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“Paul Krugman says: Don't panic about the stock market...Panic about the credit markets instead. Interest rate on 3-month Treasuries at 0.02%; interest rate on high-yield (junk) bonds over 20%. This is an economic emergency. It is unbelievable to me how source...
“It’s no secret that I’ve been interested in Lisp for quite a while. Lately, that has meant Clojure. Clojure is a new Lisp dialect that runs on top of the JVM. That means it has the power of Lisp (macros, source...
“– John Kemp is a Reuters columnist. The opinions expressed are his own – Despite a promising start, the U.S. experiment with renewable fuels is facing a serious challenge next year. Falling gasoline consumption, lower pump prices and contradictions within source...
“ Despite Adobe's progress working on a version of Flash for the iPhone, it has become evident that the application would violate Apple's strict Terms of Service. Unless Apple lessens its grasp on the iPhone and lets a little open-source source...
“Both Joe Brockmeier at ZDNet and Matt Asay at CNet have items up today about how some of the newly unemployed folks out there can benefit from FOSS contributions. While it may seem illogical that making free contributions to free source...
“If you're a regular Human Nature reader, you know the story line we've been following here and on the blog: Pakistan has become the world's first mechanical proxy war, with unmanned aerial vehicles hunting and killing bad guys so U.S. source...
“We don't have to look far. Hazel Blears, a career politician who is currently Communities Secretary, recently made noises about shutting down blogs she doesn't like. She particular doesn't like the blog of Guido Fawkes. It's not surprising she doesn't source...
“In my first Pushing the Limits of Windows post, I discussed physical memory limits, including the limits imposed by licensing, implementation, and driver compatibility. This time I’m turning my attention to another fundamental resource, virtual memory. Virtual memory separates a source...
“ Madeleine Pickens, wife of the eccentric billionaire tycoon T. Boone Pickens, wants to ride to the rescue of a beleaguered national icon. The wild horses that have been an emblem of the wide-open American West for centuries more recently source...
“The G20 summit must be considered a disappointing failure, even by the relatively low expectations set for the event, writes John Kemp. Leaders produced a long agenda of further studies, but failed to tackle even the most fundamental decisions. Commentary ” source...
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“There has been recent circulation of the older view that it is World War II, as a kind of giant public works project, which ended the Great Depression. This claim is not consistent with our best knowledge of the subject. source...
“Those who read our PostGIS series may be wondering why the examples we chose were not the same as what we did for PostGIS. Sadly SQL Server 2008 does not have any built-in spatial aggregates such as those you would source...

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