World: r3wp

Maybe it's not so new (as I was a few weeks out of keyboards) but 
I just found that there is new Flash player - http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/productinfo/features/

(but reading some discussions, thay have problems to be cross-platform)

AMD + ATI  http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/VirtualPressRoom/0,,51_104_543~110899,00.html

The new company will use the acronym DAAMIT

i thought it was A**

too vauge.   A??  or  A[MT][DI]

Opera's vision for version 10 - http://news.com.com/Opera+reveals+version+10+vision/2100-1032_3-6099692.html?tag=nefd.top

Opera plans to put their widgets on mobile devices, TVs, game consoles 
.... http://www.apcstart.com/site/dwarne/2006/07/799/opera-to-put-widgets-on-mobile-phones

http://www.krugle.com/<---search engine for source code

searching for rebol gives some interesting results...

Some news from WWDC - http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=15411

the new Mac Pro is evil :-) but it's also very expensive. it seem 
that the Mac Pro is moving up, becoming less for advanced home users 
and moving to enterprise/company/government users.

Xray for XCode looks also a bit evil. a very visual way to analyze 
program performance

.NET and JAVA to get better dynamic language support - http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060810-7462.html

interesting discussions and links to the article - http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=15460

Not quite a news but IMO quite interesting: lukfil writes "We all 
know of floating point numbers, so much so that we reach for them 
each time we write code that does math. But do we ever stop to think 
what goes on inside that floating point unit and whether we can really 
trust it?"  http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/12335059/article.pl

It's also interesting that Rebol doesn't need example 1, gets example 
2 right on the first try, and therefore doesn't seem to need example 
3

That is true, but I have noticed floating point approximation errors 
when adding up numbers during accounting.

You can't use floating point for money (accurately) without doing 
some manual smoothing and rounding as you go. Hopefully R3 will address 
this.

if you do need to add a bunch of floating point numbers begin with 
the smallest first and work your way up

Or you use Scheme that has a number ladder including bignums. So 
you never lose precision.

...or any language that supports BCD, scaled-integers, string math, 
etc.

Ruby 1.8.5 released, added non-blocking IO ....

Maybe those guys could add REBOL variant? :-) http://www.activestate.com/Products/Komodo/?mp=1

looks nice, and supports most of Rebol competition ...

Python 2.5 released - major release after 20 months of development 
- http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.5/

we want Rebol 3.0 alphaaaaaa :-)

if they needed 20 months for a .1 improvement... ;) (just kidding)

where we any better  for .1 release of view   ;-)

Minix 3 - new redone version of Minix - http://www.osnews.com/story.php/15960/Introduction-to-MINIX-3/

http://hight3ch.com/post/airplane-toy-feel-like-a-pilot/

Article on Design Patterns, (starts off with C code examples, but 
soon after turns into a good article, easy to read):
http://newbabe.pobox.com/~mjd/blog/2006/09/11/

In Namibia, Sell VoIP and Go-To Jail

http://www.skypejournal.com/blog/archives/2006/09/namibia_sell_voip_go_to_jail.php

IEEE Computer - July 2006, has an article by Bertrand Meyer on componentizing 
the Visitor pattern, and talks about components versus patterns in 
general. Here is a related link: http://se.ethz.ch/research/patterns.html


Coming from VB, which was "object based", not true OO, and succeeded 
largely due to its component-based model, I believe that patterns 
are good, but components are better, and language features are better 
still. That's another reason I think dialects are the way to go.

Berkley is making corses available via googke vido for free:
http://video.google.com/ucberkeley.html

keybord brken?

space bar is,  fonts too small to see, can't spell , tired ,don't 
care.

understand?

try the aA button .. it helps a little.

http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=18121&hed=The+Big+Blue+Marble

We should talk about that more. But not in this group.

TIBCO to open source their AJAX toolkit. (BSD)

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/061002/sfm084.html?.v=63

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061002-7877.html<---- Teens 
think E-mail is for Old People.

I think it's normal, teens are not working, they just need to chat.

I don't know. I use IM, IRC and AltME way more than email. For me, 
email is a rather clunky communications tool. It seems to me that 
for many people, IM requires you to be at the computer all the time, 
which of course it doesn't. I guess it's heritage from the even older 
phone era. :-)

Take a look at this Flapjax stuff. Very interesting, original info 
posted by Jaime in Chat.

henrik, the intent of messaging is short messages, (you can use it 
differently)  mail tends for more structured documents.

also mails are meant to be manipulated stored and retreivable.  just 
like in reality.

writting a letter or an essay is not the same tought process as speaking 
with someone

Mail can be good for ad hoc databases, but in my experience, keeping 
track of a conversation can be a bit of a nightmare if you are not 
careful, changing the subject line or something that will screw the 
thread up. This depends on how good the mail client is at threading. 
There is also a problem with certain mail clients not adhering to 
the Re: standard reply prefix for subjects.

Seeing how different people use mail clients very differently, it's 
hard to keep posts flowing in a readable way, if they continously 
decide that every mail needs a new subject, or the subject line is 
blank. This happens for people who are not accustomed to posting 
on mailing lists, where structure is very important. Unfortunately 
most customers that I deal with, do not use their mail clients efficiently, 
because they are unaware of the weaknesses of email. Email was designed 
in an era where sending text messages across phonelines were considered 
pretty high tech and was mostly used by technical people and only 
in select locations.


Just today I was looking for a mail inside an old thread, a response 
to a question I had asked a customer. I couldn't find it. It turned 
out that the customer apparently had never answered it, but I can't 
be sure whether I had accidentally deleted it or if the mail client 
had stowed it somewhere else. Mail just doesn't cut it anymore. It 
needs to be replaced with something much more rigid and with structure 
forced upon it by the clients. Significant protection from spam should 
be there by design, not by throwing advanced algorithms, money and 
CPU power at the problem.


This is why I like AltME. You have the instant messaging capability 
and I can still write long blurps like this one without loosing structure 
of an ongoing one-line conversations in the same thread (group in 
AltME). It'll end up in the right place. It's going to be very certain 
that you'll be able to read it a few seconds after I hit Send. It's 
logged and searchable, though it will scroll out of view quickly.