Yeah, I was writing as fast as I could (literally, I wrote it out on a Tablet PC from the back row since Dr. Knuth didn't want people using laptops to check web sites during his presentation) --- but I kept laughing....
Kaveh Bazargan recorded all of the presentations (that's me asking Tom Rokicki why TeXview.app wasn't used as the basis for worldwideweb.app during the panel) and will be putting them all up at http://river-valley.tv/
A person in either the ancient _or_ the modern world can follow the directions to build a bowl w/ accurate measurements --- a fellow art student at my alma mater did this.
No, the Bible says that if one builds a bowl w/ a certain outside diameter and a certain wall thickness, the inside circumference will be such that pi is ~3.14:
I wish I were in that situation --- there are a couple of stations which we only get if the weather is perfect, several which we'll get if I position the antenna which I had to make ( http://current.org/ptv/ptv0821make.pdf ) just so and one station (broadcasting on 3 channels) which we get fine so long as the weather isn't bad.
The reason for this is the TV stations reducing broadcasting power --- when the local PBS affiliate switched to digital and other stations were still analog we received their signal perfectly, regardless of weather over rabbit ears in the basement --- now that they've reduced their signal strength ( http://www.current.org/tech/tech819d.html ) we barely get the signal w/ the afore-mentioned digital-optimized antenna located in the bay window in the living room.
An LCD pixel has 3 or 4 cells, typically RGB, but there are other schemes --- that's why sub-pixel rendering techniques like Microsoft ClearText make slightly odd coloured halos around the edges of letters and don't work as well when a display is rotated to portrait (it's most useful for evening out stem widths).
The human eye can resolve much finer than 300 dpi --- 400 dpi is where fonts start to look nice on a laserprinter (notably the NeXT laserprinter had a 400dpi mode in addition to the then more standard 300dpi --- it was distinctly noticeable when one changed printing modes) and imagesetters are easily differentiated by their output at 1,270 ppi vice 2,540 ppi (and there are models which go higher) --- see the book _Counterpunch: Making Type in the 16th Century, Designing Typefaces Now_ by Fred Smeijers for electron micrographs and a discussion of this which shows that the human eye can easily see the thickness of a 1/1,270th of an inch curl of steel.
Granted, the iPhone screen is 326 _pixels_ per inch, so one gets anti-aliasing, yielding a higher effective dpi, and possibly sub-pixel rendering, but screens need to get better yet.
Image resolution is measured in several ways:
ppi (pixels per inch) --- input / file resolution dpi (dots per inch) --- output resolution for a single ink colour lpi - (lines per inch) --- output resolution for ``halftones'' which allows the simulation of multiple levels when one can only do on/off --- newspapers use ~85 lpi, uncoated stock in books ~133lpi, magazines 150 lpi or higher, art books 200 lpi --- different printing processes/tecniques are used for better quality or fewer generations
A pixel is a ``picture element'' a unit of a raster grid which can be more finely differentiated than just black or white --- the coarsest pixel I can think of would be the monochrome NeXT Cube (and later Slabs) which had black, white and two shades of grey.
Try putting a 326 ppi greyscale image of a Gustav Doré engraving on the iPhone and compare that to the actual engraving in a book --- the difference between them will be obvious to anyone w/ good vision.
Different printing and halftoning techniques make lpi rather complex --- stochastic screening does away w/ it for example and exhibits improvement to the limits of output resolution --- 3600 dpi on some imagesetters.
The human eye can resolve much finer than 300 dpi --- 400 dpi is where fonts start to look nice on a laserprinter and imagesetters are easily differentiated by their output at 1,270 ppi vice 2,540 ppi (and there are models which go higher) --- see the book _Counterpunch: Making Type in the 16th Century, Designing Typefaces Now_ by Fred Smeijers for electron micrographs and a discussion of this.
Granted, the iPhone screen is 326 _pixels_ per inch, so one gets anti-aliasing, yielding a higher effective dpi, and possibly sub-pixel rendering, but screens need to get better yet.
Image resolution is measured in several ways:
ppi (pixels per inch) --- input / file resolution dpi (dots per inch) --- output resolution for a single ink colour lpi - (lines per inch) --- output resolution for ``halftones'' which allows the simulation of multiple levels when one can only do on/off --- newspapers use ~85 lpi, uncoated stock in books ~133lpi, magazines 150 lpi or higher, art books 200 lpi --- different printing processes/tecniques are used for better quality or fewer generations
A pixel is a ``picture element'' a unit of a raster grid which can be more finely differentiated than just black or white --- the coarsest pixel I can think of would be the monochrome NeXT Cube (and later Slabs) which had black, white and two shades of grey.
Try putting a 326 ppi greyscale image of a Gustav Doré engraving on the iPhone and compare that to the actual engraving in a book --- the difference between them will be obvious to anyone w/ good vision.
Different printing and halftoning techniques make lpi rather complex --- stochastic screening does away w/ it for example and exhibits improvement to the limits of output resolution --- 3600 dpi on some imagesetters.
To see their hypocrisy, look at the statements made by their lawyers in the trial of PETA employees, or by their president, "We are not in the home finding business, although it is certainly true that we do find homes from time to time for the kind of animals people are looking for. Our service is to provide a peaceful and painless death to animals who no one wants." -- Ingrid Newkirk, PeTA President, The Virginian-Pilot, July 20, 2005
Bummer, so instead of HyperCard Developer, they're peddling HyperCard Player for the iPad?
I don't think a HyperCard player for the iPad is all that interesting (or worthwhile) --- what i want is HyperCard Developer on the iPad --- let's use the thing for actual computing and processing, not just for consumption.
The problem is, their proposal wasn't in line w/ what Apple requires in the license, instead they wanted an exemption:
>In order to support our active and growing revMobile customer >base, we submitted an in-depth proposal to Apple that we create >an iPhone-only product that uses native Cocoa objects, supports >100% of their API, works perfectly with multitasking and battery >life, but uses a variant of the revTalk language to use these >objects and APIs, and then translates those into native code.
So they didn't put on the table re-writing the app in advance in Objective-C --- why not?
I want to be able to program fill and stroke effects and have them show up on-screen like I used to be able to do w/ Altsys Virtuoso on my NeXT Cube.
Apple already caved in on programming environments to Adobe / Microsoft once, and we got Carbon (eventually) having to wait _years_ longer --- and then we had to re-create all of the functionality which was ``just working'' in NeXTstep.
If people want to run Flash on Tablet devices then they should choose to purchase things which run Flash, like the Axiotron ModBook:
Look up ``siphon'' in Oxford's English Dictionary --- for 99 years or so it's wrongly described the functional process as using air pressure, not gravity:
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Yeah, I was writing as fast as I could (literally, I wrote it out on a Tablet PC from the back row since Dr. Knuth didn't want people using laptops to check web sites during his presentation) --- but I kept laughing....
Kaveh Bazargan recorded all of the presentations (that's me asking Tom Rokicki why TeXview.app wasn't used as the basis for worldwideweb.app during the panel) and will be putting them all up at http://river-valley.tv/
William
I believe he was making memorabilia for the conference.
Every one got an iTeX logo and people he wished to thank got an embroidered piece.
A person in either the ancient _or_ the modern world can follow the directions to build a bowl w/ accurate measurements --- a fellow art student at my alma mater did this.
here:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1702818&cid=32752126
It was an hilarious presentation in the spirit of his first publication... http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/01/the-enduring-art-of-computer-programming.html (scroll down to Potrzebie)
to repeat (w/o the geocoord)
a successor to TeX which he has been working on for some time
scratch tex78 and tex82
so making up for assumptions which don't fit the internet age
jokes about measuring and math in TeX .4pt == .3999pt
maxdimen too small, 1sp too large
tunnel vision caused by computers of the day
subset of XML uses Unicode automatic everything
all directions and all dimensions
hypertext
text audio video sensors GPScoords accelerometers haptics
midi input to score and back to music
no macros --- menu driven like Word but enhanced
spoken command and gestures
\i \TeX (wrapped on a sphere)
spoken name accompanied by (optional) ringing bell
not programmed directly
1289 bugs in TeX
571 bugs in metafont
Project Marianne
www.projectmarianne.com
Project Biturgical
written in Scheme using all buzzwords
pricing - monthly subscription on cloud
first year one month free
pricing based on internet speed
will change everyday
life is too short to reread anything
will benefit world's economy, user's can sell documents
network of certified consultants
online help
- for dummies
- for wizards
- personalized on-line
symbolic equations
graphics
maps
satellite photos
\i\TeX hyper document
math mode like mathml --- must evaluate
avatars
hyperbolic geometry
videoconferencing
world-class photo retouching
character, face, speech recignition
cognition
output format:
- lasercutters
- embroidering machines
- 3D printers
- plasma cutters
interactive cookbook
life as hypertext document
released next month
pending patent applications
(posting this from the Sir Francis Drake Hotel)
a successor to TeX which he has been working on for some time
scratch tex78 and tex82
so making up for assumptions which don't fit the internet age
jokes about measuring and math in TeX .4pt == .3999pt
maxdimen too small, 1sp too large
tunnel vision caused by computers of the day
subset of XML uses Unicode automatic everything
all directions and all dimensions
hypertext
text audio video sensors GPScoords accelerometers haptics
midi input to score and back to music
no macros --- menu driven like Word but enhanced
spoken command and gestures
\i \TeX (wrapped on a sphere)
spoken name accompanied by (optional) ringing bell
not programmed directly
1289 bugs in TeX
571 bugs in metafont
Project Marianne
www.projectmarianne.com
Project Biturgical
written in Scheme using all buzzwords
pricing - monthly subscription on cloud
first year one month free
pricing based on internet speed
will change everyday
life is too short to reread anything
will benefit world's economy, user's can sell documents
network of certified consultants
online help
- for dummies
- for wizards
- personalized on-line
symbolic equations
graphics
maps
satellite photos
\i\TeX hyper document
math mode like mathml --- must evaluate
avatars
hyperbolic geometry
videoconferencing
world-class photo retouching
character, face, speech recignition
cognition
output format:
- lasercutters
- embroidering machines
- 3D printers
- plasma cutters
interactive cookbook
life as hypertext document
released next month
pending patent applications
Will Robertson made a brilliant presentation on doing that which works w/ xetex and luatex
http://www.tug.org/tug2010/abstracts/robertson.txt
No, the Bible says that if one builds a bowl w/ a certain outside diameter and a certain wall thickness, the inside circumference will be such that pi is ~3.14:
http://www.purplemath.com/modules/bibleval.htm
How far back in the past are you willing to reach?
- Palm
- PenPoint
- NewtonOS
- Momenta
- GRiD's PenDOS
All sadly gone (I especially miss PenPoint)
I wish I were in that situation --- there are a couple of stations which we only get if the weather is perfect, several which we'll get if I position the antenna which I had to make ( http://current.org/ptv/ptv0821make.pdf ) just so and one station (broadcasting on 3 channels) which we get fine so long as the weather isn't bad.
The reason for this is the TV stations reducing broadcasting power --- when the local PBS affiliate switched to digital and other stations were still analog we received their signal perfectly, regardless of weather over rabbit ears in the basement --- now that they've reduced their signal strength ( http://www.current.org/tech/tech819d.html ) we barely get the signal w/ the afore-mentioned digital-optimized antenna located in the bay window in the living room.
William
An LCD pixel has 3 or 4 cells, typically RGB, but there are other schemes --- that's why sub-pixel rendering techniques like Microsoft ClearText make slightly odd coloured halos around the edges of letters and don't work as well when a display is rotated to portrait (it's most useful for evening out stem widths).
The human eye can resolve much finer than 300 dpi --- 400 dpi is where fonts start to look nice on a laserprinter (notably the NeXT laserprinter had a 400dpi mode in addition to the then more standard 300dpi --- it was distinctly noticeable when one changed printing modes) and imagesetters are easily differentiated by their output at 1,270 ppi vice 2,540 ppi (and there are models which go higher) --- see the book _Counterpunch: Making Type in the 16th Century, Designing Typefaces Now_ by Fred Smeijers for electron micrographs and a discussion of this which shows that the human eye can easily see the thickness of a 1/1,270th of an inch curl of steel.
Granted, the iPhone screen is 326 _pixels_ per inch, so one gets anti-aliasing, yielding a higher effective dpi, and possibly sub-pixel rendering, but screens need to get better yet.
Image resolution is measured in several ways:
ppi (pixels per inch) --- input / file resolution
dpi (dots per inch) --- output resolution for a single ink colour
lpi - (lines per inch) --- output resolution for ``halftones'' which allows the simulation of multiple levels when one can only do on/off --- newspapers use ~85 lpi, uncoated stock in books ~133lpi, magazines 150 lpi or higher, art books 200 lpi --- different printing processes/tecniques are used for better quality or fewer generations
A pixel is a ``picture element'' a unit of a raster grid which can be more finely differentiated than just black or white --- the coarsest pixel I can think of would be the monochrome NeXT Cube (and later Slabs) which had black, white and two shades of grey.
Try putting a 326 ppi greyscale image of a Gustav Doré engraving on the iPhone and compare that to the actual engraving in a book --- the difference between them will be obvious to anyone w/ good vision.
Different printing and halftoning techniques make lpi rather complex --- stochastic screening does away w/ it for example and exhibits improvement to the limits of output resolution --- 3600 dpi on some imagesetters.
Because dpi and ppi are different.
The human eye can resolve much finer than 300 dpi --- 400 dpi is where fonts start to look nice on a laserprinter and imagesetters are easily differentiated by their output at 1,270 ppi vice 2,540 ppi (and there are models which go higher) --- see the book _Counterpunch: Making Type in the 16th Century, Designing Typefaces Now_ by Fred Smeijers for electron micrographs and a discussion of this.
Granted, the iPhone screen is 326 _pixels_ per inch, so one gets anti-aliasing, yielding a higher effective dpi, and possibly sub-pixel rendering, but screens need to get better yet.
Image resolution is measured in several ways:
ppi (pixels per inch) --- input / file resolution
dpi (dots per inch) --- output resolution for a single ink colour
lpi - (lines per inch) --- output resolution for ``halftones'' which allows the simulation of multiple levels when one can only do on/off --- newspapers use ~85 lpi, uncoated stock in books ~133lpi, magazines 150 lpi or higher, art books 200 lpi --- different printing processes/tecniques are used for better quality or fewer generations
A pixel is a ``picture element'' a unit of a raster grid which can be more finely differentiated than just black or white --- the coarsest pixel I can think of would be the monochrome NeXT Cube (and later Slabs) which had black, white and two shades of grey.
Try putting a 326 ppi greyscale image of a Gustav Doré engraving on the iPhone and compare that to the actual engraving in a book --- the difference between them will be obvious to anyone w/ good vision.
Different printing and halftoning techniques make lpi rather complex --- stochastic screening does away w/ it for example and exhibits improvement to the limits of output resolution --- 3600 dpi on some imagesetters.
Bembo's Zoo:
http://www.bemboszoo.com/
William
or use these pages for lawyer fodder:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/beginner/ff384126.aspx
http://smallbasic.com/program/?TETRIS
from a speech which he gave before Congress:
http://www.bpmlegal.com/cotwain.html
William
Given the number of them which are euthanized:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/134549
To see their hypocrisy, look at the statements made by their lawyers in the trial of PETA employees, or by their president, "We are not in the home finding business, although it is certainly true that we do find homes from time to time for the kind of animals people are looking for. Our service is to provide a peaceful and painless death to animals who no one wants."
-- Ingrid Newkirk, PeTA President, The Virginian-Pilot, July 20, 2005
OIC.
Bummer, so instead of HyperCard Developer, they're peddling HyperCard Player for the iPad?
I don't think a HyperCard player for the iPad is all that interesting (or worthwhile) --- what i want is HyperCard Developer on the iPad --- let's use the thing for actual computing and processing, not just for consumption.
I'd settle for a direct port of AppleScript Studio:
http://lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/applescript-studio
Hard to make money on it if it's given away free....
William
The problem is, their proposal wasn't in line w/ what Apple requires in the license, instead they wanted an exemption:
>In order to support our active and growing revMobile customer
>base, we submitted an in-depth proposal to Apple that we create
>an iPhone-only product that uses native Cocoa objects, supports
>100% of their API, works perfectly with multitasking and battery
>life, but uses a variant of the revTalk language to use these
>objects and APIs, and then translates those into native code.
So they didn't put on the table re-writing the app in advance in Objective-C --- why not?
If they did, would Apple then accept it?
William
Thanks! I will look into CloseField the next time I look at the app.
The .app.sit version dates back to an old version of Runtime Revolution and is a PowerPC app --- will need to look at that as well.
William
Then perhaps the question should be phrased as:
- how would this app need to be created so as to meet the requirements of the license?
William
(who is quite fond of Runtime Revolution as it was originally called and developed a ``ProportionBar'' app in it:
Windows: http://mysite.verizon.net/william_franklin_adams/portfolio/interfaceconcepts/proportionbar.zip
Mac OS X: http://mysite.verizon.net/william_franklin_adams/portfolio/interfaceconcepts/proportionbar.app.sit )
You know, the one Adobe promised would be free so that Apple could make the operating system named Rhapsody?
http://www.amazon.com/Rhapsody-Developers-Guide-Jesse-Feiler/dp/0122513347/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1273769560&sr=1-4
I want to be able to program fill and stroke effects and have them show up on-screen like I used to be able to do w/ Altsys Virtuoso on my NeXT Cube.
Apple already caved in on programming environments to Adobe / Microsoft once, and we got Carbon (eventually) having to wait _years_ longer --- and then we had to re-create all of the functionality which was ``just working'' in NeXTstep.
If people want to run Flash on Tablet devices then they should choose to purchase things which run Flash, like the Axiotron ModBook:
http://www.axiotron.com/index.php?id=modbook
or the HP Slate...
William
Look up ``siphon'' in Oxford's English Dictionary --- for 99 years or so it's wrongly described the functional process as using air pressure, not gravity:
http://www.aolnews.com/2010/05/11/for-99-years-oxford-english-dictionary-got-it-wrong/19472844/?icid=main|main|dl1|link7|http://www.aolnews.com/2010/05/11/for-99-years-oxford-english-dictionary-got-it-wrong/19472844/
How will Google cross-check to make sure all ``facts'' aren't based on the same incorrect statement?
William
Dock.
NeXTstep Dock.
http://www.algonet.se/~afb/openstep/
William