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well, Apple is on the road to world domination.....  all-time record 
sales with a net profit of 4 billion$   !!

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/10/apple-grabs-20-billion-profit-with-record-iphone-mac-sales/

take from one R3 blog reaction - it seems that Google has the power, 
to suggest Go going into GCC? Call it a power-control - so a top 
company creates language with zero usage, in beta version, and it 
goes into GCC? http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODcwOQ

Have you looked at Go? Someone at Google suggested that it go in 
GCC, but they likely agreed on the language's own merits. However, 
it is definitely too new to have a lot of usage outside of Google. 
I like that they did it this way though - most third-party languages 
that build on GCC build their own separate distros (Gun Pascal, GDC 
and GNAT come to mind). At least Google is working to get it into 
the main distro where it can be used and worked on by as many people 
as possible.

Pekr, with GCC being an open-source project, anyone can suggest contributions.

But being Ian Lance Taylor certainly helps.

http://blogs.computerworld.com/17202/london_stock_exchange_moves_to_linux


Funny mention that MS' Get The Facts website is gone. I wonder if 
this is what Ray Ozzie was talking about, when he talked about complexity.

From above link:

The LSE had made the move, not because they love Linux and open-source 
software for some abstract reason, but because it makes good dollars 
and cents sense. It's cheaper, faster, and the LSE, not some outsider, 
gets to call the shots of its development.


Good points! I personally prefer FreeBSD over Linux for business 
servers.

Adobe demonstrated future of Flash through showcase by AlternativaPlatform 
- http://blog.alternativaplatform.com/en/

funny... that is exactly what CGR is going to be... time to make 
a browser plugin  ;-)

CGR?

Custom Gob Rendering engine.

the point is to allow us to build such an engine right into REBOL.

Most websites glossed over this, but we didn't. Silverlight, once 
touted as Microsoft's answer to Adobe's Flash, has been retooled 
from its original purpose. Microsoft is betting big on HTML5 instead, 
turning Silverlight into the development platform for Windows Phone, 
and that's it. So... Silverlight is dead - long live Silerlight?
 - taken from osnews.com


http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-our-strategy-with-silverlight-has-shifted/7834

Thank goodness I didn't learn it then!

Maybe we should close View too :-) But then - there's no place on 
the web for any other combo than html/css/js

I been working with "HTML 5" stuff and using some frameworks for 
mobile dev...please please please I hope and wish R3 will address 
the mobile market. That stuff (HTML CSS JS) is just too annoying 
to work with.

Microsoft has competing internal groups. That message likely came 
out of the HTML group.

I read on another ML that Silverlight didn't have any sessions at 
their PDC, and it was said that if you want to run everywhere, you 
need to use HTML, not Flash, not Silverlight, HTML.

Over the last year Apple has hired more than 12.000 people: The number 
of employees has grown from 34.300 in september 2009 to 46.600 in 
september 2010.

probably need them to count all the $$ they are making

http://blip.tv/file/4347633

Carl talking at amiwest

pretty good video quality

Except I can't read that format with my players

http://a-mirror.video2.blip.tv/RobertBernardo-SassenrathAtAmiwestShow2010696.mp4

This might be a direct link.

Where is part 2 with his rebol talkl? Is that part available?

seems only part one is up yet. I followed this thread:


http://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=32696&forum=2

too bad

There is a JIT for Squeak Smalltalk now ( from Eliot Miranda ) and 
there is a multi-core Squeak VM ( yes, Dan Ingals is still at it 
) called Roar - last night I was running Pharo on the "cog" VM named 
'croquet.exe' and things seem fine.  You see, the C++ folks used 
to mock us not just for bytecode and a VM, but for lack of  real 
>>fork  - and then Java folks mocked us about threads.  But now with 
  myBlock fork    a Smalltlak closure/context may get onto an available 
core ...  this news from http://squeak.organd http://squeakvm.org
thanks to James Robertson as jarober on YouTube and Vimeo with thanks 
to Smalltalk Television known as GandysMedicineShow on YouTube;  
see Pharo at http://code.google.com/pharoor  my eclectic-pencil 
 blog

Coming full-circle from Smalltalk to Self through JavaScript without 
stopping at Io or Ruby  - that would be http://avocado-js.appspot.com
  which is intended for demo on the Safari browser just now - and 
again with a suggestion to go back to look at work by Dan Ingals 
on Self and prototyping style and the reliance on Traits instead 
of inheritance or abstract classes (again thatnsk to jarober of cincom.com 
on YouTube

I somehow did not get, what's your message about :-)

avocado-js  which spins off from http://lively-kernel.comwhich 
 is  a bit like Strongtalk and a bit like doing Java in VisualAge 
( itself a Smalltalk environment by those at IBM's 'workbench' who 
went on to write Eclipse) - in which JavaScript masquerades as Self 
in a visual programming envoronment within a browser.  Even cooler 
than Seaside morphic 'halos' for debugging live Smalltalk code in 
the browser as in Cincom's Web Velocity or Georg Heeg's "Sea Breeze".

Facebook seems to predict email replacement. I wonder if they will 
succeed, as Google wave failed ....

It's their messaging service ... seeing if they can replace gmail!

It's a lot more down to earth than Wave

It's also pretty much what I advised Reichart to do with AltME some 
seven years ago or so

You should advice Carl, not me.

FaceBook will NOT replace email.  That is a very odd and silly concept.
Banks are not going to ask you for your FaceBook account.

Who said it will replace email?

They're going to have 500,000,000 @facebook.com accounts

Facebook guys. They call it - gmail killer, which imo is a bit of 
an exagerration :-)

Qtask already has multiple communications method I believe, and that's 
what these guys want ... all your sms, pms and email all in one place

which is what google is also doing with gvoice

I find the facebook UI a little confusing at times

that is I think it is a little buggy

It's a real dilemma .. do I spend my hours on linkedin.com or facebook.com 
...

facebook is an insane waste of time. the moment you have more than 
10 friends using it actively, it becomes a constant stream of noise, 
most of it pure trash.

every few months, they try to make a hole in your privacy, hoping 
you won't notice and close it before to much damage is done, trying 
to remove apps which have access to your data is a nightmare...

the list goes on and on.

The biggest issue with Facebook is, that you don't have to visit 
the FB page, but you are still visible as more and more pages add 
the small facebook webparts like the "I like" buttons etc.  So FB 
can see what pages do you visit, what articles in newspapers do you 
read and other, for most people invisible informations. You don't 
even don't need FB accout. The only way how to avoid it is to block 
the FB's javascripts.

Or browse anonymously

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