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As Eric
wrote yesterday, the upcoming dark comedy Towelhead is facing a protest from an
Islamic group because of its title, which is perceived as derogatory and a racial slur. Not only is
the film's distributor, Warner Independent, sticking by the title, but they have issued a press
release containing lengthy, candid, and sometimes even moving responses to the controversy from: 1)
Alicia Erian, the author of the original novel; 2) Alan Ball, the director of the film; 3) Warner
Independent itself; and 4) a group of theologians.
Erian makes pretty much the same argument as Eric did in yesterday's post: that the title serves to
highlight the racism its protagonist must contend with. She notes that her novel has been in print
for three years and this is the first protest she has received. She also makes the excellent point
that "[r]ealistically speaking . . . [people who are likely to use terms like "towelhead" to refer
to Muslims] are neither the audience for my book, nor for the film. They will continue to use
whatever language they wish whether or not a movie called Towelhead is released." Yes.
Ball refers to his own experience facing discrimination as a gay man, and argues that forbidding
hateful words only increases their power. The distributor offers an apology but claims to stand by
Ball and Erian in the name of free expression of ideas. The scholars note that this is one of the
few films to show Islam in a positive light, and call the title "a thought-provoking and difficult
term that needs to be deconstructed." You can read the whole thing over at David Poland's
blog.
So there you go. I agree with the responses on the merits, but I really like the public
relations tack Warner Independent has taken here. Honest discussion and argument are so much better
than mindless PR spin -- and better PR, too.
Hollywood Studios Band Together for “Open Market;” initiative is a
set of policy decisions and software and services framework to enable DRM interoperability.
(TechCrunch)
New Research Looks at Online Video “Super Sharers;” Sharpe Partners
reports that 75 percent of super sharers find ways to skip ads, and video isn’t about
creative expression as much as it’s about sharing real life experiences. (MarketWatch)
MyToons Partners with Vuze; animation community to provide vintage animation
channel for the BitTorrent video network. (release)
I-Rights to Distribute Do You Believe Me?; new online series from
producers of Sofia’s Diary is about a 17-year old girl with recurring nightmares.
(C21Media)
Nielsen: 114.5 Million TV Households for 2008 - 2009 Season; increase of 1.5
percent over last year. (release)
When I met with Nicholas Negroponte not
long ago, he laughed at the coverage he'd received through the past few years, including our own
portrayal of Intel chairman Craig Barrett and him as Beavis
and Butthead. Far more hurtful have been the admonitions of his own former staffers who feel
he has mismanaged the OLPC project. Nearly every one of the original staff had abandoned the
project by 2008, often in disgust. But Negroponte remains stalwart: "My elephant skin is the
thickness of steel," he told me. Perhaps his resistance to criticism has been one of the
project’s fatal flaws.
Although the
project seemed threatened in early 2006 from all sides these were minor compared to the
problems to come. The biggest concern at the time was lack of an LCD panel manufacturer, but
Negroponte and CTO Mary Lou Jepsen managed to charm another eccentric Taiwanese billionaire.
Wen-Long Hsu—founder of southern Taiwan’s Chi-Mei conglomerate — is the owner
of the world's largest collection of Stradivarius violins, which he played one for them when they
visited to sign contracts.
By the fall, everything was working great in prototype form. Quanta agreed to run its first
batch, and even agreed to run a suspend-resume hibernation test cycle 1000 times on each test
machine. Normally, test units were give this cycle four times, so it was a particularly unusual
request. Then, at 3am on the first day of mass production, Jepsen got a call. Everything was shut
down; the laptops were going to sleep and not waking up.
"All hell was breaking loose." She hauled ass to the manufacturing lab with a few other guys and
started pumping the caffeine.
Eventually a Quanta guy named Gary Chang and an OLPC guy named Richard Smith ("He's from
Arkansas, looks like surfer dude") solved the problem. "We were calling it the second shot from
the grassy knoll," says Jepsen. Apparently, as the system was shutting down, electromagnetic
noise was corrupting data, screwing up the instructions that told the thing how to wake up again.
At around the same time, the maker of the wireless chips, Marvell, decided to update the firmware
for the radio, and they started to crash. "We had four people in four time zones working on that
problem," said networking engineer Michail Bletsas. "Mark Foster in Taipei, me in Boston, someone
in India, and someone in Santa Clara. We had to program a workaround on the fly: It's in the
radio, something you're not supposed to touch under normal consequences."
"A lot of those stories weren't told," says Jepsen. "We weren't hiding it, everybody knew, but we
weren't broadcasting it. We figured it all out, and shipped a million of them."
Threat Level Rising
By late 2006, Intel had finalized its specs for the Classmate PC. Though it would cost $30 to $40
more than the XO—the "$100 laptop" in the end cost $188—the Classmate had a faster
processor, Intel brand equity and the option of Windows XP as the OS. (Bulk buyers could also opt
for Linux.) It was seductive in that it wasn't the revolutionary product that the XO
was, but something more familiar, and in line with what ministers of education might have been
considering already. What's more, it was a reference design that regional companies could license
and customize to fit their needs. And, perhaps, countries rife with pirated software
infrastructure had plenty of free programs to run from the black market.
As it began pilot program, Intel's strategy was seen as more traditional too: Laptops could go to
teachers, or loaned to students. It did not enforce Negroponte's logical but strict mandate, that
the laptops be given to the children, and that they should only be deployed when there are enough
to go around.
In the middle of 2007, Intel and OLPC entered into a partnership that was probably more of a
hindrance to each other's initiatives than any sort of help. From the start, the deal was vague,
more of a mutual appreciation society than a true strategic alliance. Six months later, it had
dissolved in acrimony. OLPC accused Intel of pitching Classmate to would-be XO customers; Intel
griped that OLPC wouldn't stop asking that the Classmate be discontinued in favor of the XO.
Meanwhile, Intel's more profit-minded operatives were hanging out in Taiwan, spinning the baby
laptop idea to one of Quanta's arch competitors, a little known company called Asus.
On June 8, 2007, while both the XO and the Classmate were still deep in pilot testing, Asus introduced the Eee PC, a $400 mini-notebook
running a warm-n-fuzzy flavor of Linux. Not only did it resemble the Classmate more than a
little, it was unveiled at a press conference hosted by none other than Intel. It would be ready
for sale worldwide by that winter, and when it did become available, boy did it sell like
hotcakes.
Sales Figures, Sales Facts
"Selling like hotcakes" is an expression that doesn't mean anything in particular. In many cases,
"selling a million" doesn't really mean anything specific either. I've heard OLPC people say
they've hit the million mark, but in terms of actual shipments, it's not true.
Due to issues that have nothing to do with hardware—and largely to do with Negroponte's
greater mission of educating the world's poor—the XO spent most of 2007 in beta testing. In
early November, OLPC launched the "Give 1 Get 1" $400 charitable promotion for US buyers, but the
first real bonafide XO deployment happened in Uruguay in on December 1. Confirmed orders might
have topped a million at this point, but the number of existing XOs, both sold in the US and
deployed en masse to schoolchildren in Peru and Uruguay, hovers around 500,000.
Ask Intel how many Classmate PCs are out in the wild, and you get a vague stat, somewhere in the
"hundreds of thousands." Intel, too, promises large numbers to come. Portugal will be buying
500,000 of them for the coming school year, for instance.
The Eee PC, though, is already nearing 2 million sold, having hit 1.7 million in the first half
of 2008. It is on target to reach a promised goal of 5 million by the end of the year. (By
contrast, OLPC will most assuredly not reach 1 million by the end of 2008.)
The success of the mini notebooks has largely been due to price (even expensive ones rarely touch
$600) and their intentionally internet-friendly design (you're not going to load up Photoshop
CS3, but browsing and email checking work fine). They are also boosted by the negativity
surrounding Windows Vista: By running Linux or Windows XP, they present a desirable
alternative to the bulkier, more expensive, resource-heavy machines required to run
Microsoft's latest OS.
In the wake of the Eee's success,
over 40 mini notebooks have hit the market over night. The top four best-selling notebooks
on
Amazon fall into this catetgory.
At this point, even if the millions of third-world students eventually get laptops, it's unlikely
that the XO will be the one they receive. Still, the past two years are definitive proof that
Negroponte can take credit for the birth of an entirely new kind of PC.
And Negroponte does claim credit for the Eee PC's success. In fact, he says it's why he
introduced the next version of the XO laptop—a radical two-touchscreen device aimed at a
$75 pricetag—so early.
Encore?
I asked him why, with the first XO so clearly in its early stages of shipment, would he show off
the XO-2. Sure, he doesn't have customers at Best Buy who may hold off because they know what's
coming, but it seemed to take away from the momentum of the original device, not to mention
confirming some of its criticisms (underpowered, cramped keyboard, etc.).
"When we announce something now that will be in play two years from now, it's partly to give the
manufacturers something to start copying now," he says, elaborating, "If you go back two years
and you look at the press, [the XO] was dismissed, it was not possible. Then came the Classmate,
then Asus. If I underestimated anything, it was how fast people would [copy] it, even if they
didn't get down to the same price or didn't have the same features. It was a movement—a
hardware trend—that happened because of OLPC."
He also hopes that the announcement of the XO-2 concept, one that only exists in pictures, will
stimulate small developers who work on components. Jepsen's new company Pixel Qi will focus on
the next-generation of LCD touchscreen, one that can be made as cheaply as current screens today,
but have capacitive touch built right into the active matrix, making it thinner than an iPhone
screen. Others who saw the XO-2 renderings have already begun pitching solutions to the group.
Not a Manager
If there's one criticism made against Negroponte that's indisputable, is that he changes his
tune.
In the beginning, Negroponte repeatedly affirmed that the XO was to run "Linux or some other open
source operating system." After a long struggle that could easily be the subject of another
series, the XO has recently been made capable of booting both its own Linux OS with Sugar
interface, as well as Windows XP. (Critics say that Negroponte never allowed OLPC's Linux OS to
mature so that it could stand up to pressure from the Windows advocates.)
Likewise, he was adamant at the beginning that his laptop be the only one shipped to these
third-world educational programs where there isn't so much a "market" as there is a case for
charity. He says now that if there is a true market—schools and families with the means and
desire to buy their own laptops—others can serve it.
Inside OLPC, the leader's mercurial nature and changing priorities proved too much for the talent
he had assembled. On the software side, Walter Bender and Ivan Krstic left after open
disagreements with Negroponte—mostly pertaining to the adoption of Windows, but also to the
overall goals of the program. Jepsen left in January 2008 in what she says was an amicable split,
though other hardware experts including laptop maestro Mark Foster had abandoned ship earlier,
possibly because they couldn't get along with Jepsen. Most people seem rankled by the credit that
Yves Behar took as the "OLPC designer," most notably in a Wired article that would seem
laughable to anyone who read
Part 1 and Part 2 of this
series.
When talking to staff members, there is a sense that no one really got along, and that the
religion that Negroponte had instilled in his lieutenants, enough to get them to hang together
for two years, has dissipated. The rocky Intel alliance and the move toward Windows were just the
final disillusionments. Negroponte spoke the painfully obvious to BusinessWeek last March: "I am
not a CEO. Management, administration and details are my weaknesses."
Pulling an Obi-Wan
Still, Negroponte and whoever has stuck by him charge onward. He said, to us and to others, "OLPC
is not a laptop company." Now that the mini-notebook movement is in full swing, perhaps the focus
should veer from hardware development. Why then stay in the hardware game? Perhaps it's telling
that, on the OLPC website's own "Progress" page, nothing is mentioned after December 2007.
Bletsas—who remains hard at work on OLPC today—says that if OLPC does not stay in
business, the laptop makers who followed the XO design cues will start doing what they do best:
bumping the specs, upping the prices and keeping product too expensive for the foundation to use
it in its educational mission. "Unless we keep designing, showing the world it's doable, I don't
think they will follow in that path," he says. "If we stop at this stage, they are not going to
come down enough for us to use their machines. We have to push them at least one step further."
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We are back with another edition of the Underappreciated Artist Spotlight. This time, let’s
focus on a man who might not be well known to those fans who do not venture outside of the capes
and tights genre.
Doug Wildey is probably best known for creating Johnny Quest (a DVD that I love more than any
other), but he also provided quality artwork to a number of different companies.
Like many artists of his generation, Wildey’s early work seems inspired by Caniff (not a
bad thing!), but over time his pencils really matured and he developed a very distinctive style.
There is a real confident lushness to his artwork, especially when he is providing the inks as
well.
I was a late comer to the Wildey Appreciation Society, but I try to get my hands on anything
he’s ever worked on. If you need a good jumping off point for Wildey art, look no further
than Rio (or the Rio sequels).
It may be the best western I’ve ever read and the painted artwork is a thing of beauty.
I’m lucky enough to own a piece of Doug Wildey original art – it’s
a page from the late 50s Harvey horror title, Alarming Tales. I just love it –
but if someone ever wanted to trade for a Rio page (heh, heh!).
Aside from the Rio work, other inexpensive options for checking out Doug Wildey’s artwork
include Comico’s Johnny Quest Classics from the late 80s, and the Outlaw Kid reprint book
from Marvel published in the 70s. That will give you a sense of Wildey’s mastery of the
craft.
I often wish he’d done more work in mainstream comics, and I would have loved to see him
tackle a WW2-era Captain America or Unknown Soldier. He also would have been a perfect fit for
Sandman Mystery Theatre.
Here are some more examples of Wildey’s work from a variety of genres:
1. Daring Confessions #8 (Youthful, 1953)
This is very early stuff – you can see a lot of Caniff in there, but he is
showing that he is interesting is experimenting with layout.
2. Outlaw Kid #18 (Atlas, 1957)
This is just a typical page from Outlaw Kid – showing a mixture of dialogue
and action. By this stage, Wildey’s had come into his own style and his work on this title
was spectacular (became a long-running Marvel reprint titles in the 70s). I like his use of
silhouettes (something his friend and colleague Alex Toth excelled at). In his western work,
Wildey was very good at showing tough guy facial expressions like a sneer or scowl.
3. Nightmare #5 (Skywald, 1971)
Who knows how Wildey ended up contributing to the Skywald line, but they are lucky he did. This
page shows his innovative layouts – I really like the free flowing panel
borders. The black and white really enables his pencils to jump off the page.
4. Tarzan #180 (Gold Key, 1968)
It’s not easy following in the steps of the likes of Foster, Hogarth and Manning but I
truly believe that Wildey did a superb job on Tarzan during his short tenure on the strip. He did
not copy anyone else’s style, and really put his own stamp on the strip. This page is from
Lost in Pellucidar storyline and it showcases Wildey’s ability to mix jungle action with
prehistoric fantasy. You know you are dealing with a strong artist when in the midst of all of
this action; the strongest panel is the close-up on the woman’s face.
I could include more, but this should provide everyone with a taste of what Doug Wildey had to
offer.
Ce classement me positionne donc dans le top 100 mondial francophone (encore une fois ma
tête enfle un tit peu) et dans les trois premiers au Québec. Je vais devoir prendre une
grande respiration et aller laver ma vaisselle pour me ramener sur le plancher des vaches.
C’est d’ailleurs ce que faisait Ginette Reno afin d’arriver à rester
humble...
Je suis expatrié en France et je suis tombé sur ce blog (on dit blog et non pas blogue,
merde) et je reagis suite à une mention de Ginette Reno. Who the fuck is Ginette Reno ?
Personne ne connait Ginette Reno en dehors du Quebec. Elle est encore vivante ?
Tant de mépris pour sa culture d’origine me fait vomir, mais en même temps,
c’est vrai que pour les francophones hors Québec, Madame Ginette Reno, mérite une mise en
texte qui est digne de l’immensité de son talent et que l’utilisation du mot
« blogue », mérite aussi que je me répète, pour les quelques incultes
qui ne se souviennent plus de leur fierté d’être d’ici. C’est
d’ailleurs ironique qu’hier j’écrive le billet De
l’importance de la sphère culturelle sur le Web dans lequel je dis :
Dans ma ligne éditoriale, je fais même exprès d’utiliser des expressions
québécoises afin de signifier mon appartenance à ma sphère culturelle micro,
et à « contaminer » les francos d’ailleurs, de ma particularité
québécoise.
Et que ce soit un Québécois expatrié qui ne comprenne pas sa propre richesse
culturelle. M’enfin.
Pour ce qui est de l’utilisation de blogue, dans le billet blog ou blogue de 2006, je prenais
position :
Moi je dis blogue. C’est une manière de signifier que je viens du Québec. Je dis
aussi magasinage, stationnement et fin de semaine. J’aime bien nos petites expressions
locales... Même si elles peuvent sonner faux dans certaines oreilles...
Pour ce qui est de la très grande dame de la chanson québécoise, pour les incultes
Québécois et au bénéfice de ceux qui peuvent ne pas la connaître à
l’extérieur du Québec, sachez que c’est l’une de nos plus grandes
chanteuses, actrice et femme de cÅ“ur. Sachez aussi qu’avant Céline Dion,
René Angelil était son manager et qu’il lui ouvrit les portes de la France, mais
qu’elle prit peur et qu’elle bousilla elle-même sa carrière là-bas qui
l’aurait sans doute porté aux côtés de la grande Édith Piaf. Sachez
aussi que le moment de télévision le plus touchant, le plus intense, le plus beau
qu’est connue la télévision québécoise de l’an dernier, fut
lorsque dans l’émission Taxi22, Madame Reno (se jouant elle-même)
vint pousser une chansonnette pour Nancy, la flamme du sympathique chauffeur de taxi Rogatien
Dubois Jr, joué par Patrick Huard. Au bénéfice de tous, regarder ce clip pour la
première fois, ou de nouveau. Ayez une boîte de Kleenex (papiers-mouchoirs pour les
copains) parce que vous risquez fort de pleurer, comme c’est mon cas à chaque fois que
je réécoute (à partir de 2.20 min.).
Voilà
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également êtres amenés à participer aux phases d?expression de besoins
et aux réponses à appel d?offres. Cette expérience vous permettra
d?évoluer vers la responsabilité complète de projets. Profil : De formation
supérieure en informatique (Ecole d?ingénieur ou Universitaire bac+4/5), vous avez
acquis une expérience de 3 ans dans le développement de projets informatiques dans
les technologies JAVA/J2EE ou .NET et SQL SERVER ou ORACLE. Anglais : écrit et oral
indispensable
Le nuage de mots-clés ou "Tag Cloud" en anglais, est une représentation visuelle qui
permet aux visiteurs et aux moteurs pour le référencement un accès rapide au
contenu d’un site via les expressions-clés les plus utilisées...
Are you a developer yearning to become a dev-igner, a developer/designer hybrid?
The rise of a RIA and enabling technologies such as Silverlight, WPF, and XAML makes the
'battleship gray' UIs we are so familiar with look like the green screens of the 70s and 80s. The
old cliché is that developers make poor designers and many developers needlessly tremble
at the site of designer tools such as Expression or Photoshop. Graphic design is a process, just
like software development. If you learn the basics, you'll soon turn out better User Experiences
and find inspiration in the world around you. While I can't make you a design guru overnight, I
can help you make your apps look a bit less like they did when the Spice Girls were on the pop
charts. Turtlenecks and berets optional.
Presenter: Frank La Vigne
Frank La Vigne is a Microsoft Tablet PC MVP and Lead Architect/Designer for Applied Information
Sciences (AIS) in Northern Virginia. Frank started in software development when he was twelve,
writing BASIC programs for the Commodore 64. He began his professional career writing Visual
Basic 3 applications for Wall Street firms in 1993. He then moved on to be the first webmaster
for a major book retailer. Frank then went on to develop a large multinational online banking
project in Germany. In 2004, Frank became heavily focused on Tablet PC application development.
Frank is also active in the developer community, speaking at user groups and code camps along the
East Coast.
For more information about the meeting, please visit the CMAP website.
Are you a developer yearning to become a dev-igner, a developer/designer hybrid?
The rise of a RIA and enabling technologies such as Silverlight, WPF, and XAML makes the
'battleship gray' UIs we are so familiar with look like the green screens of the 70s and 80s. The
old cliché is that developers make poor designers and many developers needlessly tremble
at the site of designer tools such as Expression or Photoshop. Graphic design is a process, just
like software development. If you learn the basics, you'll soon turn out better User Experiences
and find inspiration in the world around you. While I can't make you a design guru overnight, I
can help you make your apps look a bit less like they did when the Spice Girls were on the pop
charts. Turtlenecks and berets optional.
Presenter: Frank La Vigne
Frank La Vigne is a Microsoft Tablet PC MVP and Lead Architect/Designer for Applied Information
Sciences (AIS) in Northern Virginia. Frank started in software development when he was twelve,
writing BASIC programs for the Commodore 64. He began his professional career writing Visual
Basic 3 applications for Wall Street firms in 1993. He then moved on to be the first webmaster
for a major book retailer. Frank then went on to develop a large multinational online banking
project in Germany. In 2004, Frank became heavily focused on Tablet PC application development.
Frank is also active in the developer community, speaking at user groups and code camps along the
East Coast.
For more information about the meeting, please visit the CMAP website.
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 was released today. There are several cool UI enhancements that this
beta brings to the table that I won't cover in this post, but you can learn
more about them on the IEBlog. Instead, I want to talk about how beta 2 affects IE's
relationship to web standards.
Also known as 'Dynamic Properties', CSS expressions are a proprietary extension to CSS with a
high performance cost. As of Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2, CSS expressions are not supported in IE8
standards mode. They are still supported in IE7 Strict mode and Quirks mode for backward
compatibility.
In case you don't know, CSS expressions were actual bits of JavaScript that you could run from
CSS rules; this was commonly used to simulate the CSS max-width property for IE:
IE 8 beta 2 also now supports alternate style sheets:
Internet Explorer 8 now supports alternative style sheets as specified by HTML4 and CSS2.1. The
alternative styles that are defined by the Web page author is available through the Style menu
under the Page menu. The styles are also available through the Style menu under the View menu.
The No Style option on either menu can be used to disable all authors styling.
In terms of the Known Issues with IE 8 Beta 2, the first is related to Ajax bookmarking and back
button support and using window.location.hash to do cross-domain communication:
Internet Explorer 8 create entries in the travel log and back button for each instance of
window.location.hash that is set. This is part of the behavior for Internet Explorer 8 AJAX
Navigation. If you use this technique to communicate between documents, we recommend that you
switch to the Internet Explorer 8 Cross Document Messaging feature that is based on Section 6.4 of the HTML 5.0
specification.
Finally, there are some issues with the onload event for IE's XDomainRequest object that
helps with cross-domain communication:
The onload event may not fire reliably. We recommend you use the onprogress events which
continues to fire as the data is received.
Unfortunately this is it for this release. You can see the full Beta 2 release notes, or download it yourself.
The XSS Filter operates as an IE8 component with visibility into all requests / responses flowing
through the browser. When the filter discovers likely XSS in a cross-site request, it identifies
and neuters the attack if it is replayed in the server’s response. Users are not presented
with questions they are unable to answer – IE simply blocks the malicious
script from executing.
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When I met with Nicholas Negroponte not
long ago, he laughed at the coverage he'd received through the past few years, including our own
portrayal of Intel chairman Craig Barrett and him as 
actions collectives : organisation de visites de sites exemplaires de
production ou de stockage de combustible, eÌdition de documents d'information et de
promotion dans le domaine des approvisionnements bois-eÌnergie, organisation de
confeÌrences ou de colloques sur le sujet des approvisionnements, eÌtudes sur la
disponibiliteÌ de la ressource et sur l'optimisation de sa collecte, etc.
