Wrong - they bought the german version and it was cut. So they can give that (unwanted, cut) version back for a refund and IMPORT the UK/US version instead.
They are still produced here in Germany/Austria, we have about 110 books of the Three Investigators (or Die Drei ??? - The three ??? as they are called here) right now.
The chancellors office publishes the laws (searchable!) on http://www.ris.bka.gv.at.
What happens in America with the intellectual property rights and stuff (region coding, dcma) gives me the creeps.... But when I hear that they even discussed to put a fee on every harddisc because something could copyrighted could be copid onto it, but copying itself should be illegal and is technically stopped - sometimes I fear where the world will be going (especially when I hear those people say: hey, they have to make money somehow, don't they?)
So... you as a Linux-Company would do such a feat as translating an office suit to a yet unsupported language and NOT try to keep other commercial entities from making money of your precious work, at least for some time?
I mean: SuSE translates StarOffice to Czech, then RedHat 7.x Czech comes two weeks later, incorporating SuSE's translation - would you feel cheated or would you say: hurray - Someone used my product to make his product more competitive and I did not see a penny?
Come on, they are open-sourcing this thing in two months - they just want a headstart from their hard work. If you do not like SuSE - buy another distribution - but they have every right to protect their software. And they do not take away the individuals right to use it, they take away the right of a commercial entity to use their hard work for nothing - till March 2001 when they will open source it and everyone can use it to their liking
This is incorrect. A region 0 player will potentially play ALL REGIONS, but not with the new protection scheme used in "The Patriot" and other movies. Here the software on the DVD basically checks if the player allows to play a different region than that the movie comes from and if it does - it will not play.
So code free should mean that you can SET the region to 1, 2, 3, 4,.... so that it behaves like a single-region device, but you can change the region as often as you want.
Nokia has some serious problems in producing the amount of phones that is needed. Also almost all of our mobile phone providers have the clause, that you can buy a new phone after a year (for a reduced price), keep your old number but are tied to the provider for another 12 months. And it is really used.
Seeing that most people here take mobile phones as some kind of fashion I do not see why there should be a large number of unsold phones (at least here)
Hmm... ever heard of the Corporate Preview Program? You would pay 50$ or something and get W2k RC1 and later RC2. That's what I made - I'm a home user. And yes - I already removed it from my computer. Playing games is best done in W98 and all the rest is easily done in Linux
There seems to be no in-between in SuSE. Either I spend an eternity selecting or deselecting packages, or I use YAST2 and select BIIG Chunks of software at once, with no chance to fine-grain.
I would like to see something like this on the package-selection in Linux-Distributions:
Base System (needed components)
Services
Printing
Local Mail transfer
Fax Tools
...
Server Applications
Web Servers
- with SSL
..
Office Applications
Text Editing
Word Processing
.....
... Not even Corel has something like that. When I install my workstation I do not care if the email program I install is called 'balsa' or 'empath'. I want to have an email program. You can give me a selection of email programs and tell me how
Userfriendly
Functional
Buggy
...
they are. I decide then - but I really hate it to go through the packages series and go through a bunch of cryptic package names to select.
I also really would like to have an alphabetical list where all the packages are listed. I recently looked for the printing services (lpr) and I found it in networking. Ok, yes you can print over the network but that was not my first thought.
Other than that I really like SuSE and I was using 5.2 and then got into it from 6.0/6.1/6.2 and now 6.3. I did one install with YAST2 to try it out, looked at the mess it installed (as I said: one click selects a BIIIG number of applications) tried to deselect what I did not like, then did a clean re-install with YAST just selecting what I wanted (wasting another half an hour).
Reading further into the website: the code is copyrighted by NAI, but you can still help with the project...? If someone could enlighten me: the code is copyrighted - so may I compile it and use it? May I compile it and use it in my company? Can I use the source-code somewhere in my programs? What license do they use anyway? (if any)
The serbian government agreed to nothing in the beginning.... no not right, it agreed to some parts, then did not, then did to some parts... and the NATO stood there watching for I-dont-know-how-many- months doing - NOTHING. Going in there with bombs now seems to me the only possible solution, although I can understand when American say: "hey, what's it got to do with us?". But the question is, if such a big country has an obligation to keep the peace around the world or not. That's something I still haven't figured out for myself.
However I think that we can't do anything than try to force them to accept whatever we offer, then help rebuild this country.
Obviosly the messages would also be encrypted in the copanies privated key, so they could read all msgs made via Outlook Express... but giving user "enhanced" security - or selling it to the user - gives him a certain feel of safety.
BTW do YOU think that many people would think twice about your points? Closed source - what does this mean to a large percentage? A large percentage also still thinks that Microsoft makes greeeat software and would use such a system...
Ah, how I would like to encrypt all my communication with PGP, but - alas - no one in my "neighbourhood" seems to have an interest using it, nor do they have the interest in installing it...
Most people seem to think their private communication is not important enough to protect but I would not say that. I don't want other people the mail I write (except if they are the recipient, of course) and I want to make sure, that the person who sends Email to me is the one who stands at the FROM adress line.
Unfortunately, until Microsoft builts that as a "ever turned on" feature into Outlook Express, using Microsoft-Amazing-Good-Privacy (not compatible with anything yet known to man) EMail signing/encryption will not be widely used.
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Wrong - they bought the german version and it was cut. So they can give that (unwanted, cut) version back for a refund and IMPORT the UK/US version instead.
It was Terror Castle from 1964
They are still produced here in Germany/Austria, we have about 110 books of the Three Investigators (or Die Drei ??? - The three ??? as they are called here) right now.
...had this in 1964. See The Three Investigators #1: The Secret Of Terror Castle (by Robert Arthur 1964).
The chancellors office publishes the laws (searchable!) on http://www.ris.bka.gv.at.
What happens in America with the intellectual property rights and stuff (region coding, dcma) gives me the creeps.... But when I hear that they even discussed to put a fee on every harddisc because something could copyrighted could be copid onto it, but copying itself should be illegal and is technically stopped - sometimes I fear where the world will be going (especially when I hear those people say: hey, they have to make money somehow, don't they?)
So... you as a Linux-Company would do such a feat as translating an office suit to a yet unsupported language and NOT try to keep other commercial entities from making money of your precious work, at least for some time?
I mean: SuSE translates StarOffice to Czech, then RedHat 7.x Czech comes two weeks later, incorporating SuSE's translation - would you feel cheated or would you say: hurray - Someone used my product to make his product more competitive and I did not see a penny?
Come on, they are open-sourcing this thing in two months - they just want a headstart from their hard work. If you do not like SuSE - buy another distribution - but they have every right to protect their software. And they do not take away the individuals right to use it, they take away the right of a commercial entity to use their hard work for nothing - till March 2001 when they will open source it and everyone can use it to their liking
To get there from the main page:
http://www.aspalliance.com/
in the other zones click on 'Complete Author List' and right on top is 'dagon'. Gets me the same error with netscape as the deep link.
Rainer
This is incorrect. A region 0 player will potentially play ALL REGIONS, but not with the new protection scheme used in "The Patriot" and other movies. Here the software on the DVD basically checks if the player allows to play a different region than that the movie comes from and if it does - it will not play. So code free should mean that you can SET the region to 1, 2, 3, 4, .... so that it behaves like a single-region device, but you can change the region as often as you want.
Seeing that most people here take mobile phones as some kind of fashion I do not see why there should be a large number of unsold phones (at least here)
Hmm... ever heard of the Corporate Preview Program? You would pay 50$ or something and get W2k RC1 and later RC2. That's what I made - I'm a home user.
And yes - I already removed it from my computer. Playing games is best done in W98 and all the rest is easily done in Linux
I would like to see something like this on the package-selection in Linux-Distributions:
Office Applications
...
Not even Corel has something like that. When I install my workstation I do not care if the email program I install is called 'balsa' or 'empath'. I want to have an email program. You can give me a selection of email programs and tell me how
- Userfriendly
- Functional
- Buggy
- ...
they are. I decide then - but I really hate it to go through the packages series and go through a bunch of cryptic package names to select.I also really would like to have an alphabetical list where all the packages are listed. I recently looked for the printing services (lpr) and I found it in networking. Ok, yes you can print over the network but that was not my first thought.
Other than that I really like SuSE and I was using 5.2 and then got into it from 6.0/6.1/6.2 and now 6.3. I did one install with YAST2 to try it out, looked at the mess it installed (as I said: one click selects a BIIIG number of applications) tried to deselect what I did not like, then did a clean re-install with YAST just selecting what I wanted (wasting another half an hour).
They do not include pre-alpha KDE2 :-( They only used QT2 for their installer (the start with platinum-style)
Reading further into the website: the code is copyrighted by NAI, but you can still help with the project...? If someone could enlighten me: the code is copyrighted - so may I compile it and use it? May I compile it and use it in my company? Can I use the source-code somewhere in my programs? What license do they use anyway? (if any)
He states on his website, that it is MAYBE okay to use it anyway? Hm.. I think that is something that should be further investigated...
However I think that we can't do anything than try to force them to accept whatever we offer, then help rebuild this country.
I'm no lawyer, but I think that it would be legal to create the encryption in Europe, then license it, so it will actually be an IMPORT to USA.
BTW do YOU think that many people would think twice about your points? Closed source - what does this mean to a large percentage? A large percentage also still thinks that Microsoft makes greeeat software and would use such a system...
Most people seem to think their private communication is not important enough to protect but I would not say that. I don't want other people the mail I write (except if they are the recipient, of course) and I want to make sure, that the person who sends Email to me is the one who stands at the FROM adress line.
Unfortunately, until Microsoft builts that as a "ever turned on" feature into Outlook Express, using Microsoft-Amazing-Good-Privacy (not compatible with anything yet known to man) EMail signing/encryption will not be widely used.