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R You Ready for R?Friday, January 9, 2009 @ 8:14AMThere seems to be a cathaRsis taking place. My story published Tuesday on the R programming language has generated a flood of reader e-mail messages.

Integrating legacy Windows applications on a Linux Desktop environmentWednesday, January 7, 2009 @ 6:26PM blog.angulosolido.pt: "In the real world there's people developing fat clients, where a web interface would be the best way. There's people programming in .NET, delivering solutions to the customers that limit their OS choices to Windows. And there are public and private institutions buying without knowing how this may affect them in the future."

Background Note: ZimbabweWednesday, January 7, 2009 @ 5:47PMGeography Area: 390,580 sq. km. (150,760 sq. mi.), slightly larger than Montana. Cities: Capital --Harare (pronounced Ha-RAR-e), pop. 1.5 million. Other towns --Bulawayo, Chitungwiza, Mutare, Gweru, Kwekwe, Masvingo, Marondera.

2009 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL SHINES NEW LIGHT ON ROCK LEGENDSWednesday, January 7, 2009 @ 4:42PMPark City, UT— Sundance Institute today announced the lineup of music-themed films and events at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.

Innovating methodology beyond base classesWednesday, January 7, 2009 @ 10:22AMSystemVerilog also introduced object-oriented programming concepts which were new to hardware engineers. To learn and adopt new techniques, given compressed project schedule, is always a challenge for the engineers. To help with this problem, Synopsys collaborated with ARM to define the VMM Methodology.