From: "John van V." Date: 2001-07-06T01:30:30+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:17329] Re: GUI tool suggestions for GUI targetted at low res TV display? Hi, This is great, I have long tried to create the same sort of desktop using Perl. Ruby is perl++ and the perl design strategy is just confusing the heck out me right now. Java just has too much overhead. So Ruby it is. Also TV is the ubiquitous interface the world round but there are different types of TV; SCART for instance, is a digital interface required, I think, on all Euro TVs. Personally, I'm a little bored w/ Unix. I am a lot more excited by the "bare metal" concept where the s/w, here a ruby-machine, would be glued right to the hardware; a little in the future, I know. This kind of media has the potential to reach the maximum number of newbies especially in impoverished countries. My thinman model is designed to allow clients to become servers where they would receive objects with embedded data and code and then be able to emit them to other "receivers", clients, basically allowing unserved areas to self-support, thru just about any communication media such as single side band or ether-cell phone. If we could find just one country to support such a scheme I believe it would take the world like wildfire. I strongly suggest you integrate into sourceforge.net and "market" the concept to 3rd world programmers such as a group I found in Brasil. BTW, that Ipaq stuff is just too cool. I cant wait until Moore's Law kicks in bringing the price down to a couple of hundred $. If you guys want a conference, let me suggest the Catskills, "the Jewish Alps", just outside of NY, birthplace of the American comedy. Very nice from spring to fall, the rates are also very cheap :) John ===== John van Vlaanderen ############################################# # CXN, Inc. Contact: john@thinman.com # # # Proud Sponsor of Perl/Unix of NY # # http://puny.vm.com # ############################################# __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/