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True, but cheapper than magnets...and more fun really.

The Germans are working on it....I hear it is getting cheaper, but 
still not cost effective even for a monorail.

I wonder about those stories sometimes.

Also, you still have to have a giant power source, and it would not 
be availble everywhere, so you still need to bring power with you.

Microwave dishes on the top of skyscrapers beam power down to where 
it's needed on the roads below.

So that works for the city....

Actually that does not work, for a lot (insert misc. dead humans 
and animals in line of site here) reasons.

Maybe a beam which converges to a focal point under the ground, passing 
weakly through objects above.

Never mind the power - surely rare earth magnets can be kept in opposite 
polarity ? In the ground, in the car. So the car floats above the 
ground. A fan powered by push-bike pedals moves the car through the 
air like a hovercraft.

nah, let's just use antigravity. :P http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/03/060325232140.htm

Aha! Looks very interesting :)

I'm in two minds regarding gravity. All my logic and understanding 
tells me, that Einstein was right, when he said, that gravity is 
curvation of space-time. Then gravity is not a field like electro-magnetism 
(light) and the other natural forces (strong and weak kernel forces), 
and there's not a particle (which are actually waves) called a graviton, 
like we have fotons, gluons, Z0 and W+-, whose are responsible for 
transfering the forces. But I really really hope, I'm wrong, so that 
antigravity can be reality one day.


The spacecraft Gravity Probe B was finished collecting data almost 
two years ago, and results should have been published last year, 
but they wasn't! There's something wrong with the data. They might 
come to some very interesting results: http://einstein.stanford.edu/


CERN are upgrading their accelerator, and they should start some 
new experiments this year, where they hope to find the Higgs boson 
and maybe the graviton. I'll be very surprised, if they find the 
graviton. I don't know enough about the Higgs boson to have an opinion 
on that.

But it's exciting times! :-)

give me this one - http://www.dynamism.com/oqo02/main.shtml

those things start to look good ... but imo pricey yet ...

http://www.6502asm.com/<--- 6502 compiler and emulator in javascript.

The OS that Apple iPhone uses is MacOS X. Does that mean our REBOL 
programs can run on iPhone?

I'm a little fuzzy on that too, Jerry. They say it's OS X, which 
should mean that we can hack at it all we want, or at least transfer 
applications/scripts to it. But I'm hearing that Apple is opposed 
to 3rd party development for the iPhone. I wonder if they plan on 
locking it down somehow.

But I see that idea was touched on in OSX group while I was gone.

The iPhone is locked down, and not even open source.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/12/apple_lockdown_iphone/

Finally, D 1.0 is released. http://www.digimars.com/d/index.html

http://www.anandtech.com/displays/showdoc.aspx?i=2904&p=3<--- amazing 
OLED displays

Open Firmware was made free under the BSD/MIT license in Nov 2006. 
 http://lwn.net/Articles/209301/
Would that help a Rebol OS ?

HP claims nano-chip breakthrough - http://tech.monstersandcritics.com/news/article_1247407.php/Hewlett_Packard_claims_nano-chip_breakthrough

OpenMoko - an alternative to iPhone with free-to-extend OS? - http://www.libervis.com/article/forget_iphone_hail_openmoko_the_true_revolution

He characterized HP's results as 'amazing' and said it had the potential 
to extend indefinitely the reach of Moore's Law which posits that 
the power of microchips will double every 18 months.

uh...............no....

just the number of transisters ...

Yahoo Messenger for Vista! - http://messenger.yahoo.com/windowsvista.php

looks like they used Cyphre or Gabriele's background generator ;-)

is that a good or a bad thing?

I want B/W GUI so more CPU cycles can be used for something useful 
:)

Henrik: I think, it was a joke

oldes, I know. :-)

http://www.technologyreview.com/Biztech/18086/

if true that would make my day

hum... someone in the comments explains and rebuffs the patent and 
describes that the idea actually cannot really deliver more than 
1% of the theoretical numbers claimed by the patent...  which would 
bring it at about the same levels as current top of the line batteries.

so the 10x power for .5 the price... well actually makes it double 
the price if the 1% is exact

another person also explains how the batterie's reaction to thermal 
changes might be rather high (50% power fluctuation between cold 
and hot temps)

but all agree to being glad if  proven wrong.

US answer to global warming: smoke and giant space mirrors http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1999968,00.html

sounds like a joke.  How do they want to stop the warming with that 
? it can only make things worst

Gee... if the mirror gets stuck in place .. we enter a new ice age 
instead.

Looks like the US answer is all smoke and mirrors

yes ... very preoccupating.  I hope REAL scientists will do something

Adobe Systems today announced that it has released the full PDF (Portable 
Document Format) 1.7 specification to AIIM, the Association for Information 
and Image Management. AIIM, in turn, will start working on making 
PDF an ISO standard.

that is very good news

http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS2782821882.html

The Hat Box PC - nice design :-) http://www.mini-itx.com/

http://getfirebug.com/<--- a little more help is now available if 
you are doing traditional web development

it's interesting, but seems to be a little bit buggy as my firefox 
now hav some problems with scrolling even when I disabled the firebug

(when I use wheel)