@Collins, because not matter what the invention, it will always have limitations to what it can do.
 
Since you are into the power sector, I have a question for you. Have you ever generated your own AC power using 12 or 24Volt? The engine is the invertor, right? I have and and I can tell you I build invertors from scratch including the tranformers. Not I did not buy a kit and assemble it! I actually had to calculate the drain currents on the power mosfets, create the oscillator circuits with timer chips to generate the almost square waves and also wind the transformer. This was many years ago when a 1KA invertor cost around 90-100Ksh.  I used to power my basic needs when KPLC was the parafin lamp company during the drought years.
 
There are many other projects I've done ( not as hobbies but invested money, time and efforts into. Made some and lost some too ).
 
Most of the Apps are really just a necessity, question is can you build and make it work for you and others?  This Dev industry is sooo easy in terms on investments. You can grow from no where to some where without having spent more than 100K on your laptop, if you really wanted to. Try all the other industries/careers, without large investments, you can do nothing.
 
Ask the RHL admins on this list if they have a commercial server at home for development enviroments....
 
Guys give me a break and let me do my other stuff. Catch up later.
 
Rgds.

On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 11:33 AM, [ Brainiac ] <arebacollins@gmail.com> wrote:
aki that brings me back to the fundamental question. WHY? why re invent?