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Oracle gives PeopleSoft time to cool off (Aug 11 2003 12:17 GMT) - Oracle extends the deadline for tendering shares in its hostile bid for PeopleSoft, an expected move, given that antitrust regulators are still pondering the proposed takeover. |
ZDNet
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Charting directions for HyperTransport (Aug 11 2003 12:17 GMT) - IBM, Texas Instruments, EMC and four others are joining the HyperTransport consortium, a move that will likely expand the places where the chip-to-chip connection gets used. |
ZDNet
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Court blocks some file-trading subpoenas (Aug 11 2003 12:17 GMT) - A court blocks recording industry subpoenas that are aimed at college song swappers, saying two universities are not immediately required to give student identities. |
ZDNet
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Hard drives enter midlife crisis (Aug 11 2003 12:17 GMT) - The transition from 40GB per 3.5-inch platter to 80GB took less than two years but technological obstacles and many PC buyers feel they have more than enough space. |
The People's Republic of Seabrook
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Yet another DUMASS AWARD wiener (Aug 11 2003 12:16 GMT) - Driver who nursed infant found innocent of child endangerment I called my husband, and he directed me to continue on, to drive to Michigan and nurse my child in the car. We did not feel we were breaking any law. It certainly isn't a primary choice as a form of... |
Keks
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Maze of twisty little passages (Aug 11 2003 12:15 GMT) - "You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all different" is the famous first line from Adventure (aka ADVENT... |
Tom McMahon
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We Have to Take These One Quiz at a Time (Aug 11 2003 12:15 GMT) - Sports Cliche Quiz: "Think you know your sports cliches? Take our 20-question challenge to see if you've got what it takes. This is one of those fill-in-the-blank tests, so you'll need pencil and paper. Simply provide one word that best completes the sentence to make a sports cliche. |
Oblomovka
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python templating (Aug 11 2003 12:15 GMT) - Well, the weekend's over, and I'm sticking with Python. I caught up to where I was with the Perl implementation pretty quickly, and in far fewer lines. To be fair, I think a sizeable part of that may have come from me using the Test::Unit / unittest suites to do my test-first development. Both are derived from Kent Beck's Smalltalk framework and are very OOP-oriented, which favours Python over Perl5. |
Tom McMahon
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Statistical Prediction Rules Are More Accurate Than The Experts (Aug 11 2003 12:14 GMT) - FuturePundit.com: Humans cannot consistently process all of the information needed to diagnose and treat a complicated problem. The more information the physician gets about a patient, the more complex the task becomes. A doctor working without software to augment the mind is like a scientist working without a microscope to augment the eye. |
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