Assisted Living can be very expensive and technology can help solve some of these problems. My father has memory problems and might forget to take his medication or leave the range top on. I wrote a simple android app and put NFC stickers on his pill box. Each morning and night he uses a nexus 7 that I got him to scan the NFC tag which marks in a DB that I run that he has taken his meds. If by a certain time the DB hasn't been updated I get a notification my my phone to call my dad and check in. My dad enjoys being in the home that he and my mother built 30 years ago and he still gets out with friends. I wish I had a way to see that he left the range top on so I could help him stay even more safe, but for now and hopefully for the next few years assisted living would be a costly and unneeded situation for my father.

AT&T has a FTTH set up in my sister-in-laws apartment and they still max out at 24Mbps (she did get an email that they will be offering 45 Mbps service "soon".) Their might not be a technical reason AT&T couldn't offer >100Mbps service, but they seem to like to standardize their offerings and limit bandwidth.

I would be willing to pay a premium to travel by modern rail if it meant not dealing with: 1) the TSA and 2)seats designed for a person 5'4" 98 lbs

OBDII see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On-board_diagnostics#OBD-II also http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=OBDII It has been done and is amazingly useful

I agree with this fully. openSUSE does KDE better than any other distro I have tried.

Very useful story, and it makes a lot of sense. Thanks for the link. Wish I had mod points.

Froyo is slang for Frozen Yogurt

It would be suprising if this didn't happen. the API for 3rd party aps is still in beta and to sign up for the dev program right now tell you this sdk is for dev purposes right now and not production use.. ( https://developers.google.com/cast/downloads/ ) Eventually I expect the ability to cast content from my android devices, but for right now Google has been very clear to devs the state the cast is in right now.

I too have ATT and officially they cap my bandwidth ( https://www.att.com/esupport/internet/usage.jsp#fbid=qsgXBi_1tA1 ) however when I try to check my usage I am informed that they do not have monitoring tools installed in my area yet, so I don't need to work about it. In general ATT DSL (or HSI in their terms) has a 150GB monthly cap (no clear indication if that is Download, upload, or both combined.) Uverse has a 250GB monthly cap.

In what way was I trolling? It is a fact that Doug Engelbart worked for SRI ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Engelbart#SRI_and_the_Augmentation_Research_Center ) and that Siri was originally created by SRI ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siri_(software) ) I don't necessarily agree with the original comment, but it was interesting to see his connection between Jobs and 2 things that came from SRI ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRI_International ).

Just a fun link between your primary idea and your statement:

Apple purchased siri from SRI International, which is who Eberhart worked for.

I agree with you here, although 10.1 or 10.2 was a bit of a mess too, with package management being so slow as to make patching the system a tedious task.

the fedora plex rpm installs without any issue on opensuse, the only wrinkle is that the rpm does not set the service to auto start on opensuse (SysV has been replaced by systemd which causes the issue.) the command:
#systemctl enable plexmediaserver.service
fixes that

Naturally the RAW data from a GPS module will be very noisy and good software/firmware needs to be written to overcome the horrible SNR that will be present. However the issue that the Fermion was referring to, that google maps has led him astray, is more than likely an issue with the map data and not the GPS location calculated by the module. (with the notable exception of being in a place like NYC.)

Normally GPS issues that people face aren't problems with the GPS but rather with the mapping data used. The GPS is giving good data, but the maps are out of date or incorrect and lead you the wrong way. Notable exceptions to this would be in places like New York, where the large buildings cause multipath issues and the GPS module doesn't have good data.