World: r3wp

aahhh this once was "Tech News"  those where the good days of internet. 
 :-D

http://www.chemie.fu-berlin.de/outerspace/internet-article.html

a few funny exerpts:

Some video clips - and at least one full-length video movies - are 
already available on the network.


it was still a marxist entity:   "It does not take kindly to unsolicited 
advertisements; use electronic mail to promote your product and you 
are likely to be inundated with hate mail "


a different scale... that of thousands:    "There are no TV Guides 
to sort through the 5,000 discussion groups or the 2,5OO electronic 
newsletters or the tens of thousands of computers with files to share."

And people didn't know 0 from o on a keyboard :-)

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18272-google-demonstrates-quantum-computer-image-search.html

Another platform to port R3 to.

http://etherpad.com/

Etherpad going to be released as open source.

Hey, that's quite nice. Easier to use than Google Wave.

it has been released already afaik.

http://code.google.com/p/etherpad/

but maybe, they just created the space for the project and files 
are not there yet?

well, they say you can just hg clone https://etherpad.googlecode.com/hg/
etherpad

If you use Wikipedia sometimes (or are interesting in ClimateGate), 
read this:

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/12/23/lawrence-solomon-wikipedia-s-hockey-stick-wars.aspx

And "Top 10 Reasons Not to Donate to Wikipedia"

http://www.mywikibiz.com/Top_10_Reasons_Not_to_Donate_to_Wikipedia

Wikipedia: Interesting... I'm going to cross-check if local chapters 
a better suited for a donation

John, good stuff...  I have always had strong issues with Wikipedia... 
 the same listed here, and a few more as well.

It works "well enough" for most things, but yeah, it is corrupt...

nVidia Tegra 2 introduction - well done, nVidia + ARM! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iikt3GgJJXc

That's what I've been waiting for..

A technical preview of Kodu for PCs is available from Microsoft Labs. 

http://fuse.microsoft.com/kodu/


This is a really nice game creation application for kids. It's completely 
graphical and requires good 3D hardware for best effects (I'm using 
it with an embedded Intel 945G chipset and it's almost acceptable 
at a 1280x720 res, though I don't get the nice shaders, glow, etc.). 
If you've got kids of around 8+, I would really recommend you check 
this out. I've been looking at what's available out there and there 
aren't too many really nice environments.


Part of the problem with most development environments is that the 
little guys expect quite a lot in terms of whizzbang from the exposure 
to all the latest games and it's quite a lot of work to do anything 
approaching this in most kid friendly tools. Kodu seems to be an 
exception.  


I'd also recommend StarLogo TNG from MIT, Scratch (and the enhanced 
version BYOB -build your own blocks) from MIT, as well as the newsest 
version of Alice (3.0 beta) from Carnegie Mellon.


It would be a good little project to create REBOL tools for content 
creation/edition for Kodu. Later, when Maxim's 3D and other UI candy 
is in place, maybe REBOL could be used to create the best kids' programming 
tool ever.

Is that really what we want ?
REBOL - The best Kid programming tool
:-)

Another one handicap after the unfamous:
REBOL - The "attracts Frenchies" programming tool

c'mon Steeve - you know I wasn't referring to the language itself 
as being the best kids' programming tool

Seems to contradict what I thought about asterix and plug pc http://www.plugpbx.org/

kodu looks cool

I've tried it out for a little bit - it's pretty deep despite the 
kid centered approach. Just got a Radeon 5770 card so that it can 
run much better. If you search on youtube, you can see some of the 
kinds of things people have done with it and the glow and particle 
effects, etc.

reminds me alot of the lego mindstorm system.

which, unfortunately, has been discontinued AFAIK  :-(

has it been? The Scratch environment that I mentioned above includes 
an interface to both LEGO WeDo and the arduino I/O board (and clones). 
You might want to take a look.
http://www.legoeducation.us/store/detail.aspx?ID=1573
http://www.arduino.cc/

they are not available in stores anymore... toys are us stopped selling 
them this very christmas.  the clerk told me they coudn't order them 
anymore.

I think the whole system has changed and the boxes have too.  I remember 
older mindstorm boxes and they don't exist in the catalogue... so 
its probably just a repackaging thing.

We still get Lego catalogs in the mail, and the NXT system is still 
in there I believe.

yep its all on line so its just a sales thing... might be just related 
to toys are us... who where just about the only places where you 
could find mindstorm boxes here.

Asterisk on the  Sheeva plug
http://plugcomputer.org/plugforum/index.php?topic=98.0

I have a complete NXT box for sale. $200 CDN (Girls.. they just aren't 
that into robots :)

is it nxt 2.0?

(I am interested btw)

http://vancouver.en.craigslist.ca/pml/ele/1552373070.html(Posted 
2 days ago) How's that' for coincidence

so what is the box #

#?

what NXT minstorm set is it?  8547, 8527, 9719.  it could be something 
else ...  each box has different parts, sensors, etc.

blue box, orange box?

8527

Hey, can the SheevaPlug take a sata drive?

Hmm, maybe not. .. Too bad, cuz you can pick up this for $80

http://gizmodo.com/5449098/kingston-ssdnow-v-30gb-flash-drive-for-80

http://www.e-x-e.dk/2010/01/16/a-blogpost-about-hacking-google-wave-with-xss-and-xssr/#comments

Some security holes found in Google Wave.

http://blogs.perl.org/users/cpan_testers/2010/01/msnbot-must-die.html

Like Bing? Well, Bing likes your sites a lot.

FireFox 3.6 released - http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/3.6/releasenotes/

Doesn't work with my addons - JS Print, S3 Organizer and Logmein 
.. so have to wait

Someone at Mit has obviously too much time and Cpu power..  Wouldn't 
something like Arexx do the same a lot easier :)

http://sikuli.csail.mit.edu/

Though I do see point for app like that on testing some apps ..

Graham - use the Nightly Tester Tools extension to override the version 
check on those extensions - I've been using the 3.6 nightlies for 
months and I've never really had any issues with overriding some 
of my extensions (I have a ton). The speed boost in 3.6 is worth 
it.

Sikuli is intersting.... reminds me of a thing on the Amiga called 
Madala... where you could write scripts as I recall that were visual, 
to do actions based on what it found under hot points.

You could for example select a region, it would use a simple OCR 
to read that region, and then, if let's say a word or number was 
reached, like let's say a counter that you knew was sending 10,000 
files reached 9,900, you could have it play a sound, so you could 
know it was done....


Would prefer a better version where you can simply pipe all text 
or widgets to other places.  Wouldn't it be cool if you could "pull" 
like a sticker a widget from one place (an application or even website) 
and "stick it" on some other place, like your dashboard or toolbar 
somewhere else?.


Is there really any reason I should not be able to take some group 
here in AltME, pull it "Tech News" over to my Googl page, which I 
look at a lot, and when somoene posts here, I see it turn red "there".

Adrian .. going to try that now!

Argggg.... S3 Organizer no longer works ... even though I over rode 
the disabling with nightly tools ! :(