World: r3wp

pinching one handed isn't hard... just not very ergonomic.

(even with large hands)

usually the thumb will stay put and only the index will move around, 
for example.

pinching while holding (not resting) the phone in one hand?

yes.

not resting on a table, I meant

yep.

Maxim, yes, when not moving the thumb it's easier.

talking about lousy UI

Adrian, have you ever used an iPhone?

its not about the UI, its about how the fingers work.... people implementing 
gestures often don't even look at their hands to realize how each 
finger has its own specific optimized movements.

use an iPod

the touch UI is quite fantastic. maybe that's why I fail to see how 
gestures will improve things.

what this tech offers is complementary to touch

just as this has only certain practical applications, so does touch

use the most appropriate UI for any context

right. the guy in the video chose really poor applications for gyro-based 
UI control.

for example, voice could be used to augment the motion sensing

I agree, some of the things shown were not very practical

but for myself, I see some real cool possibilities

voice for me could be useful as a replacement for typing, but not 
much else. you again have to remember a set of commands to manipulate 
a user interface. the intelligence here is still not Star Trek level, 
and I don't think it can be useful for more than dictation generally, 
before we get to that level.

I would think that you could do some pretty accurate distance measurements 
using a combination motion tracking and camera

one or two word voice commands (i.e. a limited grammar) is not hard 
to do and would just add to the kind of gesture filtering that can 
be done

what I meant by distance measurement is to calculate how far away 
something is

the iphone has usefull voice driven interface.  play "song tile" 
  call "contact name"  etc.

maxim, yeah, it doesn't work very well for me.

you do have to speak "computer" well   ;-)

http://www.osnews.com/story/23322/BREAKING_Google_Opens_VP8_Codec_Enables_it_on_YouTube

bye bye, H.264. This is how patent parazites as MPEG-LA loose their 
future oportunities ...

oh don't count this as done... H.264 is a better codec, and MPEG-LA 
will surely try to go to court with some patent infringement.


but hey, we've got google fighting it (which has some cash), so court 
case could be lost by MPEG-LA.

if they don't, they at least deserve a kick in the groin.

H.264 is a better codec
 - which criteria did you use to find this out?

its the latest codec to be standardized, and its the basis for all 
high-quality compression on DVDs and Blue-Ray.

http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/?p=377

A comparison.

overall conclusion of that very detailed analysis:


VP8, as a spec, should be a bit better than H.264 Baseline Profile 
and VC-1.  It’s not even close to competitive with H.264 Main or 
High Profile.  If Google is willing to revise the spec, this can 
probably be improved.

http://videojs.com/- cross browser video html5 player, supporting 
VP8

Chrome Webstore .... https://chrome.google.com/webstore... now they 
steal our idea of rebrowser .....

Google has been playing around with that idea for a while, kind of 
announced it a year ago actually in the Google Wave group because 
they needed a way to allow people to make money with robots and gadgets. 
Robots and gadgets are both web apps and Chrome OS only runs web 
apps. They would be stupid not to do this, they *need* an app store 
for web apps.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore

This seems pretty interesting.

Hmm... I didn't see Pekr's link, sorry.

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/05/20/1332214/German-High-Court-Declares-All-Software-Patentable?art_pos=2

noooooooooooooooo!

is the world moving backwards?

http://www.osnews.com/story/23330/Google_Unveils_Android_2_2_Takes_Aim_at_Apple

Nice .. but when will we get Rebol on Android??

VP8 debunked - http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/?p=377

Patents: I can't belieft that our high court is doing this!! Normally 
it's a very serious and responsible instituation...

This comment from Petr's link makes some good points:

http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1658944&cid=32280004


One of them is that politicians come from the same schools/background 
as the lawyers, so what else can be expected?

LightSpark, the project that aims to create an LLVM-based Free Flash 
payer, has reached beta status - http://www.osnews.com/comments/23333

Designed from scratch after the official Flash documentation was 
released.