Even if your troll reality is true, I'm glad to see proprietary flash fading away versus HTML5. Sometimes it just takes a nudge ...

I took Bushman's Social Psychology class at ISU back in 2001 or so. He's genuine and persuasive on this topic. I didn't think he was explicitly anti-video games but more interested in reminding people about mediation and it's effects. That being said, we come back from class and blast each other on Counterstrike in the dorms ...

Nope. If he's going to make commercial space a reality, I'm all for hearing more from him.

after "According to pigrabbitbear" ... Is it just me or has the namespace of good available user / website names run out like IP4? CNN reporter floppypants456 bringing you breaking news!

Also, this smells suspiciously of manbearpig! He's real I tell you!

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Looking at the last graph, how much of the drop in Nokia is due to Windows Phone adoption versus the overall increase in people buying smartphones? The graph make it seem pretty clear, but dosen't part of Nokias loss/growth of rivals circa 2010 show more that smart phones are becoming cheaper, more accessible, and more people are buying them over Nokias bread and butter smart phones? If that's the case, it can be argued choosing an Android/iOS smartphone OS analog like Windows Phone was the only way to stem the loss of dumb phone sales.

+1 on this. Recently, I switched from an AT&T plan to an AT&T GoPhone account. I pay $25/month for 250 mins and unlimited text messages but no data with my iPhone (they want you to have a plan for the iPrivilege, bah). As the OP has an Android, he can get various levels of data as an extra if he wants. Nice to see a ridiculous $80-110 bill turn into a stable $25. Wifi is indeed everywhere.

The catch is that you have to put money on the account each month or you lose whatever leftover minutes you have. I agree this is not as flexible as a prepaid Euro sim card, but it's *far far far* cheaper/saner then a crap plan, especially if you're not getting the latest, greatest phone with it. Also, you can setup an automated monthly payment to top up the account.

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... in the creative coding community.

Patchers like Max and Pure Data allow for realtime graphical programming and live coding environments such as Fluxus exist for realtime graphics and sound. Max was originally written by Miller Puckette in the mid 80s for realtime control of DSP for computer music at IRCAM and Pure Data, started in the mid 90's, is his open source take on addressing some of it's design issues. Fluxus originates from around 2000 as is a live 3d engine for performance using a Lisp varient as the on screen scripting language.

Yet another case of artists/scientists providing a working solution to a particular problem not apparent to other disciplines. Too bad Bret dosen't cite these examples. Perhaps he dosen't know of them?

Bret's argument that realtime feedback is important to creative flow is spot on. I don't think he's calling for the use of this approach as a panacea. Naturally it won't work in all cases but anything that helps with problem solving is welcome in my book. It's not a replacement for deep understanding but really allows you more creative freedom which, as other posted have noted, is useful in creative graphics/sound programming.

Yes, already done (with a PS3Eye) ... and for graffiti writing: http://www.eyewriter.org/

Although I'm glad they aren't pulling a Sony with the hardware, saying "enthusiasts and academic researchers alike have expressed their excitement and intense interest" fails to recognize that those enthusiasts and researchers not only built a cross platform open source driver but have been pumping out projects left and right since November. They missed the boat as far as I'm concerned and "maybe" putting out a Windows-only SDK is too little too late. It would be better for them to sponsor freenect or OpenNI then to offer a platform specific 3rd solution. From what I've heard, their drivers were not so hot to begin with ...

No Linux version and the OSX version requires X11? hrmm must not have used SDL.

... who was inspired by The Residents. And the chain continues ...

In the spirit of tooting one's own horn ... this is reminiscent of my cyborg music performance project robotcowboy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuuJkE789ag :D