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Poignant (Oct 22 2003 06:59 GMT) - I was sitting, they said it was a sit-in protest... I got up, they said you are raising against us... I walked, they called it a demonstration... I ran,... |
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- 1982, 7th grade, our school got a donation of eight trs-80 model III computers. It was a turning point in my life. They started a computer class that the biology teacher kind of taught. There were four of us that really went for them. We cut classes to hide out and hack code out of byte magazine. |
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- Since CentralMX.com is a COMMUNITY site, and not a personal blog, we are welcoming selected authors to post on our main (news) page. The first is aSH (www.actionscripthero.com) whose responibilies and chores will include: |
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- Michael Moore's new book, Dude, Where's My Country? is out, and Salon's got an excerpt this morning. What is the worst lie a president can tell? "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky." Or ... |
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Pizzzzzzzza (Oct 22 2003 06:56 GMT) - I stayed up way to late last night and was exhausted when I got home from work today. Becca was out at the grocery store so I just crashed on the couch and took a nap. When she got home... |
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- Anche nel movimento Open Source può albergare il fanatismo -sostiene il giornalista Rob Enderle - che alla fine farà dei danni allo stesso movimento. Enderle però esagera, alla americana: |
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- There's a hoot owl, near the grove, in Tower Grove Park that sounds so real I'd swear she's fake. I came home tonight to two sleepy boys, one still listening to the endless loop of the DVD music for Crouching Tiger, one asleep on the futon, TV still on. I threw a blanket over John and crept in to turn Alex's movie off - sounds okay the first time, but kinda like a fancy Flash Web site, grates on your nerves real quick once you've gone through it two or three. This is a sweet little dorm suite we have here, and for some reason, maybe because the constant noise is at such an amplitude that it cancels everything else out, I'm actually able to concentrate in this environment. I wonder if the phenomenon of these guys listening to music or tv or watching movies has to do with the surrogacy of media for latchkey kids. |
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- Went to a SOHO / SME conference in Canada Place today. Nothing much to see for me, really. Did see one interesting thing, though: The NerdsOnSite shining red Nerdmobile! Even had my picture taken sitting inside it. |
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- Librarians are always dickering around with new technology. Teri Hennes, head of adult services at the Glencoe Public Library, said ... |
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- The Seattle Post Intelligencer reports:- Nearly a year after Microsoft Corp. agreed to end its anti-competitive conduct, the government is raising concerns that the company is trying to use its dominant Windows operating system to influence where customers buy their music online. If the dispute isn't resolved by week's end, it could become the first test of Microsoft's landmark antitrust settlement that was approved by a federal court in October 2002. Lawyers for the Justice Department and 19 state attorneys general have formally complained to a federal judge about a design feature of Windows that compels consumers who buy music online to use only Microsoft's Internet browser and steers them to a Web site operated by the company. |
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- The Seattle Post Intelligencer reports:- Nearly a year after Microsoft Corp. agreed to end its anti-competitive conduct, the government is raising concerns that the company is trying to use its dominant Windows operating system to influence where customers buy their music online. If the dispute isn't resolved by week's end, it could become the first test of Microsoft's landmark antitrust settlement that was approved by a federal court in October 2002. Lawyers for the Justice Department and 19 state attorneys general have formally complained to a federal judge about a design feature of Windows that compels consumers who buy music online to use only Microsoft's Internet browser and steers them to a Web site operated by the company. |
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- A bit tired so.......the full press release.Montreal, Canada. October 21, 2003 – Publisher Big City Games and developer Dreams Interactive are pleased to announce that their high-flying hovercraft racing game has shipped to stores nationwide... |
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- Question I have set up a TWiki environment, and everything works fine... except this: when I change something, the version number does not increase. If I remove the ... |
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- Wired News has published a Reuters article on the Broadcast Flag that appears to have been written without a moment's thought to the proposal's critics -- indeed without any serious consultation with anyone who is even remotely skeptical about it. The piece says, basically, well, this will stop piracy, and the opponents are upset because people will have to buy new DVDs. What Wired News misses by publishing the Reuter's piece instead of doing original reporting is that this won't stop piracy (as even the studios have admitted, in the plug-and-play cable proceeding), that it has nothing to do with buying new DVDs, that it makes a whole class of general-purpose open source software illegal, including code that's already in the market, and that it will give the companies who called home taping and peeing during commercials theft a veto over the design over DTV devices, including parts of your PC. It also misses that fact that there is currently no problem with "theft" of Hollywood movies: these companies are making more money than they ever have -- a situation that's obtained every year since 1959, and more particularily since 1984 when the VCR was legalized and not only failed to strangle the film industry, but rather more than doubled its income. |
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- Those who know me know that I enjoy cooking. I made this (with help from my sous-chef) recently. These... |
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- A mai az egy ilyen rbaszs nap volt. Felkeltem reggel 8kor, hogy majd jl bemegyek a dikomrt (ami... |
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- Aftenposten skriver at bredbåndsfeberen er avlyst. Det er knapt noen nyhet. Forklaringen til Tore Aarønæs i Norsk Telecom er også velkjent og allment akseptert: Det er ennå ikke noe tilbud av tjenester som krever bredbånd. Det er ikke helt sant, for tjenester som fildeling er nok en pådriver for enkelte deler av markedet. |
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- Howard Dean's volumninous archives from his 12 years as Vermont Governor are drawing researchers from the media, other campaigns and even the Dean campaign.... |
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- An application stack for building RDF-based applications and web sites |
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- I've been watching too much Futurama. Taco Bell = Bachelor Chow. Diet Coke = Slurm. |
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- Inspired by Py2.3's TimSort, this implementation of sets.py uses sorted lists instead of dictionaries. For clumped data patterns, the set operations can be super-efficient (for example, two sets can be determined to be disjoint with only O(n) comparisons). Also note, that the set elements are *not* required to be hashable; |
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- Volker Schlöndorff ist einer der bekanntesten und erfolgreichsten deutschen Filmregisseure. Er ist 64 Jahre alt. |
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- Guten Morgen! Gut, dass fiene.tv kein KFZ-Kennzeichen ist. Ansonsten wäre mein Domainname bestimmt schon abgemahnt werden. Denn die Firma LVH-Lizenzvertrieb hat, laut dem Newsletter des 1&1-Webhosting-Teams, durch ihrem Anwalt Abmahnungen mit Gesamtkosten von ca. |
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- They are my friends. -- You Friends don't do that do each other. Ever. -- Me P.S. |
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- One of my friends has a IIc. It's in his attic now but I remember it being quite a sleek machine. He had the colour monitor for it. I've offered to buy it from him several times but he won't let it go. |
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- Statistics for TWiki.Plugins Web Month: Topic Views: Topic Saves: Attachment Uploads: |
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- Statistics for TWiki.Support Web Month: Topic Views: Topic Saves: Attachment Uploads: |
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- Gouverneur verfügt: Frau in Koma wird weiter ernährt |
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- (UK) Michelle Verroken, UK Sport's director of drug-free sport, is eager for the new screening method for THG [tetrahydrogestrinone] to be brought in as soon as possible. [$drug_related(85%), $drugwar_propaganda(100%), $propaganda_theme3(50%), $propaganda_theme7(100%), $drugs(95%), $prohibition(85%), $various_drugs(95%)] |
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