I bought the Cree 60W equivalent for $12 and they are quite bright (800 lumens). The Cree 100W equivalent are around $24 here too. Maybe you should buy the bulbs in Canada since our dollar is sitting around $0.80 US. :)

Using the phone to replace the cards with bar codes on them is handy because it's removing a number of cards from your wallet. I've got four or five apps for loyalty programs on my phone that means I don't need to have the card in my wallet. I don't have them hooked up to pay automatically but I could with a couple of them.

My city is putting in LED lighting for the streets and traffic signals.

Also, where are you getting your LED lights? I just picked up a bunch for $12 and had coupons from the provincial power provider for $5 off each one.

I came here to mention this. For some reason the people that suggest reducing the light hitting the surface always fail to grasp that it would also reduce the crop yields (along with the growth of all of the other plants, reducing their carbon uptake). It would also reduce the electricity generated from solar power plants.

I don't understand it either especially since one of the capsules being used to ferry astronauts will be the Dragon which already connects fine with the ISS.

And if they gave him a list of everything he downloaded for his billing then he would complain about how they were tracking his every move online and invading his privacy.

Report the IP addresses of the sites of the major content providers that supported the legislation and the major government websites.

Having done both programming and accounting I can say that accounting is by far easier than programming. Or do you mean typing in a bunch of code and have it compile. There's plenty of crap coders out there and that's what you are referring to.

Or a realization that people have strengths and weaknesses. I happen to find programming easy but if you wanted me to do something artistic such as a painting or write a poem then I would have great difficulty.

I don't know why there is such a great focus on getting people to code. I think that people need to know how computers work but you don't need to know how to program in order to achieve that. We don't expect everyone to become a doctor in order to teach them about health or you don't have to become an accountant in order to balance your bank account. But for some reason when it comes to computers we think that people have to become programmers.

But how is Samsung supposed to get money from Microsoft for putting their apps on the phones if they do that?

You don't necessarily need more stations. Because you aren't dealing with a dangerous product you can easily redesign the layout of your station to accommodate more vehicles at one time. Instead of the normal four or six pumps (at least it's normal for around my area) you could have parking spaces for fifteen or twenty cars with chargers. Then you spruce up your convenience store to make the time spent while waiting for the car to charge go by a bit easier. Maybe have a spot to socialize or a sit down area for drinks with free wi-fi. You aren't limited to the old model.

Don't know why you say it's an Apple issue because in Canada the iPhone has always been available unlocked from Apple the day they come out even when all of the carriers wouldn't sell you an unlocked phone.

Don't know if it would really be more convenient since then you would have to remember to scan the items when you use them, or at the very least when they are done. If you forget to scan them when they are finished you'll get warnings about food that is about to expire that you already ate. And you probably want to scan the food every time so it can nag you to use the other package as it is going to expire sooner. No thanks, I'll pass on that.

And for having things like the Nest memorize my behaviour in order to save me some money. It's a nice idea in theory but I don't like the practice. Chips are powerful enough that they don't need to send my data off to Google to perform that analysis. If you want me to pay $250 for a thermostat then my data stays with me. If you want my data then give me the thermostat for free. I know they are making money with that data analysis or else Google wouldn't have spent $3.2B on Nest.

Have to change modes to hit esc is a big fail. Real developers use vi!

Let's take more plant material off of the land which means that we'll have to replace the nutrients. We do that with fertilizer (most of it derived from fossil fuels) that don't completely stay in the fields and contaminate our waterways. Wonderful.