World: r3wp

How pitiful

out public networks were privatised

out = our

not a function of govt to run tv stations

I'd rather that we had to pay this as an actual tax, so no money 
would be spent on controlling whether we had a TV, but it's done 
as a separate fee that you can elect not to pay, once you prove that 
you don't have a TV, radio, internet connection or access to any 
of that from your home.

so cellphones are taxed for tv, radio and internet?

it's not a tax for internet access, but a tax for the ability to 
access webstreams of national TV.

I suspect your countries have large bureaucracies

anyone are taxed, even businesses and also if you run an internet 
connection to a bikeshed for a webcam.

Denmark has the world's largest bureaucracy with close to, around 
30-40% of the working population being publicly employed (don't know 
the exact figure).

Why are your cartoonists drawing pictures of Mohammed when there's 
a lot more wrong with your own country!!

Honestly I prefer to live in countries like Denmark or France instead 
of USA or England. 

You feel the difference when you lost your employment or have a big 
decease.

Mohammed drawings is really a small problem. There are some things 
we like very much, like having free hospitals. What we don't like 
so much is that the public sector is growing in the wrong way. It's 
adding personnel for doing controls, paperwork, managing silly rules 
and making sure people uphold stupid laws, rather than increasing 
productivity. If it did, it would be OK. It's really about what we 
get for our tax money, and it's not enough. Our government is trying 
to control us into the ground.

if 50% of the country works for the govt, of course it makes sense 
to increase that as it increases your vote

what political party would be elected on a platform to reduce the 
size of govt when everyone works for the govt?

We have lost big companies, like Vestas, which was once our pride 
leading windmill manufacturer. Now production facilities are closing 
down, because taxes are so high and wages are skyrocketing to pay 
those taxes. Last year, the interest in investing in factories in 
Denmark reached a history low. Yet taxes are still increasing.

where did Vestas move to?

When I see the really bad situation of employment in USA currently 
(and all that people who lost their house). I don't think we are 
in such a bad way.

Graham, UK, I believe. Perhaps also China.

but Steeve, even if you lose your job you can still watch TV and 
listen to music!

Steeve, yeah, but the situation in the USA is also because of a fragile 
economic base.

I guess if you're part of the EEC, you can just move to a different 
country to live?

I hear Iceland is bankrupt ..

What's Sweden like?

Sure you can, and many are leaving. Particularly the highly educated 
part of the public. Our government has also put a nice system in 
place that prevents highly educated people from settling in the country.

Sweden, cheaper cars and DVDs, more blondes, but otherwise probably 
the same.

We don't have the whole scene though, in our community, because the 
Rebolers have enough intellectual forces to make their way in the 
world :-)
But the world economic situation is really bad.

Oh, by the way, when you buy a new car here, you get to pay 180% 
of its value in taxes.

Is Nokia keeping Finland afloat ?

High taxation, large govt bureacracies .. sounds like very socialist 
economies

It wouldn't be so bad, if the money was used better to serve the 
public instead of trying to control it with silly laws.

but that's inevitable ..

large govt => silly laws

large companies => large lobbies => silly laws

many politicians => idle minds => silly laws

Many politicians is probably the case here. Making laws makes the 
appearance of things moving. It doesn't matter if it's good or bad, 
just as long as something was done, so a politician can say that 
he "took action".

Yes

OT?

yes, perhaps move to chat.

Iphone battery issue http://tinyurl.com/25qhpfl

Some versions of PHP hang on a specific number:


http://www.exploringbinary.com/php-hangs-on-numeric-value-2-2250738585072011e-308/

Some ppl say, that this year's CES is going to really start the end 
of PC, as we know it ....

NVIDIA announcing high performance ARM based CPU - http://www.osnews.com/story/24209/NVIDIA_Announces_ARM_CPU_for_Desktop_Server_HPC

And Windows confirms NT and Office for ARM - http://www.osnews.com/story/24210/Microsoft_Announces_Windows_NT_Office_for_ARM

Google unveils UI for Android 3.0 for tablets - http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/05/google-shows-off-android-3-0-the-entirely-for-tablet-honeycom/

QNX based BlackBerry PlayBook  preview - http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/06/blackberry-playbook-preview/

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1349	OSX 10.6.6 is out.

Well, what hope do we have of running R3GUI on these platforms?

First - Carl compiling R3 library to target CPU - ARM. Then porting/integrating 
the hostkit, and that might be more tricky, see Android group and 
related discussion. OTOH maybe one year ago we would thought AmigaOS 
would be impossible to target ....

How versatile is the underlying graphics engine .. can it do touch 
interfaces?  And surface computing?