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“ "Nothing," said a General Motors spokesman last week, "has changed relative to the GM board's support for the GM management team during this historically difficult economic period for the U.S. auto industry." Nothing? Not even the evaporation of almost source...

“ Big Data is a major theme on the O'Reilly Radar, so we're delighted to welcome guest blogger Joe Hellerstein, a Professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley whose research focuses on databases and distributed systems. Joe has written a source...

“Today, the (for-now) non-profit Mozilla Foundation released its financial statements for 2007 (embedded below). Revenues for the organization behind the open-source Firefox browser were up 12 percent to $75 million, with search-related royalties from Google accounting for 88 percent of source...

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“This is the ninth post in an article series about MIT’s lecture course “Introduction to Algorithms.” In this post I will review lectures thirteen and fourteen. They are on theoretical topics of Amortized Analysis, Competitive Analysis and Self-Organizing Lists.” source... source...

“Baltic Dry Index: Not a Latvian deodorant The leading economic indicators—which serve as the foundation of massively important political and economic decisions—can frustrate even the wisest economists. They quibble over whether the payroll or establishment employment numbers make more sense source...

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““Rather than just concentrating on technical hardware we decided to put humans in focus,” he said. “Of course, the security, power, cooling, network, etc, are all top notch, but the people designing data centers often (always!) forget about the humans source...

“Article Comments: (2) Post your comments in response to this articleThe IT Contract From Hell Marko @ 18/11/2008 11:26:58You're my hero! Quantum of Solace wasn't this good. The IT Contract From Hell h0m3r @ 18/11/2008 11:59:18good, funny read and i have also heard the n source...

“The University of Michigan opened its new computer centre in 1971, in a low-slung building on Beal Avenue in Ann Arbor. The university's enormous mainframe computers stood in the middle of a vast, white-tiled room, looking, as one faculty member source...

“At question is France's DADVSI copyright law, which includes an amendment barring making available software that's intended to distribute unauthorized protected works. The provision provides for penalties of up to three years in jail and a €300,000 fine.” source... source...

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