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According to reports recently filed by Apple beta testers, Mac OS 9.1's "vDSP" feature, designed to accelerate numerous multimedia functions and applications, is no small matter. In some cases, particularly where MPEG video or MP3 audio is concerned, the Altivec unit on PowerMac G4s does virtually all the work, leaving the rest of the processor ready to do other work. This has resulted in QuickTime playback acceleration of up to 100% on large movie files, and when playing several MP3s simultaneously, one tester noticed that a Photoshop gaussian blur filter run in the background completed in 1/3rd the time compared to OS 9.0.4 on his PowerMac G4/500 SP. [macOS rumors]

As ISS assembly continues over the next four-five years, the light dot will grow to a brilliant star in the morning or evening skies, second only in brightness to the planet Venus, the brightest object (besides the moon) in the morning or evening.

Calling for the federal government to prosecute those who engage in nonviolent civil disobedience could intimidate many people from participating in protests. Many Americans will be afraid that they will get caught up in a federal investigation. It's worth stressing that many Americans are, given the events of Seattle, D.C., Philadelphia, and Los Angeles, justifiably afraid of federal response; further, justifiable fear on the part of Americans at the risks of political expression is unjustifiable, in fact, intolerable in a healthy democracy. ... When nonviolent civil disobedience is treated as if it were mere lawlessness, when its avowed political context is denied or distorted, when dissent from the political mainstream is criminalized, the formation of an oppressive political climate is the result.

Protestors are gathered in Center City Philadelphia. You are an officer on a motorcycle. It is your job to clear these rogues off the streets so that the normal flow of traffic may continue and good honest citizens can get home from work...

Instead of proving that drug-taking while driving increased the risk of accidents, researchers found that the mellowing effects of cannabis made drivers more cautious and so less likely to drive dangerously.

[they don't] need a permit to perform in the area because a federal judge in July approved the area as an open demonstration site

An activist dressed in a pink pig costume dumped four tons of animal manure from a truck Saturday in front of a hotel housing guests attending the Democratic National Convention.

A Los Angeles judge on Friday issued a restraining order preventing police from raiding the headquarters of activists planning mass street protests during next week's Democratic National Convention....

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The new version is a major overhaul of the software, which resides on servers and sends Web pages to people browsing the Internet. The current version is at home on Linux and Unix machines but underwent some contortions to adapt to Windows machines. The new version, though, is much more portable and will work on Windows as well as BeOS, OS/2 and eventually Mac OS as well, Bloom said.

Other major improvements include higher performance and more flexibility for handling jobs such as supporting Web browsing from wireless gadgets.

A prehistoric map of the night sky has been discovered on the walls of the famous painted caves at Lascaux in central France. The map, which is thought to date back 16,500 years, shows three bright stars known today as the Summer Triangle. A map of the Pleiades star cluster has also been found among the Lascaux frescoes

Dick Brass, vice president for technology development at Microsoft, said the Reader software marked the inevitable decline of traditional printed books.

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Guards, police, and administrators continue to attack protestors in jail, seeking to demoralize and divide. There has been one sexual assault, by a female officer who pulled and twisted a prisoner's penis. One released activist reports men have been dragged face down through a 'trash trough' containing refuse, spittle, and urine. Arrestees have been verbally abused, punched, kicked, thrown against walls, bloodied, dragged naked across floors.

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Yes, he was elected governor of Texas, and before that he ran a baseball team and lost a lot of other people's money in the oil business. But what has happened in the intervening five years to make people believe he'd be a good president? What is his accomplishment? That he's no longer an obnoxious drunk?"

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Her face and body swollen and bruised, Jamie Loughner, 36, is visceral proof of the violent police tactics that have been used to suppress direct-action protests this week at the Republican convention in Philadelphia -tactics that have been ignored by most major media.

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Three armories within the city of Philadelphia have been stocked with large quantities of weapons and munitions, and plans are in place to land massive C5A cargo transport planes to bring in reinforcements in order to put down large civil disturbances and maintain order.

A federal judge Wednesday gave the FBI 10 days to respond to a privacy group's request for information about the government's ''Carnivore'' e-mail surveillance system

IE 5.5 offers mostly nonstandard and proprietary extensions to existing W3C standards. This move will cause Web developers more grief by spreading Web technologies that run only on the Windows platform and Internet Explorer browser....