What do you expect? That's the whole point of having a downloadable version and a retail version, so that the version they sell would contain all those goodies that are not available in the "free" version.
Mandrake is already one of the biggest supporter of opensource, and until every single programmer/company in this world stops developing/using proprietary software, I think the actions of Mandrake and other commercial distributions are justified.
...not everyone is using Unicode. In fact, one rarely see completely Unicode documents floating around the web, and vast majority of the users in mainland China and in Taiwan/Hong Kong still use non-Unicode two-bytes encodings (in China's case, GB and in Taiwan/Hong Kong's case, Big-2). Until everyone switches to Unicode, an user still has to stick to semi/non-Unicode solutions.
BTW, most major distributions (Mandrake, Red Hat, Debian, etc) already have fair support for Far-East languages such as Chinese and Japanese. Just install some fonts and locales, and change your $LANG to the language you desire. If everything goes well, you should have your system up and running in you language. For Chinese input, use XCIN (I'm not sure about Japanese and other languages), and if I remember correctly OpenOffice supports Far-East languages natively.
Shouldn't citizens be asking -- why are we allowing big business to buy-off the government?
Well, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that what this whole "free" capitalism is about, that the government should be friendly with businesses and that big corporations (such as the record industry) be allowed to exploit innocent consumers?
And that really doesn't relate to the story at hand anyway. I personally think the FTC has done a good judgement in this case. It could've done more, but it is still a step into the right direction.
A question: If the "Lucite ball containing lunar material" is the defendant, and unless it speaks (which would certainly be really weird if it does), how's it gonna defend itself?
Must be something in the American legal system I suppose?
Not really. Since it is a criminal law, the RIAA can also be charged as an "accessory before the fact" to the actions of that person, even though it has not committed the actual offence.
Well, I guess your post would be a proof that the so-called "White Pride" isn't really victimized by laws against hate speech...unless, of course, someone wishes to mod it down, which I neither endorse nor object (yeah sure;)
BTW, just to let you know that it's Gay Pride Week in Toronto this week...and damn proud I am!:)
However, many "victims" under the current globalization did not quit their previous job by choice.
For example, in Mexico farmers were forced out of work because they can't compete with the cheaper agricultural products coming from the mass-production farms of US (no tax under NAFTA). The only alternative is your "life-saving" 20-hours-a-day-for-5-cents work.
Wait, forgot to mention that they can "choose" to starve to death.
That said, I'm all for creative solutions like fair trade coffee and better labelling on clothes. If I heard protesters demanding a kinder, gentler, more accountable globalization, I would be in their corner. But what I actually hear is bashing globalization per se.
It's over-simplifying to think that every anti-globalization activists are isolationists who think that the world is not round.
Anti-globalization activists are a group of diverse people who might or might not have the same goal, but they all have concerns with the current globalization. Yes, there are isolationists and yes, there are violent anarchists, but there are way more peaceful protesters and pro-humane-globalization people who deserve more than a little footnote in newspapers. I'm not sure about US, but in Canada most anti-globalizationists are NOT against globalization; rather they are frustrated and enraged by close-door deals and "liberalization" of regulations that the current globalization is so famous of.
Globalization should not just be about trade. Our society, our world, is so much more than that.
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Not that dreaded word used by RIAA! I'm talking about the digitalized version of shortwave radio, which transforms its quality to near-FM!
Check it out: Digital Radio Mondiale
Due to extensive radiation exposure, the astronauts on the ISS have turned into mutants and are preparing to take over the Earth.
What do you expect? That's the whole point of having a downloadable version and a retail version, so that the version they sell would contain all those goodies that are not available in the "free" version.
Mandrake is already one of the biggest supporter of opensource, and until every single programmer/company in this world stops developing/using proprietary software, I think the actions of Mandrake and other commercial distributions are justified.
BTW, most major distributions (Mandrake, Red Hat, Debian, etc) already have fair support for Far-East languages such as Chinese and Japanese. Just install some fonts and locales, and change your $LANG to the language you desire. If everything goes well, you should have your system up and running in you language. For Chinese input, use XCIN (I'm not sure about Japanese and other languages), and if I remember correctly OpenOffice supports Far-East languages natively.
Well, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that what this whole "free" capitalism is about, that the government should be friendly with businesses and that big corporations (such as the record industry) be allowed to exploit innocent consumers?
And that really doesn't relate to the story at hand anyway. I personally think the FTC has done a good judgement in this case. It could've done more, but it is still a step into the right direction.A question: If the "Lucite ball containing lunar material" is the defendant, and unless it speaks (which would certainly be really weird if it does), how's it gonna defend itself?
Must be something in the American legal system I suppose?
Not really. Since it is a criminal law, the RIAA can also be charged as an "accessory before the fact" to the actions of that person, even though it has not committed the actual offence.
Well, I guess your post would be a proof that the so-called "White Pride" isn't really victimized by laws against hate speech...unless, of course, someone wishes to mod it down, which I neither endorse nor object (yeah sure ;)
BTW, just to let you know that it's Gay Pride Week in Toronto this week...and damn proud I am! :)
However, many "victims" under the current globalization did not quit their previous job by choice.
For example, in Mexico farmers were forced out of work because they can't compete with the cheaper agricultural products coming from the mass-production farms of US (no tax under NAFTA). The only alternative is your "life-saving" 20-hours-a-day-for-5-cents work.
Wait, forgot to mention that they can "choose" to starve to death.
It's over-simplifying to think that every anti-globalization activists are isolationists who think that the world is not round.
Anti-globalization activists are a group of diverse people who might or might not have the same goal, but they all have concerns with the current globalization. Yes, there are isolationists and yes, there are violent anarchists, but there are way more peaceful protesters and pro-humane-globalization people who deserve more than a little footnote in newspapers. I'm not sure about US, but in Canada most anti-globalizationists are NOT against globalization; rather they are frustrated and enraged by close-door deals and "liberalization" of regulations that the current globalization is so famous of.
Globalization should not just be about trade. Our society, our world, is so much more than that.