] Such scientific conundrums are of only passing interest
] at Superpower, a four-year-old subsidiary of
] Intermagnetics General, and at other companies like it.
] After years of false starts and setbacks, these companies
] say they are closing in on the goal of producing
] relatively inexpensive superconducting wire for power
] generators, transformers and transmission lines.

The Biggest Jolt to Power Since Franklin Flew His Kite

]
] p2pnet.net News:- Remixes are OK. David Bowie is using
] the concept as a marketing tool. So they must be.
]
] Since April 16 Bowie has not only been supporting this
] new art - albeit for purely commerial considerations -
] he's been offering his own music for practitioners to
] use.

Weird...

Bowie gets the remix bug

]
] The federal government is reviving its fight against
] dynamic random access memory (DRAM) maker Rambus (Quote,
] Chart), according to court documents made public
] Thursday.
]
] The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed an appeal
] in court April 16 that was later made public Thursday
] outlining its case. The FTC has accused the company of
] violating federal antitrust laws by "deliberately
] engaging in a pattern of anti-competitive acts and
] practices that served to deceive an industry-wide
] standard-setting organization, specifically, not
] disclosing that it was in the process of seeking patents
] related to the proposed standards."

Yay.

FTC Appeals Rambus Dismissal

] The Mountain View, Calif.-based company on Monday
] announced the S5000, which it says is the first processor
] that can add new instructions while operating. The chip
] combines an existing RISC (reduced instruction set
] computing) architecture with a large reconfigurable area
] of programmable logic called the Instruction Set
] Extension Fabric, ISEF. The company's own C/C compiler
] automatically spots areas in a program that require
] intensive computation and creates new instructions for
] the processor to handle those tasks.

Dan: do you know who these people are?

Chip rewires itself on the fly | CNET News.com

dmv wrote:
] ] Many companies are quickly coming to realize this, as you
] ] can see from the impressive customer list on MySQL's
] ] website. I'm sure that most readers have used the Yahoo!
] ] (Nasdaq: YHOO) Finance site on many occasions (like
] ] perhaps this one), but would probably be surprised to
] ] learn that even Yahoo!'s massive source of data is fed
] ] from MySQL databases.

Is this another "worse is better"/Linux vs BSD phenomenon?
From what anyone's ever told me, Postgresql is a much better
DBMS in several regards:

1. fine-grained locking -- much more scalable when doing many
concurrent INSERTs or UPDATEs in the same table.

2. Beter/real transaction management.

I guess many web-based workloads are almost all SELECT ... in which
case MySQL wins since its optimized purely for that...

RE: Fool.com: MySQL Makes Waves [Motley Fool Take] April 23, 2004

] Snort! says the pig. We find we own the patent on JPEGs
] and now that you are all accustomed to what you thought
] was an open standard format, ha ha, everybody has to pay
] us:

Lots of good stuff here.

GROKLAW on Forgent/JPEG Patent Mess

] Dinosaurs may have been forced into extinction partly
] because there were too few females, say researchers in
] the UK. The claim revives a venerable debate.

Did dinosaurs lack daughters?: See-sawing climate may have fatally unbalanced sex ratio.

]
] This should keep you busy. IBM has subpoenaed almost
] everyone, including the following:
]
] * Morgan Keegan
] * EV1
] * Oracle
] * Royce
] * CAI
] * Center7
] * Novell
] * Canopy
] * S2

IBM Subpoenas Almost Everybody

] Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM and Sun Microsystems Inc. have
] all jumped onto the Opteron bandwagon. Dell Inc. remains
] the only top-tier server maker yet to adopt the 64-bit
] processor.

Intel and Dell are practically married ... but Opteron may well
break it up.

Dell Will Join Opteron Party, AMD CEO Says

] The suit, filed Thursday in U.S. District Court for the
] Eastern District of Texas, contends that Forgent deserves
] royalties from the hardware and software makers based on
] its patent holdings that cover the compression technology
] behind JPEG. The format is one of the most popular
] methods for compressing and sharing images on the
] Internet.

Graphics patent suit targets Dell, others - News - ZDNet