You forgot to add butthurt over Apple deciding to drop the 3.5mm headphone jack in the iPhone 7.

Oh, the humanity

I jokingly comment to a friend that all we need is an über for burritos, and VC's will toss shitloads of money at it, and now the Google parent does it.

(farnsworth)I don't want to live on this planet anymore(/farnsworth)

Fuck, and me without any mod points...

I'll admit that I like the geolocation with the built in GPS, could care less about wifi. Yet I probably won't upgrade my 5D mark I (ancient), but I might buy that luscious 16-30 EF f/2.8L. That looks scrumptious.

A douche nozzle

Well, CxO salaries have easily gone up 300%, so prolly

Ah, Whiplash. That was fun. I followed a similar path. I think I built a new rig every year to keep up. Even the the Gravis. Thanks for the memories...

He is "Shit with feet".

Never underestimate how lazy artisanal hipster douchebags can get. A colleague commented that life for a 30ish male tech worker in SF has remarkably little friction with all the fucking startups focused on handling life's chores. From burrito delivery, to parking services, and now fuel delivery.

Shit, my mod points expired this morning too.

500K people torrented Kanye? What the fuck is this world coming to.

I can answer this, having been through the wringer wrought by a patent troll.

• It has the appropriate US district court presence. This is pretty important, as patent infringement cases are brought to a US district court.
• It is an area that has a mediocre pool of jurors. Not highly educated, not too ignorant, but enough to be dangerous.
• It is really really hard to get to. You fly into College Station and drive hours east, or into Louisiana and drive hours west. Yes, this is part of the patent troll modus operandi. Make it super inconvenient for the players to get to. Look it up in google maps, and see.
• Back to the jurors, the pool is made of people who are at the bottom of the middle class or close to poverty. They view big companies as deceitful, and the bad guys. The patent trolls' lawyers play on this David vs. Goliath, and the jurors love having the power to put the hurt on.

Almost all the major patent toll companies have a small presence in the county, so as to be able to file and force the suit to go through Marshall Texas.

The 12 hours I was deposed was probably the worst 12 hours of my life, and the 30 days of rigorous prep I had to do beforehand was just awful.

I have comcast, in silicon valley, and compared to Cox where I lived in Phoenix until mid 2014, it licks donkey balls. About as reliable as a candle in a hurricane, and at times, Jesus Christ can't resurrect the link.

While when it is running, it is fine, and I get plenty of bandwidth, the several hours each week where the T3 uplink is just not responding (so sayeth the log on the cable modem), it might as well be dialup.

Cox in the 12 years I lived there had probably 12 hours total of down time. I probably have that much down time per week here. Of course, my only alternative is AT&T U-Verse which makes Comcast look golden.

I used to think that way about SAP. Then I went to work for a company that uses Oracle ERP. Give me SAP any day.

There is a really good use for it. I am a cyclist. I use Strava to track my rides and the minutia (heart rate, cadence, speed, distance). I can mount my iPhone on my bars (meh) or keep it in my shirt back pocket. But there I can't see my stats unless I pull it out. Risky while riding, as I am sweaty and fumble fingered.

There is a third party blue tooth computer display (Wahoo Fitness Reflekt), but I haven't bought one yet. The reviews on it are so so, thus I haven't dropped the $120 for it. However, the Apple watch will display all my stats on my wrist. It works with Strava, so I will be satisfied. So I am likely to buy it solely for bicycling. The problems the watch will solve are out there, but they will take time to mature.