-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Uh, ok, how about all your money disapearing with no trace that it ever existed? Yet I assume you still use banks, which are all computerized.
And you /would/ want to lower the heat during someone's out of town winter holiday. And you might not have a choice anyways, some of these things might be installed by the power company. Le 30 Octobre 2002 23:03, vous avez �crit : > The risks with a totally wired home are pretty high... > > Turn the AC on full blast on days like today. > Crank the hear during the summer. > Run the drier for several days straight or until it catches fire. > Shut off the heat during the person's out of town winter holidays. > Shut off the person's deep freeze, so that their food goes bad. > Turn on the over to maximum temperature (generally the self-cleaning cycle) > until it starts a fire. > etc. > etc. > etc. > > There is no compelling reason for these things to be networked, and there > are some serious ones against doing it. Count me as a luddite in this > regard. > > Kev. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "S�bastien Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 5:33 PM > Subject: Re: (clug-talk) Linux and Embedded News > > Le 30 Octobre 2002 17:13, vous avez �crit : > > On Wednesday 30 October 2002 10:10, Johnny Stork wrote: > > > IMHO, one of my beleifs is that Linux and OSS will play a significant > > and > > > > major role in the growing world of smart/embedded devices especially in > > > the "smart" home > > > > the smart home and ubiquitous computing has been promised for some 20 > > years > > > now. it has yet to arrive. why? because there are no compelling reasons > > to move to such technologies. eventually someone will find a real solid > > use for the tech and then it will creep into most houses. > > The �smart� home thing has been happening and continues to do so. But > generally this technology is hidden from the user, that way he doesn't know > it's there, but he has that much less to worry about. That's the way, imo, > that it should work...I would hate to have to supply someone a user's > manual for their new house ;-) > > > chasing technology for technologies sake as a means to create market > > share is a wild goose chase IMO. create techonology that does something > > you want and will use every day. forget the rest, no matter how much the > > concept makes you drool as a technophile. > > Heh, yeah, like the whole �internet appliance� thing, neat if you have > 1000$ you were just going to use as firestarter, but for that price you > could get a > computer, or a dreamcast with a keyboard (which runs Linux and NetBSD). -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9wVGeutH7JGd/0/MRAl4JAJ913GX+u8OrBtteC1h3CV6Ris/2tQCgiPqv MmW/995JOrPtxgRi5VTyXkg= =0kIh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
