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Oracle Seeks Sun Parity with Multi-Core License Shift (Dec 21 2005 00:45 GMT) - Oracle Corp yesterday changed its software licensing models for multi-core processors, in an effort to redress what the company, and Sun Microsystems Inc, saw as a disparity that made it more expensive to run Oracle software on Sun kit. CBR via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News |
Database Developments
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Oracle New License Sales Slowing (Dec 21 2005 00:45 GMT) - Oracle Corp professed itself pleased with its second-quarter financial results last week, but although they met market consensus and Oracles guidance, they were at the low end of Oracles own expectations. CBR via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News |
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Police looking for burglary suspect considered armed and dangerous (Dec 21 2005 00:45 GMT) - Police looking for burglary suspect considered armed and dangerous WCAX, VT - Nov 28, 2005 his track. Meanwhile, a second burglary was reported in Lyndeborough in which a red Suzuki four-wheeled ATV was stolen. Police say 2005 Season of GNCC Racing DVDs Now Available ATV Rider Magazine - Dec 14, 2005 [...] |
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Suffolk Police Beat (Dec 21 2005 00:45 GMT) - Suffolk Police Beat LongIslandPress.com, NY - Nov 18, 2005 Kiezel, 21, of Medford was riding a Honda ATV on Kayron Barrett then fled in a 1992 Honda Accord and Ringen asking that who may have witnessed any part of this News Briefs Lonoke Democrat, AR - Dec [...] |
Ecademy: user blogs
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Linguistic Imperialism [Andrew Horder] (Dec 21 2005 00:45 GMT) - First and foremost, let me confess I am breaking my own cardinal rule of blogging - I'm writing this after numerous beers. I have just travelled back from an Xmas do with a fascinating taxi driver. His English was atrocious. His business sense, however, was excellent. Two years ago, he moved down from Manchester, to join a friend who came down before him and was then running a cab firm in the Crawley area, who needed drivers. |
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Linguistic Imperialism [Andrew Horder] (Dec 21 2005 00:45 GMT) - First and foremost, let me confess I am breaking my own cardinal rule of blogging - I'm writing this after numerous beers. I have just travelled back from an Xmas do with a fascinating taxi driver. His English was atrocious. His business sense, however, was excellent. |
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Linguistic Imperialism [Andrew Horder] (Dec 21 2005 00:45 GMT) - First and foremost, let me confess I am breaking my own cardinal rule of blogging - I'm writing this after numerous beers. I have just travelled back from an Xmas do with a fascinating taxi driver. His English was atrocious. His business sense, however, was excellent. |
Ecademy: user blogs
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Linguistic Imperialism [Andrew Horder] (Dec 21 2005 00:45 GMT) - First and foremost, let me confess I am breaking my own cardinal rule of blogging - I'm writing this after numerous beers. I have just travelled back from an Xmas do with a fascinating taxi driver. His English was atrocious. His business sense, however, was excellent. Two years ago, he moved down from Manchester, to join a friend who came down before him and was then running a cab firm in the Crawley area, who needed drivers. |
Blogator.com
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Christians strip to build a new Eden (Dec 21 2005 00:45 GMT) - [WiccanWeb.ca] - By Tony Allen-Mills in the beginning was the word of God and God never said anything about brassieres or boxer shorts. Thus was born Natura, America?s first Christian nudist camp. After two years of biblical debate over Adam and Eve and their fig leaves and whether or not nudity is sinful, a 67-year-old Quaker grandfather is preparing to open a modern-day Garden of Eden 40 miles north of Tampa, Florida. |
Fresh Bilge
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After Dover (Dec 21 2005 00:44 GMT) - The Loom has published a post quoting substantial portions of... |
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Dave Munger - Video Games: Are the Myths True? - Cognitive Daily (Dec 21 2005 00:44 GMT) - Good discussion of an essay by intended to dispel the myths about the role of video games in causing aggression and violence. What I like is not so much the thrust of the argument - because I think that the relation between games and anti-social behaviour is misrepresented and overblown - but in the rigor applied to the reasoning. Bad argumentation helps nobody, whether or not it supports your point of view. And I think the authors of Cognitive Daily have come to reach the sort of nuanced view on games that accords very much with my own. After all, as they write, "You can't have it both ways - if video games are good for teaching good stuff, they're also good for teaching bad stuff... |
Smalltalk Tidbits, Industry Rants
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Firefly: Just not popular enough (Dec 21 2005 00:43 GMT) - Firefly is at an end: ''In the end, it was what it was: a tough sell,'' says Whedon, adding that it appears the Firefly saga has reached its conclusion. He has no regrets -- and he's moving on.Sad news for me - I loved that show, and liked the movie quite a bit. |
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