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And I thought I was the only one who considered Anastacia's music rather as harassment ...
At Zickenterror you'll find the original article.
Archive 1. February 2003
The Shockwave Rider is all bananas today
Everything you want to know about bananas (or maybe not).
You can find the original article at Der Schockwellenreiter.
Example Macros for PyDS
The Python Desktop Server can be extended with macros that, for example, can repair broken RSS feeds. This is a feature that was added in version 0.2.6. An example is the repair of the Dotcomtod feed at http://dotcomtod.de/backend.php - it has quite a number of bugs. The macro for this is here: "DotComTod is pretty broken when it comes to RSS".
The main problems with the feed lie in incorrect encoding of umlauts and special characters, which causes most XML parsers to either refuse to cooperate or, like the Python Desktop Server, simply produce strange results.
Another application is simpler: many feeds have no GUID, but use the link tag on the item for the same purpose. For example, Tagesschau and Telepolis. Now many of these feeds have the problem that articles are edited later - then there are problems because the articles keep reappearing in the aggregator. The following macro fixes this: "the link of an item is entered as a guid". This transfers the link to the GUID and the Python Desktop Server then uses this to identify articles that have already been seen.
Lightning also produces X-rays
I always knew it – lightning is nothing more than part of the great programmer's security concept. Heavenly flight safety?
You can find the original article at Spiegel Online: Science.
Significant reduction in unemployment benefits and job requirement for young people
Has Clement been digging too much in old East German documents? Job obligation? Are we now turning this around so that young people are themselves to blame if they don't have a job? Because if that's not the case, then there's no need for a job obligation, but simply and plainly just jobs for young people. And you simply can't ordain those by law.
How about instead of a job obligation for young people, a training obligation for employers? Combined with drastic penalties if training doesn't happen, which would then go to the employment offices for support measures? But that would probably have been too logical to get to the root of the problem ...
When I look at how few training positions large companies have set up here in Münster, I do sometimes wonder what absurd ideas are in the heads of managers about where trained skilled workers are supposed to come from. And then I run into some of them again and listen to them talk and then I know where from.
Certainly not from the brain, those ideas ...
At tagesschau on the internet there's the original article.
License to Bleed
Exactly that. It's all about a lobby wanting to secure the opportunity to skim money without any real performance of their own. Anyone who thinks that all these copyright and digital rights management debates are about the rights holders hasn't been paying attention.
The steps that the music industry and publishers have been taking recently to secure or expand their perks without having to adapt to reality or even respond to customer demands with their prices are truly unacceptable.
Or has no one noticed that, for example, with technical books the prices since the introduction of the euro correspond almost 1:1 to the old DM prices? That can hardly be normal price increases due to rising costs.
Combined with the problems that arise when trying to self-publish works (especially the difficulties that self-published works have in reaching normal retail channels), the behavior of the major publishers is really no longer acceptable.
And as a customer you have almost no way to do anything about it, since all the book and music publishers are nicely showing solidarity.
I found the original article at Telepolis News at this link.
Music Industry Rips Off Kindergartens
What? Are you serious? Can it get any more ridiculous? Demanding copyright fees for nursery rhymes squawked by toddlers? They're completely insane.
At Industrial Technology & Witchcraft you can find the original article.
PyObjC @ OReilly
Ok, I'll really dive deeper into this now and see what works with it. Because with Python 2.2 on OS X and Objective-C bindings, I could create an XML/RPC-based client for the Python Desktop Server that doesn't always require a web browser for all activities. It could certainly be faster, and the editor for posts and texts could get more features. Hmm.
I found the original article at bbums rants, code & references.