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wrt the HRD drive: 500MB/sec transfer rate at 4 watts !!!

DataSlide...finally!

Of note, about 20 years ago I wrote up a paper to build a camera 
with a 100x100 CCD that could capture huge images by vibrating the 
aperture (which would be small than a standard pin hole).  The speed 
of your CPU would control the time it took, thus faster computers 
= higher ISO values, that simple.


You would also be able to point it at something far away, and tell 
it to focus on that region, thus getting a clear image even at a 
very far distance.


This is still worth building today.  A $10 camera that takes 10Kx10K 
image in about 1 second, not bad.  Through software you could remove 
things that moved as well, for example cars that park over night, 
people walking around, etc.  Over several days you would end up with 
a crystal clear image of anything that was not moving.

sort of dynamic coded apeture imaging

aperture

http://unite.opera.com/

Opera Unite: a Web server on the Web browser


With Opera 10, we are introducing a new technology called Opera Unite, 
radically extending what you are able to do online. Opera Unite harnesses 
the power of today's fast connections and hardware, allowing all 
of us to help define the future landscape of the Web, one computer 
at a time. Read about how Opera Unite is going to change the way 
we interact on the Web on labs.opera.com.

test the chat:
http://logan.logansteeve.operaunite.com/the_lounge/lounge.html

And to test the Fridge
http://logan.logansteeve.operaunite.com/fridge/

nVidia prefers WindowsCE for ARM based netbooks over Android. Finally 
someone confirmed what I think too:


http://www.osnews.com/story/21697/NVIDIA_WinCE_Better_for_ARM_Netbooks_than_Android_Linux

Opera unite: Has anyone given it a try? This might become some really 
interesting thing.

I use officelive which is awesome. http://home.officelive.com/Settings/Pages/Home.aspx

Opera unite. I posted it here but it became one of the lost posts

http://etoileos.com/downloads/


Etoilé now has a VirtualBox image, for those who want to play around 
with it quickly.

Is etoile an operating system?

A desktop environment on Linux

The first one based wholly on GNUStep, AFAIK.

There have been other attempts, but they didn't get very far

I downloaded it ... and it was zipped :)  Is it worthwhile installing??

I think it's very early in development, so it's only if you are curious 
what it's about.

Drat!

So, I need to learn objective C to take advantage of this ...

That's one of the big points of Etoile. And GNUstep in general.

Is there a way to leverage REBOL here?

Nope.

(but I've often considered building an Etoile or Squeak-like desktop 
in REBOL)

So, no way for rebol to use the Gnustep libraries to create a GUI 
?

What is GNU step, in one sentence, without pointing me to Google? 
:-)

GNUstep is an open source implementation of the OPENSTEP specification.

I would better look into upcoming versions of BSD, which are going 
to be GPL free :-)

Huh?  BSD is BSD licensed surely?

Graham, well, you could probably build the GUI files using REBOL, 
but that loses another point of GNUstep. It has a pretty powerful 
GUI builder that leverages late bindings in Objective C to build 
most of the functionality of the GUI without writing code.

but I think there are Smalltallk bindings available.

Graham - BSD is not fully BSD ... it is compiled on GCC, which is 
GPL, no? I have heard they are reaching the state of purity now, 
so no GPL poison anymore ...

I didn't think that program compiled by GCC affected their licensing 
.. unless they're including GCC in their distros

AFAIK, they are moving to LLVM.

LLVM doesn't have complete C/C++ language frontends except for GCC's.

So far BSD's attempts to get rid of GCC have been more announcement 
than actual. They also announced (separately) that they were going 
to create a BSD'ed C compiler that wasn't LLVM (something starting 
with a p). Don't hold your breath.

That was OpenBSD

Sorry, I am aware that there are differences between the BSDs, but 
I still lump them together when comparisons to GPL are involved.

HTC introduces new Android phone, adding TouchFlo 3D like (WinMobile) 
add-on, called Sense. It is even better, because it contains real 
widgets:


http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/24/htc-hero-details-begin-leaking-from-htcs-own-website

It's nice to see the kings of put-something-decent-on-top-of-Windows-Mobile 
doing something with Android :)

yes, because UI wise Androind is just the same crap as WinMobile 
:-)

btw - Flash coming to most of mobile devices in November this year 
...

Firefox 3.5 released, complete with cute HTML 5 welcome video.

I read lately how firefox is not handling the html 5 video proberly... 
you need javascript... :-(

hmm... for some reason, youtube videos eat a lot less CPU than they 
did before.

Maxim - IIRC I read something like Mozilla introducing JS free video 
support ...

Their you've-updated page uses JS for fallback support, but Firefox 
itself doesn't use the fallback (personally confirmed).

that's cool  :-)