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Linux for Home Electronics
ives writes "Matsushita (Panasonic) and Sony are going to develop a Linux platform for digital home electronic devices. The nice thing is that they want to release the jointly developed source code for this project under the GPL. The press release mentions open source, the GPL and even Richard Stallman :^)."
OK,
Yesterday, I needed to do a side job for a friend and instead of running CAT5, I used some of the new powerline ethernet stuff. What has me impressed is that this stuff was *dead reliable* and quite compact for its first iteration. What happens when it shrinks and we see this stuff built into TVs and alarm clocks?
Aside from your toaster manufacturer snooping your toasting habbits, your alarm clock will be able to pull MP3s from the home server. Your TV will pull the funniest commercials (ala the late adcritic.com) from the Tivo ranking database. Create a standard for it all, and you've got some remarkable integration.
With this, it hopefully will not be called "DirectHOME" or something like that...
Life is the leading cause of death in America.
After appliances and gadgets are connected to the internet, why the next step is that they will do our thinking for us! Thank goodness, those pesky thoughts continue to annoy me, no matter how much TV I watch. Now big corporations will tell me exactly what to do all day everyday. We will all be free from the shackles of critical thought!
Have you spoken to CmdrTaco about this? He can be quite good at responding to polite emails...
It's certainly likely to get your further than another offtopic Slashdot rant will.
cheers,
Tim
nope, Slashdot isn't. It's the same bullshit that has been going on for quite some time. Stupid Slashdot users try to make their name a common household one, by posting links to articles that every user on AOL has probably already read.