paux's soup

• Do you see Samsung leveraging pen input on larger screen sizes as well?

   

  Bidan: Yes, I think so. I think a pen interface continues to make a lot of sense across a number of screen sizes, like the larger is more obvious of those. That’s about as specific as I can be without announcing a product.

• a lot of work happen around things like the S Pen, voice, and the evolution of touch around 3D gestures, so free space type gestures, as well as facial recognition
• interacting with your device without having to physically interact
• move a lot of experiences that have been traditionally chained to the desk to now being mobile

Tags: samsung android tablet stylus

• Jobs wasn’t ragging on the stylus, he was ragging on an old solution
• But there are just as many cases, as with the mouse and the trackpad, where the opposite is true
• a fingertip serves much better in most cases
• you can’t error-check your own small movements at your own rate, you must wait for the machine to catch up. Low latency is a step in the right direction
• draw a short line and the aliasing makes it look like a tiny lightning bolt
• mega-resolution screens could help make the stylus worth using again
• Our interactions with tablets and phones are for the most part coarse and inexact, and entire UIs
• have been designed around this fact

Tags: tablet stylus

• Release target: Feb.
  • Bug clean up
  • Need to do a documentation push
• will switch to mercurial (or may be git) after the release
• Next week we will start using the new hosting

Tags: opencv computervision programming library

Sadly, no shipping to Austria. :(

• put three in your cart and enter the code BUY2GONE at checkout, then the third one will ring up sans-charge

Tags: google nexus smartphone

• if life conditions would continue improving until the point that women (or men) reach an average age of about 90 years, they would have an equal live expectancy
• an improvment in life conditions favours men more than women, such that at an average age of 90, the disadvantage of men would be wiped out

Tags: health stats society

• Ready to move to mecurial
  • mecurial because it is an easier transition for svn users
• OpenCV repository has been migrated from SVN to Mercurial at the new OpenCV hosting. After some more testing we will start using it

Tags: opencv compvision programming library

Impressively precise: (Noisy) difference of ~2 meters between floor and raised arm

Tags: android app google smartphone nexus

• Copy contacts to Ubuntu One from Thunderbird

   
   
  1. Open Thunderbird
  2. Click on the "Address Book" button
  3. Click on the "Personal Address Book"
  4. Select all the contacts you want to copy
  5. While holding the "Ctrl" key, move the contacts from the "Personal Address Book" onto the "Ubuntu One" address book

Tags: ubuntu linux cloud storage software

• Windows
• install this Samsung driver
• Android SDK set up properly
• fastboot.exe file in your SDK/Tools
• AdbWinApi.dll into the same folder as your adb.exe and fastboot.exe
• USB Debugging on
• adb reboot bootloader
• fastboot oem unlock

Tags: android google nexus

• Jan Erik Solem
• upcoming computer vision book
• updated draft versions on this page
• latest draft is  December 13, 2011
  • 213 MB

Tags: programming compvision python books

• create a Debian release repository for OpenCV
  • Based on some stable branch of OpenCV
• New website//stack overflow (Sometime in Feb.)

Tags: opencv compvision library programming debian ubuntu linux

• Nuklearstaaten an, deren Kernwaffen sie nicht davor schützten, angegriffen zu werden
• Winston Churchill hatte 1955 in einer Rede vor dem britischen Parlament gesagt, die nukleare Abschreckung werde sich nie auf „Verrückte oder Diktatoren“ anwenden lassen
• Ein Regime, das dem Ende entgegen sieht, wägt keine Risiken mehr ab
• beschaffen sich kleinere Staaten Kernwaffen, um die überwältigende Schlagkraft des US-Militärs von sich fernzuhalten
• rational, das nukleare Tabu zu beseitigen, um Gegner zu Zugeständnissen zu nötigen
• Die Abschreckungstheorien des Kalten Krieges basierten darauf, dass sich zwei Spieler in einem Nullsummenspiel befinden – wenn einer gewinnt, verliert der andere

Tags: politics

• #33B5E5 bzw. #31B6E7
  • Warum „bzw.“?

Tags: android