World: r3wp

where does it fit with Uniserve, Rugby, Rebservices, Beer? Is it 
an upper layer, transport independent?

docs here .. he can answer that

UniServe's kernel is just a fin layer abstracting REBOL's low-level 
IO. So everything network-related will be above UniServe.

I had a look at Termite's paper, I don't see what's really new there 
?

Portable continuations? Process proxies to devices?

It's erlang implemented with the full power of Scheme.

full
 as in distributed

Imagine a database query you create, capture as continuation and 
distribute as process to whoever wants the last 10 customers.

Mozilla Firefox 2 Beta 1 has been released. This milestone for developers 
and testers includes several new features including anti-phishing, 
browser session restore in case of a crash, support for client-side 
session and persistent storage, ability to re-open accidentally closed 
tabs, support for JavaScript 1.7, new Windows installer based on 
Nullsoft Scriptable Install System, new microsummaries feature for 
bookmarks, new search plugin manager and better support for previewing 
and subscribing to web feeds.

http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=10979

does it still freeze during downloads?

That's my pet dislike about FF .. it freezes all the windows while 
downloading files

as though it's not multithreaded

Analysts see JAVA EE dying in an SOA world ... http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid26_gci1198211,00.html

that's what Carl has been saying .. complexity is death

so finally time for scripting?

If we can get a stable and rich gui

Maarten, what's happening with your toute implementation?

According to java6 itstime for scripting.

Well, 1.0.7 was the last usabel version off FF. 1.5 Just keeps eatuing 
memory, is _slooooooow_ to do _anything_ (but eating memory ;-)

FF does get scary some times, and it seems easy to fix...odd.

http://video.google.de/videosearch?q=hp+labs+google+techtalks


This are two of a series of four (2 more to come in the next 2 weeks 
(if I remember correctly)) talks about capability security. I think 
they're highly educational, interesting and anyway important to widen 
ones view on security issues we face nowadays. Highly recommended. 
:-) (best to download the Google Video player and watch them by downloading 
them)

Very nice MorphOS review - http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=15209

I like those icons btw - and overal look too ...

Maybe it's not so new (as I was a few weeks out of keyboards) but 
I just found that there is new Flash player - http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/productinfo/features/

(but reading some discussions, thay have problems to be cross-platform)

AMD + ATI  http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/VirtualPressRoom/0,,51_104_543~110899,00.html

The new company will use the acronym DAAMIT

i thought it was A**

too vauge.   A??  or  A[MT][DI]

Opera's vision for version 10 - http://news.com.com/Opera+reveals+version+10+vision/2100-1032_3-6099692.html?tag=nefd.top

Opera plans to put their widgets on mobile devices, TVs, game consoles 
.... http://www.apcstart.com/site/dwarne/2006/07/799/opera-to-put-widgets-on-mobile-phones

http://www.krugle.com/<---search engine for source code

searching for rebol gives some interesting results...

Some news from WWDC - http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=15411

the new Mac Pro is evil :-) but it's also very expensive. it seem 
that the Mac Pro is moving up, becoming less for advanced home users 
and moving to enterprise/company/government users.

Xray for XCode looks also a bit evil. a very visual way to analyze 
program performance

.NET and JAVA to get better dynamic language support - http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060810-7462.html

interesting discussions and links to the article - http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=15460

Not quite a news but IMO quite interesting: lukfil writes "We all 
know of floating point numbers, so much so that we reach for them 
each time we write code that does math. But do we ever stop to think 
what goes on inside that floating point unit and whether we can really 
trust it?"  http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/12335059/article.pl

It's also interesting that Rebol doesn't need example 1, gets example 
2 right on the first try, and therefore doesn't seem to need example 
3

That is true, but I have noticed floating point approximation errors 
when adding up numbers during accounting.

You can't use floating point for money (accurately) without doing 
some manual smoothing and rounding as you go. Hopefully R3 will address 
this.

if you do need to add a bunch of floating point numbers begin with 
the smallest first and work your way up

Or you use Scheme that has a number ladder including bignums. So 
you never lose precision.

...or any language that supports BCD, scaled-integers, string math, 
etc.

Ruby 1.8.5 released, added non-blocking IO ....

Maybe those guys could add REBOL variant? :-) http://www.activestate.com/Products/Komodo/?mp=1

looks nice, and supports most of Rebol competition ...

Python 2.5 released - major release after 20 months of development 
- http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.5/