[REBOL] [VID][edge] How do I remove 'bevel from edge?

2004-02-12 Thread Ashley Trüter
Here's one for the VID gurus. Given the following code (change "Wingdings" for non-Windows boxen): stylize/master: [ chk: FACE 24x24 with [ color: white font: [ name: "Wingdings" align: 'center

[REBOL] Re: [OT] sunrise sunset data via rebol ?

2004-02-12 Thread Tom Conlin
hi Jason nope, don't know you could either post and screen scrape a page such as the one in your example or write your own sunrise function in rebol. I would not mind writing it but cannot take the time, well ... for at least a month. here is the math to write your own http://www.srrb.noaa.g

[REBOL] Re: oss revisited (briefly!)

2004-02-12 Thread Karl Robillard
I'm not a Java expert, but I assume that there is a formal specification for Java and that there are many implementations (Sun, IBM, Blackdown?). That may explain why people would be comfortable adopting Java but not REBOL. -Karl On Monday 09 February 2004 19:32, Peter WA Wood wrote: > I thin

[REBOL] Re: oss revisited (briefly!)

2004-02-12 Thread Ged Byrne
Hi Robert, --- ""Robert_M._Münch"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 17:19:15 + (GMT), Ged Byrne > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > What benefits could Rebol/Core gain from cross > > fertilisation with other open source projects like > > OCAML and PLTScheme? > > I don

[REBOL] [OT] sunrise sunset data via rebol ?

2004-02-12 Thread Jason Cunliffe
Hi Does anyone know any web service which you can access via Rebol to return raw data for sunrise, sunset etc. For example: http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/RS_OneDay.html But I don't want html, just some params I can set and get via rebol [as Vanilla dynascript]. Thanks - Jason -- To unsub

[REBOL] Interesting snip from a perl.com article

2004-02-12 Thread Gregg Irwin
Found this in a series of notes on Perl6. "...Austin [Hastings] thinks that Perl 6's main 'cultural' impact will be grammars, arguing that in 10 years time 'getting coders to stop parsing characters, getting them instead to think, code, and word in terms of " sentences" or "paragraphs" will be co

[REBOL] Re: oss revisited (briefly!)

2004-02-12 Thread Maarten Koopmans
>>The product they do sell, such as the SDK or IOS could only benefit from >>an enhanced >>core. >> >> > >No, I don't agree. These can only benefit from higher sales numbers. It's >a business questions, not a technical one. Robert > > +1 from me. The SDK is an attractive offer, as it all

[REBOL] Re: oss revisited (briefly!)

2004-02-12 Thread "Robert M. Münch"
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 17:19:15 + (GMT), Ged Byrne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If the code was open source, users would have the > opportunity to add these features themselves, possibly > based on the efforts of other open source projects. Hi, maybe, but I'm mostly sure we will use the homoge

[REBOL] Re: oss revisited (briefly!)

2004-02-12 Thread "Robert M. Münch"
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 11:03:57 -0600, Joel Neely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With all due respect, I think you're confusing two distinct issues here. > To paraphrase ESR and RMS, open source is about "free as in free speech, > not free as in free beer". Hi, yes I know. BTW: Just to clarify thing