NDN can run over TCP/IP as an overlay. It can improve things without *replacing* them.
It's well past concept stage and can be used by application developers. Give it a try !
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opencv has nice python bindings, runs on mac, win & nix.
openframeworks wraps c++ like processing wraps java, also has opencv bindings.
MS appears to basically doing optical flow & color tracking. the above libs can do those, and more, and are great for programmers and nonprogrammers alike.
tho if you really hate code, you may rather use max/msp/jitter or gem/pd.
not sure how popular (or good) this movie actually is;)
but the scene where the two AI go through human history - and beyond - in about 2 min is worth the time spent, even if it ultimately ends up in cliche pulp robo-fascist territory...
i did want to walk out halfway through it, but was glad i stayed;)
a few points
1) 10 minutes into watching, i realised i'd much rather be watching a feature length *animated* movie instead of live action. (the dialogue was perfect for an animated movie - but as live action, gave no ability for actors to, well, act/emote; so it feels stilted.)
could probably take the final edit and run it through linklater's 'waking life/scanner darkly' rotoscoping software and end up with a more enjoyable film than pure live action.
2) the plot was well done
i enjoyed how they brought together the whole series into a cohesive storyline. suprisingly, it didn't ruin it for me; in fact, gave a sense of completion i never got from the series (but didn't miss, frankly;)
3) humor was completely absent
so much of the subtlety and ambiguity and *perversion* of the animation - did not translate to screen AT ALL.
so - all in all - decent aeon flux adaptation, good sci fi movie.
not without it's problems; primarily because it's such a genius series and nearly impossible to bring to screen.
I asked Craig Vetner when he spoke a few months ago in Chicago, before wired's Next Fest - how is it possible to patent something that is naturally occuring in nature [giving martian laser dispute as example]?
Mr Vetner's reply remains curiously unsatisfying:
"We are not patenting the naturally occuring thing - we are patenting the laboratory copy of that thing."
EXACTLY.
let me start out by stating that i have massive respect for OSS & free software, i used it daily, and do my best to contribute and encourage others to do the same.
Now, having said so, i wonder if FSF's initiative - and this project - is not misguided?
flash is a free download. it's not open source, but it is free.
i am a heavy flash user, and feel that any community work would be better spent on an *authoring tool* (phpswf is limited, SEPY has no compiler, and python is too obscure for most to use) for flash.
Also, for those that haven't noticed:
Flash has grown tremendously since the start of GPLFlash. Once a post-script like tool for vector graphics, it's now a full blown application environment and language.
remoting / Soap / wsdl, actionscript 2.0, video, webcam, and audio support
does the community really think they'll be able to mimic all this functionality as well or better than macromedia themselves ?
if it is not 90+% compatible, then GPLFlash will do nothing but further the public mindset that OSS is just NOT ready for public consumption, which is the exact opposite of what the FSF intended when listing it.
So, i ask - WHY spend so much effort recreating what is already FREE.
macromedia did a fine job in porting the last few versions of flash to linux - i miss gflashplayer, but was able to achieve same effect embedding swf within mozilla and wiring to shell with xul.
not to be horrible, again, i respect all efforts and energies....
i guess i'm just begging & pleading the energy to be spend on a free author/compiler versus a player, which is indeed already free and works quite well.
and also trying to talk them out of what i see to be a dead end.
as a flash developer who uses it daily as a lovely UI alternative to html and even tcl/tk - if GPLFlash is not able to be less buggy than macromedia's own player, i will never use it,
no matter how much i would love to show support by doing so, it just won't make sense.
EXACTLY.
the pres is no emperor or king, but he's still at the helm of the free world.
and this next one has a fair amount of control over the only 'deep time' that exists in our tertiary system: a few more justices will be added over the next four years.
from www.electoral-vote.com:
"It is very likely than multiple vacancies will occur on the Court in the next four years. The court will undoubtedly have to rule on cases involving abortion, the Patriot Act, and other divisive issues."
i've seen this link pop up a lot over the past 6 mos - same thing i thought, then, i think, now:
anyonw with a webcam and a projector has done this before.
we shouldn't care about some ghost in the shell fanboy, at tokyo u or not.
until it's fiber optic or oled/color e-ink action, big deal.
FYI
i don't do websites as much as i do client/server apps - and in the past year, 3 of 6 projects i did used flash as UI.
Given the alternatives - Tcl/tk, VB, java, [Insert Other clunky UI Toolkit] - flash rocks.
i've no need for 3D animation zooms & video & overblown stuff - i'm a fan of unique, clean information design with enough aesthetic detail to make it more appealing to the user than traditional applications, which tend to somehow make user experience even less appealing than those using the magnifying glass monitor contraptions in Gilliam's 'Brazil'.
So - in short - flash is not just a tool for crappy websites. it's a tool for slightly-less-crappy application UIs.
and note, even though i DELIVERED 3 apps in LINUX - i still had to DEVELOP them in WINDOWS.
so, i'm with #1, above - this is one more stunt that will let me ditch windows altogether.
joy!
Dick has been quoted as saying "I love Blade Runner; it has nothing to do with my story, but it's a great movie."
that's amazing journalism, considering he died before it was done filming!!!
[in fact, he visited the set, and was amazed, as anyone who read 'our world is their heaven' knows...]
how to make a scramble suit:
wear white suit.
wear white makeup.
project video on yourself.
orient camera accordingly.
used well, IMO, that would totally work.
but you're right, no way hollywood goes for a melies-esque hack over contracting ILM or pixar to overdo it.
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NDN can run over TCP/IP as an overlay. It can improve things without *replacing* them. It's well past concept stage and can be used by application developers. Give it a try !
a brief review of their documentation should shed some light. http://root.cern.ch/root/doc/RootDoc.html
http://goo.gl/kqXJa
among the highlights - they get the data from CERN in realtime, and can actually control the LHC remotely.
oh, and the buttons to stop & start the tevatron are pretty cool ;)
how about spelling things correctly in the title at least ? it's Fermilab. not plural. while there is a lot of stuff there - it is one lab. fnal.gov
IMO the only convincing argument to use flash is for audio & video.
as this library doesn't cover multimedia...
it doesn't cover flash's only responsible use case... So it's clever - but useless.
not a criticism... keep it up!!!
:D
openframeworks wraps c++ like processing wraps java, also has opencv bindings.
MS appears to basically doing optical flow & color tracking. the above libs can do those, and more, and are great for programmers and nonprogrammers alike. tho if you really hate code, you may rather use max/msp/jitter or gem/pd.
don't want to ruin his fun but... these are commonplace in japan. http://www.instablogsimages.com/images/2007/10/19/senjo-no-kizuna_48.jpg
check out libavg
and for early examples of this, check out sony's holowall - over 10 years old:
holowall
fuppes is awesome
;)
here is is
of course, no FF/REW, but it plays everything (thanks to ffmpeg
earthlcd has been a savior on many a project
http://store.earthlcd.com/
if you really just need on/off - do the spring loaded, or piezo, or even IR (www.acroname.com - sharp ir sensors)
if anyone has any other leads on cheap overstock LCDs... post away!!!
this is tremedously useful.
this really ought to relieve wall street's anxiety.
seriously.
real estate on mars, huge in 120 years. google's wayyyy ahead of the game.
not sure how popular (or good) this movie actually is ;)
but the scene where the two AI go through human history - and beyond - in about 2 min is worth the time spent, even if it ultimately ends up in cliche pulp robo-fascist territory...
dvd player support is NOT a novelty item - it's how i watch dvds, never had another dvd player (besides my computers).
i read an article in past few weeks that gave percent - 60 or 70 percent - of ps2 owners use the ps2 as their primary dvd player.
can't find the article, now... it wasn't this
anyway - point is DVD support is NOT 'novelty' - but in fact useful, and at the time of launch contributed to the reasons to spend 300 on a ps2.
Indeed, it was a fair job.
;)
;)
i did want to walk out halfway through it, but was glad i stayed
a few points
1) 10 minutes into watching, i realised i'd much rather be watching a feature length *animated* movie instead of live action. (the dialogue was perfect for an animated movie - but as live action, gave no ability for actors to, well, act/emote; so it feels stilted.)
could probably take the final edit and run it through linklater's 'waking life/scanner darkly' rotoscoping software and end up with a more enjoyable film than pure live action.
2) the plot was well done
i enjoyed how they brought together the whole series into a cohesive storyline. suprisingly, it didn't ruin it for me; in fact, gave a sense of completion i never got from the series (but didn't miss, frankly
3) humor was completely absent
so much of the subtlety and ambiguity and *perversion* of the animation - did not translate to screen AT ALL.
so - all in all - decent aeon flux adaptation, good sci fi movie.
not without it's problems; primarily because it's such a genius series and nearly impossible to bring to screen.
whOA
you're right - sorry for the misinformation!
i don't have a DS - have used xlink w/ xbox, gc, psp, and ps2 - assumed they had DS support, too.
sadly, not the case!
use kai - http://www.teamxlink.co.uk/
it's free, and is genius -
works with DC, Xbox, ps2, 360, DS, PSP
it's like a meta-gaming LAN
can totally play with anyone, anywhere - it basically tunnels so everyone appears to be on your LAN.
woot!
Mr Vetner's reply remains curiously unsatisfying:
"We are not patenting the naturally occuring thing - we are patenting the laboratory copy of that thing."
EXACTLY. let me start out by stating that i have massive respect for OSS & free software, i used it daily, and do my best to contribute and encourage others to do the same. Now, having said so, i wonder if FSF's initiative - and this project - is not misguided? flash is a free download. it's not open source, but it is free. i am a heavy flash user, and feel that any community work would be better spent on an *authoring tool* (phpswf is limited, SEPY has no compiler, and python is too obscure for most to use) for flash. Also, for those that haven't noticed: Flash has grown tremendously since the start of GPLFlash. Once a post-script like tool for vector graphics, it's now a full blown application environment and language. remoting / Soap / wsdl, actionscript 2.0, video, webcam, and audio support does the community really think they'll be able to mimic all this functionality as well or better than macromedia themselves ? if it is not 90+% compatible, then GPLFlash will do nothing but further the public mindset that OSS is just NOT ready for public consumption, which is the exact opposite of what the FSF intended when listing it. So, i ask - WHY spend so much effort recreating what is already FREE. macromedia did a fine job in porting the last few versions of flash to linux - i miss gflashplayer, but was able to achieve same effect embedding swf within mozilla and wiring to shell with xul. not to be horrible, again, i respect all efforts and energies.... i guess i'm just begging & pleading the energy to be spend on a free author/compiler versus a player, which is indeed already free and works quite well. and also trying to talk them out of what i see to be a dead end. as a flash developer who uses it daily as a lovely UI alternative to html and even tcl/tk - if GPLFlash is not able to be less buggy than macromedia's own player, i will never use it, no matter how much i would love to show support by doing so, it just won't make sense.
"probably means the cell phones are running CE..." actually nokia phones tend to (if not exclusively) run symbian and quite well
and this next one has a fair amount of control over the only 'deep time' that exists in our tertiary system: a few more justices will be added over the next four years.
from www.electoral-vote.com:
"It is very likely than multiple vacancies will occur on the Court in the next four years. The court will undoubtedly have to rule on cases involving abortion, the Patriot Act, and other divisive issues."
and it's very well executed, and totally free of paranoia / delerium / apathy. http://bugmenot.mozdev.org/index.html i use it, it rocks.
i've seen this link pop up a lot over the past 6 mos - same thing i thought, then, i think, now: anyonw with a webcam and a projector has done this before. we shouldn't care about some ghost in the shell fanboy, at tokyo u or not. until it's fiber optic or oled/color e-ink action, big deal.
FYI i don't do websites as much as i do client/server apps - and in the past year, 3 of 6 projects i did used flash as UI. Given the alternatives - Tcl/tk, VB, java, [Insert Other clunky UI Toolkit] - flash rocks. i've no need for 3D animation zooms & video & overblown stuff - i'm a fan of unique, clean information design with enough aesthetic detail to make it more appealing to the user than traditional applications, which tend to somehow make user experience even less appealing than those using the magnifying glass monitor contraptions in Gilliam's 'Brazil'. So - in short - flash is not just a tool for crappy websites. it's a tool for slightly-less-crappy application UIs. and note, even though i DELIVERED 3 apps in LINUX - i still had to DEVELOP them in WINDOWS. so, i'm with #1, above - this is one more stunt that will let me ditch windows altogether. joy!
Dick has been quoted as saying "I love Blade Runner; it has nothing to do with my story, but it's a great movie." that's amazing journalism, considering he died before it was done filming!!! [in fact, he visited the set, and was amazed, as anyone who read 'our world is their heaven' knows...]
how to make a scramble suit: wear white suit. wear white makeup. project video on yourself. orient camera accordingly. used well, IMO, that would totally work. but you're right, no way hollywood goes for a melies-esque hack over contracting ILM or pixar to overdo it.