Archive 19. November 2004

Microsoft: Alleged Soundforge Crack a "Placeholder"

Microsoft software must be warned against before use. It violates too many laws.

Teufelsgrinsen

At heise online news you can find the original article.

Siemens CEO: Euro high is a problem

After all, you have to keep increasing the company's billions in profits after taxes. And unfortunately, you can't fire all employees.

However, it seems you can't turn on your brain at Siemens management either.

At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD you can find the original article.

Settlement Proposal

Hey!

Even though I don't quite see how the state is supposed to organize ideologically neutral counseling - for that we would first need an ideologically neutral state.

But if the other 9 points are implemented, maybe the state will become ideologically more neutral than it is now ...

At INSTANT NIRVANA you can find the original article.

What's New in Python 2.4

Who wants to know what comes with Python 2.4, Andrew Kuchling has as usual produced a good overview. A few things are really interesting - I particularly like the generator expressions. But then again, I'm an old Lisperer.

Also nice is the Decimal data type - it will solve some problems at the company much more elegantly than they are approached today. And higher performance is certainly good too.

Here's the original article.