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A pair of animal enthusiasts attempt to boost the ratings of their "Strange Wilderness" TV show by heading to the Andes in search of Bigfoot. Strange Wilderness opens February 2008.
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So a little dry skin makes a girl scratch her arm..........one wouldn't think its interesting, but hey, pointy nails on skin..........hhhmmm......well perhaps it is pretty interesting! :-)
Ken Block's Gymkhana Training with a Subaru Impreza STI 530.
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Chris runs this down well: (Additional 411 to follow)
So wait, is Google's phone alliance Java-based or not?
So yesterday, there was a press release from Esmertec in my mailbox, touting their participation in the Google-led Open Handset Alliance and the company's embedded JVM. So as I hit the news pages in the morning, I assumed that Java is a big part of this "Android" platform that the OSA is launching, and e-mailed Mobile & Embedded Community Leader Roger Brinkley, telling him he could send me anything Android-related for Tuesday's front page, or just put it on his own community page, and that I'd pick it up easily enough.
And then as I started reading some of the news writes on Android, I started noticing that Java wasn't prominent in the stories. In fact, it wasn't present. There's no mention of Java in the Ars Technica story, nor in the News.com main write. In fact, the News.com story with the most uses of the term "Java" is the analysis Will Google fracture or unify mobile Linux?, which pontificates on the fragmentation of Java ME on current mobile devices, and brings up News.com's previous assertion that Sun intends to replace ME with SE on the device, something James Gosling has tried to clarify.
Granted, Jonathan Schwartz's blog makes an unambiguous declaration that Java will be part of the picture:
I just wanted to add my voice to the chorus of others from Sun in offering my heartfelt congratulations to Google on the announcement of their new Java/Linux phone platform, Android. Congratulations!
I'd also like Sun to be the first platform software company to commit to a complete developer environment around the platform, as we throw Sun's NetBeans developer platform for mobile devices behind the effort. We've obviously done a ton of work to support developers on all Java based platforms, and were pleased to add Google's Android to the list.
But I didn't end up putting this on the front page, because I just couldn't source the Java angle well enough (no offense, Jonathan, but you did say ZFS would be on Leopard...). CNN.com doesn't mention Java at all, while the New York Times reports that Andy Rubin, Google's director of mobile platforms, "said the software system that Google has designed is based on the Linux operating system and Sun Microsystems' Java language." But there aren't any details beyond that: ME vs. SE, CDC vs. CLDC, included APIs, etc. Presumably, that material should be on the developers page, but right now, that's a place holder that says to come back next Monday.
So, anyways, is this the biggest ME story in a while, or not? I'm not sure we know yet. And does this bit of vaporware steal any thunder from JavaFX Mobile? Should it? Will it?
There'll be much to talk about, once there are some real details and not just big marketing pronouncements. C'mon Goog, bring the code.
I noted to Chris on AIM that the Esmertec deal was a commercial add on for Android to provide JME support. Now, on the flip side, Android came from ex-Danger guys, and The Hiptop runs JavaME++ with its own UI Toolkit. In addition to this noted Swing-ing intern Romain Guy is known to have been working on a non-Swing UI TK for Android, which would seem to imply Javaness. Josh brought up the idea that it may actually be GWT + Tamarin on Gecko, which would be interesting. This would fit in with the "custom virtual machine" mentioned in the Android web pages.
Either way, we should know something on 12 Nov 2007 when the Android SDK ships. However, I gotta back Chris up on his criticism of My Little Pony: his marketing hype gets so thing, you can't take what you read as fact on his blog as... well... fact.
Tags: android, gphone, java, javafx
Update: Cedric lays claim to Android.
The greatest thing you'll read all day: Harper's web dude Paul Ford (AKA Gary Benchley!) reveals 100 ways to say "I love you." IT IS INSANE! [The Morning News]
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The glorious arrival of Friday brings only two things of value: the weekend and the Japanese hardware sales chart. Let's get to it, then.
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Being something of a proponent for throwaway art, I’m somewhat ashamed to say how reprehensibly incompetent I found this film. Save for Nicolas Cage dressed as a bear and punching the occasional woman in the face, nothing in this film sustains any of the oddness of the original. Even the New and Improved wicker man looks like more of a rural attraction than it does a gigantic tomb. Given the concentrated sexism of Neil LaBute’s past films, there is fodder here for a film much less disappointing than this.
Cellphones are getting smaller, no doubt. And screens? Sharper. So one day soon we'll all need this little microscope cellphone strap just to read our text messages. Does up to 15x magnification. I want this thing, esp as my eyes fade into mole-vision from blogging 18 hours a day. –Brian Lam
Microscope Cellphone Strap [TokyoMango]
Sun offered informational updates Monday on several ongoing efforts in the open-source arena, including product plans for the OpenSolaris version of the Solaris OS, Java, and the GlassFish application server.
Cited were improvements like a binary release of OpenSolaris and plans for dynamic scripting support in Sun's Java Virtual Machine. Executives from throughout the company met with the media at Sun's Santa Clara, Calif. headquarters campus for an open-source "summit" briefing.
"We have so many people who work on open source inside Sun," that they must be brought together for an annual conference, said Simon Phipps, chief open-source officer at the company.
Open source, Phipps said, features community developers who share source code licensed in a particular way and use that to create things that enrich them.
Contributions are given back to the community to enrich everyone, like the craft guilds of the Middle Ages, he said. "This has been called communism by some speakers. It's been called a cancer on society by others. I would suggest to you that this is more like capitalism, it is more like a connected capitalism where people synchronize their self interests so that they are collaborating together," said Phipps.
Sun has extensive product plans in open source, As part of Project Indiana, which is an effort to make Solaris more like Linux in areas like packaging, Sun will offer a developer preview of the OpenSolaris version of Solaris featuring a binary distribution this month. The general release version is planned for March 2008.
With the open-sourcing of Solaris two years ago, Solaris began to appear on the radar screen of open-source developers and deployers, said Ian Murdock, chief operating systems platform strategist at Sun and founder of the Debian Linux distribution.
"What we're trying to do is make it easier for people to get into the OpenSolaris community, and we do that by delivering [the OS] in binary form," said Murdock.
A packaging system in OpenSolaris, which will be featured in the preview and is called Image Package System, will take a snapshot of a system prior to an upgrade. Users can roll back to what the system looked like before the upgrade if necessary.
An analyst in attendance welcomed Sun's update on Project Indiana.
"I think there's still some ambiguity on what is the future of Solaris in a Linux world," said Raven Zachary, research director for open source at The 451 group. But there is an opportunity for Sun to engage Linux and take advantage of Linux technology the same way Linux has leveraged Solaris technology like the DTrace tracing framework, Zachary said.
Plans also call for Solaris to be offered in a more modular fashion, so it could be used in different systems ranging from servers and desktops to appliances. A port of Solaris to the PowerPC plan also is being developed.
Sun officials talk OpenJDK, GlassFish, and iPhone
Sun officials also discussed progress of OpenJDK, which is the open-source Java development kit for Java Platform, Standard Edition. About 96 percent of Java code has been cleared for use in the open-sourcing of Java, said Mark Reinhold, Sun chief engineer for Java Platform Standard Edition.
Afoot is a "kitchen sink" language project to explore new language features that could wind up in Java. Another effort project is intended to improve performance of languages other than Java, such as Ruby and Python, to run on the HotSpot Virtual Machine.
OpenJDK is switching to the Mercurial version control system, enabling contributions from the community at large. Meanwhile, an OpenJDK governance board has been formed to oversee OpenJDK.
Red Hat has created a project called Ice Tea to make OpenJDK run better in a Linux environment, Reinhold said.
Asked about the role of the Apache Harmony project, an open-source Java project that preceded Sun's November 2006 open-sourcing of Java, Phipps said it was great to have an independent implementation of the Java specifications. But he stressed he favored a strong OpenJDK community as well.
Meanwhile, Sun officials put the ball in Apple Computer's court as far as porting of Java to the popular iPhone, which currently does not support Java. iPhone is a closed platform, said Murdock.
"Even if we did put Java on the iPhone, Apple would take it off again," Phipps added.
Another project, the open-source GlassFish application server, entails development of projects like Grizzly, a high-performance I/O infrastructure. Other projects based around GlassFish include Japex for Web services performance and Hudson, which provides an integration tool.
Version 2 of GlassFish was launched three weeks ago. The next version will support such languages as JRuby, PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor), and Scala.
Also at the event:
* Phipps said the data format in Microsoft Office is partially open because Sun "shamed" Microsoft into opening it.
* Sun's Josh Berkus, who serves on the core development team for the open-source, multi-party PostgreSQL database, said the beta release of 8.3 of the database was released last week. It features improvements in performance and consistency as well Visual C++ capabilities. Storage has made more efficient by as much as 20 percent. The final release is expected in seven to nine weeks. Manageability improvements are planned for a future release.
* There are no plans to open-source the Java trademark, said Tiki Dare, Sun director of trademarks. It is unclear what such a move would mean anyway, Dare said. She questioned whether this might mean that the trademark could be used on any product whether or not it meets Java quality control standards.
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Donkey Gallery art opening, Albuquerque,NMx, October 12, 2007. Photographs by Mark Geil
From an Italian ad campaign for a store-wide 30% off sale at bookseller Mondadori. Their DVD section also has a beautifully remastered version of The 280 Blows.
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