*Zaccheus* on 31/5/2007 at 19:05
Quote Posted by Kolya
Cool, a hardware that's completely incompatible with all existing software. Buying it will be like giving MS your credit card.
MS can make a .net JIT compiler for just about any processor.
Also have a look at (
http://www.mono-project.com) www.mono-project.com; you can run pure .net applications on various non-Microsoft systems.
Besides, why do you think the (
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/2006/07/14/core2_duo_knocks_out_athlon_64_uk/) core2 duo is incompatible with existing software ?
Kolya on 31/5/2007 at 21:20
You obviously have more technical knowledge than me. I just looked at the movie and thought: How would I do anything but pushing around pics on this thing? Which I don't do at all.
The point that this is aimed at businesses is moot in my opinion because if a concept is good and sells well it usually gets adapted for home use quite soon.
Again, I'm no programmer or anything, but afaik none of the programs I use regularly are .NET apps. The only one I know about (ATI Rage driver program) has the footprint of an elephant mother because of the .NET framework that is. I got myself (
http://www.guru3d.com/article/atitraytools/189/) ATI Tray Tools just to avoid that.
the_grip on 31/5/2007 at 21:35
Finally, touch-screen Lite Brite. Booyah!
*Zaccheus* on 31/5/2007 at 22:13
Quote Posted by Kolya
How would I do anything but pushing around pics on this thing? Which I don't do at all.
Ok, but what about street maps? I can see it being very convenient for zooming and panning a map of the town if they had this at the entrance of a big hotel.
Quote Posted by Kolya
Again, I'm no programmer or anything, but afaik none of the programs I use regularly are .NET apps.
Think of the kind of computers you might use in town which have a touch screen (e.g. movie ticket machines). Any of those could be .NET applications. It's certainly the direction that Windows based software is going.
Lhet on 31/5/2007 at 22:48
This seems like it could have a lot of potential. Fun.
Swiss Mercenary on 2/6/2007 at 02:01
Quote Posted by Aerothorn
Plus, there's no reason other folks couldn't develop software for it.
No reason, except not having access to their proprietary API.
Yakoob on 2/6/2007 at 02:29
Quote Posted by Kolya
How would I do anything but pushing around pics on this thing?
You can poke the screen. You can move your finger on the screen. It can basically be a mouse. Add a virtual keyboard on the bottom too, and you have the exact same functionality as your PC. Hence, you can do anything on it which you could do on a PC. And so much more...
Also, taking in consideration it runs on standard hardware (Intel Processor, Ram etc.) and a version of windows, there's absolutely no reason to think it would be incompatible with any other hardware (and I bet you could even connect a mouse and keyboard to it if you wanted). On the contrary. I mean, they already showed it easily interacting with a cemare and a cell phone through wireless. It is also very compatible with standard software (they show Google Earth operated as if it was a regular mouse).
This screen is essentially your PC with a new input method aside the usual mouse, keyboard, microphone etc. I can see using it requiring no hardcore hardware/software changes but a simple extra driver to let your OS know how to interpret the input/output.
It does not take away from what computers can do today; it expands on it. Gosh some of you guys can't see the simplest possibilities... :nono:
