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Innovation, part 2

UnderpaidLoveMonki — Sat, 03 May 2008 14:38:41 +0000

Having blogged about innovation, here’s another article on innovation — an interview with Pixar’s Brad Bird. It pretty much explains what’s needed to develop new products and fostering innovation.

Involved people make for better innovation… Involved people can be quiet, loud, or anything in-between—what they have in common is a restless, probing nature: “I want to get to the problem. There’s something I want to do.” If you had thermal glasses, you could see heat coming off them.

The first step in achieving the impossible is believing that the impossible can be achieved. … “You don’t play it safe—you do something that scares you, that’s at the edge of your capabilities, where you might fail. That’s what gets you up in the morning.”

Hiding from Big Brother

Scott Rippee — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:48:24 +0000

link

That’s what she said

Scott Rippee — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:17:26 +0000

I want to play ball with my kids before I get too old, and before that happens I need to get laid, and before that happens I need to be in love, and I don’t want to hear edddon’tknow I can’t help eddon’tknow. No, No I’m a catch and I’m not going to be the one that got away.

…

There’s nobody I hate enough to write her name on this card.

brilliant

Brobinius

Scott Rippee — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:52:59 +0000

I was going to put in the time and get a forked ruby out to fill in some feature gaps, but the maker of tender love beat me to it.

Brobinus adds some much needed features like Object#tase! and brobinius –screencast my_code.rb for youtube integration. link

JollysFastVNC gets the job done

Scott Rippee — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 19:43:15 +0000

I’ve been using Chicken of the VNC for the last month only to be annoyed by it’s slowness and scrollbars added because of the higher resolution server. I did a search for VNC clients for Mac and found the.taoofmac.com Mac VNC list.

JollysFastVNC is my new VNC client and it is much faster than Chicken of the VNC. Switch and be joyful.

Vista source code leaked

Scott Rippee — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 21:34:53 +0000

OMG Some behemoth bugs! For instance, those variables at the top should be declared constant. Any ole dev could decide to increment the feature count, decrement the bugs, and set ready to release!

Missing git-svn on os x leopard

Scott Rippee — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 02:09:14 +0000

Chances are you didn't port install git-core with the svn option:

VIEW PLAIN TEXT

CODE:

sudo port install git-core +svn

post uninstalling the old hullabaloo

Sustainable Innovation

UnderpaidLoveMonki — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 00:08:21 +0000

In BlackBerry: Innovation Behind the Icon,

If you really want to build something sustainable and innovative you have to invest in R&D. If you build the right culture and invest in the right facilities and you encourage and motivate and inspire both young and seasoned people and put them all in the right environment—then it really performs for you. It's what I call sustainable innovation.

Amen. If your competitors build cheaper products that's in the same market as you, innovation is the only thing will keep you alive...in the long run.

CSU Chico’s Intelligent Systems Laboratory

Scott Rippee — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:53:22 +0000

Came across this document that is the progress report for the first half of the grant that CSU Chico received for robotics while I was there. The report included example project papers, one of which was from one of my groups and included several pictures of my lovely boebot along with some colorful language:

That particular design was used the two sensors pointing at the ground to follow a line and detect the ending point, a perpendicular line.

From the look of the Intelligent Systems Laboratory page they are doing well with several interesting projects in the works.

Ubuntu 8.04 beta in Mac Parallels

Scott Rippee — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:31:04 +0000

Wooohoo Ubuntu 8.04 beta works perfectly in parallels on Leopard. I had some problems with 7.10 from the iso and cd so instead of using the alternate (text based install that is reported to work) I downloaded 8.04. So far everything is running flawlessly. Parallels tools reportedly has problems running due to an Xorg change, but I haven't gave it a try for my self yet and that post/bug was submitted a couple of months ago.

Check out the Ubuntu 8.04 features. It's exciting to see the new apps, features, and versions in open source land that are all being pulled together to create a great user experience.