Because the watch has smaller area, or because the only people who will be buying it are the fanboys because it's a watch.

Maybe, unless they cared more about trading with the europeans than offending them.

Why wasn't that encoded into the packaging, instead of a "you lose if you're not diligent, no take backs" question?

And they're all available on netflix's disk service, which they're inexplicably trying to kill off before having the streaming nailed down.

If you want to see one of the good movies made before last month on the streaming service, well.. good luck, it might be on there for a couple weeks some time. If all you want is a Japanese film student's knockoff of one of those good movies, though, you've got hundreds of choices.

That series thing is pretty good though.

Also, surely you won't actually check for MAJOR > anything, as any major version other than the one you coded for won't guarantee the presence of whatever feature your application requires.

That happens with every cable channel. They bootstrap with something cheap, and then go through a phase where they have better access to the thing they are supposed to focus on, then they make their own shows, then they realize that if they're making their own shows, it would be cheaper to just air wrestling and reality tv shows than to actually produce something.

For instance Syfy, which started out showing Forbidden Planet and Gamara reruns, at one time had a show with incredible effects done by the Jim Henson company, and now is down to a show about people competing in one-off puppetry contests hosted by the Jim Henson company, and the requisite something night wrestling show (a quasi-reality show starring stunt-men instead of using stunt-men to produce movies and such)

At least they change their name every time they make a change to be more disappointing. Is there anything educational on TLC any more?

The weird thing is that a lot of cable channels are under the umbrella of one of the big networks, so it makes little sense why instead of pursuing their respective niches, or abandoning the channels, they all go for the same "broad appeal" crap.

But cars replaced horses because they were cheaper to own and operate, more capable and more reliable. If, during the early days of cars when they were really just curiosities, you tried to mandate a shift over to cars, you would have caused a lot of infrastructure and transportation issues.

Maybe, but that kind of thing only ever needed to be done in a tight loop. If you're looking for the OS version by string and you're deciding between "Windows 9" or "Windows 95" there's not much difference between a nine character string and a ten character string. Plus, who is checking the windows version by string in a tight loop? Surely you would branch before or set a flag before the loop.

Also, doesn't windows provide more reliable version numbers via api?
--quick google search--
Apparently, it used to, but as of 8.1, that api has been deliberately broken?

I'm not sure you can support a claim's veracity by simply making the same claim using the word, "monkeys".

The AC said it better than I ever could.

You should actually research the matter rather than parroting poorly informed talking points. The 3/5th's clause was a compromise between the Northern States that wanted slaves to count for nothing (thereby eroding the political power of the slave holding states and presumably leading to a quicker demise for the institution of slavery) and the Southern States that wanted them counted at 100%. Had the North gotten its way it's quite probable that the Civil War and ultimate emancipation of the slaves would have occurred a generation sooner than happened in our timeline.

Huh??? I own an M1 Garand, total length 43.5 inches. It would take little more than dexterity to use it to end my own life. Presumably most people that intend to commit suicide have toes, right?

Gosh, if only there was a way to have let your Mom know that it was the two of you instead of a would-be rapist. Perhaps you could have yelled out "HI MOM, WE'RE HOME EARLY!" as you entered the house. Nah, that couldn't possibly work. It's a damn good thing for you she wasn't armed or you'd be dead now. I have the same fear every time I come home early, but thankfully my girlfriend has evolved some pretty neat biological features like eardrums that reduce the likelihood of this happening....

That's because you're calling the White House switchboard. Try the Country Club next time and you'll probably catch him. :)

The Civil War there has been ongoing for a little over three years. The American Revolutionary War took eight years to fully resolve itself. The Syrian Government only controls about 20% of the country if this map is any indication, so that would seem to dispel your notion that you can't effectively fight the police state.

The Syrian Government is doomed in the long term; it's basically a battle of attrition at this point and the cold mathematical reality is that al-Assad's followers have less males of military age than his opponents. Barring decisive intervention from the outside he is doomed; I leave it to the reader to decide if this is a good thing or not...

Such people generally use stolen firearms or (more rarely) legally purchased firearms via straw buyers (i.e., Here's $1,500, buy this $1,000 firearm for me and pocket the change)

Criminals don't need to build their own firearms when there are sufficient numbers of stolen ones in circulation.