That's right! It was all Darl's fault - it's important that people remember that.

They did jury trials for that petty shit? No wonder the court system is so backlogged.

The built in EKG is actually pretty nice. You do a 30sec reading by holding your finger to the crown and it will actually give you the entire reading as a printable PDF saved to your phone that you can share with a doctor. I think it gives you the option to email it straight away, too.

I've used it once or twice for that purpose and it really is pretty handy if that's your every day watch. I'm sure there are other devices that do this, but I haven't seen them. Do they give you a timestamped PDF of your EKG chart? I don't doubt they exist, but this is on your watch which you possibly wear every day and extremely convenient if you ever think your heart is doing something it shouldn't be. I'm sure an Android answer is on its way if it's not here already. It's nice to give that many people the ability to spot-check not only their heart rate, but their sinus rhythm. Of course if you ask my doctor it's also a curse, turning people into hypochondriacs by the score.

You mention Swatch as a cheap brand, but not a lot of people know that Swatch owns a LOT of high-end watch brands, and makes the movements for many brands that they don't own. Swatch is a powerhouse in the Swiss Watch industry.

I gained a whole new respect for them when I'd learned that. I still don't OWN a Swatch, but Swatch has gotten my money a couple times.

Companies like Patek Philippe pride themselves on their watches being passed down from generation to generation. The type of person who would appreciate an heirloom like this could possibly be the type of person who would want another piece at a little lesser value for a daily wear, so you end up with your $30k dress-up watch, and your $6k daily watch, it's still another sale, possibly a couple extra sales. PP is an extreme case where just getting your foot in the door will run you $20-30k.

Omega, Rolex, Tag, IWC, Breitling, if you want to get into a nice entry level watch with any of these companies it's going to set you back about 6k. The entry level AW5 is 400 bucks. So if Omega can sell me a new watch every 15 years they'll keep pace with Apple, if I want one every 10 years (some people are much more passionate than me) then they'll outpace Apple just fine. Or say I already have an Omega and I want an IWC because it's different and just as nice, the Swiss Watch industry is getting way more out of me than Apple would even if I upgraded my AW every year, and every single one of these watches that I've bought will keep perfect time for generations.

My two main go-to watches are an Apple Watch 5 and an Omega Seamaster. I've had the Omega for years before Apple Watch was a thing. Whichever one that I wear on a particular day depends on my mood and whichever one I feel like wearing. I use my Apple Watch as a watch, I very rarely use any other part of the watch (I do dig the heart rate, and moreso the EKG built in, but I wish I could remove 90% of the 'apps' on there), I just like the way it looks, and it's incredibly light and comfortable. The biggest thing for me was the fact that they FINALLY got an always-on screen, though I wish it had the battery life of my Garmin. They've all got their pros and cons, which is why I have multiple pieces.

I'm a diver and a runner as well as a watch lover. As a diver I would never trust my Apple Watch to survive 100'+ beneath the ocean, nor as a runner would I ever use it for a running watch, I've got other, much more accurate and purpose built watches for those things. It's kind of a right tool for the job situation for me.

If I want something light with a nice custom screen, I wear the Apple Watch, if I want a beautiful mechanical piece of art on my wrist, I wear the Seamaster. Also I'm sure the Omega could take a beating that none of my 'smart' watches could ever endure while looking amazing before and after.

...still no Edit button. *sigh*

Five years ago, I was one of those guys who was like "If I can't buy a physical discs for it, then I'm not buying that console" . Then I realized how fucking annoying it was to have to find the appropriate piece of plastic to stick in the machine every time I wanted to play the game (especially when 99% of the game's files are installed directly to the Xbox hard drive anyway). Now I only buy the downloadable version of games, way more convenient. If the Blu-Ray drive disappeared from the next Xbox console, I wouldn't miss it.

You nailed it, cephalopods (octopus,squid, cuttlefish etc.) forked off from us on the evolutionary tree so far back, twice as far back as the first dinosaurs, that this is the closest we'll likely come to meeting an alien intelligence.

I'm not sure if I'm misreading what you're saying here, but, after watching the Netflix series on the Star Wars toys it was told that Kenner, in order to make the toys for the original trilogy (at the time, one single movie) had to pay Lucas and Fox $10k/yr and a 5% royalty to be split between themselves. Kenner made out very well in that one, taking 95% of each toy sold. Sure, Lucas' pockets fattened up a bit, but at the tune of about 2.5% per toy? Lucas took a serious beating in that deal. When Hasbro bought Kenner and missed their yearly $10k payment they had to renegotiate up to 18%, much better for Lucas' end.

That is to say, I don't think Lucas' share of the merchandising is initially what brought him success. I'm sure Disney's cut a much better deal for the merchandising than Lucas had in the past.

Not sure what they expect. They're using shit-tier encryption. This doesn't happen on a large scale with Dish and DirecTV anymore because they stepped up their game with encryption.

"I can't let you do that as it would breach data protection requirements."

Really? The US must be more advanced than I thought. I would have expected something more like "how much will you pay for it?"

Linked article doesn't even mention Windows 95 except in the title. Shit story.

Maybe this is just my experience, but the one time I used Alipay, I had unauthorized purchases on my credit card within a week for other AliExpress items I didn't buy.