ElectricImp.com

[Richard Spargur]

Not trusting everyone completely, I have a lot of problem with my house or
parts of my house or stuff in my house or property constantly, and
uncontrollably talking to someone (not necessarily the object it was
intended to talk to) recovering information.

Companies like Proctor & Gamble have patents for tracking projects from when
you pick them up from the store shelf to when they enter a landfill
including while they are in your house.  It is their stated desire to do
just that as well as other companies.

What will this company in California be collecting today.  What about
tomorrow.

Then I could just be paranoid, I will put my tin foil back around my head
and sit in the corner :-)

Richard
 

-----Original Message-----
From: tacos-bounces+k3ui=comcast.net at amrad.org
[mailto:tacos-bounces+k3ui=comcast.net at amrad.org] On Behalf Of Robert E.
Seastrom
Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2013 10:34 AM
To: wb4jfi at knology.net
Cc: Mike O'Dell; tacos at amrad.org
Subject: Re: ElectricImp.com


<wb4jfi at knology.net> writes:

> Sounds kind of squirrelly to me (the language it purports to use is 
> yet another variant of C, called squirrel).  If the language is 
> "C-like", why not just use C?  These people are getting too cute for 
> their own good.

To be fair, this is exactly how Wiring (the programming language for the
Arduino) is described, though describing it as "C++ with so many convenient
libraries tossed on top as to make it unrecognizable" is prehaps more
honest.

> I was going to play with one, but the full-time Internet access 
> requirement made it road-kill.  Insert your own "nuts" joke here, I'm 
> from California, so I get a free pass.

100% agreement.  Things must work properly and in a not-unexpected fashion
when connected to the Internet and disconnected from the Internet...  but
also make appropriate decisions when the Internet connectivity is dodgy
(cursory test returns OK but attempting to use yields crummy performance for
whatever reason).

Somehow, the last case never gets addressed well.

-r


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