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http://www.science.edu/TechoftheYear/TechoftheYear.htm<-- Radiation 
free fusion within a small reactor seems to be working.

wow!

commercial viability within 6-10 years!

it looked hokey at first, I thought, but Dr. Bussard has been giving 
lectures on how the technology works on Google campus.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1996321846673788606<-- a 
video of Dr. Bussard at google campus.

After 7 year, Walter Bright (who did the Zork & Symantec C++ compilers) 
has release V1.0 of D. http://www.digitalmars.com/d/index.htmlVery 
cool system, and much more handy than C/C++ compiler. There is a 
GCD version as well.

well, I'm looking at the source... and well ... the syntax seems 
like yet another C clone...  :-(   no?

The syntax is very similiar (this makes learning very easy) but the 
concepts and the cleaness of the implementation is far from the C 
level stuff. It's really good. You have things like FOREACH... somehow 
I have a deja Vu, associative arrays etc.

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/01/adobe_acrobat_javascript_execu.html
huge security risk if you site hosts pdf files

huge security risk if your site hosts pdf files apparently.

G: thanks for the post.

Did anyone took a look at this stuff here? http://llvm.org/

Looks like a generic VM approach usable for all kind of languages.

I once talked to Carl about porting Rebol to some other VM. E.g. 
Tao, Java, Net ... and/or Parrot .... some guys here mentioned Parrot 
especially here in the past few times ....

Tao is really powerfull.  being a real time OS it can do things like 
guarantee bitrates and synchronise parrallel processes on two different 
machines!

you can literally move a process from one machine to another in real 
time, while both are running, and refreshing half of a window on 
each monitor for example!

Maxim - so suggest Carl to give us that functionality with WildMan 
:-)

you know what ... I just realized that I had a brain split  :~/  
  the above are functionalities of QNX  !

Tao is a Java based VM.

I'm not so sure about that. I think, you were right the first time, 
Maxim. Tao Elate is a realtime OS, so is QNX.

if REBOL would port to QNX, they could easily redistribute to almost 
any hardware.

Amiga DE uses Tao and its really just a Java interpreter, but the 
best one out there.

QNX can be made to run on printers ;-)

Maybe Tao Group moved away from Elate and now consentrate on the 
"intent" part of it!?

hum looking up Tao... to refresh my mind... its been sooo long.

Elate seem to be called intent-RTOS now.

QNX is cool. Maxim - I thought you were talking QNX :-) I saw QNX 
demo by Dan Dodge in Cologne Amiga show 1998 - it was breath taking 
- imo the best mikrokernel architecture around ... Kernel just 75KB, 
everything else runs dynamically in user space ...

QNX is now owned by Harman International (Kardon)

IIRC it can even multithread code with no threads within the source! 
 sort of because of the way it distributes processing.  IIRC each 
operation is a single call and if the kernel detects that it can 
push a few ops in parralel it sends all of them at once... so single 
process code can actually run on multiple CPUS with no programing 
on your part.

its also the reason you can multithread on several machines so smoothly... 
it only sends individual opcodes through the wire!

that is what I remember of the tech demo a while back.

(I wasn't there... just what was explained)

http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/17969/page2/

hehe seems a bit like my AWE concept I shared with Ammon a while 
back... Adaptive Work Environment.

http://www.apple.com/iphone/

Looks nice all told, 'cept maybe the square shape doesn't lend itself 
to ear->mouth contours...

That is to say, as a PDA or iPod variant, it looks great.  As a phone, 
it looks like a brick.

i guess they assume people use a separate headset...

though, basically all cell phones I have used today are bricks.

the flip ups have a better ergonomy in this regard, since they leave 
both sides at an angle...

but mordern phones don't really care about proximity... the mix is 
designed to capture sound linearily within a foot AFAIK.

I would like wireless headset that recharges from teh phone when 
put in the phone, the phone recharges when placed anywhere on my 
center panel of my truck, or my desk.

Aren't there crystal radios which require no batteries ?

Why couldn't the phone send out a weak radio signal which a crystal 
radio headset picks up ?

duh.. that would be a one way conversation. :)

sorry, I didn't think that through !

: ) No worries.  Good point, one could always have a Whole car Tesla 
Coil LOL

Would that still be a car ? I think the nature of the car would have 
changed if you did that.

No, but it would be heavy, since you would hauling around a giant 
spool of cooper wire.  So it might only get 3MPG, but hey, your headset 
would not need batteries!

But if you're gonna do that, you might as well take advantage of 
the huge magnetic field made possible by the coil. Perhaps it could 
be a form of locomotion.. :)