All the comments about Nest not really learning your schedule or setting comfort levels wrong and nobody's mentioned a big competitor yet? I purchased my Ecobee about 10 months ago and am very pleased. It does connect to the internet and you can control it from your phone so put it on a different wifi network that your other devices if you're concerned. It has sensors you can put around your house so during the night it will make your bedroom comfortable at the expense of the other rooms being less comfortable. It will control humidifiers, dehumidifiers, 2 stage heating and cooling, auxiliary heat, etc. Scheduling is easy to set up and vacation scheduling is excellent. With the gas company giving me a $100 rebate for smart thermostats the price was right.
Requiring security is probably meant "does your device need a passcode to unlock after X minutes." Or you must use a 6 character alphanumeric code not the standard 4 digits. Or maybe even you must tell it to destruct after Y failed attempts.
Until ebooks match emusic I'll be sitting on the sidelines. All my music I can keep the cd's or put them on my digital player of choice. I don't even have to prove I own it. Head to the library and rip a cd, borrow from a friend, record it myself. Until I'm allowed to easily put a book I possess on an ebook reader, I'm not buying one. Scan a barcode, take a picture of the dust jacket, or whatever gets decided to prove I have a copy in my possession and lets me get the digital version.
I have the LG 55LW5300 set. 55 inch LED backlit LCD display. I use the same glasses as I get from the movie theater when I see the 3D films there. They're passive, lightweight, unobtrusive, and inexpensive to replace. You lose half your horizontal resolution, so I go from 1080 to 540 lines. Still better than the 480 I had just a month ago and at the 12 to 15 feet away we sit from the set, I don't notice it. We've watched 3D Harry Potter, a couple IMAX films on 3D Blu-Ray, some videos from youtube.com/3D and they all look fine. There's videos where the 3D is annoying and exaggerated, just like there's songs that are annoying when they fade left and right quick. You just chalk that up as lesson learned, steer clear of that director or studio until they get a handle on it.
The problem I had was finding a tv this large that didn't have 3D. It's almost a standard feature above 50" with LED backlighting.
The experience might be poorer with passive glasses, but I'm not. I have enough glasses for all my friends to come over and I didn't need to spend $60-$80 a pair and keep them on a charger just in case people stop by.
And you're right, having distractions makes the 3D movies harder for me to get back in. I think I need a few seconds to let my brain or eyes relax and start seeing the picture in 3D again.
How is your 1500 watt transmitter going to help you overcome the reception noise on your end? It's not and you're going to just piss off the neighborhood and spend $4,000+ on equipment to do it.
The Apple airPort extreme does this as well. I've got my personal network behind a WPA2 access and an open network with each computer segregated from the other one. I haven't noticed any connection speed issues and until someone abuses it, I'll leave it open.
Since you didn't say what grade your daughter was in, I'll assume elementary school. Spend a lot of time and teach her to get a Technician class amateur radio license. Then plant one of these "unobtrusive" things on her. Tada, you now have a mobile tracking system. Go to GoogleAPRS or JfindU to keep an eye on her. Or just do what everyone else says; raise a stink at the PTA meetings.
Yeah, if you can find them anywhere. My local Home Depot, Meijer, Wal-Mart, and Target all don't carry that series of bulbs. Big whoop it's on their webpage, put it in the stores so I can buy it.
Some ham radio guys have their weather stations send the current WX conditions to the internet. Try going here and entering in your city and state into their search. From there look for stations with a blue circle with WX in the middle. Those stations send out weather data. In my case the station CW2113. Click on the date to get the raw packet. From there you can decode the data.
Ignore everything before the @
29 is the Day
0007z is the zulu time
4138.23N/08749.28W are the lattitude and longitude of the station
356/007g wind is from 356* at 7MPH
t056 tempature is 56*F
P057 0.57" of precip have fallen
h87 is 87% humidity
Alternatively you can buy a scanner and a TNC and listen to the packets yourself on 145.390MHz. Some other interesting sites are jfindu and googleAPRS
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All the comments about Nest not really learning your schedule or setting comfort levels wrong and nobody's mentioned a big competitor yet? I purchased my Ecobee about 10 months ago and am very pleased. It does connect to the internet and you can control it from your phone so put it on a different wifi network that your other devices if you're concerned. It has sensors you can put around your house so during the night it will make your bedroom comfortable at the expense of the other rooms being less comfortable. It will control humidifiers, dehumidifiers, 2 stage heating and cooling, auxiliary heat, etc. Scheduling is easy to set up and vacation scheduling is excellent. With the gas company giving me a $100 rebate for smart thermostats the price was right.
Requiring security is probably meant "does your device need a passcode to unlock after X minutes." Or you must use a 6 character alphanumeric code not the standard 4 digits. Or maybe even you must tell it to destruct after Y failed attempts.
Until ebooks match emusic I'll be sitting on the sidelines. All my music I can keep the cd's or put them on my digital player of choice. I don't even have to prove I own it. Head to the library and rip a cd, borrow from a friend, record it myself. Until I'm allowed to easily put a book I possess on an ebook reader, I'm not buying one. Scan a barcode, take a picture of the dust jacket, or whatever gets decided to prove I have a copy in my possession and lets me get the digital version.
I have the LG 55LW5300 set. 55 inch LED backlit LCD display. I use the same glasses as I get from the movie theater when I see the 3D films there. They're passive, lightweight, unobtrusive, and inexpensive to replace. You lose half your horizontal resolution, so I go from 1080 to 540 lines. Still better than the 480 I had just a month ago and at the 12 to 15 feet away we sit from the set, I don't notice it. We've watched 3D Harry Potter, a couple IMAX films on 3D Blu-Ray, some videos from youtube.com/3D and they all look fine. There's videos where the 3D is annoying and exaggerated, just like there's songs that are annoying when they fade left and right quick. You just chalk that up as lesson learned, steer clear of that director or studio until they get a handle on it.
The problem I had was finding a tv this large that didn't have 3D. It's almost a standard feature above 50" with LED backlighting.
The experience might be poorer with passive glasses, but I'm not. I have enough glasses for all my friends to come over and I didn't need to spend $60-$80 a pair and keep them on a charger just in case people stop by.
And you're right, having distractions makes the 3D movies harder for me to get back in. I think I need a few seconds to let my brain or eyes relax and start seeing the picture in 3D again.
Alan
How is your 1500 watt transmitter going to help you overcome the reception noise on your end? It's not and you're going to just piss off the neighborhood and spend $4,000+ on equipment to do it.
Are you paying twice, or are you each paying half?
The Apple airPort extreme does this as well. I've got my personal network behind a WPA2 access and an open network with each computer segregated from the other one. I haven't noticed any connection speed issues and until someone abuses it, I'll leave it open.
Since you didn't say what grade your daughter was in, I'll assume elementary school. Spend a lot of time and teach her to get a Technician class amateur radio license. Then plant one of these "unobtrusive" things on her. Tada, you now have a mobile tracking system. Go to GoogleAPRS or JfindU to keep an eye on her. Or just do what everyone else says; raise a stink at the PTA meetings.
Yeah, if you can find them anywhere. My local Home Depot, Meijer, Wal-Mart, and Target all don't carry that series of bulbs. Big whoop it's on their webpage, put it in the stores so I can buy it.
Some ham radio guys have their weather stations send the current WX conditions to the internet. Try going here and entering in your city and state into their search. From there look for stations with a blue circle with WX in the middle. Those stations send out weather data. In my case the station CW2113. Click on the date to get the raw packet. From there you can decode the data.
7 49.28W_356/007g...t056P057h87b10047.DsVP
CW2113>APRS,TCPXX*,qAX,CW2113:@290007z4138.23N/08
Ignore everything before the @
29 is the Day
0007z is the zulu time
4138.23N/08749.28W are the lattitude and longitude of the station
356/007g wind is from 356* at 7MPH
t056 tempature is 56*F
P057 0.57" of precip have fallen
h87 is 87% humidity
Alternatively you can buy a scanner and a TNC and listen to the packets yourself on 145.390MHz.
Some other interesting sites are jfindu and googleAPRS