World: r3wp

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.

Hopefully, the source can teach us a few things?

Robert: Are you talking about german court and sw patents. It was 
huge (alarming) news in my sphere :/

Janko, yes. This is really crazy as it was especiall hard in Germany 
to get a patent related to software things.

This patent stuff really freaked me out at first but there seem to 
be ways to circumenvent it until (hopefully) the government kicks 
in and solves this mess. The BGH said software patents apply as soon 
as your software's design is influenced by the device it runs on, 
so if your software targets a virtual machine like Java it should 
be okay because then patents don't apply because no device influenced 
your software, you wrote it to run on software (the VM), not on a 
hardware device. That it runs on hardware is a mere coincidence but 
didn't influence you while writing the software. Could be the BGH 
will just revise their comment on this of course to also include 
virtual machines. Cross platform software could be okay too with 
this argumentation as long as you only write features that work on 
more than one device. So no iPhone specific stuff for example, but 
if the app runs without modification on an iPad, the iPhone and an 
iPod Touch it should be okay again, those are three completely different 
devices (computer, cell phone, music player) so you should be able 
to argue that you weren't influenced by them at all. You would argue 
instead that you were influenced by Cocoa Touch, which is software 
and not a device, so patents don't apply. This would also mean REBOL 
apps are okay, since your software is made to run in the REBOL interpreter 
and not on any specific device (unless you put some Mac specific 
calls in there but then you could argue you targeted the operating 
system which is software and not a device). If you can really get 
away with this kind of argumentation is a big question of course. 
The judge can decide on a whim if you're guilty or not, all the laws 
are open to interpretation for him.


I read one comment on this that gives me some hope. The german government 
uses a lot of Linux and they spent a lot of money to train their 
workers to use Linux. With this decision by the BGH, Linux is suddenly 
patent hell, so it's in the government's best interest to kick in. 
Sadly, they could just say "patents don't apply to the government" 
and be done with it.

http://blog.laptopmag.com/nvidia-ceo-netbooks-and-tablets-to-meld-hints-at-tegra-powered-webos-devices

Meego 1.0 core and netbook user experience released


http://meego.com/community/blogs/imad/2010/meego-v1.0-core-software-platform-netbook-user-experience-project-release

Czech server put prototype of iPhone 4G/HD under microscope, and 
found out, that the panel is not OLED, but IPS, resolution is 640x960, 
so that old apps will by probably scaled by system by using 2x2 pixels 
.... some photos here - http://iphonemania.mobilmania.cz/iPhone-HD-v-redakci-teste-se-na-fantasticky-displej

they could have found out that it's an IPS panel by simply reading 
apple's product description, no :) ?

Have you seen Apple's name for the new iPhone OS:  "iOS" !!!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_gadg/ytech_gadg_tc2440