It would be really nice if someone would do something meaningful w/ all the code for PenPoint --- it was one of my favourite operating systems, and amazingly capable for its time, and interface-wise, is still nicer than pretty much anything other than the Newton OS, or NeXTstep (or maybe HP's NewWave).
One thing I've been surprised at is that there isn't a continuation of Logo into CNC --- the closest thing to it I've found is to use a tool such as Asymptote, MetaPost or NodeBox to create a.pdf, then pull that.pdf into some tool suited to CAM --- it would be nice if there were some more direct option / connection.
For that matter, I'd be glad of a programming tool which would directly translate part geometry into tool motion (w/ suitable offsets) --- I hate having a cylinder in OpenSCAD rendered as a triangular mesh and having to process a.stl in a CAM tool --- wish ImplicitCAD were being supported and was easier to install.
I've got a Fujitsu Stylistic ST4121 w/ a daylight viewable display which I had to quit using when Microsoft quit supporting Windows XP, and I haven't been able to find a reasonably priced replacement tablet w/ a real daylight viewable display.
Tools such as Arduinos and gShields and inexpensive stepper motors (to say nothing of Grbl which is one of the most amazing programs I've ever seen in terms of memory efficiency and compactness) make this far more affordable than it was.
Still kind of surprised no one has done a Logo to G-Code translator.
The Toshiba doesn't have a fan, neither did the Asus Vivotab Note 8 which it replaced (and that was ~$150 refurbished, so, as you noted, impulse buy territory).
I could install Windows 10, but it seems to be a real downgrade for Tablet devices, so I'm still waiting to do that.
People keep doing this sort of thing. IBM had Metacard, there was Oqo, and wasn't there a Palm device which was viewed as mostly a media storage device?
Why not go ahead and add a touch screen (and a stylus) so that one can use it w/o needing to cable up?
I use a Toshiba Encore 2 Write 10 as my main system in pretty much this way, connecting when I don't wish to use the touch screen / stylus to a full-size keyboard and monitor (fortunately, Toshiba provided an adapter for the single USB port which affords two connections, one for charging, one for devices).
The functionality I'd really like to see is this sort of thing done as an iPhone / iPod Touch sized unit ---- Apple could take their laptop, make the trackpad a removable unit which was exactly the size of an iPhone/iPod Touch, and one could replace the trackpad w/ the portable device which would then function as a customizable trackpad and which would load the user directory and backup the portable device.
The iPad Pro disappoints me for not having access to arbitrary / legacy / opensource apps (I need to be able to run things which aren't on Apple's App store: Macromedia FreeHand, FontForge, various CNC apps).
The Microsoft Surface 4 and Book don't suit my needs 'cause the hover distance w/ N-Trig is low, and it has jitter problems w/ slow strokes (which don't affect most people or typical usage).
Both of them disappoint me for not having a truly daylight viewable display --- I really want a vendor to build daylight view booths into their stores and then show off a unit which has a transflective display --- I despair of ever replacing my Fujitsu Stylistic ST4121.
But I seem to be the only person who cares --- most recent article I can find on daylight viewable comparisons is from years ago: http://gizmodo.com/5888618/dis...
It's ``just'' Altsys Virtuoso for NeXTstep w/ some updates (Virtuoso 2 was ~= to FreeHand 4, plus some bugs).
The thing is, what I'd really like to have is Altsys Virtuoso (which was announced for Windows NT), but on NeXT/OPENstep. Using Windows at a new task at work, and every day, I miss Mac OS X, or at least the things which OPENSTEP afforded to Mac OS X:
- pop-up main menu
- tear-off / repositionable sub-menus
- Services
- Shelf (Sidebar on Mac OS X)
- Miller column filebrowser
- Display PostScript (Quartz née Display PDF on Mac OS X)
They're the only people making an operating system which:
- runs on a wide variety of hardware and form factors
- has a good handwriting recognition system
- allows one to run arbitrary apps
FWIW, I'm still fuming over being forced to quit using my just about perfect Fujitsu Stylistic ST4121 w/ its irreplaceable daylight viewable display, 'cause Microsoft needed to kick people off Windows XP and the web is now using so much JavaScript a 933MHz Pentium III w/ 768 MB RAM (and a 4GB SSD) can't browse it.
Best option I could find was a Toshiba Encore 2 Write 10 (tried an Asus Vivotab Note 8, but the screen was too small and the digitizer gave out, otherwise, it worked well), but:
- it runs Windows 8, which I mislike (and Windows 10 is looking to be worse on the tablet front)
- doesn't have a daylight viewable display
I suppose I should buy yet another docking station for my Stylistic (my wife and son killed the previous two somehow) and then try Linux on it again.
Yeah, but Apple isn't making a tablet w/ an active stylus. I prefer to write over typing mostly, and I have to have a stylus which will allow drawing, sketching and annotation. Probably my next machine will be an Axiotron Modbook.
Yeah, things went so well the last time Apple licensed its OS.
That said, I would like to see Apple license Mac OS X _for non-competing machines_ in form-factors which Apple doesn't manufacture. I'd buy an Apple Tablet Mac if it were more reasonably priced than Axiotron's Modbook.
Right, the T900 is from 5 years ago, the EEE Slate is almost as old.
I'd like something contemporary, ideally something w/ the potential to last as long as my Stylistic (oh yeah, and it needs to fit in my old laptop bag, so no larger than the ST-4121, which both machines you noted fail at).
Currently making do w/ a Toshiba Encore 2 Write 10, but the lack of a daylight viewable display is really starting to annoy me.
The initial ThinkPad was conceived as a tablet computer (named for the leather pad holders embossed w/ ``THINK'' which IBM issued to its employees — see the book _ThinkPad: A Different Shade of Blue_ for the backstory on that).
Really wishing that my ThinkPad x61T were a real replacement for my Fujitsu Stylistic ST-4121 --- features I need:
- better stylus implementation (Wacom EMR is fine, so long as it's done well, Samsung certainly has this down, Toshiba w/ Wacom’s new AES has done well)
- daylight viewable display --- that's the big failing on most machines now, one can only get a true daylight viewable display on rugged machines sold to (and priced for) military, LEO and construction
This is something which I've been wondering about for a while --- given that people won't be disciplined enough to use a wiki or other content management system, why not just dump all corporate communications into a single archive?
Use some sort of expert system to make an initial effort at putting things into a hierarchy based on sender, recipient and subject line, strip out all attachments and replace them w/ a link to the stored copy of the file.
If need be, have some sort of system for determining access levels based on recipient.
Bonus is people would be forced to accept that work e-mail was to be used for work stuff only.
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It would be really nice if someone would do something meaningful w/ all the code for PenPoint --- it was one of my favourite operating systems, and amazingly capable for its time, and interface-wise, is still nicer than pretty much anything other than the Newton OS, or NeXTstep (or maybe HP's NewWave).
For those who don't remember it: http://www.digibarn.com/collec...
One thing I've been surprised at is that there isn't a continuation of Logo into CNC --- the closest thing to it I've found is to use a tool such as Asymptote, MetaPost or NodeBox to create a .pdf, then pull that .pdf into some tool suited to CAM --- it would be nice if there were some more direct option / connection.
For that matter, I'd be glad of a programming tool which would directly translate part geometry into tool motion (w/ suitable offsets) --- I hate having a cylinder in OpenSCAD rendered as a triangular mesh and having to process a .stl in a CAM tool --- wish ImplicitCAD were being supported and was easier to install.
I've got a Fujitsu Stylistic ST4121 w/ a daylight viewable display which I had to quit using when Microsoft quit supporting Windows XP, and I haven't been able to find a reasonably priced replacement tablet w/ a real daylight viewable display.
OS/2 for Pens would be perfect for it.
Logo, and a moving turtle for the win.
Tools such as Arduinos and gShields and inexpensive stepper motors (to say nothing of Grbl which is one of the most amazing programs I've ever seen in terms of memory efficiency and compactness) make this far more affordable than it was.
Still kind of surprised no one has done a Logo to G-Code translator.
Then, when they're ready, introduce them to the game Roborally.
Basically it's a front-end to LaTeX. You can export various formats from it, and PanDoc allows one to get to pretty much anything.
I use it on a small tablet PC and it allows handwriting input.
If I need a math equation I write it out in Infty Editor: http://www.inftyproject.org/en... and paste in the LaTeX code.
If I need a diagram, I draw it up in Corel Grafigo, InkScape, Macromedia Freehand, or Dia and include it as a .pdf
That's exactly what I was describing:
- remove trackpad from laptop
- slot in iPhone --- use it as trackpad, use the laptop's keyboard, display and processor
The Toshiba doesn't have a fan, neither did the Asus Vivotab Note 8 which it replaced (and that was ~$150 refurbished, so, as you noted, impulse buy territory).
I could install Windows 10, but it seems to be a real downgrade for Tablet devices, so I'm still waiting to do that.
People keep doing this sort of thing. IBM had Metacard, there was Oqo, and wasn't there a Palm device which was viewed as mostly a media storage device?
Why not go ahead and add a touch screen (and a stylus) so that one can use it w/o needing to cable up?
I use a Toshiba Encore 2 Write 10 as my main system in pretty much this way, connecting when I don't wish to use the touch screen / stylus to a full-size keyboard and monitor (fortunately, Toshiba provided an adapter for the single USB port which affords two connections, one for charging, one for devices).
The functionality I'd really like to see is this sort of thing done as an iPhone / iPod Touch sized unit ---- Apple could take their laptop, make the trackpad a removable unit which was exactly the size of an iPhone/iPod Touch, and one could replace the trackpad w/ the portable device which would then function as a customizable trackpad and which would load the user directory and backup the portable device.
Why are we advertising for this guy?
The iPad Pro disappoints me for not having access to arbitrary / legacy / opensource apps (I need to be able to run things which aren't on Apple's App store: Macromedia FreeHand, FontForge, various CNC apps).
The Microsoft Surface 4 and Book don't suit my needs 'cause the hover distance w/ N-Trig is low, and it has jitter problems w/ slow strokes (which don't affect most people or typical usage).
Both of them disappoint me for not having a truly daylight viewable display --- I really want a vendor to build daylight view booths into their stores and then show off a unit which has a transflective display --- I despair of ever replacing my Fujitsu Stylistic ST4121.
But I seem to be the only person who cares --- most recent article I can find on daylight viewable comparisons is from years ago: http://gizmodo.com/5888618/dis...
What if the company has a policy that the password for all company-issued devices has to be kept in a sealed envelope in a company lockbox?
For those who miss the original woot there's meh.com
It's ``just'' Altsys Virtuoso for NeXTstep w/ some updates (Virtuoso 2 was ~= to FreeHand 4, plus some bugs).
The thing is, what I'd really like to have is Altsys Virtuoso (which was announced for Windows NT), but on NeXT/OPENstep. Using Windows at a new task at work, and every day, I miss Mac OS X, or at least the things which OPENSTEP afforded to Mac OS X:
- pop-up main menu
- tear-off / repositionable sub-menus
- Services
- Shelf (Sidebar on Mac OS X)
- Miller column filebrowser
- Display PostScript (Quartz née Display PDF on Mac OS X)
Could we just finish up GNUstep?
They're the only people making an operating system which:
- runs on a wide variety of hardware and form factors
- has a good handwriting recognition system
- allows one to run arbitrary apps
FWIW, I'm still fuming over being forced to quit using my just about perfect Fujitsu Stylistic ST4121 w/ its irreplaceable daylight viewable display, 'cause Microsoft needed to kick people off Windows XP and the web is now using so much JavaScript a 933MHz Pentium III w/ 768 MB RAM (and a 4GB SSD) can't browse it.
Best option I could find was a Toshiba Encore 2 Write 10 (tried an Asus Vivotab Note 8, but the screen was too small and the digitizer gave out, otherwise, it worked well), but:
- it runs Windows 8, which I mislike (and Windows 10 is looking to be worse on the tablet front)
- doesn't have a daylight viewable display
I suppose I should buy yet another docking station for my Stylistic (my wife and son killed the previous two somehow) and then try Linux on it again.
Yeah, but Apple isn't making a tablet w/ an active stylus. I prefer to write over typing mostly, and I have to have a stylus which will allow drawing, sketching and annotation. Probably my next machine will be an Axiotron Modbook.
Yeah, things went so well the last time Apple licensed its OS.
That said, I would like to see Apple license Mac OS X _for non-competing machines_ in form-factors which Apple doesn't manufacture. I'd buy an Apple Tablet Mac if it were more reasonably priced than Axiotron's Modbook.
Replying to undo incorrect Redundant moderation.
Mea culpa.
replacement bracket for my reel lawn mower: http://www.shapeoko.com/forum/...
drag knife for my CNC machine: http://www.shapeoko.com/forum/...
other odds and ends...
Right, the T900 is from 5 years ago, the EEE Slate is almost as old.
I'd like something contemporary, ideally something w/ the potential to last as long as my Stylistic (oh yeah, and it needs to fit in my old laptop bag, so no larger than the ST-4121, which both machines you noted fail at).
Currently making do w/ a Toshiba Encore 2 Write 10, but the lack of a daylight viewable display is really starting to annoy me.
Yeah, I'd give my interest in hell for a copy of OS/2 for Pens.
The initial ThinkPad was conceived as a tablet computer (named for the leather pad holders embossed w/ ``THINK'' which IBM issued to its employees — see the book _ThinkPad: A Different Shade of Blue_ for the backstory on that).
Really wishing that my ThinkPad x61T were a real replacement for my Fujitsu Stylistic ST-4121 --- features I need:
- better stylus implementation (Wacom EMR is fine, so long as it's done well, Samsung certainly has this down, Toshiba w/ Wacom’s new AES has done well)
- daylight viewable display --- that's the big failing on most machines now, one can only get a true daylight viewable display on rugged machines sold to (and priced for) military, LEO and construction
Here, like this one:
http://xkcd.com/1338/
This is something which I've been wondering about for a while --- given that people won't be disciplined enough to use a wiki or other content management system, why not just dump all corporate communications into a single archive?
Use some sort of expert system to make an initial effort at putting things into a hierarchy based on sender, recipient and subject line, strip out all attachments and replace them w/ a link to the stored copy of the file.
If need be, have some sort of system for determining access levels based on recipient.
Bonus is people would be forced to accept that work e-mail was to be used for work stuff only.
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