As soon as we moved into our new house I replaced all the switches with an Insteon system and an ISY-99 controller. I absolutely love it. Being able to turn off all the lights in the house from the bedroom is great. I can put the kids lights on timers, see if any lights are on, have the sprinkler system turn on per water need (connected to weatherbug), setback the thermostat automatically when we leave the house, have a night kitchen run scene, etc....

A DIY friendly system and the programming language on the ISY is easy to use and quite flexible.

I have been very happy and wish I had done it on the old house.

#2 favorite thing (actually probably #1 but it is not really a remodel item) is a whole house Sonos system. The perfect audio sync and ease of listening to anything anywhere in the house is great. I used to be a developer for GiantDisc (which still has the best cataloging system available anywhere) but the Sonos ease of use and perfect audio sync won me over.

Even worse, they still limit what you can see. The BBC has Olympics coverage right with their iplayer and catchup links. That's the way we all want to watch TV and we are willing to pay for it as well.

We get a ton of these calls at our restaurant. It costs us time taken away from actual customers on the fear that we might actually get a real relay call someday. However, I can pretty much guarantee that it will never happen. The caller always asks for 50+ of the exact same item (never on our menu but generic enough to be on most restaurants menu). I wish we could class action sue AT&T for our business costs dealing with these fraudulent calls. FYI, we have found that the best way to shorten up the call is to ask how the weather is in Nigeria. Pretty much guarantees a disconnect.

I wonder if there will be some announcing strategy to try and be the one to announce planet #1000.

And this sort of BS ties into their solving the Innovators Dilemma how exactly? Is Apple's left hand communicating with it's right?

We sort of do that via our real-time beer list on our website but browsing the print menu is still more popular. You can see the sized list we are dealing with on The Bayou's beer list

I would LOVE to be able to use e-ink in our restaurant. We have a 20 pg beer menu as well as our food menu and changing them out for pricing or item changes is a real pita and quite a waste of labor. To be able to update 100+ menus with a wireless connection would be great! Although, the potential for hacking could result in some very interesting menu text.

can I get a summary of the review. Too long to read.

Mod parent funny. Perfect setup and spike.

Fox News will believe that scientists can measure the size of the ocean from satellite data, but start talking about temperatures and all bets are off!

Yeah, we should make sure it is deregulated. It worked out great for us re the financial sector and oil industries!

The link you gave was pretty funny though.

Or to summarize the study a different way...

Kids who received Playstations who had parents that let them play on the console every day did worse in testing.

I have two boys (7 and 9) and have a house full of gaming systems (including a MAME system for education in classic gaming). Our simple rule is no video games (or tv) on school nights. They do try to max out their play time on weekends but we end up with tons of time for homework, board games and other family activities the other 5 days of the week. The one tv exception is Nova and they beg to watch it all the time!

Tried that and it immediately went to the south pole and stopped. I guess I could reset the clock on my computer to 2008/7 but that would cause other problems.

Oh, it must be way different than being an atheist parent and trying to raise your children properly and everywhere they go, from every direction, they are getting fed full of religious bullshit. Guess what. It's still fun for me! Hmm.