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Thursday, August 30, 2007

Dead Baby

O Dead é o primeiro de uma série de personagens que a tempos estou querendo criar. Na verdade ou falta tempo ou falta inspiração...concordo com Domenico de Masi, quando fala que o ócio é criativo....é nas raras horas de descanso que nascem as inspirações, claro q leitura e pesquisa também ajudam.

Bom a todos que me perguntam porque criar uma personagem inspirada na morte eu respondo:

- Existem várias maneiras de vermos e encaramos a morte, como falo com meus alunos, ninguém quer mas uma hora dessas ela aparece...

Dead Baby é uma criança...assustada, que ainda não entende bem o seu papel no mundo, ele é meigo e carrega traços sensíveis, é do tipo de se pegar no colo e balançar até dormir...não sei quando vou dar "vida" a esse personagem, mas não pretendo fazer dele um ser triste, amargo ou rancoroso...

"A estrada para o sucesso é pontilhada com muitas paradas tentadoras."-- Anônimo

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

DOSE DUPLA - Workshop

Galera quem tiver afim de se interar sobre assuntos como produção de áudio, vídeo e gráfica aparece no Workshop...as informações estão abaixo e o contato do pessoal q tá realizando tb...vamos lá apoiar essa iniciativa e parar de reclamar q nunca se tem nada de interessante pra prestigiar!!!!

Dia 24 de agosto/2007, às 19:00 - Cinema do Centro Municipal de Cultura Dr. Henique Ordovás Filho - Caxias do Sul - RS

- Abertura do evento

- 30 minutos de palestra com Luis Carlos Dias Pereira - Technologica (empresa de áudio de POA)
Tema: Criatividade em Áudio
15 minutos de perguntas

- 30 minutos de palestra com Nika Ferronato - Video Top (empresa de vídeo de Caxias)
Tema: O que faz a diferença
15 minutos de perguntas

- Coffe break

- 30 minutos de palestra com Sérgio Bálico - Editora São miguel
Tema: Limites e alternativas na produção gráfica
15 minutos de perguntas

- Encerramento

Mauricio Sechaus
Diretor de Marketing e Negócios
www.dupladecriacao.com.br
mauricio@dupladecriacao.com.br
mauricio@sechaus.com.br
(54) 8137.5997

Monday, August 13, 2007

DAS ANTIGA

Essa é pra dar risada com minhas amigas de infância...a gente aprontava uma missa pra gamhar um tênis de "marca" rsrsrsrs....na real todo mundo tinha os mesmos tênis os Marathons, os Ivan Lendl...sem falar nos Ferracinis "que coisa mais ridicula"...no mais quem lembrar de mais um ou de uma história entra ai e comenta...

Bons tempos em q os tênis não eram pagos com meu dinheiro...rsrsrsrs

Saturday, August 11, 2007

Thirty Years With Computers

Summary: Since I started using computers, they've become almost a million times more powerful. Although big computers can be alienating, their evolution generally leads to a better user experience.
I started using computers in 1974 when I was still in high school. My first computer took up an entire room and yet had only five kilobytes of RAM (that's 5K, not 5M). Punched paper tape was the main form of data input, and the operator console was an electric typewriter. No screens, no cursor. The CPU ran at a speed of about 0.1 Mhz.
Despite its primitive nature, this early computer was much more pleasant to use than the monster mainframe I was subjected to a few years later when I started at the university. The early, simple computer couldn't do much, though I did design a few text-based games for it. Still, it was a single-user computer -- basically a PC the size of a room. When you used it, you had total control of the machine and knew everything it did, down to the spinning and whirring of the punched tape.
Although the bigger, newer mainframe had an actual CRT screen, it also had obscure commands and horrible usability. Worst of all, it was highly alienating because you had no idea what was going on. You'd issue commands, and some time later you might get the desired result. There was no feeling of mastery of the machine. You were basically a supplicant to a magic oracle functioning beyond the ken of humankind.
People who started using computers after the PC revolution have no idea of the miserable user experience that centralized computers imposed. Even the worst PC designs feel positively liberating by comparison.
For me personally, the experience of moving from a small, relatively transparent computer to an oppressively large and opaque one marked the start of my passion for usability. I knew that it could feel good to use computers, and I wanted to recapture that sense of empowerment and put humans back in control of the machines.
For the field in general, it's worth remembering the downsides to centralized computing. We must take steps to keep users in control as we grow the power of the network. It's essential that we keep a strong front end to balance out improved back-end features.
What 2034 Will BringIf I keep up my exercise schedule, I stand a good chance of experiencing computers thirty years from now. According to Moore's Law, computer power doubles every 18 months, meaning that computers will be a million times more powerful by 2034. According to Nielsen's Law of Internet bandwidth, connectivity to the home grows by 50% per year; by 2034, we'll have 200,000 times more bandwidth.
That same year, I'll own a computer that runs at 3 PHz CPU speed, has a petabyte of memory, half an exabyte of harddisk-equivalent storage, and connects to the Internet with a bandwidth of a quarter terabit per second (peta is 1015, or a million giga; exa is 1018, or a billion giga).
The specifics may vary: instead of following current Moore's Law trajectories to speed up a single CPU, it's likely that we'll see multiprocessors, smart dust, and other ways of getting the equivalent power through a more advanced computer architecture. But users shouldn't have to care about such implementation details.
By 2034, we'll finally get decent computer displays, with a resolution of about 20,000 x 10,000 pixels (as opposed to the miserly 2048 x 1536 pixels on my current monitor). Although welcomed, my predicted improvement factor of 200 here is relatively small; history shows that display technology has the most dismal improvement curve of any computer technology, except possibly batteries.
Utilizing Hardware ImprovementsHow could anyone use petabytes of memory and terabits of bandwidth for personal needs? Hard to imagine now, but I don't think we'll have any trouble putting the coming hardware cornucopia to good use. We'll use half the storage space to index all our information so that we can search it instantly. Good riddance, snoozy Outlook search.
We'll also spend a big percentage of the computer power on defense mechanisms such as self-healing software (to root out bugs and adapt to changing environments) and aggressively defensive virus antibodies. We'll need such software to protect against "social engineering" attacks, such as email that purports to come from your boss and asks you to open an attachment.
Computer games in 2034 are likely to offer simulated worlds and interactive storytelling that's more engaging than linear presentations such as those in most movies today. For this new entertainment, the simplest accomplishment we need is artificial actors rendered in real time in high-definition animation. Adapting stories to individual users will be much harder. Once solved, the resulting user interfaces will be much more appealing to a broad market than current computer games, which typically feature convoluted gameplay and simplified worlds.
Even without full AI, computers will exhibit more signs of agency and work to defend their owner's online interests rather than sitting passively, waiting for commands. Richer interaction styles are also likely, both in terms of gestures, physical interfaces, multi-device interfaces, and the long-awaited decent high-resolution flat screen.
Certainly, our personal computer will remember anything we've ever seen or done in both cyberspace and meatspace. A complete HDTV record of every waking hour of your life will consume 0.01 EB, or 2% of your harddisk.
Science fiction authors do a better job than I of speculating on future advances and the implications for human existence. However, one thing is certain: the transition from punched tape to the Web and megapixel displays is merely the first and smallest part of the evolution of user interfaces. If we keep human needs in mind and harness the increased computer power appropriately, there will be great and exciting things ahead in our field.
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Text: Jakob Nielsen - http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20040524.html