Topic: - on November 8, 2002 at 5:31:03 PM CET
Japan Whaling Fleet Sets off for Five-Month Expedition to Kill 400 Whales
Japanese whaling ships began a five-month expedition Friday to kill about 400 minke whales in Antarctic waters, the government said. The country says the hunt is for scientific research. However, most of the meat from the slaughtered whales ends up being sold as food, and critics call the research program commercial hunting in disguise. The five-ship fleet left Shimonoseki port, about 515 miles south of Tokyo, and are due to return in April next year, said Fisheries Agency official Takanori Nagatomo.
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Topic: - on November 8, 2002 at 5:29:09 PM CET
'Apocalypse Now' voted best film of last 25 years
"Apocalypse Now," Francis Ford Coppola's anti-Vietnam War classic, is the greatest film of the past 25 years, according to a survey of British film critics and writers.
Two movies by Martin Scorsese also made the top 10 in the poll released Friday by the British Film Institute's Sight & Sound magazine.
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Topic: - on November 8, 2002 at 5:25:15 PM CET
CD-Kopierschutz: Die Musikindustrie schadet sich selbst
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nachdem eine gekaufte CD in keinem meiner Geräte lief, habe ich eine Mail an EMI geschrieben. Hier könnt ihr meine Mail und die Antwort von EMI lesen.
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Topic: - on November 8, 2002 at 5:22:30 PM CET
All CDs will be protected and you are a filthy pirate
One mad consumer relations team might be an isolated incident, two begins to look like a trend. The dismissive response Bertelsmann Music Group's copy protection team recently issued to a consumer's query essentially boiled down to, 'all Cds will be copy protected, it's not our problem that they won't play on some devices, so tough.' But apparently, it's a competition. EMI Germany is taking pretty much the same attitude, and its humorously-tagged Consumer Relations team is calling the customers pirates while it's about it.
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Topic: - on November 8, 2002 at 5:18:04 PM CET
Standard for sports data launched
A new computer language was launched Thursday to simplify the formatting, storage and publishing of sports information for newspapers, Web sites and other media. The final draft of the language, called Sports Markup Language or “SportsML,” was released at the Sports Media & Technology trade show in New York.
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Topic: - on November 8, 2002 at 12:27:33 PM CET
Open source gloats over leaked Microsoft memo
OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE advocates have concluded that a leaked Microsoft memorandum detailing a survey it conducted of IT professionals on their views of open source software shows that Microsoft's public relations tactics on open source are failing and, to win out against the software giant, open source software advocates just have to "stay the course."
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Topic: - on November 8, 2002 at 12:22:05 PM CET
Intelli-Table
Intelli-Table from Bandai Co helps toddlers and preschoolers to learn letters, numbers, counting, music, opposites and many other learning concepts.
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Topic: - on November 8, 2002 at 12:03:14 PM CET
Vancouver police break up riot after Guns N' Roses concert cancelled
Thousands of fans rioted for about an hour outside GM Place in downtown Vancouver on Thursday night after Axl Rose, the lead singer of Guns N' Roses, failed to appear for a concert.
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Topic: - on November 8, 2002 at 11:59:13 AM CET
Photos taken inside a military C-130 transporting POW's
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Topic: - on November 8, 2002 at 11:52:38 AM CET
San Francisco to explore growing cannabis
San Francisco could become the first city in the US to enter the business of cannabis growing after the passing of a proposition at this week's election. The measure, passed by the city's voters by a two to one majority, requires the city to explore the cultivation of cannabis for medical use.
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Topic: - on November 8, 2002 at 11:44:48 AM CET
Holograms in Motion
The new video holograms produce fully 3-D images that float in space near the viewing screen. "Someday we're going to wonder how we used to put up with 2-D images," says Stephen Benton, who heads the Spatial Imaging Group at the MIT Media Lab.
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Topic: - on November 8, 2002 at 11:40:33 AM CET
Windows XP Tablet PC
Since the dawn of the PC era, various companies have undertaken various initiatives to move computing away from keyboard and mouse-based input and towards the more natural interfaces of pen and voice. And while voice computing has seen some limited success, pen computing is set to explode with the introduction of Microsoft's Tablet PC platform, driven by a new Windows XP version logically named Windows XP Tablet PC Edition.
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