granted i believe the eff is a wonderful thing, but as a charity? look at the other people -- they were playing for women's human rights, or children. those are charities. the eff as a charity does not even come close.
what you seem to be forgetting (or perhaps everybody is) is the need for a networked infrastructure for all these online devices. simply having a network accessible device is good and all as a toy, but it doesn't do it any good unless it can talk to your other networked devices for planning and coordination needs.
presumeably this infrastructure (whether it be jini-like, or hive-like) has to have the ability to manage all the devices on the local network. and once you have a way to adminstrate all the devices, think of an AutoRPM system or something similar to what RedHat now has for registered users -- let your infrastructure automatically update your applicances.
of course, this all assumes you buy upgradeable devices, whether it be in software or with FPGAs or something. i don't understand why anybody would by non-upgradeable devices if they had the choice anyway. in the worst case, if there is a bug in your "coffee machine", let your infrastructure take it off the network until a fix has become available.
networking everything is the way that we are moving. networking coffee machines, or microwaves is an interesting concept as toys, but the more interesting things happen when you network your whole house and have it have all these independant devices work together to form some emergent behavior (oh yeah - this had better not have a bug in it -- think of a house that is out of control and out to get you:)
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a bad one, like the one i have to deal with, just makes life really difficult and frustrating.
granted i believe the eff is a wonderful thing, but as a charity? look at the other people -- they were playing for women's human rights, or children. those are charities. the eff as a charity does not even come close.
try Popular Power -- we at least have working software.... (for linux too :)
what you seem to be forgetting (or perhaps everybody is) is the need for a networked infrastructure for all these online devices. simply having a network accessible device is good and all as a toy, but it doesn't do it any good unless it can talk to your other networked devices for planning and coordination needs.
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presumeably this infrastructure (whether it be jini-like, or hive-like) has to have the ability to manage all the devices on the local network. and once you have a way to adminstrate all the devices, think of an AutoRPM system or something similar to what RedHat now has for registered users -- let your infrastructure automatically update your applicances.
of course, this all assumes you buy upgradeable devices, whether it be in software or with FPGAs or something. i don't understand why anybody would by non-upgradeable devices if they had the choice anyway. in the worst case, if there is a bug in your "coffee machine", let your infrastructure take it off the network until a fix has become available.
networking everything is the way that we are moving. networking coffee machines, or microwaves is an interesting concept as toys, but the more interesting things happen when you network your whole house and have it have all these independant devices work together to form some emergent behavior (oh yeah - this had better not have a bug in it -- think of a house that is out of control and out to get you
sorry about rambling..........