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A Call to Arms - 19 years ago
A Call to Arms From Databases Vol. 3, No. 3 - April 2005 by JIM GRAY, MICROSOFT MARK COMPTON, CONSULTANT Source Long anticipated, the arrival of radically restructured database architectures is now finally at hand. Avalanche of Information We live in a time of extreme change, much of it precipitated by an avalanche of information that otherwise threatens to swallow us whole. Under the mby archive - Archive
The Roving Eye - Iraq and the (on purpose?) blundering US - 19 years ago
THE ROVING EYE Iraq's hostage cabinet By Pepe Escobar Source "We fasted for three months; then we broke our fast with an onion." - Iraqi proverb After fasting - or watching non-stop squabbling - for almost three months since the January 30 elections, Iraqis finally got their onion: a new cabinet no one likes (except the Kurds). Shi'ite Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari diby archive - Archive
Small box 'to end digital divide' - 19 years ago
Small box 'to end digital divide' By Jo Twist BBC News science and technology reporter Friday, 29 April, 2005 Source A pared down "computer" to replace bulky, grey desktop PCs could help close global digital inequalities. Not-for-profit developers, Ndiyo - the Swahili word for "yes" - said it could open up the potential of computing to two billion more people. Tby archive - Archive
The cyberbuttonwood era arrives - By Buttonwood - 19 years ago
Buttonwood The cyberbuttonwood era arrives Apr 26th 2005 From The Economist Global Agenda Source America’s fragmented stockmarkets are consolidating with a vengeance as electronic trading increases. This must be good news for investors—but for some more than others IT IS not widely appreciated—even by the willing but baffled Family Buttonwood—where the name of this column comes from. So casby archive - Archive
Arab democracy - 19 years ago
Arab democracy Should the West always be worried if Islamists win elections? Apr 28th 2005 | CAIRO From The Economist print edition Source In Saudi Arabia and elsewhere, Islamists seem to be gaining ground. Many want the chance to prove they are real democrats IT MAY be four decades since Saudis last voted, and only in a limited local way, but elections for town councils across the country, tby archive - Archive
Cold fusion - Honest! (The Economist) - 19 years ago
Cold fusion Honest! Apr 28th 2005 From The Economist print edition Source A report of a desktop experiment that produces nuclear fusion is bound to raise eyebrows. But this time, the results look convincing PHYSICISTS who meddle with cold fusion, like psychologists who dabble in the paranormal, are likely to be labelled quacks by their peers. This is due to an infamous incident in 1989 whenby archive - Archive
A Thousand Clowns - by Bill Bonner - 19 years ago
The Daily Reckoning Ouzilly, France Friday, April 29, 2005 The Daily Reckoning PRESENTS: Often, the best way to deal with something, or someone, that you find absurd is to take a step back and laugh. Bill Bonner advises his readers to employ this strategy when trying to decipher what our world leaders are really trying to save the world from... A THOUSAND CLOWNS by Bill Bonner Economics hasby archive - Archive
Open Wallets for Open-Source Software - 19 years ago
Open Wallets for Open-Source Software By GARY RIVLIN April 27, 2005 Source SAN FRANCISCO, April 26 - The first time Marc Fleury tried to raise money for his technology start-up company, in mid-2000, a venture capitalist told him that he didn't have merely a bad business plan but a terrible one. Not only was Mr. Fleury planning to compete against the likes of I.B.M., but his product was opeby archive - Archive
The Money Shufflers' Vig - by Marc Faber - 19 years ago
The Daily Reckoning Ouzilly, France Wednesday, April 27, 2005 The Daily Reckoning PRESENTS: The notion of one's child wanting to be a doctor sends chills of fear down parents' spines, engineers gravitate to plying their craft on money instead of real stuff, and the $600/hour lawyers are depressed to the point of either padding their accounts or working nearly 24/7. Money shufflers areby archive - Archive
Linux to get trusted, better desktop support - 19 years ago
Linux to get trusted, better desktop support Rodney Gedda, Computerworld 26/04/2005 14:35:29 Source Microsoft may have raised eyebrows when it announced its intentions to turn Windows into a "trustworthy" platform, but the open source Linux is set to support trusted computing, among other enhancements, in its next release. Speaking at Linux Australia's annual Linux conferernce,by archive - Archive
Nuclear fusion on the desktop ... really! - 19 years ago
Nuclear fusion on the desktop ... really! Mini-reactor yields neutrons, could power spacecraft A key part of the apparatus for the nuclear fusion experiment is in the foreground. In the background are researchers Seth Putterman, Brian Naranjo and Jim Gimzewski. MSNBC staff and news service reports Updated: 2:56 p.m. ET April 27, 2005 Source Scientists say they have achieved small-scale nby archive - Archive
New NASA Software Detects 'Bugs' in Java Computer Code - 19 years ago
John Bluck NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. Phone: 650/604-5026 or 650/604-9000 Email: jbluck@mail.arc.nasa.gov Valerie Williamson Open Source Technology Group, VA Software Corporation, Fremont, Calif. Phone: 510/687-7116 April 26, 2005 RELEASE: 05_28AR New NASA Softwaby archive - Archive
Easy Money - By Marc Faber - 19 years ago
Easy Money By Marc Faber April 13, 2005 Source THE FED EMBARKED on an ultra-easy and expansionary monetary policy whereby, despite six interest rate hikes over the previous six months, real interest rates remained negative. Then, after 2002, the impact of the tax cuts began to kick in; combined with the ultra-expansionary monetary policies, this led to rapid credit expansion, asset inflationby archive - Archive
Whiskey and Gunpowder #11 - Dr. Marc Faber's Forecasts - 19 years ago
"I am very sure that China has not only supplied nuclear technology to North Korea but is actually encouraging North Korea to pursue its nuclear weapons program. So, we are living in a world where the dangers of war are increasing. I suppose that, one day in the future, we in the West will wish we were still engaged in the Cold War, during which the three great powers (the West, the Soviet Uby archive - Archive
Peeling Away the FUD Wrapping on Linux/Windows "Studies" - 19 years ago
Peeling Away the FUD Wrapping on Linux/Windows "Studies" Saturday, April 23 2005 @ 12:17 PM EDT Source You just have to read this, The Truth About Linux and Windows". Business Week's Steve Hamm looks more carefully than most at Laura DiDio's latest piece of work and finds it wanting: I've got a bone to pick with the never-ending stream of studies by tech rby archive - Archive
Biotech critics at risk : Economics calls the shots in the debate - 19 years ago
Biotech critics at risk : Economics calls the shots in the debate By Mark Dowie Sunday, January 11, 2004 Source Four biologists from Europe and North America met face to face for the first time on the UC Berkeley campus last month. Although none of them is particularly famous as a scientist -- not one Nobel among them -- they know each other's names and work as well as if they had been woby archive - Archive
THE SECRET GOVERNMENT – The Constitution In Crisis - 19 years ago
SEGMENT #3: THE SECRET GOVERNMENT – The Constitution In Crisis Bill Moyers, Secret Government, PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) 1987 Source Moyers: “The Secret Government is an interlocking network of official functionaries, spies, mercenaries, ex-generals, profiteers and superpatriots, who, for a variety of motives, operate outside the legitimate institutions of government. Presidentsby archive - Archive
Delving into mind over matter - 19 years ago
Delving into mind over matter By CLAIRE SMITH Source IT WAS during a weekend of fire-walking in the Welsh hills that scientist David Hamilton decided to change his life. As an organic chemist with a major pharmaceutical company, he was on a good salary, developing a new generation of drugs by synthesising molecules found in nature. But Hamilton was never convinced that man could improve on natby archive - Archive
'Little progress' in malaria war - 19 years ago
'Little progress' in malaria war BBCNews Thursday, 21 April, 2005 Source Little progress has been made in the war on malaria because the global body launched to fight the disease in 1998 is failing, a medical journal says. Roll Back Malaria, an international group of 90 organisations, was set up to co-ordinate the response to malaria. But the Lancet said the number of cases was risby archive - Archive
Do Firefox browser bugs matter? - 19 years ago
Do Firefox browser bugs matter? BBCNews Friday, 22 April, 2005 Source No program is perfect, but bugs in open source software are less of a problem, says technology analyst Bill Thompson. The Firefox open source browser is full of bugs, some of which are rather serious. In March Danish security firm Secunia reported that it had found eight. Some could be used to trick users into giving awayby archive - Archive
'Infomania' worse than marijuana - 19 years ago
'Infomania' worse than marijuana BBC News Friday, 22 April, 2005 Source Workers distracted by email and phone calls suffer a fall in IQ more than twice that found in marijuana smokers, new research has claimed. The study for computing firm Hewlett Packard warned of a rise in "infomania", with people becoming addicted to email and text messages. Researchers found 62% of peby archive - Archive
Will the walls come falling down? - 19 years ago
Will the walls come falling down? Apr 20th 2005 From The Economist Global Agenda Source House prices have been growing at a breakneck pace in many developed countries. This has encouraged householders to keep spending even during the global slowdown. But now that housing markets are looking soft, consumers may be forced to retrench AMERICAN homeowners, particularly those who have just boughtby archive - Archive
Expatriate workers - 19 years ago
Expatriate workers In search of stealth Apr 21st 2005 From The Economist print edition Source Today's global businesses have created a new kind of expat CARLOS GHOSN is a Brazilian who, from next month, will be spending 40% of his time in Paris as the new boss of Renault, 35% in Tokyo where he will continue as the head of Nissan, and 25% elsewhere, most of it in America. Jean-Pierre Garnby archive - Archive
Open source developers provide 'glimmer of hope' - 19 years ago
Open source developers provide 'glimmer of hope' By Ingrid Marson ZDNet UK April 22, 2005, 11:25 BST Source An eminent software developer has claimed that the pressure to be first to market with new technology is leading to a decline in software quality, but that standards are higher in the open source world. James Coplien, a software design expert who currently works as an object arby archive - Archive
The Undoing of America - 19 years ago
Gore Vidal on war for oil, politics-free elections, and the late, great U.S. Constitution The Undoing of America by Steve Perry Friday 25th March 2005 Source For the past 40 years or so of Gore Vidal’s prolific 59-year literary career, his great project has been the telling of the American story from the country’s inception to the present day, unencumbered by the court historian’s task of makiby archive - Archive
Passing the Buck - By Paul Krugman - 19 years ago
"According to the health organization, the higher costs of private insurers are "mainly due to the extensive bureaucracy required to assess risk, rate premiums, design benefit packages and review, pay or refuse claims." Public insurance plans have far less bureaucracy because they don't try to screen out high-risk clients or charge them higher fees." Passing the Buck Bby archive - Archive
Security vs. Rebuilding: Kurdish Town Loses Out - 19 years ago
Security vs. Rebuilding: Kurdish Town Loses Out Christoph Bangert/Polaris, for The New York Times Nuradeen Ghreeb, a civil engineer, dreamed of bringing clean drinking water to his hometown, Halabja, but the United States canceled its planned water project there this week. By JAMES GLANZ Published: April 16, 2005 Source HALABJA, Iraq, April 11 - For years Nuradeen Ghreeb has dreameby archive - Archive
Interview with Gore Vidal -- 11/04/2005 -- ABC Australia - 19 years ago
Australian Broadcasting Corporation TV PROGRAM TRANSCRIPT Source Broadcast: 11/04/2005 Gore Vidal Reporter: Tony Jones TONY JONES: The foreword to Gore Vidal's latest book, Inventing a Nation, is penned by an Australian politician. The writer is none other than New South Wales Premier Bob Carr, a lifetime enthusiast for American history and longtime friend of Gore Vidal. Springing to hisby archive - Archive
HIV is 'out of control' in India - 19 years ago
HIV is 'out of control' in India Last Updated: Tuesday, 19 April, 2005 BBC News Source A senior Aids expert has warned that HIV in India is "out of control". The executive director of the Global Fund to Fight Aids said that the epidemic in India is spreading rapidly and nothing is being done to stop it. Richard Feachem warned that India has overtaken South Africa as theby archive - Archive
Sharon warns Bush of regional war in 2006 - 19 years ago
Sharon warns Bush of regional war in 2006 SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM Tuesday, April 19, 2005 Source Israel has relayed its concern to the United States of the rising prospect of a Middle East war in 2006. U.S. officials said Israel has determined that the expected U.S. withdrawal from Iraq in 2006 would raise tensions in the region that could lead to a Middle East war. The officials said theby archive - Archive