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Comment Re:Battery life seems to be a killer (Score 1) 87

>I've seen a lot of people on this site bash smartwatches if they have less than a week of battery life, and that always seemed like overkill to me.

Yes, that would be an insane requirement. People with that kind of attitude are just a waste of time since they're in the market for a product that does not exist.


>I suspect a lot of people (most?) are like me and take off their watches at night anyways

That means you can't have any sleep-monitoring functionality in the watch, and health tracking is the only thing that will get many of us to strap something to our wrists, since watches have been made obsolete by our phones. A 24 hour charge, with a very fast charger or easily replaceable battery is the only way to make this work. Charging one battery while you're using the other, and making a quick swap is probably the best solution with current technology.

Btw, "anyways" isn't a word.

Comment Re:A watch? (Score 1) 87

>Why would I want my wrist encumbered with anything, let alone a watch? Wherefore art thou oh smart ring?

Why would you want your fingers encumbered with anything, and why wold you want to switch to a device that needs to be charged every 5 minutes when a smart-watch can run for 12 hours.

Comment Re:The diet is unimportant... (Score 1) 588

>But in terms of eating, 100 calories can be pretty small. That's less than a typical can of soda.

Cutting sugar-based drinks out of my diet was the biggest help, followed by cutting way back on my pizza intake. Switching to meat-based snacks with some fat in them made me feel full on many less calories than when I was eating a ton of sugar and carbs. I went from 6'2" 165lbs, to 115lbs with more muscle, and feel at least a decade younger than when I was overweight. I had felt old and used up, but that was just poor nutrition and lack of exercise, not old age.

Comment Re:NX and SSE2 (Score 1) 188

They initially offered it in the store, and that buggy release crashed some PCs, including one of mine, on install. It then encouraged us to reinstall Windows from scratch, losing data, even though it was possible to recover back to Win 8.0 without data loss. It was a mess.

They later moved it to Windows update, where it automatically installed correctly even on PCs that were screwed up by the Windows store 8.1 release, so I think you're imagining something that's not the actual reason, and the real reason was to drive traffic to the nearly-useless Windows Store.

Comment Re:Beyond what humans can do (Score 1, Interesting) 708

It's funny how delusional people like frikken lazers think that pointing out that he's in Republican alternate reality means that nuts are censoring his message. These AGW deniers are just as cracked as evolution deniers, and are often the same people. I hope he gets some professional help.

Comment Re:Very subjective (Score 0) 382

If someone is so crazy that they think a sky-fairy poofed the world into existence 5000 years ago, they might as well be a troll. Opposing viewpoints that are based in fantasy don't add anything to the discussion, and might as well be removed since all they do is remind us that there's a know-nothing subculture in America.

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