Yeah, I find that bemusing. I'd have to downgrade my phone or carry two if I wanted to use an Apple Watch.

Seems a bit silly really.

A whole section of the luxury watch market caters to that need, and looks a whole lot more sophisticated than a smartwatch.

You can get some very slim mechanical watches, let alone the quartz options in the "elegant and built from nice materials" range.

No reason an inductive charging watch couldn't be properly sealed.

Although yes, would be lovely to get a combination of rotor and solar panel to keep a smart watch fully operational indefinitely.

Not transistors, but definitely tubes:
http://www.cathodecorner.com/n...

Note the excellent quote from Slashdot :)

What, £42? http://www.watchshop.com/Mecha...

Highly complicated mechanical watches and mechanical chronographs range in price from 'expensive' to 'my lifetime earnings', but basic clockwork is affordable.

He must be from down south.

Although I can't criticise, I drink coffee..

Thanks, I needed a good giggle.

Erm. Yeah, for some people it is. My sous vide oven was an impulse buy, at $440. I don't need one, I just decided it rocked and bought it.

Good call in the end, I use it 2-3 times a week, but that's luck not research.

$400 for a watch? Easily pocket change for a lot of people.

Oh, you miss the point of going to university entirely.

You get the books, you learn the material, you skip the lectures, you get the qualification. The rest of the time is _for_ exposure to depraved fellow students.

Wait? Don't go with anything under patch 3 - so basically refusing to ever update to software that works first time, or need just a single patch.

That's bloody stupid to start with. But then you admit that you're using beta software.

You have no clue. You're inept. You're stupid. You're fucking scaring me. How is it possible to be that fucking incompetent?

Look you twat, there is post after post of people bitching that they have issues. One person points out that he's been fine, and you lay into him?

He didn't say that nobody had the issue, he's highlighting that not everybody has the issue.

Fix your own fucking Nexus 5.

Ah, apologies - I was thinking of UT from '99, which is the Quake3 era.

UT03 was so awful it put me off even trying '04 - I was onto the Battlefield series by then and enjoying its mix of environments and play styles.

The irony is that I agree with you without changing a single statement that I made.

Non-lethal force could be reasonable. Electrocuting them still feels excessive.

You have evidence of this? Just that the EFF can wheel out a long list of games that people paid good money for and now can't play purely and only because it would be illegal to build a new server to support them.

No, we're in a golden age of gaming and have been continuously since the mid-80s.

Alpha Centauri and Civilisation have been updated, expanded and released in newer versions every few years and are now the entry level into grand strategy, with a wealth of far more complex games with significantly more depth.

Quake3 and UT2004 are primitive compared to the Battlefield series - they don't even have usable vehicles!

Some videogames are indeed interactive movies, but many are not. There's more choice than I can remember, games are more affordable than they've ever been and there are multiple high quality options in almost any genre you want to play.

Maybe you're constrained to a platform that doesn't enjoy the diversity and variety available on a PC, but the games exist, they're available, they're very playable and please, get a Dwarf Fortress fortress surviving for a decade before claiming "there are actually less things to do" because trust me, no game before it has even tried to come close.