World: r3wp

Sounds like this should be a high priority for the team at Sassenranch 
...

yep. I'm pretty sure SQLite provides the .lib as part of its dev 
distro.. so we could either:

   -build the Rebol-SQLite wrapper as an extension using the static 
   lib so it contains both SQLite itself and the wrapper... 

   -Load the DLL dynamically.  but then if the DLL doesn't match your 
   extension's expected version, it won't load.

welcome to DLL hell  ;-)


this being said if DLL is registered properly, you can ask for a 
specific version and it will be returned since Windows can have multiple 
versions of any DLL installed concurrently.

with callbacks (devices?), there is no need to keep bugging Carl 
about A LOT of things people keep complaining about.  :-)

SQLite ... I am trying my first steps with C language, and I would 
really like to prefer DLL in DLL wrapper. While it might seem as 
being complicated, Ashley's driver uses something like 6-10 functions 
from the whole library? Having wrapped DLL in such a way has a huge 
advantage - each new version of SQLite does not require you to rebuild 
your Extension numbers the platforms you are porting to. And SQLite 
frequent releases are happening quite often ...

we should move to Extensions group ...

ARM announced DualCore 2 GHz A9-Cortex core CPUs, which consume 250mW 
under full load. Impressive. Apple is rumoured to use those CPUs 
in their upcoming tablet device:


http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1533877/dual-core-arm-chips-apple-tablets

Finally devices with battery lasting for several days, not several 
hours, possible? We'll see ... good times ahead :-)

the gfx card is responsible for a lot of the watts being consumed... 
more than any recent cpu in any case.

we can build fanless high-performance CPUs but high-performance fanless 
GPU are still not really a reality afaik

Maxim - you are wrong - nVidia's Tegra based device is claimed to 
offer devices lasting 25 days on battery. We will see :-)

are they shipping yet?

and are they "high-performance"?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p69T3cWHBs

looks pretty good.  :-)

holy shit!!!  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MnHb0UNsEs&NR=1

real time tracking in 3d space, real-time color-keying.... simultaneously!

finally someone giving the iphone a bit to think about innovation 
 :-)

Google puts forward a new language: Noop:
http://code.google.com/p/noop/

I saw that one - but not all on Google Code is from Google :)

Forget what I said - apparently this one is.

http://code.google.com/chrome/chromeframe/

This is interesting.

Yeah .. let us know if it works

taking over the web  one browser at a time ;-)

WinCE 6.0 R3 released, with a new UI based on Silverlight with a 
native code backend instead of .NET:

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Windows/Microsoft-Brings-Silverlight-Windows-7-Connectivity-to-Windows-Embedded-CE-275855/

Interesting - where are they heading with WinCE? Really interesting 
...

Well, it's the foundation for their phone platform, and so they have 
to pull out all of the stops due to the competition.

Microsoft releases code for "multikernel" research OS - Barrelfish 
- 


http://www.osnews.com/story/22241/Microsoft_Releases_Code_for_Multikernel_Research_OS_Barrelfish_


Most of us are probably aware of Singularity, a research operating 
system out of Microsoft Research which explored a number of new ideas, 
which is available as open source software. Singularity isn't the 
only research OS out of Microsoft; they recently released the first 
snapshot of a new operating system, called Barrelfish. It introduces 
the concept of the multikernel, which treats a multicore system as 
a network of independent cores, using ideas from distributed systems.

Credit: News taken from OSNews.com

Another MS Research OS - Helios ... sounds like a distributed REBOL 
:-)


Helios is an operating system designed to simplify the task of writing, 
deploying, and tuning applications for heterogeneous platforms. Helios 
introduces satellite kernels, which export a single, uniform set 
of OS abstractions across CPUs of disparate architectures and performance 
characteristics. Access to I/O services such as file systems are 
made transparent via remote message passing, which extends a standard 
microkernel message-passing abstraction to a satellite kernel infrastructure. 
Helios retargets applications to available ISAs by compiling from 
an intermediate language.


http://www.osnews.com/story/22251/Another_Microsoft_Research_Operating_System_Helios

Was not something called Helios connected to the Transputer chips 
theye were working on for use with the Amiga way back when...

Don't remember anything Helios and Amiga name related. The chip which 
was supposed to replace AAA chipset (even AAA was never released, 
but if it would, it would save Amiga for another 5 years) was called 
Hombre, and it was done by Dr. Ed Hepler. It allowed to interconnect 
more chips. Interesting thing is, that if was CPU + GPU in one chip. 
Simply put - once again Amiga 10 or more years ahead of the competitors, 
as nowadays it is being regarded very modern to provide unified chipsets 
like that :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_Hombre_chipset

http://jwz.livejournal.com/1096401.html


Experience with developing and distributing an app for the Palm Pre.

There was another side project using transputer chips (not sure if 
it was Commador project) that allowed multiple transputers to multi-process. 
THe first board contained four transputers but theoretically there 
was no limit to the number of transputers and the gain in process 
power was linear and did not level off as regular processors do (or 
did back then). I think Helios had something to do with it...

http://www.amigahistory.co.uk/prototypes/transputer.html

HELIOS (Operating System for transputers)

The company had developed the custom OS, Helios to interact with 
the host operating system.

I worked with HELIOS and we built (with one of my former companies) 
Transputer boards. Got one running in my old Amiga. But it never 
took off.

The further results are now to see at: www.pactcorp.com, but I don't 
thing it's a commercial success too.

Thanks Robert. It's funny when you hear about something that you 
haven't thought about for years.

So is it the same Helios or did Microsoft develop something new..

Adobe to offer GUI HW acceleration for all mobile platforms except 
the iPhone - http://www.osnews.com/story/22282/Adobe_Flash_10_1_Offers_GPU_Acceleration_Mobile_Support

Flash Professional CS5 will enable you to build applications for 
iPhone and iPod touch using ActionScript 3:

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashcs5/appsfor_iphone/

nVidia in trouble? I hope this one is not true:


http://www.semiaccurate.com/2009/10/06/nvidia-kills-gtx285-gtx275-gtx260-abandons-mid-and-high-end-market/

well, nvidia has pretty much sealed its fate,  all by itself.  just 
2 years ago, ATI was barely able to compete at any level save embedded 
market.  


with all the shitty management, continual delivery of defective parts, 
and all of their arrogance, nVidia have just been allienating clients, 
OEMs and any potential business partner... what do they expect?


Ati on the other hand, has been working on being nice to the industry 
(although they did a big oops with apple a while back), improving 
quality, reducing costs, improving performance, and investing where 
there is money to make...

If we lose nVidia, we might lose the enormous drive that we've had 
in graphics chips development the past 10 years. That is, unless 
Larrabee turns out to be good.

intel has been trying to take nvidia's place for a while  :-)  and 
I woudn't be surprise that if nvidia falls, someone else will simply 
pick up its engineering assets... you know, nvidia is born out of 
80% of Sillicon Graphic's engineers in the exact same doomsday scenario.

I woundnt be surprised that intel is waiting for nvidia to be on 
the verge of collapse to do exactly what AMD did  :-)

Maybe Apple will buy nvidia. That would be funny. :-)

Well, let's calm down - even S3 has its market (I follow VIA development), 
so. nVidia will remain strong in mobile market - ION is cool, and 
Tegra (gfx + ARM core) is cool too. There might be more netbooks, 
nettops, smartphones, tablets sold, than hi perf gfx, for which you 
need atom power-plant and stong cooling :-)

nVidia should be bought by Amiga Inc. :-)