Calling X10 home automation is like calling CATV the Internet.
X10 is hardly useful in any retrofit jobs since old wiring is typically bad, at best.
Some better options are RF for those of you who don't want to break much drywall or, ideally, running CATV to every switch in your house if you want the real deal. Plus distributed audio, video, security, etc all integrated. Lets see your X10 do that. No, I'd rather not.
This isn't going to be another rant about how real programmers (fill in the blank).
I am a CIS graduate and am currently a software engineer for a small company, working side by side with CS engineers. They code in C++, what most of you would call a "real" language. I use VB for the most part, what most of you would call "crap". We both earn about the same amount (New England programmers can't complain about wages). Is one of us any less a Programmer than the other? Before you all answer an emphatic "Yes!" keep in mind that while I don't have the knowledge to write my own compiler or OS, I don't think I'd ever *want* to. Similarly, while my MIT grad friends wouldn't be caught dead using VB, they wouldn't ever *want* to.
There is more to the Industry than nuclear propulsion algorythms...we need Business-minded coders and we also need Math-minded coders. Real programming is an art...it cannot be taught. If you've got the skill, great...how you want to use it, *that* should be the factor that sways you one way or the other on the CS vs CIS debate.
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I agree. My 8-year-olds are using Mint without any problems.
XFCE and Cinnamon are perfectly customizable for their needs.
They don't need the gigantic icons the "kid-linux" flavours come with....they're young, not blind.
Calling X10 home automation is like calling CATV the Internet.
X10 is hardly useful in any retrofit jobs since old wiring is typically bad, at best.
Some better options are RF for those of you who don't want to break much drywall or, ideally, running CATV to every switch in your house if you want the real deal. Plus distributed audio, video, security, etc all integrated. Lets see your X10 do that. No, I'd rather not.
There should be no apostrophe in CDs you insensitive clod!
I am a CIS graduate and am currently a software engineer for a small company, working side by side with CS engineers. They code in C++, what most of you would call a "real" language. I use VB for the most part, what most of you would call "crap". We both earn about the same amount (New England programmers can't complain about wages). Is one of us any less a Programmer than the other? Before you all answer an emphatic "Yes!" keep in mind that while I don't have the knowledge to write my own compiler or OS, I don't think I'd ever *want* to. Similarly, while my MIT grad friends wouldn't be caught dead using VB, they wouldn't ever *want* to.
There is more to the Industry than nuclear propulsion algorythms...we need Business-minded coders and we also need Math-minded coders. Real programming is an art...it cannot be taught. If you've got the skill, great...how you want to use it, *that* should be the factor that sways you one way or the other on the CS vs CIS debate.
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