Microsoft Band sold out.
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http://cdn-static.zdnet.com/i/r/story/70/00/035341/2014-11-0312-35-43-620x310.jpg?hash=LzIyZmyzZG&upscale=1
I liked it better when it was on vinyl.
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I'm not buying any of these wearable techs until they make nose piercings with little touch screens. It's that or nothing.
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Is the on the display a button to like posts on Discourse?
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It ist Jeffs watch. He just locked a topic and likes that. The other one tries to lock a topic currently, but it is not responding.
Filed under: discourse is also a smartwatch
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♥ Locked
Filed Under: This is a reference to Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' 1994 album Let Love In
Filed Under: Overexplaining the joke
Filed Under: That tumblr is great though
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Fuck. Does this mean it's time for the "Everything is a watch" brainworm and we'll have to switch to monochrome UIs at 400x60?
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I'm hoping for "Everything is a Pebble": 144x168, 1-bit colour, no touch elements.
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Infinite spinning forums threads. Gonna be revolutionary.
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Infinite spinning forums threads. Gonna be revolutionary.
I get the infinite spinner a lot on Discourse already.
It's really ahead of it's time!
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You're too hip to be around here!
Well, you... you... you're too Belgian!
Nope, couldn't think of a comeback, too tired... But I had to shoehorn a compliment for the avatar somehow, which I now am. Why the hell did it take me as long as it did to figure out who it is, I do not know.
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Why the hell did it take me as long as it did to figure out who it is,
too tired.
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I'm interested in where this goes. As far as I know, the waveguide lens Nokia and Vuzix have been working with is also in Microsoft's pocket, and it would be wonderful to see them do it right. Google certainly hasn't.
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TBH these sorts of things are a good idea if you are like me and want something that is for measuring "health" and "exercise" stuff as I am trying to get myself back into race shape.
As long as I don't have to buy a Microsoft phone for it, I will be interested.
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I like my fitbit for sleep tracking. It's fascinating :D Of course, my company paid for half of it under their wellness program or I'd not have bought one.
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Well I am doing the "I need to count exactly how many calories I am burning" so I can lose about 2 and a bit stone (35lbs) and I need to get my resting heartrate down to 40 beats a minutes.
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so I can lose about 2 and a bit stone (35lbs)
Guys, bookmark this quote for the next time we have a "UK people making fun of Americans for not using metric" debate.
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Guys, bookmark this quote for the next time we have a "UK people making fun of Americans for not using metric" debate.
I was going to say something to the tune of "two unit types and still useless" but I didn't want to bring it up again. Now someone else did it already I feel no remorse.
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Using the German "Pfund" (0.5kg) as a (really imprecise and awful) approximation yields 17.5kg.
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We generally use a mixture of metric and imperial units. Been like that way since before I was born, officially we are supposed to use Metric and that generally gets used in Engineering / Science.
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I wanna keep my bone and muscle mass thanks.
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2.2lbs == 1kg
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Right; and that's fine. So do we. We go into the grocery store and in one aisle, buy a 2-liter bottle of soda and in another aisle, buy a half-gallon carton of milk. I have no issues with that.
The issue I have is when British people start making fun of Americans for not adopting metric, when the reality is: we adopted metric to almost the exact same extent the UK did! The only difference is we don't delude ourselves about being a "metric nation", and the UK does.
Also we don't use measurements even dumber than American Standard/Imperial. Like, for example, "stone" for weight.
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Damn it, this again...
REDIRECTION!
Fuck the short scale! Bring the milliard back!
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Well everying in the supermarket is now in litres/kgs what have you. Imperial is only used colloquially.
Stone isn't a dumb measurement, it is no dumber that pounds, feet, quarts or any of imperial unit that is based on silly arbitrary scales.
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Imperial. Like, for example, "stone" for weight.
Stones, pounds and ounces are imperial measurements... (14 lb === 1 st for those who are bothered...)
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Right but in the US we don't use Imperial, we use United States Customary, which does not have a unit called "stone".
PEDANTIC DICKWEEEEEEEEEEEED
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In other news, there's no :stone: emoji.
WTF.
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we use United States Customary, which does not have a unit called "stone".
But uses imperial pounds and ounces. The latter at least for anything that isn't measuring volume
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In other news, there's no :stone: emoji.
WTF.And I bet it would be grey (not gray, since that could be considered code for gay). What about purple or green stones? Or sandstones?
Five million dollars and multiple committee meetings later you can expect it to have a new recolouring (or is that recoloring?) scheme in place so that all stones of any hue or luminosity may be represented appropriately. At which point no one will bother implementing it and TC will run an article lamenting the fact that unique textures are still not standardized.
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Well I am doing the "I need to count exactly how many calories I am burning" so I can lose about 2 and a bit stone (35lbs) and I need to get my resting heartrate down to 40 beats a minutes.
We're in a metric/imperial fight, I'm glad that I bookmarked this post.
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Still patiently waiting for Microsoft to release The Goggles. They will probably do something.
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A fight I didn't know existed ... Was it made up in someone's mind.
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Doubt it because google glass is a bit shit all round.
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I like my fitbit for sleep tracking. It's fascinating
That. (It always confirms what I know - tired, lots of tossing; refreshed, solid sleep)@Yamikuronue said:
Of course, my company paid for half of it under their wellness program or I'd not have bought one.
100% (and I wouldn't have bought one either)
Also, it's really interesting to see just how many steps I take at a dog agility show...
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Also, it's really interesting to see just how many steps I take at a dog agility show...
Maybe I should get one just to see how many steps I make when I need some time to think. Every time I get stuck working on something I have a habit of getting up and walking either around the office, or going out and combining it with a smoke break. Coworkers gave me a nickname based on an old cartoon due to that :P
No idea if it's walking or just getting away from the screen, but it gets my synapses going. And since I can use a stretch anyway I don't care if it's placebo effect.
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- Woosh.
- Waveguide is the future, man. A screen in the corner of your eye cannot compete with immersion.
To expand on this: http://optics.org/news/5/10/31
Vuzix has been working on this for years, and has been saying it would be ready for a summer release for the past 3 years or so. If this works, though, it will be an incredibly interesting platform. I hope Microsoft jumps on it, because they could easily leverage Google Glass' pathetic nature to propel themselves.
With the current plans for Win10, they'd be able to provide a unified platform to program for this kind of product. It could be very cool in general.
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Let me know when people are prepared to wear strange crap on their face.
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I already wear glasses. Having glasses that are also screens sounds fine to me. Which is a large part of why Glass is dumb.
The point of these is that at worst, they look like slightly unusual glasses, but provide an immersive overlay.
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Let me know when people are prepared to wear strange crap on their face.
I was wearing strange crap on my face before it was cool. Mind you, it's because I can't see much without the glasses, but I won't let that stop me from being hipsterish about it.
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I've been wearing glasses too ... I mean the other strange crap.
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I like my fitbit for sleep tracking. It's fascinating Of course, my company paid for half of it under their wellness program or I'd not have bought one.
Oh my god! You let your company implant a tracking device on your wrist? @tharpa was right after all...
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Try going to the Moon, I hear that's great for weight loss
I wanna keep my bone and muscle mass thanks.
Don't worry, you'll keep all of your mass.
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@lucas said:
I wanna keep my bone and muscle mass thanks.
Don't worry, you'll keep all of your mass.
I assumed he was referring to atrophy caused by the lower weight. Or are you going for a pendantry badge?
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I flagged it for you.