I read Mirasol can't achieve certain screen sizes due to some inherent limitation. So you wouldn't get an iPad size tablet with Mirasol maybe not even a 7". Not sure if that means short term or long term or ever. Mirasol looks great, but I'm not going to wait. My Adam pre-order shipment is on it's way! I've waited for a lot of years for a decent touch screen device like this... Adam fits and Android 3.0 will go on it soon enough too. I think the triple panel UI will be very useful. more so than widgets on normal desktop. They are also working to speed up the UI by going open GL all the way.
Supposedly Android Honeycomb is imminent, but there's no guarantees. People saying they don't like custom UI, I've seen stock android looks pretty ugly on tablets too. When 3.0 rolls out, on Adam you'll have the choice between both.
I think the UI is cool. I also think if it's not to my liking later on it's probably changeable, color, fonts, etc. I fully understand the logic behind creating it and it might lend itself to a better experience for certain applications and I'm not even thinking to hard about it. For example, Im thinking general computing, but in certain fields it might help for multi-tasking beyond what widgets will do.
No immediate feedback on the LiveScribe. Does it not write on the paper in ink? I thought that was the advantage, you get a paper written on and digital rendering from the camera lens
Some of us are more responsive to being pulled in with theatrics or a roundabout approach. Poetry and music and comedy are extremely effective ways to communicate and almost never do it in a way that is the fastest and most direct.
The goal of sites is to communicate something. Sometimes to communicate you don't say things directly. That's why comedy and satire work well on serious topics. Because they are a method of getting the point across creating an impact. If Flash troubles people, it's the person creating the experience that didn't do it as effectively. But I've seen it done very well. Flash has the benefit of a timeline and a designer canvas to help non-programmers get certain things done.
If anyone thinks most people prefer to get their answer in the quickest way possible, you've failed to notice all of the entertainment and pastimes of our culture(s). Ask somebody whether they'd rather watch their favorite team play a game in person, or just read a scoreboard later. Humans appreciate nuances and to spend time with something as much as they like things fast and easy. But bottom line, Flash is not going to help a boring-ass banking or public works site become super-awesome. But it's very useful to a lot of content used in big and small spaces.
I read the policy page as well, interestingly absent was anything about weapons or electronics at all. But I found another example about why that school is retarded.
This is a middle school right? Like 5th to 8th grade?
Apparently you can't RIDE YOUR BIKE anywhere on the campus. It's not allowed because it could create an unsafe environment. And this is in sunny all year San Diego. Yeah right...
Environment:.... " the following behaviors cannot occur:
Skateboarding, Roller skating, or bike riding on campus
Cell phone use before or afterschool
Gum on the walk ways or on any campus furniture
Vandalism – defacing of or damage to school or private property, including:
The shit out of your mouth travels quickly, but sadly you don't understand how history has unfolded here. Without Negroponte, the project wouldn't have happened. And without this project happening you would NOT have seen the netbook revolution as it were. The netbook is a revolutionary item, it has come in as a surge of popularity, demand and in some ways, variety. A lot of players, both old and new have entered the market. It has created jobs and it has been good for industry. The scrambling that occurred to make these netbooks, competitiveness is extremely helpful and refreshing. It's remarkable, even as someone who hasn't yet found the netbook he likes. And because of this netbook technology and resulting craze, many students all over the world, and in this country will have a computer at a low cost and convenience factor for doing real work. Whether it's a linux netbook or Windows. It's a machine that will fuel learning for many.
So in the unfolding, Negroponte has made a significant contribution to technology. Don't be smallminded, ya fuckhead.
Never a truer word spoken. there are some apps, blender is mine in which the mighty mouse DOES NOT allow proper and smooth operation. I feel so stupid buying that wireless BT mighty mouse. what a waste for me.
I use the Evoluent3 usb wireless. Love it. A lot of people don't know that if your USB mouse is in the Ghz frequency, you'll likely get just as much distance (20-30 ft) as BT. some mice you can get a really small USB dongle so they are nearly invisible with a rounded corner. It can stay plugged into a laptop and slip into a bag without hurting it. The evoluent doesn't have this good a dongle, but it works well anyway.
I posted this story 2 months ago. Thanks for allowing it in when it was actually a current story at NPR, rather than posting this submission months later.
I feel great, thanks.
just out of curiosity on widgets, has anyone created, 1. a TV Card playing widget that will play a cable TV coax coming into the video TV card, and 2. a ticker that could scroll any kind of information, such as RSS feeds where the headlines scroll left to right, top to bottom, or other data.
Let's see, compared to the OLPC XO laptop, this thing ain't that great.
The OLPC has a keyboard, and has the ebook mode. You'll get something between 20 and 24 hours of reading in the ebook B/W mode on the OLPC. It has a great shock and water resistant case, I believe you can leave it out in the rainstorm.
David Pogue with NYT demonstrated dropping it on a really jagged rock from about 5 feet off the ground, then threw water on it, then through dirt on it. Plus the OLPC is 400 AND you are donating one to a child in a developing country.
You could get 2 OLPC and totally share ebooks instantly. The mesh networking allows download, plus has regular internet and browser.
I was reading a linux magazine a few days ago, where the openmoko project leader said he was in talks with networks, deciding who would be the network (probably only 1) for openmoko.
I almost thought you were joking about the templates, because what you described is pretty exactly what some people have done. It's called OOextras.
I don't think they match up to the beauty of (some) MS or Corel templates , but StarOffice has some templates you could steal from I bet. Would those be freely distributable under their license?
The "free" version of Maya, ain't free. It's so hindered that you can't really produce with it, you can only learn.
If you create something in Maya Learning edition, and then save it, even if you bought full version maya 2 weeks later, you couldn't open that cool model you made with the learning edition. So I don't think Maya free will be threatened, it doesn't really give away the goods anyway, unlike Gmax which was pretty awesome for lower poly modeling, i.e. game models and such.
This is the most stupid article I've ever read on Slashdot. Who really cares if some coordinator thinks it is unethical.
He's probably trying to play some politics game for one, and secondly, the deadlines that everyone has put on any project, one should assume people are going to be going to whatever lengths they want to pull it off.
Who cares anyway. I'm sure there would have been an article if the technician was really coerced. I just don't think that happened.
Actually NTSC is 1080i, according to the Wikipedia article. That's becuase of course I just added that into the article myself to fit the answer I wanted to be true. Wikipedia rules!
I recommend using quicktime and using the H.264 codec if you need to really shrink your files.
You can also do this. Buy sorenson squeeze 4.1 and run your videos through the queue where you will encode a quicktime AND an AVI, or Mp4 and even a.swf file on the short movies.
Then you can deliver all of the ways you want to, and in case of the swf files, you can buy macromedia's swf server stuff to make everything easier for mac and windows people. Can't speak for linux people there, but they can handle the other formats.
I thought there was a way to stream the same video file, but the user could pick the format container to play it, so the server would some how stream the correct file, or change it's format on the fly. I'm thinking the former.
There's definitely room for Wal*mart if you don't mind the exploitation of immigrant workers, the limiting of employee benefits at any time possible, and the fact that small businesses which can't compete move out of the neighborhood, or close down, and as a result, the neighborhood value goes down.
thanks Wal*mart. I'd rather pay 200 bucks a year to see your stores close down.
Oh wait, they got paintball guns on sale this week?
When people hear flash, they always complain that flash sites are horrible. I'm sorry, but implementing flash is sometimes the only way to get something done. A designer will know flash more often to perform a certain animation task, more often than they will know how to implement it in DHTML.
Also, if you were building a learning / online drawing program, or needed to include modules of a game, flash is going to do it better right now than DHTML, and probably it will be more supported by the browsers, even the more sophisticated you get. For instance, an anmiated learn sanskrit site is going to need flash right now. Maybe in 3 years it could be done in SVG, but that ain't happening until then. I don't care who tells me about firefox support.
flash gets it done. I don't always like the menus or sites in flash, but flash's purpose means that there should be an auto insert flash command in NVU and the other apps. Yes even on Linux. Becuase you can create flash files in certain ways on linux.
I'm wondering if SUSE will support wireless PCI cards out of the box, or even better, wireless USB. I've got both and neither work automatically with Fedora,
I'm glad my company keeps it's license agreements pretty loose. We only request that once you choose accept you will no longer fraternize with any of our competition, nor will you install any free or otherwise non-profitable software on your computer.
"The inordinate amount of attention paid to Apple's launches must be, in part, a function of the company's skill at throwing media events, stoking the rumor mills, and seducing the consuming masses. All this, plus the chatter-inducing creativity of Apple's ad campaigns, and its practice of putting its machines in pretty boxes make writing about Apple products more interesting than assessing the latest iterations of the ThinkPad or Microsoft Office."
Slashdot Mirror
the UI is Eden. Eve I think is still a mystery at this point.
I read Mirasol can't achieve certain screen sizes due to some inherent limitation. So you wouldn't get an iPad size tablet with Mirasol maybe not even a 7". Not sure if that means short term or long term or ever. Mirasol looks great, but I'm not going to wait. My Adam pre-order shipment is on it's way! I've waited for a lot of years for a decent touch screen device like this... Adam fits and Android 3.0 will go on it soon enough too. I think the triple panel UI will be very useful. more so than widgets on normal desktop. They are also working to speed up the UI by going open GL all the way. Supposedly Android Honeycomb is imminent, but there's no guarantees. People saying they don't like custom UI, I've seen stock android looks pretty ugly on tablets too. When 3.0 rolls out, on Adam you'll have the choice between both. I think the UI is cool. I also think if it's not to my liking later on it's probably changeable, color, fonts, etc. I fully understand the logic behind creating it and it might lend itself to a better experience for certain applications and I'm not even thinking to hard about it. For example, Im thinking general computing, but in certain fields it might help for multi-tasking beyond what widgets will do.
No immediate feedback on the LiveScribe. Does it not write on the paper in ink? I thought that was the advantage, you get a paper written on and digital rendering from the camera lens
Excellent point and example.
Some of us are more responsive to being pulled in with theatrics or a roundabout approach. Poetry and music and comedy are extremely effective ways to communicate and almost never do it in a way that is the fastest and most direct.
The goal of sites is to communicate something. Sometimes to communicate you don't say things directly. That's why comedy and satire work well on serious topics. Because they are a method of getting the point across creating an impact. If Flash troubles people, it's the person creating the experience that didn't do it as effectively. But I've seen it done very well. Flash has the benefit of a timeline and a designer canvas to help non-programmers get certain things done.
If anyone thinks most people prefer to get their answer in the quickest way possible, you've failed to notice all of the entertainment and pastimes of our culture(s). Ask somebody whether they'd rather watch their favorite team play a game in person, or just read a scoreboard later. Humans appreciate nuances and to spend time with something as much as they like things fast and easy. But bottom line, Flash is not going to help a boring-ass banking or public works site become super-awesome. But it's very useful to a lot of content used in big and small spaces.
As a non-programmer, this statement is a little intimidating:
"Submitting an entry is as easy as implementing a Java interface that performs procedural content generation."
WTF am I supposed to do with this? I only clicked to this post because I like mario.
I read the policy page as well, interestingly absent was anything about weapons or electronics at all. But I found another example about why that school is retarded.
This is a middle school right? Like 5th to 8th grade?
Apparently you can't RIDE YOUR BIKE anywhere on the campus. It's not allowed because it could create an unsafe environment. And this is in sunny all year San Diego. Yeah right...
Environment: .... " the following behaviors cannot occur:
Skateboarding, Roller skating, or bike riding on campus
Cell phone use before or afterschool
Gum on the walk ways or on any campus furniture
Vandalism – defacing of or damage to school or private property, including:
The biggest OLPC mistake was Negroponte.
The shit out of your mouth travels quickly, but sadly you don't understand how history has unfolded here. Without Negroponte, the project wouldn't have happened. And without this project happening you would NOT have seen the netbook revolution as it were. The netbook is a revolutionary item, it has come in as a surge of popularity, demand and in some ways, variety. A lot of players, both old and new have entered the market. It has created jobs and it has been good for industry. The scrambling that occurred to make these netbooks, competitiveness is extremely helpful and refreshing. It's remarkable, even as someone who hasn't yet found the netbook he likes. And because of this netbook technology and resulting craze, many students all over the world, and in this country will have a computer at a low cost and convenience factor for doing real work. Whether it's a linux netbook or Windows. It's a machine that will fuel learning for many. So in the unfolding, Negroponte has made a significant contribution to technology. Don't be smallminded, ya fuckhead.
Never a truer word spoken. there are some apps, blender is mine in which the mighty mouse DOES NOT allow proper and smooth operation. I feel so stupid buying that wireless BT mighty mouse. what a waste for me. I use the Evoluent3 usb wireless. Love it. A lot of people don't know that if your USB mouse is in the Ghz frequency, you'll likely get just as much distance (20-30 ft) as BT. some mice you can get a really small USB dongle so they are nearly invisible with a rounded corner. It can stay plugged into a laptop and slip into a bag without hurting it. The evoluent doesn't have this good a dongle, but it works well anyway.
I posted this story 2 months ago. Thanks for allowing it in when it was actually a current story at NPR, rather than posting this submission months later. I feel great, thanks.
Did anyone else skim over the headline and see "Atheists' Brains Reveal Concussion Damage"?
just out of curiosity on widgets, has anyone created, 1. a TV Card playing widget that will play a cable TV coax coming into the video TV card, and 2. a ticker that could scroll any kind of information, such as RSS feeds where the headlines scroll left to right, top to bottom, or other data.
if not, would it be a nightmare to program these?
Let's see, compared to the OLPC XO laptop, this thing ain't that great.
The OLPC has a keyboard, and has the ebook mode. You'll get something between 20 and 24 hours of reading in the ebook B/W mode on the OLPC. It has a great shock and water resistant case, I believe you can leave it out in the rainstorm.
David Pogue with NYT demonstrated dropping it on a really jagged rock from about 5 feet off the ground, then threw water on it, then through dirt on it. Plus the OLPC is 400 AND you are donating one to a child in a developing country.
You could get 2 OLPC and totally share ebooks instantly. The mesh networking allows download, plus has regular internet and browser.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBoghPvyhts
I was reading a linux magazine a few days ago, where the openmoko project leader said he was in talks with networks, deciding who would be the network (probably only 1) for openmoko.
doesn't matter, both companies are screwed
http://www.physorg.com/news93863377.html
remember this article? I hope both companies are forced to drop further.
I almost thought you were joking about the templates, because what you described is pretty exactly what some people have done. It's called OOextras.
I don't think they match up to the beauty of (some) MS or Corel templates , but StarOffice has some templates you could steal from I bet. Would those be freely distributable under their license?
Anyway, http://ooextras.sourceforge.net/
that's the
The "free" version of Maya, ain't free. It's so hindered that you can't really produce with it, you can only learn.
If you create something in Maya Learning edition, and then save it, even if you bought full version maya 2 weeks later, you couldn't open that cool model you made with the learning edition. So I don't think Maya free will be threatened, it doesn't really give away the goods anyway, unlike Gmax which was pretty awesome for lower poly modeling, i.e. game models and such.
get blender instead. It's awesome. http://www.blender.org/
This is the most stupid article I've ever read on Slashdot. Who really cares if some coordinator thinks it is unethical.
He's probably trying to play some politics game for one, and secondly, the deadlines that everyone has put on any project, one should assume people are going to be going to whatever lengths they want to pull it off.
Who cares anyway. I'm sure there would have been an article if the technician was really coerced. I just don't think that happened.
Actually NTSC is 1080i, according to the Wikipedia article. That's becuase of course I just added that into the article myself to fit the answer I wanted to be true. Wikipedia rules!
I recommend using quicktime and using the H.264 codec if you need to really shrink your files.
.swf file on the short movies.
You can also do this. Buy sorenson squeeze 4.1 and run your videos through the queue where you will encode a quicktime AND an AVI, or Mp4 and even a
Then you can deliver all of the ways you want to, and in case of the swf files, you can buy macromedia's swf server stuff to make everything easier for mac and windows people. Can't speak for linux people there, but they can handle the other formats.
I thought there was a way to stream the same video file, but the user could pick the format container to play it, so the server would some how stream the correct file, or change it's format on the fly. I'm thinking the former.
If you want to try some of that, get VLC.
There's definitely room for Wal*mart if you don't mind the exploitation of immigrant workers, the limiting of employee benefits at any time possible, and the fact that small businesses which can't compete move out of the neighborhood, or close down, and as a result, the neighborhood value goes down.
thanks Wal*mart. I'd rather pay 200 bucks a year to see your stores close down.
Oh wait, they got paintball guns on sale this week?
nevermind what I just said, gotta go.
When people hear flash, they always complain that flash sites are horrible. I'm sorry, but implementing flash is sometimes the only way to get something done. A designer will know flash more often to perform a certain animation task, more often than they will know how to implement it in DHTML.
Also, if you were building a learning / online drawing program, or needed to include modules of a game, flash is going to do it better right now than DHTML, and probably it will be more supported by the browsers, even the more sophisticated you get. For instance, an anmiated learn sanskrit site is going to need flash right now. Maybe in 3 years it could be done in SVG, but that ain't happening until then. I don't care who tells me about firefox support.
flash gets it done. I don't always like the menus or sites in flash, but flash's purpose means that there should be an auto insert flash command in NVU and the other apps. Yes even on Linux. Becuase you can create flash files in certain ways on linux.
I'm wondering if SUSE will support wireless PCI cards out of the box, or even better, wireless USB. I've got both and neither work automatically with Fedora,
I'm glad my company keeps it's license agreements pretty loose. We only request that once you choose accept you will no longer fraternize with any of our competition, nor will you install any free or otherwise non-profitable software on your computer.
Actually a fantastic article just was written about this.
check out:
http://www.slate.com/id/2127924/
and
if you want, read my rants about apple and the media
http://smick.net/index.php?n=Main.AppleRants
from Slate's article:
"The inordinate amount of attention paid to Apple's launches must be, in part, a function of the company's skill at throwing media events, stoking the rumor mills, and seducing the consuming masses. All this, plus the chatter-inducing creativity of Apple's ad campaigns, and its practice of putting its machines in pretty boxes make writing about Apple products more interesting than assessing the latest iterations of the ThinkPad or Microsoft Office."
Patents are pathetic, the other day I was eating some soup at lunch and the plastic spoon I used had a patent number on it.