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- The Boyds Brenda NiallI have been hankering after this for some time, and suddenly had the bright idea to borrow it from the library. A search on the online catalogue and a quick phone call later and I have a copy sitting next to my bed waiting to be read. |
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- Yale law professor Bruce Ackerman is a well-respected constitutional theorist. He also has written several books promoting a series of impractical ideas that all involve the federal government paying people a considerable amount of money. His most extravagant idea is presented in The Stakeholder Society (written with Anne Alstott), where he argues that every United States citizen should be given a federal grant of $80,000 on turning 21. I'm sure I would have loved that idea about 8 years ago, ... |
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- Yale law professor Bruce Ackerman is a well-respected constitutional theorist. He also has written several books promoting a series of impractical ideas that all involve the federal government paying people a considerable amount of money. His most extravagant idea is presented in The Stakeholder Society (written with Anne Alstott), where he argues that every United States citizen should be given a federal grant of $80,000 on turning 21. I'm sure I would have loved that idea about 8 years ago, ... |
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- Extreme Programming (XP) has fast become a hot topic in the ICT industry. I am not here to argue for or against XP itself, but am merely here to provide food for thought in the hope of educating the reader about what is happening in the industry as far as XP is concerned. What you will be reading is effectively a large serving of the various links to the many resources and islands of information that discuss XP. This brief passage is an attempt to build the bridges that will connect these island ... |
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- I'm a fairly big fan of Flint as a science fiction writer, but he's also done quite a service by lending his name and efforts to bringing back new editions of classic science fiction and fantasy. He's also put together new releases of works by Murray Leinster, James Schmitz, and Keith Laumer. For an up-and-coming new writer like Flint to spend time bringing out this sort of thing seems to me like a real service, and I appreciate it. |
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- I'm a fairly big fan of Flint as a science fiction writer, but he's also done quite a service by lending his name and efforts to bringing back new editions of classic science fiction and fantasy. He's also put together new releases of works by Murray Leinster, James Schmitz, and Keith Laumer. For an up-and-coming new writer like Flint to spend time bringing out this sort of thing seems to me like a real service, and I appreciate it. |
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Lord Darcy (Dec 18 2003 23:32 GMT) - I'VE BEEN TRYING TO TAKE IT A BIT EASY, as exhaustion was setting in, and in the spare time I've opened up I've been reading a complete collection of Randall Garrett's Lord Darcy mysteries, compled and edited by Eric Flint. |
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- Part memoir, part music criticism, part social commentary, this book may be maddening to those who want a straightforward structure but is rewarding if you can just let Caetano speak his mind. It's showing me a whole new side to his music. For instance, I knew his gorgeous song "Terra" only by its melody; I didn't know that its text is about his experience of sitting in a prison cell and seeing the first pictures taken of the earth from space. |
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- http://www. kottke. org/03/12/glass-half-full... |
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- The Register By Tony Smith [tony dot smith at theregister dot co dot uk] |
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- The Register By Drew Cullen [drew dot cullen at theregister dot co dot uk] |
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- [deCURSOR] - "In de onderhandelingen werd de IFPI ingeschakeld, de vereniging van platenlabels. De koudwatervrees voor online downloads is bij de IFPI echter hemeltergend. Net zoals de kromme redeneringen op hun departement Marketing. "Over de prijs moeter nog verder onderhandeld... |
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- When I said I was practised at being disciplined about getting work done, I was so wrong. I thought it... |
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- Just two days after President Bush signed national antispam legislation, Microsoft has announced that a six-month investigation it conducted with New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer led to a slew of lawsuits against an e-mail marketing ring believed to be responsible for sending billions of spam messages. |
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- Hosted CRM provider Salesforce.com has announced it plans to go public. The company said in a press release that it has filed a Form S1 registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). |
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- Providing further proof that confidence in the stock market is on the mend, five initial public offerings stormed Wall Street on Wednesday, making it the biggest day for IPOs since the dying days of the Internet boom. The surge just before the IPO market goes on holiday break shows that investors finally have an appetite again for new companies that need cash to grow. |
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- As enterprises continue to invest in wireless devices and networks, IT specialists will be faced with the growing challenge of maintaining and improving the security of those networks. In many cases, they are getting the financial assistance they need to achieve this goal -- but is it feasible, considering the current set of standards? |
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- It's about time now for news organizations to start collecting their biggest stories of the year, and it might seem that no year should be without its highlights and lowlights. But for e-business, 2003 might go into the books as the year that really wasn't. |
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- Adding to its arsenal to launch an offensive in the growing market for enterprise content-management software, IBM announced another acquisition this week, this time of document-management specialist Green Pasture. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the move represents IBM's third content-management acquisition since 2002. |
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- The debate over whether the Internet should remain a huge tax-free marketplace for U.S. shoppers probably will not be resolved in 2004, according to policymakers and experts who cited the upcoming presidential election as a political disincentive to action, as well as stubborn resistance to taxation by some lawmakers and business interests. |
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- The Canadian equivalent of the Recording Industry Association of America has signaled that it might follow the U.S. model of launching lawsuits against individuals accused of illegal music trading, which the Canadian Recording Industry Association blames for CAN$425 million in lost sales annually. |
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- Asia is emerging as a key battleground for the open-source movement. The Japan-China-Korea partnership, announced last month in Osaka, is the latest in a string of initiatives to promote Linux. Two weeks earlier, Singapore hosted the second annual Asia Open Source Symposium, where 20 Asian countries discussed closer collaboration in standardization, localization and interoperability of Linux software. |
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- En Iraq, 1,50$ pour 15 minutes, seule avec une femme, c'est moins cher qu'un mariage... The trip from Ali's village to Baghdad takes an hour and a half by bus. As soon as he arrives, the 21-year-old Iraqi heads straight... |
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- First Data and Banco General, S.A. have formed a new company, Processing Center, S.A. (PROCESA), that will provide card processing services to financial institutions across Latin America and the Caribbean. |
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- Film News: Hogan-helmed pic faces stiff competish post-Christmas In its world preem, "Peter Pan" topped the Aussie B.O. Thursday, grossing A$379,000 ($280,000) on about 275 prints. |
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- World News: Report confirms U.S. fare dominates airwaves Canada's actors union cried foul Thursday as a new report confirmed that Canada's small screens continue to be overwhelmingly dominated by U.S. |
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- Back in April of this year (April 22, 2003), AMD finally announced their much anticipated Opteron processor which ushered in the beginning of the affordable 64-bit computing age on mainstream servers and workstations. At that time, AMD released the Opteron 240, 242, and 244 processors for 2-way servers. From there, AMD had plans laid out to release 8-way and 1-way processors for servers over the next several months. At time of release, no workstation motherboards for Opteron processors could be found or, at the very least, they were extremely rare. Finally, around August, we saw the emergence of the first mass-production boards from Tyan and MSI in the form of the Thunder K8W (S2885) and K8T Master2-FAR respectively. |
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- This message was sent using Picture Messaging from Verizon Wireless! To learn how you can snap and send pictures with your wireless phone visit http://www. verizonwireless. com/getitnow/pixmessaging.... |
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- From the BBC Schools page |
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- ch schreibt "Einem Posting auf Zone-H zufolge wurden diverse Nasa-Webseiten defaced. Wahrscheinlich nutzten die Defacer ein Fehler in einem PHP-Script und setzen danach anscheinend einen lokalen Exploit ein, um Rootrechte zu erlangen." |
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- ch schreibt "Apple hat Quicktime 6.5 fr Mac OS X v10.2.5 oder neuer, Mac OS 8.6/9 und Win 98/Me/2000/XP freigegeben. |
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- http://gigaom. com/archives/2003/12/when_vona html/... |
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- this is an underreported milestone in the death of telcos... |
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- If I were the mom, I would haul that girl's a$$ |
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- My friend Kathy who manages the jewelry store in Skagway, Alaska |
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