Kick-off X-Mas Roll-Out Memo 1. Since X-mas 2003 is practically already at the door, it's high time to start the Christmas roll-out and prepare the Christmas mailing campaigns just in time.
The kick-off event (formerly 1st Advent) for this year's SANCROS (SANta Claus ROad Show) is already taking place on November 29, 2003. Therefore, the official come-together of the Organizing Committee under the chairmanship of the CIO (Christmas Illumination Officer) was already held on January 6.
For the first time, we... [ Industrial Technology & Witchcraft]
Yeah, always these rushed releases, and by Epiphany the first bugfix release is already due...
Found at Industrial Technology & Witchcraft.
The feeling is apparently deceiving: Euro is no "Teuro" - well great, so now we all just eat potatoes with turkey schnitzel and lettuce and give up any form of enjoyment, then everything will become as cheap as the wise guys want us to believe.
Found at tagesschau im Internet.
Court: Internet cafés need arcade licenses - and internet cafes in department stores or city libraries? The arcade license has the consequence that minors are no longer allowed inside (which is also mentioned in the article). Are minors now not allowed in the city library either, because the terminals standing there are also gaming systems? And does Karstadt now have to check IDs in the computer department because the internet cafe is located right in the middle of the computer section? It all sounds somehow a bit half-baked...
Found at heise online news.
No compensation for chocolate fan - I would have been genuinely shocked if this nonsense had actually been upheld. We're not in the States, where people apparently need instruction manuals for chocolate bars ...
Found at tagesschau on the Internet.
Federal Security Authority Distributes CD with Instant-Linux - pour 5 liters of boiling water, stir, let steep for 5 minutes, done.
Found at heise online news.
Polyhedra Polymath. > Prof. George W. Hart, of the Computer Science Department at SUNY Stony Brook, has an enviable web presence. His Encyclopedia of Polyhedra alone is worth the visit, his geometric sculptures make the nerd in me weep at their beauty, and his trilobite recipe looks mighty yummy.
Damn. This could have been straight from asr, but it's just something I found on Metafilter. But Trilobyte recipe? This would even be strong for asr people ...
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MS licensing. >An explanation of Microsoft's licensing model (from a person that actually likes their software... but not their licensing). Read it and weep. Specially interesting is the situation they got in which they had to pay a license for the new Office (XP) simply to be able to run Office 2000.... which they had already purchased!!
Truly insane. Another one of the advantages of a monopoly: you can force people to pay for a product they don't use, but rather to continue using the one they have already purchased from you. >[via Abort, Retry, Fail?]
Not much can be said about this. Only that people who buy from the devil will suffer what the deserve - okok, we do have some Microsoft stuff, too. And usually we do weep when we read the licenses ...
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