I think the author is neglecting the fact that a music streaming application is (now) a fairly simple application to create and there isn’t a damn thing that you can do that is revolutionary or think differently about.

So far, everything I’ve heard of this game is standard video game and seems to very loosely follow the source material.

The golden rule isn’t really about being nice to people, its about not being shitty to people.

I’ve run vodka through charcoal filters and I’m a fan of the results. The time required wasn’t really worth it and unless you used off-brand filters, you really weren’t saving much money.

These paid advertisements should disclose the fact at the beginning of the article, not the end.

What about a bad $20 bottle of vodka and a good $20 bottle of vodka?

I agree. Many big pipes were “future-proof” (assuming that dialup never went out of style). A retrofit can often cost as much (or more) than the original deployment.

I agree. Still, the cost of equipment is still trivial compared to the cost of putting the fiber in the ground. I’ve gotten quotes ranging from $30-100k per mile of fiber, just to put it in the ground.

This isn’t exactly true. The cost of laying fiber is significantly greater than the actual cost of fiber. My company has been working on plans to do residential fiber and we’re hitting numbers like 10$ a foot in rural applications. 1/5th of that cost is the material cost for the fiber. Urban deployments are even more…

This technology is already used. It falls under two categories CWDM (Coarse Wavelength Division Multiplexing) and DWDM (Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing). CWDM will shift a frequency into a large band. DWDM shifts into a smaller band. Typically speaking you have 8 CWDM bands and up to 96 DWDM bands. You can…

I’ve got an old ICE-20 ice cream maker. It does an excellent job. It does require a bit of talent to make good ice cream.

I’ve got an old ICE-20 ice cream maker. It does an excellent job. It does require a bit of talent to make good ice…

Without a good explanation on WHY you feel my definition is incorrect, this conversation cannot continue, so I’m gonna end this conversation.

Yes, I agree... yet you are still incapable of figuring out how it works... I make an assertion, you disagree, explain why you disagree, then I get a rebuttal. We repeat the cycle until we agree or get bored of arguing on the internet.

I am still very convinced you are confused. In my discussions, I defined the term in the context of my argument. This whole argument is a semantic argument, regarding the definition of the term. I argue that the term has a broader meaning than the narrow definition which you’ve provided.

I want programmability without an app. I have plenty of computers, why can’t they make a version of their control software that uses my PC?

No, it takes two people to disagree on an opinion.

I think this is bad design. The blade (chopping) of a blender is not the primary mechanism for blending. A blender operates primarily by cavitation, which requires high speeds. A food processor is the device that chops things up with spinning blades.

Ah, I see where you are coming from. You disagree on the definition.

What I am trying to underline here is that there is a difference between your government protected “Freedom of Speech” and the idea of suppressing an idea (censorship).

I really wish that I could find a home automation system that wasn’t dependant on some silly smartphone app.