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...subsidiary. It gets ownership of the Java platform, the write-once, run-anywhere programming language that Sun has increasingly made available as free, open-source software. Java, it turns out, is the platform that supports a suite of Oracle products, so being able to "own" it and direct its evolution gives the database company a critical advantage. Throw in Sun's Solaris Operating system, which powers millions of servers and workstations around the world, and you've got what looks like a compelling acquisition for Oracle right there. (See 30 years of innovation by Steve Jobs and Apple...
...Apologies In her profound essay Nancy Gibbs' observation that we have "corrupted the culture of contrition" is the direct consequence of the erosion of personal grace in our society [March 30]. Sadly, decency has been replaced in great measure by coarseness - hence the absence of remorse or contrition. When our courts can demand that a defendant pay damages but not insist on any admission of guilt, we further validate as unnecessary any gesture of true contrition. Edmund Nasralla, BOCA RATON...
...Sorry Is the Hardest Word The corruption of "the culture of contrition" Nancy Gibbs speaks of in her profound essay on apologizing is the direct consequence of the erosion of personal grace in our society [March 30]. Sadly, decency has been replaced in great measure by coarseness - hence the absence of remorse or contrition. When our courts can demand that a defendant pay damages but not insist on any admission of guilt, we further validate as unnecessary any gesture of true contrition. Edmund Nasralla, Boca Raton...
...issued its long-awaited "endangerment finding," formally declaring that carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases are pollutants that threaten public health and welfare. Under the Clean Air Act, that finding means that the EPA has a responsibility to address the damage caused by greenhouse gases, possibly through direct regulation of CO2 - just as it regulates other air pollutants, like acid rain-causing sulfur dioxide. (See the top 10 green ideas...
...until last July, that is, when Taipei and Beijing agreed to start direct flights between Taiwan and China and open up tourism on the island to 3,000 Chinese visitors every day. The direct flights were a relief to the four million Taiwanese who travel to China every year, cutting a seven-hour slog to Shanghai, which had to be made through a third city like Hong Kong, to an 80-minute trip. The floodgates opened the other way, too: at first, a trickle of some 200 Chinese tourists each day in August, and now, seven months later, a pouring...