World: r3wp

OS-X Snow Leopard - http://www.apple.com/macosx/snowleopard/

iPhone 3G - twice as fast, half the price - http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_iphone/family/iphone?mco=MTE2NTQ

That "half the price" comes from subsidies, making it even less likely 
that they will sell unlocked iPhones. I look forward to when carrier-locked 
phones are made illegal in the US.

Unfortunately, I've heard that the price in Denmark is going to be 
around 6000 kr for an unlocked phone, which converts to over 1200 
USD (!). I hope one day, it will be illegal to sell phones through 
such narrow channels. Telia will have a monopoly in selling iPhones 
here. I don't see how this helps Apple at all.

there's no confirmation of the price yet, though.

MacOSX Snow Leopard Server will be able to read/write ZFS partitions:

http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/snowleopard/

Just don't buy 'm. Police to enforce laws cost money, too, and more 
than that

Interview with John Carmack on RayTracing in GPU or not topic - http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=532

one step closer to the one ring, the one that rules them all http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7450321.stm

Pekr, nice spot! Makes me think of OpenRT: http://www.openrt.de/

Another RIA platform - Apple's SproutCore. So we have Flash, Silverlight, 
Google, Curl, R3 in the future, and now Apple is entering the game 
with interesting development - 


http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2008/06/14/cocoa-for-windows-flash-killer-sproutcore/


SproutCore not only makes it easy to build real applications for 
the web using menus, toolbars, drag and drop support, and foreign 
language localization, but it also provides a full Model View Controller 
application stack like Rails (and Cocoa), with bindings, key value 
observing, and view controls. It also exposes the latent features 
of JavaScript, including late binding, closures, and lambda functions. 
Developers will also appreciate tools for code documentation generation, 
fixtures, and unit testing.

I have permanent Internal server errors on SproutCore page which 
does not looks too good - http://www.sproutcore.com/

JavaScript getting better for RIA? Yet-another-js-library - http://www.extjs.com/products/extjs/

In FF3.0 try about:robots

Dunno if it is new or old news, but EFIX will allow to run OS-X on 
usual PC hardware, you just buy special USB stick for that - http://www.efi-x.com/index.php?language=english

Symbian going open source http://news.zdnet.com/2424-1035_22-207981.html?tag=nl.e589

Another mobile devices coming to market - PPC based - http://bbrv.blogspot.com/2008/06/cherrypal-et-al.html

Another article on Symbian going open sourced - http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-9976434-37.html?tag=nefd.top

Partly open source, in the short term

It's historically been very hard to impossible to fully opensource 
previously proprietary operating systems

After few years of waiting, MorphOS is released - http://www.morphos-team.net/news.html

Quick read of OSNews comments reveals though, that it costs 150USD, 
which will bury it imo ...

111 before the cut off date ..

will this run only on A1 ?

Rebol 3 running under Flash? http://www.toolness.com/wp/?p=52

Interesting from deployment POV, but it would kind of mean that we 
gave up. As for Core, I can imagine it, but as for View? I don't 
know ...

Not really, it would be just another platform...

Another way to implement and deploy our dialects...

Google opens its protocols - http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;687925953

are we not surprised that Google does not use XML for it's protocols??

I'm not.....Google is shuffling terabytes of data with very short 
response times.

XML may be a good archive/interchange format -- a better .CSV format 
-- but it just does not scale for operational systems of the size 
Google has.

We are not surprised. Although if they'd wrapped eveyrthing in a 
<google></google> , would that have made a difference ;-)

DragonFly BSD is now at version 2.0 with the Hammer filesystem now 
implemented.

Try CUIL.  http://cuil.comSearch REBOL.  Nice page, could almost 
be a nice rebol.com frontpage.  CUIL is a google spinoff.

this seems more interesting than cuil, but probably very limited: 
http://www.trueknowledge.com/technology/screenshots/

OpenGL 3.0 specs released - http://www.khronos.org/news/press/releases/khronos_releases_opengl_30_specifications_to_support_latest_generations_of/

Exciting! :-)

Some ppl just call it evolution, not revolution. Some others do appraise 
DirectX, as it works with sound, input devices, etc.

Did anyone see the Cinema 2.0 stuff from ATI? That's pretty amazing. 
It's basically voxel graphics with raytracing. It looks almost as 
good as prerendered graphics, but it's fully realtime.

Article posted to ML by Carley Simon. I can see many of Carl's visions 
there. Might be good overal target for R3.


 - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/future_of_the_desktop.php
 - discusses Web3.0

ECMAScript disharmony = http://ncannasse.free.fr/?p=82

http://whydoeseverythingsuck.com/2008/08/ru-roh-adobe-screwed-by-ecmascript.html

If you look at the postings by the actual people involved in the 
discussion, you will realize that there is no disharmony now, and 
Adobe is not screwed - they were involved in this decision and agreed 
to it.

Ah, flame/ad bait journalism

Agreed to decision, that MS is not following their proposed standard:) 
I don't mind much.. I'm quite like Nicolas, I can use Rebol to create 
the Adobe's VM bytecode:)

I just can see another room of hell in possible incompatibilities 
between IE and other browsers in near future.

I'm so tempted to just ignore IE as a developer. My latest site fails 
only in IE. If they don't want to play ball in standardization, then 
screw them. I'm just wondering if it would be so bad if all developers 
just ignored IE.

Progressive Enhancement.  Web Sites don't need to fail...

It's much easier to ignore IE when you don't have to support it.

http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/articles/gbs/

Good stuff, thanks