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Tom Rothamel writes "This site looks at the use of a Microsoft Actimates Barney in a human-computer interaction
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I think the Teletubbies ActiMates will open up whole new lines of inquiry for the PARC/MIT researchers. Their tummy-mounted display screens may prove to be more versatile output devices than Barney's hands and arms.
Also, the Teletubbies are (if I am not mistaken) viewed with a lot less acrimony than Barney. Sadly, only Laa-Laa and Po are offered; apparently, Micro$oft felt that Tinky Winky was too controversial for their purposes. Pity; the use of Tinky Winky as an I/O device would offer whole new ways to piss off the Falwellites.
The only drawback to this continuing research, as I see it, will be that it will be impossible for me to read the ensuing reports without busting out in maniacal laughter, inviting quizzical gazes from my fiancee...
Imagine combining the speech unit from these with the moving parts of Minstorm. A robot(or whatever) that blinks it's eyes and sings^H^H^H^H^H warns you of errors.
Probably wouldn't happen until there was an RFC submitted for it and a protocol number assigned by the IANA. Somewhere John Postel is screaming. Or laughing madly.
PDF = Portable Document Format. It's essentially Postscript with bytecodes and compressed. With a viewer for just about every platform (Linux, Mac, FreeBSD, Sparc, RS 6000, SGI, OS/2, etc.) and PDF-to-Postscript converters for everyone else, PDF a great way to distribute content if you want the layout, graphics, etc. to be perfectly preserved. It's cross-platform.
If you don't care about layout, then yes, HTML is better.
or Furbys? I mean like buffer overflows in the IR protocol, leading to hostile code execution resulting in reprogramming of actions and sounds. In essense, we could create aa Furby worm/virus. How cool would it be to have Furbys advocate Linux to 4-year olds?
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Is it just me ... (Score:1)
Interesting... (Score:1)
Also, the Teletubbies are (if I am not mistaken) viewed with a lot less acrimony than Barney. Sadly, only Laa-Laa and Po are offered; apparently, Micro$oft felt that Tinky Winky was too controversial for their purposes. Pity; the use of Tinky Winky as an I/O device would offer whole new ways to piss off the Falwellites.
The only drawback to this continuing research, as I see it, will be that it will be impossible for me to read the ensuing reports without busting out in maniacal laughter, inviting quizzical gazes from my fiancee...
Eric
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Interesting... (Score:1)
You could always buy the poe and then dye it purpul...and squish the circle on his head into a triangle. Teletubbie buy-buy (M$ slogan)!
Barney is'nt the right embodiment for this. (Score:1)
Mindstorm application? (Score:1)
Barney Protocol (Score:1)
PDF is portable, doofus. (Score:1)
If you don't care about layout, then yes, HTML is better.
Is there anyone else interested in cracking Barney (Score:1)
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die pdf!!! (Score:1)
Is it just me ... (Score:1)