World: r3wp

Just read that SUN is thinking of moving Solaris to GPL....

wow, if you can't beat them.... join them... isn't that what they 
say?

well they have been just giving it away for quite a while now

but allowing the source too?

no that is new

close on the heels of making more of java opensource

Well, Solaris has been open source for a while under their own, incompatible 
license. This will be making it Free.

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/davidvc/archive/2006/12/web_20_without.html

...perhaps somebody more knowledgeable and eloquent about the merits 
of View could submit a comment ton this blog to explain on how Reobl 
is the ideal tool for building Web2.0 clients (including the protection 
offered by the sandbox).

ton -> on

Do you believe that?

Believe that you can build X-internet applications using Rebol/View 
?

Yes but maybe I'm mistaken.

With an architecture where the presentation code is written purely 
in code, and not a combination of code and markup, and is delivered 
as a single simple download to run in a real language runtime, then 
things can be simplified significantly.

You can .. but it's hardly ideal with the poor state of Vid widgets

Doesn't that sound like something that could be written about View?

I go along with your comment about the state of VID widgets.

...but doesn't View have the potential to offer better performance 
than JavaScript frameworks such as Tibco and dojo. (And from what 
I see time taken to download of View is not significantly different 
from that to download a JavaScript framework).

unmet potential

There is very live debate upon if it is a good thing that Novell 
will support OpenXML format of MSOffice in their OpenOffice.org version 
(open-source). I found it a positive move, as ppl will be able to 
work with MS Native format in terms of free office package,  untill 
I read following blog :-) http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=1145

standard being "thousands of pages", without the info of how to correctly 
"interpret" that document description ... sounds scarry, unless the 
blog author is not exagerrating ..

As I'm now lost in translation of MS XML hell, I fully believe it.

For me, it isn't about the current state of VID widgets that are 
built-in--though a better UI toolkit for more advanced apps would 
be *very* welcome--it's about how easy it is to do other things, 
and do them all in one (very nice) language. I also tihnk we're still 
just scratching the surface of REBOL, in part because it's hard to 
build things to share, and not as easy to build larger systems. When 
our mindset is in small apps, there's much less benefit in building 
big frameworks, and even reusable components to some extent. i.e. 
it's often easier, today, to write things ad-hoc, rather than building 
up a library and environment for larger scale development.

I don't want to register at yet another site to post comments there 
thought. :-\

You crazy Danes, running real tests and making people who wear tinfoil 
hats look silly again:   http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory?id=2702500

:-) I read once that tin foil hats may even amplify the signal if 
it passes through the head and reflects on the inside of the tinfoil 
hat.

yes... depending on the waves and the shape of the hat, I have read 
this emprirically measured page done by a university.

M.I.T.   they also founf the government ownes the frequency best 
attnuated by\ tinfoil hats  :^)

Bill Buck reports on EFIKA, running REBOL - http://bbrv.blogspot.com/

That is cool.


The day is coming when someone builds a very durable thin laptop, 
with no Fancy hardware, no harddrive, just a few gigs of chip space, 
and a REALLY good wireless interface.  It would be especially cool 
if the keyboard and display detached from each other.  All it had 
was enough to run Firefox.  Qtask is READY to make this hardware 
platform its home…

BB may yet save the "Amiga" ?

It seems Carl received his EFIKA too, he now put his comment to the 
BB runnin gon EFIKA :-)

Ok, what exactly is an EFIKA ?  the link has no clear statement.

EFIKA is small PPC board (PC)

it can run and consume only 4.4 watt, it has PPC 400 MHz CPU - good 
for embedded stuff ...

and with MorphOS, you've got your not so powerfull, but still more 
powerfull than any amiga AmigaOS compatible computer ...

http://www.genesippc.com/efika.php

Looks like Morphos is dead according to their website.  All licenses 
withdrawn.

Graham don't forget, this is connected to Amiga. So if MorphOS is 
dead depends on website you are reading...

If the MorphOS developers withhold all licensing ... what does one 
do?

they don't. That is the old site, where some ppl felt that Genesi 
owes them something, so they put up the site IIRC. But then some 
ppl decided to develop it further. 1.5 version is near, and it should 
be pretty much legal ....

JAVA 6 released after 2 years of development. They used familiar 
aproach - one week builds, over 330 developers colaborated. Hopefully 
RT stics with one release per week or month at least ....

very interesting http://www.swivel.com

yep, especially the 'Wine and Violent Crime' comparison :)

http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=261254<-- XNA makes 
it possible for bedroom programmers to make Windows and XBox 360 
games. Somehow I think it's a very clever way to to let anyone access 
and program such powerful hardware, much smarter than just slapping 
Linux on PS3. Where could REBOL fit in to such a scheme to program 
a piece of hardware like that?

Canvas Paint - browsers getting better and better (by including another 
containers) - http://canvaspaint.org/

my god!  http://robotic.media.mit.edu/projects/Leonardo/Leo-tutelage.html

Max: there was a PBS on that recently ... http://www.pbs.org/saf/1303/segments/1303-4.htm

BS

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