Can we have a tech-person-rejecting-tech pissing contest?

I tell the time with a stick.

In all seriousness though, if you're salaried (so no punching a time clock), don't watch much television, and don't need to take scheduled mass-transit, then you probably don't need to know the time better than quarters of an hour, which can be guesstimated with decent precision based on the position of the sun.

You know what I'd want a smart-watch to do? Be a waterproof cell phone transceiver with basic 'dumb phone' functionality (SMS/MMS, contacts list, dialer) and with rudimentary notification capability, such as the ability to notify of calendar events, and to be a bluetooth hub for the headset, tablet, car connection, etc. That way I can still do basic communication when I don't feel like carrying around a two and a half inch by five inch block. I don't need it to be an e-reader, a map viewer, a shopping list editor (though it might be cool to view a list like a dumb phone can), or any of a whole host of functions that people expect their phone to do. Let the small tablet (or large tablet even) handle that, if I want.

With that kind of size and that slow of flight, it's no wonder it fell to ancient flak guns. Too easy to hit!

What is this...I don't even!

In their defense, if they don't work to protect their trademark, then everyone will be getting their children murdered to put DC's logos on their headstones...

...that's a space heater!

This... this resonated with me a little. I took me back to last week when my Internet was down for 24 hours and I felt so helpless. All my devices useless. My iPad, my smartphone, my smart TV, my laptop... expensive decorations. All I had to occupy my time with was whatever was on OTA TV. It was like me and my brain were separated, since all my knowledge is on the other side of the router...

No non-Internet games or things to do on any of the devices? No non-computer hobbies? No going out to do something, even if it's something so mundane as going to a coffee shop to use their Internet connection?

I have things that I can do even if I'm without power, let alone without Internet connectivity.

Yeah. I use GPS, but mostly to determine what the route is, not to go turn-by-turn to follow it. I read the electronic thing as a map to memorize the route then just drive. Beats fumbling with the phone or even a paper map while driving.

It's even easier if there's a passenger- my wife is well versed in reading maps and tends to use the phone's GPS/maps in a similar fashion. She can give me multiple-steps-ahead directions if needed (get right, turn at the next light and then get left, and turn two lights later, then get right, etc) to make navigating tight streets easier than using a GPS.

I doubt those were the same experiment, even to each other...

In space, no one can hear you steam...

So if power dies off, at least with glass windows, the pilots can still see out and glide to a 'dead-stick' landing (even if it's not on a runway) using the backup power to the flight controls.

Perhaps we should call it the Sullenberger Test.

I can see one way that such screens could work- make them multilayer LCD. A black layer closest to the window, a white later, then the image layer. The black layer serves to block sunlight, and the white layer helps to white-balance the screen and provide some additional light blocking. In the event that power fails, the screens turn clear.

I hear that Costco is having a sale on rolls of tin foil...

Typically you either use heavy equipment to dig trenches first, then shoot them at those trenches, or you make them dig their own trenches, then shoot them once they've gone deep enough. Just make sure that they pass the shovel back to you first. After all, shovels are expensive.

You can already do that using anesthetics.

They'll even provide them on the flight. It's called the Beverage Service.

It was the highest post on the site without a reply, so he was assured of being seen without having to scroll down, that's what it has to do with an AC making accusations.

I'll print it out on paper, to be safe from lazy searches.

Wait until you hear about this new-fangled invention, where they print the content for you, bind it, and ship it to you, and it's new content every time...