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Signed up ... hope I have time ...

8 hours ago, PeteGoo wrote

Hi Imgen, it's Pushqa, something I created in my spare time a few months back. I'm currently working on updating it to current bits and improving some of the use-cases and samples. 

http://PeteGoo.github.com/Pushqa

 

Yes, finally an IQbservable implementation besides the WMI example, very good work Pete ... I was wondering about the name as well, because it is unclear ... I thought maybe it was PushQ(bserv)A(ble)?   

Gratz to the Rx team for the release; keep the LINQ to Everything dream alive!

The Maybe monad is great, really simple, beautiful solution!  Why wouldn't I use that now at work?  

@Eduardo Quintana:  My pleasure. 

For those on the waiting list, my friend was as well, and got an email saying he was off the waiting list, already.  That was at about 6pm and he had only until 7:30pm (not sure if that was EDT or PDT) to complete his registration, so check your emails and don't despair yet.

I just tried the Photosynth app, and it's pretty cool.  I took too many photos the first couple of times; but I'm learning.  It's sweet!    Some pretty fun looking games as well.  Thanks Laura.

I swear I was going to try to do just this.

There have been a lot of great breakthroughs in capacitors with steady output voltage and new ways to create photovoltaics on silicon, it seems that the problem will change in 2-3 years.  Devices will charge very quickly with hybrid capacitor-battery designs, so the lifetime of the battery will be a bit less of a concern in most devices, and the charge time and or charge capabilities (photovoltaic/hydrogen/motion/piezo/induction/heat/etc...) will be features.  Since most people move between places or conditions where the device can be charged, or their heat/motion/pressure, even their voice are ways to charge up a capacitor quickly (the problem with varying voltage has been overcome).  Imagine if you're battery is dead and you literally just need to squeeze out a few seconds of call time.... 
Anyways, right now, it is a problem and later we will still have to program in a way that takes advantage of what energy management capabilities are in a device.  Also it's not like you can make an app that uses up all the charge quickly, even if ubiquitous charging exists.  Rather it should be smart enough to know when it needs a lot of energy quickly versus being able to run in the background, similar to prioritizing threads. 

Have you heard about SSDAlloc?  http://phys.org/news/2012-07-massive-power-big-companies.html

Very interesting and great links in the comments - lots of new favorite links today - thanks rabbits!