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[Tech News] Interesting technology

Brock
13-Apr-2006
[461]
re: Google Calendar:  Chris Sherman, executive editor of Search Engine 
Watch.com. "The interface is classic Google--clean, crisp and relatively 
uncluttered.... The one down side to the program is you have to be 
online when you use it"
Geomol
13-Apr-2006
[462]
All those Google applications. Wouldn't it be a lot better user experience, 
if REBOL clients were made, instead of having the applications inside 
a browser? Might be a good plan:

1) Get people away from MS products. It's not the best solution having 
everything inside a browser, but it lets them know again, that they 
have a choice.

2) Now people have choices, they can choose the best solution, which 
is REBOL reblets.
Graham
13-Apr-2006
[463]
Let's see some nice hovers etc from Rebol apps.
Geomol
13-Apr-2006
[464]
We just need someone to make the applications in REBOL. Any investors 
around?
Graham
13-Apr-2006
[465]
and rich text.
Henrik
13-Apr-2006
[466]
and list views
Pekr
13-Apr-2006
[467]
VIA finally delivers on resource savy, yet powerfull CPUs - http://arosshow.blogspot.com/2006/04/this-is-interview-with-aros-developer.html
Henrik
13-Apr-2006
[468]
wrong link?
Pekr
13-Apr-2006
[469]
http://www.viaarena.com/default.aspx?PageID=5&ArticleID=462&P=1
Oldes
14-Apr-2006
[470]
http://www.infoverse.org/octomatics/octomatics.htm
[unknown: 10]
14-Apr-2006
[471x2]
OTTAWA — California-based linguist Paul Payack expects the English 
language to gain its one-millionth word this autumn. The language 
has come a long way indeed, as the English would say, in 400 years. 
In 1582, the English grammarian Richard Mulcaster could say that 
the language was "of small reach, stretching no further than this 
island of ours, nay not there over all.

http://www.languagemonitor.com/
http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats7.htm
Oldes
14-Apr-2006
[473]
http://projects.star.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/projects/MEDIA/xv/index.html
Maxim
14-Apr-2006
[474]
I've actually seen the 'optical camouflage in action.. its nifty, 
if used properly.
Anton
15-Apr-2006
[475x2]
Oh? how does it work ?
ok, just reading now...
[unknown: 9]
15-Apr-2006
[477]
But it is light emitting....this would only really work in daylight 
until they do reflective.
Anton
16-Apr-2006
[478]
Ah the real problem with it is a single point of view, and that point 
of view needs a projector next to it. Neat trick though.
Henrik
16-Apr-2006
[479]
http://news.com.com/China+president+at+Gates+house%2C+not+White+House/2100-1001_3-6061616.html?tag=nefd.top 
<--- Chinese President visits the US. First stop: Bill Gates' house.
Tomc
18-Apr-2006
[480x3]
...before entering Gates' lodge-style, 66,000-square-foot home overlooking 
Lake Washington with a reported seven bedrooms, six kitchens, 24 
bathrooms, a .....
7 bedrooms and 24 bathrooms ... I suspected as much...
(from Henrik's  news story)
yeksoon
18-Apr-2006
[483]
hmm..so that he can 'install more windows'
Maxim
18-Apr-2006
[484]
I wonder if many birds crash in to all those windows... ;-)
Ryan
19-Apr-2006
[485]
It once was really bad. Marks regularly would be splattered on the 
blue screens that covered the old windows.  For now its alot better, 
but we will see how it goes after they put in the new vista windows.
Henrik
19-Apr-2006
[486]
he should be careful with windows that can be flipped over and are 
hinged at the center of the frame. I have those in my livingroom. 
When opened at a certain angle, the reflection in the glass is  directed 
towards the roof. Sometimes a bird would get "caught" in the reflection 
while sitting on the roof and start attacking the window glass repeatedly. 
It looks really funny, but you have to clean up the mess afterwards: 
I suppose repeatedly banging their head against the window glass 
every 2 seconds for 10 minutes makes for a bad stomach...
Henrik
21-Apr-2006
[487]
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20060420.html<--- So how 
will Apple handle the Windows problem?
Maxim
21-Apr-2006
[488x2]
Thanks Henrik, you just made my day ;-)     running windows XP apps 
on OSX natively!  HAHAHAHAHA  get the better OS, and the better Software 
and run them together.  event though they wheren't meant to even 
support each other from the start   :-)
now the intel macs make sense more than ever...
Graham
21-Apr-2006
[490x2]
Does that mean that RT can stop development of View for OSX?
Sounds good that they can now move on to other things.
Maxim
21-Apr-2006
[492]
not yet, but maybe in time... the article talks about technology 
which currently exists, but is not distributed by apple.
Graham
21-Apr-2006
[493]
I can see this as killing Mac developers
Henrik
21-Apr-2006
[494x2]
I don't think it will
because you loose a lot of the goodies in OSX if you don't develop 
for the OS. not even the integration put forward here could make 
up for that
Maxim
21-Apr-2006
[496x2]
surely, opening up the windows API to mac users... sounds like a 
case to code in OSX natively  hehehe
but at least you could use Ultra edit on the mac to code it  ;-)
Henrik
21-Apr-2006
[498]
you'd loose access to core image, core data, core video and audio 
and spotlight..
Maxim
21-Apr-2006
[499]
yeah making media player work inside a mac border, doesn't make it 
any better.
BrianH
21-Apr-2006
[500]
First, Cringley is a little off here. What he suggests is basically 
a description of Wine, but he says it is not like Wine because of 
a complete misunderstanding of what Wine is. Stupid.
Henrik
24-Apr-2006
[501x2]
http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6064016.html?part=rss&tag=6064016&subj=news
<--- US Congress to prepare a new and tougher DCMA
http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/<--- 17" Mac Book Pro is out
Chris
24-Apr-2006
[503]
Re. DMCA, I guess the entertainment industry have the better lobbyists, 
perhaps not the better brains?
Henrik
24-Apr-2006
[504]
and more money
[unknown: 9]
24-Apr-2006
[505]
The problem in this case is that the software itself became illegal, 
which is similar to lock picking tools being illegal.


Then the transport of these tools (links on websites) were made akin 
to transport (trafficking).


The solve is simply to fracture all software into so many pieces 
that it is impossible to point in any one direction.


A paperclip here, a tin of graphite there, etc.  And in theory, it 
may be possible due to the web not to have any group of these items 
in your possession at the same time.


Another option is much simpler…send the files out (to some other 
country), have them return unlocked.  This would pose an interesting 
problem since clearly you are receiving a copy some IP.  So then 
one should receive a "protected" copy using a different protection 
system.  No that part has to be proven as well.


It is all very interesting…but in the end we must abide by the law 
until we can vote it to change.
Henrik
24-Apr-2006
[506]
I'm just a little baffled that it would have to go in the direction 
where words like "fighting terrorism" need to be used. I remember 
an ad that ran here a few years ago with footage of Columbian drug 
dealers, terrorists and animal smugglers that said if you bought 
pirated access cards for satellite TV viewing, you'd be supporting 
drug dealers, illegal trading and terrorists. (Geomol has probably 
heard of TV3 and Viasat) I couldn't believe a private company would 
play on that, but they really did. Of course it changed nothing, 
since people are not that stupid and out of touch with reality.


But doing the same kind of lobbying to a government could be very 
dangerous. Are the people in the government easier to affect? Probably 
if you are waving enough money in front of them.
Chris
24-Apr-2006
[507]
R: Vote to change?  I'll bet at least 50% of Dems will vote for the 
revision.  Lobbyists are the constituency that counts.
Chris
25-Apr-2006
[508]
Speaking of lobbyists, are we all ready for the end of network neutrality? 
-- http://www.tpmcafe.com/node/29086
Maarten
26-Apr-2006
[509x2]
To me, it is all very simple. I just install a program that protects 
all content on my computer before *anything* comes on my PC. Now, 
every piece of software that tries to get anything of my computer... 
of course the protection I offer is cumbersome, so most software 
will circumvent it... and I can sue them. Of cousre I can publish 
something to protect me, espscially from a non-US country.
What I try to say: the solution will be to fight them with their 
own weapons.