As you tunnel on relentlessly into the future, these little harbingers either choke on the noxious gases released by the extraction of decadence, or they thrive in the clean air of what we might call progress. But, really, this was only the latest skirmish in a long war; the battles of the 1990s, when both here and in the US chain bookstores began to gobble up the independents, were part of the same conflict: one between the medium and the message, and as I think I've already made clear, in the long run it's always the medium that wins
Alexander J Martin, 21 Jul 13:58 Qualcomm gazes at its navel while stroking the surgeon's saw Qualcomm is pondering a breakup as it embarks on a major corporate soul-searching exercise prompted by activist investors, according to reports. Is that a Tectonic shift I feel? El Reg hosts the IBM Bluemix Programming Competition 2015 Dumb MongoDB admins spew 600 TERABYTES of unauthenticated data Snowden to the IETF: Please make an internet for users, not the spies Mobile Broadband Find someone else to untangle your comms Google dumps ISP email support
Frequently Asked Questions About the Java HotSpot VM
This means that the general tendency is for the Server VM to grow the heap rather than flush soft references, and -Xmx therefore has a significant effect on when soft references are garbage collected. Programs that spend significant portions of their time in those native code libraries will not see their performance on HotSpot improved as much as programs that spend most of their time executing byte codes
Chapters A View Reborn Building Down to Build Up The Climb The Final Piece The Top of AmericaAfter 12 years of anticipation, the tallest skyscraper in the Western Hemisphere is ready for its close-up. below sea level, which geologists determined was carved some 20,000 years ago by glaciers that had picked up shale and sandstone from the Palisades in what is now New Jersey
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McDaniels and Talia Richman More Maryland children live in poverty now than at the depth of the Great Recession, researchers say in a new report, as the economic recovery has been slow to reach those struggling the most. And she especially hated letting her tears flow on a pool deck where she was surrounded by Olympic teammates and other elite swimmers from around the country
The Secret Sun
http://secretsun.blogspot.com/PART OF THE REALITY-BASED HIGH WEIRDNESS COMMUNITY Please make note that the Secret Sun is a cultural blog, dealing with esoteric themes in pop culture and the media. Yet the concept of Yuggoth predates the discovery of the planet, for Lovecraft penned a series of sonnets, entitled "The Fungi from Yuggoth," between December 27, 1929, and January 4, 1930
Instead authorities are struggling to understand what led him to a far more heinous act: the cold-blooded assault that left four marines and a sailor dead and a nation on edge about..
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Earlier this year, Shift closed up shop, leaving one, glaring question: What happened to all those Teslas? Budding entrepreneurs soak in knowledge at V2V tech conference Posted 7:00 p.m
Walsh and his Office of Tourism, Sports and Entertainment have announced open auditions for the Gospelfest Community Choir, to be held on Tuesday, July 14, 2015 and Thursday, July 16, 2015, from 5:30 p.m
Remembering Apollo 11 - Photos - The Big Picture - Boston.com
I like this photo because it captures the moment of a solitary human figure against the horizon of the Moon, along with a reflection in my helmet's visor of our home away from home, the Eagle, and of Neil snapping the photo. Collected here are 40 images from that journey four decades ago, when, in the words of astronaut Buzz Aldrin: "In this one moment, the world came together in peace for all mankind"
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The New York Sun
This was certainly the headline news out of the testimony by the chairman of the central bank, Janet Yellen, before the House Financial Services Committee
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The Department of Revenue is looking to update its tax code to allow the previous tax to catch up with the times and the technological advances in streaming content delivery. Police conducted an investigation into the purpose for these vehicles being in that churches parking lot and a witness reports one of the drivers stated they were experiencing car trouble
How facts backfire - The Boston Globe
The last five decades of political science have definitively established that most modern-day Americans lack even a basic understanding of how their country works. (Most of these participants expressed views that suggested a strong antiwelfare bias.)Studies by other researchers have observed similar phenomena when addressing education, health care reform, immigration, affirmative action, gun control, and other issues that tend to attract strong partisan opinion
As of 5:40 p.m., the Fire Department was halting buses from entering the station, water was pooling to about a foot deep in the tunnel and a BWSC crew was on the way. The kimono in Japanese teacher wears kimono as protest at MFA event More Crime Shots fired near Columbia Road Shots fired on Intervale Street Man found shot to death in Roslindale Person shot at in Heath Street drive-by Man carjacked at gunpoint in Roxbury More Fire Boat catches fire at East Boston marina Flaming manhole shorts out part of Jamaica Plain Compost blamed for East Boston house fire A bus, a boom, smoke Two-alarm fire races through Dorchester two-family More MBTA Courthouse station on the Silver Line all wet Because love locks are passe? Citizen complaint of the day: Trolley-stop hole The Duke of Dedham T bus driver pulls to side of road - to buy all..
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