Ease of use. I can't plug an Arduino into a monitor and program it on the metal in whatever language I like and run an interactive debugger on the hardware, or get even close to the processing power, or easily store a ton of data on it (or the network), install a firewall on it, make it a file server, the list is endless. I'm sure at this point you have about 5 arduino add-ons you want to mention to me. And that's the point, RPi has all that and more out the box.

Plus: I don't have to learn new instruction sets, or subsets/modified versions of certain programming languages, or completely new programming languages... just to get it to work. And I can use databases on it, web servers, unix tools, bash scripts..... I just can't stop thinking of things I can easily do on a RPi that I cannot do on an arduino.

I agree with you that as a geek gadget watches don't do it as well as phones or PDA's.

But I don't see wristwatches as jewelery. I wear one, usually not a very fashionable or expensive one. I try to get something expensive enough to last. I've found cheaper ones break, rubber straps degrade over time, etc. So when looking for a timepiece I've got very utilitarian guidelines. Stuff like "the strap must be metal" because those last forever. It must be big enough to tell the time quickly but not be so huge as to be in the way - like the fashionable ones - stuff like that. Looking good does count but not as much as other attributes.... Which is why I'd call those the geek criteria for a watch.

I don't buy the (not your, the) "your phone is just as good as a watch" argument and to be blunt I'm a bit dumbfounded by it. Grappling around for a phone in my pocket and unlocking the screen, etc. just to see the time is actually a burden and a clumsy way to get the time.

Thus, I'd say use the unix philosophy: One tool to do one thing well: I'd get a normal everyday timepiece. The point is to be able to lift your arm and tell the time instantly. That's what it's for: glancing. The moment you spend more time than that on your watch with added fancy geekery, I'd say a smartphone is a better tool.

My anecdote would be one time I nodded off for a nap, and woke to orange light outside my window, my watch indicating around 7 o'clock. I suddenly 'realized' I'd overslept and leapt from my bed in a frenzy trying to get ready for work, I rushed into the kitchen going "I'm late!"..... when my stunned S/O pointed out that it's "7 pee em" and my sense of time started to return, I had to completely re-orient myself. I looked down and foolishly realised I was already dressed, and she was making dinner, not breakfast.

I don't think we really are able to track time when asleep, we just assume when we wake up it must be morning because we've been doing it all our lives. At least, that's what happened to me that time.

Above-Below in tridef, no such option.

H3D, no. But after fiddling I got the e-d + iz3d combo to work, only in interlaced mode, significantly slower than my card usually runs, looks not so pretty (because of interlacing obviously). Watched some SC2 cutscenes in 3D, does work and looks coolish. Not what I was used to in the past, but better than nothing. :)

Well I went home yday thinking maybe I should try again, see what's out there...

Downloaded the iz3d driver, and they've dropped support for shutter glasses completely. Hmkay, let's try interleaved.

Then ofc the glasses didn't activate, so I tried the e-d activator and that just made my CRT (the one I've always used) go black and not return until a hard reboot.

Then I downloaded a trial of tridef and found the trial doesn't include page-flipping, and same activation problem with anything else. So I can't even check if it works before I put down my money, and if it's anything like the iz3d driver, it won't.

I'll try this h3d thing but my hopes are low.

An example that leaves a particular bad taste in my mouth...

I bought a set of LCD shutter-glasses years ago. I had an nVidia card that had driver support for them. I got these babies, got the special nVidia driver, and I was blown away.

But soon I needed to upgrade my gfx card, and found nVidia no longer supported shutter-glass stereo on any of their new shiny cards. Weird right? All you need is software trickery.... but wait, yes.... Suddenly 3D LCD panels come out and nVidia simultaneously releases drivers that support them. And next thing you know, they have their own shutter glasses that cost way, way more than the ones I'd bought years before.

And still, there's no support for my set. Support that already existed.

My opinion: This is why hardware companies care about drivers, it lets them wrangle money out of people who'd like support for their products.

Or you're driving a diesel.

The way I understand it, is that our immune system usually waxes cells that have gone rogue, and we get 'cancer' all the time except those cells get killed quickly by our immune system.

However 'true' cancer has a mutation that prevents this from happening and this drug turns that mechanism on again, so things can work as usual.

In other words: normal cells should carry on as before.

(If I understand this correctly, IANAD)

Please return your Geek card for a full refund.

He who has the gold, makes the rules.

Poachers who care about licenses, you make me laugh.

I live in Africa, putting a rhino on a piece of land almost transforms it into a war zone. International trade in ivory/rhino horn is a big deal, no mere legal red tape is going to stop these guys. Neither do they mind much if they have to shoot some rangers to get to the animals, and so the arms escalation begins...

Well the horrible truth is they'll get poached out much quicker than they can breed. Keeping something like a rhino alive in such close proximity to the east might be a challenge that outweighs the benefits.

Yeah it's been pointed out. <not an excuse> Second language speaker</not an excuse>, Thanks.

This is a false dichotomy. Do the TCs anyway, it'll probably be on time (if not early) and won't be crap. Unless you are some kind of deity that creates absolutely no bugs during your 2 week scramble that slow you down regardless. Imho a bug highlighted by a tc is orders of magnitude quicker to find and fix, you'll probably discover it while writing the tc and no one will ever even realise it was there in the first place. Doubters: Try it, even if just at home, let it sink in how much time you are actually saving.