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- Q&A with Microsoft's consumer strategy director: From digital photography, movies and music to watches that give you the time and real-time sports scores and stock prices, John O'Rourke explains how Microsoft is helping consumers take full advantage of the "digital lifestyle." |
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- Do you show up at parties fashionably late? Do you wait until the last minute to start a project? Are you the final passenger to board the airplane? If you answered yes to any of these questions, it's a good bet that you haven't even thought about starting your holiday shopping yet. |
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- In this episode, Michael Murray and Jeffrey Van Gogh from the CLR Team describe FxCop, the freely-available code analysis tool from Microsoft, and talk about what the tool is for and how it works. They also show how FxCop is applied to a typical code example. |
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- Giant Microsoft is still a stock to buy, in the view of Jonathan Rudy, analyst for Standard & Poor's Equity Research Services, thanks to its reasonable valuation and strong balance sheet and cash flow. "Reasonable valuation" means the price of Microsoft (MSFT ) stock is low relative to some tech companies, which Rudy attributes to investors chasing companies that were hit harder by the tech collapse and thus have the potential for a more dramatic climb. But over the longer run, he still sees Microsoft as a bastion of strength. |
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- This utility processes cubes, partitions, and dimensions in Analysis Services databases on local or remote servers. It includes two executable files, ParallelProcess.exe and ProcessPartition.exe. ParallelProcess. |
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- Bill Gates explains Microsoft's new approach to stock options and how it feels to be Silicon Valley’s favorite target. |
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- The male half of the Albanian couple who clean our office says hello to me and, though I know he... The male half of the Albanian couple who clean our office says hello to me and, though I know he will not understand, I respond and ask how he is doing. This makes me a good person. |
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- If there is one thing anyone should know about me it's this: don't poke the inflamed bear. I was grumpy as is because after I nearly busted my ass falling over in the middle of the slush and ice covered street after work on my way to the train, my train was cancelled. And then I had to wait 30 minutes for the next one to arrive. So the conductor comes around and I haven't found my pass yet. |
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- With the expiration of an October 31 deadline for implementing the Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications, the European Commission... |
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- Show Report: At the Western Cable Show, new set-top boxes from Motorola and Scientific Atlanta combine two HDTV tuners with big hard drives. Plus a four-room DVR and Moxi too. |
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- Jack Nicholson, who plays a 63-year-old man seemingly incapable of dating women his own age in ''Something's Gotta Give,'' may be following his character's lead. |
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- HOUSTON - A woman who ran down a McDonald's restaurant manager after she didn't get mayonnaise on her cheeseburger was sentenced to 10 years in prison Thursday for aggravated assault. |
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- ''The Simple Life,'' Fox's new unscripted series about wealthy girls struggling on a farm, is in green pastures in terms of its initial ratings. |
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- ORANGE CITY, Fla. - A woman who was trampled by Wal-Mart shoppers during a holiday sale on DVD players has made numerous injury claims against stores, including nine against the world's largest retailer. |
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- It's a trick circulated by e-mail: The words ''miserable failure'' typed into Google, the Internet's most widely used search engine, link the reader to the official biography of President George W. Bush. |
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- WASHINGTON - A recently released inmate on a Honolulu-to-Seattle flight charged toward the cockpit, shouting that he wanted to see the pilot, and was subdued by undercover air marshals who were on board to monitor him, officials said. |
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- TOKYO - A roller coaster derailed Friday at Tokyo Disneyland, but none of the 12 riders on board were injured, the park's operator said. |
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- BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Warren Zevon is more popular among Grammy voters dead than alive. |
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- WIXOM, Mich. - A man accused of skimming $3.5 million by installing ATMs across the country and stealing customers' account numbers was charged with conspiracy and bank fraud. |
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- NEW YORK - At 21, LeAnn Rimes has already been in the music business for nine years - and only now does she feel in control of her career. |
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- NEW YORK - ''Joe Millionaire'' star Evan Marriott will host the Game Show Network's new relationship show, ''Fake-a-Date,'' which will premiere in March. |
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- MEXICO CITY - If the city wouldn't give him a taxi permit, Martin Garcia Hernandez figured the Virgin of Guadalupe would. |
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- INDIANAPOLIS - A man convicted of providing illegal cable television hookups will become a spokesman for the cable company from which he stole. |
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- WASHINGTON - Move over FDR, here comes Ronald Reagan. GOP lawmakers are throwing in their two cents worth, with a plan to put former President Reagan on the dime. |
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- FOND DU LAC, Wis. - A love song about duct tape may never crack the pop charts, but it did make a Waukesha band $2,500 richer. |
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- MIAMI - Busloads of school children who paid for a field trip celebrating the Christmas holidays got the Grinch instead. |
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- CLAYSBURG, Pa. - It's not looking a lot like Christmas. At least not in Claysburg, Pa. |
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- BOONVILLE, Mo. - Christine Chase and her siblings learned how to salute, run, climb and use ropes to overcome obstacles a long time ago. |
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- JANESVILLE, Wis. - The show must go on, but the tickets have to go. |
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- From Middle Earth to Guadalcanal, we tick down top holiday games and game gadgets |
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- Mr. Fixer James Baker: He Knows Debt. President Bush has named family consigliere Tom Hagen James Baker III his special envoy for renegotiating Iraqi debt. |
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- U.S. Senator Olympia J. Snowe (R-Maine) said that the new job and economic growth figures released today signal a positive trend in the economy, but cautioned that the manufacturing sector is "still in dire need of economic 'CPR' -- a continued push to recovery." ... |
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- Primary school students in Wapping have produced a comic called Living, about homelessness. They were tutored in storytelling by professionals from 200AD and was inspired in part by Bryan Talbot's Tale of One Bad Rat.... |
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Pygmy Corys (Dec 05 2003 23:29 GMT) - Hamilton & Crew Have 3 New Friends They are three pygmy corys, who have yet to be named. I am... |
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face lift (Dec 05 2003 23:29 GMT) - so, if you have an opine... the talents/perseverance to do something about it... or simply want to inform me further of thoughts otherwise |
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- Hanan Cohen tipped me off to "On Search," XML guru Tim Bray's "irregularly-published series of essays on the construction, deployment and use of search technology". Looks extremely useful and practical; wonder if this will soon make it into print? ... More good free content: |
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- San Francisco Chronicle Dec 5 2003 5:31PM ET... |
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- SiliconValley.com Dec 5 2003 5:32PM ET... |
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- The Indian software firm teams with Microsoft and Dell on a new project. |
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- ... ... One expert says the biggest change at XML 2003 this year is that vendors and standards bodies will show how XML works in disparate systems. ... |
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- Sharp divisions over duration and definitions mean no action is expected until the middle of January. |
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- As mainstream businesses increasingly adopt VoIP systems, savvy customers demand flexible, scalable, easy to implement solutions at a great price. Zultys plans to be there to fulfill the demand from the small business market. |
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- IAB names a chairman for 2004; Forbes.com promotes Kosinski; Omniture hires a VP of marketing. ... |
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- New research shows growth in use of online advertising by candidates -- but it's still rated below lawn signs in effectiveness. |
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