Library That Never Closes
Note. Might be worth poking around in there.
At netbib weblog you can find the original article.
Content-type: matter-transport/sentient-life-form
Clean Now Available under LGPL License
Yeah! One of my favorite functional languages now under a usable free license. Once the Linux version progresses further, I can finally do something with it at work.
I found the original article at Lambda the Ultimate.
Discontinuation of NPD Ban Proceedings Expected
A dismissal would be a real embarrassment for the prosecution. Bungled preparation makes an effective action against the NPD impossible. What's the result? The browns will use the whole thing as justification and see themselves strengthened and confirmed in their position. Great. Super success
At tagesschau im Internet there's the original article.
Google Receives Patent for Ranking Technology
Great class. Another nail in the coffin of alternative search engines? Are new search engines no longer allowed to emerge in the land of the free because absurd patent grants are shackling freedom and innovation? Anyway, Americans aren't allowed to smoke pipes anymore either. They might as well enshrine Google usage in their constitution. But please without the word googlen, otherwise the lawyer will complain... At heise online news there's the original article.
Now there's a USB hot cup?
Well, if the USB toothbrush has already fascinated the Schockwellenreiter so much, what will he say about the USB teacup?
I found the original article at Gizmodo.
Pentax *ist D
Hmm. What does that bring? Well, at least it would be cool to put old, classic K lenses on the Digi :-)
At Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com) you can find the original article.
He is still frozen.
Still frozen.
The last cold days? Hopefully also the last bare days, I finally want to see green plants that are not called rhododendron, juniper bush or arborvitae...
Baby animals ...
Baby animals ...
... I can't offer those, but a baby tin dinosaur is something too. By the way, it stands with its relatives in terms of species and material around the Natural History Museum.
Wild Forest
Wild Forest.
Between Aasee and the zoo is a small patch of forest. Trampled ground, well-worn paths, even stairs on the slopes. Well, it's the Sunday stroll area at Aasee, so you have to play around with the frame a bit to still get an impression of nature.
Bad times for future apprentices
And then employers complain that they can't find qualified employees anymore. Where are they supposed to come from if not from training — out of thin air? Training is still the most efficient way to develop qualified employees. When will employers finally understand that?
You can find the original article on tagesschau im Internet at this link.
US Justice Seizes Domain Name
Probably the terrorists are smoking a pipe before their attacks and planning the assaults on cracked X-Boxes. So it's all just part of the fight against terror
American law enforcement and the government really can't think of any measure that's too absurd at the moment. But if someone officially says something against, for example, Scientology here, we're accused of having no culture of freedom.
At heise online news there's the original article.
Space veteran "Pioneer 10" has gone silent
Too bad. Let us all give the old-timer one last wave up there.
At Spiegel Online: Wissenschaft there is the original article.
Addition to the Camera Collection
Well, soon a Kodak DC 4800 digital camera will probably be adding to my collection of unnecessary photo equipment.
Why that one in particular? Well, it has image quality that's generally considered quite good, relatively conventional operation (ok, only three selectable apertures, but still - and exposure compensation via its own dial instead of silly menus) and the zoom is a 28-84 instead of those silly 38-whatever lenses in other digis.
I mean, it's true: what's the point of a digital camera if its focal length only goes from normal focal length (ok, somewhat wider than normal, but the difference isn't really that big) to telephoto? I occasionally need wide angle, and constantly screwing on a converter is annoying.
My E-100RS will certainly still have its place, but especially for the stuff in my photo blog, the Kodak certainly isn't impractical.
Let's see what comes of it.
Ultranationalists in Israeli Government
Translation
Great, sounds like the Palestinian conflict has good chances of being resolved with such a government in Israel
(whoever finds sarcasm in this posting gets to keep it)
The original article can be found at tagesschau on the internet at this link.
Canon's new digital SLR
Hmm. Somehow that doesn't sound like what some might have been waiting for.
I found the original article at Gizmodo.
Union demands National Guard
What for? The National Guard is after all either the target of reckless mockery in the United States for its incompetence or in the spotlight of discussion because a few overzealous hardliners have made a stir again. But it's probably precisely what Mrs. Merkel has in mind following the U.S. model: dyed-in-the-wool incompetence.
Otherwise, I still believe that protecting the interior is a task for the police. I already think the existing police alongside the police (Federal Border Police for example) is wrong.
At tagesschau im Internet there's the original article.
Yahoo rewrites Lisp code in C++
They're stupid, especially when you read the reasons mentioned by Paul Graham (the author of the original Lisp code) for Yahoo's decision:
- the programmers didn't know Lisp and were afraid to learn it
- to implement it to any reasonable extent, they had to build something in C++ that was basically a Lisp interpreter
- and even then they had to drop a number of features
Typical shallow-minded decision-making. Unfortunately there's more and more of this in software development. Afraid to learn a programming language? Pathetic.
At lemonodor you can find the original article.
Back to the Middle Ages
I can only agree with that. Although what grips me is not so much the astonishment as the cold horror. Especially when you look at the names that are appearing again and then watch the Panorama report from June 6, 2002: "Covering up and suppressing - right-wing extremists in the CDU".
And specifically for Koch, I recommend the Panorama report from December 19, 2002: "the stagings of Roland Koch". No, with such people I'm hardly surprised by anything anymore. They're willing to use any means and any shabby discussion and far-fetched action if it brings them votes. No matter which foundations of our society end up falling by the wayside in the process.
At MEHRZWECKBEUTEL you can find the original article.
The X-Files - The End
Ok. The X-Files is over. In 2012 the aliens take over our planet and Mulder wants to become religious and believe in ghosts.
And the truth is still out there.
Deutsche Bank is tired of credit risks
They could have come up with such an outlandish idea sooner, how long ago was Schneider now?
At tagesschau im Internet there's the original article.
First Ogg Vorbis player
Yeah! Declare war on the Fraunhofer patent!
I found the original article at Gizmodo.
Bank refuses to discuss security system
No class. Once again bankers who are shameless enough to publicly advocate for "Security by Obscurity". How can one possibly go down this wrong path? Preventing public discussion does nothing to help security, since those who exploit security vulnerabilities don't participate in public discussion anyway, but instead rip people off in the dark. Public discussion, on the other hand, helps security, because through it security vulnerabilities are exposed on the one hand, but on the other hand the blind trust of people in alleged security is also reduced. We need public discussions of security vulnerabilities more urgently than ever, the more computer systems determine our everyday lives!
At heise online news you can find the original article.
The Man Who Stopped Time
Some background and a few pointers to the father of film, Eadweard Muybridge.
At Industrial Technology & Witchcraft you can find the original article.
New IO Version
Now there's an Objective-C Bridge for OS X. Hmm. Could be quite interesting to play around with.
02.22.03, 20:22 Uhr - Bet That ... (II)
Wrong. Any halfway educated sausage consumer knows that currywurst originally comes from Berlin. Tse!
At kniebes.de I found the original article.
Crafting Course for Mac Users
Mac users and hardware tinkering, even something as complex as replacing a power supply. That's asking for trouble.
At heise online news there's the original article.
Lego day
Hey, I was at Legoland too not so long ago. But at the real one in Denmark
At The Doc Searls Weblog there's the original article.
Script Identifier 0.0.1
Hmm. That gives me a straight idea: apply Bayesian mail filtering to detect active content and use it to build a filter for active content in email or also websites
At freshmeat.net there is the original article.
Court clears the way for 'Body Worlds'
First signs of intelligence in Bavaria!
I found the original article at tagesschau im Internet.
How many parents call their baby "it?"
Great. Hilarious, even for someone who doesn't have children.
I found the original article at The Doc Searls Weblog.
MobiliX is now called TuxMobil
Well - the judge must think we citizens are pretty stupid if he believes we could confuse an overweight, weathered Gaul with a website about mobile Linux ...
What's next? Instructions for toothpicks? Wonko the Sensible would have a field day.
I found the original article at heise online news.
Sample FinePix F700 Images at DPReview
That does indeed look like a real improvement. The dynamic range of digital technology is really a genuine limitation, especially for someone who works a lot with negative material (slide photographers are already predisposed to this).
At PhotographyBLOG I found the original article.
20.02.2003 - 20:28: TV Tip
I'm sorry, but Dragonheart is just too good, I'm not switching channels
At gedankenschnipsel I found the original article.
Banks attempt to cover up worst PIN vulnerability yet
Ouch. If there's any truth to this, that's more serious than the 8 million stolen credit card data!
At kuro5hin.org you can find the original article.
Discussion about torture threats flares up
That's also only right that Hansel gets a disciplinary complaint. It's still simply incomprehensible to me that in Germany someone actually speaks out publicly in favor of torture or even defends it.
At tagesschau im Internet there's the original article.
History of (Personal-) Computing
Translated Markdown
Will the Schockwellenreiter start drooling now if I tell him that I have two Xerox Lisp machines (sister systems to the Xerox Star) standing in my room here?
(although I would still prefer the Symbolics XL1201 to the Xerox any day - at some point I really need to finally install the web server on the little fat one ...)
At Der Schockwellenreiter you can find the original article.
Fewer receipts with electronic tax return
Great. Unfortunately, though, Elster is only Windows software. So users of the correct operating system are favored when filing their tax return. Damn stupid decision. What the heck would be so hard about realizing an online solution from the start that works on all systems? Or if client software absolutely has to be the way to go, why not at least develop it in Java so non-Windows users have a chance to participate? In the end, a clear competitive advantage is being created for users of one particular operating system. I seriously doubt that's within the scope of what tax offices should be doing...
I found the original article on heise online news.
A Windows Flashback
Ouch. That doesn't sound good at all. I'm actually quite satisfied with OS X so far, no unusual problems. But I'm still using 10.1.5 ...
I found the original article at PragDave.
Greens scratch at employment protection
Oh come on, you stupid Greens, just leave the dumb ideas to the Conservatives ...
At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.
Hackers crack millions of credit card accounts
Uiuiui ...
At tagesschau im Internet there is the original article.
Is Microsoft engaging in a little domain name squatting?
Very interesting, indeed. A rogue would think no evil of it
Update : shame, it seems to be only a - already known? - gag from someone, but not really Microsoft. Would have been too good to be true
At Gizmodo I found the original article.
USA: Iraq should 'shoulder' reconstruction itself
Great. Excellent idea. First we bomb it to rubble, then we let them repair the damage themselves. Very good strategy by the USA, and especially so cheap. And of course a country is still a wealthy nation after a war with the USA, they can just sell all the bombed-out houses as construction debris...
At tagesschau im Internet there is the original article.
Desktop Cray
Too bad. I don't have 10.2 yet
At Ben Hammersley.com you can find the original article.
Nikon Coolpix SQ - Quick Preview
Cute. I kind of like it somehow. I'll have to take a closer look at it when it becomes available. The DImage is admittedly smaller, but the image quality is too mushy to want to deal with it. Maybe Nikon offers something better there.
At Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com) you can find the original article.
Even More Water Beneath the Martian Surface
Property with swimming pool anyone?
At Astronomische Kleinigkeiten you can find the original article.
And once more, because it's so nice
And again, because it's so beautiful
In winter, many seagulls gather on the canal in the harbor basins of the RCG and in the city harbor basins. When you see the hustle and bustle for the first time, it's quite surprising to see it so far inland. But it's even more impressive when you see the seagull swarm after the weekend market at Domplatz...
When in the evening in the harbor ...
When in the evening in the harbor ...
the seagulls go to sleep ... (okay, okay, rhyming is not my thing, I'll stop now)
02.17.03, 18:14 Uhr - That is Mr. Busch
Evil. Very evil.
I found the original article at kniebes.de.