Sure. It has the same specs. Lower screen resolution on a worse screen, less capable radio, only in GSM (no CDMA), much slower processor, crappy camera (by comparison), etc. But I get it. It had a 4.7" screen, and the argument fits your narrative, so it MUST be the same specs.

We've had a lot of pets over the years, and had to make this decision too many times, and it's never easy. We've always been there with them at the end, it's been different every time, and every one still makes me sad. We're down to one dog and three cats, and they're all geriatric, and I'm afraid we're going to face…

Mine's congenital. My dad had two artificial knees by the time he was my age. I've taken better care of mine, but they still grind and pop and crunch loud enough you can hear them walking up the stairs next to me. Anything high-impact and they swell like cantaloups, but low impact stuff they're ok with - walking, SLOW…

No, I get that. I like the trackers, though, when they work and aren't in the mail for warranty service. I find it much easier to push myself to take the stairs or park in the back of the lot when I can quantify the result. I don't want to "exercise", in the traditional sense, but I do want to increase my activity…

Who uses radar anymore? The only things still setting off radar detectors around here are the big signs they roll around exit ramps that say "You are going xx miles per hour". The cops use laser speed guns here, for years.

Who uses radar anymore? The only things still setting off radar detectors around here are the big signs they roll…

Uh... what is it you think I might want to track with these items?

Mmm... I can see why you say that, but the Socratic approach is much more fun, and designed to be didactic, not a debate. When you have clever opponents, though, they will wriggle and duck and change their argument so they don't have to answer the question you asked them as you intended. I can see the two practices…

This, of course, is exactly the opposite of what it claims: it's a big straw man argument, not a 'steel man' argument.

I wonder why they didn't use one of the many accelerometers on the market instead of the Ping sensor?

LOL. Three or four years ago I lost my SOG Paratool. I replaced it with a Leatherman Wave and never looked back. Well, after two years of flying for business, I changed computer bags, and in the bottom of the bag was the SOG Paratool; that thing had to have been on something like 20 or 30 domestic flights.

Done and done. Flawless victory - thanks for the linkage!

You're the canonical case to which I was referring. No one has to justify their choice to you.

You also have no idea what you're talking about. Feature bloat is not a "win".

Yeah, I've got both, right now. And I've seen both get angry and defensive. What I haven't seen is droves of iPhone users invading the comments on the mainstream review sites and berating say the HTC One M8.

I find it incredibly amusing that comment threads about iPhones are always chock-full of Android users complaining about a phone they'll never buy and berating people for liking the phone they don't like. As someone who carries both Android and iOS (one personal, one work) I've spent a lot of time in Android release…

After wasting $150 on a Nike Fuelband, and another $100 on an Up, and nearly $100 on a fitbit flex, I can't wait for the Apple offering. Perhaps it will actually do what I want - and continue to do it for a while.

My Macbook Pro has soldered-on memory. What current Mac produce, other than the Mac Pro, has user-replaceable memory? Does the mini still have swappable SODIMMs? The iMac?

I have stacks of 1GB and 2GB SODIMMs laying around. Have no idea what to do with 'em.

Thousand Island dressing is Russian dressing with tiny bits of stuff chopped up in it. Ingredients vary. I've never had one in New York, but I've had 'em in DC, Boston, Chicago, KC, Seattle, San Francisco, etc. They all share a common thread, but there was considerable variance in all the ingredients details. Some…

I jumped through these hoops right after I got my Chromecast, but it's such a PITA, and many hotel rooms nowadays don't even have a wired drop. I just take an HDMI cable now, and plug my laptop into the big tv if I want to sit on the couch and veg out to a long series. Google should build a simple form into the damned…

Some people don't know what's good. ;)

That's kinda my point, really. Used to make pizzas every Wednesday night with my daughter when she was much younger. We bought a crust, but there was always pepperoni left over which wasn't typically useful anywhere else (I started freezing it), extra marinara that went bad, extra mozzarella, etc. Then it was…