{"id":32122,"date":"2013-01-09T11:09:33","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T18:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/09\/computers-computers-everywhere.html"},"modified":"2013-01-09T11:09:33","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T18:09:33","slug":"computers-computers-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/09\/computers-computers-everywhere.html","title":{"rendered":"Computers, computers everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, I don&#39;t need an Android- (or Windows- or UNIX- or iOS- ) -powered oven. \u00a0The stuff I prepare either has a recipe, or else it has instructions on the box. \u00a0I don&#39;t use the hardcoded &quot;cooks it for you perfectly&quot; recipes on my microwave, either.<\/p>\n<p>The only function I see here worth anything is the oven sending you a message when the food is &quot;done&quot; &#8212; though since I suspect this is related to a passage of time, I find a cheap kitchen timer (or even my Android-powered phone) does the job just fine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/103748887870095862080'>Les Jenkins<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Do I really need an Android powered oven? I don&#39;t think so. Can&#39;t wait until hackers being infecting them with viruses causing you to ruin countless meals while porn popups flood the display.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images2-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.engadget.com\/media\/2013\/01\/dsc03400_thumbnail.jpg&#038;container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;rewriteMime=image\/*&#038;refresh=31536000&#038;resize_h=150&#038;resize_w=150&#038;no_expand=1' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2013\/01\/08\/dacor-android-oven-hands-on\/'>Dacor&#8217;s Android oven packs 1GHz processor, 7-inch screen, heat (hands-on)<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDacor&#8217;s ninth-generation oven pulls together a 1GHz processor, 512MB of DDR2 RAM and Android 4.0.3. It also cooks food. At the front of the Discovery Wall Oven, there&#8217;s a 7-inch LCD touch panel, while the UI behind its oven-centric widgets is apparently the product of a design collaboration between Dacor and BMW&#8217;s DesigworksUSA &#8212; they&#8217;re all simple enough to navigate and get things done. The oven-maker&#8217;s Discovery IQ controller cooking app will &#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/5ykM4ZuDLiH' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, I don&#39;t need an Android- (or Windows- or UNIX- or iOS- ) -powered oven. \u00a0The stuff I prepare either has a recipe, or else it has instructions on the box. \u00a0I don&#39;t use the hardcoded &quot;cooks it for you perfectly&quot; recipes on my microwave, either. The only function I see here worth anything is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/09\/computers-computers-everywhere.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Computers, computers everywhere&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28426,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/28\/playing-with-my-new-android-tablet-here-doing-google-plus-stuff.html","url_meta":{"origin":32122,"position":0},"title":"Playing with my new Android tablet here, doing Google Plus stuff","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 28-Jun-12 9:56pm","format":false,"excerpt":"And ... wow, hating the interface. 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