Re: is x10.com dead?

[Marc F Hult <MFHult@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 01 Mar 2006 15:13:41 GMT, "Jeff Volp" <JeffVolp@xxxxxxx> wrote in
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>"Marc F Hult" <MFHult@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>Marc, it is clear that people are very polarized in this discussion.

Yup

> For others just starting out, the decision isn't so easy.

Here's where we may disagree. In my opinion there is a clear and better
choice "for people just starting out".

>The big question that nobody can answer is which ones will be around 30
>year from now...

Why is this a big question? And why does it have to be answered?

Some of what appears to us now as permanent is not.

We rebuild kitchens and bathrooms in homes every few decades -- so too
lighting infrastructure.

My own house has lived through candles and oil lamps only, then + kerosene
lamps, then + in-wall gas lighting, then knob-and-tube electrical which
co-existed with the in-wall gas lighting, then electrical in conduit, then
Romex, then X-10, then hard-wired lighting, and now also INSTEON.

Indubitably  the future will bring more changes -- which is as it must and
should be.

Thanks for the cogent discussion ... Marc
Marc_F_Hult
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