that Google will be adding all sort of 'sensors' to the cameras and microphones using a special DSP chip to process the information. You won't just have voice commands, but you will be able to make gestures with your hands in an ASL type of control using the camera. It would come in handy for the deaf and possible it can translate ASL into text as well for faster typing. Non-Verbal commands I think is what they might call it. There will most likely be ASIC chips added for SHA-256 hashing so it could process Bitcoin mining and solve SHA-256 hashes for other reasons as well.

most Cable TV subscribers have the "Basic Package" of $20/month or whatever of 20 to 40 channels they hook up an old analog SD TV into without a box. They couldn't even figure out those HD encoder coupons or why they needed an encode for local TV. If the signal is scrambled and encrypted for the OTA channels they won't know what is happening and will call up the Cable company complaining about signal reception problems.

Yeah you need a box, we'll rent you one for $X/month, they'll claim. They'll send the box, and the customer won't figure out how to hook it up. Then the cable company will send a contractor out for $300 to install it for them. At that point they will just cancel cable TV because it is too expensive and complex to figure out.

You see Cable TV makes a lot of money with the basic subscription that only needs a coaxial cable installed for each TV because it is the simplest of ways to connect to watch TV and also the cheapest. People don't want Satellite because it needs a box, and also a Dish to align, and when it rains the signal is out. People don't want U-verse because it needs an Internet connection and also needs boxes and if the Internet connection goes out so does their TV signal. The basic cable setup is the cheapest and the simplest and it also works with old analog TV sets that are "cable ready". If the cable company complicates that by requiring a box, they will actually lose customers, and thus lose income.

For a majority of your customers, try to make it as simple as possible for them to install your service and use it.

This one?

http://www.casano.com/projects/hoverman/index.html

Any volunteers want to find out? Have at it, offer her a dinner and a movie first, don't be a douchebag.

We went from mainframes to minicomputers to desktop computers or PCs to mobile devices. Right now we are in the Post-PC era, where the PC is still used but mobile devices are the new tech. In the Post-Mobile device era will we have neurochips implanted in our heads, or perhaps something else?

about starting up their own company in their 40's and 50's. Everything these days is about the younger generation. How come Generation-X is ignored? I am in my 40's and tried to run my own small business a few times, and got sick and ended up on disability. What advice do you have for people like me to start up my own company and make it a success?

how did you feel about it as it worked differently than the Apple // series did? Did you feel the Apple // could run a GUI just as well as the original Macintosh, or that only a 68000 based system can run a GUI? How did you feel when GEOS came out for the Apple // series to give it a GUI? Did you feel like having an OS with a GUI was the future, or do you feel the command line operating systems are better?

Forget about Apple, what tech companies do you love and why?

computer did you learn about the simplicity of design from Atari and HP when you worked there, or did you develop that idea on your own?

When you worked on the Atari Breakout system, did that help you pick out the high quality and low cost chips like the MOS 6502 that was used in the Breakout system to use it in the Apple 1?

How did you feel when Atari made the Atari 400 and 800 8 Bit Computers that competed with the Apple // series but had better color and sound?

like say found Apple Computers all over again, in these modern days, after Steve Jobs passed away, knowing what you now know how would you start it up?

I would like to know specifically if you would develop your own hardware and software, or just use an existing design and go with that.

For example use the ATX Intel X86/X86 PC design, use the PowerPC chip and some other design, or make a mini ITX ARM system or make a custom one.

If you entered the mobile market, would you develop your own OS or license Android or Windows 8 Phone or something else like WebOS? Would there be a WozOS or would you use someone else's OS?

How would this new company compete with Apple and others?

Wait what? Are they using averages or something? I'm still confused now.

no contract phones like Net10 and Tracfone. You just buy minutes and service days and each thing you use deducts a certain amount of minutes. No iPhone will do that yet that I know of.

Tracfone I have, I bought a $15 Motorola Tracfone 5 years ago and still use it, averages $7/month for me. I am thinking of switching to a different model, but no iPhones and Android phones are available for the Tracfone pre-paid service. They are more likely to use the Firefox OS phone because it is cheap.

It has been tried before, anyone remember Loki Games?

I think there is a potential for Linux to become more popular in order to make it a gaming platform. Right now most games I run under Linux are Windows games in WINE, but the average user won't want to mess around with WINE in order to get the games working properly. They have to be native games.

Steam yeah GabeN is having the Source Engine ported to Linux, his goal is to port as many video games as possible to Linux. But others like EA, Activsion, Atari, 2K, etc have to port their video games as well in order to have a Linux gaming revolution.

Anyone remember the Linux based video game console, Indrema? Why did it fail? Companies didn't want to port their video games to Linux. It took too much time and money and nobody could show the Linux marketshare. It is hard to figure out the Linux marketshare because Linux is downloaded and not sold. Many dual boot Windows and Linux. Problem is every PC sold counts as Windows marketshare even if the owner reformats it and installs Linux or something else. Of those who run Linux, how can we figure out how many Linux users want to play video games verses the ones who use it as a server or non-game use?

No the only way to make Linux a video game platform is to give users a legit reason to switch to Linux and keep track of users who switched and want to buy video games and give that to the video game companies to show it is worth while to port their video games to Linux.

Reasons to switch to Linux instead of Windows:

#1 No more need to worry about Microsoft breaking the OS so your games won't work, Linux has a better track record of being backward compatible. So your video games worked on Windows XP but not Windows Vista/7/8? If you are going to have to rewrite the game, might as well rewrite it for Linux.

#2 Windows is bloated, Linux is better as it loads OS features in a module and caches them in and out so that you don't have a bloated system that slows down your game.

#3 Cross compiling, if you use gcc to write the game, it can be cross compiled over different processors for Linux. If you write the game for Windows, well it only supports certain processor types.

#4 Linux is less virus-prone than Windows, your users won't have to worry about viruses stealing their serial numbers, CD-Keys, and their accounts as well.

#5 You have a more stable OS with Linux, you won't get the Internet blogged down due to a bad performing app as you do in Windows, plus you won't have to worry about memory hogs slowing down the system as Linux has a superior memory management model.

#6 APT, YUM, and other updating/installing programs are better than Windows Update plus many Linux distros have their own application stores to buy software from now. Microsoft has never caught up to Linux in these areas.

#7 Your help desk can work through a Linux issue better than a Windows issue because Linux has better scripts and shells than Windows will ever hope to have. Just point the user to a script to download and fix their issue and have them run it, or give them the command lines to type in order to fix the problem.

#8 Your program will run in a better protected environment in Linux because it is better designed, you cannot become more stable than the Linux/Unix model. Less use of hacktools and aimbots because Linux has a better security.

#9 You can create your own distributions of Linux designed for video games. Who needs Microsoft Windows, just roll your own Linux and put your video game store app on it and sell the user some apps and have them download the video games. You can even sell the game as a Linux based LiveCD/LiveDVD to have users try them out without even installing the OS.

#10 Eventually you will learn that the DirectX/Dotnet way is not the best way and Linux has many alternatives to those technologies that work better.

I kept reading headlines that said last July had the hottest temperature due to global warming. Are those headlines wrong then?

Amazon Kindle decided to keep my book. It seems Google stole the content when it was posted on Lulu for sale. A false positive.