Celtics 118, Sonics 103
Al Jefferson had 31 points and 16 rebounds, Paul Pierce added 21 points, and the Boston Celtics rallied for a 118-103 victory over the Seattle SuperSonics on Friday night.
eBay Watch: HammerTap Nails Research into ProStores
MyWorld pages get an upgrade, HammerTap integrates market research into ProStores, WebAssist offers free Skype and eBay hits the airwaves with radio ads.
Reader Emails
Once every couple three months, enough emails which deserve public response reach a threshold. This is one such time. Letters are never edited. If you want to reach me, email me here . As a rule, unless instructed otherwise by the emailer him/herself, I won't include a full name. When are you gonna admit that you were just smoking the Austin ... (Read on Source)
Re: SQL
A slightly modified version of Michel's query:
SQL> set NULL '<NULL>' SQL> WITH yourtable AS 2 ( 3 SELECT 1 custid, 'Arvind' custname FROM dual UNION ALL 4 SELECT 2 custid, 'Mohan' custname FROM dual UNION ALL 5 SELECT 3 custid, 'Arvind' custname FROM dual UNION ALL 6 SELECT 4 custid, 'Arvind' custname FROM dual UNION ALL 7 SELECT 5 custid, 'Arvind' custname FROM dual UNION ALL 8 SELECT 6 custid, 'Arvind' custname FROM dual 9 ) 10 SELECT DECODE(SIGN(line-nb),1,NULL,custname) cname 11 FROM ( SELECT custname 12 , count(*) nb 13 FROM yourtable 14 GROUP BY custname 15 ) data 16 , ( SELECT level line 17 FROM dual 18 CONNECT BY LEVEL <=5 19 ) lines 20 ORDER BY custname, cname 21 / CNAME ------ Arvind Arvind Arvind Arvind Arvind Mohan <NULL> <NULL> <NULL> <NULL> 10 rows selected. SQL> set NULL ''
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WoW Gold Farming A Few Spots You Should Know Posted By : Nickolie
WoW Gold Farming is a lot easier with a good guide, but today I am going to tell you a few spots where you can make a lot of money WoW Gold Farming.
Online Pill Pushers Busted
Doctors, pharmacists and credit-card processor all named in wide-ranging indictment.
Perez Hilton, blogger Hollywood loves to hate (AFP)
AFP - Known in the blogosphere as Perez Hilton and to himself as "Queen of All Media", Mario Armando Lavandeira puts Hollywood stars on daily notice in an admittedly amateurish blog that is his own claim to fame.
Court orders movie pirate to use Windows
... files is being told by a court that he will have to ditch his Ubuntu Linux operating system and if he wants to use a computer. Scott McCausland, the ...
LinuxCertified Announces its next "Linux Fundamentals" Course.
This two-day introduction to Linux broadens attendees horizons with a detailed overview of the operating system. Attendees learn how to effectively use a Linux system as a valuable tool. They get familiar with the architecture and various components of the operating system, learn both graphical and command line tools, and learn to do basic networking. This class is scheduled for October 25th - 26th, 2007 .
QuickStart for Virtualisation
Hello and welcome to the Quickstart for Get Virtual Portal!
Low-priced humanoid robot coming in 2009
Video: Low-priced humanoid robot coming in 2009. Zeno, a humanoid robot with a $300 price tag, is set to be released in 2009. CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos takes a look at a prototype and asks why this one may be different than others that have come before it.
I Sense Serious Changes
Linux Journal: "Well, I am trying to be a mystic here but it seems like there is something really changing for the good right now..."
South Africa: Mandela is the Epitome of Struggle And Aspiration of Humanity - George Ngwane intervie
... supported South Africans during the apartheid years marks an indelible dent in South Africa's ubuntu philosophy. The struggle for the soul of leadership between Zuma and Mbeki is beginning ...
Picking Up the Pieces in the Fragmented Universe of Online Video
Online video is currently the buzz topic dominating news cycles -- technology, content, search, distribution, syndication, aggregation, advertising, widgets ... OK, I think you get it. The migration of content delivery has done just that: migrated. Consumption of online video has shifted from cable TV, to satellite and digital video recorder, and now to the Internet.
Diskeeper 2008 Achieves Certified for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Status
... Diskeeper 2008 Achieves Certified for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Status Diskeeper Corporation today announced that its flagship Diskeeper 2008 automatic defragmenter ...
The Secret of Women Posted By : Robert Thomson
Everybody wants to know one thing. How do I get laid? Am I right? Yes I am. Every guy has one thing in their mind when they see a beautiful lady walking down the street.
20 Real-Life Challenges in Cloud Computing
Nikita Ivanov from GridGain Systems in his recent blog has shared his experiences based on some extensive work on Cloud Computing at GridGain (i.e. deploying Java grid application on cloud environment), and described a distinct set of problems associated with that work whether it is related to the cloud computing in general or to grid middleware.
NRSC ad assumes Obama win
The underlying premise of this new ad from the National Republican Senatorial Committee: Obama's going to win. The ad, on behalf of Senator Elizabeth Dole, urges a vote against challenger Kay Hagan as the last bulwark against complete Democratic control: "These liberals want complete control of government in a time of crisis," says the ... (Read on Source)
Why Sony needs to stop drinking its own Kool-Aid
Don Reisinger thinks something is wrong with Sony. But how can the company fix it?
Vertical Ad Networks
Could this be the year of the vertical ad network? With the struggling economy leaving many, including one of my favorites, to circle the wagons and batten the hatches, we’re increasingly discovering that large “traditional” ad networks are doing as well as Yahoo and AOL at effectively monetizing their inventory. That is to say, ... (Read on Source)
Metabolife Founder Pleads Guilty To Lying To FDA; Faces 5 Years In Prison
SAN DIEGO - Michael J. Ellis, founder and former president of Metabolife International Inc., on Nov. 5 pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of making false statements to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 1999 about the safety of Metabolife's ephedra supplements (USA v. Metabolife, Inc., et al., No. 03 CR 1088-J, S.D. Calif.). Full story on lexis.com
Extreme Makeover: Photos Realistically Embedded Within Videos
Stanford artificial intelligence researchers have developed software that makes it easy to reach inside an existing video and place a photo on the wall so realistically that it looks like it was there from the beginning. The photo is not pasted on top of the existing video, but embedded in it. It works for videos as well; you can play a video on a wall inside your video.
Saturday brings heavy winds, cold weather to Southern California
Little rain has fallen, but a second storm front is expected to dump snow at upper elevations and rain elsewhere through Monday night. Drivers should expect ice, snow on parts of 5 and 14 freeways. Southern California on Saturday got a taste of the Arctic blast that is expected to bring heavy winds, bone-cold temperatures, snow and rain to the ... (Read on Source)
JUST ASKING
WHICH Olympic champion smoked pot for the first time recently at a Michigan hotel? The stoned athlete broke the TVs in his room, but later bought exact replicas so he could replace them before anybody at the hotel was the wiser . . . WHICH lifestyle diva used a hand model for close-up shots in her latest book? She deemed her own hands too ... (Read on Source)
Mac sales in a recession
Mac news from outside the reality distortion field What the recession means for the Mac Money gets tight. Buyers get picky. Price-sensitive consumers ...
Green x-mas shopping
I'm still away from the env-econ office park so here is another holiday idea from the inbox:I recently launched Green Any Site, a new web tool which I think would be very interesting for Environmental Economics readers. GAS is a unique tool that allows users to have a portion of... (Read on Source)
Get a Grip With Griffin iPod-to-TV Cables
Getting video out of your iPod and onto a television screen is often both easy and difficult at the same time. It's easy because Apple's proprietary cables are plug-and-play, and hard because early iPod-to-TV options were somewhat easier -- some early models of iPods would deliver TV out via the iPod Universal Dock and a cheap S-video cable.
One Man's Opinion: Moreno stays; Stafford goes - Atlanta Journal Constitution
One Man's Opinion: Moreno stays; Stafford goes Atlanta Journal Constitution - By Tony Barnhart | Friday, January 2, 2009, 08:57 AM 1. One man?s opinion: Moreno stays. Stafford goes: David Greene has to get the nod as Georgia?s best quarterback ever because he won an SEC championship and more games than any QB in history. Five thoughts: Capital One Bowl MSU good, just not good enough |
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