Agreed. I also like having a convenient chronometer for cooking food, or measuring how long I'm spending on something. Sure I could use my phone, but the wrist is more convenient.

Putting a watch on in the morning is a lot easier than pulling a phone out of your pocket every time you want to tell the time for the rest of the day. I remove my watch for extended computer use, sleeping and showering. I just find it more comfortable. Though I also tend to remove my glasses before I eat, so I may be the weird one here.

I just recently picked up one of those. Perpetual calendar, sets itself via radio signal every night, automatic daylight savings adjustment, and recharges via sunlight. Plus It's got a sapphire crystal and I paid under $400 for it. For me it's the perfect quartz watch.

Did someone rewrite history and eliminate pocket pcs and similarly-equipped phones? Or did the iphone retroactively invent this concept?

His version of 'Physics' claims that its possible he could have stopped.

However, he relied on the assumption of 10 m/s^2 acceleration.

(60 mph) / (10 ((m / s) / s)) = 2.68224 seconds

Wasn't he driving a yaris? That has a 0-60 time closer to 9-10 seconds.

I really like the hardware idea. A torn apart hard drive and cd-rom and an old computer with the side off helps people understand that they aren't using a magical black box.

Theyre using a magical black box full of neat-o spinning and buzzing things.

If you're including 3 years of service costs, then the phone only costs $100 or so since it'll be subsidized. And you really need to work that out for yourself. For me, having internet everywhere is worth a lot. I live in a city where I walk around and get lost a lot. If you go to a store and find something is out of stock, your phone can tell you who else might have one, and show you a map of how to get there.

If I'm in one of the large box stores and I can't find a price tag, I just scan the item with my phone and get all the details.

When my internet goes down at home (fucking rogers), I just tether to my phone.

If I need to rent a car, I can arrange a zipcar through my phone, and even honk the horn to help me find where its parked.

There are a million small uses, and to me, they're worth the $30/month I pay for data.

A self-professed pedant who uses the non-word "irregardless"? Turn in your card, it's time to retire.

Then this sounds like the browser plug-in for you!

While true, this completely misses the point of the comment to which you're replying.

+1 funny

I hope you refuse their 'assistance' every time. That's fucked.

It sounds like the breath test already exists. How hard is it to train these dogs?

The equivalent american english idiom is "closing the barn door after the horse has bolted"

+1. I love andlinux. I'd rather have real linux, but andlinux is a close 2nd.