Comments on: Elephants Dream Released

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 21:39:12 +0000

Hi Alex, the title is grammatically correct, it’s meant to be “elephants do dream” or “elephants can dream” or even “a dream involving elephants”. The making of documentary (available on the orange site) explains this a bit better :)

By: Alex Zavatone

Alex Zavatone — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 14:35:33 +0000

Pardon me, as I am a little confused.

Does the title of the lovely Elephants Dream mean:

1) Elephants can dream.
2) This is a dream of an elephant.

If the title means that indicated in #1, then it is grammatically correct. But if the title means #2, then the grammar of the title is incorrect and confusing.

If it is #2, then the title should be “Elephant’s Dream”.

To me, it makes more sense if the name of video is #2 but I hope the meaning of the title is #1. If the desired name of the video is indeed #2, then the current title is grammatically incorrect. It would be embarrassing to have such a lovely showpiece of your technology where its title contains an obvious 5th grade grammar error.

Some clarification would be appreciated.

Cheers, and keep up the lovely work.

- Alex

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 30 May 2006 20:06:25 +0000

That reminds me, I still have to get you that stubbie holder… Hmm..

By: bassam

bassam — Fri, 26 May 2006 16:29:59 +0000

cheers matey!
here’s to world domination by somnolent elephants!
(sipping a beer in belated web release celebration)
-bassam

By: Rui Campos

Rui Campos — Wed, 24 May 2006 06:54:10 +0000

Its great, it means you are being applauded all over the world.

Anyway, the special /index.php hack to get inside isn’t working as it should, you always get redirected when clicking the links inside it, can you guys allow for access to it again ? At least we could comment a bit, the ones that know this …

Cheerz,

– Rui –

PS: I have the files mirrored on my website too, so, it has 8 more GB of downloads, only from Portuguese folks.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 23 May 2006 08:43:08 +0000

Rui, I would have thought it would be ok by now, but apparently it’s not – if not even worse now :) We originally put the temporary page up when the real site caused the server load to go up to around 10-15 (it’s usually around 0.5-2). That helped things for a while, bringing the load back down to normal levels. But now it’s back up to 7 or so, even with the lightweight front page!

I don’t know the exact statistics, and I’m sure we’re going to do a blog post about it when we have the numbers, but as a rough figure, bart estimates that there’s been an average of 150,000 page views per day, for the last 4 days running. A modest estimate of how many people have downloaded it is around 250,000 people.

There are statistics for the bittorrent tracker here: http://jip.cs.vu.nl:6969/ . So far about 42 TERABYTES of ED files have been downloaded via bittorrent.

By: Rui Campos

Rui Campos — Tue, 23 May 2006 06:55:52 +0000

Isn’t the website load lower now ?

I want to see the blog again and have you guys posting a new entry with the statistics on the downloads so far and media coverage that has been done.

— Rui –

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 20 May 2006 20:06:41 +0000

Cheers and thanks for your contribution too! I already spent a while flipping through all the different subtitles to see what they were like. Very cool.

By: Rui Campos - rcas

Rui Campos - rcas — Sat, 20 May 2006 19:18:49 +0000

ED is a huge success and I wish you luck for this next stage of After Orange (maybe Orange 2?…).

Anyway, I loved Elephants Dream and am glad I was able to contribute to it, even with just a minor participation.

All my best,

– Rui –

PS: Hoping to see some nice posts from you on the blog :) .