Topic: - on September 3, 2002 at 3:05:56 AM CEST
Combining XML and databases
XML has evolved into a viable alternative for representing data. As more applications use XML, the big question becomes how to combine XML with relational databases. Let’s dive deeper into the issues involved in combining XML with databases and look at how all that data can be stored and queried.
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Topic: - on September 3, 2002 at 3:01:05 AM CEST
China blocks access to Google
China appears to have blocked leading search engine Google, sparking speculation of a crackdown on Internet content viewed as subversive ahead of a Communist Party congress in November.
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Topic: - on September 3, 2002 at 2:52:23 AM CEST
LEGO® MINDSTORMS Robotics Discovery Set
Just the sound of the word brings happy images of colored bricks, gears and wheels to mind. When I was a kid, I didn't have LEGO toys. But once I became an adult, I started buying them for myself. There's something magical, whether you are a child or adult, about sitting on the floor with hundreds of red, blue, green and yellow plastic parts all around you. It's then your task to create something out of these bricks. A task of imagination and creativity that can be a whole heck of a lot of fun.
<a href="www.the-gadgeteer.com"target="_blank">Take me 2 the LEGO
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Topic: - on September 3, 2002 at 2:47:46 AM CEST
Ikea: At a Glance
Founded: 1943. World headquarters: Almhult, Sweden. Business: Manufacturer and retailer of home furnishings and accessories. Fiscal 2001 sales: $9.6 billion ($1.6 billion in North America). Employees: 65,000 (8,000 in North America). Stores: 165 in 31 countries. Largest markets, by sales: Germany, United States, United Kingdom, France and Sweden. North American headquarters: Plymouth Meeting. U.S. stores: 16, from New York to California. First U.S. store: Opened in 1985 in Plymouth Meeting.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on September 3, 2002 at 2:43:10 AM CEST
'monkey god'
Hundreds of people have attended the funeral of a monkey which became revered as a divine incarnation of a Hindu god in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
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Topic: - on September 3, 2002 at 2:34:37 AM CEST
911 Topic STARTS with THIS
Thousands perished in the September 11 terrorist attacks, but thousands more met the tragedy and its aftermath with courage and strength. The following profiles document the actions, reactions and perspectives of several unsung heroes from that tragic late summer day.
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Topic: NEWS english - on September 3, 2002 at 2:00:06 AM CEST
Secrecy Is Your Enemy
In a letter to Thomas Jefferson in 1816, Adams said, "Power must never be trusted without a check."
And here definitly NO smiley!
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Topic: MUSIK - on September 3, 2002 at 1:35:36 AM CEST
BJORK BURGLED
BJORK has lost recording equipment in a burglary at her home in london. The Icelandic star has a flat in Maida Vale, london.
According to BBC news, while she was sleeping on Friday evening (August 30), her flat was broken into and the equipment taken.
Take me 2<a href="www.ananova.com"target="_blank"> ANANOVA
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Topic: - on September 3, 2002 at 1:28:35 AM CEST
MP3 codecs no longer free for GPL use
There's a nice controversy brewing over a semantic change in Thomson Multimedia's MP3 licensing policy which has got the open-source community's knickers in a twist. According to an open letter to Thompson from Xiph.org CEO Emmett Plant, an exemption from regular licensing fees for GPL'd software has just been withdrawn.
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Topic: - on September 3, 2002 at 1:19:45 AM CEST
Some say Ogg Vorbis is better and cheaper than MP3
It's a measure of our national geekification that the term MP3 has entered our common speech. Millions of us collect legal or illegal music files, encoded in the MP3 digital format and then burned onto compact discs or distributed over the Internet. But MP3 isn't the last word in digital music, far from it. It's actually a fairly old technology, and more expensive than most people realize. That's why we soon may add a new and even geekier term to our technical vocabulary: Ogg Vorbis.
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Topic: SCIENCE - on September 3, 2002 at 1:01:48 AM CEST
US-Bastler wollen Rakete ins All schießen
Die US-Luftfahrtbehörde hat einer Gruppe von Weltraumbegeisterten Starterlaubnis erteilt: Noch in diesem Monat soll ihr zusammengebasteltes Geschoss als erste Amateur-Rakete ins All vordringen.
<a href="www.spiegel.de"target="blank">Hier gehts zur Geschichte
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