World: r3wp

the flash version of lzpix definitely works.. follow the link from 
the home site...  :-)  its very fluid.

the lazlo in ten minutes... gave me the exact same reaction to when 
I first tried rebol view.  wow, it actually "works".

laszlo must have graphic artist with him. Such apps would be nice 
in View too .... e.g. I liked old capsule look of Oldes?

I will continue on my skined view layouts since at least new R3 alpha 
version will be released. I would like to use same source for making 
View layouts as for my R/Flash dialect in the future. Using graphic 
which is used for skinning windows.

The Flash version will be limited as now I can do much more things 
in Rebol then in Flash

Except fonts - it's a shame, that we cannot use custom embedded fonts 
in Rebol yet:(

does draw support czech chars?

it should support if you have correct regional settings

and correct font

so we can have AA fonts, right?

I prefer pixel fonts (for fonts with size less then 12px)

Toyota developing their own OS
http://neasia.nikkeibp.com/neasia/004276

reinventing the wheel. The article not mentioning QNX and mentioning 
Windows mobile seems a bit uninformed

There is good reason to build something from scratch.  Lets assume 
there are 10,000 terminals for Toyota dealers.


If you are paying Microsoft about $120 for their software, that alone 
is 1.2 million.  


And windows crashes a lot, requires lots of maintenance, and lots 
of overhead to configure, oh, and is filled with security holes.


Building a simple platform that just does a few things can be well 
worth it.

IIRC there was a BMW that was involved in accident locking its passenger, 
later it was discover that the problem was due to a change on the 
controller OS to windows embedder. So I guess now BMW are using something 
else.

F-Script - scripting OS-X - http://www.fscript.org/

I thought next surprise will be OS-X switches to REBOL :-)

F-Script is really nice. Having available for about 3 years now.

What a pitty is not available in other platforms.

jaime, how deep can you go with it? I don't feel too inclined to 
dive into objC programming right now

Well you can do full apps with it.

The most famous one is 'Colloquy' and IRC tool.

The good part is that you don't need to do any memory management. 
But I think you need to be familiar a bit with the Cocoa API, because 
F-Script wraps it into an smalltalk syntax.

Colloquy? wow.... guess I should study F-script :-)

Reichart, the automotive terminals they are talking about in the 
Toyota article will be installed in the dashboard of the cars. That 
means quite a bit more than 10,000 terminals here, and a much smaller 
comparison price.


Pekr, they do mention Windows Automotive OS, which is derived from 
Windows Mobile.

another hidden benifit to having your own OS is your employees can't 
spend the day surfing or playing solaitair if you have not ported 
the programs

Do you play solitaire in your car with the dashboard computer?

more apt to dash a computer playing solitaire with my car

I don't think that Windows Automotive has solitaire, and I'm willing 
to bet that uITRON doesn't either.

QNX isn't as much of a player in the Japanese automotive market, 
AFAIK.

http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/lfcamera/<--- very interesting 
camera: take a picture, then choose the focus you want in the image.

ubercool, I want one!

Steve Dekorte (Io's creator on his visit to Ruby's User Group)


I dropped by the San Francisco Ruby User Group meeting the other 
day. There were about 100 people there and all the presentations 
that I caught were basically non-technical overviews of dotcom sites 
that people were making with Ruby on Rails. Also, there were a ton 
of folks looking to employ Ruby programmers. In contrast, the last 
Python meeting I went to at Stanford was about 20 people and all 
the talks were fairly technical. 

Dynamic languages really seem 
to be taking off. Perhaps they just need to provide solutions (as 
Rails does for quick web programming) instead of merely technology 
for people to see the direct benefits and make the leap. 

Another 
interesting bit, I heard that Ruby's Mongrel webserver uses globally 
locked threads. I'm curious to know don't they use proper continuations 
and asynchronous sockets as Io does (with coroutines and async sockets)?

the most interesting thing I heard about Io at that meeting was that 
I could run it on my cell phone!

Gates to work 'part-time' in MS by 2008.
Ozzie step up to be Chief Software Architect.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060616/tc_nm/microsoft_dc_8

Great, a guy that basically was "granted" Lotus Notes (he did not 
invent it for you young guys) is now in charge of MS....amazing...fitting..

You want the billion $ idea for digi-cams?


Add a SLIM and BEAUTIFY button that will alter the taken pictures 
in real-time.

: )

Sometimes known as a "lens cover"

digital beer goggles. I like it.

Well he did manage to take groove from a good idea into a bloated 
behomoth. I think that's how he got MS attention ;-)

Yup...

http://irows.com/<--- way better done than google spreadsheets I 
think

http://www.wetpaint.com/<-- has Reichart debunked this one yet? 
:-)

First off, I haven't used a spreadsheet in 10 years, and second.. 
wetpaint.com generates a boring web 1.0 page  (here's the wetpaint 
anime page http://anime.wetpaint.com/
C'mon people.. think out of the box.

Latest framewerks development uses ajax to send a change to the DB.. 
if that change requires authentication, the server <i>pushes</i> 
an authentication widget to the page (no refresh), the user fills 
it out, and carries on. very smooth.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060619/ap_on_sc/norway_arctic_seed_vault

A form of tech...

Perhaps they should be archiving old computer languages and source 
code?

Opera 9 released - http://www.opera.com