Dont worry, next year will be ruined by the hotels. They already announced there will be a 20% increase in hotel prices next year.

2 years ago it was a lot better, this year is probably my last year as I just cant afford $600 a night for a 4 night minimum stay anymore Plus $80 a day parking at the hotel. Makes my VIG passes look cheap in comparison.

Plus the bonus of chicago is if you take the red line to far south, you get murdered for free in your costume!

Gencon consumes all of indy that weekend. you cant get a hotel within 30 miles. Every single hotel room is already booked for that weekend. Every restaurant in a 10 mile radius of the center is packed full of people.

I honestly hope they move because Indy is too dinky of a town for Gencon. I want them to move to Vegas. Cheaper and better hotels, cheaper and easier flights. And a shitload more to do outside of the convention.

It's already this way. Amazon uses Dematic handling systems and robots.

you have to buy those on ebay.

It's a hobby that makes me $102,000 ish a year. (actually more if you include the company car and benefits)

I design and install the real stuff and program homes and even freaking hospitals with Lutron,Vantage, Crestron and AMX control systems. using real sensors and systems to do some amazing stuff. A major hospital in michigan has my code running the lighting on all 12 floors using sensors on the roof and each room, hallway, etc and floor for light harvesting and lighting control. I even adjust the color kenetics RGB accent lighting based on the current weather conditions outside.

Hell the last home theater I did cost more than 90% of the people posting here will make in 10 years. The very rich and corperations all use the real stuff extensively. The consumer items are exactly what you called them, Toys for someone's hobby.

Yup none of this is automation. I do real automation with Vantage, AMX and Crestron. Most of this stuff is simply cheezy remote control with a huge flaw of requiring internet connections for them to work.

If it's cloud based it's crap.

These companies need to stop with the freaking data harvesting and give us controllers that will work 100% when the internet is down like it is whenever it rains in DSL land.

The horrible evil and completely corrupt people who currently control congress are the same people who created the Patriot Act.

FTFY

You dont have to upgrade the entire grid. These businesses are already using power, using solar to offset that and pipe some back to the surrounding users requires no upgrades to the current grid.

Why not the far simpler and more beneficial Grid tie syncing systems? They work great and will let the power generated spread out to others that dont have the money for a solar installation. It causes the benefits to reach out further.

Eliminate the batteries, system is simpler, and benefits more. It's a win,win,win, anger republicans which is another win.

No it doesnt defeat any security. It requires both machine to be pre infected to begin with, and the data rate is less than 1 bit per minute.

Just like the "hack using computer speakers" just install this malware first...

It's an interesting out of band communications process, a very very VERY slow one... but still interesting.

Whew....

General Ackbar and "its a trap" is ok then in the security line....

Not only that. my daughter does not want kids, she wants to have her tubes tied, but she cant because of laws not allowing voluntary sterilization of women younger than 25.

Hows that for some fucked up laws?