Android 4.2.2 slides up skirt slightly, reveals a slip of fishnet Obsessives crawling through the minutia of Android's latest changes have spotted evidence that Google's vapourware home-automation system might yet live, and mesh networking too. The evidence is in an Android 4.2.2 diff of a system configuration file, which specifically mentions both mesh networking and Android@Home (as …
Though I'm trying to work out why the fishnet would be above the hemline of the skirt?
Surely the fishnets would go all the way down to the feet, I believe that's the customary design of the garments. The headline suggests standard tights/stockings with fishnets at the top, which just seems weird and impractical?
Or are you talking about an old fashioned slip, worn under the skirt, that's of fishnet design? And therefore, as i understand it, would be quite pointless as a slip?
3 of them discussing skirts/stockings/slips... just saying
Personally I can't wait for this sort of thing to drop - I want to sensor up the house, get some automated switches etc in there too. Be cool to treat my house like my computer - have it running like a well oiled machine. :)
If it's Black, that's boring, but if Google creates one that's mauve! Yowza!
I can't get excited about doing the Same Ol' in a slightly different way. I've had X10 modules throughout the house for turning lights and appliances on and off for ages, and a "firecracker" to let the PC control it if I really want to. More recently I control my Nest (R) Learning Thermostat of Wonderfulness from an Android app, or a browser, via TCP/IP. Whee! I can turn the heat on when I'm 10 minutes from home!
Pro Tip: to destroy a compact fluorescent bulb within a day or so, use an X10 module to control it. I suspect that it cycles the power on and off thousands of times per second. In any case, incandescent bulbs don't suffer the same fate. Sure, I *could* have the X10 control a relay and avoid that, but that's too much work.
Hey! What do you mean "nobody fricking cares"?
A Solid-State Relay is just a hard-fired SCR/triac.
Most CFLs and LEDs hate them and die, pretty much the same as if you tried to dim them.
You need an actual relay - best is a latching/pulse relay so it's a pulse of power to turn on, another pulse to turn off - more efficient!
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