brightghost

Any HVAC system installed or revamped in the past 15 years is likely to have a programmable thermostat. Whether people are using these _correctly_ or not (which as others have touched on here is not necessarily super intuitive, part of the problem Nest is meant to solve), I think attempts of some sort at saving energy with these is pretty common.

Yes, I did try it out-- for me at least, on FF/Win7, it just inserts about 20 whitespace characters.

isn't the same auto-correct system in TextEdit.app available by default in any cocoa text-fied on OS X? And if you think that system 'mostly sucks', perhaps it is because you are vastly underestimating what a difficult feature it is to implement?

I don't get what the 'insert line divider' is meant to be. It seems to just insert a large, fixed amount of whitespace characters?

looks like its basically just the reference implementation of the MGC3130 chip, with an arduino library for i2c communication.

Anyone from the project here care to elaborate on the niceties of this dedicated chip? I'm currently putting finishing touches on a project with a swipe-based (touch, not hover) interface built around the (surely rough-and-dirty, but surprisingly capable) CapacitiveSensor Arduino library.

I'm sure the timing issues one sidesteps by using a dedicated controller ic are critical for projects more complicated than mine, but I'm curious if you know more about the limitations of trying to implement something similar onboard with the AVR. Is there something fundamentally different in the sensing method here compared to low-threshold capacitive sensing?

There's nothing new in Autodesk buying up everything they can get their hands on in the parametric modelling space, but I was surprised to see recently that they have made a rash of acquisitions and new product developments targeting the hobbyist/hacker community under their '123D' banner.

Target has their own line of credit and debit cards which they push aggressively in-store, I assume these plans pertain to those.

The difference is that harboring conflicting and controversial viewpoints is part and parcel of the mission of a University.

I can see this being big with the media-art crowd for installations if it has any sort of real graphics oomph. From what I've heard the pi is just barely capable of hd video, anyone able to divine these tech specs into a comparison with the pi's graphics capability?

The public school you attend is not generally viewed as a free market decision as only certain members of society have the economic freedom to 'select' a different one, and public schools have legal obligations to protect the privacy of their students.

I imagine most people here are not working in K-12 education and so are not familiar with these issues, but it should be understood that many public school districts are making use of Google Apps for education in a capacity which is either explicitly or implicitly compulsory for students, including creation of private accounts on minor students' behalf.

If Google is not being entirely forthcoming on precisely what personally-identifiable information they are retaining about minor students they are potentially in a great legal mess here.

Did Starbucks get VC funding?

So surprised (pleasantly) to see this! The original Eliss is still one of my favorite games. Last I heard though you were working on Faraway? What's the status of that project?

...an "aging" ~two-year-old laptop with a top of the line processor?