Brad, along with Rod Abernethy, Alexander Brandon, Brian Schmidt and Tommy Tallarico will present a panel discussion on "Where It All Began: Lessons That Can Be Learned From 'First Generation' Music" at the 2010 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.
Lets face it, artists don't care about operating systems - they simply require a transparent instrument to create their art and a vehicle to freely express ideas. I care little what operating system saves my files or displays images - I just need consistency and reliability. All popular operating systems have their strengths, and all have the basics down. So, why do we have so many?
I have to hand it to Peter, he has again pulled out a couple of fun videos on auto-tuning. Please visit his website to hear more and read the discussion. I embed one of the videos here, but be sure and visit his site: Create Digital Music
Wouldn't it be fun if all news was like this. Less war?
"10 Things" has 10 Tips for Proper Computer Disposal. My advice: don't take tip #3 lightly. You can destroy your hard disk drive yourself, and the result is probably just fine (I use a hammer.) But if you really want the drive completely destroyed - so data cannot be retrieved even from drive fragments - take it to a company you trust. They must have the proper shredders that eat metal. There will be nothing left but bits (metal bits, that is.)
Eric Schmidt illustrates how technology infuses transparency in our daily lives during his interview with Charlie Rose. "And we’ve now — because of the Internet and because of the digital revolution, given people — we’ve essentially given them the ability to see everything.
The idea of the FLEX Machine and a visit to Seymour Papert in the late 60's encouraged Alan Kay to create “A Personal Computer For Children Of All Ages.” I don't know how the name "Dynabook" came about, but it described an electronic book that could dynamically change. As the introduction says, the name was also about "the relationship of people to computers will itself also change." Come see Alan speak about the ideas of the Dynabook at the "40th Anniversary of the Dynabook", on Nov 5th at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. I'll be there! Panelists: - Alan Kay - Charles Thacker - Mary Lou Jepsen
I just downloaded the new Miro player (formally Democracy Player). It's very nice, seems to organize videos reasonably well, is free, multi-platform, open source and includes features I believe all video players should provide.
But, when I got to checking it out, I was disappointed with the audio quality on many of the videos featured on Miro's Getting Started page. No fault goes to Miro as they simply aggregate videos from around the world. Many of the media programs contained audio of unacceptable technical quality. Audio levels were either too hot (see Diggnation below) or were recorded in ways that rendered them unacceptable for listening. It was if the producer merely viewed the video ignoring the audio before releasing.
ARM announced a collaboration called the Linux Mobile Platform to enable development of portable computing devices for browsing, multimedia, wire/wireless Ethernet connectivity and better battery life. Since one of the six partners is Mozilla, focus on the Firefox web browser is a given. The integration of GStreamer for the multimedia framework is targeted for multimedia. But, since the platform is Linux and is open, anything is game.
This is great news for me because it provides the world another potentially capable hardware platform to support Squeak mobile computing. It may also provide the computing power for the software being developed at Viewpoints Research in their quest to create a new personal computing model.
