World: r3wp

kids again...

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071021-core-of-windows-7-taking-shape-meet-the-minwin-kernel.html

windows with (relatively) small footprint? wtf?

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/cellphones/sun-scrapping-mobile-java-moving-devices-to-standard-java-313589.php

I still made it to keep my hands away from Java and I will hope I 
can continue to do so...

MS steps into functional programming area - introducing F# - http://www.betanews.com/article/Experimental_Functional_Language_Emerges_from_Microsoft_Research/1193170328

Finally IMAP in GMail

where?

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?ctx=gmail&hl=en&answer=75725

secure imap

needs Rebol/Command

looks like I'm not using SSL in mail.app. sure you need secure imap?

You need to activate IMAP before use, in Setting, "Forwarding adn 
POP/IMAP". At the moment it seems not to be available for all accounts, 
not for mine for example ;-(

I don't have it either.
Looks like they are rolling it out slowly.

one needs to select US English as language. that helped for me.

Well, I have switched away and back to US English with no change 
...

the instructions I looked at say to use the ssl imap ports

 Take a peek under your Settings in Gmail, and click into your 'Forwarding 
 and POP IMAP' tab to see if you are one of the lucky ones who got 
 IMAP first.

nope

Do I want it?

Don't think i need it... Who wants mine? :)

it is there now and it works

Mozilla Prism - an attempt to bring best of both world together - 
web apps, and rich apps - http://labs.mozilla.com/2007/10/prism/

hmm, forget it, web model got slashed in discussion following the 
newspost  :-) http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=18849

Hecl - scripting language for cell phones - http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/creating_a_simple_application_with_hecl

So what does everyone think about the Everex/Wal-Mart gOS $200 Green 
PC?   GNU/Linux getting into the homes of people that can afford 
a $200 PC (sans tube).  Tech support - here we come  :)  And it's 
weird; that's like 50 bucks Canadian now.  A true reversal of fortunes 
is upon us...can you feel it?


http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,139196-c,fullfeaturednotebooks/article.html


I like the part about "...Vista has done a lot of damage to the low-end 
PC market..."   Yeah!  I want to be the tech support guy for the 
low-end market.  Yeah!  Nothing beats working for cigarettes and 
beer.

I shouldn't joke too loud.  The working poor have always been the 
people I feel the most comfortable hanging out with.  I think it's 
why I spew so much here on Altme.  Day to day it's the only place 
I can talk nerd and not risk a wedgie.  :)

I can imagine users dialing up MS for support on their new ubuntu 
desktops :)

Weren't they in Wal-Mart years ago, with Lindows on them?

Googles open handset alliance ( linux as the OS for phones ) http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6887&tag=nl.e589

Kaj;  Some of the articles mention that Everex tried with a sub $400 
Vista machine.  (Same hardware, but with Windows license fees bumping 
the price).  Too many returns...which is where I think the "low-end 
PC market" quote originated.

http://www.buglabs.net/productsMay not be all that new, but looks 
like a great platform for embedded R3!

no external dependencies

 - are they starting to get it? http://www.mechanicalcat.net/richard/log/Python/Say_hello_to_pyglet

nearly. Now they just need to make Python a 600K download and we're 
set.

hmm, I downloaded Python 2.5.1, and Installed Pyglet too. Well, I 
was surprised, how small their code can be. Python is imo even much 
more readable than REBOL. REBOL is simply - different.

Pyglet has sound, opengl link, there is nice asteroid game in 27kb 
of source!

don't you still need to install the entire 10 MB of python?

Python's a nice language, but its kitchen sink approach to libraries 
is both a blessing and a burden :-)

Python, installed has 36MB here :-) Well, but there is tcl, docs, 
etc ...

Henrik - you have to, but your final app is around 2MB. Well, we 
still can rock in the form of browser plug-in. I think that we should 
push that advantage. Noone else except REBOL can compete to Flash 
there ...

I hope R3 in combination with VID3 will show ppl, that FLASH is wrong 
aproach to app development and that they should adopt REBOL instead 
:-)

What we should take a look at  is the AVbin http://code.google.com/p/avbin/

Google releases Android - platform for phones and mobile devices, 
fully open-sourced. Linux kernel plus full java under that plus API. 
You can code your devices and use its functions - http://code.google.com/android/

Pekr, I posted this news a week ago :)

Hmm, maybe it was me? :-) I got to that site, well, not actually 
that, via Bill Buck's blog, but it does not matter :-)

yuck, what a mess of XML files

Interesting that they think a virtual colossus on Pentium II laptop 
( are there such things still? ) would run at the same speed as the 
original at Bletchley Park http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7094881.stm

I remember when Pentiums were the new Black, it was said the Colossus 
emulator (in C under windows, I guess) was far slower than the real 
thing (specialist hardware designed for the task on a war economy 
budget).

Looks like better languages, more modern hardware and (crucially) 
more recent algorithms means the Colossus can be finally retired:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/16/german_code_breaker_defeats_colossus/

Reichart won't like this one... 
http://www.papervision3d.org/

Have you seen the Canadian fembot?  http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=78krbfy9hh0
  I haven't looked to see if there is a vid where the inventor doesn't 
demonstrate her abilities to detect someone touching her breasts...but 
oh well.  Pretty cool nonetheless; even with the poor grammar.