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If those folks were forced out of business tomorrow, I'd be just as happy.

Fitness telemetry doesn't *need* a point beyond "it's fun". There's a sizable number of us stats geeks that would love to play with that dataset.

Seeing how we're effectively talking about a toy here anyway, "fun" is allowed to be the point.

The only thing I can think of are the fitness metrics. It would be exciting if a smartwatch could measure not only heart rate, but vo2 stats as well as blood pressure.

That'd be almost exciting enough to plop down 100 bucks on it.

I wonder if you are familiar with the US Budget. Take a look at it sometime. I don't think it's outside the range of possibility that they might divert funds from frivolous expenses to maintain critical infrastructure.

There is no need to give the government MORE money that they may or may not spend on what it's been earmarked for.

Is the goal here to engage otherwise disinterested parties with the hope of said parties gaining employment?

Doesn't that suggest a shortage of viable, potential employees for those positions? Well? Are we really that short on coders that we have to start chasing currently disinterested people to fill those positions? Assuming for a moment that there is an abundance of currently viable coders on the market, wouldn't this then suggest that "better" employees for this position will be female? Wouldn't that then potentially lead to situations where otherwise disinterested women are being employed over interested men? Who's output would you expect to be better?

How does that make any damn sense?

Why is it the only time Ds and Rs can agree on something is when they're reaching their grubby little hands into my wallet?

Well, in the "grand scheme of things", so are we.

Me? I get rather attached to the source file I've been working on for the past 6 months.

It could also be used to burn off the excess sugar as bio-luminescence to be the light of the party.

Sorry, the joke had to be made.

How can computers be so alien to us when we've designed them? No, alien isn't quite the right word to use here, but rather lacking in development. You might say they are a proto-intelligence; all we've been doing, for the past 50+ years, is building the foundation for real artificial, rational thought.

You can't label something "alien" simply because you don't recognize it.

This must be that "transparency" I've been hearing so much about.

Is certainly why many went to Android. While I do know a few android power users, most got an Android because the did not need most of the features of a smart phone.

I'm curious; what can iphone do that android can't?

Are you kidding? I hear there's some great hiking up along the border.

( god damn retards )

No, I'm the poor bastard that continually gets sucked into meeting after meeting with ignorant salesdrones spouting nonsense like "Internet of Things" and "Clouds" ( when they, themselves, haven't got a god damned clue what they're saying ), wasting time I should be spending on actual IT work.

High enough to be technical lead, not high enough to farm that shit out to my staff.

Ah, but if I don't go to it and correct the bullshit as it happens, it will have time to implant itself into management's head, and by the time I become aware of it it's already gained enough momentum to be called a "Project".

So I guess we've moved on from "TEH CLOUDS" to "The internet of things"?

Fucking shoot me.

Because he's a politician. By that very definition, he is not to be trusted. His motivations and intentions are suspect, and always will be.

Trust a politician, and you get what you deserve.