ViewTouch is doing it too. They're hoping that an X server for the DS arrives so that they have other handheld terminals than this one based on the Hitachi tablet... http://www.viewtouch.com/wireless
I guess you just don't get it. The app doesn't run on the DS. The DS only runs an X server that allows it to open a window on the app which is running remotely to the handheld DS. I do this all the time and have customers who run scores of restaurants on this model. There's no question that it works. The only question is whether the DS is yet running an X server. If so, any DS anywhere in the world can be used as a console to any program that sends it a display window.
I think that nano-X X server easily fits in that space. And the only app that the DS has to run is the X server, serving up the display portion of the application that is running remote to it, even on a distributed supercomputing cluster with terabytes of storage.
As soon as the DS is running an X server, DHCP and the touchscreen works then the DS can be used in any restaurant, in any bar, in any drive-thru, in any parking lot, as a point of sale or ordering device. The app runs on a $200 mini-itx computer that boots from compact flash and is connected to a wireless access point serving up DHCP.
I will assert that, without Boucher's efforts as a legislator, the Internet that we know, love, hate and use it would not exist. I will also assert that because of his current and future efforts as a legislator the Internet will be a more useable, free and valuable Internet than it would otherwise be. Everyone who wants to understand how the Internet became a part of our lives should go do their homework. Start with a search for "Boucher Virginia Representative"
It's time for doctors to begin facing up to the fact that they must accept the help of tools such as Google and the net to be able to do their jobs - to be able to correctly diagnose illnesses. The smartest doctor in the world cannot compare to the average inquisitive doctor who recognizes this.
If you want good videogame music, you can't pass up Yasunori Mitsuda's work (Xenogears, Xenosaga). The review of Xenosaga's music is at scoresounds.tripod.com/xenosaga.html The CD of that music is at () www.lik-sang.com/info.php?category=264&product s_id =4837 Many feel that Xenogears-Xenosaga is a better Final Fantasy than Final Fantasy is. Xenosaga 2 is due in February and will include Xenosaga 1 player info importing. Xenosaga 3,4 & 5 are planned.
Patents on User Interfaces should not be allowed. The field of User Interfaces requires absolute freedom of innovation. I strongly condemn the government for sanctioning impediments to innovation and to the absolute freedom of use in all areas of User Interfaces.
We're buying X terminals for $250 from Synertron Tech the American marketing arm of http://www.lex.com.tw. They have 128 Mb RAM, 3 10/100 Ethernet ports, an 800 Mhz fanless CPU and boot via PXE. Look up the 'Light' system and the rackmounted version of the same thing which costs about $275. You can boot your host with a micro hard drive, too.
My market specialty is colorgraphic touchscreen point of sale, a vertical market software category which I first created on the Atari ST about two decades ago. These days I make use of an embedded development environment I developed named ViewTouch. It's not free software, but it makes heavy use of X and runs, therefore, with Linux, FreeBSD, OS-X and any OS which runs X. For my company, developing embedded applications running Linux and any free operating system is a walk in the park. No, my embedded development is not GPL-licensed, but the apps it turns out do run on Linux & X, they are solid, and they are among the easiest-to-use, lowest cost embedded apps you'll find anywhere.
By the way, I evaluated the Green Hills products years ago and found them incredibly primitive and, well, quite useless, not to mention incredibly expensive. The next article I'd like to see on slashdot would be one which does not ignorantly slam the value of a GPL OS like Linux but which highlights the things being achieved by operating systems which sit under X, such as I listed above.
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ViewTouch is doing it too. They're hoping that an X server for the DS arrives so that they have other handheld terminals than this one based on the Hitachi tablet...
http://www.viewtouch.com/wireless
I guess you just don't get it. The app doesn't run on the DS. The DS only runs an X server that allows it to open a window on the app which is running remotely to the handheld DS. I do this all the time and have customers who run scores of restaurants on this model. There's no question that it works. The only question is whether the DS is yet running an X server. If so, any DS anywhere in the world can be used as a console to any program that sends it a display window.
I think that nano-X X server easily fits in that space. And the only app that the DS has to run is the X server, serving up the display portion of the application that is running remote to it, even on a distributed supercomputing cluster with terabytes of storage.
As soon as the DS is running an X server, DHCP and the touchscreen works then the DS can be used in any restaurant, in any bar, in any drive-thru, in any parking lot, as a point of sale or ordering device. The app runs on a $200 mini-itx computer that boots from compact flash and is connected to a wireless access point serving up DHCP.
I will assert that, without Boucher's efforts as a legislator, the Internet that we know, love, hate and use it would not exist. I will also assert that because of his current and future efforts as a legislator the Internet will be a more useable, free and valuable Internet than it would otherwise be. Everyone who wants to understand how the Internet became a part of our lives should go do their homework. Start with a search for "Boucher Virginia Representative"
There was Dr. Jacob Bronowski
http://www.drbronowski.com/
The Ascent of Man, et al.
It's time for doctors to begin facing up to the fact that they must accept the help of tools such as Google and the net to be able to do their jobs - to be able to correctly diagnose illnesses. The smartest doctor in the world cannot compare to the average inquisitive doctor who recognizes this.
If you want good videogame music, you can't pass up Yasunori Mitsuda's work (Xenogears, Xenosaga).t s_id =4837
The review of Xenosaga's music is at
scoresounds.tripod.com/xenosaga.html
The CD of that music is at ()
www.lik-sang.com/info.php?category=264&produc
Many feel that Xenogears-Xenosaga is a better Final Fantasy than Final Fantasy is. Xenosaga 2 is due in February and will include Xenosaga 1 player info importing. Xenosaga 3,4 & 5 are planned.
Patents on User Interfaces should not be allowed. The field of User Interfaces requires absolute freedom of innovation. I strongly condemn the government for sanctioning impediments to innovation and to the absolute freedom of use in all areas of User Interfaces.
We're buying X terminals for $250 from Synertron Tech the American marketing arm of http://www.lex.com.tw. They have 128 Mb RAM, 3 10/100 Ethernet ports, an 800 Mhz fanless CPU and boot via PXE. Look up the 'Light' system and the rackmounted version of the same thing which costs about $275. You can boot your host with a micro hard drive, too.
My market specialty is colorgraphic touchscreen point of sale, a vertical market software category which I first created on the Atari ST about two decades ago. These days I make use of an embedded development environment I developed named ViewTouch. It's not free software, but it makes heavy use of X and runs, therefore, with Linux, FreeBSD, OS-X and any OS which runs X. For my company, developing embedded applications running Linux and any free operating system is a walk in the park. No, my embedded development is not GPL-licensed, but the apps it turns out do run on Linux & X, they are solid, and they are among the easiest-to-use, lowest cost embedded apps you'll find anywhere.
By the way, I evaluated the Green Hills products years ago and found them incredibly primitive and, well, quite useless, not to mention incredibly expensive. The next article I'd like to see on slashdot would be one which does not ignorantly slam the value of a GPL OS like Linux but which highlights the things being achieved by operating systems which sit under X, such as I listed above.