It’s categorized them into distinct faces, but no, it hasn’t identified them with names (the way you would in a manual-tagging system). Actually, lemme make sure I’m correct about that... yes, it’ll show pictures of my daughter, for example, but it doesn’t know her name or how she’s related to me, or anything like…

For many, many years I upgraded from one “beige box” tower to another. I loved swapping in new graphics cards, sound cards, network cards, hard drives, and all that.

My 14-month old daughter plays with a ... maybe it’s called a FurReal pet? Basically, this orange fluffy kitten that’s a robot inside.

I have to admit that this has dropped me down a bunch of rabbit holes the last week — I’ll pick an event it has created, like “Tubing,” and then slowly go back in time over the last 5+ years, watching my kids get younger and chubbier (or me younger and less grey!).

An answer is “Creepily” and yet well. :) Along with the standard set of “Who” (it’s pulled out my family members, work friends, etc.) It has a section for “Places” (mine shows Half Moon Bay Capitola Beach, Alameda, Truckee, Honolulu and 20+ more), and “Things” (these are neat — holidays like Christmas or Thanksgiving,…

That’s ... not entirely true. The fluoride type elements you get in things like municipal tap water are a different beast than rinsing a relatively strong percentage around your mouth for 30 seconds. One is there to provide slow, overall enamel strengthening, while the other is an active, “kill the bits that the…

That’s ... not entirely true. The fluoride type elements you get in things like municipal tap water are a different…

My wife absolutely loves cheesey disaster movies, in the vein of Towering Inferno and so forth. Her current favorite is still ... 10.5, I think it was called? Scenes like a crack in the earth chasing a train through its curving desert path, or the waters receding from a Hawaiian beach, leaving flopping trout…

I’ve been a game (and in recent times, app) developer for many years now, and I can tell you that it’s an incredibly difficult balancing act.

I’m hoping this isn’t as far off as feared — a couple times now, I’ve forgotten to take my watch off at night to charge it (I’ve worn watches for years, and rarely remove them). The second day of use, I reach about 20% charge remaining around 3pm in the afternoon. If I’m home on a weekend, I give the watch a 15 minute…

While I have my own various issues with open source software, I should point out that open source stuff is much easier to *find* bugs in. Look at things like Microsoft’s various scripting languages ... those had enormous, terrible security risks that weren’t discovered for a long time, because nobody could inspect the…

I’ve been tinkering with my watch for a few days now, like a good nerd, and I have to say that the screen is actually quite readable outdoors in bright sunlight. Honestly, I feel like the various Apple store employees should take some demos outside, so that people can see that in a realistic setting.

Interesting, I’d never heard of it — thanks! I mean, curses, because now I’ll spend hours going through Amazon reviews! :)

My wife has waist-length hair, and has since high school. I wouldn’t trade the look for the world, but man, the vacuuming! She kills our various vacuums like she’s an assassin, and we both sit there with little trimming scissors trying to make sure the wound-up hair doesn’t burn the motor out. We’d definitely be in…

Keep in mind that 4 incandescent bulbs is a small fraction of your overall bill: will standard usage, those four incandescent bulbs might use $12 to $16 per year, or maybe around $1 per month. You've probably cut their energy usage down by 2/3, so the four new bulbs might use 30 cents per month. The 70-ish cents…

Keep in mind that 4 incandescent bulbs is a small fraction of your overall bill: will standard usage, those four…

I noticed the 10,000 hour listed life, and was somewhat surprised — most of the ones out there are more like 22,000 hours, from what I've seen. Any idea *why* the lifetime is lower? (Not sure why I expect you to know things like that, no.)

I noticed the 10,000 hour listed life, and was somewhat surprised — most of the ones out there are more like 22,000…

I should confess up front that I pre-ordered my Apple Watch, and am eagerly awaiting its arrive soonish.

It’s like with the other sample someone mentioned, where they amplified the breathing chest of a baby: there are things that the human eye/brain combination can process much more easily by seeing the motion, rather than simply knowing the numeric values. So when the computers do the hard work for us, they can output…

I’d treat that the same as ApplePay does right now: the first time you put on the watch, you need to authenticate with a code. Once you’ve done that, you’re good until you remove the watch from your wrist. (Doesn’t stop someone from forcing you to hold up your wrist, but stops simple theft.)

I’m hoping that’s the case, although I may way to verify it — what I’ve read so far says something like, “You can wash your hands with the watch on, and get splashed, but don’t do more than that!” But yeah, that’d definitely add +1 to the watch for me. :)

It definitely depends on where you’re coming from — I’ve worn a watch every day of the last 20+ years. Because of that, anything that increases what that watch can do (read texts, take notes, whatever) is good, and I’m likely to at least try that. I’ve been using an original Pebble for a while now, and while it’s also…