for some reason this isn't written up a lot. most information about how your lungs work imply that they are taking just oxygen out of the air you breathe. My understanding is your blood will just soak up nitrogen to match the content in the air you are breathing. it's why scuba divers get the bends, and i guess, if you breathe a 100% nitrogen mixture, your blood basically gives up all oxygen to match the nitrogen ratio.

Singling out just one group because it gets the most publicity isn't good enough, and i don't think it would set a good precedent. signing petitions just to target one individual [organization] is little better than a lynch mob.

Instead, we should have a real discussion in this country about tax free status of all religions. In my opinion, none of them deserve it. They are all businesses bringing in money. They should participate in the system just like we expect Apple or Walmart to. Plenty of deductions and loopholes exist for charitable acts. I'm sure if an organization is leveraging those provisions, we would all be fine with them paying less taxes.

not only that, but it sounds like it was good for advertising jobs too.

I remember the experience of seeing the first iphones. At the time a lot of people, myself included, said, "it's not capable of anything my current phone doesn't already do"

we had to eat those words. the device clearly was far better at stuff. it was too expensive, but clearly had a wonderous display and interface.

when the ipad came around, i felt like i had to at least acknowledge that even though i had a phone, the big interface was kind of a novel experience. those previous devices always left me feeling like, "omg! i could make use of that."

This thing just doesn't have that. it feels like ios was forced onto something just to prove it could be done rather than because it works well. It's a piece of ios jewelry. There's nothing really wrong with that though.

so now plain old 2d video projections are called holograms? it's bad enough that we have to refer to radio control toys as robots and drones.

Apple should hire you! you just laid out far more compelling information than I received in the apple store. Their strategy is basically to say, "oooo! watch!" with an, "*iphone 5 or greater required"

i'm not a hater. i'm firmly in the camp of: if someone thinks it's going to be so convenient to keep their phone in their pocket and only look at their wrist, they are a fool, but if someone says they spent $400 because they thought it looks nice, who am I to argue with that. Honestly, you just made me reevaluate the usefulness of it. It might be kind of cool.

I played with the watch over the weekend. I was suprised by how lackluster the experience was. Navigating the interface is surprisingly tedious, and I found myself lost on some screens with no clear idea of how to get out of them. The screen looks good, but it's so tiny. I doubt that it's useful. The maps app can show you that you are on a street, but you will spend so much time squinting and fiddling that i'm certain you just wasted all the time you saved not pulling your phone out from your pocket.

I did think it looked pretty good though. The previous smartwatches i've seen like the early samsungs and the pebbles look like clunky plastic crap. I'd go so far as saying that apple's could be fashionable. That's not entirely a use case without merit. If someone said their reason for blowing $400 on the watch was because they thought it was fashionable, i'd have a lot more respect for them than if they made up stories about how useful it was.

As long as we're just fantasizing, I can imagine some killer usecases. The problem is the device would need to be extremely waterproof and capable of operating without a phone to be useful. I like sailing and surfing. It would be great to have a concise tide table app, and something to track the starting horns in racing. if i could get a text message from my wife out in the waves, that would be cool. Heck, tides and start timing don't even need connectivity. if the thing was just super waterproof and i felt like I could take it surfing, i'd probably be on board.

currently my $12 casio watch gives me a stopwatch and tide information. it's good enough, but i would certainly spend the $400 on something that was more than just a glorified phone remote.

ah yes. It's a classic page right out of "how to win friends and influence people". Impress them with your smug sense of superiority!

Since this is a discussion on gaming mice, I think the statement that touch panels are terrible is right on target.

why didn't they just install some mining software? Sure, it's going to take a while to mine 500 bitcoins, but nobody would have ever known they were there. Instead they take the showboating route. it's like they need to know people know about them to stroke their egos. I bet they deliver some bloated soliloquy at a key moment and ruin their entire plan.

that's something i can agree with. other teams do have female engineers, but the last company conference i went to DID make it seem like we were far short of 15% females.

well, my team is a product team within a big software company. We aren't allowed to actively pursue hires. There's red tape and stuff. We've been given the green light to hire only 2 times in the past 4 years. Our candidates are handed down from HR. I don't believe that our lack of female team members has anything to do with my team. But I DO think it is strange that I have never even seen a female candidate since joining this team.

I guess if i had created some super weapon, I'd feel kind of guilty about it. Once it exists, others are going to find out how to make it, but I think I'd probably struggle to cling to my dignity by refusing to share any of my insights.

I work on a team of 10 people. my understanding is that about 15% of the entire software workforce is women. given those numbers, it is unsurprising to me that a random sampling of 10 software engineers will contain no women.

I can't find statistics that claim the percentage of unemployed software engineers who are women is any greater than 15%. So I assume that I don't have women on my team because there just aren't a lot of them in my industry.

I'm not dismissing this as a non issue. I do think that we should have a higher percentage of women in the industry. There is something weird going on. I feel like that's the thing for sociologists to be working out though. I'm just a software engineer. who want's women to know that the reason my code doesn't pass this test is not because my team is actively trying to keep you out.