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Cherry-Picking The Index (Nov 12 2003 23:21 GMT) - One way of outperforming the market is to cherry pick the index and leave the dross behind. One attempt to do this, back in March, has not performed to date. |
MSNBC
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Fed will raise rates ... but when? (Nov 12 2003 23:20 GMT) - Recent signs of economic growth have sparked talk of a Fed rate hike as soon early as March. But many analysts think the central bank will stay on the sidelines until 2005. |
MSNBC
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Rates are Wall Street’s new worry (Nov 12 2003 23:20 GMT) - A wave of upbeat economic news has failed to lift stocks in recent weeks. Analysts say investors are worried that an improving economy may soon force the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates. — By Roland Jones |
MSNBC
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Game-console price cuts coming (Nov 12 2003 23:20 GMT) - A price war is underway in Japan involving Microsoft’s Xbox and Sony’s PlayStation video game consoles. The big question: Will the price war also be launched here in the U.S.? — By CNBC’s Jerry Cobb |
MSNBC
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How low should bad cholesterol go? (Nov 12 2003 23:20 GMT) - The first head-to-head comparison of popular statin drugs suggests that lowering cholesterol more aggressively than the current national guidelines recommend can completely stop dangerous clogging of the arteries. |
Meerkat: An Open Wire Service
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Bug Guilt Trips (Nov 12 2003 23:20 GMT) - Dave Hyatt reports on the tactics people use when reporting Safari bugs, “in particular the tactic of saying something inflammatory in order to goad the receiver of the bug into fixing it.”... ... I thought it was funny. |
Meerkat: An Open Wire Service
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Making reliable distributed systems in the presence of software errors (Nov 12 2003 23:20 GMT) - Making reliable distributed systems in the presence of software errors. The work described in this thesis is the result of a research program started in 1981 to find better ways of programming Telecom applications. These applications are large programs which despite careful testing will probably contain many errors when the program is put into service. We assume that such programs do contain errors, and investigate methods for building reliable systems despite such errors. ... |
Geek Noise
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Personal Computer History (Nov 12 2003 23:20 GMT) - ChrisAn continued this meme, and many others have chimed in with their personal computing history. Here is mine... My father built his first computer in the garage when I was about 8 years old. I remember watching him use wirewrapping to tie all of the components together. I don't remember what processor it was, but I do remember that it had 8 toggle switches on the front and one switch for enter. |
Kayodeok's Weblog
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Customize Outlook Today and Internet Explorer Cumulative Patch - a Work Around (Nov 12 2003 23:20 GMT) - Google saw it fit to rank my mini-rant on Customize Outlook Today as number 4 out of 123,000.However, the article I wrote was spontaneous and not a good one at that. I hope to redress this by explaining how you could get around Microsoft's restriction and Customise Outlook Today; unfortunately, the only way I know is via the Registry.Please note that although Microsoft produced a Registry Hack to partially disable the Cumulative Update in order to access Customize Outlook Today, Microsoft's hack will only work if you have Administrator privileges on your PC. |
As deep as a puddle after a hard rain
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Number one sign that things aren't going well: (Nov 12 2003 23:19 GMT) - You rush to the bathroom to cry after someone says to you, "You look miserable. How are you doing?" There are some people who feed your soul and there are others who suck the life out of you and, unfortunately, people are sucking a lot lately. And not in the good way. But, if you ask me I'll happily tell you that "I'm fine! |
Techdirt
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Going Into Mobile Phone Feature Shock? (Nov 12 2003 23:19 GMT) - While I think there's plenty of potential for some of the cool new mobile phones that are coming out these days, I'm still aware of the fact that I'm an early adopter type, who likes to play around with gadgets. It's important to remember that not everyone is like that, and many folks looking at these new phones with all sorts of funky additional features are taking a step back and saying "hey, I just want to make phone calls." All the companies pushing these new feature filled phones need to remember that there's more than just the early adopter audience out there. While it seems that people seem to adopt new features by social osmosis (you've had the phone for a while, your friends are text messaging, so you try it out...), the feature set isn't really that big of a selling point for many people, and it may be a long time before that mentality shifts. |
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