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neither it allowed me to use chinese input method

scite is dual-platform only and geany has windows binaries only according 
to their official site.
why do u have to bullshit us saying it's crossplatform?
even this sublime thing was windows only until last year!

that was the only reason i mentioned it here, because the same version 
is available on the 3 major platforms (with proper font handling, 
unlike rebol..)

well both are win and x,  mac is no major platform. it's a toy ;-)

hja, okay, sorry... now i know why has it been made so durable... 
so kids cant break it easily... unlike the other 2 systems ;P

harr..harr..harr...YES!

you have to add my BSD to your list also or not?

thats not a separate platform, that's x... ;p

but true, it would be nice if they would support freebsd at least, 
however very little ppl use freebsd as a desktop, i would think..

then you mac isn't either...

yes, BSD is mainly server but can be a great desktop also, esp. if 
you look to your mac screen...

Some of you already found the Syllable interview I was recently asked 
to do by IDG on Slashdot. The original article is on TechWorld:

http://www.techworld.com.au/article/398891/syllable_os_developer_interview_building_better_operating_system/

The full interview is here:

http://www.techworld.com.au/article/398892/developer_q_syllable_os/

I was also asked about the Amiga, and I put REBOL and Red in there, 
too

It's been relayed on OSNews now:

http://www.osnews.com/story/25122/Interview_Syllable_OS_Lead_Developer_Kaj_de_Vos

Tamas - I actually don't use Sublime Edit for Rebol these days. The 
syntax file I have is from SE 1 - not sure it would work with 2 or 
how much it colored various keywords. If you want I can zip up what 
I have and you can try it out.

AdrianS: u did't get my private messages?

but zip it up please together with the color theme which worked for 
u

Finally - http://developer.nvidia.com/content/accelerated-path-rendering-opengl-nvidia-path-rendering-sdk

The Syllable interview is now on DistroWatch:

http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20110905#news

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2030258

An article on software liability laws.

Love it............and yeah, not going to happen.

It's just bits and bytes set in a certain way, and they can be changed 
anytime. From a philosophical viewpoint, there's something fundamental 
different between software and a house.

Actually - from any viewpoint, I guess.

red thread is rolling quickly so not to be overlooked: interresting 
toy for cheap: http://www.raspberrypi.org/ARM based 700MHz core 
256MB RAM 100 Mb Lan 2 USB ports, SD card reader  some (not exactly 
stated how many) GPIO, 1W power under full load, Quake3 and HD movie 
playing demonstrated. Linux supported from producer, but architecture 
not restricted to linux only.

could this be the project Carl is working on !? it is an embedded 
linux, its also more TV than computer since it supports only TV outputs. 
 Carl's low memory using Amiga Exec Background would make him a prime 
candidate for working on this project which has to boot Linux and 
allow HD decoding within only 128 MB (os+gpu Shared) RAM .

It's not the project he's working on.

They're shipping Ubuntu

The movie demos they did so far used their own player thingie. It's 
likely the standard Linux players won't cut it on Ubuntu in the provided 
memory

Hmm... POE would be nice

Henrik .. wasn't Carl supposed to make some announcement of what 
he was doing .. or did I miss it?

he was, but it didn't happen.

For Open Hardware followers: http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/09/19/1835250/Arduino-Goes-ARM

I should be able to port Red on the Arduino Due (32-bit, 50KB of 
RAM) but the still low memory size might limit its usefulness. OTOH, 
Red/System should be able to work full power there. It should be 
fun to write a new OS for this platform using Red/System.

It would be nice to have one of these types of little computers, 
which can shut down to some really low power use state, or even turn 
off, while passing power to something like a wrist watch level tech, 
which can react to some input (a dry contact, or a timer, or a signal 
from the internet in some form).  Very power combination for many 
applications.

That should be doable, with the "wearable" version of Arduino boards 
(the Lilypad): http://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoardLilyPad


They are also some wrist watch level Arduino-based prototypes (often 
using an OLED display): http://www.google.fr/search?gcx=w&q=wrist+watch+arduino&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&hl=fr&tab=wi&biw=1113&bih=1036


A few more very creative Arduino watches: http://hackaday.com/tag/watch/

There's even one you can already buy: http://www.getinpulse.com

will the ARM arduinos be available in the same form factors as the 
existing ones?

Here's a photo of the ARM-based new Arduino board: http://www.semageek.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/ArduinoDue.jpg


I am not sure it will be available in tiny forms like the Lilypad 
or the Nano though.

Cool stuff, thanks for posting.

Arduino is already based on ARM in its NetDuino variant, Netduino 
is also in micro variant (breadboard based).

Neutrino travels faster than light http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/5671848/Pillar-of-physics-challenged

The theorists who know what that are talking about will have a lot 
of fun with that evidence, Graham.


The rest of us can make things up -- like perhaps neutrinos are the 
only things that actually travel in a straight-line at a quantum 
level; photons take a longer path because they are bouncing around 
a bit.

actually travel in a straight-line

 :-D (Instead of the Relativity theory, you prefer to destroy the 
 Quantum mechanics?)

Or I should ask: Alongside with the Relativity theory you would like 
to destroy the Quantum mechanics as well?

Experimental results have demonstrated that effects due to entanglement 
travel at least thousands of times faster than the speed of light

travel at least thousands of times faster than the speed of light
 - except for the fact, that they actually don't "travel"

No, just teleport!