World: r3wp

I'm waiting for the double head kick at the end of the exercises. 
:)

But you know what the first application of this technology is going 
to be - military - killing people.

The next application will be smaller  - robbing a convenience store.

Maybe I'm too cynical and it really will be used to teach people 
how to dance.

actually in Japan it's expected that these robots will be used to 
aid older people in their homes. the number of young Japanese people 
is on the decline and there will be a shortage to help elders in 
a few decades, so Honda started a humanoid robotic development program 
20 years ago. Asimo is where they are now.

That sounds alright - but wait, my cynical brain is in action again 
- I think there are going to be some very interesting murder cases 
coming up.

machines won't probably be so much better than humans; nor should 
we expect them to be much worse, engineering problems aside (but 
engineering will eventually disappear; life forms are not engineered, 
they evolve)

Engineering is much faster than natural evolution, so I don't think 
it will disappear. But you could think of engineering as evolving 
in the space of ideas, rather than natural evolution evolving in 
the space of genes.

if you restrict evolution to biological evolution, you are right 
:)

software will eventually start creating software. the universe is 
just information after all.

I'm with Anton....No matter what good it is used for, it will be 
used always for bad.

Three scariest things on this planet: Terrorist, old people, and 
robots.  


It will start with robots helping old people be terrorists.

Danger Will Robinson!

Yeah... "You better listen to your grandma !!  or ELSE..."

i disagree, the scariest things on this planet are humans. (they 
can be terrorists, they become old people eventually, and they even 
create robots.)

I thought ignorant, powerful people would top that list?

I think educated  people can still make bad decisions. For me the 
problem starts with the people that don't measure the consequences 
of their actions, however they move forward. Second by the ones that 
don't value life.

I think we may surprise ourselves to discover just how far "normal" 
people will go under certain circumstances.

It often go bad, when people don't think for themselves. And agreed, 
many lack the ability to see the consequences of their actions. Finally 
many can't distinguish between facts and opinions. Some things come 
down to facts, other things depend on the eyes seeing.

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=internetNews&storyID=2006-05-02T172703Z_01_N02271704_RTRIDST_0_OUKIN-UK-MICROSOFT-VISTA.XML
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Five year old mention of REBOL3.0:

http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/ml-display-thread.r?m=rmlGGJS

In which Carl stated "REBOL modules will be added for 3.0."

Strange, but interesting: http://secretgeek.net/WSCG.asp

a look at Symbian & UIQ Motorola 1000 SmartPhone - http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=14558

does anyone think, that they need Rebol for some apps? I can imagine 
IOS like product (Altissimo?), where users buy small applets from 
you, they can look-up another users, share data, etc.

Rebol is a PERFECT match for Cellphone aps.

Yes, and that since... 4 years? No further comment...

REBOL is a tiny download, but a very large memory footprint when 
running.
I remember that was one reason for it never being ported to PDAs.

Cellphones also have memory limitations -- both in maximum megs and 
underlying mapping models.
Has the hardware curve caught up with REBOL's needs yet?

hasn't Carl just blogged with "I want Rebol on my cell phone and 
I want it now" or something like that?

we still haven't heard the strategy for opening-up rebol parts for 
community to help etc. though ...

H blogged a couple of times about winCE being complete pants on a 
cellphone.
And hinted that a port of REBOL to winCE is possible given time:
http://www.rebol.net/article/0217.html

H ==> He ==> Carl

Sunanda. I believe Rebol3 will fit into the current HW specs of mobile 
devices.

New version of GP32 handheld linux device on the horizon - http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/05/09/gp2x_linux_console_launch/

The Nintendo Wii controller looks ingenius in action. I wonder if 
there will be a homebrew scene for Wii...

thru http://earl.strain.at/space/startI got to http://www.kx.com
- has anyone heard about such database?

MonetDB/X100 paper - http://www.cwi.nl/htbin/ins1/publications?request=pdf&key=ZuBoNeHe:DEBULL:05

I saw it mention in LtU, but beyond that I don't know anything about 
it.

Heard its a far descendant of APL, and fast. Found this: http://www.kx.com/news/in-the-news/pr-041228-vector.php

So nowadays, View gets serious competition:

Flash to jump beyond the browser arctile - simply put, they used 
browser to spread, now they can dominate the market, so they move 
away from the browser with Apollo - http://news.com.com/Flash+to+jump+beyond+the+browser/2100-1007_3-6071005.html?tag=nefd.lede

Ruby community to clone Rebol/View (AGG) - http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse_thread/thread/35c2f61d29e94550/28b32a50948920ba

Cool. I have been playing lately with Ruby-on-Rails, I must confess 
that I really like Rails, it allows for very fast prototyping imho, 
even faster than rebol. I recommend reading "Agile Web Development 
with Rails" to anyone interested.

If the build add the Rails framework to the  Ruby/AGG backend. I 
think Ruby will have another big market gain.

Why is it that my favorite languages only get popular when they get 
fat and slow? :)

Jaime - who cares of web development ... that is really good definition 
of Ruby vs Rebol usability - web apps :-)

Good old Jaime adheres to hype :-)

Actually that looks very interesting.

Are they offering developers grants to help them develop PD software?

That message is however dated 2005.

dunno how they are organised. They apparently do get some money, 
then they announce possibility to gain some grants ....