I have this theory that "art" is something that happens between an artist and an audience through some medium. These guys have done amazing things with the medium, but utterly failed to move me. The fact that you reference what it means to someone else suggests they didn't communicate with you, either.
Computerworld has up an interesting interview with Matt Ebb, lead artist from Elephants Dream (the interview is split over 5 pages). Ebb talks about the making of the world's first open movie and offers some advice to others wanting to start such a project.
But he isn't giving out advice on making tech demos, is he? The article and the summary treat Elephant's Dream like a "real movie", when you and I seem to agree that it is a tech demo.
('Course, I haven't even made on of those . . . so no one should listen to me, either!)
Elephant's Dream was a huge technical achievement, but the final work was an abject failure as a film. A "movie" isn't just a series of pictures that appear to move when displayed in rapid succession. Tell me something. Move me. Give me a character I have a fighting chance of identifying with.
Do something to transcend mere moving-pictureness.
The whole site is a lot of bullshit, but that connector isn't the best example. There is a Toslink connector that is socket-compatible with the old 3.5mm headphone jack (images).
Hybrid female connectors are common on Apple products that support both Toslink and analog audio. I've never seen a hybrid male, but it only stands to reason that someone would make one.
If young people were going to develop responsibility, they would need to have a connection to what they're responsible for, which means giving them real power in the world, which isn't happening.
This statement captures the problem beautifully. The world will be yours one day, want it or not. And if you're a bunch of checked-out WOW playing crybabies it isn't going to be much of a world. Nobody gives anybody anything worth having in this life. You get it by earning it. And if you don't give a shit now, you certainly aren't going to give a shit when the next generation is crying that you don't do enough for them.
I advise you to get your ass off your shoulders and act responsible first. You'll become elite within your generation.
Who are you, Edward Stylushands?! How do you do multitouch with styli? Hold the thing with one hand, use one stylus with the other hand, and use a finger on your third hand?
Handwriting recognition is for the birds. Using a stylus sucks. I have had two Palm OS devices and an iPhone. Now, no one understands better than I that Graffiti sucks. Hard. But handwriting creates certain problems that can't be solved by any software. Lost styli. The need to always use two hands. Difficult editing. (How do you backspace?) Okay, maybe that last one has a software solution. But you see what I'm saying.
I've had my iPhone since release day, and it took me about two weeks to really get comfortable with the soft keyboard. I haven't taken any measurements, but I am quite sure that I can type accurately on it faster than I can write legibly with a pen and paper. And I can get by one handed.
On top of all that, multi-touch is awesome.
Maybe the iPhone isn't for you, but if you haven't gotten one in your hands and tried it out, do it. I couldn't go back to a traditional touch screen. And anyone who tries to foist a stylus on me is going to have to dig it out of his sinus.
The summary calls it a HUD, the article calls it a HMD. The article is right.
-Peter
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Creating a document is inherently a three-step process. Write, edit, layout. Any attempt to subvert this order results in unnecessary iteration and task-switching overhead.
To the best of my knowledge (which is, admittedly, limited) no one has said peep about any policy change outside of Government research. So "the two sides" take different positions on funding it, and all the rest is rhetoric.
Pretending there is a practical difference between Republicans and Democrats on stem cell research per se is silly. We may as well discuss their opinions on dessert toppings.
This seems to assume that 1. you only care about "mainstream party" candidates and 2. spending is the primary measure of support.
I don't know how willingness to spend confiscated funds on research became a qualification for office, but I am completely convinced that this point of view is part of the problem, not the solution.
And that's relatively unlikely, since an attacker would need both the key and its password.
Or the key and combination of time and resources necessary to crack the password. In practice, the password is likely to be weak enough to provide only minimal protection in and of itself.
Allow me to re-phrase one more time. He didn't sacrifice for the benefit of the Wii.
I'm not talking about "suffering for love", I'm talking about making some sacrifice of one's self out of love, for the benefit of a loved one. The thing that nearly every mother in every culture does every day.
For the record, I don't subscribe to any religion, and I don't really care what other people do in their private lives. But I do assert that a "relationship" with a machine is necessarily one-way, and that taking that for genuine love is infantile.
But it can never be the full experience when you can just turn off any behavior you don't like, or just program the thing to accept any behavior you choose.
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I have this theory that "art" is something that happens between an artist and an audience through some medium. These guys have done amazing things with the medium, but utterly failed to move me. The fact that you reference what it means to someone else suggests they didn't communicate with you, either.
-Peter
But he isn't giving out advice on making tech demos, is he? The article and the summary treat Elephant's Dream like a "real movie", when you and I seem to agree that it is a tech demo.
('Course, I haven't even made on of those . . . so no one should listen to me, either!)
-Peter
I have some advice for these guys: Get a script!
Elephant's Dream was a huge technical achievement, but the final work was an abject failure as a film. A "movie" isn't just a series of pictures that appear to move when displayed in rapid succession. Tell me something. Move me. Give me a character I have a fighting chance of identifying with.
Do something to transcend mere moving-pictureness.
-Peter
The whole site is a lot of bullshit, but that connector isn't the best example. There is a Toslink connector that is socket-compatible with the old 3.5mm headphone jack (images).
Hybrid female connectors are common on Apple products that support both Toslink and analog audio. I've never seen a hybrid male, but it only stands to reason that someone would make one.
-Peter
-Peter
This statement captures the problem beautifully. The world will be yours one day, want it or not. And if you're a bunch of checked-out WOW playing crybabies it isn't going to be much of a world. Nobody gives anybody anything worth having in this life. You get it by earning it. And if you don't give a shit now, you certainly aren't going to give a shit when the next generation is crying that you don't do enough for them.
I advise you to get your ass off your shoulders and act responsible first. You'll become elite within your generation.
-Peter
Sounds like Microsoft is the best thing that ever happened to your kid.
-Peter
Who are you, Edward Stylushands?! How do you do multitouch with styli? Hold the thing with one hand, use one stylus with the other hand, and use a finger on your third hand?
-Peter
Handwriting recognition is for the birds. Using a stylus sucks. I have had two Palm OS devices and an iPhone. Now, no one understands better than I that Graffiti sucks. Hard. But handwriting creates certain problems that can't be solved by any software. Lost styli. The need to always use two hands. Difficult editing. (How do you backspace?) Okay, maybe that last one has a software solution. But you see what I'm saying.
I've had my iPhone since release day, and it took me about two weeks to really get comfortable with the soft keyboard. I haven't taken any measurements, but I am quite sure that I can type accurately on it faster than I can write legibly with a pen and paper. And I can get by one handed.
On top of all that, multi-touch is awesome.
Maybe the iPhone isn't for you, but if you haven't gotten one in your hands and tried it out, do it. I couldn't go back to a traditional touch screen. And anyone who tries to foist a stylus on me is going to have to dig it out of his sinus.
-Peter
Available Q2 2008: Teleporter. Hmmm.
-Peter
Sure. What's a 30% increase between friends? My boss offered me a 30% raise, and I was like, "Why bother?".
(Blu-ray actually has 29.7% more video bandwith.)
-Peter
The summary calls it a HUD, the article calls it a HMD. The article is right.
-Peter
Creating a document is inherently a three-step process. Write, edit, layout. Any attempt to subvert this order results in unnecessary iteration and task-switching overhead.
WP 5.1 was the apogee of word processing.
-Peter
Hear, hear!
Raised floors might work for cooling. Though that seems upside down. It's shits for cable management.
Cable ladders aren't a panacea, but they are the only sane solution.
-Peter
If you have bricks in your stools you should see both a Doctor and a Freemason.
-Peter
Man, when are those stupid Scientists going to come up with a technological substitute for honor?
-Peter
To the best of my knowledge (which is, admittedly, limited) no one has said peep about any policy change outside of Government research. So "the two sides" take different positions on funding it, and all the rest is rhetoric.
Pretending there is a practical difference between Republicans and Democrats on stem cell research per se is silly. We may as well discuss their opinions on dessert toppings.
-Peter
I was actually trying to point out the silliness of the post I was replying to. You and Adam sort of got it.
*shrug*
-Peter
Has anyone actually come out against stem cell research?
-Peter
This seems to assume that 1. you only care about "mainstream party" candidates and 2. spending is the primary measure of support.
I don't know how willingness to spend confiscated funds on research became a qualification for office, but I am completely convinced that this point of view is part of the problem, not the solution.
-Peter
Or the key and combination of time and resources necessary to crack the password. In practice, the password is likely to be weak enough to provide only minimal protection in and of itself.
-Peter
Allow me to re-phrase one more time. He didn't sacrifice for the benefit of the Wii.
I'm not talking about "suffering for love", I'm talking about making some sacrifice of one's self out of love, for the benefit of a loved one. The thing that nearly every mother in every culture does every day.
For the record, I don't subscribe to any religion, and I don't really care what other people do in their private lives. But I do assert that a "relationship" with a machine is necessarily one-way, and that taking that for genuine love is infantile.
-Peter
A relationship where it is perfectly okay to be completely selfish is not fully developed. Honesty is good, but it isn't the only attribute in play.
-Peter
But it can never be the full experience when you can just turn off any behavior you don't like, or just program the thing to accept any behavior you choose.
-Peter
You didn't sacrifice for the Wii.
-Peter