So called "private copies" (Privatkopie) for family members and close friends that do not circumvent copy protection systems are legal. It's illegal, however, to make these copies freely or commercially available to everybody via P2P networks or to hack the copy protection (it's unclear how to deal with drm systems that work only on Windows but not on Macs for instance). Obtaining files from P2P is (and has been) illegal since everybody knows that these files have been copied illegally in the first place. The news here is that the proposed law will be dropping a previous "de minimis" rule for very minor misuse of that right of private copying, hence the comparison with chewing gums and all the (false) buzz about kids being imprisoned for distributing copies on the school yard the same way real criminals would be.
The new proposed law in Germany is more about how to "compensate" the music industry (that's what the industry sais) for the fact that these private copies are still legal. It's more of an organisational issue how to raise that extra money (this is the real bad part, but no one complaines...). Possible ways include charging for devices that can be used to make copies, where the exact extra charge depends on how often that device (or class of device) is actually used for this purpose. The maximum amount in question seems to be 5% of the price of the device. The law also states that producers can set licence fees for any new form of usage yet to be discovered. Libraries, museums and such can make digital copies available to their users at no charge (I believe).
And in reply to comments about German laws in general: In Germany, coffee cups don't have that "caution, hot contents", and people do know when the floor is wet. Defendants don't pay legal fees if they are not guilty.
This is not entirely true. You can grab 1.1 binaries (not 1.1-release though) from most of the ftp mirrors. They are in the same directory as the 1.0.3 build you are referring to. I use and outdated ooo1_1_mac_01-1 on a daily basis. It's stable, and installation is only a matter of running the setup script. The file is 80MB in size, which is still a lot but less than half of the 173MB for 1.0.3
I'm running 10.3.2 on a tiny PB12" with X11 from Apple, and it's working just fine. Give it a try, report back and help it develop.
MacWhispers tends to be the most unreliable source of rumors of new Apple products, and they seem to have found out for themselves here (MacWhisper.com)
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This page (in German, scroll down for English version) has more about it, including citations from the original works by Chladni, more pictures of the famous figures on metal plates, and a link to http://www.wfu.edu/physics/demolabs/demos/avimov/w aves/chladni_plates/resonance_square.MPG/ (21MB) from Wake Forest University. This is the longer version of the experiments that can be seen in the video linked in the summary.
There's also a link to http://www.phy.davidson.edu/StuHome/jimn/Java/mode s.html/ which has an interactive java applet to plot Chladni figures.
So called "private copies" (Privatkopie) for family members and close friends that do not circumvent copy protection systems are legal. It's illegal, however, to make these copies freely or commercially available to everybody via P2P networks or to hack the copy protection (it's unclear how to deal with drm systems that work only on Windows but not on Macs for instance). Obtaining files from P2P is (and has been) illegal since everybody knows that these files have been copied illegally in the first place. The news here is that the proposed law will be dropping a previous "de minimis" rule for very minor misuse of that right of private copying, hence the comparison with chewing gums and all the (false) buzz about kids being imprisoned for distributing copies on the school yard the same way real criminals would be.
The new proposed law in Germany is more about how to "compensate" the music industry (that's what the industry sais) for the fact that these private copies are still legal. It's more of an organisational issue how to raise that extra money (this is the real bad part, but no one complaines...). Possible ways include charging for devices that can be used to make copies, where the exact extra charge depends on how often that device (or class of device) is actually used for this purpose. The maximum amount in question seems to be 5% of the price of the device. The law also states that producers can set licence fees for any new form of usage yet to be discovered. Libraries, museums and such can make digital copies available to their users at no charge (I believe).
And in reply to comments about German laws in general:
In Germany, coffee cups don't have that "caution, hot contents", and people do know when the floor is wet. Defendants don't pay legal fees if they are not guilty.
Omni Outliner also has the ability to indent tasks to create subtasks. iCal is missing this essential feature.
This is not entirely true. You can grab 1.1 binaries (not 1.1-release though) from most of the ftp mirrors. They are in the same directory as the 1.0.3 build you are referring to. I use and outdated ooo1_1_mac_01-1 on a daily basis. It's stable, and installation is only a matter of running the setup script. The file is 80MB in size, which is still a lot but less than half of the 173MB for 1.0.3
I'm running 10.3.2 on a tiny PB12" with X11 from Apple, and it's working just fine. Give it a try, report back and help it develop.
MacWhispers tends to be the most unreliable source of rumors of new Apple products, and they seem to have found out for themselves here (MacWhisper.com)
More comments on the ongoing rumors of new G5 15" Powerbooks can be found at Macrumors:
PowerBook 970s at WWDC? and PowerMacs NOT at WWDC?.
Both indicate that it is too early to expect new G5 Powerbooks (or G5 based desktops) by WWDC this summer.