They could have been using PostgreSQL which is more full-featured than MySQL and its libraries (and the whole server) are BSD-licensed. Instead, they choose to issue a "No Open Source" policy and to buy the most expensive (to buy and to admin) database from one of the most proprietary vendors.
Check out the newest Mozilla alpha release. The e-mail client has a generic filtering plugin API, with currently one plugin developed: a Bayesian filter. So the next Mozilla version will have it.
Most copyrights in Europe have 70 years. AFAIK there is something about works of the British Crown with longer periods.
The USA had shorter periods, then extended to 70 years to match the Geneva rules, and *then*, with the Sonny Bono/Micky Mouse Copyright Term Extension Act, went over to 90-95 years.
The QTopiaDesktop software does exist for Linux, it's even free (beer). It can sync with the Zaurus over USB. QTopiaDesktop HOWTO
Other option: You can use KDE's KOrganizer on the Zaurus and synchronize it over TCP-over-USB with the KOrganizer on your PC. KOrganizer and sync scripts
Why bulky? (I have a Zaurus and have seen it together with Pocket PC's and Palms.) The Zaurus is about the same size.
Most people don't care if they run Linux or some other programs on their PDA as long as they get their work done.
*I*, however, *do* care because that means that I can use the same programs on the desktop and the handheld. My (Windows-using) techie collegues are amazed when they see that I can VNC into the Zaurus, or ssh into it and manage files with MC, or make backups with ssh+tar+bzip2.
You find lots of software. IPSEC kernel? Apache with PHP so you can develop wherever you are? Vim? Python? MC? mplayer? ogg player? Doom? Everything there.
There are GUIs for CVS for many operating systems (including Windows and MacOS) at cvsgui.org.
Non-technical people can be teached how to use 'add', 'update' and 'commit' in 15 minutes, at least it has worked in my company. (They use WinCVS for exchanging Excel documents with external clients and are happy with it.)
All the other companies paid the fee. HP went into an argument and now has to pay *less* than the GEMA (who collect fees from device and writable media manufacturers and importers and give it to registered artists after keeping their share) first wanted. This entire system is not new, the same is in Canada and Austria, for example.
The real problem is that the GEMA (together with forces from the Ministry for Economy) wants the same fee for *all* multimedia devices (=PCs) and storage media (=hard disks) because they make copying possible.
Don't forget the bread, fish and wine you shared with 300 people instead of making them buy it and respecting the intellectual property of the sea and the local food industry.
> How would the RIAA know which person made the copy?
No, the RIAA will know the legitimate users because *their* players have Globally Unique Identifiers. They won't know the ones who download or upload using FreeNet.
This is the opposite...they have trusted data...and run it in an untrusted environment...yet make sure the environment (which is what is interpreting it in the first place) is not doing "bad things".
That's why they will try to push "trusted clients" into the market. Think of an e-book reader: It's like a computer because it needs to be one so it can interpret digital data. But you don't know the root password, can't telnet into it. Its only output interface is for your eye (or did somebody try to scan and OCR an e-book from the reader?). Can they do that? I don't know. Some people will be very unhappy if they have to buy their CDs, DVDs, CD players and DVD players AGAIN. And who likes to pay for patent licenses just to restrict oneself's rights? People started to use mp3 because it is conventient to hear music on the PC. They cut video on the PC because it is better than buying specialised video-cutting devices. What will make us instantly stop using the computer for this activities?
just take audio out from your computer, use a double male line to the audio in port,
No need to. Just use the vsound hack to save it digitally.
Copy protecting data doesn't work. (OK, it might work against AOL users.) The reason: it is enough if one person can copy it and puts it onto FreeNet or Napster.
Why can at least one person copy it? To make it accessible, the program needs to decrypt it. To decrypt it, the program needs to know the key. To know the key, it must be built into the program (as in the case of DeCSS) or transmitted over the net. And who would buy anything knowing that the RIAA knows his/her identity and how often he/she listens to the music?
According to http://www.heise.de/newsticke r/data/ame-12.06.00-000/ (in German), the EU Commission apparently decided not to fully implement the Berne Convention. In order to protect private and educational fair use, copying for oneself will be legal and circumvention won't be forbidden, either. So DeCSS will be legal in Europa and everyone can download it from there. The (US) DMCA doesn't forbid the possession or use of "infringing devices", only their sale or publication. Next time, look at the senate you elect 8-).
It wouldn't work and they know that. In Germany everybody remembers the XS4all case that lead to the world-wide mirroring of the far-left texts they wanted to block.
You need the base system (10 disks) and possibly the driver disks (3). If you don't have a good connection you'll be better off buying a cheap CD or a book with a CD.
Ok, here in the US, we have a right to free speech. Conversely, we have no right to be heard.
From the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
People in countries that signed the Declaration *do* have the right to publish and seek information without interference. So censorware is illegal in most countries. Most European states have ratified the Declaration in their constitution.
categorized results are and always will be superior to free text search
Not necessarily. There are searches that aren't possible in a directory (I teach net searching at the University of Vienna).
Try to find box office earnings of a film by browsing Yahoo. You'll need to read many pages; with FAST Search you really only need to enter the keywords. (At least that is my experience in the course.)
People always have the option of viewing ALL messages, so it's not really editing. It's just an option to select some messages that some other people happen to agree with.
I'm not mistaken the legal sanctions being imposed against Scientology are pretty much the same as those being used to suppress Nazism
Finally, a CORRECT usage of a Nazi reference.
In German-speaking countries, there is legislation against some kinds of groups that are aimed at undermining the democratic system.
Scientology belongs into this category, as do extreme right and extreme left groups. The only difference is Scientology's ability to buy ads in US newspapers signed by Hollywood "stars" to lie about "a new Holocaust" in Germany.
It also alows the poor to get richer. If those 'rich bastards' didn't setup shop in the 3rd
Well, the rich bastards choose countries where labor unions are illegal, where there are no laws for environment protections. Often these are countries with dictators and/or cleptocracies.
For the company, it's great: no protests; no restrictions on abusing workers and the environment.
People in those countries don't really profit from the new 'jobs' created; the new factories are built on land that was used to produce food. So people have to buy the food from abroad that is generally much more expensive.
Plus, the (lower) taxes and/or bribe money helps the oppressive governments to keep the power for themselves. If you read about human rights frequently (and no, that's not a left-wing issue), you'll notice that *very often* people are abused for protesting against inhumane work conditions or environment misuse or just for being organized in illegal or even legal workers unions.
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There are many Garmin handheld models that even accept free OpenStreetmap data (in img format, get them from http://www.cloudmade.com/ ).
Highly recommended.
They are idiots.
They could have been using PostgreSQL which is more full-featured than MySQL and its libraries (and the whole server) are BSD-licensed. Instead, they choose to issue a "No Open Source" policy and to buy the most expensive (to buy and to admin) database from one of the most proprietary vendors.
Very bright.
Check out the newest Mozilla alpha release. The e-mail client has a generic filtering plugin API, with currently one plugin developed: a Bayesian filter.
So the next Mozilla version will have it.
Most copyrights in Europe have 70 years. AFAIK there is something about works of the British Crown with longer periods.
The USA had shorter periods, then extended to 70 years to match the Geneva rules, and *then*, with the Sonny Bono/Micky Mouse Copyright Term Extension Act, went over to 90-95 years.
The QTopiaDesktop software does exist for Linux, it's even free (beer). It can sync with the Zaurus over USB.
QTopiaDesktop HOWTO
Other option: You can use KDE's KOrganizer on the Zaurus and synchronize it over TCP-over-USB with the KOrganizer on your PC.
KOrganizer and sync scripts
Why bulky? (I have a Zaurus and have seen it together with Pocket PC's and Palms.) The Zaurus is about the same size.
Most people don't care if they run Linux or some other programs on their PDA as long as they get their work done.
*I*, however, *do* care because that means that I can use the same programs on the desktop and the handheld. My (Windows-using) techie collegues are amazed when they see that I can VNC into the Zaurus, or ssh into it and manage files with MC, or make backups with ssh+tar+bzip2.
You find lots of software. IPSEC kernel? Apache with PHP so you can develop wherever you are? Vim? Python? MC? mplayer? ogg player? Doom?
Everything there.
There are GUIs for CVS for many operating systems (including Windows and MacOS) at cvsgui.org.
Non-technical people can be teached how to use 'add', 'update' and 'commit' in 15 minutes, at least it has worked in my company. (They use WinCVS for exchanging Excel documents with external clients and are happy with it.)
All the other companies paid the fee. HP went into an argument and now has to pay *less* than the GEMA (who collect fees from device and writable media manufacturers and importers and give it to registered artists after keeping their share) first wanted. This entire system is not new, the same is in Canada and Austria, for example.
The real problem is that the GEMA (together with forces from the Ministry for Economy) wants the same fee for *all* multimedia devices (=PCs) and storage media (=hard disks) because they make copying possible.
Don't forget the bread, fish and wine you shared with 300 people instead of making them buy it and respecting the intellectual property of the sea and the local food industry.
> How would the RIAA know which person made the copy?
No, the RIAA will know the legitimate users because *their* players have Globally Unique Identifiers.
They won't know the ones who download or upload using FreeNet.
It would be nearly trivial to make a linux driver that looked just like /dev/audio but let me dump the digital input right into a file
Somebody did it.
This is the opposite...they have trusted data...and run it in an untrusted environment...yet make sure the environment (which is what is interpreting it in the first place) is not doing "bad things".
That's why they will try to push "trusted clients" into the market.
Think of an e-book reader: It's like a computer because it needs to be one so it can interpret digital data. But you don't know the root password, can't telnet into it. Its only output interface is for your eye (or did somebody try to scan and OCR an e-book from the reader?).
Can they do that? I don't know. Some people will be very unhappy if they have to buy their CDs, DVDs, CD players and DVD players AGAIN. And who likes to pay for patent licenses just to restrict oneself's rights?
People started to use mp3 because it is conventient to hear music on the PC. They cut video on the PC because it is better than buying specialised video-cutting devices. What will make us instantly stop using the computer for this activities?
just take audio out from your computer, use a double male line to the audio in port,
No need to. Just use the vsound hack to save it digitally.
Copy protecting data doesn't work. (OK, it might work against AOL users.) The reason: it is enough if one person can copy it and puts it onto FreeNet or Napster.
Why can at least one person copy it?
To make it accessible, the program needs to decrypt it. To decrypt it, the program needs to know the key. To know the key, it must be built into the program (as in the case of DeCSS) or transmitted over the net.
And who would buy anything knowing that the RIAA knows his/her identity and how often he/she listens to the music?
According to http://www.heise.de/newsticke r/data/ame-12.06.00-000/ (in German), the EU Commission apparently decided not to fully implement the Berne Convention. In order to protect private and educational fair use, copying for oneself will be legal and circumvention won't be forbidden, either.
So DeCSS will be legal in Europa and everyone can download it from there. The (US) DMCA doesn't forbid the possession or use of "infringing devices", only their sale or publication.
Next time, look at the senate you elect 8-).
...putting the local bread and wine industry out of business.
The ruling Social Democratic Party is against it, the co-ruling Greens of course too. It's just a proposal from record industry representatives.
Link in German
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It wouldn't work and they know that. In Germany everybody remembers the XS4all case that lead to the world-wide mirroring of the far-left texts they wanted to block.
You need the base system (10 disks) and possibly the driver disks (3). If you don't have a good connection you'll be better off buying a cheap CD or a book with a CD.
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Ok, here in the US, we have a right to free speech. Conversely, we have no right to be heard.
From the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
People in countries that signed the Declaration *do* have the right to publish and seek information without interference. So censorware is illegal in most countries. Most European states have ratified the Declaration in their constitution.
categorized results are and always will be superior to free text search
Not necessarily. There are searches that aren't possible in a directory (I teach net searching at the University of Vienna).
Try to find box office earnings of a film by browsing Yahoo. You'll need to read many pages; with FAST Search you really only need to enter the keywords. (At least that is my experience in the course.)
You can tweak Apache to parse documents ending in .html with PHP3. You could use .html for generated content and .htm for static pages.
Well, we know that Amazon loses dollars on each book they sell. So they would lose less money.
People always have the option of viewing ALL messages, so it's not really editing. It's just an option to select some messages that some other people happen to agree with.
I'm not mistaken the legal sanctions being imposed against Scientology are pretty much the same as those being used to suppress Nazism
Finally, a CORRECT usage of a Nazi reference.
In German-speaking countries, there is legislation against some kinds of groups that are aimed at undermining the democratic system.
Scientology belongs into this category, as do extreme right and extreme left groups. The only difference is Scientology's ability to buy ads in US newspapers signed by Hollywood "stars" to lie about "a new Holocaust" in Germany.
It also alows the poor to get richer. If those 'rich bastards' didn't setup shop in the 3rd
Well, the rich bastards choose countries where labor unions are illegal, where there are no laws for environment protections. Often these are countries with dictators and/or cleptocracies.
For the company, it's great: no protests; no restrictions on abusing workers and the environment.
People in those countries don't really profit from the new 'jobs' created; the new factories are built on land that was used to produce food. So people have to buy the food from abroad that is generally much more expensive.
Plus, the (lower) taxes and/or bribe money helps the oppressive governments to keep the power for themselves. If you read about human rights frequently (and no, that's not a left-wing issue), you'll notice that *very often* people are abused for protesting against inhumane work conditions or environment misuse or just for being organized in illegal or even legal workers unions.
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I use Webalizer, too.