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which is a oneliner actually:

write clipboard:// probe copy/part enbase/base checksum/method/key 
"twitter" 'SHA1 ask/hide "password: " 64 8

Very nice Tamás. But shouldn't 'paste have a different name, based 
on what it does? 'Paste implies taking data out of the clipboard 
and putting it into a target location. I know 'copy is taken though. 
:-)

When I first saw it I was thinking that they put the wrong USB port 
on it (device rather than host) but figured that they wouldn't have 
made a mistake like that. Seeing the in-use pictures though, they 
did do that, which is why they have to hack up their own USB cables. 
USB's asymmetry can be lame sometimes.

As it "is designed to plug into a TV" that's most likely intentional.

It is designed to plug into a TV through HDMI, not USB. More likely 
it is because this platform is apparently designed for educational 
use, and is programmed by plugging it into another computer as a 
USB device. At runtime it changes the USB port to host mode, though 
not the USB plug. Perhaps they expect it to spend more time being 
programmed than used.

Linux running on top of a virtual PC written in Javascript: http://bellard.org/jslinux/

Yeah, just a bit disappointing ;-)

I can see the page, and it looks like a really cool algorithm!

http://sputnik.tv2.dk/play/event/820/

This is a much better stream, but requires Silverlight.

don't know. there is a live chat here:

http://ing.dk/live

but this is mostly in Danish.

The infamous hair dryer from last year has been replaced by a heating 
resistor. They got a lot of laughs for using the hair dryer to heat 
a supercooled valve and the valve failed, because the power to the 
hair dryer was lost.

Of other things, the liquid oxygen is no longer time critical (there 
is much more of it and the vaporization system is different) and 
radar control has fewer people running around. The launch platform 
itself no longer needs to be towed by a separate boat, but is powered 
by two diesel engines. Generally it seems a lot calmer and quieter 
than last year.

The quality of the reporting is atrocious, and is in no way scientific. 
I'm embarrassed that there is not a reporter on site, who actually 
knows what he's talking about.

Yet another stream here:


http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/03/amateur-copenhagen-suborbitals-team-about-to-send-a-dummy-into-s/

launch in a few seconds...

I wonder how difficult it is to get an agreement, to do such a thing. 
What if the rocket fails, and falls to some crowded town area?

A couple of pics from the launch pad:


http://ing.dk/artikel/119783-se-de-foerste-billeder-af-raketaffyring-taget-fra-sputnik#0

Testing Chromium: AddressSanitizer, a fast memory error detector.


http://blog.chromium.org/2011/06/testing-chromium-addresssanitizer-fast.html

Interesting, I could use the same approach for a memory debug mode 
in Red/System.

i think REBOL does similar things (eg. the end! datatype), that's 
why you usually get an internal error rather than a crash when there 
is a GC bug.

Commodore USA has released a new video showing their office, production 
area and the progress of both the new Commodore 64 and the VIC-Slim. 

Here's the link: http://commodoreusa.net/CUSA_FacilityVideo.aspx

We can easily build a CLI dialect in REBOL to build a console:

<move, copy, delete, send, show-all> find <what-to-search> in <path-to-folder>

<copy-to-clipboard, print, send> find <what-to-search> in <file-name>
it would be a nice project :)

It means he's admitting that he's going downhill. And remember the 
organisation chart Doc found a while ago?

A spider web, where everyone in the organisation is controlled by 
one head

I have heard that pancreas cancer is one of the worst cancer diagnosis, 
not curable. But of course, I wish him a recovery, who knows what's 
possible in terms of nowaday's medicine ...

a little lighter topic:  http://www.sublimetext.com/2

the best generic code editor ever and it's CROSS PLATFORM since the 
beginning of the year and it's beta already!

im using it for a day and no bugs so far. it costs 60 USD to get 
rid of the "buy me" dialog after every 50th save, but that's the 
only pain point, i think.

here is the list why i love it:
- knows save on focus lost

- have the intelligent filename search (with instant file preview!!!)
- can open full folders
(no need to create a project for it explicitely!!!...)
- handles proportional fonts
- handles double width characters (chinese for example)
- beautiful default color scheme with black background
- distraction free "zen" mode
- no stupid dialog box config
- cross platform; which is good because

    - i can remote control less advanced users no matter what is their 
    platform

    - i can use the same interface and shortcuts on every platform; no 
    annoyance on switching
- not extremely bloated yet...

btw, im using Verdana as the proportional font for source code. does 
anyone else have a better recommendation?

but the minimap leftside looks like a nice feature. would like to 
have this with scite.

TomBon: code folding would require code analysis. i don't expect 
a generic code editor go that far. if u really miss folding, go and 
suck with some bloatware IDE and suffer from all it's pitfalls...


i would rather organize my code in a way where folding wouldnt help 
much with reading...

i was looking for an editor primarily to write code, not to read 
others' crap. i forgot to tell sublime is only a good choice in this 
case

onetom, well...just a moment...just sucking heavy on scite & geany 
currently all nice delivered cross-plattformed in 1.5 mb ready to 
use WITH code folding.  :-))))

i see u were contributing to a thread which started as a "scite on 
mac" topic and turned into an "oh, wait, it's not that obvious how 
to get gtk for a mac" pondering

i tried gedit too recently on a mac. luckily there was a binary version, 
because the compilation segfaulted... well, it's quite nice. i could 
see that as an open source alternative, but despite of the fact it's 
supposed to support utf-8, it didn't...

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

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..

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

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.

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 .

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

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.

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?)

Right -- it's similar to Ly Tin Weedle's proposed method of instantaneous 
information transfer by modulated torture of a small monarch:
   http://www.discworldmonthly.co.uk/tpquote.php?qn=353&mode=goto

That's funny :))) "Governmentium", "These 312 particles are held 
together by a force called morons" :))))

Sounds pretty interesting, but when will we see commercial deployment? 
Rossi is planning for October, this year, for his process. A Greek 
company is investing 200 million euros in the plant.


An update on the E-CAT: The Greek company that was investing in this 
plant, mysteriously can't pay the money, so the 1 MW plant is now 
supposed to be installed in the US instead.

Here are some pictures of the power plant:


http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/energi_miljo/energi/article3264361.ece


Another test was also conducted a couple of weeks ago, but it, like 
the other tests, did not show anything conclusively that the device 
really worked. It's highly suspicious.

Pekr, see this group on Apr-26 for a discussion about it.

it bugs me that they forked Android (based on a version prior to 
2.2) - that's a second strike. The first was that they bought Touchco, 
a very promising tech company which had one of the best and cheapest 
touchscreen implementations ($10/sq ft), good for both stylus and 
fingers. This should have been technology for the masses, not restricted 
to Amazon. Oh well, I guess it's still for the masses if they sell 
enough tablets with that tech, at some point. Forking Android though, 
screw them. With their user base, they have the potential to upset 
the Android cart.

The problem with Amazon is it's "Amazon store developer agreement" 
- http://www.readwriteweb.com/mobile/2011/04/igda-updates-warning-to-amazon-appstore-developers-its-not-a-misunderstanding.php

Looks cool. I'm wondering, why spacecrafts always have a smooth surface. 
Pinguins are known to have very little resistance, when they move 
through water, and they don't have a smooth surface because they 
used to have feathers. Sharks have a rough surface, I guess this 
also mean less resistance, when they move through water. A golf ball 
fly longer with all its little bulges, than if it had a smooth surface. 
Yet spacecrafts have smooth surfaces.

Elon Musk needs really to learn how to be a public speaker. His talk 
is hard to follow.

A golf ball fly longer with all its little bulges


Other way around, it has dimples, and a sharks skin is sort of like 
plates, and work the same way.

It's very impressive how he turned around Apple and how all the dots 
connected. The difference is, that he knew it upfront and we see 
it afterwards. That's what makes a great entrepreneur.

He was a very impressive entrepeneur .. but was he an inventor like 
Carl?

IMHO he was a far better inventor than Bill G.
Both were very good entrepreneur at there time.

I'm not sure if it covers "entrepreneur" or "inventor", if he had 
stuff that he thought up, built by others from his instructions, 
but he did a lot of that, as he knew a lot about industrial design, 
even before the first Macintosh was built. There are a number of 
things on their products that are directly attributable to him.

GrahamC: Carl might be a good inventor, but what is it good for, 
if he is not able to realise his visions?

Yes, Steve was not really an inventor as he evented pretty nothing.

But he was the visionar who see what invention could be a progress 
for people way of life.

And he has also a good sense of design to make inventions "love-able" 
by people.

http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.2685


neutrinos were not travelling faster than light speed ... the experiment 
did not account for the GPS satellites being in a different referencec 
frame.  They calculated to account for this and found the missing 
32 nanoseconds

As I understand it, the GPS satellite that does the timing is moving 
much faster than the earth and is in a different reference frame. 
 In the experiment, the neutrino source is moving towards the satellite 
and so the neutrinos appear sto be travelling a shorter distance 
in the GPS's frame of reference.

yes QNX is cool, some years ago I was looking for a microkernel OS 
and have checked QNX. a stable and fast OS combined with a GUI called 
photon.  

one of the cleanest GUI I have seen so far. perhaps MINIX with something 
like photon will evolve some day for a full server/desktop enviroment.

who knows, Rossi might get killed by a big explosion - it's going 
to be interesting any way it pans out

It's not everyday you see a REBOL job posting. I'm glad to say that 
my company is leading the way. 


http://www.careerbuilder.com/JobSeeker/Jobs/JobDetails.aspx?IPath=QHKCV0A&ff=21&APath=2.21.0.0.0&job_did=J5H1MP6N914TSD0LJGX

A little above zero, because they negotiated influence in the WP 
development process with MS, but yeah

It looks like they took Mono's existing compiler-as-a-service concept 
and went with it.

Looks like it borrowed from Nemerle as well - the closest thing to 
REBOL with a C-like syntax that you could get back in 2005. I lost 
interest in Nemerle when they started supporting indentation-based 
syntax (that's a real turn-off) and when C# started adopting many 
of its features (such as what MS calls LINQ now). Roslyn is basically 
Mono.Compiler + LINQ.

We're using MS Entity Framework for a project and I must say that 
its the first API/framework from MS which, I think,  makes our job 
factually easier.   i.e.  it doesn't just re-engineer the same concept 
with new syntax.   Its an actual improvement in how a team can organise 
larg'ish project.

the fact that it takes about 30 minutes to implement the general 
concept of entities in REBOL (it took them 2 years within their toolchain 
;-) is a testatment to how good it is IMHO.


i.e.  something which is conceptually friendly to some REBOL idioms 
(in concept, not it actual code) is pretty nice for a change.

Rent-a-mac in the cloud for development instead of buying your own: 
http://www.macincloud.com/

Unlimited service in the US, over Wifi by default (Sprint as a fallback), 
$19 per month: http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/07/republic-wireless-officially-unveils-19month-service-unlimited-everything-no-contracts/

Looks like a couple of my friends with no phones might have an option 
now :)

In the original write-up they don't mention a disbelief in simplicity, 
but rather a disbelief in the relevance of V6 due to: a) age, b) 
strange programming language, c) strange target hardware.

Prince of Persia released for the Commodore 64

 - Graphics are almost same with Amiga version :) I ordered. it will 
 be fun to finish it on a real C64.

Baysick: a Scala DSL implementing basic: http://blog.fogus.me/2009/03/26/baysick-a-scala-dsl-implementing-basic/

Close, but no cigar. ;-)

Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo: Tourists in for a 'Magical' Ride

http://www.space.com/13625-virgin-galactic-spaceshiptwo-ride-passenger-experience.html

And I think MIPS had a custom R6 NDK version for MIPS. No idea about 
a R7.

Good! $200 is too much to pay for a device that can't run REBOL :-/

That might be comparable to how the R2 2.5 WinCE builds for HandheldPC, 
which required a keyboard, ran on Windows Mobile 6.5 machines that 
didn't have a keyboard, but not on 6.5 Smartphone Edition phones 
that actually had the keyboard that the build required. But maybe 
the on-screen keyboard will be enough.

Weird. On every device I've tried the WinCE build with, the window 
didn't resize for the virtual keyboard, so the actual command line 
was covered up by the keyboard. Are you saying that this problem 
went away at some point with a more recent WinCE version?

And I'd like to apologize for that. The ARM build was made for my 
HP Jornada handheld pc (a netbook precursor) which had a hardware 
keyboard, then never updated to support virtual keyboards. Or the 
clipboard or command line either, but those weren't my fault.

one of their goals will be to avoid fragmentation

That's a fine goal.

I think they already enabled alternative stores, but when they open 
source the app platform, that will be a given, anyway

So, we now have apparently the best mobile OS now open source, and 
we have a number of rebol clones appearing ... is there any synergy 
that can be built from this?

Well, one should probably not underestimate the design of the XO-3. 
I wonder which one breaks first, if a child uses one of each for 
a year. Also, the OLPC contains much more beefy educational software, 
specific inputs for measuring equipment and low-voltage charge input 
for mechanical charging with handcrank and solar charging.


The cover can double as a solar panel with built-in battery pack, 
which you take off and leave out in the sun. When it's charged, put 
the cover on the back and the tablet runs off that battery.


When comparing the UI responsiveness, there is pretty much no contest:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0OuUr1pZBE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5D06XQ1f3o

But the Ubislate is likely much cheaper to produce.

Henrik - I simply don't like things green, government funded, or 
done from public or any other dotations, especially when done fanatically. 
And OLPC is a so so project for me. Was OLPC1 or 2 any significant 
success? Well, Genesi, a commercial entity,might have better HW to 
share. As for tablet, I can't see much innovations there. Such projects 
feel like scientists got money to play, but with not much normal 
commercial focus. From such pov, and being funded by top companies 
like AMD, Intel, Google, I would expect a significant and radical 
innovative design, but it is not imo. One of reasons imo is, that 
none of those companies are willing to ruin their own market ....

Well, you posted the Ubislate, so I thought a comparison was valid.

if we stick to specs, they are still quite a bit smaller than the 
OLPC XO-3, and is still not designed for educational use, other than 
being cheap. For children in India, price may be a valid point to 
simply allow it to spread, but the OLPC is designed in and out for 
educational use.

A lengthy interview with the developer of the E-cat, Andre Rossi:


http://pesn.com/2012/01/14/9602012_Momentous_Breakthroughs_Announced_During_Anniversary_E-Cat_Interview/transcription.htm

Rossi should better show something, or all this story can be regarded 
a scam ...

He only showed ... steam. The claim that  it"s device is not ready 
to convert steam to electricity from the start is laughable. 
I vote for a scam

OSNews.com goes "dark", as a part of anti-SOPA initiative - http://www.osnews.com/

It seems they are just using a div tag. I run an adblocker in Chrome 
and did not notice the blackout at all.

(from a friend of mine that makes DropBox)

I wish wikipedia actually tracked how often I use wikipedia.  when 
I was a kid, I accessed my book collection (dict, Ency, etc.) often 
every hour.  Now with computers, it is often 5-10 times in an hour.

How reliable or correct do you find wikipedia on a) general topics 
b) specific topics (or more narrow knowledge - don't know how to 
define this category).

I guess it depends on whether you know it's correct? I find it fairly 
reliable with having collections of information that would otherwise 
be hard or time consuming to gather. This is both for general topics 
and very specific topics. If I want to read up on the latest news 
on a developing technology (like Polywell fusion), I go there. Importantly, 
I also use the talk page to see, whether information has been removed 
or corrected for various reasons.

I find it much better these days than a couple of years ago

Bla...bla...bla..
Trying to push a new proprietary document format.