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Quote: Originally Posted by lundy I'm glad I held off. Everybody thinks that an electronic gizmo can be "smart" because it uses a handful of supposedly germane data sources. A little experimentation always shows this to be flawed. I have 2 ne…

in Google buys Nest Labs, maker of smart thermostat, for $3.2 billion [u] Comment by jwsmiths January 2014
Well there goes my desire to ever buy any Nest products ever again...

in Google buys Nest Labs, maker of smart thermostat, for $3.2 billion [u] Comment by jwsmiths January 2014
Dictation is broken I think. It was working in DP1, I never used it in DP2 but tried to show off the enhanced dictation last night and that wasn't working - so I switched to the traditional version and that didn't work either. Tried rebooting w/o …

in Apple seeds OS X 10.9 Mavericks Developer Preview 3 with minor changes Comment by jwsmiths July 2013
The problem with making ARM based "Macintoshes" is that unless it can utilize a translation technology like "Rosetta" people won't be able to run their old software and the user experience won't be pleasant. Maybe I could see an ARM based MacBook A…

in ARM announces 64-bit Cortex-A50 mobile processors coming in 2014 Comment by jwsmiths October 2012