World: r3wp

Should use Rebol for the web proxy.

Yes they should but they  probably won't :-(

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/mozilla_does_microformats_firefox3.php

why do the term semantic and markup used in the same sentence seem 
like an oxymoron to me?

You mean the sentence: "adding semantics to markup to take it from 
being machine readable to being machine understandable." ? To me 
all markup languages are machine redable, at least when I use Rebol:-)

and understandable because of Rebol of course

I've had a "croosing the street" experience once, too. 

I was in Paris and wanted to visit the Arc de Triomphe, all I could 
see was an 8 lane circular traffic around it, with no traffic lights 
whatsoever, and lots of cars speeding by, not paying attention to 
any of the markings on the street ....

On the other hand, I could see some people over there, where I wnated 
to be.

So after some cnotemplation, I decided, "Oh, well, this is France".

And I started started walking, and kept going, with all the cars 
beautifully flowing around me, just like magic.

It was a scary experience, and I wouldn't dare do this in Germany 
;-)

in Germany, people woundn't be ignoring the markings on the street 
 ;-)

Max.............true!

wrong!

It depends on the circumstances, what kind of vehicle is used or 
not used and where is it.
At least I can use a crosswalk without some fear.

http://www.science.edu/TechoftheYear/TechoftheYear.htm<-- Radiation 
free fusion within a small reactor seems to be working.

wow!

commercial viability within 6-10 years!

it looked hokey at first, I thought, but Dr. Bussard has been giving 
lectures on how the technology works on Google campus.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1996321846673788606<-- a 
video of Dr. Bussard at google campus.

After 7 year, Walter Bright (who did the Zork & Symantec C++ compilers) 
has release V1.0 of D. http://www.digitalmars.com/d/index.htmlVery 
cool system, and much more handy than C/C++ compiler. There is a 
GCD version as well.

well, I'm looking at the source... and well ... the syntax seems 
like yet another C clone...  :-(   no?

The syntax is very similiar (this makes learning very easy) but the 
concepts and the cleaness of the implementation is far from the C 
level stuff. It's really good. You have things like FOREACH... somehow 
I have a deja Vu, associative arrays etc.

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/01/adobe_acrobat_javascript_execu.html
huge security risk if you site hosts pdf files

huge security risk if your site hosts pdf files apparently.

G: thanks for the post.

Did anyone took a look at this stuff here? http://llvm.org/

Looks like a generic VM approach usable for all kind of languages.

I once talked to Carl about porting Rebol to some other VM. E.g. 
Tao, Java, Net ... and/or Parrot .... some guys here mentioned Parrot 
especially here in the past few times ....

Tao is really powerfull.  being a real time OS it can do things like 
guarantee bitrates and synchronise parrallel processes on two different 
machines!

you can literally move a process from one machine to another in real 
time, while both are running, and refreshing half of a window on 
each monitor for example!

Maxim - so suggest Carl to give us that functionality with WildMan 
:-)

you know what ... I just realized that I had a brain split  :~/  
  the above are functionalities of QNX  !

Tao is a Java based VM.

I'm not so sure about that. I think, you were right the first time, 
Maxim. Tao Elate is a realtime OS, so is QNX.

if REBOL would port to QNX, they could easily redistribute to almost 
any hardware.

Amiga DE uses Tao and its really just a Java interpreter, but the 
best one out there.

QNX can be made to run on printers ;-)

Maybe Tao Group moved away from Elate and now consentrate on the 
"intent" part of it!?

hum looking up Tao... to refresh my mind... its been sooo long.

Elate seem to be called intent-RTOS now.

QNX is cool. Maxim - I thought you were talking QNX :-) I saw QNX 
demo by Dan Dodge in Cologne Amiga show 1998 - it was breath taking 
- imo the best mikrokernel architecture around ... Kernel just 75KB, 
everything else runs dynamically in user space ...

QNX is now owned by Harman International (Kardon)

IIRC it can even multithread code with no threads within the source! 
 sort of because of the way it distributes processing.  IIRC each 
operation is a single call and if the kernel detects that it can 
push a few ops in parralel it sends all of them at once... so single 
process code can actually run on multiple CPUS with no programing 
on your part.

its also the reason you can multithread on several machines so smoothly... 
it only sends individual opcodes through the wire!

that is what I remember of the tech demo a while back.

(I wasn't there... just what was explained)

http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/17969/page2/

hehe seems a bit like my AWE concept I shared with Ammon a while 
back... Adaptive Work Environment.

http://www.apple.com/iphone/

Looks nice all told, 'cept maybe the square shape doesn't lend itself 
to ear->mouth contours...

That is to say, as a PDA or iPod variant, it looks great.  As a phone, 
it looks like a brick.

i guess they assume people use a separate headset...

though, basically all cell phones I have used today are bricks.

the flip ups have a better ergonomy in this regard, since they leave 
both sides at an angle...