Wink Chosen to Receive Noble Piece Prize 210
Phil Shapiro writes "Wink, a beautifully written free program for creating Flash-format animated tutorials has been chosen to receive a Noble Piece Prize, the prize that honors the craftsmanship of Alfred Noble, who worked at the Jacquard Loom factory in France. Previous winners of this prize include the Digital Bicycle web site."
Wink, Wink (Score:5, Funny)
Say no more, say no more
No reference? (Score:1, Redundant)
Re:No reference? (Score:2, Funny)
Wink! (Score:1)
Shoko Aida can cook for me. Any time.
This sounds fishy to me too. (Score:1, Informative)
see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize [wikipedia.org]
I trust wikipedia over ~pshapiro anyday.
Re:This sounds fishy to me too. (Score:5, Informative)
Re:This sounds fishy to me too. (Score:3, Interesting)
I wouldn't be suprised if this Alfred was at... (Score:3, Funny)
Noble Piece Prize? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Noble Piece Prize? (Score:1)
Re:Noble Piece Prize? (Score:2)
Re:Noble Piece Prize? (Score:2)
Re:Noble Piece Prize? (Score:2)
Only if the creator of the prize is motivated to absolve his concience of the guilt caused by years of doing/selling horrible deeds/goods. Like selling, say, heroin or weapons-grade dynamite.
There's no way this is true... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:There's no way this is true... (Score:1)
Re:There's no way this is true... (Score:5, Funny)
Why do I have the feeling that this story was posted simply to watch the spelling nazis make asses out of themselves?
Anybody want some popcorn?
Re:There's no way this is true... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:There's no way this is true... (Score:2)
We're not just spelling Nazis.
(All in good humor. This is what happens when you grow up with an English teacher for a mother.)
Re:There's no way this is true... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:There's no way this is true... (Score:2)
Articles?
ba-dum psssh.
Re:There's no way this is true... (Score:2)
Of course not, we all just click the link and keep hitting reload until the server goes down.
Re:There's no way this is true... (Score:2)
Fat comic book store guy from Simpsons... is that really you??
Not only the loom factory... (Score:1, Redundant)
No, that's a completely dfiferent award. (Score:1)
Re:No, that's a completely dfiferent award. (Score:1)
Re:Not only the loom factory... (Score:2)
No, they said loom factory, not boom factory.
I don't believe it (Score:1, Redundant)
Re:I don't believe it (Score:2)
Re:I don't believe it (Score:5, Insightful)
It's not, but it's supposed to be.
Re:I don't believe it (Score:2)
It's not, but it's supposed to be.
Looks like someone forgot to change the spelling when they did this one [go.com].
Re:I don't believe it (Score:2)
The day slashdot needs and siclaimer like that, I will, erm, eat my Nobel Piece Hat!
I just penned a quick reply saying how wacky this was, then realised, I was gullible. I have used Wink, it is ok. Neesd to be able to add VOICE, and more functions like custom graphics overlays, highlight areas, foo bar and etc.
You may be wrong... (Score:1)
Re:You may be wrong... (Score:5, Informative)
That's not the article. (Score:2, Insightful)
Re: (Score:2, Offtopic)
Re:Nobel Prize is a JOKE!!! (Score:2)
Well, since the article is about the Noble Piece prize, and not the Nobel Peace Prize, this is strictly speaking off-topic. But I'll bite nevertheless.
Maathai did not get the prize for claiming the AIDS virus was engineered [1]. She got the prize for making an important contribution to peace: growing trees, securing water and food supplies of central Africa.
The committee stressed the point of linking peace with the environment, and this certainly makes sense. It everyone has enough food and water, no-o
Re:Nobel Prize is a JOKE!!! (Score:2, Interesting)
That particular claim (if it really has been made) is a bit steep but there is a credible theory which claims that AIDS originated from polio vaccines.
The oral polio vaccine theory IMO explains quite a lot and also has evidence to back its claims. It's not just for the tinfoil hat crowd.
More here: Origins of Aids [aidsorigins.com]
"The second theory, the "oral polio vaccine" or "OPV" theory, has it that AIDS bega
I nominiate (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I nominiate (Score:1, Funny)
Re:I nominiate (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:I nominiate (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:I nominiate (Score:2)
And stop that darn postin' on slush-dot. Thet good ole boy Al Gore hasn't invented the intarweb thing yet! You gonna get us ALL in a heap of dog shit, you keep that up.
Re:I nominiate (Score:3, Funny)
And them wimen, t'weren't no hookers. No siree. They was just ministering to my needs. And if you done seen Tammy Faye, you KNOW that, truthfully, I can say that I am truly grateful for the bounciful, I mean bootyful, I mean, ... never you mind!
You KNOW the good book done say its a sin to sleep with a beast! That's why I done what I did. That's why th
What I remember from school about nobel (Score:1)
Re:What I remember from school about nobel (Score:2)
Standards? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Standards? (Score:1)
Nope, you're alone. Expecting higher standards from slashdot editors is like a woman expecting to get off from a eunuch.
Nope. (Score:2)
Nope, you're alone.
Re:Standards? (Score:2)
Not at all; many newcomers and extremely naive people read Slashdot every day.
What kind of bollocks is this? (Score:4, Informative)
So basically no evidence of anything at all. Is this whole article a Troll to see how many slashdotters will bite? Did the editors check a single link?
This article can be summed up as "No content here, but I have some links - Clicky clicky clicky please!!"
This is the most inane thing I have ever seen.
If you will excuse me, I'm off to make up some prizes to award to random people.
Re:What kind of bollocks is this? (Score:5, Insightful)
Of course there isn't. It's the Noble Piece Prize.
As in "really great bit of work." Noble Piece. Get it?
And of course it exists, it's just been announced right here on Slashdot. With winners and everything. Yeah, Phil Shapiro made it up, but, that's how awards come to be you know. Someone just makes them up and starts handing them out.
They don't come down from the mountain engraved on stone by the hand of God or something. Someone, like maybe Alfred Nobel, just decides to give 'em out.
I have made up and awarded a number of prizes in my day mayself. They're perfectly legitimate prizes. Like the "Best Drive of the Day" trophy at my local kart track.
I'm off to make up some prizes to award to random people.
Exactly! Just like Nobel and Pulitzer did. Although awarding them at random takes some of the value out of them. I suggest you develop some real criteria first. Then they'll really mean something.
You have an "Authority Thang," don't you?
KFG
Re:What kind of bollocks is this? (Score:5, Informative)
Just in case, though .. the2004 winners [improb.com] were
Even I couldn't make this shit up (well, maybe I could, if I was given a research grant like most of these people were)Re:What kind of bollocks is this? (Score:3, Funny)
As it turns out, it was actually a 43 year old married man in a gorilla suit pretending to be an 18-year old bisexual woman in a gorilla suit.
Re:What kind of bollocks is this? (Score:2)
Re:What kind of bollocks is this? (Score:2, Funny)
So you're the one responsible for the MTV Awards!!
Re:What kind of bollocks is this? (Score:2)
See foot icon - insert in mouth icon.
Yay ads! (Score:2)
(I know its free ware, but it is still a product placement I didn't need)
Uh... spam on Slashdot? (Score:3, Insightful)
What the heck? (Score:5, Insightful)
So can I create my own Nebula Peas prize and give it to some random free software project, like Hebcal [sf.net] or something, and get it posted on the front page of Slashdot?
(No offense against Hebcal; I just picked the first nonfamous project that I saw browsing SourceForge.)
Re:What the heck? (Score:5, Insightful)
Dont you just love the quotes at the bottom of the article? I know I do.
Re:What the heck? (Score:2)
Such is the infinite inscrutability of Slashdot.
Noble Piece, huh? Is that what . . . (Score:1)
KFG
I hope to sum up the reaction from all non-posters (Score:5, Funny)
"Piece" (Score:2)
(Remember, Slashdot, thou art mortal.)
humorous? maybe (Score:1)
Not to troll (Score:1)
wink is great (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:wink is great (Score:2)
Unless, for example, you're on PPC: it's x86 only.
Re:wink is great (Score:5, Funny)
Re:wink is great (Score:3, Insightful)
Binary distribution only. The accompanying license states, in part:
Seconded (Score:2)
Parody, anyone? (Score:1)
I could have sworn this was a dupe... (Score:3, Interesting)
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/
Are these two stories, Nobel Prizes/Noble Piece Prize, appearing the same day a coincidence? I think not.
The Biggest Lie Of Science:
"The Piece Prize will be waiting for you backstage after you give your conference paper."
Wink is a nice app for Linux (Score:5, Informative)
It's similar to Macromedia Captivate and the dozens of other Flash-output screen recording tools available but what sets this app apart from the others in my opinion is it's support for Linux (it's available for Windows too) and it's price (free).
The only other app that I've used that does screen recording and outputs Flash files is the vnc2swf [unixuser.org] console based program. While vnc2swf is quite good at full motion recording it's editing capability is virtually nonexistent (there is a program called edit_vnc2swf but it's console based at least right now).
Wink has an excellent GUI, is 100% free ( I made a voluntary donation to the developer via Paypal and encourage others to do the same), allows you to do manual or full-motion (timed) captures, and has very good support for Linux. It's definitely an app worth downloading.
(Note: I'm not affiliated in any way with Wink--just a happy user).
Re:Wink is a nice app for Linux (Score:2)
There's even a Konquerer KDE plug-in for Kniw - KKK - niw (though it has a bit of trouble handling colour separations when printing, tending to render large areas colourless).
If anyone should have gotten the Noble Piece Prize, it should have been the guy(I think its a guy - the sourceforge project docs don
Re:Wink is a nice app for Linux (Score:3)
But I thought color separation was what it was all about?
On second thought, maybe it works as designed after all.
Free as in beer, not FS/OS (Score:2)
Of course, after large numbers of people write asking for permission, maybe he'll decide that it is a PITA and choose different terms.
it's free but not Free (Score:2)
Suchetha
Re:Wink is a nice app for Linux (Score:2)
as far as I'm concerned (Score:2, Insightful)
In the area of tutorials, Wink is like Firefox and Openof
Oh, stop moaning (Score:2)
Dave
A whole different meaning! (Score:2)
an object winning Noble? (Score:2)
The reason this joke doesn't work... (Score:2)
Oh... Wink (Score:2)
http://www.wingtunes.com/public/samples.aspx [wingtunes.com]
Re:The What Prize? (Score:2, Insightful)
"That's one Noble Piece dude, someone should give you a prize for dat...hey!!"
Re:The What Prize? (Score:1)
Re:The What Prize? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:The What Prize? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:The What Prize? (Score:5, Funny)
Shameless
Re:The What Prize? (Score:2)
Re:The What Prize? (Score:2)
From Mr. Shapiro's website: (Score:1)
"I'm really fascinated about the nature of the online experience. Between 1993 and 1995 I wrote a monthly column, "Thinking About Online Communications," for the GEnie information service. This column explores the nature of online communications, with a special emphasis on the psychological and social aspects of online communications."
I can't determine if there really is such a prize, or if this thing is one big joke
Re:Piece? (Score:2, Informative)
This is the Noble Piece Prize, which has zero to do with the Nobel foundation in Zurich, and therefore not actually a big deal.
Re:Piece? (Score:2)
The Nobel foundation in Zurich??? Uhm. You misspelled Oslo.
Re:Hey guys, see the "it's funny, laugh"? (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Is There No Better News? (Score:2)
Re:ha! (Score:1)
Re:Peace prize (Score:1)
Many of us are proud to have code which looks "just right" and works "just right", but there's a lesson many people learn the hard way: "The perfect is the enemy of the good. -Voltaire. There's a fine line between that and "Does it run?" (without regard to how well it runs, how efficient it runs, does it scale, how well the architecture has been designed to accommodate future versions, etc.) Not to mention decision tim
Re:I Applaud... (Score:2)