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If you communicate clearly your financial needs, I'll do everything 
possible to help keep you funded.  An occassional update to your 
funding requirements would be appreciated.  I would appreciate being 
added to a regular email update, in case I can't keep up on AltMe. 
 I wonder if others who have donated on Paypal may be interested 
in an occassional update, so they can help when able/motivated.  
Your current progress is very motivating.  I hope that others who 
are watching feel the same way.

Right at the point when it became appropriate for me to go to devcons, 
they stopped holding them in USA and I stopped having the money to 
travel outside USA. So unless my financial situation changes, or 
someone sponsors me, or visits me, then noone will meet me

Is there a rebol script to download Open Financial Exchange data 
from a bank?

http://www.ofx.net/ofx/default.asp

a plane crashed, carrying the president and many top level govt. 
staff:


The fiery crash killed off a wide cross-section of Poland’s most 
important political, military and financial figures, many of them 
heroes of the anti-communist struggle.


http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/a-dramatic-end-to-a-divided-era-in-modern-polands-history/article1530957/

ICarii, no, generally double in other languages is the same exact 
type as decimal! in REBOL - for that matter, REBOL uses C double 
internally for decimal! values. BCD is fairly rare outside of programming 
libraries and languages made for financial use, like COBOL.

ICarii > "i would prefer precision over speed." - - I would prefere 
speed over precision. But I'm not making any financial calcultions:-)

that sounds like a serious flaw in the money! datatype. if it can't 
be used for financial calculations, why is it there?

this is great, very fast code. thanks a lot for this.
the code is used for generating dynamic parsing rules 
for financial market data. soon I will release a free
software based on this data.

Added markers to my Google Charts script: http://www.ross-gill.com/r/google-charts.r

I feel like the addition is a bit messy, so ymmv.

	chart [data: [1 2 3 4]] ; basic usage
	chart [
		size: 200x200
		data: [
			[10 30 50 70 90]
			[30 40 50 60 70]
			[70 60 50 40 30]
			[90 70 50 30 10]
		]
		offset: 0
		markers: [
			financial 0.0.204 0 1x-1 20
		]
	]

If you use it, let me know how it goes.

We are one of the first companies here in CZ, who try to fully solve 
electronic invoicing. In order to not need a paper, our law (and 
many EU countries too), simply require usage of certificates. It 
has nothing to do with how secure your transfer is. Simply once financial 
institute clerk comes to our company, he wants to see original invoices. 
And so far, it is paper. And if it is e.g. PDF, it has to be signed, 
as the person will ask - how can I be sure, it comes from company 
XY? He can - he can check e-signature and time-stamps signatures 
and he can be sure, that 1) the invoice comes from company (identity) 
XY and that it was not later modified, or the e-signatures would 
be invalid ...

Robert - still working with REBOL from time to time? :-) We'll upgrade 
SAP BW this year and SAP next year. I just wonder, if there is anything 
better for reporting than BW :-) Not everything is covered by that 
and e.g. in financial area we got some other offer. That whole area 
so overlaps with various offers, that it is kind of difficult to 
get myself oriented :-)

I can see Microsoft attempting to tie the smaller companies up in 
court and then Microsoft bail them our of the their financial troubles 
by means of majority investment.

Wow, maybe the combination of these two technologies can find a way 
out of the mess the financial system is in - like, "Hang the bastards 
that caused it!"

There is probably no money in developing equipment for handling nuclear 
accidents, if one only happens every 25 years, as it just adds to 
the cost of building reactors, reducing the financial incentive to 
build them in the first place. Also even though many reactor designs 
that are supposedly better than the current ones exist on paper or 
are in research, there is apparently not enough people working in 
the field of research and licensing to move such reactors into production.


There are reactor types that work entirely with passive cooling and 
can be evacuated for 72 hours before anything happens, but they are 
still at the research stage.


Putting the reactor in a big hole might be a good idea, but it depends 
on the location and how an earth quake would affect the hole.


It seems that many of these accidents are due to very clear design 
flaws or overriding specific safety procedures. That's a positive 
thing, because it means, it's not impossible to build very safe reactors.

the reality of now in day computing industries is that they need 
more ppl to design web site or financial software (for traders and 
banks) than people to do nice visual interface.

even financial software needs a decent gui

But it should be useful in R3:


The money datatype now uses a coded decimal representation, allowing 
accurate number representation up to 26 decimal digits in length. 
Due to its accuracy, this datatype is useful for financial, banking, 
commercial, transactional, and even some types of scientific applications.

Maybe if you develop banking or other financial applications, money 
datatype could be very nice thing!? Some things are not useful for 
all of us, but very useful for a few of us. (I haven't used money 
datatype myself.)

Also, think of the syntax. We have a sigil to denote the current 
money! type, which *was* added for financial calculations. If that 
type was the default, what would the floating-point sigil be?

I understand the financial aspect.. and the free market aspect.  
 Is Rebol turning into an application, more than a language the Im 
to build a company on?

Closed or open, developer resources are still limited, mostly by 
financial issues.

Third open motion.  I move that an open committee be formed to discuss 
and forward

the financial affairs of this association.  This committee will put 
forward a motion at
a later meeting.

Fifth open motion.  I move the assembly recognize the formation of 
the following open

to all members committees.  These committees to elect representatives 
amongst
themselves for forwarding motions  at a further meeting.


Constitution Committee.  Responsible for preparing a draft constitution 
that will then
be finalized by the initial Executive Committee, once elected.


Code of Ethics Committee.  Reponsible for preparing a draft Code 
of Ethics that will
be finalized by the initia Executive Committee, once elected.


The Fiscal Committee.  Reponsible for preparing a financial directive 
and putting

putting forward a motion at the next meeting for a physical mailing 
address and other

fiscal directives for this association.  Until changed, dues are 
fixed at zero.


The Executive Committee.  To be determined by nomination and vote 
at a later meeting.


The Council Committee.  To be determined by nomination and vote at 
a later meeting.

reply to the statement of past month "No It's not in my imagination 
that rebol is a financial faillure. R3 isn't sold so how can it bring 
money ? r2 is less sold than 10 years ago it's a matter of fact...Last 
point Carl had no remorse to take another job and disapear without 
announcing it publically... This is just basic respect  you say goodbye 
 when you leave ..."

Brian: yes, for financial usage, so might differ a bit from REBOL's 
money! type.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4II94h6-IFY-- TWiT about ZMQ.


At 13:42 he starts talking about funding / open source / community 
/ financial model -- the often asked question about open soruce + 
making a living in Rebol / Red / Topaz / World ... "Open source is 
a very agressive competetive strategy, a little team can attack a 
big market"