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Why are you taking his advice literally? His advice is to a hypothetical startup. The point the author is making that a startup that would make what you describ
by andreyf 16y ago
Why are you taking his advice literally? His advice is to a hypothetical startup. The point the author is making that a startup that would make what you describe into a zeroconf plug-it-in-it-works solution would be very successful.
- gdl 16y agoIt seems to be phrased both ways, like "I want something that does these things, and I think there is a market for it". We were mostly addressing the first part. I agree that a consumer-oriented gadget to do the same thing easily could be neat. I don't know that there'd be that big of a market though. I suspect most of the general population wouldn't see the need, and the very geeky would tend towards existing free methods of doing the same thing (MythTV and the like).
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- riprock 16y agoThe author also wrote in the context of a problem and under his "solutions out there" he did not list the self-configuring solution as a possibility. Presumably, the author may not be aware of this solution and we are just throwing it out there as a suggestion. As gdl noted, there are advantages to this solution over a plug-it-in-works solution. It's pretty straightforward to configure and set up too (google instructions, download, and tweak some settings); provided you have the hardware lying around.