uh, I currently don’t feel like posting detailed rants about all the ways in which I don’t think the NEC WT510 project I have will work for a multitouch table.
I tried a couple things with it. soo. i’m just going to poop out this “diary” entry to be done with it. better to focus on success! which will be coming soon. i’m sure.
why iPhone wins
A friend just sent me this vid
I lost my temper in my reply. Which people usually find funny. sooo, why not preserve it for all time in my blog:
uhhh,
I love my iPhone. It’s all about the OS. Reliable and speedy.
[My girlfriend] hates Apple (but loves Google), and recently upgraded her cell phone to some motorola shit. oops, it’s locked to only run an old version of Android. She can’t use many of her favorite apps until Motorola decides to stop sucking it’s own balls.
thbbt. Android is too fragmented. Letting different carriers lock out features is horrific. (she likes a certain navigation map, but it’s locked out because Motorola wants to sell it’s competing, shittier, paid nav app).
* I’ve heard the HTC Evo is cool.
– But it’s bigger screen has lower resolution than apple’s smaller screen. So Apple’s is smaller and looks better.
– And I’ve yet to play with a phone that is as fast or responsive as Apple’s.
* I googled HTC Evo multitouch and here is first video I found: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieuB0VvkmwA
“kinda sluggish but…” well, fuck that. This video also points out that Nexus one had known bug where multitouch didn’t even work? what the fuck?
* Everyone who attacks the iPhone, ends up touting some shitty competitor for all the wrong reasons. “Hey I can plug a dick into my HTC Evo. Can yer iPhon do tha?”
Well I don’t care about that shit. I want the fastest and most reliable for day to day use.
* HTC Evo no doubt wins by having 4G. But I’d never get to its web browser to check this out, because I’d be too busy frowning at the shitty slow OS. Some future iPhone will have 4G, and I have no interest in going back to the wastelands of competing cell phone fuckery.
I AM RAGE
p.s. sorry if i missed the point of your video.
PhaseTable: testes
just posting this so I can test out rss feed gathering over at phasetable.com
my devious plan is to grab any post here (in my “creative pursuits” blog) and list it, if it has proper keyword. or tag. or category. or whatever. I have an email explaining it, from friend Ian.
…
FROM SPACE
Doctor Ian wrote (well, pasted into an email):
Syntax: http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Feeds
Example of usage:
http://vidhero.wordpress.com/?tag=movie&feed=rss2
http://vidhero.wordpress.com/tag/movie/feed
RSS consumption and display:
http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxfeeds/
IGNORE: Rotating ticker I use:
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex17/rsstickerajax/
(really just posting these links here so I don’t have to fish out that old email again)
PhaseTable: Phase zero
Well, I’d been meaning to keep a proper diary of my progress crafting my own multitouch table. It’s important.
But I keep neglecting to post. Not sure when I began really. Several groups of photos from several tests burning a hole into my ANTICIPATION GLANDS. soon.
at this date, all I know for sure is that I had purchased the URL www.phasetable.com (and had probably posted just a simple sketch of the logo idea). (and logos/links for OptiTrack and NUI Group)
and I’d posted a hello over at the NUI group.
(and a question no one would ever answer)
movie review: Inception (100% awesome)
I loved this movie.
(review: over)
oh, wait, how did we get here. Continue reading “movie review: Inception (100% awesome)”
game idea: Attack Die!
someone should make a 3rd person game with every in-game character tethered to a giant die. Like a big comical ball and chain, with physics.
annnnd: whatever face is currently up on the die controls the stats. (or maybe which ever face is getting the most light? so you could have three sided die? and puzzles where lighting changes?)
So you’d constantly be choosing whether you want to attack them, or their die.
(maybe have something where high numbers are good for defense, but low numbers are good for fast attacks).
maybe running makes die tumble around, but walking/tiptoeing keeps die stable. (so you could have stealth areas where you try to get a good roll, then drag it slowly through a deadly gauntlet. which would have to have minor bumps on floor for maximum white knuckles).
Like, the die could be contextual, reflecting how low your steps are (in this area).
hmm.
maybe you could “level up” by adding more die. maybe different kinds of die could represent different powers (d3 is tied to your leg if you use fire sword. or a d10 is tied to your leg if you equip to ice shield).
picture these barbarians running around with 10 different kinds of die dragging behind them.
for some reason i find this intensely exciting. 🙂
Jonah Hex: 2 blahs outta 5 wha?’s
I just got back from see Jonah Hex.
weird failure. lots of big stars. no discernable drama/pulse.
but still had some fun business (cowboys in weird west = hard to look away?)
but when the end came around, I felt like “wait, when’s this movie gonna start?”
Also: had weird shitty flash animation during the opening. WHAT:THE:FUCK.
to me, that’s something you do for story boards or DVD extras. it feels like “we ran out of money. so bob did this awkward animation. sorry, audience.”
weird. WEIRD.
blah.
it was probably the best straight-to-dvd movie i’ve seen this year. cept they released it in theatres.
p.s. weird to see the guy from american beauty being fat and boring (wes bently?) and the british guy from IngloriousBasterds being skinny and tattooed. not sure why they took the roles. to play off malkovich and brolin? I wonder if there was ever any time during production when any of these actors got a chance to spar with their skillz. hmmf.
Splice: 5 out of 3. (that’s like 166%!)
Splice is an awesome movie. all thumbs up!
… It’s like Cronenberg and Cunningham had a baby – then recruited a poetic jhorror cinematographer to film it. Who is this Vincenzo Natali? … (oh, snaps. He made Cube. huh.) Continue reading “Splice: 5 out of 3. (that’s like 166%!)”
Sayyy, web browsing friend, have you read this?
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/05/ff_nicholas_carr/
quote: “Research continues to show that people who read linear text comprehend more, remember more, and learn more than those who read text peppered with links.”
At first, this strikes me as just another dogmatic fear-of-change reaction. ‘we did it one way for hundreds of years, so this new thang must be inferior. or a throwback to primitive animal-brain crap that nobody really wants.’ .
…I guess they do mention that the hypertext distraction isn’t as pronounced as it once was, because people have learned to tune out hyperlinks. but. I don’t think they really believe it.
Continue reading “Sayyy, web browsing friend, have you read this?”
Apple vs. Adobe: My thoughts on the Jobs rant and rebuttals
my view:
Jobs is saying there is a difference between apps and the web.
I think the key is this:
“It is not Adobe’s goal to help developers write the best iPhone, iPod and iPad apps. It is their goal to help developers write cross platform apps.”
Some mention that apple could get involved in Adobe’s open screen project, but the whole point of that project is “o provide a consistent runtime environment.” How can you do this between a blackberry and an iPhone?
(degrading features gracefully? that sounds like something for the web, not for an app. !!!).
Continue reading “Apple vs. Adobe: My thoughts on the Jobs rant and rebuttals”