A standard that leaves the good stuff out?
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The Storage Management Initiative Specification was created so that vendors could share application programming interfaces to allow interoperability between hardware through a single pane of glass. Users, small vendors and analysts say the standard falls far short because the most important APIs have been left out.
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Sort the good from the bad before you make your investments.
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Forget the foam and make that latte skim, and sugar-free. Right now, Starbucks stock is really out of shape.
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Blog: Microsoft has screwed up yet another standards effort.  This is getting old.
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Trans fat will soon be gone from Big Apple restaurants. What's next?
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7:1 split's gotta be great, right? Yeah, not so much. Flamemaster's trying to avoid delisting, and people are excited!
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Mostly, these lists give me an excuse to remind readers of good and great films that they may have missed. But in some respects, the actual list is the least of it.
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Is it ever OK to pass along a gift that you're less than wild about?
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Are you paying for things you have no use for?
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Campbell Soup turns in a good quarter, but there are better alternatives.
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Gold, frankincense and myrrh: they are a crucial ingredient in the Christmas story, but would your ordinary Joe Public have a clue what the last two were if you dished them out down the pub?
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What we avoid in Hidden Gems and why we avoid it.
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Is there anything left in the world that hasn't been defaced by a corporate logo or cheapened by a vulgar sales pitch? Maybe, but it's getting harder to find. Commentary by Tony Long.
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Focus on the consumer's everyday needs.
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Of course people would like to have an item-level opt-in, to guarantee a post would earn a top position on TechMeme, but obviously that's impractical, so why not give us the power to say  please don't include this story in TechMeme, it's too meta. When I say a piece is too meta, it's not news, it's what the Big Media guys call a process piece. For example, I would prefer to not have this piece, the one you're reading right now, on TechMeme. It's now meta-meta, because I'm talking about the meta-ness of the piece. You can see this could go on forever, now I'm in meta-meta-meta mode. For a brief moment I went into quadruple meta mode. Oh the humanity. (Sometimes I get so deep into a joke I wonder if people are still with me.) Seriously, some pieces just shouldn't be on TechMeme. And I know which ones those are. So instead of making me turn off the TM spider for my whole site, why not give me a way to say "Stop TechMeme spider, this item is off-limits." We could come up with a TechMeme namespace for RSS 2.0. I'd be happy to help.  Namaste!
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The last time I checked there were a lot of issues in the world that deserve debate. This isn&#39;ta political column or a business column so I do my best to stay away from those hot-button issues.
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For either good or bad, these funds stand out from the rest of the pack.