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So now I'll have to frequent establishments that blast music at me to charge my phone? 
"Honey! I'm just going [to a gentlemen's club] to charge my phone, I'll be back in a few hours."
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It's time for PGP to die. I guess he doesn't think it's 'pretty good'?
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It's been heralded the as future and celebrated as a beacon of technological advancement, but now analysts are branding the Internet of Things (IoT) as the most over-hyped technology in development today. At least until the next over-hyped technology
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As a member of the OHTOTMC (Over Hyped Technology Of The Month Club) I can tell you that marketing people know no bounds when it comes to selling a product or idea.
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
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That club is so overhyped even Google does not know much about it.
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Well, I for one look forward to the day when my toilet comes equipped with a Raspberry PI and uses unQLite to log every bowel movement and flush, which is transmitted to my local water purification center so that I get a bill exactly detailing my customized charges for the sanitation treatment plant. Also, my refrigerator will communicate with my toilet and adjust the grocery list to ensure that the solid waste density is kept within prescribed parameters based on my daily activity, which my bio-implant reports to the "healthy poo through healthy greens" club, and thereby adjusts the amount of fresh greens on said grocery list. Happily, because those greens are grown from the water reclaimed by every flush and fertilized by said poo, I will actually receive a small discount from the waste treatment center, also detailed on said bill.
Technology is going to be SO AWESOME!
Marc
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Something that *would* be cool though is that after a power failure, the microwave, stove, clock radios, and coffee maker would get the latest time from the atomic clock on the internet...*that* would at least be something...
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No need to get the time through the internet.
An old-fashioned technology called radio is sufficient.
That is how clocks and watches (those who sync with the Atomic Clocks of the World) get their time signal.
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Yeah, but those clocks don't work everywhere and they are quite expensive...
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Ten years ago, I bought a synchronized-to-the-atomic-clock table clock for $29.95 from Fry's in California. A couple of years back, I saw watches advertised for $99.99 in the airlines' SkyMall type of stuff.
There is a clock covering North America, one in Europe and one in Japan.
If you are in the middle of the Congo, you may not have access to the signal, but then you won't have access to the Internet either.
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OK, you win...send me a link to a microwave at Amazon that has your clock sync built in 
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You yourself said that it would be cool to have your microwave sync with the atomic clock using the internet, acknowledging it doesn't exist yet.
Start a Kickstarter project that syncs all clock-included devices with the atomic clock.  ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
PS. I bought that clock at Fry's because I thought it would be cool to have a super accurate clock. Being the cheapskate that I am, I waited for the price to drop.
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I'll add it to my To Do list
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Now that you've put this idea on the intarwebs, I expect to see a new YC-funded startup (or KickStarter) to "make this a reality". Hopefully you'll get some kickback for the notion.
TTFN - Kent
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Today? Okay. But tomorrow it will be something else. If you want to talk recent memory, I'd go with the Segue as the most over-hyped: Paul McCartney said it would be bigger than the Beatles!
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So your fridge starts to break down and it warns you beforehand so you can have it fixed before all your food is spoiled. Instead you decide to order a new fridge and because they can predict someone your neighborhood is likely going to buy 'this' fridge, you'll have it installed 30 minutes after you clicked the "buy" button.
Yeah, nobody would ever want this... 
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Hewlett-Packard reportedly held talks with relative newcomers Apple and Google in recent months to create a new type of "Enterprise Siri" system that would allow its corporate customers to search their document and data troves using their voice. Hopefully it will come with an industrial strength profanity filter, it's going to need it
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Even now some people think I'm a bit weird - I can imagine what they will think of me if I start talking to my computer to find some documentation...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Hopefully powered by Roger's Profanisaurus[^]
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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With Azure Automation, a new capability in Microsoft Azure, Dev/Ops and IT professionals are able to create and run runbooks to automate repetitive and complex tasks on their Azure resources. Batch files...in THE CLOUD!
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UnQLite is a in-process software library which implements a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional NoSQL database engine. Helping solve the shortage of database choices for {some period of time I'm too lazy to look up}
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Helping solve the
... problem of what to do with that 8GB of RAM.
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You know, these sort of things wouldn't even come into existence if it weren't for open source. Who in their right mind would actually buy this? But no, because of open source, we can now freely acquire such drivel, and there are people actually proud to produce such drivel and market it under the "we're cool because it's open source" banner. 
[edit]Wow, I just looked at the forum[^] The bug reports are nightmarish. [/edit]
Marc
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Man I am totally with you on that!
That said the open source competition is a good push towards innovation too! 
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Oh yeah. MUMPS, ehm OpenM, is a great programming platform which includes a highly modern hierarchical database. Its usabilty, scalability, maintenance-friendliness etc. have been proved during decades by health care providers, authorities, and other modern enterprises. 
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