Human footprints dating back 40,000 years have been found in Mexico:
Researchers in Mexico have discovered human footprints. The imprints are older than they should be according to the theory of the settlement of the Americas.
However, it is only a rumor that next to the footprints on the wall a graffiti with the words Kilroy was here was found.
Hurring.com : Code Vault : Python : PHP-Python Serialize : v0.3b is an implementation of the PHP serialize() stuff in Python. Very practical for WordPress: often serialized structures are stored in the options that you can resolve this way - you can write tools that work directly on the database, but are written in Python. The author has done the same for Perl - you can thus push simple data structures back and forth between Python, Perl and PHP.
IT decision-makers demand in an open letter more focus on the areas important to them:
In an open letter to "the" Open Source Community, IT decision-makers from various fields have urged to orient themselves more towards the actual needs of users from the corporate sector.
I always find it fascinating with what audacity some people make demands on voluntary work, only to then use it for their own purposes. Some demand the abolition of the GPL because the conditions don't suit them, the next demand focus on the desktop because they want an alternative to Microsoft, others demand more focus on high-performance servers because SUN machines with Solaris or IBM servers with AIX are too expensive for them.
Strangely enough, I only ever hear demands in open letters - but it would be much more sensible to simply support the corresponding project financially and with manpower. But that would be one's own effort, which one wants to avoid precisely. Demands for better support and better documentation also fit in here - both things that companies could easily set up themselves. But one is too good for that.
Sorry, but to me, such open letters to Open Source developers always sound like whiny little children who absolutely want an ice cream.
Sorry, folks, but that's not how it works. A large part of the Open Source Community still consists of hackers and enthusiastic amateurs and tinkerers. This often produces great crap and occasionally brilliant solutions. And it produces only what people feel like doing - if writing documentation is boring and annoying for someone, they will not spend their free time on it.
You have an itch? Scratch it. Yourself.
And he would have my vote. But of course, the established politicians have something to complain about and demand that he give up his acting career. Meanwhile, the opposite - that professional politicians should face the realities of life - would be much more desirable.
Furthermore, with his social commitment and dedication to his theater, he has shown that he has far more answers than the great prolethicians in Berlin. So give the man a chance. At worst, we have someone in the Bundestag whose demeanor is much more human and who still knows what the little people on the street really are.
Update: Peter Sodann has withdrawn his candidacy. Since I really like him as Kommissar Ehrlicher in Tatort, I don't even know if I should be sad about it.
It would indeed be nice if the Software Patent Directive were on the verge of being scrapped:
According to Lehne, four smaller factions in the vote planned for Wednesday on the directive and possible amendments want to completely reject the European Council's proposal, according to an AFP report that can be found, among others, in the Berliner Zeitung.
Unfortunately, I'll only believe it when I see it. Because so far, the impending demise has been proclaimed several times, but the thing has still made it through. Moreover, I wouldn't be surprised if the Council simply sends the same directive back to the front without real changes. Or if the talk of scrapping it is simply an attempt to lull the software patent opponents into a false sense of security and get them to ease up on their efforts.
Therefore: continue to write and speak out against software patents. Write to your own EU representatives. Also write to those you otherwise have nothing to do with - and point out that the Software Patent Directive is selling Europe to the giants of the software industry.
The Proletarians in Berlin are upset, but of course nothing is said about the farce of the occupation of the supervisory board of the German Stock Exchange. And this despite the fact that clear conflicts are evident:
In his main job, Merz is a lawyer and represents the CEO of the British hedge fund TCI, Christopher Hohn, as a legal advisor. The hedge fund manager had prevented the planned takeover of the London Stock Exchange (London Stock Exchange/LSE) by the German Stock Exchange.
And then the March Hare is supposed to be something in the Merkel cabinet soon. Great idea, great future.
