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- Samsung is showing off what it is probably the first dual-3G cellphone, the SCH-W110, which works on two different 3G cellular networks, WCDMA and CDMA2000-1x EV-DO. Comes out in South Korea next month. Read... |
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- Samsung is showing off what it is probably the first dual-3G cellphone, the SCH-W110, which works on two different 3G cellular networks, WCDMA and CDMA2000-1x EV-DO. Comes out in South Korea next month. Read... |
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- MegaMacs.com offers the Micronet Platinum 120GB FireWire/USB 2.0 7200 rpm drive for $184.99. A $20 mail-in rebate yields a net price of $164. |
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- MegaMacs.com offers the Micronet Platinum 120GB FireWire/USB 2.0 7200 rpm drive for $184.99. A $20 mail-in rebate yields a net price of $164. |
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- Design guru Don Norman says how we feel about new technology is more important than what it does. |
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- Information about thousands of historic Scottish films is made available on the internet. |
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- Rhesus monkeys have been taught to control a robot arm using brain signals alone - raising hope for paralysed patients. |
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- The Dutch electronics company says it made its second quarterly net profit in a row after two years of losses. |
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Who Knew? (Oct 14 2003 15:59 GMT) - ...Howard Bloom was a Democrat? That they let Democrats publish op-eds in The Wall Street Journal? That he was endorsing Wesley Clark? The man gives great books a bad name and I think I'm going to need to take another... |
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- I am developing a sense of a quiet but deadly conflict between public-service and technical-services librarians. “Technical services,” as defined by our 450 professor (yes, someone has been studying for her Thursday midterm), consists of cataloguing, classification, and collections development. It’ |
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- I am developing a sense of a quiet but deadly conflict between public-service and technical-services librarians. “Technical services,” as defined by our 450 professor (yes, someone has been studying for her Thursday midterm), consists of cataloguing, classification, and collections development. It’ |
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Gaap (Oct 14 2003 15:59 GMT) - De radioreclame waarin een keer of drie wordt gegaapt, heeft wat mij betreft al de prijs voor de meest irritante... |
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Gaap (Oct 14 2003 15:59 GMT) - De radioreclame waarin een keer of drie wordt gegaapt, heeft wat mij betreft al de prijs voor de meest irritante... |
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- Amazon.com - Sangean SG-622 12 Band AM/FM/Short Wave Receiver $29.99 Shipped. Amazon has the Sangean SG-622 12 Band AM/FM/Short Wave Receiver |
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- Amazon.com - Sangean SG-622 12 Band AM/FM/Short Wave Receiver $29.99 Shipped. Amazon has the Sangean SG-622 12 Band AM/FM/Short Wave Receiver |
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- BitKeeper author Larry McVoy [interview] recently commented on the sheer quantity of work going on in the Linux kernel. He summarizes: "What that means is that in about a year, you've managed to create 65,337 changesets. That's 179 per day, 7.4/hour, 24x7. |
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- Using Primary Sources on the Web is a nice little site put together by by the Instruction Research Services Committee of the Reference and User Service Association History Section in the American Library Association. "Students and researchers now have greater access to primary source materials for historical research than ever before. The traditional use of sources available in print and microfilm continues to be the foundation for research, but in some cases documents, letters, maps, photographs of ancient artifacts and other primary material are available online in different formats from free websites or subscription services on the internet. Users of primary sources have always needed to examine their sources critically, but now with the proliferation of electronic resources from a wide variety of web site producers, evaluation is more important than ever before. Users of web resources must now consider the authenticity of documents, what person or organization is the internet provider, and whether the electronic version serves their needs. |
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- Charles Davis writes "from The Guardian: A filthy bundle of papers, which had been lying in a corner of the cellars of Balliol College in Oxford for at least a century, has turned out to contain rare landscapes of 18th century Canada, including the oldest known views of the green hills and scattered houses around what are now the cities of Montreal and Quebec. The paintings, by a British army officer who was also a talented amateur artist, include scenes of Niagara Falls before it became one of the most popular tourist attractions in the world." |
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- This past weekend, on his popular Prairie Home Companion variety show, Garrison Keillor presented another episode of his "Guy Noir" radio drama. At the point in the show where a slinky, steamy love interest usually comes to his office door, there was this exchange: GK: I went back to the office and I was just about to lie down on the sofa, when (KNOCKS ON DOOR) ---- Yeah. The door's unlocked. |
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- People who know my political leanings, and particularly people who lean rather far the other way, have been big on coming up to me and saying "Hey, whaddya think about your boy Rush?" Not to sound callous, but I don't particularly care one way or... |
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- A story is told (taken from M.Dames - Ireland, Sacred Journey) from 1879 that Lough Gur used to disappear by magic every 7 years, and that a supernatural tree would appear, growing from the bottom of the lough. The whole area is part of a larger story that relates to the goddess Aine who is represented by a hill called Cnoc Aine which is very near to Lough Gur. Dames goes on to say that this tree could be Aine's treetrunk father Eogabal, and into this story he winds the story of the World Tree... the ... |
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- A follow up on the debate concerning the Constitutionality of the pledge of allegiance. Apparently the Supreme Court is going to hear it. |
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- Large buttocks are pleasing to me, nor am I able to lie concerning this matter. A colorful tune is translated into Caesar's tongue. (via boingboing) |
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- There is this unexpected bonus you get if you're using a completely tableless design on your free Blogspot account. It... |
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- My client, a large blue chip company, is looking for an experienced professional with knowledge in the following areas (essential): Networking - Management of Routers, Switches and firewallsProxy Servers, DNS, LDAP, HTML, Web ServersScript languages (Perl, C, shell).Solaris 2.6 & 8 Sendmail 8.15Desired is experience of IDS systems, Anti Virus products, PKI Technology, Disk Suite 4x, System Tuning and capacity planning. |
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- New vacancy! My client, a global consultancy, requires a number of IT Security/Security Consultants (from Senior Consultant/Project Manager to Solution Engineer) to design, build and implement complex, leading edge security systems for multi industry blue chip client base. Role will involve security risk assessment, security solution architecture, design and implementation, including; intrusion detection, anti-virus, Web security, PKI, authentication/ authorisation systems. The successful Type: |
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- This large blue chip company require a Java J2EE candidate for work on high transactional robust, scalable systems for the financial industry. Candidates must possess a minimum of 7 years industry experience, with solid knowledge of a variety of J2EE api's and a focus on UML, Rational Rose would be a benefit, as would a strong knowledge of infrastructure including configuring platforms, Middleware components, PKI etc. Candidates must have architected high transactional enterprise systems and Type: Permanent Location: North London Country: |
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- Registando uma descida de -0,60%, o título Altria Group abriu hoje, dia 2003-10-14, em tendência de baixa, ao abrir cotado a 44,63. A cotação de fecho para a sessão anterior era de cerca 44,90 (em 2003-10-13). |
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- A abertura de hoje no título McDonalds realizou-se em baixa, com a sua cotação a atingir os 24,30, o equivalente a uma descida de -0,74%. |
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- Registando uma descida de -0,80%, o título Boeing Co. abriu hoje, dia 2003-10-14, em tendência de baixa, ao abrir cotado a 37,00. A cotação de fecho para a sessão anterior era de cerca 37,30 (em 2003-10-13). |
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- O título Brocade Communications Inc. iniciou a sessão de hoje, dia 2003-10-14, em baixa de -2,54%, ao cotar a 6,13. A cotação de fecho da última sessão de Bolsa situara-se em 6,29. |
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- A abertura de hoje no título Pixar realizou-se em baixa, com a sua cotação a atingir os 69,57, o equivalente a uma descida de -2,78%. |
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- Registando uma descida de -2,95%, o título RF Micro Devices abriu hoje, dia 2003-10-14, em tendência de baixa, ao abrir cotado a 11,20. A cotação de fecho para a sessão anterior era de cerca 11,54 (em 2003-10-13). |
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- Tendo fechado na última sessão a 13,08, o título Charles Schwab Corp. abriu na sessão de hoje (2003-10-13) em alta, ao cotar na abertura a 13,20. |
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- Tendo fechado na última sessão a 49,79, o título Johnson & Johnson abriu na sessão de hoje (2003-10-14) em alta, ao cotar na abertura a 50,50. |
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- A abertura de hoje no título Motorola Inc. realizou-se em alta, com a sua cotação a atingir os 14,00, o equivalente a uma subida de 1,52%. |
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- A abertura de hoje no título Level 3 Communications realizou-se em alta, com a sua cotação a atingir os 5,38, o equivalente a uma subida de 1,51%. |
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- Ann L. Combs, September 12, 2003. Excerpt: "The President's proposal to create Employer Retirement Savings Accounts ... addresses the number one concern we hear from small business about 401(k)s and other retirement savings plans-- they are too complicated.... |
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- 17 pages; working paper. Excerpt: "This chapter examines the theory to understand why automatic enrollment has a good chance of overcoming the natural impediments to wise decisions about retirement investments." (Gary Selnow, temporarily made available online by the Pension Research Council) |
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- Excerpt: "[S]ome pension consultants ... say that regardless of how the cash-balance controversy ultimately plays out in the courts and possibly in Congress, improved strategies for managing defined-benefits plans may give that old concept new life. They also tout an ingenious new model that would combine some of the most desirable features of traditional pensions and defined contribution, a plan that is dependent on whether the federal government can be persuaded to make it legal." (Workforce. |
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- Excerpt: "In highlighting pending legislation, [William] Sweetnam paid particular attention to provisions in several bills that determine funding requirements for employer-sponsored pension plans, as well as executive compensation issues. Sweetnam also outlined planned regulatory guidance for the upcoming year." (CCH Tax Newsletter) |
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- Im Streit um eine neue UN-Irak-Resolution hat der Weltsicherheitsrat mit seinen offiziellen Beratungen über den jüngsten Entwurf der Vereinigten Staaten aufgenommen. Washingtons UN-Botschafter Negroponte erklärte, Ziel der USA sei eine Annahme der Resolution noch in dieser Woche. |
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- Der bayerische Landtag hat mit den Stimmen der CSU der neuen Kabinettsliste von Ministerpräsident Stoiber zugestimmt. SPD und Grüne lehnten sie ab. Nach der Abstimmung wurde die neue Regierung vereidigt. Die wichtigste Änderung: Ein Ressortchef wird eingespart, künftig gibt es nur noch neun Ministerien. |
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