One of my friends gave a *.MKV file, and I had no idea what on earth it was till now. It really does look quite interesting as its a direct rivial to Mov, Rm, Ogg and Avi, so it can contain xvid, divx and what ever codec you like. It was also built out of the really nice EBML open standard The filter is available here or better still here and its GNU. Nice…
Month: February 2004
OQO coming on nicely
Creativity in constrains
The moto which I subscribe to.
The interesting thing is that this guy also quotes the 5K awards as a real example of Creativity in constraints
. I also saw Stuart's presentation at the Doors 6 and actually met him afterwards.
More digital shoplifting of sorts
I almost went online there and then to check if Amazon had the book cheaper than the WHSmiths in Gatwick Airport. So tempted to buy it at 16 pounds, good thing i never…as I would have been kicking myself now.
3d operating system? : project looking glass
Oh this is nice, this is really really nice… Oh what would it be like to program applications to take advantage of 3D?
Project Looking Glass Demo
Theres a lack of any detail on the website and datasheet, but the demo says it all I believe.
I have to agree with others that even though it looks good, I dont know how useful it will be 2, 4, 6, 12 months down the line? Makes me wonder is this java3D what Sun were talking about ages ago? Thanks for the link kartika…
I’m eating my words…HDTV hits the UK
Well actually Europe.
Euro1080 was launched on January 1st 2004 and is the first channel to broadcast exclusively in High Definition throughout Europe. HDTV uses more pixels and lines to produce a high-quality image. Euro1080 also offers high-quality content: sports, music, shows and cultural events are being broadcasted by satellite with best quality surround sound, in HDTV format.
Will America ever embrace Messaging?
I ask the question because I see little evidance to say the opposite. Yes we know American operators dont really have at best interopable media messaging, at worst any text messaging (Sprint?). The reason is unknown, except to say there has to be a reason why PTT has launched in America and not anywhere else yet. Could this be because Americans are not ready to accept messaging in any form?
Been thinking about it over the week and there could be a few reasons to the lack of embrace.
First up what country still uses pagers? which country did the two way pager launch in? What happened when the CB radio came to other countrys like the Europe and Asia? Did we embrace it? Hey and what country uses it the most by percentage still? Yes America. Makes sense in the light of push to talk services eh?
On the other side America companys are hell bent on banning camera phones so I have no idea if messaging will grow even if it natrually does.
What other evdance do i need? I rest my case…for now.
alternative to blogger apps
I need an alternative to blogger apps, because one of the interaction blogs is going great but I think the other one would get going if there was a simple way to blog without owning a laptop, going home or the obvious webadmin thingy. So I've been playing with pop2blog and blojsim again…But I believe none of them work in the multiuser backdrop of Blojsom 2. Which is a shame because I really need to keep the momentium going. Which reminds me I need to transfer Blojsom to a college server at some point in the near future. Mines fine for now, but I can not offer any backup or promises that things will stay up… Users use at there own risk basicly.