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More common sense - Cellphones make you a bad driver {Autoblog}
Jan 3rd 2008 8:52PM Didn't Mythbusters prove this already.
http://kwc.org/mythbusters/2005/06/mythbusters_killer_brace_posit.html
They've finally done it. GPS slows speeders. {Autoblog}
Dec 31st 2007 10:33AM This has been coming for years. Look at the amount of data points that are tracked in every cars ECU. Combine that with a cellular modem (OnStar) and a gps. Add drive by wire and things start to get scary. I never though I would be asking for a carborated vehicle again but at this rate...
Control your entire house with your iPhone or iPod Touch {Engadget HD}
Dec 27th 2007 1:18AM Really only 1 of this is an issue and only a minor one.
Javascript not a problem, established language, tons of books, excellent existing knowledgebase. Learning something new is no different than the requirements for all the other systems out there CQC, Control4, Homeseer, Crestron. Each uses its own special language with its own syntax and limitations. Sure some try and hide it from you with pull downs and their own compiler but how is it any different. The problem is most do a poor job of doccumenting the language so it is easy to get stuck searching forums or poorly organized knowledge bases to get answers.
Non transferable. Minor but not the fault of the product. M$ has always hated standards they don't control. This line of though is the same reason we have crappy, bit mapped, unTrueType fonts instead of Postscript and crippled java support.
Non-optimized downloads. Kind of funny, that is what caching is for. If you reference the same image in a page 50 times the browser only grabs it once. Even then the biggest use for most of this will be while you are home with the system. That is where WIFI comes in. It is nice to adjust lights and turn on the TV when you are not home but it is hardly a daily thing for most. When was the last time you needed to check the weather while you were out and logged into your home server over the internet to check? If you have internet access why check it on your home server when weather.com is available.
Download time is more and issue of good GUI design. If you design a GUI that take 10 click to do common task then you are going to have problems.
The best part of this as I see it it being able to us an iPod Touch as a remote for the system. A sub $300 touchscreen remote is nice. No had buttons may be a problem but I can accept that.
