World: r3wp

Adobe Air (formerly Apollo) - nice initial page video - http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/air/

has anyone tried it? Pity R3 was not here 5 years ago ....

http://labs.adobe.com/showcase/air/

Downloaded AIR package, some 9MB .exe. They seem to have their own 
UI, which is kinda nice - kind of Confabulator type of apps, but 
proportional sizes of UI elements are terrible -  big buttons, small 
letters, etc.

and I don't understand it - they went one step back - they call it 
a "desktop integration" - basically they let their plug-in to run 
outside the browser, like we have with View installed for ages. They 
ask you, if you want to place "airlet" app icon on the desktop :-) 
I hope we beat them :-)

Check out Google Gears while you're at it.

It seems that Maxim Shemanarev (Author of AGG) now works for ScaleForm 
- http://www.scaleform.com....

But they seem to support OpenVG - http://www.khronos.org/openvg/
- so maybe they acquired Maxim, but not using AGG?

btw - openVG seems being HW accelerated, AGG is not (yet)

http://www.eetimes.com/news/semi/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201801083&pgno=1&printable=true
<--- 64-way CPU shipping.

content aware image resizing - http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/66481/detail/

That is so cool  another link: http://www.merl.com/projects/mediaretargeting/

Google do it again: http://earth.google.com/
Google Earth with Sky view. Very cool, I think!

alas it is earth or sky but not both

Where's google Mars?

http://www.google.com/mars

:)

Tafiti - showcase of MS Silverlight in action ... worth installing 
- very nice - that is the exact area I thought REBOL will excel at. 
Well, we come late .... http://www.tafiti.com

Petr;  We really have to get you running GNU/Linux.  :)


This isn't really worthy of posting in Tech News, but I get a sneaky 
suspicion that with the lack luster Vista release, MS is going to 
get angry and start bullying a lot more than before.  We of the alternative 
universe will need to fortify the battlements or prepare to be assimilated. 
 2007/2008 could see the biggest FUD fight yet.  Or maybe not.  I 
do have a skewed view of the situation now-a-days, very one-sided. 
 My side...the right side...the light side.  :)

Brian - but Silverligth will be ported to Linux IIRC ...

I'm not sure that ported is the correct word but Silverlight has 
been cloned as Moonlight for Mono:

http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlight

You guys really need to take a closer look at Kommonwealth.

Silverlight's showcase doesn't work with Firefox  http://silverlight.net/Showcase/

hrmm.. was the pop-up blocker.

Well, they don't work, even after the pop-ups are fixed.

They work for me in Firefox

Terry - after allowing pup-up in FF, you have to reload certain page. 
IMO Mozilla should fix that and load page automatically ...

http://forums.microsoft.com/Genuine/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2053834&SiteID=25
<--- I guess, what shouldn't happen, happened. :-)

Worked after a FF restart.

http://www.q4rt.de/		That's the benchmark for R3 :-)

http://www.abrahamjoffe.com.au/ben/canvascape/		The javascript version 
;)

heh, fast, even if it is JS only :-)

Python 3.0a1 Release: August 31st, 2007
http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.0/

Online Documentation is updated twice a day
http://docs.python.org/dev/3.0/

That's very interesting, all the language designers working on the 
next version : Python 3, Perl 6, and of course Rebol 3, hoping to 
eliminate the mistakes of early design, and ready to break compatibility 
with the previous version for the sake of a brighter future.

I found the Python news interesting because Guido plans on maintaining 
the 2.x line for a while even after 3.0 has been released. Doing 
more than just bug fixes, I mean. It will be interesting to see how 
that works out.

http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/31/researchers-develop-a-360-degree-holographic-display/

ISO votes no for first round of Microsoft's Open Office XML bid

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,136711-c,techindustrytrends/article.html

well hurrmph ... they will just have to go out and buy some more.

I'm pretty sure this was the fast-track vote.  There is another round 
coming in 2008.

And Open Office is supposed to read Office Open, I doubt I'll ever 
get used to Office Open seeing as I use Open Office.

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/10_future_web_trends.php

http://www.bbcbasic.co.uk/bbcwin/bbcwin.html
BBC Basic for Windows
 is tiny and powerful.

Jerry;  Check out the Dialects forum.  Geomol has written a starter 
bbcbasic interpretter in REBOL.

And while you're at it, check out the 1937 Fords.. I hear they're 
the 'bees knees'.

btiffin, the point is not the BASIC language. it's the compiler.
Most of the applications developed in BBC Basic for Windows is 
under 100 KB. Only one EXE, no DLLs needed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6vSxR6UKFM&mode=related&search=<-- 
someone made saltwater burn

i don't understand - if he's just using radio waves to break the 
bonds between H and O in the water, then the energy he gets is exactly 
the same he puts in. it's not an energy source - he's just converting 
electricity into radio waves then into fire.

a clean way to make heat

just use a resistor if you want heat from electricity ;)

I think the media just gets so hyped up on the headline idea of water 
as a fuel source.  They do more damage than good!

For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fuel_celllook under 
lawsuit