World: r3wp

Gabriele was working on Chord .. but gave up due to Rebol problems.

Maybe Jaime or Ladislav can tell us whether we can build a Pastry 
like network upon Beer.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4736984.stm


More bad news for male criminals.  Though I wonder how technique 
would fare in China where there are only 100 official family names.

I guess one problem with a multicast tree is that if you're disseminating 
your RSS feed this way, you may not know how many subscribers there 
are.

Graham feedtree can be implemented with BEER. The Multicast approach 
restrict the number of users that will be able to use it. As there 
is no multicast backbone on the current internet.

Does someone know this? http://www.airset.com

No. We need to get out of the browser. A place like that should have 
a REBOL client! :-)

Yep, that's true. The calendar looks pretty neat.

http://pages.google.comgoogle just launched a new beta... They are 
gooing and going faster faster...

Another unsignupable service !

http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/06/0222quantum.html<--- Quantum computing 
reaches more spooky levels. Get an answer from an algorithm without 
running the computer. It's called "counterfactual computation".

IE 7 Beta http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie7/ie7betaredirect.mspx

I'll wait, thanks. I have enough trouble with IE when it's *not* 
in beta :)

I tried IE7 beta - needed to upgrade to XP from 2000 so no go.

Maybe MS learned from Carl and now the beta is the more stable version? 
just thinking..

It's better than IE 6  tha'ts all i can say.

using 7 beta here also and seems ok but I still use Firefox for most 
of my surfing.IE 7 seems to have "borrowed" several ideas from Firefox 
but that's nothing new

got a pc and want to run OSX on it ? try this then :   http://maxxuss.konglish.org/

Earn your Sun Server -->> http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jonathan?entry=niagara_benchmarks

http://www.ubrowser.com/and 3d browsing ;-)

Why Windows Vista Won't Suck

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1931913,00.asp

Hope they can deliver on this: "Vista will include a built-in speech 
recognition engine, and new and improved speech synthesis. Assuming 
it works as well as it should, you'll be able to dictate emails or 
give voice commands for web navigations without buying additional 
speech recognition software."

Only have to buy a new PC to accomodate the hardware requirements 
of vista.

the speech engine, hopefully better than the one built into Windows 
XP Tablet edition

Internet Explorer 7 under Windows Vista runs in a special super-low 
user access mode that gives the browser very little access to the 
underlying OS, and ActiveX security has been tightened up significantly 
as well, with most ActiveX controls off by default and set to opt-in 
rather than opt-out. Hopefully other browsers will follow suit and 
operate in this least-privileged mode, too.
 - Like IE is a model of good security practices!?

Microsoft would have liked to build in antivirus software, but would 
have gotten in legal trouble.
 ???

Why Windows Vista Won't Suck - maybe because the author of the article 
has been paid by MS? ;) I'll believe this when I see it (but even 
in that case, MS is evil and must be fighted)

Well lets see. according to yahoo, Microsoft has revenues of $41 
billion, a 31% profit margin, total cash of $34 billion, a $15 billion 
operating cash flow, and a market cap of $277.66 Billion.

Thats BILLION as in $1000 million.

But hey, what do they know?

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=MSFT

What's the interest on $34b in cash?

So you can behave badly if you've got money, is that what you're 
saying, Terry ?

that proves that they can easily pay people to fool other poeple 
like you to give them more money. I should probably do that too.

Yes, Gabriele, I'll talk to you privately about my other marketing 
consultancy :)

i wonder if the fact that MS is that rich means that ms-dos doesn't 
suck either, and that windows 95 doesn't suck and so on.

but wait! I just forgot terry comes from a parallel universe. it 
makes sense that windows does not suck there.

Gab, btw - as we don't want rebol to suck in the future, is the Roadmap 
REBOL 3 announcement date anytime soon now? :-)

i'm not the one that can write the roadmap, so i can only tell you 
what i am told. i was told "soon" (in the sense of a few days)

so, i guess that means that it is still to be expected very soon.

well, I have heard Carl was out till monday, so let's hope it is 
soon now .... :-)

I will be going by Redwood Valley on Saturday and give Carl a "reboot" 
:)

:-)) but please, only a software reboot, not hard-reboot, right? 
:-)

Have a nice visit Alan ;-)

http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/01/not-content-as-a-mere-sideline-mascot-tux-now-runs-linux/

Cute...

Here's a good read.. 

The future of HTML, Part 1: WHATWG
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-futhtml1/

In my universe, back in the early 80s, I went with windows, simply 
becuase I couldn't afford a mac. Best computing decision i ever made. 
 Wish I bought stock.

at the time, i really liked Amiga too, especially video toaster, 
but i saved myself TONS of grief by avoiding it, as many of the folk 
here would understand.

Terry, I think computing is mature enough to have machines for different 
purposes, games machines, media machines and work machines. Most 
households I know have a least two on that list so far and are heading 
for the 3rd. Currently the pendulum is swinging away from "one machine 
to rule them all".

Economic tides may turn that back again, and cut the diversity again 
like it did in the late eighties / early nineties. But

thankfully we are in a time of plenty in our neck of the woods at 
the moment.

I've been telling people foy years to get a machine for work and 
a machine to trash for games etc.

Because if they call me (as they often do) and say "I've broken my 
only computer by downloading a game and now I can't get it to work 
and I've got to do something important" they get zero sympathy and 
I'm pretty dis-inclined to lend a hand in fixing their crisis.