World: r3wp

just one quick glance at the list of functions for arrays, and I 
just want to run screaming back to REBOL :-)

:-)

brought the question towards arrays in R3 in rebol3 channel ....

PHP is trying to become java

yes, php from 4 or 5 on has got many java like features .. many are 
quite useless IMHO

death of kodachrome  ' :-/

http://arstechnica.com/media/news/2009/06/death-of-kodachrome-belies-the-technological-advance-it-represented.ars

Has anyone worked with http://www.freebase.com/which appears to 
be queryable online encyclpaedia

Yes, death of kodachrome is terrible. I've just ordered the last 
5 Kodachrome 64 films from the danish Kodak company. I hope, they 
get more before end of year, where it's finito. I plan to take a 
lot of time off to go and take photos with this film in the autumn. 
Next year I may end up selling my film camera and go with digital. 
Nah, probably not. ;-)

The theoretical patent problems of Mono are gone: http://port25.technet.com/archive/2009/07/06/the-ecma-c-and-cli-standards.aspx

After long years, two products are out of beta - Google Mail and 
VLC media player ...

FOG - new gfx library based upon AGG ... from the author of ASMJit/BlitJIT 
- http://twopixels.blogspot.com/2009/06/fog-graphics-library.html

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124702911173210237.html#mod=djemalertTECH
Google OS for netbooks

Google OS for netbooks

Amazon is hiring ... first round interviews are taking place on 2nd 
Life http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2009/07/amazon-second-life-job-fair.html

http://aws.amazon.com/startupchallenge/- 3rd annual contest

FOG looks nice, its multithreaded  :-)

I think that we have some tests to try with AGG, once we get back 
to GUI :-)

Max - have you heard about Fresco, node based GUI manager? http://www.fresco.org/architecture.html

it seems a cousin to the glass project, of which glob is already 
very effective, and is a node-based lazy engine for rebol, using 
AGG exclusively.

glob? Somethin new? Well, when we will see Glass runnable? I mean 
- some cute demo?

glob has been showcased 3 years ago in a graphics demo... Its also 
the basis for liquid-paint.r

GLASS will wait for R3, and plugins.   its a decision I took last 
year.  GLASS is also a completely new GUI concept.. its totally different 
in the way you relate to a gui.  


There are still a few technological aspects to the concept that I 
wasn't able to resolve in the architecture itself.  This engine should 
allow non Graphical interface to be applied to any application.

like a Voice driven interface to forms, for example.  but the application 
isn't even aware of this... this is part of the skin itself.

Silverlight 3 available, now with ability to create external/offline 
applications, accelerated GFX and more - http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2009/03/18/silverlight-3-whats-new-a-guide.aspx

Submitted my Amazon competition entry ... maybe I can win another 
$25 of credits again though I haven't used up the last $25 i got 
from them 2 years ago!

Fresco uses Corba, and there isn't a ReBOL implementation ... well, 
there wasn't when someone last asked on the list in 1999.

The IDL interface definition is independent of programming language, 
but maps to all of the popular programming languages via OMG standards: 
OMG has standardized mappings from IDL to C, C++, Java, COBOL, Smalltalk, 
Ada, Lisp, Python, and IDLscript.

Having a Rebol implementation of IIOP seems as though it would be 
very useful.

Using up to 1,000 high CPU large Amazon instances for space exploration 
http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2009/06/scaling-to-the-stars.html

In one of the groups btiffin asked me about net filtering in NZ. 
 It seems it is going to be used by most, if not all the ISPs, and 
is designed to block child porn.

ordinary porn is fine ....

Carl Sassenrath: 13th most influential person in programming!?

http://www.webdesigndev.com/programming/30-most-influential-people-in-programming

Fair

Matt Mullenweg with Wordpress is second? It's not too fair.. what 
it has to do with programming?

Yeah, I thought putting that one so high was rather strange as well...

The whole list is quite odd. In fact, I find it very odd that Carl 
is there.

Matt is probably here because the site is powered by Wordpress:)

It would be less odd if the list would be in alphabetical order. 
Else it's strange, that creator of PHP is after someone who just 
did application in PHP. But anyway.. it's nice that there are some 
people who recognize Carl.

It's their personal preferences

Google to buy On2 - it should theoretically resolve the situation 
around HTML5 video codec


 http://www.osnews.com/story/21950/Google_To_Buy_Video_Compression_Technology_Outfit_On2

KDE 4.3 released - video available - http://kde.org/announcements/4.3/index.php

I noticed from the discussion on OSNews that most people are concerned 
with wildly different performance of KDE4 on different hardware:


If you are using Nvidia and driver version 1008 with Kernel 2.6.29 
with Xorg 7.2.1.3 then you might get good 3D effects with KDE 4.2.99.5. 
But that combination gives really dicey 2D

What kind of desktop "experience" is that?

Linux is for adventurers, not for consumers

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-10308013-75.html

Seem patent trolling is getting really lucrative.

Confused as to what they infringed upon...I thought XML was open 
standard...

I think I can help here (I'm about to have another patent awarded 
in fact that touches on this same area).


First, we all have to laugh here that what the patent covers is that 
data is sent in a format that is OPEN and STANDARD.  XML falls under 
this definition.


From the description “Any program or procedure which needs to format 
or understand the document must know all of the special codes and 
be able to correctly separate them from the content. All routines 
which work with the document must have exactly the same model of 
how the embedded codes are formatted or placed. If any operation 
misinterprets the code sequence even slightly, or mistakes content 
for formatting, the document or a part thereof will be reduced to 
meaninglessness. “


In other words guys, this group is suing Microsilly for FINALLY playing 
nice with everyone else.   This is the purist form of irony ever, 
and I love it.


I agree with the judge.   The problem now is...is there prior art? 
 This is 1994.  Permit me to make something clear, they are not claiming 
that showing something like XML is the scope of the patent, even 
WordPerfect would should you something like XML if you asked to “reveal 
codes”, but in fact it was stored internally in some odd format (just 
like word).  The move to storing the data in this standardized way, 
and showing it in the same way, might indeed by unqiue.  The language 
for storing it has to be standard itself, this self referencing part 
is what makes this tricky.

My understanding of it is they had some black beads and some red 
beads mixed in a pile. The "invention" was to separate the red beads 
and the black beads.

so, is this like combining an XSD with an XML document ?

separately they're okay?

I wish MS would become against software patents just because of this... 
and then we finally get rid of them. ;) (or, make them work correctly 
- patent lasts 5 years, MUST include working source code, and when 
patent expires that source code becomes "free")