Oh yes! A fool and his money are soon parted. The guy may not even be wrong, but quite frankly if Apple sells so many watches each year all it tells me is that there's an awful lot of suckers on the watch market. Still, I don't think Apple has the same prestige as Swiss watch brands, and perhaps far more importantly your Swiss watch won't become outdated within a year, with all support for it probably ceasing within five at most.

Pebble are already working on this with their "smartbands" which act as quick-swap accessories for their new Time, though whether it'll catch on is another matter.

It's selling in spite of its shoddy engine written in Java, yes. Now, Java itself was sort of a boon, since it's fairly easy to reverse engineer JVM bytecode back into Java, which spawned a gigantic modding community, but the engine itself is pretty bloody bad.

Temperature doesn't exist at the atomic level. It's a measurement of how much movement there is in a set of atoms. At zero Kelvin, there is theoretically no movement whatsoever. In a gas, atoms are moving in all directions and colliding with the container walls all the time (that's pressure), which changes their velocity and direction. They can also collide with one another, but that's much less frequent, comparatively speaking, since gases tend to have very low density.

Now, since the parent was talking about a cloud of "heating gas", it means the gas is being heated in some way. This can happen through a number of different ways, but most of those ways will only act upon a small subset of the full gas being considered. Thus, at any given time, the probably of a random sample of atoms in a heating gas to be of a significantly different speed (that which you call temperature) than the rest of the gas is actually measurably higher than zero, with how high depending on how much heat is being applied and in which manner.

I'm always amused that every single time anything is ever shown wrong when talking about weather models (not even climate models!), we have at least one person posting something like this.

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Android 4.1, no-name dual-core CPU, just 1GB of RAM... doesn't seem comparable to the Shield in any shape or form.

You mean, aside from Dota 2, Team Fortress 2, CS:GO, League of Legends, Hearthstone, Starcraft 2 and the myriad of other PC exclusives which smashed all sorts of records. The PC isn't the red-headed stepchild of AAA, it's just that AAA has forced itself into a rut of catastrophically large marketing and art costs all while forgetting to ever renew themselves, which means the only way to be profitable is to sell a large amount of copies right on release, then sell DLC and season passes and "elite" passes and other crap like that. This is somewhat easier to do on consoles, not because of their install base (which is comparatively small), but because of their demographics: lots of teenagers (who are very easily swayed by targeted advertizing and who generally don't pay the bills) and adult males who use games as stress relief or mindless distractions (and thus don't particularly look at quality or competition, just at what's on the ads).

This is like saying that movies which aren't action-packed stupid blockbusters like Transformers are the "red-headed stepchild of Hollywood".

Replace Lenovo with IBM and you might have a point, but Lenovo's brand reputation has taken a nosedive. They've introduced a bunch of new lines mostly comprised of cheap, expendable and unreliable laptops. The ThinkPad line is still okay (though warranty coverage isn't what it used to be), but it's not what Lenovo's marketing is even focused on, largely because they think they have their business market captive (which is likely extremely foolish).

Yeah, and the top-level comments are missing a left margin and have a misaligned right marging versus the top block. Post and "Load All Comments" are the wrong color, etc.

I think it's a damn sight better than Beta ever was, it just needs a few more tweaks here and there.

I think they've come out and said this can hit around 30 fps without trouble on the Pebble itself. E-paper displays have quietly been improving it seems since that model isn't a special display made just for Pebble (I can't find the post again but someone had dug up a screen which seemed to fit the Time's specs exactly). Thing is, they're still somewhat washed out compared to normal LCD screens and tend to tear easily (this is why the new animations are brilliant, since they all integrate this tearing effect, making it look intended instead). I can see them being used in smartphones at some point, but even then you interact with them in such a different fashion that I think e-paper's shortcomings would become too evident.

Flip side, e-paper is downright ideal for a watch. I'm frankly surprised there have been so few e-paper smartwatches announced as of yet.

And quite excited about it. This is essentially the first consumer device with wide appeal that I can think of which will have a color e-paper display. It also comes with better materials than their first watch (which it obviously directly supersedes, unlike the Steel which is classier), especially the Gorilla Glass front, as well as a mic and a new, quite neat UI. The price might be a bit high overall and I'd have wished for a larger screen with less bezel proportionally, but getting the same battery life on a much more dynamic and modern watch is great.

The fact it's well on its way to beat all previous Kickstarters by a long stretch should be a testament to the fact that yes, people want smartwatches, but not necessarily any sort of smartwatch. For me, Wear devices are automatically out because they have poor battery life and their screen shuts down while inactive on top of being not great to read in the sun. A smartwatch should be usable in all situations a normal watch is, at the very least, and the battery should be long enough that you can make a trip for a few days without worrying about a charger. The Pebble guys seem to have understood this, and it's paying off.

I know science is hard, but let's go over it like you're five.

Global warming is largely considered to be caused by something called greenhouse gases. The most prominent one is CO2, which is generated by burning fossil fuels among other things. Earth is by and large heated by the sun's rays going through the atmosphere and hitting the Earth, heating the air and ground. A part of those rays, however, gets bounced off the surface or re-emitted. Those rays can then leave the atmosphere, not heating up the Earth. Greenhouse gases act as a sort of shield around the atmosphere, reflecting those rays back again towards the Earth over and over.

Aerosols act as an additional barrier beyond the greenhouse gases which have the opposite effect: they bounce the sun's ray off the atmosphere before they can even get in, thus reducing the total amount of heat getting in the atmosphere in the first place and thus reducing the impact of greenhouse gases.

TL;DR Human CO2 increases greenhouse effect, but that still requires heat to get in in the first place.

It's ironic that people are excited and proud of this, but turn around and become mad at the very notion of assisted suicide. In the best case you're going to survive for a bit on Mars.

The claim is done in the context that the show hadn't started yet. Just like how a random member of the public wouldn't be expected to be allowed in, I don't think it's spurious to claim that a competitor also has no reason to be able to come over to your booth and start messing with your stuff. Once the show's started, all of that changes, of course.