Try T-Mobile. It's $20 / month on top of your voice plan ($29 / month seperately), but it's unlimited internet through your web-enabled phone, GPRS card or PDA. I'm considering ditching my land line for this, since I can't get cable right now and the price is about what I'm paying for local phone + dialup service now.
The reason shareware is on warez sites is typically because they include a registration code. It's not just wide distribution, or people who will use the program without paying the fee. They're actively bypassing what (little) deterrent there is for not registering the program.
It may help to have wide distribution of the shareware, but when people are bothering to find ways around the splash screen (or whatever deterrent), we're right back to people who just want everything free.
Importing from Chimera (borrowed from great posts on AppleInsider:
1) Export your bookmarks from Chimera
2) Import them into IE
3) Trash your Safari items from the Library folder and Preferences folder (a com. item, I believe).
4) Launch Safari again to re-import your IE bookmarks.
I just ran a search before coming here and got several results, which rather surprised me. Then I noticed the.exe on most of them... and odd file sizes on them all. They were all either 8,192 or they were -1. Also, some of the files had the.EXE extension, while others did not. Judging by the file sizes, I'd say none of my results were the real file, so there seems to be a different version of the bug floating around now that can hide its extension. ______________________
"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it!"
I know a couple of people who use wheel mice with their PC's and just ignore the thing. It doesn't confuse them or anything; they just don't know what it is for so they leave it alone. It strikes me that one would have to be pretty dense to think that the screen was moving by itself, unless someone somehow forgot that they were also turning the wheel. Most people understand cause and effect even if they don't get computers very well:)
I work at my college's computer center helpdesk. Believe me, there are plenty of people who have no concept of cause & effect.:) ______________________ "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it!"
OK, I can understand Apple only having one button, as misguided as it is. But why not include a wheel? I can't imagine living without a scroll wheel, and that would not add more confusion.
Probably the usual Apple Not-Invented-Here syndrome.
...or the fact that most newbies will look at it and ask, "What the heck is this little wheelie-thing?" Most people wouldn't figure out what it does unless someone shows them how, or they accidentally notice the scroll bars move when they touch it. More likely it'll be calls to tech support saying, "My iMac is broken, the screen just scrolls by itself sometimes!"
Also, where would it go on the new mouse? Split the 'button' down the middle? On the side (where it favors one hand over the other)? ______________________ "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it!"
Music files don't come with little tags that say whether or not they're copyrighted.
Actually, the MPEG headers have a field, called, you guessed it, "copyright". Of course it seems that each mp3 encoder randomly decides weather to set it to 1 or 0, so its of no use, but if people actually used the field as it was meant to be used, napster could filter pretty easially.
...except that any work created by an artist is already copyrighted under law. It's just the RIAA that's attempting to retain control over their artist's work that's in question. Other artists want their copyrighted work freely distributed. Blocking by the copyright tag doesn't do any good. ______________________ "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it!"
Dear RIAA, We would like to comply with your request to stop distributing copyrighted music, but are unable to readily identify which songs should not be distributed. Please send us a list of artists and songs which you would like blocked. It should be quite easy to provide such a list, as you keep track of said information already for your own purposes.
Gee, that wasn't hard, was it?
Not at all. Now let's just block all of the files with this song name...
But wait, these aren't all the same song. Some of these are by other artists, some aren't even music! Well then, we'll just block everything under a RIAA artist's name...
But wait! This one's a bootleg of a concert. Didn't Metallica say they wanted concert bootlegs to be distributed, just not their recorded material? And isn't this something from this other band's garage days, before they were even on a label? Darn. So, we can't block by song name, or artist...
Well, let's add a new MP3 tag that says 'bootleg' or 'non-copyright', then we can block anything else that isn't in this new genre tag.
But wait! Won't people just set all their MP3's to 'bootleg'? Darn.
Now what? Any other easy suggestions? ______________________ "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it!"
This ban is not what Metallica asked for, nor was it what they wanted. Lars has stated this publicly again and again. Metallica basically asked for a filter to be applied to Napster searches.
If they had done this comparatively simple task, Metallica and the people that Napster alienated would be on the side of Napster instead of against them.
This was not a "comparitively simple task". How is Napster supposed to tell the difference between a 'Metallica.mp3' file recorded at a live event, and a file with the exact same name that contains recording studio material? Even a file named "Enter Sandman.mp3" may be ripped from a CD, recorded from a concert, or a children's lullaby recorded by a folk artist at a public event in the '60's.
The only way for Napster to comply with Metallica's request, or the injunction, would mean Napster would have to have a copy of every song on every RIAA-controlled CD ever produced, and then do a waveform comparison between their copy and any copy on any user's shared space. This is nowhere near technically feasable, or even practical. In both cases they had to take the only measures they could (blocking 'violaters', closing the service) in order to comply with the laws. ______________________ "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it!"
It seems that in this brave new world of instantaneous and sensationalist "news" that we pay too much attention to those stories that seem most exciting. This story might be true, it might not be true
According to this news report on Inside Mac Games, ATI employees are claiming that's exactly what happened. ATI announced the new products and Steve got ticked and yanked them from the show floor. It's not clear that Apple actually planned on having Radeons built into the new Macs, but ATI's press release implied it, and I think that's part of what got Jobs so angry. ______________________ "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it!"
In the press release they announced some new Apple Displays that had a special Apple feature connector. Going back to the old Rage cards, they don't support this. this has to be a joke. More free PR i guess
There are two ports on the back of the new Cube and G4 macs: one standard VGA, and one of these special cables that carries power, video and USB to the new monitors. So if you want to use a cheap 3rd party monitor you can. The ATI chipset has nothing to do with this physical connection. ______________________ "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it!"
See the little anime girl face at the top of the page? I'd say they did add an Anime topic, and you may not have noticed. Check your preference page and see if it's there for you to select for blocking. Personally, I'm glad it's here. Anime is a geek thing in America after all.:) ______________________ "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it!"
It's amazing that they still haven't offered a 2-button mouse, or even a two no-button mouse, but what amazes me most is the absence of the greatest addition to input in the past 15 years:
THE SCROLL WHEEL*
I could never be without one again.
I've used a scroll-wheel mouse at work for nearly three months now, and I must say I still prefer to use PageUp/PageDown on my keyboard. I know you can adjust the wheel to increase or decrease the number of lines it scrolls with each rotation, but I prefer the snap and even paging that the keyboard buttons provide.
So far, I like my Logitech Wingman Gaming Mouse better than most other offerings. Just a regular 3-button mouse with no scroll wheel. It works great for games and gives me plenty of functions in the MacOS. The drivers are a bit unstable, but hopefully the 4.0 version coming out soon fixes that. ______________________ "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it!"
I've seen a lot of complaints about broken links and Forbidden errors when attempting to access Apple's site. You've got to keep in mind, they just made a big change in their product line, and unlike most PC manufacturers, Apple has quite a fan following, so immediately after the keynote you're going to have thousands of Apple users hitting the sites and taking down a lot of the available bandwidth. Now, with SlashDot in the mix, the site gets/.'ed in addition to the already overstressed network. Calm down and just wait a few hours, or even until tomorrow, and you can see all the pretty pictures without having to refresh the page 10 times, or have half a dozen different posts on here reading "WTF is wrong with the site?" getting moderated up. ______________________ "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it!"
6.02ckt which contains PGPdisk even though it's free--and the newer versions add no actual functionality over the 6.02 series, either; in fact, PGP hasn't changed all that much since 5.5 or so.
Unfortunately, 6.02 does not work with MacOS 9. You have to upgrade to 6.5.2 for a compatible version, and the freeware does not come with PGPDisk. ______________________ "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it!"
For example, why use a PGP binary provided by Network Associates when you could either download the full-strength PGPi version from overseas, or better yet if you actually know your code you could dload the source and compile it yourself. Getting a binary from an American company just adds one more layer of uncertainty to the mix.
Perhaps because you want some of the extra features only found in the commercial binaries? I like PGPDisk, and find it useful for large numbers of files. And really, it's the only option for my chosen platform (Macs) because I lack the programming skills to make the free code work on my platform, so I'm stuck with their version. ______________________ "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it!"
to begin, you choose to need a car when you move to a place that 'demands' one -- or did someone force you to take your current apartment? did you even consider whether it was near a bus or train when you took it? most people don't.
Not everyone has much of a choice. Sometimes you live in a suburb because it's the best you can afford near your current job. Either you can't afford the housing costs in the city, or the job is in the suburb.
then, you tacitly accepted membership in a community which doesn't care about mass transit -- another choice.
See above. It's not always much of a choice.
i don't know what to say -- i mean, i decided not to have a car, cause i don't like them, because this was important to me, and now i don't have a car. you could have done the same, you didn't, and now you pay more than you think you should for gas. we both acted freely, didn't we? so what's the problem?
The problem is you're ignoring the problem. I currently don't have a car because I'm in college in a small town, and most of what I need is within walking distance. However, to get to the nearest airport to visit my parents I have to take a car to get there, because there is no bus service between here and the airport. Would you say that the fault lays on me for choosing a college in a small town that lacks adequate bus service?
Well, it wasn't much of a choice. This was the only college I could afford.
Going back to living with my parents... my father worked for a local grocery store for most of his life. If we wanted to visit my grandparents across the river, what was our only option? By car. Getting to a shopping center? By car. Even getting to church required a car. Our options were limited to traveling by car because of where we had to live based on our income and employment.
From the way your post reads, we should all pick towns with mass transportation no matter our job availability, income, or needs. Otherwise, we have no reason to complain.
Sorry, but this has no basis in Real Life(tm). ______________________ "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it!"
There's something similar to this being developed for the game Neverwinter Nights. They call them 'radial menus' and it does look pretty nice. But still, what's the real difference between this and standard popup/contextual menus? They just move a different direction, but they're essentially the same thing. ______________________ "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it!"
I have to say, this is a well-written and fair article. It's part of a series, as indicated on the front page, and the whole set has been very informative and interesting to read. It's a good place to start if you want to know more about OSX and how it will differ from both *nix and the traditional MacOS.
The author does take certain aspects of the UI to task, and I really don't blame him. He is fair about it, rather than some reviewers who choose to do nothing but flame and complain. His arguments are well thought out and written, and he brings out certain concerns that, frankly, make sense. If you only read one article (or series of articles) on OS X, this should be the series. ______________________
Well put. I've got to agree with you for the most part. The Matrix was all flash and no plot, while the 'science' had more holes than swiss cheese. I can almost buy the fact that once they were outside the main grid of the Matrix, they might be able to affect the VR a little bit differently. The rest, with the human batteries, 'The One' and such, was annoying.
As to the violence... eh... if you're going to be ultra-violent, you'd better show the gore as well. Like you said, people don't just fall over when shot, it's very messy and not guaranteed to kill them. If you've got an R rating already, you might as well use it for some realism. And maybe that will get people to realize this isn't quite as glamorous as it's made out to be.
Finally, Neo should have stayed dead when shot. I personally thought it would have been a better ending that way, leading to them discovering the real hero in the sequel (and maybe a better actor as well!). ______________________
Thank you! I was actually hoping to get a respons from an actual German, because, as I said, my knowledge is based on speaking with an American who lived in Germany.
You're right, freedom and democracy do have to have restrictions. I may have been a bit too vague on that. My apologies.
Again, thank you for your perspective. I hope to learn a lot more about your culture as I study the language! ______________________
Ugh. I really wish I could edit my submissions... I accidentally clicked 'Submit' instead of 'Preview', and it killed all my formatting because I forgot to put in paragraph tags.:( Sorry if it's a little hard to read folks...
Can we possibly get the two buttons seperated a bit? They're a little too close together for my comfort... ______________________
I am attending college here in the USA at the same time as my sister, who happens to be a German language major. We've discussed this, and talked with her professors, and it's a fact of life in Germany that certain freedoms are restricted. I'm sure some of you in the gaming community have noticed that sometimes gamemakers mention they have to make special versions for German customers. Unreal Tournament had to release a German version in which your opponents are clearly androids so that there is no blood. A similar thing happened with Myth, and Bungie eventually added a 'No Blood' option when they released Myth 2, causing all opponents you kill to disappear in a cloud of stars, a-la Mario Bros. One of the more interesting things is that Nazi propaganda is expressly outlawed in Germany. Unlike how the article reads, they aren't trying to cover up the Holocaust... however, swastikas and pro-Nazi symbolism are flat-out illegal. While it is still considered free speech to have and share such views, it is illegal to openly display them. German WW2 products cannot have the swastikas, feature (obvious) SS officers, etc. Just last week, a group of Neo-Nazis marched through Berlin to promote themselves. The government allowed it, though it did arrest a few individuals before the march began because of their display of said materials. Before they reached their rally point though, the ~200-300 Neo-Nazis were met by nearly 2000 protesters coming the other way. Needless to say, there were some rocks (and even bicycles) thrown, and many more people were arrested. The entire point behind these restrictions is to prevent such a thing as the Holocaust from happening again. Admittedly, it strikes me as overkill, but the German people tend to be very formal and reserved in public situations or with people outside their immediate friends and family, and used to doing things in a certain manner. Restricting such things isn't always popular, but the majority simply take it in stride because it seems necessary. What does any of this have to do with the article? The German public is already used to having certain restrictions placed on their freedom, even if the results are dubious at best. However, the use of the Internet has expanded rapidly in the last few years there, and certain factions will be lining up on both sides of the issue there, just as they are here on the issue of sex on the 'net. It would be a long, hard struggle to kill such legislation if it came to be in Germany, and I'm not sure there would be enough people worried about MP3s to stop it. ______________________
Anyway, if I download this free version from B&N using Glassbook, will I be able to load it on my PalmOS device, or am I stuck with some stupid "copy protection" like, say, Mjuice. (That's if I can even download it through our proxy. I haven't been able to download from Mjuice since the second version of their software was released...)
No, Glassbook is a seperate format from what the Peanut Reader can open. Peanut's books are encrypted (with the exception of your free ones you found), and the passcode is the credit card number you bought the book with. ______________________
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Try T-Mobile. It's $20 / month on top of your voice plan ($29 / month seperately), but it's unlimited internet through your web-enabled phone, GPRS card or PDA. I'm considering ditching my land line for this, since I can't get cable right now and the price is about what I'm paying for local phone + dialup service now.
It may help to have wide distribution of the shareware, but when people are bothering to find ways around the splash screen (or whatever deterrent), we're right back to people who just want everything free.
Nope. No SP Mode at all. ET is going to be a free, multiplayer-only release now.
1) Export your bookmarks from Chimera 2) Import them into IE 3) Trash your Safari items from the Library folder and Preferences folder (a com. item, I believe). 4) Launch Safari again to re-import your IE bookmarks.
I just ran a search before coming here and got several results, which rather surprised me. Then I noticed the .exe on most of them... and odd file sizes on them all. They were all either 8,192 or they were -1. Also, some of the files had the .EXE extension, while others did not. Judging by the file sizes, I'd say none of my results were the real file, so there seems to be a different version of the bug floating around now that can hide its extension.
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"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it!"
I work at my college's computer center helpdesk. Believe me, there are plenty of people who have no concept of cause & effect. :)
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Probably the usual Apple Not-Invented-Here syndrome.
Also, where would it go on the new mouse? Split the 'button' down the middle? On the side (where it favors one hand over the other)?
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"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it!"
Actually, the MPEG headers have a field, called, you guessed it, "copyright". Of course it seems that each mp3 encoder randomly decides weather to set it to 1 or 0, so its of no use, but if people actually used the field as it was meant to be used, napster could filter pretty easially.
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"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it!"
Gee, that wasn't hard, was it?
Not at all. Now let's just block all of the files with this song name...
But wait, these aren't all the same song. Some of these are by other artists, some aren't even music! Well then, we'll just block everything under a RIAA artist's name...
But wait! This one's a bootleg of a concert. Didn't Metallica say they wanted concert bootlegs to be distributed, just not their recorded material? And isn't this something from this other band's garage days, before they were even on a label? Darn. So, we can't block by song name, or artist...
Well, let's add a new MP3 tag that says 'bootleg' or 'non-copyright', then we can block anything else that isn't in this new genre tag.
But wait! Won't people just set all their MP3's to 'bootleg'? Darn.
Now what? Any other easy suggestions?
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"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it!"
If they had done this comparatively simple task, Metallica and the people that Napster alienated would be on the side of Napster instead of against them.
This was not a "comparitively simple task". How is Napster supposed to tell the difference between a 'Metallica.mp3' file recorded at a live event, and a file with the exact same name that contains recording studio material? Even a file named "Enter Sandman.mp3" may be ripped from a CD, recorded from a concert, or a children's lullaby recorded by a folk artist at a public event in the '60's.
The only way for Napster to comply with Metallica's request, or the injunction, would mean Napster would have to have a copy of every song on every RIAA-controlled CD ever produced, and then do a waveform comparison between their copy and any copy on any user's shared space. This is nowhere near technically feasable, or even practical. In both cases they had to take the only measures they could (blocking 'violaters', closing the service) in order to comply with the laws.
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"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it!"
According to this news report on Inside Mac Games, ATI employees are claiming that's exactly what happened. ATI announced the new products and Steve got ticked and yanked them from the show floor. It's not clear that Apple actually planned on having Radeons built into the new Macs, but ATI's press release implied it, and I think that's part of what got Jobs so angry.
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"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it!"
There are two ports on the back of the new Cube and G4 macs: one standard VGA, and one of these special cables that carries power, video and USB to the new monitors. So if you want to use a cheap 3rd party monitor you can. The ATI chipset has nothing to do with this physical connection.
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"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it!"
See the little anime girl face at the top of the page? I'd say they did add an Anime topic, and you may not have noticed. Check your preference page and see if it's there for you to select for blocking. Personally, I'm glad it's here. Anime is a geek thing in America after all. :)
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THE SCROLL WHEEL*
I could never be without one again.
I've used a scroll-wheel mouse at work for nearly three months now, and I must say I still prefer to use PageUp/PageDown on my keyboard. I know you can adjust the wheel to increase or decrease the number of lines it scrolls with each rotation, but I prefer the snap and even paging that the keyboard buttons provide.
So far, I like my Logitech Wingman Gaming Mouse better than most other offerings. Just a regular 3-button mouse with no scroll wheel. It works great for games and gives me plenty of functions in the MacOS. The drivers are a bit unstable, but hopefully the 4.0 version coming out soon fixes that.
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"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it!"
I've seen a lot of complaints about broken links and Forbidden errors when attempting to access Apple's site. You've got to keep in mind, they just made a big change in their product line, and unlike most PC manufacturers, Apple has quite a fan following, so immediately after the keynote you're going to have thousands of Apple users hitting the sites and taking down a lot of the available bandwidth. Now, with SlashDot in the mix, the site gets /.'ed in addition to the already overstressed network. Calm down and just wait a few hours, or even until tomorrow, and you can see all the pretty pictures without having to refresh the page 10 times, or have half a dozen different posts on here reading "WTF is wrong with the site?" getting moderated up.
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Unfortunately, 6.02 does not work with MacOS 9. You have to upgrade to 6.5.2 for a compatible version, and the freeware does not come with PGPDisk.
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Perhaps because you want some of the extra features only found in the commercial binaries? I like PGPDisk, and find it useful for large numbers of files. And really, it's the only option for my chosen platform (Macs) because I lack the programming skills to make the free code work on my platform, so I'm stuck with their version.
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"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it!"
Not everyone has much of a choice. Sometimes you live in a suburb because it's the best you can afford near your current job. Either you can't afford the housing costs in the city, or the job is in the suburb.
then, you tacitly accepted membership in a community which doesn't care about mass transit -- another choice.
See above. It's not always much of a choice.
i don't know what to say -- i mean, i decided not to have a car, cause i don't like them, because this was important to me, and now i don't have a car. you could have done the same, you didn't, and now you pay more than you think you should for gas. we both acted freely, didn't we? so what's the problem?
The problem is you're ignoring the problem. I currently don't have a car because I'm in college in a small town, and most of what I need is within walking distance. However, to get to the nearest airport to visit my parents I have to take a car to get there, because there is no bus service between here and the airport. Would you say that the fault lays on me for choosing a college in a small town that lacks adequate bus service?
Well, it wasn't much of a choice. This was the only college I could afford.
Going back to living with my parents... my father worked for a local grocery store for most of his life. If we wanted to visit my grandparents across the river, what was our only option? By car. Getting to a shopping center? By car. Even getting to church required a car. Our options were limited to traveling by car because of where we had to live based on our income and employment.
From the way your post reads, we should all pick towns with mass transportation no matter our job availability, income, or needs. Otherwise, we have no reason to complain.
Sorry, but this has no basis in Real Life(tm).
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"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it!"
There's something similar to this being developed for the game Neverwinter Nights. They call them 'radial menus' and it does look pretty nice. But still, what's the real difference between this and standard popup/contextual menus? They just move a different direction, but they're essentially the same thing.
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"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it!"
The author does take certain aspects of the UI to task, and I really don't blame him. He is fair about it, rather than some reviewers who choose to do nothing but flame and complain. His arguments are well thought out and written, and he brings out certain concerns that, frankly, make sense. If you only read one article (or series of articles) on OS X, this should be the series.
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As to the violence... eh... if you're going to be ultra-violent, you'd better show the gore as well. Like you said, people don't just fall over when shot, it's very messy and not guaranteed to kill them. If you've got an R rating already, you might as well use it for some realism. And maybe that will get people to realize this isn't quite as glamorous as it's made out to be.
Finally, Neo should have stayed dead when shot. I personally thought it would have been a better ending that way, leading to them discovering the real hero in the sequel (and maybe a better actor as well!).
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Thank you! I was actually hoping to get a respons from an actual German, because, as I said, my knowledge is based on speaking with an American who lived in Germany.
You're right, freedom and democracy do have to have restrictions. I may have been a bit too vague on that. My apologies.
Again, thank you for your perspective. I hope to learn a lot more about your culture as I study the language!
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Can we possibly get the two buttons seperated a bit? They're a little too close together for my comfort...
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I am attending college here in the USA at the same time as my sister, who happens to be a German language major. We've discussed this, and talked with her professors, and it's a fact of life in Germany that certain freedoms are restricted. I'm sure some of you in the gaming community have noticed that sometimes gamemakers mention they have to make special versions for German customers. Unreal Tournament had to release a German version in which your opponents are clearly androids so that there is no blood. A similar thing happened with Myth, and Bungie eventually added a 'No Blood' option when they released Myth 2, causing all opponents you kill to disappear in a cloud of stars, a-la Mario Bros. One of the more interesting things is that Nazi propaganda is expressly outlawed in Germany. Unlike how the article reads, they aren't trying to cover up the Holocaust... however, swastikas and pro-Nazi symbolism are flat-out illegal. While it is still considered free speech to have and share such views, it is illegal to openly display them. German WW2 products cannot have the swastikas, feature (obvious) SS officers, etc. Just last week, a group of Neo-Nazis marched through Berlin to promote themselves. The government allowed it, though it did arrest a few individuals before the march began because of their display of said materials. Before they reached their rally point though, the ~200-300 Neo-Nazis were met by nearly 2000 protesters coming the other way. Needless to say, there were some rocks (and even bicycles) thrown, and many more people were arrested. The entire point behind these restrictions is to prevent such a thing as the Holocaust from happening again. Admittedly, it strikes me as overkill, but the German people tend to be very formal and reserved in public situations or with people outside their immediate friends and family, and used to doing things in a certain manner. Restricting such things isn't always popular, but the majority simply take it in stride because it seems necessary. What does any of this have to do with the article? The German public is already used to having certain restrictions placed on their freedom, even if the results are dubious at best. However, the use of the Internet has expanded rapidly in the last few years there, and certain factions will be lining up on both sides of the issue there, just as they are here on the issue of sex on the 'net. It would be a long, hard struggle to kill such legislation if it came to be in Germany, and I'm not sure there would be enough people worried about MP3s to stop it.
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No, Glassbook is a seperate format from what the Peanut Reader can open. Peanut's books are encrypted (with the exception of your free ones you found), and the passcode is the credit card number you bought the book with.
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