World: r3wp

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

http://stacksmashing.net/2010/11/15/cracking-in-the-cloud-amazons-new-ec2-gpu-instances/


Using amazon's GPU cloud machines to break SHA1 passwords in 49 minutes 
at the price of about 2.10$ an hour.

Taken from OSNews - AMD joins MeeGo - http://www.osnews.com/story/24034/AMD_Joins_MeeGo_Linux_Open_Source_Project


I hope Nokia wakes up and dismisses Symbian ASAP. And the EU parliament 
is so stupid, that they want to sponsor Nokia a bit, just to have 
some EU competitor to other mobile OSes.

Divide and conquer

Oldes, does the tracking work only if you have a FaceBook account?

Likely to be so

The tracking works even you don't have FB account. They just don't 
know your name. But they have your IP and some info from cookies. 
For example :

Referer	http://domaci.ihned.cz/c1-48204850-brezina-proc-je-lepsi-dohoda-s-ods-nez-top-09-tak-vite-no-dali-nam-vyhodnejsi-nabidku

Cookie	datr=1250632065-19088ceda338e871e9ee01df712a37723a429d0d3c22849a1d7fc; 
lu=ThbkryR2mVGidAGoXhmTtO6A; presence=DJ289860316BchADhA_22106.channelH0_5dBF289860315007WMblcPBsndPBbloMbvtMctMsbPBtA_5b_5dBfAnullBuctMsA0QBblADacA9V289859900Z400K289859900QBalAD1O1171579986ADiA0QQQQ; 
cur_max_lag=20; x-referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fpermalink.php%3Fstory_fbid%3D1573166021199%26id%3D1597009707%26notif_t%3Dwall%23%2Fhome.php; 
e=n; xs=2cf8155631bb0bfe623410554919f283; sid=60; sct=1289859896; 
c_user=1597009707
The FB's cookie life is 2 years.

Of course you can delete your cookies, but how many ordinary people 
do that?

Hmm.. so they're just like other web-bugs.

The new Mathematica 8 allows for natural language input - pretty 
nice. Also, you can now export anything you've developed there as 
a C library, or an executable.


http://blog.wolfram.com/2010/11/15/the-free-form-linguistics-revolution-in-mathematica/

Stephen Wolfram's following blog post on using natural language for 
programming is a good read too.


http://blog.wolfram.com/2010/11/16/programming-with-natural-language-is-actually-going-to-work/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQgnuupBUI4&feature=player_embedded


How to use the Kinect sensor bar from the XBox 360 in a different 
way.

Looks to me that they solved a big problem in robotic vision.

so now we just need to add wheels to xboxes and fire thousands of 
them on Mars:)

Correction: The problem was solved years ago with socalled Time of 
Flight cameras. The kinect is just a much cheaper way to do the same 
thing, so now, everyone can do it.

This will make security cameras about 99% better, removing false 
positives, and in fact IDing who someone is.

25 years ago, 20th November 1985, Windows 1.0 was released.

Black Saturday... well, not black Friday.

Acer dual screen notebook - I wonder how it'll live to its expectations 
....


http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/23/acer-rivals-libretto-w105-with-iconia-dual-screen-laptop-table/

World's worst Android device reviewed here:


http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/reviews/2010/11/worst-gadget-ever-ars-reviews-a-99-android-tablet.ars

These reviewers totally missed the point.  This product shows that 
a $100 olpc is close to being feasible.

That's what they said half a decade ago. Then why isn't the OLPC 
close to $100?

Intel experiments with Lego and kinect-like 3D object recognition 
- nice for kids to play with :-) 


http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/26/intel-research-projects-bring-legos-to-life-make-groceries-inte/

Nice spider :-) http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/26/land-crawler-extreme-robot-carries-175-pounds-of-human/

RIM buys TAT design group (they did Android 1.0 design) ... probably 
for their PlayBook tablet purpose -  QNX UI is not modern enough 
imo - http://www.tat.se/

this is pretty crazy: The latest version of the Linux kernel currently 
consists of approximately 13 million lines of code

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/12/linux-kernel-13-million-lines-over-5-patches-per-hour.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss

Adobe finally comes-up with full video pipeline acceleration for 
Flash on Linux:

http://www.osnews.com/story/24092/Flash_Player_10_2_Beta_Delivers_Hardware_Acceleration_on_Linux