the coolest watch i have seen was a product demo created by the people at via-pc.com . it ran with a strongARM processor and had a 800x600 svga screen (you had to have a magnifying lense over the top of the screen to be able to see it all). the guy who designed it was a pretty crazy hardware hacker. the only issue with it was noise problems when the pieces where stacked together to be put in the watch.
I picked one up from watchzone.com and i have been playing with it for about a week now. pretty good watch. You can't really read text at all (the resolution isn't that great) and if you move it too quickly the picture gets a bit blurred. not too mention it really likes a lot of light. Also, it doesn't look like it works with the standard IrDA protocol for getting the images (even though it says it does on the box).
the.net stuff works by compiling everything into CLR (common language runtime) code which is kind of like what visual C and gcc does before it gets converted into machine code. then when a.net program is installed/executed it is compiled,using a JIT (just in time) compiler, into machine code. The CLR code allows one to program in any language that can output to CLR (C#, C/C++, Ada, COBOL, Perl, Python, etc... are already planned out). so not being able to use C# wouldn't be too much of a problem. but i believe that C# would be the best choice for programming stuff for.net because it was designed to use all of the features available in the CLR and addins (libraries / macros) would have to be created for the other languages.
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Wow thats gret rolling stone. how long has pro tools been used in the studio (mid 90s or so)?
the coolest watch i have seen was a product demo created by the people at via-pc.com . it ran with a strongARM processor and had a 800x600 svga screen (you had to have a magnifying lense over the top of the screen to be able to see it all). the guy who designed it was a pretty crazy hardware hacker. the only issue with it was noise problems when the pieces where stacked together to be put in the watch.
I picked one up from watchzone.com and i have been playing with it for about a week now. pretty good watch. You can't really read text at all (the resolution isn't that great) and if you move it too quickly the picture gets a bit blurred. not too mention it really likes a lot of light. Also, it doesn't look like it works with the standard IrDA protocol for getting the images (even though it says it does on the box).
the .net stuff works by compiling everything into CLR (common language runtime) code which is kind of like what visual C and gcc does before it gets converted into machine code. then when a .net program is installed/executed it is compiled ,using a JIT (just in time) compiler, into machine code. The CLR code allows one to program in any language that can output to CLR (C#, C/C++, Ada, COBOL, Perl, Python, etc... are already planned out). so not being able to use C# wouldn't be too much of a problem. but i believe that C# would be the best choice for programming stuff for .net because it was designed to use all of the features available in the CLR and addins (libraries / macros) would have to be created for the other languages.