The wiki is not really 95% complete.

Agreed, I would much rather read the transcripts to x-rated films than watch them. Way better.

Good call outs here. Every local news station has the worst video player mechanism. Rarely does my browser crash but it happens more than half the time I stumble on a local news site video. I try to exit those tabs as soon as I realize because those pages are loaded with shit. Local news sites are the absolute worst players and then they doubledown with 20 other concurrent flash apps playing at the same time. Idiots.

People abandon videos that don't play, big surprise. This has nothing to do with poor video quality. Experience tells users that if it's going to lag at the beginning it's probably going to lag the way through. Seems lke more short attention span than demanding quality expectations. It's surfing useless entertainment. These users aren't trying to watch something that their life depends on. Laggy video is not entertaining, so you switch it off. This isn't much of a scientific study. Anyone who publishes their video on a stats based player, such as brightcove are used to these abandonment stats.

people should know that tonido works cross platform on the desktop and servers of course. I think this would be maybe more helpful if they wanted to load it on a home box. I was thinking I'd create a home server with the open source Amahi software on an ubuntu or fedora setup, and load the tonido plugin extension into Amahi.... by plugin I mean the software addon not the actual plug device.

I'm thinking Tonido is the best for this right now. I'll tell you why. Because like dropbox you can access your files remotely. It has a backup app plugin, so the syncing would take care there.

And for photos, which dropbox handles really well, Tonido also handles. It creates interactive photo gallery by auto-creation of thumbnails and a javascript based slideshow viewer. Includes ability to download full res, as well as a zip of the directory.

You can assign users to view and be able to download, to enable the sharing. It's pretty simple.

Now, if you had the right host, like a VPS, maybe you could load tonido, so it's an always on dropbox that you own. I dig it. I need to use it more. Unfortunately from work, I can't access my home box even with tonido because my work's network blocks acess to the port that tonido uses, like port 10000 something... you can look it up. But there's an iphone, android app.

I could say more. I need to blog about this probably just to reach out to a few others. I've purchased the pro plugins for it, because they were good, but if I had a tonido plug it would come with those.

I have to get away from the LCD screen for part of the day and this is a good option for me. I have the OLPC so I'm very familiar with it's screen look and how it differs from other LCDs. So this is the right tablet for me. What they have is 2.2. with libraries from 2.3. Don't know if that means VOIP included. But whatever. I'm not all that concerned about that at the moment.They also said they are skipping 2.3 for Honeycomb. That's a good idea. Why go to the next mobile phone OS when the tablet OS is on the horizon and you already have part of 2.3 in your system? Xoom looks awesome. I may buy that one too. Definitely recommending it. BUT let's not forget that the Xoom could easily be a bastardized version of Honeycomb too, if it's locked to a carrier. It is also a "must watch" until I know how others like it.

There is a dedicated market for it "Genesis" and once Honeycomb hits you'll get the Android market. The market is just an .apk anyway. The reason there's not Android Market right now is that tablet apps aren't on the market. So YMMV with those apps. Honestly with a full browser, most of the apps I use on mobile I don't need if I have a full browser. Exception being maybe Astrid, Shazam and maybe a few more that have special notifications fancy features or non-web uses. Depends on the user.

the UI is Eden. Eve I think is still a mystery at this point.

I read Mirasol can't achieve certain screen sizes due to some inherent limitation. So you wouldn't get an iPad size tablet with Mirasol maybe not even a 7". Not sure if that means short term or long term or ever. Mirasol looks great, but I'm not going to wait. My Adam pre-order shipment is on it's way! I've waited for a lot of years for a decent touch screen device like this... Adam fits and Android 3.0 will go on it soon enough too. I think the triple panel UI will be very useful. more so than widgets on normal desktop. They are also working to speed up the UI by going open GL all the way. Supposedly Android Honeycomb is imminent, but there's no guarantees. People saying they don't like custom UI, I've seen stock android looks pretty ugly on tablets too. When 3.0 rolls out, on Adam you'll have the choice between both. I think the UI is cool. I also think if it's not to my liking later on it's probably changeable, color, fonts, etc. I fully understand the logic behind creating it and it might lend itself to a better experience for certain applications and I'm not even thinking to hard about it. For example, Im thinking general computing, but in certain fields it might help for multi-tasking beyond what widgets will do.

No immediate feedback on the LiveScribe. Does it not write on the paper in ink? I thought that was the advantage, you get a paper written on and digital rendering from the camera lens

Excellent point and example.

Some of us are more responsive to being pulled in with theatrics or a roundabout approach. Poetry and music and comedy are extremely effective ways to communicate and almost never do it in a way that is the fastest and most direct.

The goal of sites is to communicate something. Sometimes to communicate you don't say things directly. That's why comedy and satire work well on serious topics. Because they are a method of getting the point across creating an impact. If Flash troubles people, it's the person creating the experience that didn't do it as effectively. But I've seen it done very well. Flash has the benefit of a timeline and a designer canvas to help non-programmers get certain things done.

If anyone thinks most people prefer to get their answer in the quickest way possible, you've failed to notice all of the entertainment and pastimes of our culture(s). Ask somebody whether they'd rather watch their favorite team play a game in person, or just read a scoreboard later. Humans appreciate nuances and to spend time with something as much as they like things fast and easy. But bottom line, Flash is not going to help a boring-ass banking or public works site become super-awesome. But it's very useful to a lot of content used in big and small spaces.

As a non-programmer, this statement is a little intimidating:

"Submitting an entry is as easy as implementing a Java interface that performs procedural content generation."

WTF am I supposed to do with this? I only clicked to this post because I like mario.

I read the policy page as well, interestingly absent was anything about weapons or electronics at all. But I found another example about why that school is retarded.

This is a middle school right? Like 5th to 8th grade?

Apparently you can't RIDE YOUR BIKE anywhere on the campus. It's not allowed because it could create an unsafe environment. And this is in sunny all year San Diego. Yeah right...

Environment: .... " the following behaviors cannot occur:

Skateboarding, Roller skating, or bike riding on campus

Cell phone use before or afterschool

Gum on the walk ways or on any campus furniture

Vandalism – defacing of or damage to school or private property, including:

The shit out of your mouth travels quickly, but sadly you don't understand how history has unfolded here. Without Negroponte, the project wouldn't have happened. And without this project happening you would NOT have seen the netbook revolution as it were. The netbook is a revolutionary item, it has come in as a surge of popularity, demand and in some ways, variety. A lot of players, both old and new have entered the market. It has created jobs and it has been good for industry. The scrambling that occurred to make these netbooks, competitiveness is extremely helpful and refreshing. It's remarkable, even as someone who hasn't yet found the netbook he likes. And because of this netbook technology and resulting craze, many students all over the world, and in this country will have a computer at a low cost and convenience factor for doing real work. Whether it's a linux netbook or Windows. It's a machine that will fuel learning for many. So in the unfolding, Negroponte has made a significant contribution to technology. Don't be smallminded, ya fuckhead.