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4 - There are no good pick up lines. Stop trying, stop reading the speed seduction books, they do not work if you do not understand human psychology and look like a "hunk" or at least semi cute to a woman.

Actually there are good pickup lines. Try "Hi".

If you do want to learn to become better at talking to or picking up women there is plenty of information and help out there. No, you don't have to look like a "hunk" or good looking (though it helps).

I'm working on a documentary of the pickup artist community in the DC area. What these guys can do is amazing and most of them don't look like jocks or pretty boys. It's all social skill learned from the various pickup companies and from each other. Most of these guys are in IT, and started out with the same level of social skills as the average slashdotter.

Here are some interviews of the less than pretty pickup artists from my documentary:

Knack

Cuisine

Allen

Want to learn more? Here are some links to reputable pickup artist and dating coach companies:

Venusian Arts

Ask Romeo

Mehow's Get the Girl

Style Life

Love Systems

If you can't find something that works for you from that list, nothing can help you except possibly therapy.

P.S. Yeah, Speed Seduction pretty much worthless.

If anything, it shows that all there's all kinds of ways to market your game and if it is enjoyable, people will pay for it.

Now, looking at this year's possibly popular indie games, I think Crayon Physics Deluxe will be a hit, and I hope Fez (video here), which I haven't heard of since February 08 will post some news, and finally there's Braid again, which is coming on the PC!

Additionally, if you include game mods as indie development, I'm looking forward to Neotokyo, a total conversion mod for HL2 that has its inspiration in Ghost in the Shell, and Black Mesa Source, another total conversion for HL2 which is the original Half-Life ported onto the Source engine.

I loved this one: http://www.vimeo.com/1109226
Though, seconds 20 to 60 seem pretty pointless.

Probably not what you meant but check out this work for some HDR videos (granted time lapse). Also I think Peter Jackson and company would argue that at the high end digital has plenty of dynamic range, and with camera's like the D90 and 5D Mark II it's actually coming to the prosumer market.

Try coding it up in Processing

You could visualize events as swarming butterflies!

I was about to suggest Processing as well, but I found this post at the bottom of the comments and thought I'd add weight to it.
It's unclear what data is already available, but assuming you already have raw data, something like processing would be the biggest bang for the buck in terms of converting input into beautiful imagery. (If you don't have data, most of the other threads will give you relevant tips.) Processing's even got some dead tree books devoted to it now too.

Try coding it up in Processing

You could visualize events as swarming butterflies!

How about a nice video that Adrian Chen did for his own death:

http://vimeo.com/1417352

Too bad that part wasn't shown in Jordan Mechner's original Prince of Persia animation reference footage from 1985. ;)

Here are two that I know about:

This lets you see the possibilities of having an HD (or higher) resolution camera shooting at 120FPS.

http://www.vimeo.com/1124192

http://www.vimeo.com/1124192

Here are two that I know about:

This lets you see the possibilities of having an HD (or higher) resolution camera shooting at 120FPS.

http://www.vimeo.com/1124192

http://www.vimeo.com/1124192

Dan Grigsby looks at the Android G1 in 5 minutes from an iPhone developer's perspective.

Loren Feldman (1938media) throws in his own snarky-but-entertaining 2 cents.

He was supposed to overfly my house at the weekend for the Icarus Cup. I was all set up with a high definition video camera to get some nice shots and was very disappointed that he couldn't fly due to the high winds. He had the same problem yesterday and the flight has been delayed.

I took some film of the balloons instead.

The LHC Rap. Entertaining and Educational. Edutaining.

As a DC are filmmaker, I agree with your observation of the move to Vimeo. Lately, I've seen more and more short films moving to HD as cameras are getting cheaper. Now, the filmmakers want to post in full HD rather than settling for the poor quality of Youtube.

For example, many more of the films in this year's 48 hour film project in DC were shot in HD including the one I worked on. We posted our 48 hour film, "Chasing Larry", on Vimeo, and it looks like hundreds of others are also posted there.

I've also started posting on Vimeo excerpts from a documentary I'm working on called "Pickup Artist Underground"

Note, not only can you view the streamed version of the video, there is a link in the bottom right to download it. I believe the download format is always the same format you uploaded, but I'm not certain. I've only ever uploaded videos quicktime mov encoded.

There is one caveat which may be an issue for the poster. The terms of service for Vimeo explicitly disallow commercial videos. I'm not sure what the intent is, but if you plan to sell your short at a later date, you may have a problem. If not, I would strongly suggest Vimeo.

As a DC are filmmaker, I agree with your observation of the move to Vimeo. Lately, I've seen more and more short films moving to HD as cameras are getting cheaper. Now, the filmmakers want to post in full HD rather than settling for the poor quality of Youtube.

For example, many more of the films in this year's 48 hour film project in DC were shot in HD including the one I worked on. We posted our 48 hour film, "Chasing Larry", on Vimeo, and it looks like hundreds of others are also posted there.

I've also started posting on Vimeo excerpts from a documentary I'm working on called "Pickup Artist Underground"

Note, not only can you view the streamed version of the video, there is a link in the bottom right to download it. I believe the download format is always the same format you uploaded, but I'm not certain. I've only ever uploaded videos quicktime mov encoded.

There is one caveat which may be an issue for the poster. The terms of service for Vimeo explicitly disallow commercial videos. I'm not sure what the intent is, but if you plan to sell your short at a later date, you may have a problem. If not, I would strongly suggest Vimeo.

http://www.vimeo.com/ if the video is below 500 MB. They also serve HD content which is pretty nice.

Golden Shellback Waterproof Coating on Vimeo

Fast, fast as shit and the video quality in the expanded mode was fantastic.

I saw Obama's speech tonight, on a coworker's laptop. And yes, fast, and decent quality -- like I might expect from Vimeo.

Except unlike Vimeo, it frequently sputtered and outright stopped.

I also noticed another thing -- it wasn't Silverlight. It required Silverlight for the controls, but the player itself was something else -- ironically, written in Java. So I still don't know what actual Silverlight-powered HD would look like.

Make the damn Linux install base standard.

Well, we have.

No one even bothers to, say, support the largest one out there (Ubuntu).

How about every distro uses the same GCC? That would be sweet

Why?

I use my phone a lot. It's a Motorola A1200 Linux (locked with DRM) smart phone and it is generations ahead of the OpenMoko.

I take pictures and videos a lot, listen to music on the radio, web browse with the opera client, make calls over a bluetooth headset, use the voice recognition software to phone people in my address book using only the bluetooth headset, check my gmail account and I have even telnet'd into the nethack server and watched people play (because I can).

I use almost all the features of my phone but I am disatisfied with some things which I was hoping that the OpenMoko would be an answer for me.

My videos are stored in a propitiatory format and the quality sucks, I don't like the fact that my phone makes a noise when I am taking a photo or video. I want to have more access to my phone and customise the software to my needs. My phone has a weird bug which sometimes says I have a new voice mail which I have no way to fix.

That's all I can think of right now and after many years of lurking on the OpenMoko project and reading about this phone here on Slashdot all I can say is that the hardware is poorly designed and the software is not quite there yet at all.

Lets start with the hardware.

There's nothing wrong with the current specs, I am excited by the inclusion of the accelerometer and gps devices, what I have a problem with is that there is no camera.

Now before someone replies with "but some places won't let you take a phone into work with a camera" I think you should realise you're in the minority and I believe that not including a camera in this phone turned into a really bad decision which has effected it's sales and popularity.

Also: I don't care if you don't use the camera or your carry around a 50" telescopic lens wherever you go. I and a lot of other people do care about this, very much. I could justify buying this phone at the ripping me off price, the fact that it doesn't really work yet and all the other problems but not including a camera just put me off completely.

The other big mistake was not including a holder for the stylus in the phone. It makes me feel like no thought was put into the design of this phone at all, although that's probably not true how could you miss such an obvious error?

That's my beef with the hardware, now on to software.

Why does it take so long to cold boot? Like I said at the beginning I have a Linux smart phone. A cold start takes around 14 seconds at which point you can phone someone. The moko takes over 2 minutes and that's still accurate to this day. Don't believe me? Download an image and try for yourself. What is Motorola doing so right that can't be copied?

I can excuse that for the moment as booting the phone doesn't matter that much, but the whole UI including the vanilla QT release just damn sucks. Download a version of the latest image and you'll see what I mean. There's a picture of a boot when the thing starts, yes it's a funny joke but it's mostly highlights how little time has been spent on making the software look good.

I wanted to help out with the art and researched the wiki for ages, there's no information I could find on how to contribute artwork, I couldn't even figure out how to change the background image on the OS which is a horribly pixilated plant. (If someone knows how I can contribute to the artwork please write it in the wiki and reply here).

I'm saying this not to troll. I'm saying this because I care so damn much about this project succeeding and right now it's full of fail, from the hardware and software to the fact that my phone released in 2005 is magnitudes better then this device.

If you want the OpenMoko to succeed, if you want more open source phones to exist then you need to have a baseline of quality. You need to be able to use the device in the first place and it needs to be

I want to see Sega talk about their REAL roots. This is about the coolest Sega game I've ever seen:

http://www.vimeo.com/610038

Vimeo has very restrictive terms about actually owning your content. However, once you have satisfied their requirements for original content, Vimeo is very protective of the First Amendment rights of its content creators. Vimeo was the safe refuge for Wise Beard Man and his Scientology critic videos.

Vimeo is also technically superior to YouTube, GoogleVideo, Revver, Ning, and any other .FLV sites. Sound is better. Picture is clearer and less blocky. They can handle video that is higher definition than 480p.

http://www.vimeo.com/ . I don't know anyone there, I don't own their stock, I don't work for them. However, they are the superior solution and Deserve To Win. (tm)

Here's a better link where the audio isn't fucked by youtube's new audio equalization.

After YouTube started mangling the audio it made it pretty useless for this sort of thing. Try Vimeo instead http://www.vimeo.com/1431471?pg=embed&sec=1431471

(possibly with a label, I couldn't tell from the low-res video)

You can watch the high-res version on Vimeo:

http://www.vimeo.com/1450211?pg=embed&sec=1450211&hd=1

The 3D mouse is featured in this video. It looks sort of like a robotic arm. To use it, you have to hold your arm forward without resting it on the table top. I don't see how you could use it for extended periods.

I like Vimeo: It has a very clean interface (at least with AdBlock, dunno how it looks without it), and the videos can be quite a nice bitrate (though it needs some precise pre-decoding to get the desired results).
Besides that, there are some awesome (short) movies on there, and it's been a great site for me to randomly browse and discover some gems (on a whole other level than the amusement of a general YouTube video brings me).

More on topic: What's the deciding factor when watching a game's video that it constitutes creative expression?
For instance, I have one video on there of a trailer for the Alpha version of a mod I'm working on: Whereas some might see this as a "direct capture of video game play", I put way more thought into that when creating it, or at least tried to ;-). (for example, notice how I tried to line up the music to the cuts, and building up the 'tension' as the video goes on).

Another example would be (game) footage of a player who's incredibly good at the game he's playing: You know the sort of video; Raging rock music lining up the several great shots he pulls of during a match.
Would this also not be 'creative content': Imho it's telling an, albeit short, story too.

I realise I'm free to go elsewhere, but as noted before I quite like their layout (as opposed to the cluttered interface of YouTube, who recently started to also allow higher quality videos).
Though when they will be taking my video offline, I'll definitely have to be on the lookout for another host (besides my own site).

• Make a composition react to sound, video movement, any USB interface, keyboard, wiimotes, Mac's motion sensors, etc.
• Use particle systems, make screensavers, animations and games
• Mix videos, apply effects to videos and images
• Make the composition read XMLs provided by a website and do stuff with the data.

So, to answer your question, IMHO, this would be the BEST way to encourage his couriosity and enable him to learn a programming language. Think of it as today's logo (My apologies to anyone involved in Quartz or QC development, I'm trying to make a point)

Hope you and your kid find this as interesting as I did.
Cheers

I don't know if you have the OpenMoko yet, but you may want to look at a usability video before you get one...

To me the OpenMoko seems overpriced for what you get.

Also it's unfair to compare plan prices from a 3G phone to a non-3G phone. If that's a problem then get the older iPhone. I'm keeping the older one exactly because plan prices are higher for the new.

I don't know if you have the OpenMoko yet, but you may want to look at a usability video before you get one...

To me the OpenMoko seems overpriced for what you get.

Also it's unfair to compare plan prices from a 3G phone to a non-3G phone. If that's a problem then get the older iPhone. I'm keeping the older one exactly because plan prices are higher for the new.

Yeah, just get Open Moko. You will not regret it. I promise. Like, super serially promise. Cross my hart.

Yeah, just get Open Moko. You will not regret it. I promise. Like, super serially promise. Cross my hart.

See for yourself: http://www.vimeo.com/1366042?pg=embed&sec=1366042

I love the idea of OpenMoko, but the thing is unusable, which is a shame, because people won't take it seriously once they get a load of the laughably bad interface. Qtopia looks a bit better, but it's not much of an improvement. The project needs some real interface expertise if it has any hope of success; all Android has to do to trump it is to be marginally less unusable. And does anyone know the purpose of that hole in the FreeRunner?

I love the idea of OpenMoko, but the thing is unusable, which is a shame, because people won't take it seriously once they get a load of the laughably bad interface. Qtopia looks a bit better, but it's not much of an improvement. The project needs some real interface expertise if it has any hope of success; all Android has to do to trump it is to be marginally less unusable. And does anyone know the purpose of that hole in the FreeRunner?

Have you see the open alternatives?

I wonder how closely the actual racing will resemble the video renders. Because while the video renders look awesome, they seem a bit fantastical.

Either way, here's a less likely to be slashdotted video mirror.

Well, I prefer this one :-)

http://vimeo.com/1109226

The article may make this sound a bit too original, but it is nevertheless extremely cool. While it's certainly a fascinating combination of thought-recognition, object-recognition and Augmented Reality, it is not the first implementation of any of those things - but it IS really exciting to suppose that thought recognition could be used to help filter noise out of a detail-rich image field and improve AI object-recognition. How well the AR will work, well I guess we'll see - the military has had pretty good AR in their HUDs for a long time. But we're finally starting to see some cool AR in consumer tech too. In fact, there was just an article about an iPhone hard hack this morning implementing it over on digg. Definitely worth checking out.

You could always turn them into musical instruments, like this guy did, using "vintage computing hardware including a Sinclair ZX Spectrum (rhythm & lead), Epson LX-83 dot matrix printer (drums), HP Scanjet 4c (bass) and a hard drive array to mangle vocals and effects."

Maybe you could do something like this video? Unfortunately, I cannot access the site from work but the link description is "Video of old computer hardware playing Radiohead song," and the author uses a bunch of old harddrives as a type of primitive speaker.

With the low price of current new 1TB HDs, I think your project will cost more than buying new hardware (I may be wrong).

So I suggest building some enormous speaker arrays with the drives, as e.g. demonstrated in this video of Radiohead's Nude (the hard drive array kicks in around 1'40").

Building instructions.
Another demo.

It's a pity that this missed the deadline for the remix contest:

http://www.vimeo.com/1109226?pg=embed&sec=1109226

It's possibly one of the most awesome covers I've ever seen.

I have fiber -- that's not the bottleneck.

The bottleneck is how pitifully slow Flash is at playing videos -- maybe it's just me, maybe it's just 64-bit Linux, but anytime I actually want to watch a video fullscreen, I look for an FLV download.

Since your streaming seems to require actual streaming, I can't seem to even use the Firebug trick -- so I had to watch it in a tiny chunk of a browser window, or watch it fullscreen in laaaggy HD.

So no, your video is absolutely horrible compared to Vimeo, which also has 720p h.264, but provides an un-DRM'd MOV download.

"An animated short using Blender:"

Nice work. But wouldn't you rather present it in 720p HD glory on vimeo instead of the lesser quality of YouTube?

Please consider picking up a copy of the Big Buck Bunny DVD it supported a lot of the development that was done for this release. You can see the trailer here.

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Thanks! I'll start with that advice. I've looked through a little bit of the examples on the main site. I've been feeling too impatient and very curious as to how folks like flight404 are creating these great lighting and texture effects:

http://www.vimeo.com/935317

It seems things like that represent a couple years of experience (stuff like the magnetophysics of the ball) but I like to get my hands as dirty as possible, as quickly as possible.

Saw this video today regarding the Riverside Court exposing the thousands of social security numbers. Definitely looks like they have their hands full. http://www.vimeo.com/988775