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IE8 passes ACID2 tests. That's cool :-) http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2007/12/19/internet-explorer-8-and-acid2-a-milestone.aspx

oh no. does that mean we have to root for IE now?

No, just a nice "golf clap" for them joining the race...

Apple pushes Think Secret to close the site - so much for your beloved 
Mac ... that sounds worse than MS ....

I'm not in defense on Apple here, but they do have really strict 
contractual obligations on what you can say to anyone when working 
for them. Apple employees are not allowed to talk to the press, family 
members, friends and even other Apple employees. If they do, they 
are fired immediately. The way Thinksecret obtained information was 
through breach of contract by Apple employees, similarly to how industrial 
espionage can be conducted. Because of this, they can prosecute.

The secrecy around products is very strong, because Steve Jobs just 
doesn't want products disclosed before time. That's how they do things, 
it's their business strategy and that's what Apple users must accept.

Well, so they should solve it themselves inside their structures, 
that goes against the free speach.

Well, I'm surprised it didn't happen earlier. Thinksecret were known 
to have the deepest sources. Closing down was a settlement they made 
in exchange for not revealing the sources. The site became largely 
useless anyway after the first hints that Apple were going after 
Thinksecret.

I wonder why they didn't try to undermine the site by seeding false 
information?

http://blog.internetgovernance.org/blog/_archives/2007/12/19/3419292.html

Chris, I believe the Asteroid product that caused them to sue was 
either fake or was pulled from development after being revealed on 
Thinksecret.

It's OK for Apple to behave like they want, because, you know, it's 
Apple. If Steve Jobs starts to eat babies they probably have very 
high nutritious value, are really healthy and very tasty. Man, it's 
Steve Jobs! Who are you to argue with him?

Yes, how can one argue with him? They are successful today because 
of him. :-) That makes going against Apple more difficult.

Very cool http://www.gapminder.org

An interesting website I found http://www.curehunter.com/public/showTopPage.do


Just look around, it is kind of fun little examples of tech spewed 
on a site.

Intel quietly pulled out of support for the XO One Laptop Per Child 
program.  Hmm.  More in chat.

http://www.eye.fi/	Nice idea.

kind of hoax.

so eye-fi card has some kind of radio. In order to proceed, you have 
to put it in card reader, put it into usb on your pc, configure upload 
site, then you return it back to your DC, start shooting, and eye-fi 
card transfers photos to the station connected to usb port? I would 
save the hassle and just use card reader. Or buy decend DC supporting 
wi-fi :-)

Anyone checked out Links?  University of Edinburgh  http://groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/links/
   I'm not a real fan of AJAX but Links is being built to produce 
web frontend (Javascript), middle bit (SQL)  and backend (Java server) 
code from a single source.  I don't really care, but it may fit with 
the current Silverlight thread in REBOL Marketing.

Hey, that's from Philip Wadler. Very interesting

He's getting old :-)

Waah, he writes Java books now? He's really getting old...

Links looks quite clean. It has HTML interspersed in the source code, 
though. I have found that to be an unproductive approach in most 
cases because it does not allow a web designer to work on it

http://www.sun.com/

ah, it doesn't show every time you load it: Sun has acquired MySQL.

http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/presskits/2008-0116/index.jsp?intcmp=hp2008jan16_mysql_learn

And Oracle acquires BEA


http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=alI8qN7k9lQU&refer=home

Amazing! So much money in databases. I should use more time on my 
own.

I could probably read a lot to get this info, but maybe someone here 
knows:

How do a company like MySQL make money? The database is open source 
and completely free, right? So do they earn by doing support? Selling 
books or what?

I pay for MySQL...

Enterprise costs about $600

Do you know, if MySQL holds any patents?

http://www.mysql.com/company/legal/patents.html

Why pay for mysql when postgresql is better and free?

Hm, I haven't got much experience with open source. I'll investigate, 
if the model suit my database, NicomDB. If it does, there could be 
a database written 100% in REBOL available for REBOL developers in 
the near future.

I mean available for free. It is available today, but it costs. :-)

Geomol, the business model for such a setup are mainly:


- You pay for service: Consulting, support, priority fixes, adding 
features, porting
- You pay for special versions: Pre compiled, add-ons

So, the OS stuff is the teaser for the rest. And if you are the main 
person behind the OS project, you are the one being trusted for the 
above things.

also pre-packaged easy versions with books for documentation. that's 
now most linux distro (except Ubuntu) work.

I just checked the size of the source. NicomDB is less than 50k of 
REBOL source. It's a little more than 7k compressed, so it's a nice 
'little' database. :)

iPhone turned into a virtual guitar: http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=26829492

Geomol, when you have a lot of users, it's easy to make money (Sun 
might come and buy you for example :). OS source helps a lot at getting 
a lot of users (the reasons are not entirely rational). still, i 
don't know how much a REBOL db would be popular.

one way mysql makes money is to get Sun to fork over a billion dollars 
:)

You do need to have a sales organisation with customers to be able 
to get that much

HTML 5 the Draft http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/

Nokia to acquire Trolltech - http://www.osnews.com/comments/19227

VIA Isaiah architecture - shows the world how double the performance, 
stay with the same power consumption and stay pin compatible - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAonOmb8l3o

Nice visit to their facilities - http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTQ1MywxLCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA==

rootkit attacks Linux with Apache servers that then later injects 
Javascript to infect Windows boxes.  http://www.linux.com/feature/125548


Rats, bad guys are using our servers to get at the poor unwashed 
masses of Windows users.  No doubt this will be ammunition in MS's 
Get the FUD campaign, further ensuring a larger mass of easily corrupted 
Windows boxes.

Luckily we also have Cheyenne.  Take that bad guys!

How tough is Cheyenne, I wonder ?