Re:Interesting site design there: irony visualized
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I love it! I'm definitely stealing that line. BTW, I've said it before on this forum and I'll say it again: the article as is wasn't intended for public perusal, and the spelling/grammatical errors are the result of input from collegues (now fixed). "This page looks best in view source. Perfect.
Re:Oh, so THIS is the guy responsable...
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Once again, let me make it clear: I did not work on the products you are referring to. Imagine being the designer of the Corvette, telling people you worked at Chevrolet Design and getting slammed because someone didn't like the design of the Chevette. I designed Creative Labs' Lava/Oozic Player, Producer and Reactor. Go to http://www.oozic.com for more details. And yeah, that web site is my design, too.
Re:Put your money where your mouth is...
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The point of my article was to suggest the formation of a group whos aim was to find those "valuable answers". If I already had the answers, why would I have bothered to write the article? You don't need the answers to ask the questions.
Re:Creative Labs interface designer?
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#1 - I didn't write the intro, personally, I would have downplayed the CL angle slightly. #2 - I worked on projects for the Advanced Technology Center and on a new product called (at the time) Lava (http://lava.com - now oozic.com). I worked on the Player, Producer and Reactor products. #3 - I didn't work on the interface of the other products you describe. #4 - Creative Labs does some good UI work on their Nomad hardware, and their software is getting easier to use. Remember, they do have about 90 Million users...
Oh, how about ILM, Digital Domain, Sega, um... actually ANYBODY who's used the product? I've never heard personally from anybody who's driven a Lamborghini Murcielago. But you can be sure I'll take their word it's a good drive. Again, I can only point out so many times that I did not intend for the page to go public or for you to personally find umbrage with it.
Ain't no proof of concepts on my site because I didn't post them there. The article was posted this morning, and someone found it and posted it on Slashdot. I literally got caught with my pants down.
Regardless of whether I have any proposed solutions (which I do have) it doesn't require someone with all of the answers to ask the questions, does it? The point of the article was that an Open Source GUI Community/Project would address exactly these issues. Sh*t, if I already had all of the solutions, why would I be asking to form just such a community???
We're not talking about anything "technically perfect". Just something that's interesting and easy to use.
Relax. I didn't write this for Slash dot. If I had, I would have at least fixed the grammar. Yeah, I miss my old systems. Why? Because they were interesting to use. I felt like I was communicating with a machine. Windows doesn't do that for me - this is an opportunity for Linux@home. ---- I have some suggestions, I just haven't posted them - I have been literally blind-sided by this.
Wow. I didn't realize that someone would post this on Slashdot. Seriously, I love the comments I see so far (both negative and positive) - I hope that it sets some minds thinking about the potential of an Open Source GUI Project - if such a project were to happen, I would love to get involved somehow (I'm hopeful that such a project may already exist).
I have developed several ideas and concepts revolving around the issue of "Joy of Use" and the lack of true interaction in the man-machine interface. I'll post them on my site when I get a chance - again, you would have seen some proposals if this was a week or so from now.
Apologies about the color choice, grammar, or anything else that might have tainted the message to the picky;-)
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I love it! I'm definitely stealing that line. BTW, I've said it before on this forum and I'll say it again: the article as is wasn't intended for public perusal, and the spelling/grammatical errors are the result of input from collegues (now fixed). "This page looks best in view source. Perfect.
Once again, let me make it clear: I did not work on the products you are referring to. Imagine being the designer of the Corvette, telling people you worked at Chevrolet Design and getting slammed because someone didn't like the design of the Chevette. I designed Creative Labs' Lava/Oozic Player, Producer and Reactor. Go to http://www.oozic.com for more details. And yeah, that web site is my design, too.
The point of my article was to suggest the formation of a group whos aim was to find those "valuable answers". If I already had the answers, why would I have bothered to write the article? You don't need the answers to ask the questions.
#1 - I didn't write the intro, personally, I would have downplayed the CL angle slightly. #2 - I worked on projects for the Advanced Technology Center and on a new product called (at the time) Lava (http://lava.com - now oozic.com). I worked on the Player, Producer and Reactor products. #3 - I didn't work on the interface of the other products you describe. #4 - Creative Labs does some good UI work on their Nomad hardware, and their software is getting easier to use. Remember, they do have about 90 Million users...
No, jra101 has made a useless observation about an old product I had absolutely nothing to do with. jra101 has jumped to an erroneous conclusion. EOT.
Oh, how about ILM, Digital Domain, Sega, um... actually ANYBODY who's used the product? I've never heard personally from anybody who's driven a Lamborghini Murcielago. But you can be sure I'll take their word it's a good drive. Again, I can only point out so many times that I did not intend for the page to go public or for you to personally find umbrage with it.
Ain't no proof of concepts on my site because I didn't post them there. The article was posted this morning, and someone found it and posted it on Slashdot. I literally got caught with my pants down. Regardless of whether I have any proposed solutions (which I do have) it doesn't require someone with all of the answers to ask the questions, does it? The point of the article was that an Open Source GUI Community/Project would address exactly these issues. Sh*t, if I already had all of the solutions, why would I be asking to form just such a community??? We're not talking about anything "technically perfect". Just something that's interesting and easy to use.
Relax. I didn't write this for Slash dot. If I had, I would have at least fixed the grammar. Yeah, I miss my old systems. Why? Because they were interesting to use. I felt like I was communicating with a machine. Windows doesn't do that for me - this is an opportunity for Linux@home. ---- I have some suggestions, I just haven't posted them - I have been literally blind-sided by this.
Wow. I didn't realize that someone would post this on Slashdot. Seriously, I love the comments I see so far (both negative and positive) - I hope that it sets some minds thinking about the potential of an Open Source GUI Project - if such a project were to happen, I would love to get involved somehow (I'm hopeful that such a project may already exist). I have developed several ideas and concepts revolving around the issue of "Joy of Use" and the lack of true interaction in the man-machine interface. I'll post them on my site when I get a chance - again, you would have seen some proposals if this was a week or so from now. Apologies about the color choice, grammar, or anything else that might have tainted the message to the picky ;-)