i said nature, not life. crystals and lightening and erosion and rivers and other natural phenomina which occur simply because of the dynamics of movement and energy changes etc.
if a lava stream runs into the sea natural beautiful rock formations occur dur to the interplay between cold water and hot rock and the process evolves and is fed back on itself to produce beautiful form and sculpture.
The intricate patterns and connections that soap bubbles make and the elegant connections using shortest paths for lightening and any number of other actions.
looking out to the stars and planets we see form out of chaos and things like the great spot or even volcanoes on mars.
life itself is just an extension of those processes.
we dont need a god to explain them, but its good to have someone to talk to when we are all alone:)
self assembly of natural objects is easy, it gets difficult if you want to assemble structures and items not found in nature.
so it might be possible to find the right chemical conditions to pour chemicals into each other to produce a fractal tree structure for filters or batteries, but we will have trouble fabricating the CAD designed battery casing itself.
We could probably one day use the self assembly inherent in crystaline structure to generate superior memory units, but would be much more difficult to get it to layout an x86 schematic.
speaking of self assembly, I have been working on a UI which assembles itself from component pieces in a natural and innovative way take a look here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt7qB37sLLo
cutting power whilst travelling at 70mph on a motorway to the pedestrian 30mph of the road you are travelling alongside or under could cause devastating problems.
One of the biggest problems with current GPS detection devices is lack of context.
The GPS needs to know the direction and actual road/lane I am driving in.
I get warnings about speed cameras and told to slow down - just because I am passing UNDER a 30mph road travelling in a different direction on a motorway (70mph).
i would prefer to have nuclear used in the ocean where a limitless supply of plasma coolant is available and has the option to "eject the warp core" when things go tits up.
mattack2, the iphone and android suffer from exactly the same problems microsoft is encountering re the article. there are plenty of comments around the web about it too.
having a multifunction interface where the computer has to try to identify intent can and will misidentify.
I have spent a good part of the last 12 months working with a touch device and I agree with you.
At the same time though using a small touch screen for notetaking and drawing is practical - I have mine sat within reach most of the time.
The biggest problem as you say is gorilla arm, my tablet sits in a larger enclosure that lets me rest my wrist whilst still allowing me to write and draw and control what I'm doing.
I am working up towards creating a touchable wallmounted display and think about it more and more as my UI takes shape, long duration stroking is out of the question, but its practical to have a pokable touch panel as long as the UI allows it.
regarding the microsoft problem, I have had heated discussions with people about gesture control over the top of standard UI elements and the fact the system and user will be confused by them. Android and the iphone both suffer from this mixing up of metaphors and would be better having good clear decisive UI instead of magic wands.
one would assume that something like this does regular off-site back-ups, which must add up to a hell of a-lot, could someone with experiance in such matters shed a little insight into the logistics of backing up such a vast system
its not the memory allocation library that is at fault. its the expectation of the app developer to instincively do
if(!ptr){... }
you have to change the fundimental way the compiler works and alter boolean logic to account for existing code which works like this to then accept 0xdeadbeef under some conditions and not others.
I have spent the last 9 months coding up a dynamic scalable UI for the nokia tablets.
I have had to make huge compromises to accuracy to obtain the desired performance.
I had the choice of using the full featured (but slow) widget sets and graphical primatives which existed already, or find a way to make it work as I expected it to.
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i said nature, not life.
crystals and lightening and erosion and rivers and other natural phenomina which occur simply because of the dynamics of movement and energy changes etc.
if a lava stream runs into the sea natural beautiful rock formations occur dur to the interplay between cold water and hot rock and the process evolves and is fed back on itself to produce beautiful form and sculpture.
The intricate patterns and connections that soap bubbles make and the elegant connections using shortest paths for lightening and any number of other actions.
looking out to the stars and planets we see form out of chaos and things like the great spot or even volcanoes on mars.
life itself is just an extension of those processes.
we dont need a god to explain them, but its good to have someone to talk to when we are all alone :)
self assembly of natural objects is easy, it gets difficult if you want to assemble structures and items not found in nature.
so it might be possible to find the right chemical conditions to pour chemicals into each other to produce a fractal tree structure for filters or batteries, but we will have trouble fabricating the CAD designed battery casing itself.
We could probably one day use the self assembly inherent in crystaline structure to generate superior memory units, but would be much more difficult to get it to layout an x86 schematic.
speaking of self assembly, I have been working on a UI which assembles itself from component pieces in a natural and innovative way
take a look here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt7qB37sLLo
cutting power whilst travelling at 70mph on a motorway to the pedestrian 30mph of the road you are travelling alongside or under could cause devastating problems.
One of the biggest problems with current GPS detection devices is lack of context.
The GPS needs to know the direction and actual road/lane I am driving in.
I get warnings about speed cameras and told to slow down - just because I am passing UNDER a 30mph road travelling in a different direction on a motorway (70mph).
its a bit late,
google images already says there are 286,000 pictures of gnomes already online.
http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=garden%20gnome Results 1 - 20 of about 286,000
i hope they don't cull us to save the pig population.
the closest to what you are asking is documented here:
http://wiki.maemo.org/Task:Maemo_roadmap/Fremantle
however we have not yet seen a physical device
I am so pleased that I have an extra pair of hands over the summer.
my liqbase project was one proposal out of 10 selected for the maemo.org community.
we are building applications for the nokia internet tablet device.
obviously I should show off what I'm building ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMXp0Dg_UaY
i would prefer to have nuclear used in the ocean where a limitless supply of plasma coolant is available and has the option to "eject the warp core" when things go tits up.
And even after their own device is out, how many people are going to buy it [b]and[/b] buy plugins for it?
isn't that the iphone model?
you are what you eat.
low income usually involves low quality dietary considerations.
mattack2,
the iphone and android suffer from exactly the same problems microsoft is encountering re the article.
there are plenty of comments around the web about it too.
having a multifunction interface where the computer has to try to identify intent can and will misidentify.
I have spent a good part of the last 12 months working with a touch device and I agree with you.
At the same time though using a small touch screen for notetaking and drawing is practical - I have mine sat within reach most of the time.
The biggest problem as you say is gorilla arm, my tablet sits in a larger enclosure that lets me rest my wrist whilst still allowing me to write and draw and control what I'm doing.
I am working up towards creating a touchable wallmounted display and think about it more and more as my UI takes shape, long duration stroking is out of the question, but its practical to have a pokable touch panel as long as the UI allows it.
heres where I've got so far: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMXp0Dg_UaY
regarding the microsoft problem, I have had heated discussions with people about gesture control over the top of standard UI elements and the fact the system and user will be confused by them.
Android and the iphone both suffer from this mixing up of metaphors and would be better having good clear decisive UI instead of magic wands.
one would assume that something like this does regular off-site back-ups, which must add up to a hell of a-lot, could someone with experiance in such matters shed a little insight into the logistics of backing up such a vast system
floppy disks.
lots of floppy disks.
As for the car analogy:
Two cars only help you get x people faster from one place to another, if you have more people to transport than fit in one car.
(I challenge anyone to dump that down.)
Are we talking about an American or European person?
What happens if a single person errrr process is too large to fit in a single car?
Maybe we could use 2 cars with a line between them.
You could use the tow bar to hold him.
i love to draw and doodle and only really remember stuff when I make notes about it.
The biggest problem has always been what happens to those when you turn the page.
thankfully, that is solved for me now :)
Don't worry.
Any probe we send out there will come back to "remind" us.
its not the memory allocation library that is at fault.
its the expectation of the app developer to instincively do
if(!ptr){ ... }
you have to change the fundimental way the compiler works and alter boolean logic to account for existing code which works like this to then accept 0xdeadbeef under some conditions and not others.
Bring out the gorilla arm!!
that said, I love this device and think it can be a really usable workable home for my apps ;)
I opted for a touchscreen laptop over Christmas, but since have wished I got myself a desktop.
shame its not linux by default, I wonder what the driver support is like.
come visit #maemo or #liqbase on freenode :)
the recent pictures module for the released liqbase client has just been inserted this evening.
http://liqbase.net/liq.20090208_205336.lib.scr.png
It zooms into the cluster of images as they are shown in the current liqbase.
once you have a screen of images, you can click to zoom in exactly the same way.
I realise my presentation is poor, I am simply extremely pleased with how the UI is shaping up and just wanted to tell people :)
if for nothing else then it should be useful for at least aquarium owners ;)
you haven't done some stuff
You are right, I've done nothing
behind schedule
Personal schedule, this is an open source project I have a fulltime job and a family as well.
widget framework
:) yes, I think what I haven't achieved may be useful for others to work with.
What I use it for will be upto me, what you people want to use it for is upto your imagination.
Its an idea I have decided to follow up on.
If it doesn't interest you thats ok.
I have spent the last 9 months coding up a dynamic scalable UI for the nokia tablets.
I have had to make huge compromises to accuracy to obtain the desired performance.
I had the choice of using the full featured (but slow) widget sets and graphical primatives which existed already, or find a way to make it work as I expected it to.
The results have left people breathless :)
take a look here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMXp0Dg_UaY
probably because it was on the frontpage already.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/02/2337207
i use a greasemonkey script called NoMiddleMan
Its a bit more hackable by myself and can be adapted quite simply to perform other url cleanup.
http://commons.oreilly.com/wiki/index.php/Greasemonkey_Hacks/Linkmania!#Remove_URL_Redirections