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What Would Be Your Ideal Futuristic Home?
deman1985 asks: "As the owner of a small commercial and home integration company, I'm exposed to a wide variety of customers with differing tastes and needs. I'll get requests for anything from the ordinary audio distribution systems and full home theater systems, to downright bizarre requests like having bubble baths run automatically, when they walk in the door. However, the vast majority of customers I encounter are not technologically inclined and are more interested in simplicity rather than impressiveness. What would your ideal integrated home look like? What's the most unique feature you would like to see? If you had access to an unlimited budget, what would you spend money on to make your home stand out? Whole-house audio? Hidden video screens? Automatic locks? Do most people view home integration strictly as a toy for entertainment, or is the technology ready for prime time?"
What happens when you ask a bunch of nerds and engineers to collaborate on a home design? You get the DUH: Dilbert Ultimate House (Professional Edition).
If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else.
I'd like my home to be a 1:1 scale mock-up of a Firefly class transport. But then I'm a nerd...
It's sad when choosing an installation directory on your own qualifies you as an "advanced user."
I want a futuristic home that pays its own property taxes. that way i can live in it forever.
And you'd NEVER have everything working right, as you'd be constantly taking it apart and redesigning it. Your a gentoo user arn't you?
you'd NEVER have everything working right, as you'd be constantly taking it apart and redesigning it
Very probably correct!
Your a gentoo user arn't you?
Absolutely correct! My answer isn't the one the OP wanted, but it my answer to the question he asked. I'm a tinkerer, and that's the way I like it!
Look at the tomato! Isn't it sad? He can't dance! Poor tomato!
Feh.
The right two words are "Death Star."
Because I like having a lot of room, deep chasms without guardrails, planet-destroying lasers, but I don't like the countryside. Too many trees, and not enough lasers.
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One where the mortgage has a stamp on it that reads, "Paid in Full".
(28 years and 3 months from now, I'm gonna tell the bank to KMA!)
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. - Mark Twain
I lived like that for a few years, long ago. I went from place to place by sea, taking my home with me. But I wasn't on a catamaran, I was on a warship.
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Realtor: This is the Hot Chicks Room. The breakfast table's just over this way...
Wife: Excuse me? What was that room again?
Realtor: Oh, this is the Hot Chicks Room. It's filled with assorted hot chicks, who party in here 24 hours a day. But you'd be more interested in the kitchen.
Wife: You know what? We're not going to need a sexy chicks room.
Realtor: Well, actually it's a Hot Chicks Room.
Wife: Well, whatever it is, we don't need it.
Husband: You said the same thing about the microwave, and we use that darned thing all the time.
[to realtor]
Husband: So, a Hot Chicks Room, huh?
Realtor: Yeah. The previous owner installed the room in the 80's, and I'll be honest with you, some of the chicks aren't all that hot anymore. However, they are replacable.
It's true I tell you, feller at work's next door neighbour read it in the paper.
Please get them to make a website detailing everything they did. This is what I want to do, get away from it all.
My ideal of a stony cave-like underground dwelling probably wouldn't pull the chicks though. But an eco-friendly house would. Possible. Even the long-skirted type that don't wash enough. That's what hoses are for. Solar powered hoses.
God, why am I posting after a night on the tiles?
"and lots of shrubbery in the woods to block sound and line of sight to roadways."
So the quest for peace is a quest for shrubbery?
Those Knights Who Said Ni were on to something...
Would you kindly mod me +1 insightful?