What nonsense. I'd like to see one of the experts show me how this is supposed to get more expensive. The problem is probably rather that the mayor's brother-in-law has no idea how to do it and keeps complaining... At heise online news there's the original article.
I could well imagine that compared to Castro, Bush really is an alcoholic (okay, a recovering alcoholic) and an illiterate.
At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD there's the original article.
Wow! Both the latest edition of the Icon Programming Language Reference and The Implementation of The Icon Language book are available as free downloads. Go ahead, download and indulge - Icon is simply a beautiful little language with very interesting features. Many things in Icon have always appealed to me much more than in Perl - regular expressions are namely not the only way to analyze strings. String scanning in Icon is at least as powerful, but much more elegantly designed and far less cryptic. Of course I have the books in print form at home, but since they're no longer available in paper form, the download is certainly a good solution. And since they're free - in the sense of public domain - it's also a really cheap opportunity.
The Frankfurter Rundschau is drizzling a bit of Bossdorf's independent position as a reporter on ...Zabel is still a class driver anyway. Take a look at the world best list if you write something about Zenit being exceeded, you Rundschau people. At das Netzbuch I found the original article.
Conservatives march into EU leadership ...
At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD you can find the original article.
I keep wondering where these statisticians actually do their shopping. For example, bread and rolls cost me almost twice as much as they did during DM times. And bread is certainly a far greater problem for people with little money. Somehow I have the feeling that the federal statisticians have lost touch with reality ...
At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD you can find the original article.
Hmm. Couldn't one simply send Godefroot into retirement? Telekom is dealing with layoffs at the moment - maybe Godefroot would be a fit for Vivento too?
Now to be perfectly honest: sure, the cyclists have to deliver the cycling performance. Sure, everyone expected more from Ullrich - but he did achieve 4th place, that's definitely an accomplishment. And Klöden got 2nd place. And T-Mobile the team classification. So stop complaining, that's considerably more than most other teams will ever see.
The disputes, the chaotic mess, and the lack of direction, however, are entirely down to the team management. And that's Godefroot. He has to take that on his shoulders - and there's a good deal more professional failure involved there than in Ullrich's - perhaps somewhat careless - preparation. Ullrich only managed 4th place at the Tour for some expectations, but Godefroot finished dead last in the ranking of team managers ... I found the original article at Radsport-News.com.
And since I'm on the topic of Icon anyway: there's also a successor language that's now being developed on Sourceforge. A book is also being created there through public collaboration, and the whole thing makes a very interesting impression. I think I'll keep an eye on it - an Icon implementation with a better class library would definitely be an alternative for me for many small projects. Icon itself suffered somewhat from a rather narrow library - for example, almost nothing in the TCP/IP area and only very rudimentary libraries for database connections and similar purposes compared to Python, Perl, or Ruby. Unicon could change that.
Icon, by the way, was something like a successor language to Snobol. Snobol in turn was the first attempt at a programming language designed for text manipulation - well before regular expressions or even Perl existed. It had a pretty bizarre syntax (or rather two of that sort), but a very endearing charm. One of the few languages I know where structured and clear programming was almost impossible.
Icon fixed many of Snobol's problems - especially, it had a quite decent syntax. And string processing in Icon wasn't a piggyback syntax, but was fully integrated into the language. Besides, Icon also had nice things like generators - which were then (in Python's 2.x versions) discovered by Python.
Even with the summer lull, there's so much stupidity and malice on the part of Union politicians that it can hardly be explained anymore.
If employment protection would keep people from unemployment, then there wouldn't be millions of unemployed people now. - how can a politician say such nonsense without his tongue shriveling up?
At WDR.de you can find the original article.
The at sign. An essential component of email communication. No wonder I get so much spam. It's certainly produced by lots of at signs searching for Shakespeare ...
A comment by Richard Stallman on the anti-spam solution proposed by Microsoft, which is license-technically incompatible with free software. And a comment on the solution itself, which you can only understand after lengthy abbreviation studies.
Summary: Microsoft's license is crap and Microsoft's technical model is crap. Did anyone expect something different?
An interesting assessment of the alleged contents of the Piri Reis Map. No Antarctica and no extraterrestrial sources. Simply a - remarkable - analytical work by a Turkish seafarer. And the exaggerated imagination of people who always and everywhere want to see ghosts, aliens, lost supercultures and similar nonsense.
It's good knowing he's out there. The Dude. Taking it easy for all us sinners. Hier gibts den Originalartikel.
Perhaps something interesting for Jutta: various magnifying glasses and a pocket microscope are examined here. The pocket microscope is especially interesting because the stand base can be removed and then you can use it as a 50x magnifying glass for free observation of surfaces, even if the surfaces are not flat. And the small folding magnifying glass with 3x element also sounds very interesting. Here you can find the original article.
And? Hmm. Armstrong is getting boring. Robotniks are never really that exciting - not the American ones either. Klöden is likeable and put in a great performance. Basso has improved significantly in the time trial and from the looks of it, Bjarne Riis could still get even more out of him. Ullrich must stay off the podium - serves him right.
Most annoying people in the Tour: McEwen and the commentators. Oh man, what kind of stupid stuff did those guys spout again. And all this hype around Jan Ullrich is really bothering me. Instead of focusing on the sport, the commentators dutifully mourned their inflated unfulfilled hopes. And McEwen is just a boor.
For next year? I'd like to see fewer crashes and more favorites who actually make it to Paris and fight their way through in between. With a Tyler Hamilton and an Alexander Vinokurov in the race, things could have looked different.
News from US madness.
At Telepolis News (24.07.2004) you can find the original article.
... but phishing combined with automated translations is then rather amusing. Or do they really believe any German user would fall for this botched example?
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Respect. Indeed.
Since I've already had the pleasure of a salmonella infection (kids: don't try that at home!), something like this naturally gets my attention. Resistant salmonella are quite a disaster - and artificially created through massive antibiotic use in turkey farming. The animals are under such high stress that they constantly catch infections. So they pump them full of antibiotics. And we have to deal with the resistant germs as a result.
And no, it doesn't reassure me that the finding is from last year.
I found the original article at NETZEITUNG.DE Wissenschaft.
Hey, you're breaking the IBM lawyers' toy!
At heise online news there's the original article.
Cool.
At heise online news you can find the original article.
In the end, it's the old Jens Voigt again: I'll ask him if I can also assume Danish citizenship with the signature. - in response to the question of how he would react to the offer of an extension. I found the original article at Radsport-News.com.
Or how else should one react when you're told how people who can't afford glasses don't get them paid for either by health insurance or social welfare offices. Health insurance companies aren't allowed to anymore, but social welfare offices only pay what health insurance would have paid — which is absurd, because that's precisely where people receiving social assistance need support, where the insurance companies won't pay. A society that treats poor people like dirt is simply undignified.
Our Berlin dimwits manage it so that we end up looking longingly at the American system because it's better than what we'll eventually have here ...
In the end, they get away with anything. Even stock law will be bent so it fits these crooked dogs. At WDR.de you can find the original article.
Two crazy people found each other
I found the original article at Radsport-News.com.
... but when a spammer from Germany sends me unsolicited advertising and then writes in this unsolicited spam that the content of this advertising garbage is protected by copyright, then I have to smile a bit. Note: the article was modified by me upon request.
Fusion of curry sausages with lollipop freaks?
At heise online news there's the original article.
Update: A response from the ARD Sports Department with a transcript of the commentators' comments is online
Now SCO has definitely completely lost their minds. After all, SCO itself was part of the consortium that placed the 1.2 specification of the ELF standard in the public domain.
And as for not being able to copy it: SCO is barking up the wrong tree there, because not every Linux platform uses ELF. For example, in the PowerPC processor area, completely different formats are in use, such as PEF. It would certainly be annoying to convert everything to a new format, but definitely not impossible.
And Apple will certainly be very pleased, because they support the ELF ABI in the dlopen functions (although they use Mach-O as the format). Surely Apple would love to pay license fees to SCO for OS X.
Experts stop.
At NETZEITUNG.DE Internet there is the original article.
... because he sprinted for the victory even though he was taking over yellow. So I'm complaining too. No, not because he sprinted against Ullrich and Klöden, but because he also attacked Basso - after CSC had driven Ullrich back into him. Well. That's not the fine way to do it. Deduction in the B-note. Ok, the 20-second time bonus is of course a nice buffer against Basso, but still ...
Oh yes, Jan Ullrich: finally he fought. That's what people want to see. Regardless of whether he might not have the right legs for the time trial tomorrow. Fighting is always more interesting than following.
And so the senseless slaughter is supposed to continue. Disgusting.
At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD you can find the original article.
The Daimler board is a bunch of lying rip-off artists. First they waste millions and millions through absurd bungling on the world market, then they generously grant themselves almost 200 percent salary increases while the stock price is massively falling, and now magnanimously offer 10 percent in sacrifices. At the same time, they're calling a collective bargaining agreement they themselves concluded in February as outdated. It's all pure rip-off. But of course, all sorts of business representatives will again claim that this is all completely normal and completely fine.
Could someone drive to Hamburg with a big bag of brains and install them in the judges? They've completely lost touch with reality
At heise online news there's the original article.
Evil. But funny.
At INSTANT NIRVANA there's the original article.
If I hear that fat Austrian bishop talking about pranks one more time, I'm going to need a bag...
Weird. Our European invention of the oval country license plates apparently sparked a mindless fashion trend of oval car stickers in the USA.
We're going to get them all. insert manic laughter At M. Kniebes Journal you can find the original article.
Surely everyone except me already knows this, but I think this Firefox Switch campaign building on the Apple Switch campaign is kind of nice
Ooh, here comes the value chain again. Well, it's about time for the silly season anyway.
You can find the original article at NETZEITUNG.DE Internet here.
This raises several questions right away:
At Megawatt: The Last Latent Appliance Fetishist there's the original article.
On the absurd stance of American authorities regarding Bobby Fischer's violation of the trade embargo, one could actually only laugh if it weren't symptomatic of American administration. The mere idea that a chess game between two elderly grandmasters could violate a trade embargo is absurd. And pursuing one of the few great chess players the USA ever had with an arrest warrant is simply ridiculous. Fischer is himself a total idiot, but he doesn't deserve such treatment. At Telepolis News (18.07.2004) you can find the original article.
It was also a question for me: write in English or German? English would actually be preferred since more people can read it. On the other hand, I usually comment on German articles here - an English blog would be somehow a stylistic break. My old websites were mostly written in English (I won't link them here, whoever wants to can go on a treasure hunt for them). Newer ones mostly in German.
It's kind of funny - I keep hopping back and forth between the two languages. I can never really decide - the choice for new projects is usually rather arbitrary. But the Hugo stays in German. I still have the Timmy for English.
At owrede_log : interfacedesign.org there's the original article.
That's what he believes, at least if you can trust the article in Lancaster New Era. Next, he'll probably get bleeding holes in his hands?
I'll take two large, flat stones and a bag of gravel...
The Federal Agency emphasizes its lead in the application for the Federal Institute for Planning Errors ...
At heise online news you can find the original article.
Certainly, the argument will now be made again that they are only attacked because they have such a high market share. That's the typical excuse of Windows advocates. Too bad that Palm has the largest market share, and so far no viruses are raging on the Palm.
At heise online news you can find the original article.
There are also positive news
At heise online news you can find the original article.
Great. Hesse now has official auxiliary police officers. I'm curious to see when Koch's close friend Steinbrück will want to introduce this great new idea in North Rhine-Westphalia as well. You can find the original article at das Netzbuch.
