Most CDs made for Macs have both an HFS and an ISO 9660 file system, so you can access the data with either system. However, only the HFS structures allow access to ressource forks and other Macisms, which you may (or may not) need for installting software.
As an exercise, try coming up with an intuitive, real world explanation of negative numbers that you could relate lucidly to a six year old. I doubt you can.
With number lines, that should be easy enough. Probably, someone has already asked whar happens when you add 9 and 9. (The result is the same: a number the children don't know yet.)
PDF can be implemented right up until Adobe threatens to sue you if you implement it. Although they're perfectly fine with you offering it as a free download instead.
That was antitrust law.
If Microsoft bundles software with its products and/or integrates new features, other companies like Adobe, Netscape or Realmedia often fear that they will sell fewer of their products. Unfortunately, this means that Microsoft products often can't have features other operating systems or office packages have (PDF export, a decent web browser,...).
A significant premium indeed, 600 Euro extra NOT to be locked into a T-Mobile contract. For that reason alone, you can be pretty sure that phones sold as unlocked, will stay that way (and functional). Consumer protections are pretty strong in Germany. If a firmware update would re-lock or brick those phones, Apple or T-Mobile would face a class-action lawsuit, and surely lose it.
There surely are no class actions in Germany.
However, Germany has a legal system in which it is feasible to sue big corporations as a single person. For example, if you win, the losing party has to reimburse you for court fees and lawyer costs. Furthermore, it's usually the judge who decides, not the money afforded for lawyers.
"Longer period of time" means "longer than absolutely necessary to provide the service". If the visitor's browser closes the HTTP connection, you no longer need the IP address. In effect, this means no logging. netstat is ok, though.
The DMCA-counterpart (actually, both the DMCA and the German law implement the international Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, TRIPS) has been in force since 2003.
The law not passed does not even touch the paragraph which regulates the right to make copies for personal use. It just adds some more exceptions to copyright, mostly wrt to public libraries, e.g. it is now legal for libraries to send copies via email (previously, you had to send them via physical mail).
Actually, it does leave us with a specification of what could only be determined by reverse-engineering otherwise. Considering that OOXML and the binary format it was based on (and which can be more easily implemented with the OOXML spec, too) is the most widespread format, that alone is already a big win.
If you compare OOXML to ODF, neither one actually wins. Both have their drawbacks and advantages:
Open Document Format lacks some features expected from modern office applications. As a result, many applications use their own extensions. These, of course, make the files incompatible: While other applications can read the document, some of the formatting is simply lost. Office Open XML has a complete feature set. It's actually based on a full word processing application, not on the lowest common denominator.
Open Document Format is underspecified. It does not speficy exactly how to lay out the elements of a document. As a result, the same document looks different in different applications. Office Open XML exactly specifies all of that. This ensures that applications can actually share documents but makes the specification much longer and harder to implement.
While Open Document Format is an open standard, one usually uses the OpenOffice.org flavour. This is not really different from Office Open XML and its Microsoft Office flavour. The OpenOffice.org flavour is only documented as OpenOffice.org's source code, the Microsoft Office flavour is mostly documented in the standard.
Open Document Format allows easy upgrading from StarOffice/OpenOffice.org documents. Office Open XML allows easy upgrading from Microsoft Office documents.
Open Document Format has a longer history as an open standard and is already an ISO standard. Office Open XML is derived from a proprietary format.
Open Document Format has more existing implementations. Office Open XML has currently just a single implementation - Microsoft Office. There's the risk that something is missing in the standard making it unimplementable by competitors.
The best thing, IMO, would be to combine the two specifications: There should be a profile/extension for ODF that adds the things missing from ODF but present in OOXML: missing features and missing depth of the specification.
As far as I remeber no appeal was allowed because the case was obvious.
Actually, there was an appeal... and another appeal on top of that.
The first instance court, the Landgericht Münster (~ District Court of Münster) said that the "auction" was not a binding contract whereas the court of appeal, the Oberlandesgericht Hamm (~ Higher District Court of Hamm) judged that it was. This appeal decision was then confirmed by the Bundesgerichtshof (~ Federal Supreme Court).
The bottom line(s):
It's not that obvious.
There were appeals.
The ruling is confirmed by the supreme court of Germany.
The licenses are compatible if you just use the wording suggested by the FSF:
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
I know when I was a kid, it would have taken almost 6 months' worth of allowance to acquire even a previous-gen console (PS2, Gamecube, Xbox), not to mention games and accessories.
Isn't that what birthdays are for (including birthday and re-birthdays of religious founders)?
There are countries left which don't want to join? Which ones (apart from Norway and Switzerland)?
Iceland, Liechtenstein, Grønland (which actually left the EEC as it gained more independence from Denmark).
Then, of course, some micronations: Åland, Andorra, the Channel Isles, the Faroes, the Isle of Man, Monaco, San Marino, Vatican City. Some of them are already partially integrated into the Internal Market.
Turkey is not even on the same continent (ok half of Istanbul is).
Turkey wants/ to join (and their chances are better than most people think; Turkey has a very European culture, after all; and there is a customs union between the EU and Turkey.)
I thought the former telco monopolys in europe had to open their old networks for the new telcos to even enable some form of competition. I didn't know that new investments after the opening by the now "private" company fall under the same rule. It's no wonder why there's almost no fiber optics rolled out in the EU, because nobody is willing to pay for infrastructure that must be opened to the competition...
The network T-Com is currently building is a fibre-to-the-curb (FTTC) network based on VDSL2. This means they replace old passive serving area interfaces with outdoor DSLAMs but use existing copper lines into the subscriber's houses.
T-Com, being the networks branch of the former national Telecom company (Deutsche Bundespost TELEKOM, now Deutsche Telekom AG), owns the vast majority of these copper lines (which were paid by the house owners). No competitor has a chance to do the same thing; even if they laid fibres to the former serving area interfaces, they would still need access to the T-Com-owned DSLAM.
Competitors will only have a chance if the old copper lines into the houses are phased out and fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) gains. This is because T-Com can't own the not-yet-existing fibres.
I don't know the German situation in details. I don't know if T-Online has a serious competitor but I am pretty sure that they eventually have one.
T-Online is just the subsidiary of DTAG that provides Internet access, and they do have serious competition. It's T-Com, another subsidiary of DTAG, which ows the network.
You can actually choose between the following options:
phone line/DSL from T-Com, Internet access from T-Online.
phone line/DSL from T-Com, Internet access from a competitor.
phone line from T-Com, DSL and Internet access from a competitor.
phone line/DSL and Internet access from a competitor.
no phone or ISDN; DSL and Internet access from a competitor.
However, as T-Com owns all of the subscriber lines (well, nearly all of them), they don't have serious competition: Even if you choose one of the later options and get everything from a competitor, this competitor will have to rent the subscriber lines from T-Com.
AHA..they are still in the penalty box! Unless of course they get the law changed. In the USA they would just buy a Congressperson or six and make the law go away.
That's exactly what Deutsche Telekom did in Germany: They've gotten the law changed to include an exception for "new technologies" such as the VDSL network they're currently building. What makes convincing the government even more easy is that Germany is still the largest shareholder of Deutsche Telekom AG (the successor of Deutsche Bundespost TELEKOM).
The difference to the USA is that once upon a time, Germany and five other countries decided to found the European Economnic Community, which, now called European Community and one pillar of the European Union umbrella, takes antitrust laws a bit more serious as they are the basis for the Internal Market. How very unfortunate for Deutsche Telekom.
1. I'm relying on a third party to authorize a person. A potentially untrusted third party. Some sites have credibility already (livejournal.com, aol.com even if AOL does suck), but as I understand it, ANYONE can create an OpenID server.
You're not supposed to authorise people with OpenID. OpenID only authenticates.
Which just reminded me - does anyone else realize that G-Mail will be swamped by undeliverable emails to old gmail.de addresses, at least for the next couple of months (and in the case of spam, for many years)? [...] Inheriting a former Google domain isn't easy.
The domain gmail.de has never been owned by Google.
I don't know when the domain was registered. However, the German trademark "G-mail...und die Post geht richtig ab." (30025697.3) was registered in 2000. Yes, 2000 as in "last year of last millennium".
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No, Mac CDs use HFS+.
Most CDs made for Macs have both an HFS and an ISO 9660 file system, so you can access the data with either system. However, only the HFS structures allow access to ressource forks and other Macisms, which you may (or may not) need for installting software.
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If Microsoft bundles software with its products and/or integrates new features, other companies like Adobe, Netscape or Realmedia often fear that they will sell fewer of their products. Unfortunately, this means that Microsoft products often can't have features other operating systems or office packages have (PDF export, a decent web browser,
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However, Germany has a legal system in which it is feasible to sue big corporations as a single person. For example, if you win, the losing party has to reimburse you for court fees and lawyer costs. Furthermore, it's usually the judge who decides, not the money afforded for lawyers.
Claus
No, they weren't wrong.
"Longer period of time" means "longer than absolutely necessary to provide the service". If the visitor's browser closes the HTTP connection, you no longer need the IP address. In effect, this means no logging. netstat is ok, though.
Sorry.
The DMCA-counterpart (actually, both the DMCA and the German law implement the international Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, TRIPS) has been in force since 2003.
The law not passed does not even touch the paragraph which regulates the right to make copies for personal use. It just adds some more exceptions to copyright, mostly wrt to public libraries, e.g. it is now legal for libraries to send copies via email (previously, you had to send them via physical mail).
6) Go to jail for fraud.
- Open Document Format lacks some features expected from modern office applications. As a result, many applications use their own extensions. These, of course, make the files incompatible: While other applications can read the document, some of the formatting is simply lost. Office Open XML has a complete feature set. It's actually based on a full word processing application, not on the lowest common denominator.
- Open Document Format is underspecified. It does not speficy exactly how to lay out the elements of a document. As a result, the same document looks different in different applications. Office Open XML exactly specifies all of that. This ensures that applications can actually share documents but makes the specification much longer and harder to implement.
- While Open Document Format is an open standard, one usually uses the OpenOffice.org flavour. This is not really different from Office Open XML and its Microsoft Office flavour. The OpenOffice.org flavour is only documented as OpenOffice.org's source code, the Microsoft Office flavour is mostly documented in the standard.
- Open Document Format allows easy upgrading from StarOffice/OpenOffice.org documents. Office Open XML allows easy upgrading from Microsoft Office documents.
- Open Document Format has a longer history as an open standard and is already an ISO standard. Office Open XML is derived from a proprietary format.
- Open Document Format has more existing implementations. Office Open XML has currently just a single implementation - Microsoft Office. There's the risk that something is missing in the standard making it unimplementable by competitors.
The best thing, IMO, would be to combine the two specifications: There should be a profile/extension for ODF that adds the things missing from ODF but present in OOXML: missing features and missing depth of the specification.The first instance court, the Landgericht Münster (~ District Court of Münster) said that the "auction" was not a binding contract whereas the court of appeal, the Oberlandesgericht Hamm (~ Higher District Court of Hamm) judged that it was. This appeal decision was then confirmed by the Bundesgerichtshof (~ Federal Supreme Court).
The bottom line(s):
Then, of course, some micronations: Åland, Andorra, the Channel Isles, the Faroes, the Isle of Man, Monaco, San Marino, Vatican City. Some of them are already partially integrated into the Internal Market.Turkey wants/ to join (and their chances are better than most people think; Turkey has a very European culture, after all; and there is a customs union between the EU and Turkey.)
T-Com, being the networks branch of the former national Telecom company (Deutsche Bundespost TELEKOM, now Deutsche Telekom AG), owns the vast majority of these copper lines (which were paid by the house owners). No competitor has a chance to do the same thing; even if they laid fibres to the former serving area interfaces, they would still need access to the T-Com-owned DSLAM.
Competitors will only have a chance if the old copper lines into the houses are phased out and fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) gains. This is because T-Com can't own the not-yet-existing fibres.
You can actually choose between the following options:
- phone line/DSL from T-Com, Internet access from T-Online.
- phone line/DSL from T-Com, Internet access from a competitor.
- phone line from T-Com, DSL and Internet access from a competitor.
- phone line/DSL and Internet access from a competitor.
- no phone or ISDN; DSL and Internet access from a competitor.
However, as T-Com owns all of the subscriber lines (well, nearly all of them), they don't have serious competition: Even if you choose one of the later options and get everything from a competitor, this competitor will have to rent the subscriber lines from T-Com.The difference to the USA is that once upon a time, Germany and five other countries decided to found the European Economnic Community, which, now called European Community and one pillar of the European Union umbrella, takes antitrust laws a bit more serious as they are the basis for the Internal Market. How very unfortunate for Deutsche Telekom.
You're confused. "<tbody>" is a tag and is optional in both HTML and XHTML. The names of elements are written without angle brackets.
I don't know when the domain was registered. However, the German trademark "G-mail ...und die Post geht richtig ab." (30025697.3) was registered in 2000. Yes, 2000 as in "last year of last millennium".