World: r3wp

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/12/genspace-diy-science-laboratory/


The FBI now uses pictures of our space to show people what a [methamphetamine] 
drug lab doesn't look like,

 Grushkin said. One of the FBI contacts even showed up at the grand 
 opening last week to congratulate Grushkin.

LOL

that community lab is a really cool idea.

Just tried to run OnLive: "We are sorry, this application requires 
gfx card that supports Pixel Shader 2.0...."

LOL I thought they made it 'cloud powered' so it can run on low-end 
HW. So it's just kind of marketing trick.

really? A friend of mine ran it on a low-end notebook.

notebook = netbook.

Pixel Shaders 2.0 doesn't  sound to me as low-end feature. IIRC it 
was introduced roughly when netbooks came on market  which is not 
too long. So maybe they took it as 'low end' to show that if it runs 
on visually 'small PC' it uses low-end HW. I have different meaning 
of 'low end' though.

Sigh, netbooks are like supercomputers when running Syllable on them

Cyphre, I asked my friend and he ran it on an intel GMA950 netbook. 
AFAIK, all it does is stream video.

AFAIK OnLive just streams video. However, it refused to work here 
when I tried it (it claimed my network latency was too high and did 
not even let me try it).

There was an update a few days ago that would let me see the main 
menu, before it halted due to "Network quality" errors. Before that, 
there was just latency errors.

I think that right now, you'd have the most luck with OnLive if you're 
in North America. According to their blog, they're spreading out 
all over the world, but there are no guarantees.

http://lifehacker.com/5713204/most-popular-diy-projects-of-2010

taken from Rebol Tutorial's blog - Ronal Ferguson admits, Websphere 
was a mistake - he calls for simplification:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11944966

AROS on ARM (Android?) .... soooo nice. I want my R3 GUI on cell 
phone too :-)

http://pics.ogun.org/misc/aros.jpg

re: AROS on ARM .... just need to get some touch events stuff going 
in AROS

http://www.osnews.com/story/24158/Bloomberg_Windows_Coming_to_ARM

http://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/wiki/Documentationlive streams 
from 3C27

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1934443/french-politicians-tax-tablets-running-windows

French politicians want to tax tablets for not running Windows

Is this legal?

They can probably make it legal.

btw.. what does it meams "French politicians"? I don't believe that 
all of them.

I think it is against the competition law.

It takes 1-2 uninformed politicians to make headlines, so it may 
not be as bad as it seems, but it's seems the desire for categorizing 
and quantifying software through law making won't end any time soon.

I don't get why they exclude "computers" from the piracy tax. Most 
pirates use computers running Windows, same as most computer users.

Do not look for logical reason, they simply are politicians, who 
search for any pretext to increase taxes

Isn't this tax supposed to compensate musicians?

It is

On the surface, yes. Deeper down, most are not compensated.

But the stupidity lies in  what they think is a computer is. 
- An engine which runs windows

When it comes at stupidity, our politicians are not half way.
French touch !

I really don't mind that tax in principle, but only if it works to 
compensate musicians, not beaurocrats. And includes the computers 
as well, or at least any device for which the MP3 patents have been 
paid.

why don't they just tax everyone and you can get a tax rebate if 
you can prove you're deaf and blind ?

face it, you're only got one pair of those sense organs, and it doesn't 
seem to be fair to be taxed twice if you own two mp3 players

Or, the french govt could use profiling ... and tax those who fit 
the profile

The tax is related to the size of the memory storage.
Every device with memory could be taxed, it's the idea.

time for another revolution ... storm the bastille

Like Brian said, the tax principle is not the real problem. 

The problem is that the final cost becomes way too large for some 
devices.
Tax added on already existing  taxes.

remove copyright on music .. and get musicians to get a grant from 
general taxation

make them servants of the state :)

It's simply crazy to tax devices

In the past, everyone here had to pay for a TV license ... and we 
had these vans patrolling the streets trying to pick up unlicensed 
TV sets

We still have it here

Now the broadcasters get their fees from advertizing

What??  still pay tv license fees?

yeah and those who can receive TV via internet pay it as well

No Freeview digital broadcasts ?

What about satellites?

Well, you must live in a very repressive state!!

We have public and private networks, We pay tax because of the public 
ones.

We have that here too and the fee is climbing every year and is the 
same amount for students and billionaires. The rule is that as soon 
as you have a device that can receive radio or TV signals (doesn't 
matter if you can actually watch TV or hear radio), you have to pay. 
Also our internet connections are taxed this way. If you have more 
than a 256 kbit connection, you have to pay.