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Thursday, August 10 2000

MaxSQL

"is a MySQL distribution compiled with Sleepycat software's BerkeleyDB support for transactions. MaxSQL will be released under the GNU GPL licence as soon as BerkelyDB transactional tables are sufficiently stable and functional to pass our test suite. The release is scheduled to the end of August."

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Thomas Scoville

"Later, I reflected, maybe the problem is that the Turing Test just isn't so relevant anymore. Perhaps it's just a charming theoretical anachronism, an artifact of a distant time ... in which computers themselves were mostly theoretical. In this new millennium of wireless communications and ubiquitous computing, maybe the big challenge isn't for a computer to simulate a human. Maybe the real challenge is for people to prove they aren't machines."

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Wednesday, August 09 2000 ←  → Friday, August 11 2000