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Meh. Can't say I'm surprised by the choice of carriers; but MVNOs with only access to Sprint/TMobile faceplant as soon as you take a highway outside of a major metro area. Sprint has patchy 3g (and since they're CDMA it's only 3MB EVDO rev A), TMobile has even patchier 2g. If you're a normal customer of either carrier you at least get limited roaming access to VZ 3g/ATT 2g (respectively) networks. Without that, you're just elephanted. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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In the United States alone, it is estimated that Apple Watch has been pre-ordered over 950,000 times, and with a number of other nations able to preorder, it seems certain that worldwide, Apple is comfortably over the million mark. Reality Distortion Field: still going strong
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[Copied from one of the most redundant pages I've perused in a while[^]. Perhaps the battery is something they want you to know about.]
Battery life varies by use, configuration, and many other factors; actual results will vary.
...Battery life varies by use, configuration, and many other factors; actual results will vary.
...Battery life varies by use, configuration, and many other factors; actual results will vary.
...Battery life varies by use, configuration, and many other factors; actual results will vary.
...Battery life varies by use, configuration, and many other factors; actual results will vary.
...Battery life varies by use, configuration, and many other factors; actual results will vary.
...Battery life varies by use, configuration, and many other factors; actual results will vary.
and, for a slight change of pace,
...Charge time varies with environmental factors; actual results will vary.
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 That's funny!
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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I really like Apple stuff, but I can't understand the watch.. It's disappointing that it needs charging every day, the UI looks fiddly and I don't think that it looks that great either.
My choice would be the Garmin Fenix 3 if I was in the watch market right now 
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Right now I don't think Google, Apple, or Microsoft know what a smart watch would be good for. But none of them are willing to let one of the others (never mind a total upstart) take over the market and all are rushing out me too products. The only reasonable use case I see is for fitness trackers; but that's a much smaller market than fondle slabs have grown to be.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Brent Jenkins wrote: It's disappointing that it needs charging every day,
The same way I wished all the batteries in my gadgets last more than a couple of hours.
IMO, The Garmin and the Apple Watch (or any other intelligent watches) are two different things.
I haven't seen tests or reviews of Apple Watch as a sport watch yet ( I'vent been looking either)
I'd rather be phishing!
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Maximilien wrote: The same way I wished all the batteries in my gadgets last more than a couple of hours.
In a watch, it's pretty essential really..
Maximilien wrote: IMO, The Garmin and the Apple Watch (or any other intelligent watches) are two different things.
True - the first difference is that the Garmin watch has an obvious use
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Brent Jenkins wrote: In a watch, it's pretty essential really..
And it will get better in time (not only for apple watches, but for all watches, that are really a lot more than just a time keeper)
Brent Jenkins wrote: True - the first difference is that the Garmin watch has an obvious use
As most single use gadget, when well designed and made, there is not substitute (for example, my kindle).
I'd rather be phishing!
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I'll wait until they do a version that you can play Halo on.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I, for one, welcome our new smart watch overlords!
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Here’s a question for you. Can a library outperform a compiler? I still get the giggles when I read "Modern C++"
But it's definitely moved on from my copy of "The Annotated C++ Reference Manual"
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Computer security researchers said they have uncovered a new variation on an old weakness in Microsoft Corp's Windows operating system that could theoretically allow hackers to steal login credentials from hundreds of millions of PCs. The sky is falling, version 342572391043(.3)
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I am scared  !
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Nothing seems to stir up religious debate more so than when I write a post or do a YouTube video that mentions how most of the time comments are not necessary and are actually more harmful than helpful. Comments aren't stupid, people are stupid
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Code is for how, comments are for why.
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: Code is for how, comments are for why.
That's actually the best argument for comments I've seen yet.
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Code is also the what.
And most times you can include the why in the way the code is named and written.
#SupportHeForShe If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
Only 2 things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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On the face of it, a reasonable argument. However, what makes absolute sense to you may not mean the same thing a couple of years down the line after x number of people who don't share your philosophy have mangled the code. In my mind the addition of some basic commentary takes seconds. Why do people make such a fuss over adding a simple comment that may help decipher what you have created?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Comments aren't stupid, people are stupid
Summary of everything, including my "comment" on your "comment". 
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I recall a time I tried to implement some feature with Technique X, but it didn't work, so I used Technique Y.
Some time later I was looking at the code and wondered why I hadn't simply used Technique X. I tried it again with the same disastrous result.
That time, when I reinstituted Technique Y, I added a comment to the effect of "do not even think about using Technique X here; it just won't work!"
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Oh, yes. These types of things happen far too often in 'real' code bases. And I don't think there's any way you could 'rename your variables' to get around it. People just need to let people write comments. Without comment.
TTFN - Kent
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