World: r3wp

And I'd like to apologize for that. The ARM build was made for my 
HP Jornada handheld pc (a netbook precursor) which had a hardware 
keyboard, then never updated to support virtual keyboards. Or the 
clipboard or command line either, but those weren't my fault.

R3 console is not much system friendly.

eh, R2, I mean ...

I would have settled for the capabilities of the Windows R2 console 
on WinCE. Lack of command line or clipboard support limited me greatly. 
On the other hand, as it was it got me through statistics class :)

Typos: I meant typos when using the virtual keyboard on WinCE without 
seeing what you're typing ;-)

Yup :)

WebOS goes open source:


http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/12/09/1857254/hp-making-webos-open-source?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkuser&utm_medium=feed

one of their goals will be to avoid fragmentation

That's a fine goal.

That alone would draw me towards it.

HP paid $1.2bn for the IP and gives it freely to the OS community 
:)

How does their app model work again? Walled garden?

I think they already enabled alternative stores, but when they open 
source the app platform, that will be a given, anyway

At 4 pm Pacific on Sunday the 11th, HP will be selling 16gb and 32gb 
Touchpads for $99 and $149 respectively at their HP store on eBay

http://stores.ebay.com/hewlettpackard

Expect all to be gone by 4.01 pm !

So, we now have apparently the best mobile OS now open source, and 
we have a number of rebol clones appearing ... is there any synergy 
that can be built from this?

Maybe, maybe not. WebOS' app model is based on web technologies, 
so the REBOL app model is mostly in competition with it

Sale has started but there is an issue!!

2763 - all sold out in minutes

OLPC tablet is completed:


http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/01/olpc-tablet-finally-arrives/

Hardware specs:

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO-3

I wonder why they don't put solar cells on these things so when you 
have to use it outside in equatorial sunlight, you can compensate 
for the extra power needed to make the screen brighter?

You should read the article

- there is no "extra power needed"
- they put solar cells on these things

Well sounds good then :)

that looks fat, ugly, and far from the concept images we saw in the 
past. India's tablet beats it imo. This OLPC project was overhyped 
from the very beginning imo- http://www.ubislate.com/

Well, one should probably not underestimate the design of the XO-3. 
I wonder which one breaks first, if a child uses one of each for 
a year. Also, the OLPC contains much more beefy educational software, 
specific inputs for measuring equipment and low-voltage charge input 
for mechanical charging with handcrank and solar charging.


The cover can double as a solar panel with built-in battery pack, 
which you take off and leave out in the sun. When it's charged, put 
the cover on the back and the tablet runs off that battery.


When comparing the UI responsiveness, there is pretty much no contest:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0OuUr1pZBE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5D06XQ1f3o

But the Ubislate is likely much cheaper to produce.

Henrik - I simply don't like things green, government funded, or 
done from public or any other dotations, especially when done fanatically. 
And OLPC is a so so project for me. Was OLPC1 or 2 any significant 
success? Well, Genesi, a commercial entity,might have better HW to 
share. As for tablet, I can't see much innovations there. Such projects 
feel like scientists got money to play, but with not much normal 
commercial focus. From such pov, and being funded by top companies 
like AMD, Intel, Google, I would expect a significant and radical 
innovative design, but it is not imo. One of reasons imo is, that 
none of those companies are willing to ruin their own market ....

Why are you comparing 366MHz machine speed towards the 800MHz one?

Well, you posted the Ubislate, so I thought a comparison was valid.

Yes, there are two models. Old one, 366MHz, you found video for, 
and 7+ version, with following specs: http://www.ubislate.com/specifications.html

if we stick to specs, they are still quite a bit smaller than the 
OLPC XO-3, and is still not designed for educational use, other than 
being cheap. For children in India, price may be a valid point to 
simply allow it to spread, but the OLPC is designed in and out for 
educational use.

A lengthy interview with the developer of the E-cat, Andre Rossi:


http://pesn.com/2012/01/14/9602012_Momentous_Breakthroughs_Announced_During_Anniversary_E-Cat_Interview/transcription.htm

Rossi should better show something, or all this story can be regarded 
a scam ...

He only showed ... steam. The claim that  it"s device is not ready 
to convert steam to electricity from the start is laughable. 
I vote for a scam

OSNews.com goes "dark", as a part of anti-SOPA initiative - http://www.osnews.com/

Wikipedia goes dark in 6 hours ....

It seems they are just using a div tag. I run an adblocker in Chrome 
and did not notice the blackout at all.

I see that too, Henrik. For me, it looks blacked out in all my browsers, 
except Firefox.

it is enough to turn off javascript. Ale - search linked articles 
work too ...

Ale = also ...

Next we will have strikes ....

Get around SOPA  black out on Wikipedia

1. go to blacked out page
2. copy into url bar: 


javascript:$('#mw-sopaOverlay').remove();$('#mw-sopa-blackout').remove();$('body').children().removeAttr('style');

(from a friend of mine that makes DropBox)

{ESC}

Or just hit the "stop" button on the browser in the moment when the 
page is visible, before the blackout appears  (Although this advice 
is kinda late now...)

Still have the blackout here ..and i see some fora are following 
this lead by closing down for the day.

I wish wikipedia actually tracked how often I use wikipedia.  when 
I was a kid, I accessed my book collection (dict, Ency, etc.) often 
every hour.  Now with computers, it is often 5-10 times in an hour.

How reliable or correct do you find wikipedia on a) general topics 
b) specific topics (or more narrow knowledge - don't know how to 
define this category).

I guess it depends on whether you know it's correct? I find it fairly 
reliable with having collections of information that would otherwise 
be hard or time consuming to gather. This is both for general topics 
and very specific topics. If I want to read up on the latest news 
on a developing technology (like Polywell fusion), I go there. Importantly, 
I also use the talk page to see, whether information has been removed 
or corrected for various reasons.

I find it much better these days than a couple of years ago

What Apple released yesterday:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KJxZG2Nv4KA