They know that weighing in at a reported 35 million-plus lines of code (NetWare 5 has about 10 million lines), Windows NT 5.0 is likely to be late, unwieldy and buggy.

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The largest, the 53m-long Falcon 9, is scheduled to launch in late 2007, and should be able to carry about 25, 000kg into low-Earth orbits.

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In the interest of full disclosure, I did not pay for the bottle I am about to lovingly describe, but then again, it is not yet for sale, and if I waited it would be too late to tell you about it because it would no longer exist.

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"We can confirm that Lucent and Alcatel are engaged in discussions about a potential merger of equals that is intended to be priced at market, " said a Lucent statement released late Thursday night.

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However, scientists caution that it will be hard to make predictions about torcetrapib before key data is presented at a medical meeting in New Orleans in late March.

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