In 1999, Ziff-Davis spun ZDNet off as a separate company and offered it as a tracking stock, ZDZ, to accompany the parent stock, ZD.

On December 30, 1999, ZDNet launched a $ 25 million branding campaign in response to a $ 100 million advertising campaign launched by rival CNET.

At the 14th Annual Computer Press Awards in 1999, ZDNet was adjudged the Best Overall Online Site.

Ian Hacking ( 1999, p. 84 ) also uses the same definition.

This technique would also be employed in Serbia during air operations in 1999.

Paddy Chayefsky's Academy Award-winning Marty was the most notable examination of working class Bronx life was also explored by Chayefsky in his 1956 film The Catered Affair, and in the 1993 Robert De Niro / Chazz Palminteri film, A Bronx Tale, Spike Lee's 1999 movie Summer of Sam, centered in an Italian-American Bronx community, 1994's I Like It Like That that takes place in the predominately Puerto Rican neighborhood of the South Bronx, and Doughboys, the story of two Italian-American brothers in danger of losing their bakery thanks to one brother's gambling debts.

* Dicky Barrett ( of The Mighty Mighty Bosstones ) in Shake, Rattle and Roll: An American Love Story ( also 1999 )

The bright design of the set was also blamed for this – one insider reportedly described it as a " car crash in a shower " – and was subject to the network relaunch on 25 October 1999.

* Borzoi can also been seen in cameo roles in the films Love at First Bite, Legends of the Fall (" Notchee Boy "), Excalibur, All Dogs Go to Heaven ( 1989 ), Bride of Frankenstein, Easter Parade, Wolfen, Ziegfeld Follies, Onegin ( 1999 ), Gangs of New York ( 2002 ), Chaplin, The Avengers ( TV series ), JAG, Maverick ( 1994 ), Sleepy Hollow, Last Action Hero, and A Knights Tale ( on the DVD deleted scenes ).

Mehmet Barış Manço ( also spelled Boris Mancho in some European album releases ), born Tosun Yusuf Mehmet Barış Manço, ( January 2, 1943-February 1, 1999 ) was a Turkish rock singer, composer, and television producer.

Another adjunct, the varying speed of light model has also been theorized by Jean-Pierre Petit in 1988, John Moffat in 1992 as well Andreas Albrecht and João Magueijo in 1999, instead of superluminal expansion the speed of light was 60 orders of magnitude faster than its current value solving the horizon and homogeneity problems in the early universe.

In an early 1999 interview, Love said about the Venus: " I wanted a guitar that sounded really warm and pop, but which required just one box to go dirty (...) And something that could also be your first band guitar.

Neal Stephenson's novel Cryptonomicon ( 1999 ) also contains a fictional treatment of the historical role played by Turing and Bletchley Park.

The 1999 game Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri was also created by Meier and is in the same genre, but with a futuristic / space theme.

Czech can also be used in all official proceedings in Slovakia as granted by Article 6 of Slovak Minority Language Act 184 / 1999 Zb.

Helton and Wilson — virtually the only experienced players on the team — struggled as well ; Helton hit just 20 homers, the fewest of his career, and missed the All-Star Game for the first time since 1999 and also went on the disabled list for the first time in his career.

He was also named one of the top players of the 20th century by Pelé in 1999.

In 1999 the event was hosted by England, with some matches also being held in Scotland, Ireland, Wales and the Netherlands.

Since 1999, CuteFTP Pro and CuteFTP Mac Pro have also been available alongside CuteFTP Home with free trial periods.

__NOTOC__The current Political Constitution of the Republic of Chile, approved by Chilean voters in a controversial and tightly controlled plebiscite on September 11, 1980, under the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, partially effective March 11, 1981, fully effective 11 March 1990 and amended considerably on August 17, 1989 ( via referendum ) and on September 22, 2005 ( legislatively ), and also in 1991, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010, replaced the earlier constitution of 1925.

Next, Lynch created his own television series with Mark Frost, the highly popular murder mystery Twin Peaks ( 1990 – 1991 ); he also created a cinematic prequel, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me ( 1992 ), a road movie, Wild at Heart ( 1990 ), and a family film, The Straight Story ( 1999 ) in the same period.

A parallel report into the criminal justice system by Lord Justice Auld, a past Senior Presiding Judge for England and Wales, had also commenced in 1999 and was published as the Auld Report six months after the Law Commission report.

Dramas also took a turn with existentialist thrillers such as Fight Club ( 1999 ) and the tale of suburban angst American Beauty ( 1999 ).

Parton was also inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1999.

Bowie created the soundtrack for Omikron, a 1999 computer game in which he and Iman also appeared as characters.

Migration of more than 500, 000 Ecuadorians following crisis in 1999 also highlights the population growth and inability of the resource base to sustain it, as well as the lack of appropriate economic planning in the country to fit historical traditions or the resource base.

* Notting Hill ( 1999 ), also written by Curtis and starring Grant

Arbor Day reached its height of popularity on its 125th anniversary in 1997, when David J. Wright, noticed that a Nebraska nonprofit organization called the National Arbor Day Foundation had taken the name of the holiday and commercialized it for their own use as a trademark for their publication " Arbor Day ," so he countered their efforts, launched a website, and trademarked it for " public use celebrations " and defended the matter in a federal district court in the United States to ensure it was judged as property of the public domain, the case was settled in October 1999.

The AMD Athlon processor launched on June 23, 1999, with general availability by August ' 99.

The service was launched in 1999 as BBC Text.

BBC Text originally launched on digital terrestrial services in 1999, and was later introduced on satellite and cable platforms.

A digital text service had been available since the launch of digital terrestrial television in November 1998, but the BBC Text service was not publicly launched until November 1999, due to a lack of availability of compatible set-top boxes.

The Deep Space series was continued by the Deep Space 2 probes, which were launched in January 1999 on Mars Polar Lander and were intended to strike the surface of Mars.

EverQuest launched with modest expectations from Sony on 16 March 1999 under its Verant Interactive brand and quickly became successful.

Fantasy Football Weekly was launched in 1992 ( later becoming Fanball. com ) and had $ 2 million in revenue by 1999.

Other entries during this era included Fanball. com, launched in 1999 by the parent company of Fantasy Football Weekly.

Takashi Miike launched a prolific career with titles such as Audition ( 1999 ), Dead or Alive ( 1999 ) and The Bird People in China ( 1998 ).

Former documentary filmmaker Hirokazu Koreeda launched an acclaimed feature career with Maborosi ( 1996 ) and After Life ( 1999 ).

First launched by Ken Garland in 1964, it was re-published as the First Things First 2000 manifesto in 1999 in the magazine Emigre 51 stating " We propose a reversal of priorities in favor of more useful, lasting and democratic forms of communication-a mindshift away from product marketing and toward the exploration and production of a new kind of meaning.

* 1999 – The Mars Polar Lander is launched.

In 1999, Malaysia launched a worldwide marketing campaign called “ Malaysia, Truly Asia ” which was largely successful in bringing in over 7. 4 million tourists.

In August 1999, a separatist Lozi faction in the Caprivi Strip launched a coup attempt ( see Caprivi conflict ) which was summarily put down by the Namibian Defence Force.

Neopets ( originally NeoPets ) is a virtual pet website that was launched by Adam Powell and Donna Williams on November 15, 1999.

They launched it on 15 November 1999 from offices in Portsmouth Road, Guildford, a location still commemorated on the site.

In February 1999 the company launched a bond issue which caused a significant fall in Railtrack's share price.

The Harvard University Herbaria and the Australian National Herbarium co-operate with Kew in the IPNI database, a project which was launched in 1999 to produce an authoritative source of information on botanical nomenclature including publication details.

SETI @ home was conceived by David Gedye along with Craig Kasnoff and is a popular volunteer distributed computing project that was launched by the University of California, Berkeley in May 1999.

STS-93, launched on July 23, 1999, was commanded by Lt. Col. Eileen Collins, the first female Commander of a U. S. spacecraft.

Sputnik 41 was launched a year later, and Sputnik 99 was deployed in February 1999.

UEFA launched the UEFA Regions ' Cup, for semi-professional teams representing their local region, in 1999.

Windows 2000 was released to manufacturing on December 15, 1999 and launched to retail on February 17, 2000.