World: r3wp

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

Doesn't seem to have been posted yet, and it's an important article:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10002150-92.html

my lcd screen for my computer is dead only after 1 year of use. Syntoma 
when i turn it on the power led indication flash during 5 to 10 minutes 
before the screen lights and became stable. this pumping effect seems 
to be current in the new generation of LCD screen and seems to be 
related to the defective of chimicals condensator next to the alimentation 
block .... having to spend 130 euros  in a new screen only becaue 
two condensators of 0.60 euro are deficient that really piss me off

most brand name LCD screens come with 3 year warranties.

Even then, we have consumer protection here ... so even if it dies 
after the warranty period, it can be argued that to die after 1 years 
use indicates that it was not for fit for the purpose for which it 
was sold.

unfortunatly that a no brand "you are just fucked up" lcd screen 
...

well dead for dead i can affort a trip to my favorite electronics 
shop and by some condensator and remplace them