Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 24th Feb 2004 18:34 UTC
The voice, the man, the... machine. That's George Hoffman for you. According to people who have worked with him (including my husband) he is one of the brightest Be, Inc. engineers ever. These days, George works at PalmSource, Inc. as the Director of Applications and Services. In his free time he sings with an (a cappella) vocal band of 4, Hookslide (check out their .wmv promo video clip)! In this interview we talk about PalmOS 6, aka Cobalt. We discuss the architecture of the OS, its capabilities, its market targets and more. Screenshots of Cobalt are included.
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"At the core of these technologies is the new Palm OS rendering model, which is a Postscript-like (some might say "SVG-like") 2D drawing API which is designed to be substantially accelerated with 3D hardware... anti-aliased rasterization... TrueType font rendering is standard..."
Ahh... reading this is almost orgasmic.
Then, reading about media kit similarities, mapping movies to a cube, font demos...
Mmmmmmmm, oooooooooh!
Seeing State of the Art didn't make things worse either. But I wonder if it had sound... and if it played the original song... "Condom Corruption"