buy a car for less, so it's not exactly a casio w59.
Maybe he just likes it. Shit, that's why I buy a watch.
If you want technology the top end of the watch market is where you should be looking.
http://www.urwerk.com/en/colle... contains new alloys created specifically because the existing materials lacked the properties needed to even build the thing. The design is innovative, the implementation pristine.
The price tag sadly around the same level as my house.
But it's technology at a wearable scale and it's as cutting edge as a smartwatch.
My point was, the vast majority of people in developed countries are using a cell phone with more accurate time than a wrist watch.
Given two of my solar powered watches use atomic clock radio signals to reset their time, it's quite likely that they're more accurate than most cellphones.
I'm currently pondering one of (or all) three solar powered watches that use GPS signals to update their time. Sure, I could configure my phone to do that but why carry a large fragile item all the time when I can just put a watch on?
Agreed entirely. I paid more than I wanted, and I'm not proud of it, for my Omega Speedmaster.
It was the cheapest automatic mechanical watch with aesthetics I was happy with that was available in titanium (case and bracelet) when I bought it.
It's mechanical genius. If I could afford it I'd buy an Urwerk because they're even greater mechanical genius.
My phone is cutting edge electronics mastery. I admire that. I love its smooth clean neat aesthetics too. It just can't compete with the precision and technical prowess of a complicated mechanical movement.
A smart watch has the same issue. It just isn't quite as awesome at that level.
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It's a fair question. I'd hope that if they're using tablets operationally then the data isn't that sensitive.
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Well, the first one died instantly. The second one survived for four minutes, working underwater, then died. The third one I managed to fish out before it died, dried it out and then it kept working. But then I dropped it in again and it died. The fourth one died instantly, and I lost data that I hadn't backed up. The fifth one I've been sensible and kept out of the fucking water.
Note that I've still spent less money and had a better user experience than buying the rugged version. Total weight is higher, but carried weight is less.
Not many people need seawater resistance on their devices.
7. What if the level is REALLY BIG and can't all exist at the same time? Then your technology is not good enough to implement your vision and one or the other needs to change. See point 2.
The issue isn't whether you can work around the problem of large levels - you can, most MMOs have large open worlds which are one big level and seamlessly load them in the background.
One issue is how and whether you retain door state on the part of the level that isn't currently loaded, and making sure that this doesn't damage the gameplay.
Another issue is assuring that opening a door leads to instant visibility of whatever's behind it. When there are a lot of doors that's a lot of potential visibility and it's just inefficient to have it all loaded and available when the player is likely to ignore half the doors.
If you are a 90 year old Pearl Harbor veteran, you are a goddamn hero, no one denies that
I deny that. Unless you can offer some proof.
Hiding in a bomb shelter is not heroic. Sensible, but not heroic. Manning your post in a ship under fire is not heroic. You get trained to do it, failing to stay at your post would be the thing worthy of a title, not merely 'doing your job'.
But maybe he pulled the charred corpse of his colleague from the AA gun chair, swung it round, shot down four Japanese fighter bombers, took three rounds in the chest but then stayed there shooting at torpedo bombers. That's heroic.
I guess we'll never know. But don't go pretending I have to accept that he's a hero, just because he managed not to die.
hey don't have to ford rivers, climb a steep hill or drive down muddy dirt roads after a monsoon to buy groceries, make it to their hair appointment or commute to work.
But the cars are capable of that, and that's why they're also popular with farmers and people that live outside of cities.
Look, it's obvious here that you're just a bigot who's twisting words around to try to justify your own insane bigotry and hatred of homosexuals.
Sorry, tell me exactly where I've said something here that's against homosexuals?
You're a blinkered prejudiced ignorant twat that makes bad assumptions about other people and acts on those assumptions. Including accusing people that call you on it of being a bigot.
Well done, you win the argument - idiots so often do.
I am open to hearing/considering a logical/rational reason to ban gay marriage. Do you have one?
erm. A (self-professed gay) anonymous coward posted a fairly long one a few posts lower.
However, if I had to stand up and defend Prop 8 then I could put forward an argument that marriage is a flawed institution that should have no Governmental recognition, and failing to support Prop 8 would be an implicit concession that marriage was valid and that tax benefits for it was appropriate.
In other words, you can vote against gay marriage purely because it's marriage.
Someone with that viewpoint has at no point expressed an opinion on homosexuality or the rights of homosexuals.
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Oh, significantly cheaper. But I wouldn't carry or use it while swimming (and yeah, I've done a mile long swim in the Mediterranean Sea wearing a solar powered watch) or playing contact sports or various other activities.
Seiko Astron GPS Solar, Tissot T Touch Solar and Citizen Wavecenter are the three I'm contemplating. All with titanium case/bracelet, and indeed, all more expensive than anything other than the luxury brand boutique phones.
I want all three, I just don't think I can justify it. Hell, I can't really justify even one, as I only wear one watch at a time and I have three working watches already..
(I was wrong, the T Touch doesn't use GPS time signals. About the only thing it's missing though, for a non "smart" watch)
Well, a watch costing more than a house in the UK is beyond the reach of most people, whether it's a cheap house or an expensive one.
I'm sure he's not doing that to flaunt his wealth. I wasn't being sarcastic when I said he probably just likes it. But don't go pretending that it's not a very visible demonstration of his ability to buy things that are expensive.
Whether he intends a statement from it or not, he's wearing more cash on his wrist than many peoples' net worth.
So am I. It just happens to be a rather larger percentage of my net assets. Even if it is a Casio watch costing a tenner (check Amazon, they're cheaper there).
Yes : http://www.pocketwatch.co.uk/
What, some people actually buy something you have no personal use for? Who would have thought!
Besides a wedding ring it's about the only piece of jewelry a guy can wear
Cufflinks.
Google tells me that Warren Buffett wears a Rolex Datejust mechanical self-winding watch. Most people would buy a car for less, so it's not exactly a casio w59.
Maybe he just likes it. Shit, that's why I buy a watch.
If you want technology the top end of the watch market is where you should be looking.
http://www.urwerk.com/en/colle... contains new alloys created specifically because the existing materials lacked the properties needed to even build the thing. The design is innovative, the implementation pristine.
The price tag sadly around the same level as my house.
But it's technology at a wearable scale and it's as cutting edge as a smartwatch.
My point was, the vast majority of people in developed countries are using a cell phone with more accurate time than a wrist watch.
Given two of my solar powered watches use atomic clock radio signals to reset their time, it's quite likely that they're more accurate than most cellphones.
I'm currently pondering one of (or all) three solar powered watches that use GPS signals to update their time. Sure, I could configure my phone to do that but why carry a large fragile item all the time when I can just put a watch on?
Agreed entirely. I paid more than I wanted, and I'm not proud of it, for my Omega Speedmaster.
It was the cheapest automatic mechanical watch with aesthetics I was happy with that was available in titanium (case and bracelet) when I bought it.
It's mechanical genius. If I could afford it I'd buy an Urwerk because they're even greater mechanical genius.
My phone is cutting edge electronics mastery. I admire that. I love its smooth clean neat aesthetics too. It just can't compete with the precision and technical prowess of a complicated mechanical movement.
A smart watch has the same issue. It just isn't quite as awesome at that level.
It's a fair question. I'd hope that if they're using tablets operationally then the data isn't that sensitive.
What sort of cunt uses the phrase "potty mouth"?
Well, the first one died instantly.
The second one survived for four minutes, working underwater, then died.
The third one I managed to fish out before it died, dried it out and then it kept working. But then I dropped it in again and it died.
The fourth one died instantly, and I lost data that I hadn't backed up.
The fifth one I've been sensible and kept out of the fucking water.
Note that I've still spent less money and had a better user experience than buying the rugged version. Total weight is higher, but carried weight is less.
Not many people need seawater resistance on their devices.
7. What if the level is REALLY BIG and can't all exist at the same time? Then your technology is not good enough to implement your vision and one or the other needs to change. See point 2.
The issue isn't whether you can work around the problem of large levels - you can, most MMOs have large open worlds which are one big level and seamlessly load them in the background.
One issue is how and whether you retain door state on the part of the level that isn't currently loaded, and making sure that this doesn't damage the gameplay.
Another issue is assuring that opening a door leads to instant visibility of whatever's behind it. When there are a lot of doors that's a lot of potential visibility and it's just inefficient to have it all loaded and available when the player is likely to ignore half the doors.
No. We use the international standard 'litre'.
No. Luckily people to review/validate the work can be outsourced too, so that's also cheap and easy.
Sure, two people need to be involved in a fight.
Only one needs to be active for an assault.
Fuck you and your bullshit.
For the record, only cunts use the term 'cupcake' when talking to people over the internet.
Surely not. If the recording was illegal then it was evidence of a crime and deleting it was illegal.
If the recording was not illegal then there was no crime and no need to delete it.
At no point was deleting it the correct action. The police broke the law. They should be prosecuted for it.
If you are a 90 year old Pearl Harbor veteran, you are a goddamn hero, no one denies that
I deny that. Unless you can offer some proof.
Hiding in a bomb shelter is not heroic. Sensible, but not heroic.
Manning your post in a ship under fire is not heroic. You get trained to do it, failing to stay at your post would be the thing worthy of a title, not merely 'doing your job'.
But maybe he pulled the charred corpse of his colleague from the AA gun chair, swung it round, shot down four Japanese fighter bombers, took three rounds in the chest but then stayed there shooting at torpedo bombers. That's heroic.
I guess we'll never know. But don't go pretending I have to accept that he's a hero, just because he managed not to die.
Oh, I'd ban tax incentives for non-gay marriage too.
If you like him/her, live with him/her, fuck him/her, just don't make me fucking pay for it.
hey don't have to ford rivers, climb a steep hill or drive down muddy dirt roads after a monsoon to buy groceries, make it to their hair appointment or commute to work.
But the cars are capable of that, and that's why they're also popular with farmers and people that live outside of cities.
Well, it costs me money if they get tax breaks as a result. My overall share of the tax burden has to rise to cover that reduced tax income from them.
So the impact is not 0.
My CatCam caught (in between the cats) my cleaner sitting down and eating my boiled sweets.
I laughed. I didn't tell her. I left the jar there next week too.
Look, it's obvious here that you're just a bigot who's twisting words around to try to justify your own insane bigotry and hatred of homosexuals.
Sorry, tell me exactly where I've said something here that's against homosexuals?
You're a blinkered prejudiced ignorant twat that makes bad assumptions about other people and acts on those assumptions. Including accusing people that call you on it of being a bigot.
Well done, you win the argument - idiots so often do.
So how come he's gone and they haven't? Even though he wasn't representing the company and they implicitly were?
I am open to hearing/considering a logical/rational reason to ban gay marriage. Do you have one?
erm. A (self-professed gay) anonymous coward posted a fairly long one a few posts lower.
However, if I had to stand up and defend Prop 8 then I could put forward an argument that marriage is a flawed institution that should have no Governmental recognition, and failing to support Prop 8 would be an implicit concession that marriage was valid and that tax benefits for it was appropriate.
In other words, you can vote against gay marriage purely because it's marriage.
Someone with that viewpoint has at no point expressed an opinion on homosexuality or the rights of homosexuals.