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Can't sign in to Google calendar on my Samsung refrigerator
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Re: Can't sign in to Google calendar on my Samsung refrigerator
#112I guess we know our place socially don't we? "The upper-class kitchen, designed to be entered only by servants, is identifiable at once: it's beat-up, inconvenient, and out-of-date, with lots of wood, no Formica whatever, and a minimum of accessories and labor-saving appliances like dishwashers and garbage disposals. Why tolerate these noisy things when you can have a silent servant do precisely what they do? The upp…
By the way, you can really actually still buy the refrigerators with rounded corners, if you want: http://www.smeg.com/refrigerators/double-door-refrigerators/
Re: Can't sign in to Google calendar on my Samsung refrigerator
#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
Most high-end fridges these days are stainless steel, which is non-magnetic. So you'd need to glue it on (or find some other way).
It turns out that the high-end stainless steel fridges actually have ferrous metal components that enable the use of magnets. It's only the mid-tier stainless steel ones that are non-magnetic. (Source: research for a product launched last year which includes a fridge-mountable magnetic remote)
With what I paid for my fridge I would hate to see what a high end fridge costs. . .
Re: Can't sign in to Google calendar on my Samsung refrigerator
#114I have a feeling that internet of things is going to be a disaster...
The first gen IoT stuff is going to be a walled garden, compuserve/aol mess. Some lessons seem to need to be learned the hard way every damn time.
I'm a bit under the weather and so my mind isn't really serving up any good examples of what I'm guessing would be the opposite, a standard prepared ahead of testing the market for suitability via the "hard way." Do you know of any? Most of what comes to mind are stillborn messes like XHTML.
Re: Can't sign in to Google calendar on my Samsung refrigerator
#115I believe we need to measure ourselves on how close we are to the imaginings of the The Jetsons[1]. Do we need to create a universal standard to measure how close/far we are to/from The Jetsons? [1]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jetsons
I thought this standard always existed.
Re: Can't sign in to Google calendar on my Samsung refrigerator
#116I remember seeing a commercial for those things where they drafted the Top Chef brothers, and even in the commercial it looked extremely awkward to use. "Oh, let's just look up something...(walk over...bend down...glance at screen...slowly punch things in...)." Even if it were the best thing ever, I know technology and I know that fridges last years longer than any gadget ever has. Any choice of touchscreen, OS or ev…
Forget 5-10 years, the choice of ARM SoC will be a bad idea in 3 years. You know this Moore Law thing, about software getting twice slower every two years to compensate for increasing transistor density... except that already deployed hardware doesn't grow these extra transistors in the meantime.
That already deployed hardware is now slow with the latest shiny firmware...time to buy more hardware like a good little consumer.
Re: Can't sign in to Google calendar on my Samsung refrigerator
#117I remember seeing a commercial for those things where they drafted the Top Chef brothers, and even in the commercial it looked extremely awkward to use. "Oh, let's just look up something...(walk over...bend down...glance at screen...slowly punch things in...)." Even if it were the best thing ever, I know technology and I know that fridges last years longer than any gadget ever has. Any choice of touchscreen, OS or ev…
> ... would probably be a "bad idea" in 5-10 years. This is what I don't think people quite understand. Same with (Android|Apple)Auto that's coming out. By the time you've paid it off, who is going to buy it?! You'll HAVE to trade it in at the dealership. That limits you in so many ways.
I long for a world where my byo device (ipad,nexus tablet,whatever) can be slid into a cradle. We all agree that technology is bad when paired with long tail devices (tv's, fridges, even watches) So why not allow a universal cradle that fits the device dejour. After that an app and the appropriate hardware could be exposed via the cradle to cover all this and when the tablet is old hat, get a new one. Its not perfect but it is far better than the options we are getting now.
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#118"Samsung support only advised to restart the refrigerator and check timezone..." What a time to be alive.
Now it just needs *coin mining malware. Cooling included.
Re: Can't sign in to Google calendar on my Samsung refrigerator
#119Sounds like your fridge needs a software update
What a time to be alive
Re: Can't sign in to Google calendar on my Samsung refrigerator
#120"Samsung support only advised to restart the refrigerator and check timezone..." What a time to be alive.
I'm not an old fart by far , but even I have never imagined rebooting a refrigerator. I'm floored. It sounds like some obscure IT insider joke except that this time it's for real. I don't know what to expect next.
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