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daily link  Wednesday, June 26, 2002

Enron. WorldCom. Who is next? Microsoft? "This situation is not about stock valuation, product quality or whether or not Microsoft has monopoly power in its markets.  Nor is it part of a pro or anti-Microsoft movement.  This situation is instead a shining example of financial fraud and corruption enabled by bad government policy.  If not quickly and aggressively addressed, we will all be losers as credibility in our financial markets is destroyed." November 1999
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XML Database JuJu: Oracle 9i Release 2 XML DB. "Oracle 9i is now by every definition that I know of, a native XML database. And in my opinion is also the most complete and powerful native XML database around. It allows you many options for how XML is stored in the database. It can be stored in CLOBs, mapped to tables or any combination thereof that may be necessary for an application." [Scripting News]
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TopXML: x++: The World's First Full XML-Based Programming Language Released! "The language, x++, is not a meta-language, like MetaL, or a programmer's tool like XSLT/XSLFO et. al., but a full object oriented programming language. x++ is currently an interpreted language with plans for building compilers for it." [XML Database JuJu]
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lyn dupre
BUGS in writing


117 Solidus
The solidus is the forward slash (/). Used in English terms, it means and or. Most publishers in the United States forbid any (even correct) use of the solidus with English words, perhaps because people so often use the solidus incorrectly.

You should generally avoid using and/or, for several reasons. First, the term is redundant: It means and and or or. Second, most publishers don't allow its use, presumably because of that redundancy. Third, you can usually write simply and without loosing any meaning; if it is important to indicate that only one option may be operative, you can assume an inclusive or and simply write or. Fourth, there are other (less problematic) ways to express the same thought. You may find it difficult to break the and/or habit, but why use a confusing, erdundant term when you can avoid doing so?

146 Mouth
Ear is one of the characteristics that good writers are develop; ear allows writers to hear what is correct. Another such characteristic is nose, which allows writers to identify their audiences accurately. Eye allows writers to lay out their work pleasingly, to combine graphics and text intelligently, and to use the design elements most suited to the exposition. Mouth is the means by which an author speaks; the amount of mouth that an author has is the degree to which she permits herself to be visible to her audience.
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Joel Spolsky: Strategy Letter V. "Once again: demand for a product increases when the price of its complements decreases. In general, a company's strategic interest is going to be to get the price of their complements as low as possible. The lowest theoretically sustainable price would be the "commodity price" -- the price that arises when you have a bunch of competitors offering indistinguishable goods. So: Smart companies try to commoditize their products' complements."
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