Well, just last week it took me all of 5 minutes to set up 3G wireless on my notebook using the current Ubuntu 8.10. The network manager supports 3G now, all you have to do is select your provider. Yes, Ubuntu hast a list of settings needed for all of the major wireless providers around the globe.
(Ok, the kernel probably doesn't support all cards.)
"W3Schools is a website for people with an interest for web technologies. These people are more interested in using alternative browsers than the average user. The average user tends to use Internet Explorer, since it comes preinstalled with Windows. Most do not seek out other browsers."
Then I tried to think of cases in recent decades where world opinion differed significantly from the US media's dominant spin. I can't think of a single one.
Well, try the Iraq War for one. In the beginning, when both US parties and most of the US media were in favour, most of the rest of the world was against it, or at least wary. (With the exception of a few governments like the UK.)
Yes, we (I'm from Germany) can watch US media. No, we are not formed by what it tells us, but build our own opinion based in part on it.
"EA's EULA for Spore Creature Creator Free Trial Edition makes utterly no mention of any Technical Protection Measures, DRM technology, or SecuROM whatsoever."
It was not in the EULA, so EA has installed software on the users computer without the users knowledge.
If guns are outlawed, you can not as easily get a gun to kill somebody with as when they are not outlawed.
I'm German, and I can walk down most any street in my country without have to fear murder drive-bys or gang crime. Plus: How often is a weapon, that is meant to be used to defend it's owner, used against him?
"This leads to the unexpected result of handgun murders going up after handguns are banned. The "bad guys" know YOU won't have a gun, because they are illegal, and the police can't protect them..."
Yeah, right.
That's why there are so many more crimes involving guns in Germany as compared to, let's say, the U.S., where (almost) everybody can own a gun.
"By bothering the end user with something they don't particularly care about they are probably actually devaluing their brand through the very actions that are seeking to protect it."
Are you aware that users of Firefox outside the Linux world have to read and accept the EULA?
The Firefox users in general don't have a problem with that, it's some part of the Linux Firefox users that can't accept that not everything lin life is free.
"Regardless if the claims hold merit, there is only one direction the shit will flow. People will quit reserving booths for these shows. Manufacturers will go outside of Germany."
These raids at German fairs have been happening for several years now, and still CeBit und IFA are going quite well. So it seems you're predictions are incorrect.
Correct. But to sue somebody, they have to know whom.
So what they do in Germany, they send the IP adress of a suppost pirate to the prosecuters, who investigate the matter. While doing this they ask the internet providers for the identity of the person who used that IP address at that time. In most cases, they stop investigating once they come to the conclusion that no crime was commited.
Now the lawyers of the recording industry get the opportunity to look into the files of the prosecuters, get the information of the suspected pirate and sue him in a civil case.
Facebook started a German website some time ago, after ignoring the world outside of the United States for years. But they are very unsuccessful, while StudiVZ is one of the biggest community site of that kind in Germany.
So most people over here believe that Facebook went to court to get rid of a competitor.
If it's not worth the author keeping for sale anymore then it should quickly enter the public domain. Abandonware should quickly go PD across the board.
So, if an author releases a new version of his program, he should give away the old version for free, thereby reducing the customer base of the new version?
Popular free e-mail accounts here are the german-based gmx.de and the german-based web.de, who are real ripoffs by uninvitedly switching your account to the "Gold" account, after which they start to ill you.
Strange. I'm using GMX vor like 11 years now, and they never uninvitedly switched either of my accounts to Gold. Neither did they do this for any of my friends/family members who use GMX. The same goes for Web.de.
Maybe, just maybe, you or whoever told you that story chose to participate in the free test drive for one of the Premium options and forgot to cancel that on time?
Interesting point: To register at gmail.de you have to send a copy of your identity pass, I kid you not. And if I understand correctly, only e-mails within gmail.de users are allowed. crazy
The same goes for almost all freemail providers in Germany.
Plus, Gmail.de offers not just plain email, but connects real (snail-) mail and email. So they need to have a little more information about you.
But I guess it was to much to ask of you to click the "So funktioniert Gmail" ("that's how Gmail works") link.
But we have international treaties with countries in Europe and in Asia where trademark squatting is possible--there is no "use in commerce" requirement, only a registration requirement.
As far as i know, you have to use a trademark in Germany (and probably the rest of Europe) within a given time after registering the trademark, otherwise it gets nullified by the trademark office on request.
Inside of Germany, I imagine this company has pissed off a lot of people, who might have been potential customers.
Why? Germans can still use GoogeMail. Officially, they get addresse that end on @googlemail.com, but erverybody knows one can still use the same address with @gmail.com
So no harm, really.
No, being a reasonable person, I'd hire a lawyer, and have a sitdown with the folks at Pepsi about buying out my rights.
You're missing the point: There is already a email service named G-Mail in Germany. That service is used by people. It's not like that guy just had the trademark laying around, not using it.
Why should I sell my profitable business, when some other company starts a similar service and is too stupid to check whether anybody else (me) uses that name already?
500 MHz PIII, 192 MB RAM, any 2,5" harddrive with PATA interface, 10,2" SVGA display (note: only the Thinkpad 240 models support up to 320 MB RAM. With the 240x you're limited to 192 MB. The only way to improve here woudl be unsoldering the 64 MB RAM from the mainboard, allowing you to use a 256 MB module.)
You can install any Windows up to WinXP, but Win2k and WinXP won't really be fast. A better choice is Linux with some fast windowmanager. (I currently run Ubuntu 8.10 with fluxbox.)
BTW: You can NOT boot rom PCMCIA CD-Rom. I have original IBM Portable Drivebay, and it doesn't work. The easiest way to install Linux is to put the harddrive (pre-partitioned) into a different notebook, install Linux there and then move the harddrive back.
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Well, just last week it took me all of 5 minutes to set up 3G wireless on my notebook using the current Ubuntu 8.10.
The network manager supports 3G now, all you have to do is select your provider.
Yes, Ubuntu hast a list of settings needed for all of the major wireless providers around the globe.
(Ok, the kernel probably doesn't support all cards.)
"W3Schools is a website for people with an interest for web technologies. These people are more interested in using alternative browsers than the average user. The average user tends to use Internet Explorer, since it comes preinstalled with Windows. Most do not seek out other browsers."
Well, objective Tests I've done suggest that FF3 is indeed more buggy.
FF2 NEVER crashed on me.
FF3 crashes every once in a while.
Then I tried to think of cases in recent decades where world opinion differed significantly from the US media's dominant spin. I can't think of a single one.
Well, try the Iraq War for one.
In the beginning, when both US parties and most of the US media were in favour, most of the rest of the world was against it, or at least wary. (With the exception of a few governments like the UK.)
Yes, we (I'm from Germany) can watch US media.
No, we are not formed by what it tells us, but build our own opinion based in part on it.
How about you RTFA, or even the summary?
"EA's EULA for Spore Creature Creator Free Trial Edition makes utterly no mention of any Technical Protection Measures, DRM technology, or SecuROM whatsoever."
It was not in the EULA, so EA has installed software on the users computer without the users knowledge.
First off, I'd have to be an Apple fanboy as the iPhone and the Mac are separate entities.
The iPhone uses a trimmed down version of MacOS X.
So there you go.
And I clicked "Never" and got asked again.
Yes, it IT annoying.
(And yes, I'm still using Firefox 2.0.x.x and I'm happy)
How will open source software help you, when the police secretly invades your home and installs a hidden trojan?
If guns are outlawed, you can not as easily get a gun to kill somebody with as when they are not outlawed.
I'm German, and I can walk down most any street in my country without have to fear murder drive-bys or gang crime.
Plus: How often is a weapon, that is meant to be used to defend it's owner, used against him?
"This leads to the unexpected result of handgun murders going up after handguns are banned. The "bad guys" know YOU won't have a gun, because they are illegal, and the police can't protect them..."
Yeah, right.
That's why there are so many more crimes involving guns in Germany as compared to, let's say, the U.S., where (almost) everybody can own a gun.
Sorry, but that's utter crap.
"By bothering the end user with something they don't particularly care about they are probably actually devaluing their brand through the very actions that are seeking to protect it."
Are you aware that users of Firefox outside the Linux world have to read and accept the EULA?
The Firefox users in general don't have a problem with that, it's some part of the Linux Firefox users that can't accept that not everything lin life is free.
... and then it's called Iceweasel.
The code for Firefox ist free, but not the artwork and name.
I don't believe Opera (which isn't free either) required an agreement to a EULA.#
Actually, if I'm not mistaken, Opera displays an EULA the first time you run it.
"Regardless if the claims hold merit, there is only one direction the shit will flow. People will quit reserving booths for these shows. Manufacturers will go outside of Germany."
These raids at German fairs have been happening for several years now, and still CeBit und IFA are going quite well.
So it seems you're predictions are incorrect.
"Do German custom agents have to secure warrants to seize property?"
Yes, they do.
And they've obtained such warrants before raiding the fair.
At least that's what I've read in serveral media and papers here in Germany this weekend.
Correct.
But to sue somebody, they have to know whom.
So what they do in Germany, they send the IP adress of a suppost pirate to the prosecuters, who investigate the matter. While doing this they ask the internet providers for the identity of the person who used that IP address at that time.
In most cases, they stop investigating once they come to the conclusion that no crime was commited.
Now the lawyers of the recording industry get the opportunity to look into the files of the prosecuters, get the information of the suspected pirate and sue him in a civil case.
This is not true, at least for Germany.
People want localized versions of the programs they buy, except geeks like me.
Please readthe whole sentence.
"Depending on how you want to look at it, they're almost as free (some would say more free) in that respect than we are in the US"
Note the "in that respect" part?
He was only talking about commerce.
Well, actually, they do, in some way.
Facebook started a German website some time ago, after ignoring the world outside of the United States for years.
But they are very unsuccessful, while StudiVZ is one of the biggest community site of that kind in Germany.
So most people over here believe that Facebook went to court to get rid of a competitor.
If it's not worth the author keeping for sale anymore then it should quickly enter
the public domain. Abandonware should quickly go PD across the board.
So, if an author releases a new version of his program, he should give away the old version for free, thereby reducing the customer base of the new version?
Now that's a great business model...
Popular free e-mail accounts here are the german-based gmx.de and the german-based web.de, who are real ripoffs by uninvitedly switching your account to the "Gold" account, after which they start to ill you.
Strange.
I'm using GMX vor like 11 years now, and they never uninvitedly switched either of my accounts to Gold. Neither did they do this for any of my friends/family members who use GMX.
The same goes for Web.de.
Maybe, just maybe, you or whoever told you that story chose to participate in the free test drive for one of the Premium options and forgot to cancel that on time?
Interesting point: To register at gmail.de you have to send a copy of your identity pass, I kid you not. And if I understand correctly, only e-mails within gmail.de users are allowed. crazy
The same goes for almost all freemail providers in Germany.
Plus, Gmail.de offers not just plain email, but connects real (snail-) mail and email.
So they need to have a little more information about you.
But I guess it was to much to ask of you to click the "So funktioniert Gmail" ("that's how Gmail works") link.
But we have international treaties with countries in Europe and in Asia where trademark squatting is possible--there is no "use in commerce" requirement, only a registration requirement.
As far as i know, you have to use a trademark in Germany (and probably the rest of Europe) within a given time after registering the trademark, otherwise it gets nullified by the trademark office on request.
Inside of Germany, I imagine this company has pissed off a lot of people, who might have been potential customers.
Why? Germans can still use GoogeMail.
Officially, they get addresse that end on @googlemail.com, but erverybody knows one can still use the same address with @gmail.com
So no harm, really.
No, being a reasonable person, I'd hire a lawyer, and have a sitdown with the folks at Pepsi about buying out my rights.
You're missing the point: There is already a email service named G-Mail in Germany.
That service is used by people.
It's not like that guy just had the trademark laying around, not using it.
Why should I sell my profitable business, when some other company starts a similar service and is too stupid to check whether anybody else (me) uses that name already?
Du you pronounce "gmail" and "g-mail" differently?
I don't.
Second that.
I have a Thinkpad 240X and am loving it.
500 MHz PIII, 192 MB RAM, any 2,5" harddrive with PATA interface, 10,2" SVGA display
(note: only the Thinkpad 240 models support up to 320 MB RAM. With the 240x you're limited to 192 MB. The only way to improve here woudl be unsoldering the 64 MB RAM from the mainboard, allowing you to use a 256 MB module.)
You can install any Windows up to WinXP, but Win2k and WinXP won't really be fast.
A better choice is Linux with some fast windowmanager. (I currently run Ubuntu 8.10 with fluxbox.)
BTW: You can NOT boot rom PCMCIA CD-Rom. I have original IBM Portable Drivebay, and it doesn't work.
The easiest way to install Linux is to put the harddrive (pre-partitioned) into a different notebook, install Linux there and then move the harddrive back.