Westinghouse has a new line of connected apliances available. They do such interesting things as, your alarm clock tells you if the coffee maker is not filled with water and coffee, when you go to bed. Or you can use the barcode wand on the microwave to scan your tv dinner, and the microwave will look up how to cook it on the internet. They are already available to purchase at Amazon. The appliances are about average for luxury appliances, but the "home hub" (an alarm clock + windows CE pda, the one require piece) is a bit pricy at $500 if you ask me.
What's even more sad about this is that a large (perhaps the largest) part of the $15 billion that went into this project came from the pockets of citizens who are never going to use the tunnel. *snip snip* Why did the State drag us into a project that benefits the few at the expense of the many? And (worse), how did we (the many) let them get away with it for so long?
-Another Disgruntled Mass-hole
Bleh, this is boring. Coffee flavoured flakes.
sounds soft and soggy, like cornflakes 10 ms after the milk has seen it.
I just can't get it through my head why the rest of the world is obsessed with making cereal crunchier. The most time consuming part of my morning is standing over a bowl of bran flakes, staring at it, waiting for it to be soft and soggy.
Speak for yourself. I gladly pay the $500 for my bleeding edge phone every year. Quite frankly the phones you can get through the carriers aren't exactly cutting edge. The nice plus about owning my own phone is that it isnt "locked" to a carrier. Try taking to AT&T phone to a Cingular store and using it on thier network.
After trying one to many times to walk family members through seemingly simple processes over the phone, only to nearly loose my sanity, I set up the following rules for "Family Tech Support."
1) They tell me what kind of computer they want and and send me the money.
2) I pick a computer and peripherals that are PC99 color coded compliant. I set up the computer and everything on it along with pcAnywhere, then FedEx it too them.
3) They are told to call me when the package so that I can make sure they don't try to jam a fushia connector into a lime port.
4) They then call the cable company and get a cable modem.
5) During the workday, while monitoring various routers, firewalls, servers, call recorders, etc.. . It goes kinda like
Run report on Company A web server. . . Check. Patch Company B Exchange server. . . Check. Troubleshoot Company C call recorder. . . Check. Install Deluxe Mah Jong tiles for mom. . . Check.
Works great. I can do preemptive maintenance, log in and watch them recreate problems they are having, or simply call them up, take there mouse and go "see you just click here and. ..". Install software for them, rather than trying to pick up in the middle of a botched install.
It has added years to my life. Cause let me tell you, there is nothing more stressful than trying to be really cheerful and loving to your grandmother after she "deleted all those documents on the hard drive that she diddnt create."
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Westinghouse has a new line of connected apliances available. They do such interesting things as, your alarm clock tells you if the coffee maker is not filled with water and coffee, when you go to bed. Or you can use the barcode wand on the microwave to scan your tv dinner, and the microwave will look up how to cook it on the internet. They are already available to purchase at Amazon. The appliances are about average for luxury appliances, but the "home hub" (an alarm clock + windows CE pda, the one require piece) is a bit pricy at $500 if you ask me.
So move to Boston.
Speak for yourself. I gladly pay the $500 for my bleeding edge phone every year. Quite frankly the phones you can get through the carriers aren't exactly cutting edge. The nice plus about owning my own phone is that it isnt "locked" to a carrier. Try taking to AT&T phone to a Cingular store and using it on thier network.
After trying one to many times to walk family members through seemingly simple processes over the phone, only to nearly loose my sanity, I set up the following rules for "Family Tech Support."
.". Install software for them, rather than trying to pick up in the middle of a botched install.
1) They tell me what kind of computer they want and and send me the money.
2) I pick a computer and peripherals that are PC99 color coded compliant. I set up the computer and everything on it along with pcAnywhere, then FedEx it too them.
3) They are told to call me when the package so that I can make sure they don't try to jam a fushia connector into a lime port.
4) They then call the cable company and get a cable modem.
5) During the workday, while monitoring various routers, firewalls, servers, call recorders, etc.. . It goes kinda like
Run report on Company A web server. . . Check.
Patch Company B Exchange server. . . Check.
Troubleshoot Company C call recorder. . . Check.
Install Deluxe Mah Jong tiles for mom. . . Check.
Works great. I can do preemptive maintenance, log in and watch them recreate problems they are having, or simply call them up, take there mouse and go "see you just click here and. .
It has added years to my life. Cause let me tell you, there is nothing more stressful than trying to be really cheerful and loving to your grandmother after she "deleted all those documents on the hard drive that she diddnt create."