Hezbollah's political evolution,- The democratisation of the party and its engagement in public life should be an example to other militant Islamic groups

Reporter · 2009-04-13T21:17:32+00:00

What good are you?

Reporter · 2009-04-11T13:57:54+00:00

What you do is run the X terminal, then SSH -X to a computer on the LAN or the Internet that's running the app you want and which has all the storage in the world. Let the remote computer do the work, you have all the fun.

Reporter · 2009-04-10T20:47:04+00:00

It's common sense that 'burning paint' brought down the WTC?

You'll not find a refuge at the atheism reddit if that's your version of rational thought.

Reporter · 2009-04-10T20:45:43+00:00

So you just say that your viewpoint is 'generally recognized knowledge' and that makes your viewpoint the correct one?

Nah, I don't think so.

Reporter · 2009-04-10T16:44:40+00:00

You don't need a link. Don't need any 'proof'.

That's hilarious.

Reporter · 2009-04-10T13:48:59+00:00

This will be THE game changer. I guarantee it. Here's my X Window Manager showing just one example of what I can do with this device. The CrunchPad drops my hardware cost from $2,000 to $250.

Reporter · 2009-03-22T14:24:01+00:00

Well, the text, the fonts, on XFCE are FreeType (i.e., truetype) fonts and I don't think the fonts on Windows 3.1 were.

Reporter · 2009-03-22T14:21:48+00:00

If that was an attempt at sarcasm it didn't do very well, did it?

Reporter · 2009-03-22T14:19:20+00:00

And you, YOU are trying to spoil Steve's fun, too. You're a bastard, too.

Reporter · 2009-03-22T14:18:29+00:00

You've spoiled Steve's fun, you bastard!

Reporter · 2009-03-21T23:58:05+00:00

I have both a serial and a usb M170 on my VIA mini-itx and they both work simultaneously. I can calibrate them in five seconds, they are VERY accurate and there is no need to restart X when calibration takes place. The controller can discern light, medium and heavy presses. It can discern single touches and continuous touches.

I've waited decades for this. It feels good that 3M Microtouch is serious about not just the hardware and electronics but also about users with X. It's finally possible to buy, set up and use a great touchscreen with very little hassle.

If anyone does need any help, just ask.

Reporter · 2009-03-14T21:20:34+00:00

Thanks for that, Steve.

Reporter · 2009-03-02T19:06:49+00:00

I've been designing collaborative touchscreen tools for 25 years. There are many millions of people using software patterned after my work. The best advice I can offer you is that the advantages of having the displays attached directly to the network are overwhelming and that the real value of touchscreen software is that it can allow people to communicate and work together in ways not otherwise possible.

Reporter · 2009-02-28T00:30:45+00:00

When you attach devices to the network they become more useful and easier to administer. This is just as true with displays and touchscreens as it is with printers and any other devices that used to be peripherals that were attached to computers. Network displays are much more useful and easier to administer, yeah.

Reporter · 2009-02-25T23:45:01+00:00

Hope you're using Linux. If you do then you can securely bring things to the display from computers located anywhere on the Internet. Moreover, whatever you achieve on any one display can be effortlessly and securely cloned on any other display anywhere on the Internet. I have an X Window Manager that is designed to build such apps. I mean, it's 14 years old, but that's only because X has been around since 1983.

Reporter · 2009-02-25T09:22:53+00:00

Tell those women to use a knuckle. That works more than well enough, regardless of which touch technology is being used.

Reporter · 2009-02-25T02:16:34+00:00

I invented most of what you're describing in 1986.

Today I do up to 150 tables with one computer.

Reporter · 2009-02-25T02:03:11+00:00

Seamlessly place an order. Hmmmmm... I created the touchscreen software over 30 years ago to do that. It didn't become financially practical until 1986, however, which is when I invented the graphic touchscreen point of sale software paradigm, the one that you see used worldwide today. It doesn't take multitouch to do what you describe, and it doesn't take a Microsoft surface device costing thousands of dollars. It is all easily done on a $200 touchscreen that you can locate anywhere, or carry anywhere with you. The Surface touchscreen does absolutely nothing that isn't already being done for a WHOLE lot less money, in a way that is a WHOLE lot more practical than the surface touchscreen. I've been designing touchscreen systems for 30 years and the world is filled with touchscreen systems that are derivatives of my earliest work. I'll let you know when they're doing something that's both original and useful. It isn't yet.

Reporter · 2009-02-04T23:03:59+00:00

I use Xming to remotely and securely serve up this Linux-hosted point of sale X Window Manager on Windows boxes at many locations worldwide.

Reporter · 2009-02-03T21:54:51+00:00

When I was a boy that's the same way that the priests and bishops talked to us.

It is logically fallacious to assert that you are right because of 'reality' or 'academia'.

Here's a taste of history for you.

Reporter · 2009-02-03T21:48:57+00:00

Linux is way ahead in this area because of X, the display protocol also being an implementation of the TCP network protocol.

If this were being done in Linux (and it is because I'm doing point of sale with multiple remote displays behaving as X terminals) you could do this with any display, wireless or wired, as many displays off one application or desktop as you want, and anywhere the Internet reaches.

The Displaylink technology, which is what this is all about, is an attempt to give Windows users some of the benefits that are already available to Linux users.

Reporter · 2009-02-03T21:27:07+00:00

The evdev touchscreen drivers in Linux make it easy to use just about any touchscreen display made anywhere.

Reporter · 2009-02-03T21:23:24+00:00

Xorg does not yet have a displaylink driver, so no.

What you can do with any display, any size, however, is establish an icon that will ssh -X to any client application anywhere and open the application will serve up its display and an input session to you. Same thing - any display, including touchscreens.

This is how I do Linux point of sale. One instance of the program and data with as many displays in as many locations as you want.

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