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> So far we're no closer to this than we were ten years ago, probably > further away actually. We have the hardware that can do this but no > software Actually, it is not that difficult. For example, I can control my voice modem at home with just a few lines of VBScript using any of the freely available libraries (or I could use C++ and TAPI if I'm masochist). Most cell-phones today can receive text messages through "push" alpha-page via SMTP. It is easily less than 50 lines of code to write something that detects the caller-ID for the pizza shop and sends me an alpha page when they call (maybe 50 more to get it to say "press 1 if my pizza is ready..."). I have also set up my home computer to let me do things from the HDML browser built-in to my cell phone. The phone is two years old, but it works just fine. Total, this took less than 20 lines of code (a little bit of ASP code and some HDML markup). I can queue up songs on my stereo using the cellphone. I am very lazy; I never would have done any of these things if they took more than an hour. And I didn't need to buy any special internet service -- just vanilla commodity DSL (cable modem would work). So I think that these things are easily accessible to most people. But I also have some serious doubts that there is much of a market for stuff like this. As far as scarcity of people to make these things goes, I presume it is because so many kids today are trapped in the mentality of doing everything the hardest possible way and rewriting the bazillionth version of a twenty years-old operating system using lex and yacc and gcc. And oh, by the way, since it is not cool to get paid for software anymore, the incentive factor of money kind of goes out the window. IMO, gluing this stuff together is not so hard; it is just not really considered "cool" by the people who know how, and the demand for something like a pizza alert system is really not too high.
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