I know this is offtopic, but Windows supports "print-to-file", which causes Windows to write a file that can later be manually copied over to a parallel-port printer (by using "copy/b file.prn lpt1" in the command prompt). Does anyone know the procedure for doing this to USB printers?
Share your USB printer. Than, at the command prompt, type "NET USE LPT1: \\\". Enjoy printing to LPT1:. Add the parameter/persistent:yes to make Windows remember this mapping.
I was refering to the movie Stargte (as the parent post talked about blockbusters), not the series. IIRC, the movie only dealt with egyptian gods. But I guess you're right with Dr. Jackson explaining the names. I forgot about that.
Do you remember a summer blockbuster that was educational?
Depends on what you think "educational" is, I think. If you're thinking about "hard facts", well, that's difficult, because in order to know that you just got presented a fact, you already need to, well, know the fact. For example, in Stargate the Goa'uld names are actual names of egyptian gods. Someone not interested in egyptian mythology might not know that and it doesn't matter for enjoying the movie. The names could have just made up by the authors. And someone who recognizes the names already has that knowledge.
OTOH, you have "soft facts" that one could have picked up from blockbusters. The opening scene in Saving Private Ryan is a classic in that sense as it seems to reflect the reality at D-Day pretty accurate (according to veterans). You don't learn any hard facts from this scene, but you learn that a war/a battle is nothing funny. Instead it is a nightmare you'd avoid at all cost.
Compare that to the "clean and straight" war presented in 1970ish movies like Midway and you clearly see a difference.
Other examples that come to mind (although I'm not sure if they qualify as blockbusters) are Rain Man (explaining Autism to a wider audience) or One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (denouncing common methods in asylums).
So, yes, entertainment and education is not necessarily an unsolvable conflict
Note: I am aware of the similar attempts like SuSe Enterprise and several Ubuntu-based distributions that provide similar out of the box functionality. However, that was 2006/2007, Microsoft did that trick in 2000 and is currently 8 year ahead in development.
Hop about 4 years back to 1996 and you'll find that Novell already did that with NDIS and added NWAdmin as a GUI.
The NFL Europa (formerly known as NFL Europe, formerly known as World League of American Football) was fully run by the NFL. So this doesn't count as an alternative AF league.
> Does this apply to all types of work in German copyright law?
Mandatory: IANAL.
Yes it does. And it's not different for work done as an employee either. You still hold the copyright. But the employer is automatically granted usage rights ("Nutzungsrechte") from the work. Where "work" has to fulfill some quality criteria ("Schöpfungshöhe") in order to be copyrightable at all.
And you don't have to put a copyright notice somewhere. Copyright apllies automatically to the creator, no notice necessary. It might, of course, help you to prove your copyright.
Just because we humans recognize the chicken's noise not as a "symphony" doens't mean that chickens don't. Besides that, aren't some birds whistles beautifull like a symphony.
OTOH, take away all of our tools and most of us will simply die in short period of time. Animals are far superior in that sense that they can survive on their own.
To me the whole "mankind is the crown of creation, the planet is ours to exploit" thingy is arrogance at its best and the major reason for a lot of problems we face nowerdays.
AFAIK, however, they don't prevent a business from making "you granting them permission to disclose information however they please" from being a condition of doing business with them.
Nontheless you have afterwards the right to a) demand that they give you detailed information to whom they gave what kind of information and b) request then to delete information they have stored about you. And *they* are responsible for persuing the entities they have shared your infor with to delete those information as well.
How this works out in practice? I don't know. Haven't tried it for myself yet.
And, perhaps more importantly. With democracy the way it is, politicians profit (get reelected) by looking no more than 4 years into the future.
Four years? That would be plenty of time. At least here in Germany elections for county and state parliaments interferes with long term solutions as well. That cuts down the planning to one or maybe two years(depending on the schedule for elections).
The german music industry is already lobbying to get access to this data without requiring a judge's decision. Not to mention the fact that this data is captured and stored by private companies. An open invitation for hackers.
And don't get me started on laws that change and get watered-down over time. Been there, heard that, don't believe it anymore.
But regardless what you do, be at least consequent. If privacy is an issue, than it's an issue everywhere. If not, well, open the information for all.
On 5 November 1999, the Augsburg prosecutor's office arrested former CDU treasurer Walther Leisler Kiep on charges of tax evasion in connection with a large donation to the CDU by weapons dealer Karlheinz Schreiber in 1991.
1991! We're talking about weapon deals here, especially tanks, if I remember correctly. These deals aren't done within a day, but often take years of preparation. So there might be some evidance in the files.
Besides that, unfortunately - like every country - we had our fair share of (political) scandals throughout the decades and one might find insightfull information about those there, too.
No "might" necessary, there are Western leaders and others who don't want their Stasi (secret police) files public. Former West German chancellor Kohl successfully sued to keep his files under wraps.
That's for the simple reason that those files often contain the most private details of what the Stasi had assembled using bugs and other means.
I find it interesting in that case that Kohl at that time was involved in a big fund raising scandal. As of today, he refused to name the donators of the money
I also find it interesting that in this cases privacy is an issue, whereas otherwise (EU data retention, to name an example) privacy only protects "teh ebil terorrists"
But Steel Panthers was also a game I played intensively.
That old DOS game had a feature I've not seen elsewhere in strategy games: Hitting an enemy's tank often enough without destroying it (like German Pz III vs. Soviet T34) made the crew leave their tank. They "paniced" away for a few rounds with you unable to control them, but once they've overcome their state of fear, you could actually move them back to their tank and enter it again if the tank wasn't destroyed meanwhile.
Maybe the end is good. But let's look at the ramifications here. Basically, we've agreed this is not a copyright violation. It is simply a violation of the EULA.
Depending on where you live, not even that. According to german laws, I must be able to read any EULA before purchasing the product. So all of those "You agree to whatever we like by opening this box" or even better EULAs presented at install time are simply void.
Oh, and pointing me to a webpage where I might find the EULA for the product while I'm in the shop and about to buy the box isn't good either.
So, you're not willing to pay for content - or to view ads to support free content.
I don't see why this is "insightfull".
If I am able to afford the 10 EUR/month off my own pocket to run my website free of ads and if my employer is capable of doing the same for our business web site, why can't others do as well? I mean, do companies print ads on their business letters to "compensate" for the costs of the envelope and the stamp?
And if you have nothing to say without the ads...well, that makes me think about the quality of your contents.
The three- to four-minute "song" has proved to be an incredibly popular format for popular music over the last century, and I don't think you can chalk that up entirely to the machinations of the RIAA (which, let's face it, was a pretty benign organization until fairly recently) or the "music industry." Probably a lot of credit goes to radio, but if people really hated individual songs, there's no way they'd be as popular as they are.
Yes, a lot - if not all - "credit" goes to radio. 11 minutes without being able to spew in an ad...bad for revenue. And it's not even 4-5 minute songs, it's more in the range of 3-4 minute songs. Van Halen's "Jump" regularly got (and still gets) chopped of at the end, when the keyboard fades out - small pause - to tune back in with the keyboard riff again. Guns 'n' Roses produced a couple of shorter radio versions for "November rain" to get airplay for that song as most stations won't play that 9 minute beast.
So we got some kind of self-fullfilling prophecy here. Of course short songs became a "popular format", as it is/was the only format that got airplay.
A bunch of soon-to-be-ex customers of Oracle (who are in the process of moving to SAP) log in from SAP computers and download all kinds of support information. It might be a bit more than coincidence.
Than again, suppose you're a Oracle customer who's to switch over to SAP. You won't do that on a friday's night within 2 hours. You're more likely to contact SAP and set up a migration project. SAP might ask you for documentation of your current software/environment and tools that might help with the migration. You might answer like most customers answer: "I dunno...here's what we got from them." *hands over a folder with lots of papers, one of it having username/pw for Orcale's KB*
Seeing SAP using some kind of spider/downloader to get all stuff instead of manually looking into each and every document to see if that's one that might be of any help, makes also sense from an efficency point of view.
And in my book "soon to expire accounts" means "still valid (and payed for) accounts". Oracle might blame the (soon to be ex-)customer for sharing his credentials with a 3rd party, but I guess Oracle would (and perhaps does) exactly the same in exactly the same situation when helping a customer in migrating form a competitor's product to theirs.
More of them listed the Britney Spears genre than the Angus Young genre.
I'd say there might be some flaws in this "study".:)
From TFA:
He said: "There is a perception of gifted and talented students as being into classical music and spending a lot of time reading. I think that is an inaccurate stereotype. There is literature that links heavy metal to poor academic performance and delinquency but we found a group that contradicts that.
...and...
Six per cent said heavy metal and a third rated it in their top five genres.
To me it seems they were not after absolute numbers, but tried to disprove the prejudice (classic music = intelligent, heavy metal = dumbass) mentioned in the first paragraph.
This would also mean that even more personal info is available (obviously no way for it to be 100% secure) to the terrorist for identity theft purposes.
This is the part that's seems to be forgoten throughout most debates. Not only will a heap load of (mostly useless) data be collected, but it will be stored and handled by private companies (ISPs, Telcos...) in whatever location they feel fits those needs. Who will be responsible for data theft/corruption/manipulation that happens there? Who can assure the data is consistent and not tampered with? Who will protect me from false accusations? Just a couple of days ago 22 million german credit card holders had their transactions screened for child porn (the number two reason, besides "fight terrorism", to get any law through) purchases.
If german officials talk about "Killergames" and banning them that's all fine and dandy, by if they don't talk about "Killer-Clubs (If FPS == Killerspiele THEN Schützenvereine == Killervereine!!!) before that, then they are nothing but self-ritious lying bigot bastards. The whole lot of them.
You seem to forget that "Killerspiele"'s sole purpose is to grow up a bunch of amok running boneheads, whereas "Schützenvereine" merely honor good (conservative) traditions and make a brilliant audience for politians that like to take away the public's attention from their own shortcomings.
It's about time the german geek/nerd/gamer community made itself heard on this. But when was the last time nerds got of their lazy asses and got political?... Exactly.
Not related to "Killerspiele", but as you asked for it: the geek founded anti data retention initiative has gained quite some attention lately. Check it out at http://www.stoppt-die-vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/
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Share your USB printer. Than, at the command prompt, type "NET USE LPT1: \\\". Enjoy printing to LPT1:. Add the parameter /persistent:yes to make Windows remember this mapping.
I was refering to the movie Stargte (as the parent post talked about blockbusters), not the series. IIRC, the movie only dealt with egyptian gods. But I guess you're right with Dr. Jackson explaining the names. I forgot about that.
Depends on what you think "educational" is, I think. If you're thinking about "hard facts", well, that's difficult, because in order to know that you just got presented a fact, you already need to, well, know the fact. For example, in Stargate the Goa'uld names are actual names of egyptian gods. Someone not interested in egyptian mythology might not know that and it doesn't matter for enjoying the movie. The names could have just made up by the authors. And someone who recognizes the names already has that knowledge.
OTOH, you have "soft facts" that one could have picked up from blockbusters. The opening scene in Saving Private Ryan is a classic in that sense as it seems to reflect the reality at D-Day pretty accurate (according to veterans). You don't learn any hard facts from this scene, but you learn that a war/a battle is nothing funny. Instead it is a nightmare you'd avoid at all cost.
Compare that to the "clean and straight" war presented in 1970ish movies like Midway and you clearly see a difference.
Other examples that come to mind (although I'm not sure if they qualify as blockbusters) are Rain Man (explaining Autism to a wider audience) or One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (denouncing common methods in asylums).
So, yes, entertainment and education is not necessarily an unsolvable conflict
Hop about 4 years back to 1996 and you'll find that Novell already did that with NDIS and added NWAdmin as a GUI.
The NFL Europa (formerly known as NFL Europe, formerly known as World League of American Football) was fully run by the NFL. So this doesn't count as an alternative AF league.
> Does this apply to all types of work in German copyright law?
Mandatory: IANAL.
Yes it does. And it's not different for work done as an employee either. You still hold the copyright. But the employer is automatically granted usage rights ("Nutzungsrechte") from the work. Where "work" has to fulfill some quality criteria ("Schöpfungshöhe") in order to be copyrightable at all.
And you don't have to put a copyright notice somewhere. Copyright apllies automatically to the creator, no notice necessary. It might, of course, help you to prove your copyright.
Just because we humans recognize the chicken's noise not as a "symphony" doens't mean that chickens don't. Besides that, aren't some birds whistles beautifull like a symphony.
OTOH, take away all of our tools and most of us will simply die in short period of time. Animals are far superior in that sense that they can survive on their own.
To me the whole "mankind is the crown of creation, the planet is ours to exploit" thingy is arrogance at its best and the major reason for a lot of problems we face nowerdays.
Nontheless you have afterwards the right to a) demand that they give you detailed information to whom they gave what kind of information and b) request then to delete information they have stored about you. And *they* are responsible for persuing the entities they have shared your infor with to delete those information as well.
How this works out in practice? I don't know. Haven't tried it for myself yet.
Four years? That would be plenty of time. At least here in Germany elections for county and state parliaments interferes with long term solutions as well. That cuts down the planning to one or maybe two years(depending on the schedule for elections).
The german music industry is already lobbying to get access to this data without requiring a judge's decision. Not to mention the fact that this data is captured and stored by private companies. An open invitation for hackers.
And don't get me started on laws that change and get watered-down over time. Been there, heard that, don't believe it anymore.
But regardless what you do, be at least consequent. If privacy is an issue, than it's an issue everywhere. If not, well, open the information for all.
From the linked Wiki article:
1991! We're talking about weapon deals here, especially tanks, if I remember correctly. These deals aren't done within a day, but often take years of preparation. So there might be some evidance in the files.
Besides that, unfortunately - like every country - we had our fair share of (political) scandals throughout the decades and one might find insightfull information about those there, too.
Sense of humor? Yes! But obviously a malfunctioning humor detector in the case....shame on me.
Too busy to browse over to Wikipedia, eh?
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Because you haven't seen anything written in German on the web doesn't necessarily mean there isn't anything written in German at all. Especially given the fact that ".de is currently the most popular ccTLD in terms of number of registrations, and is second after .com among all TLDs."
Not to mention german .at and .ch or even german .com, .net, .org, .eu, etc. pages.
I find it interesting in that case that Kohl at that time was involved in a big fund raising scandal. As of today, he refused to name the donators of the money
I also find it interesting that in this cases privacy is an issue, whereas otherwise (EU data retention, to name an example) privacy only protects "teh ebil terorrists"
...would be #1 on my list.
But Steel Panthers was also a game I played intensively.
That old DOS game had a feature I've not seen elsewhere in strategy games: Hitting an enemy's tank often enough without destroying it (like German Pz III vs. Soviet T34) made the crew leave their tank. They "paniced" away for a few rounds with you unable to control them, but once they've overcome their state of fear, you could actually move them back to their tank and enter it again if the tank wasn't destroyed meanwhile.Mix what? No wonder we Europeans think of you as philistines... ;-)
Depending on where you live, not even that. According to german laws, I must be able to read any EULA before purchasing the product. So all of those "You agree to whatever we like by opening this box" or even better EULAs presented at install time are simply void.
Oh, and pointing me to a webpage where I might find the EULA for the product while I'm in the shop and about to buy the box isn't good either.
I don't see why this is "insightfull".
If I am able to afford the 10 EUR/month off my own pocket to run my website free of ads and if my employer is capable of doing the same for our business web site, why can't others do as well? I mean, do companies print ads on their business letters to "compensate" for the costs of the envelope and the stamp?
And if you have nothing to say without the ads...well, that makes me think about the quality of your contents.
Here, fixed that for you.
Yes, a lot - if not all - "credit" goes to radio. 11 minutes without being able to spew in an ad...bad for revenue. And it's not even 4-5 minute songs, it's more in the range of 3-4 minute songs. Van Halen's "Jump" regularly got (and still gets) chopped of at the end, when the keyboard fades out - small pause - to tune back in with the keyboard riff again. Guns 'n' Roses produced a couple of shorter radio versions for "November rain" to get airplay for that song as most stations won't play that 9 minute beast.
So we got some kind of self-fullfilling prophecy here. Of course short songs became a "popular format", as it is/was the only format that got airplay.
Than again, suppose you're a Oracle customer who's to switch over to SAP. You won't do that on a friday's night within 2 hours. You're more likely to contact SAP and set up a migration project. SAP might ask you for documentation of your current software/environment and tools that might help with the migration. You might answer like most customers answer: "I dunno...here's what we got from them." *hands over a folder with lots of papers, one of it having username/pw for Orcale's KB*
Seeing SAP using some kind of spider/downloader to get all stuff instead of manually looking into each and every document to see if that's one that might be of any help, makes also sense from an efficency point of view.
And in my book "soon to expire accounts" means "still valid (and payed for) accounts". Oracle might blame the (soon to be ex-)customer for sharing his credentials with a 3rd party, but I guess Oracle would (and perhaps does) exactly the same in exactly the same situation when helping a customer in migrating form a competitor's product to theirs.
...and...
To me it seems they were not after absolute numbers, but tried to disprove the prejudice (classic music = intelligent, heavy metal = dumbass) mentioned in the first paragraph.
This is the part that's seems to be forgoten throughout most debates. Not only will a heap load of (mostly useless) data be collected, but it will be stored and handled by private companies (ISPs, Telcos...) in whatever location they feel fits those needs. Who will be responsible for data theft/corruption/manipulation that happens there? Who can assure the data is consistent and not tampered with? Who will protect me from false accusations? Just a couple of days ago 22 million german credit card holders had their transactions screened for child porn (the number two reason, besides "fight terrorism", to get any law through) purchases.
You seem to forget that "Killerspiele"'s sole purpose is to grow up a bunch of amok running boneheads, whereas "Schützenvereine" merely honor good (conservative) traditions and make a brilliant audience for politians that like to take away the public's attention from their own shortcomings.
Not related to "Killerspiele", but as you asked for it: the geek founded anti data retention initiative has gained quite some attention lately. Check it out at http://www.stoppt-die-vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/