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Re: Embedded Windows NT

"Timothy D. Gray" <> wrote:
> Heck, most wearables are text based and rightly so!  I dont want to
> navigate a dang GUI while biking. (Hitting cars or other objects bakes
> your bike ride un-enjoyable. Remember the target idea for a wearable, not
> a replacement for a nice high power CAD station.
I would say that this is hopefully a temporary biased statement. In a couple
of years, a lot of us will never ever use a computer work station. I.e.
not because of the GUI and the screen.
In the end of this year we will probably see 1280x1024 fullcolor (i.e.
millions of colors) screens as DisplayTech already (claim at least to)
have working prototypes of these. The work station I am using at the 
moment is just that 1280x1024 (even though the monitor manages 1600x1200)
and I guess that much more than that will not be much more worth. OK, we
may soon get displays that cover the whole retina, but then the resolution 
need not be so homogenous high anyway. When I then soon can have this in
stereo and overlayed on the reality out there, and be able to access the
crunching capacity anywhere. Why would I ever want to use a work station?

> I personally believe that any GUI in a wearable reduces it's useability.
> Not graphics on the other hand, Maps, targeting vector lines, incoming
> trajectory plotting, are all great uses that would be ruined by a bloated
> GUI back-end. So yes, My HMD is color, 40 column and that's it. no
> graphics, no windows anything (I'm using the el-cheapo lcd screen from
> masushita)
I didn't really get your point here. A customizable GUI should fit your
needs that's it! In that case the more "bloated", the more capable of 
doing this, I suppose (of course I'm not speaking about w95/NT env here).

> Remember, a wearable is for what you need... not for Gee Wiz I can use
> Office 97 on it!
Well, I think the Office package actually deserves a reward. The only 
program I had available that could read the Mac's PICT format correctly
and convert it to a reasonable hackable PostScript was PowerPoint.
I was writing a thesis and unfortunately my first report was written
on the Mac with the help of MacDraw and Cricket Graph accidentally 
using Word because I hadn't learned TeX or LaTeX at that time.
The document was stored on my Amiga's Mac partition. I transferred
them to the Amiga partition by using the Mac emulator. Then on my 
GNU/Linux work station I tried to use Applix, which failed, the result
was garbage. I tried the VISIO Technical CAD program on my Windows95
machine which claim to be able to read PICT, but the result was garbage
also here. Finally I tried the PowerPoint program and this succeded
without failure to read the 22 graphical files and convert them to
encapsulated PostScript. The only thing to do then was transfer them
to the Linux machine and hack the bounding boxes.
So, if you need to convert PICT files, I really recommend the Office
package!

> Besides, I think people will go insane having the win95 logo that close
> to the brain.
I would never ever take that risk!!! 
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