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Sailor, Platinum and Pilot are the big three Japanese brands. You can generally get them outside of Japan but there might be Japan exclusives and the prices might be better in Japa…

SAIC also screwed up the FBI's Virtual Case File, NSA's Trailblazer, New York's CityTime (with a extra helping of fraud thrown in). It would be interesting to hear of any software …

Make a contract with yourself. Set the times of the day when you shouldn't be screwing around on the internet. Get a program that takes screenshots of what is on your monitor every…

Why? Do lamas have radar dishes installed in their foreheads?

Taiwan's first election was in 1996, though there was very gradual political reform from 1978 onwards. Before that the Guomindang Party ruled Taiwan using the sort of party-state c…

Yeah, i've been to Beijing and people don't really seem to drive in lanes there. It would be really nice if they could get this to work, but it seems a bit utopian.

2004 you mean.

Presumably they are trying to tell us that the better way is the "Appistry® CloudIQ® Platform".

I watch Al Jazeera English sometimes and IMHO it is better than CNN International and nearly as good as BBC World.

Slapping a 25% tariff on Chinese imports would be a terrible move from a diplomatic point of view. The CCP's main pillars of legitimacy are the economy and protecting national hono…

Actually, I looked at the site again today and they said that they have fixed that. I guess if you don't hear it then it has been fixed.

Hurrah for white (or brown) noise. If you are in an environment that is full of chat and conversation its great for blocking all that out. You can still hear that people are talkin…

The facts can speak for themselves. Most laypeople don't have the time or training to make sense of them, so depend on reputation. So who would you trust, a reputable scientist or …

Ian Wishart also publishes a magazine called "Investigate" which instead of doing investigative journalism publishes rumors and exaggerations. On the front cover of his magazine on…

PostgreSQL was not an object-oriented database, it was an object-relational database. Despite not living up to some people's exceptions that that it would replace the relational da…

Keep your hands off his Microsoft shares Bill Gates.

> I hate the F-Lock key with a passion. I haven't managed to hit f-lock by accident. The older Microsoft keyboards didn't remember the f-lock state between reboots. THAT was annoyi…

It's not coming to New Zealand either. You have to wonder why they are excluding a substantial portion of the english speaking world.

Well, the first two actually did have longer titles: -Walden; or, Life in the Woods -An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

No, that chapter is not from Concepts, Techniques, and Models but most of the programming models mentioned in that PDF are covered in more depth in CTM.

SQL is popular because it was the query language that was available in the Oracle and IBM relational databases, which were the first relational database products to come to market.…