For EU readers, consider an EU based organization usurping control over some activity from your national government. That's sort of the situation with the US federal government. The US is too large and too diverse for many on-size-fits-all solutions.
You mean akin to the EU effectively overturning a national ban on phthalate esters, as per earlier this year?
(disclosure: I own LIFX lightbulbs, and wrote an app that controls them) "Smart-home" stuff is, currently, mostly toys - you have them for doing stuff that you largely don't need to do. Some Smart-home stuff is able to go beyond the toy-stage, like intelligent control of heating, remote monitoring etc, where they can serve specific, valuable purposes.
As for "intelligent" lightbulbs? Mine are able to entertain the kids for 20 minutes (let them go amok with the app), while I worked on making my phone advice me of SMSes and emails via a brief colour-change to a bulb; this is still in the toys-stage, but slowly starts serving a purpose.
So, in view of you stating it is overkill, I'd ask whether saving on your heating bill is overkill, or whether having fun with setting lighting-levels and -colours is overkill? Naturally, the answer depends on your values in life:)
Note: My latest suggestion for use of Smart-home equipment was to mix a LIFX lightbulb with a Doorbot (doorbell with camera and wifi), to alert a deaf person of the doorbell being used, by sending visual cues via the lightbulbs (specific colour-change).
(disclosure: I own LIFX lightbulbs, and wrote an app that controls them) "Smart-home" stuff is, currently, mostly toys - you have them for doing stuff that you largely don't need to do. Some Smart-home stuff is able to go beyond the toy-stage, like intelligent control of heating, remote monitoring etc, where they can serve specific, valuable purposes.
Intelligent lightbulbs? Mine are able to entertain the kids for 20 minutes (let them go amok with the app), while I worked on making my phone advice me of SMSes and emails via a brief colour-change to a bulb; this is still in the toys-stage, but slowly starts serving a purpose.
So, in view of you stating it is overkill, I'd ask whether saving on your heating bill is overkill, or whether having fun with setting lighting-levels and -colours is overkill? Naturally, the answer depends on your values in life:)
Note: My latest suggestion for use of Smart-home equipment was to mix a LIFX lightbulb with a Doorbot (doorbell with camera and wifi), to alert a deaf person of the doorbell being used, by sending visual cues via the lightbulbs (specific colour-change).
Or you could rent a car for the few times year you need to travel more than 200 miles. Some people almost never travel that far. Some people go that far every weekend.
From discussing this very solution, it seems people (At least american flesh-people) are very opposed to the notion of renting a car for the purpose of driving long-distances, or carrying large things around or just about anything. Instead, most insists on having a vehicle that can solve every imaginable situation, even if most of these situations come up once yearly (or even not-at-all).
Moving energy costs energy (transmission costs, lost usually as heat due to electrical resistance). We need to produce energy locally, with varied sources and capacity to generally meet our needs; the ability to transfer energy around larger regions is definitely also a good thing, but infrastructure like that has a LOT of costs and overhead (maintenance, security, Russia disconnecting lines...) and should not be relied upon.
Diversity is critical in energy production - is part of why certain groups insists on dismissing any green source that is not capable of meeting 100%+ of energy-needs.
yeah, the Eastern Ukraine is fighting back against their government using the handheld anti-aircraft weaponry they just happened to have lying around, hidden from their government.
Perhaps the NSA got tired of everyone using Security Patches, and told Microsoft to stop being so diligent in informing people about the existence of these ?:)
Something broke when they started unifying their platforms?
I know things changed when they did this with YouTube and G+, and there were apparently a ton of video-posts complaining about things changing, but I never personally saw anything that actually broke.
Disclaimer: I'm not a YouTube "content creator", nor a daily user of YouTube. I do use G+, and I do appreciate not having separate accounts for G+, GMail, YouTube, AdWords, Google Analytics etc (though, in reality, some of those are still separate accounts due to how Google hasn't completed the unification-work)
Drivers would use their cell phones to get pictures of drivers using their cell phones.
Yeah, that'd work as intended...
You know, in many many places I could stand on a sidewalk and successfully do this. Hell, I strongly suspect in most places I could do this. Pretty much any busy intersection from what I've been able to see.
Give me $50 for every picture I can get with a face and a license plate and a cell phone... and I could probably make several thousand dollars in an hour without even trying very hard.
And, failing that, have a police office standing there doing the same thing, mailing out tickets, and taking points off people's licenses.
If many accidents are now caused by distracted drivers, and it's trivial to find places where you can stand there and watch people on cell phones while driving... do something about it.
A lawyer did this in Copenhagen, DK, and while he didn't receive any money for it, he did receive numerous threats...
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I for one would love to see an M1 Abrams tank going sideways at high speed into metal poles...
He tried - the US didn't want to listen to him.
Perhaps he was picked up in the Maldives and "escorted" to Guam, and then arrested in Guam? :)
uhm, aren't China being pretty diligent with installing filters and what-nut on coal-plants?
For EU readers, consider an EU based organization usurping control over some activity from your national government. That's sort of the situation with the US federal government. The US is too large and too diverse for many on-size-fits-all solutions.
You mean akin to the EU effectively overturning a national ban on phthalate esters, as per earlier this year?
(disclosure: I own LIFX lightbulbs, and wrote an app that controls them)
"Smart-home" stuff is, currently, mostly toys - you have them for doing stuff that you largely don't need to do.
Some Smart-home stuff is able to go beyond the toy-stage, like intelligent control of heating, remote monitoring etc, where they can serve specific, valuable purposes.
As for "intelligent" lightbulbs? Mine are able to entertain the kids for 20 minutes (let them go amok with the app), while I worked on making my phone advice me of SMSes and emails via a brief colour-change to a bulb; this is still in the toys-stage, but slowly starts serving a purpose.
So, in view of you stating it is overkill, I'd ask whether saving on your heating bill is overkill, or whether having fun with setting lighting-levels and -colours is overkill? :)
Naturally, the answer depends on your values in life
Note: My latest suggestion for use of Smart-home equipment was to mix a LIFX lightbulb with a Doorbot (doorbell with camera and wifi), to alert a deaf person of the doorbell being used, by sending visual cues via the lightbulbs (specific colour-change).
(disclosure: I own LIFX lightbulbs, and wrote an app that controls them)
"Smart-home" stuff is, currently, mostly toys - you have them for doing stuff that you largely don't need to do.
Some Smart-home stuff is able to go beyond the toy-stage, like intelligent control of heating, remote monitoring etc, where they can serve specific, valuable purposes.
Intelligent lightbulbs? Mine are able to entertain the kids for 20 minutes (let them go amok with the app), while I worked on making my phone advice me of SMSes and emails via a brief colour-change to a bulb; this is still in the toys-stage, but slowly starts serving a purpose.
So, in view of you stating it is overkill, I'd ask whether saving on your heating bill is overkill, or whether having fun with setting lighting-levels and -colours is overkill? :)
Naturally, the answer depends on your values in life
Note: My latest suggestion for use of Smart-home equipment was to mix a LIFX lightbulb with a Doorbot (doorbell with camera and wifi), to alert a deaf person of the doorbell being used, by sending visual cues via the lightbulbs (specific colour-change).
Or you could rent a car for the few times year you need to travel more than 200 miles. Some people almost never travel that far. Some people go that far every weekend.
From discussing this very solution, it seems people (At least american flesh-people) are very opposed to the notion of renting a car for the purpose of driving long-distances, or carrying large things around or just about anything.
Instead, most insists on having a vehicle that can solve every imaginable situation, even if most of these situations come up once yearly (or even not-at-all).
im old now and happily married..
So trick to being happily married is to be old ... makes sense .. :)
Bingo involves the physical act of moving your hand to tick the scorecard, and there's a clear, objective winner.
I think it's arguable, because that act is not a skill...
Go to bingo-night, see the ones running 10+ bingo cards, and still manages to tick off all the numbers being called :)
Time to take commercial advantage of a lot of For Charity organizations ...
What about the programmers writing the date/timezone libraries? It ain't turtles all the way down :)
The 20-to-50-odd daily (non-spam) posts from various parties I get on Google+ tells me it is not dead.
Just because your friend and your mom doesn't use it, and therefore it is useless to you, doesn't mean it is dead.
Moving energy costs energy (transmission costs, lost usually as heat due to electrical resistance).
We need to produce energy locally, with varied sources and capacity to generally meet our needs; the ability to transfer energy around larger regions is definitely also a good thing, but infrastructure like that has a LOT of costs and overhead (maintenance, security, Russia disconnecting lines...) and should not be relied upon.
Diversity is critical in energy production - is part of why certain groups insists on dismissing any green source that is not capable of meeting 100%+ of energy-needs.
Definitely not the one who thinks that farmers dealing with weather means the same farmers are dealing with climate
yeah, the Eastern Ukraine is fighting back against their government using the handheld anti-aircraft weaponry they just happened to have lying around, hidden from their government.
Not sure the previous post was about boycotting, as much as hacktivism ....
Just looked up the prices back home (Denmark):
0.274 - 0.35 EUR/kWh
Not sure Germans have anything to complain about :)
tinfoiling ....
Perhaps the NSA got tired of everyone using Security Patches, and told Microsoft to stop being so diligent in informing people about the existence of these ? :)
Something broke when they started unifying their platforms?
I know things changed when they did this with YouTube and G+, and there were apparently a ton of video-posts complaining about things changing, but I never personally saw anything that actually broke.
Disclaimer: I'm not a YouTube "content creator", nor a daily user of YouTube. I do use G+, and I do appreciate not having separate accounts for G+, GMail, YouTube, AdWords, Google Analytics etc (though, in reality, some of those are still separate accounts due to how Google hasn't completed the unification-work)
It's that I cannot agree with their conclusion that online voting cannot encourage greater overall turnout.
They didn't conclude it CANNOT - they concluded it DID NOT.
It may still be that it can, but they are disinclined to throw further money at it, at this point, given the absence of increased turnout.
That would be better written in Visual Basic.net Sharp v#.8 2011
Fixed that for you...
yeah, I'm thinking, "Use the OUTSIDE of the spacestation as cold-storage for any corpses"...
You know, in many many places I could stand on a sidewalk and successfully do this. Hell, I strongly suspect in most places I could do this. Pretty much any busy intersection from what I've been able to see.
Give me $50 for every picture I can get with a face and a license plate and a cell phone ... and I could probably make several thousand dollars in an hour without even trying very hard.
And, failing that, have a police office standing there doing the same thing, mailing out tickets, and taking points off people's licenses.
If many accidents are now caused by distracted drivers, and it's trivial to find places where you can stand there and watch people on cell phones while driving ... do something about it.
A lawyer did this in Copenhagen, DK, and while he didn't receive any money for it, he did receive numerous threats ...