European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 10, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes computers tuesday May 10,1994 chips no bits electronic arts inc. And bronc round software inc., two big makers of education and entertainment software said their planned merger is off. The companies said recent Stock Price declines and a disagreement a Over their relative Worth prompted thu , bronc round specializes in a. Educational software an  Best a. Known  popular a a  learning programs. The company had sales of $96 million Iff fiscal 1993. A c a. Computer software piracy in Asia was responsible for almost $4 billion in worldwide Industry losses last year a report said. Software theft regionally was most acute in Japan with $1.9 billion Worth of losses business software Alliance said. A a software theft continues to plague software publishers stifling innovation destroying incentives for creating new programs and impeding growth a business software Alliance vice president Alix Parlour said. According to business software Alliance More than 94 percent of All software in China is illegal. Hong Kong is also a Hub for pirated software. All tied up in your work Laptop notebook units can put users against a Wall by Joe Fasbinder United press International at first Only doctors had beepers. Paging devices were Cool Back then. They made you look Impo Riario. A a. ,. Nowadays,., a Beeper often makes its possessor look like drug dealer or someone at the end of a Long electronic Leash. A ditto for the cellular Telephone. Today the cell phone is the Mark of Dis. Lincton. Some Day really soon it will be the Mark of someone who works All the Lime especially in the car. V / a a a a and right How you probably know someone who is lusting after a Laptop or notebook computer telling you How much work could be done while travelling or in Odd moments if such a machine were at hand. Maybe you re lusting after such a machine yourself. Done to be fooled. Its another potential electronic Leash. However for Many Many people its a very necessary electronic Leash Texas instruments estimates that More than 5.5 million people in the United states own notebook computers. A Large proportion of those people use them for d Oft be fooled. It another potential electronic Leash. Business purposes most of the time a and the Irving,.Texas-based computer products company estimates that about one Quarter of the  own notebook or Laptop Type computers use them on the Road. A. H \ a a if that describes you there Are Steps you can take to make sure that the computer you have with you on any Given trip is a companion instead of baggage. Some suggestions. A Call ahead to verify that the hotel you re going into has the Correct Telephone connection to Hook up your computer Modem in your room. Anyone who travels overseas probably has a horror Story or two about the differences that a few Miles can make in Telephone standards when an International Boundary is involved. / a log onto an online bulletin Board to get information about the City you re visiting before you get on the plane. Many of these services offer maps and details about local business resources that could be important to you when you land and almost All of them will Tell you were to get Good local food. A a other than a spare Battery and a adapter done to carry additional computer accessories. Most Quot times you wont need the extra stuff if you find out that some peripheral is really needed you la be Able Toi file that information away for the next trip a a a  printers Are heavy even those designed for use with a Small computer. So if you need hard copy of a document and you done to have a Printer with you you can use your computers fax Modem to fax a copy of the document to yourself at the hotel a a a a a a a. A Quot a rather than carrying a written Calendar of appointments consider keeping your schedule on your portable computer. You can even install time manage ment software that will generate audible prompts to remind you of meetings. A whenever possible use email to return phone Calls or messages. This will save time. A Call ahead to the airline and ask if they have restrictions on using your com Putur on the air plane. Increasingly these Days that a just the  this profs course there a no paper Chase Sewanee Tenn. Apr University of the South professor Gerald Smith Hasni to Given one piece of paper to his students this semester and they Haven to Given one to him. No term papers no test papers no textbooks no handouts. Everything a even class discussions a is conducted via computer. A i was using Case after Case of paper each semester to make copies of course syllabuses and Reading material which is waste on several Levels a Smith said. A it wastes Trees Landfill space Money time and Access to unlimited Quick electronic  Smith decided that any new courses he introduced would be paper free. He planted the seed this Spring with his class on religion and ecology in which he examines How different religions approach environmental a issues. A. Quot. Lecture outlines class notes and Reading material Are available through a computer file created for the course. Writing assignments Are done on computer and turned in by electronic mail and Smith returns graded assignments through the same system. Topics discussed by the class throughout the semester have individual computer files that students can open at any time to input their opinions. A a there a not enough time in class to discuss every topic or to discuss others at the length you a like so this offers an Extension. Its a continuing dialogue a said Karl Ulirch a natural resources major from Friendswood.Texas. The episcopal University about 60 Miles Northwest of Chattanooga has More than 800 computers for its 1,200 students who can work at computer labs and professors offices or on their own computers. Smith admitted that some students were uncomfortable with his idea at first. A i had one student who told me she hated computers. She resented me for forcing her to use the technology a he said. A then one Day i saw her in the computer lab working on a paper for another class. She said a i hated it but i Learned to use it and now i use it for  a the transition can be slow for some students. A a it a hard for me to look at a composition and compare Page 1 and 6 like you would with a hard copy of a paper but. Technology is catching up with that a said Katherine Christy a Junior majoring in music and religion from Spring.Texas. A right now i do run out a hard copy to  Kevin hires a Sophomore majoring in human ecology said the hardest part is figuring out the system and learning to use the computer As More than a glorified typewriter a after that it becomes a Way of life Quot he said. Sex communists gain in Hungary Budapest Hungary apr voters looking for a Way out of economic hardship have turned Back to the former communists swept from Power in 1990 but now professing democratic ideals. The Strong showing reflected disenchantment with High unemployment and inflation As the country completes its transition to capitalism. Turnout was roughly 70 percent even higher than the 65 percent in 1990.with More than 97 percent of the votes counted the former communists renamed the socialists were on top. With 32 percent. As the leading party they will be asked to put together a coalition government and name a prime minister. Second in Hungary a second democratic elections in nearly 50 years were the Liberal free democrats with 19 percent. The Center right hungarian democratic forum the senior government coalition partner was a poor third at 12 percent with the agrarian Independent smallholders next at 9 percent. Voters cast ballots sunday for individual candidates and party lists to fill the 386-seat legislature. The communists who took Power in 1947, were voted out four years ago when Hungary and other East bloc countries broke with autocratic marxism and embraced democracy. A a All the mainstream parties including the socialists Are committed to a Market Economy integration into Western Europe and membership in nato. Apparent Wii . Bomb ruins Japan riverbed Tokyo apr an explosion that crumbled the thick Concrete Walls of a riverbed apparently was caused by an american bomb remaining from world War ii officials said monday. _ the blast last thursday was so Strong that a meteorological station about half a mile away initially announced that an earthquake had occurred. There were no injuries from the explosion. Investigators found fragments of what appeared to be a . Bomb that had remained hidden beneath the River since the War said Kimio Kono a police official in Oita prefecture about 560 Miles Southwest of Tokyo. The Concrete Walls and Bottom built to keep the Small Ura River in its course through the town of Iwata Machi were blown to pieces in the area of the explosion. Investigators said they done to know what set off the  guilty in sex Case that set off abortion juror Dublin Ireland apr a Dublin businessman pleaded guilty in circuit criminal court on monday to having sex with a schoolgirl w Hose Effort to end her resulting pregnancy led to an easing of Ireland a restrictive abortion Laws. The Case gained attention in february 1992 when a court blocked the girl who was 14 at the time from having an abortion in Britain the supreme court overruled the decision and the girl had an abortion.  outcry led to a nationwide referendum on the abortion Law. Judge Gerard Buchanan jailed the-43-year-old businessman until sentencing june 2. He had been free on bail since his july 1992 arrest. Buchanan also ordered that the Man not be named because it could Lead to the identification of his victim. A. The businessman pleaded guilty to three charges having unlawful carnal knowledge of the girl on dec. 7,1991, and on a Date Between aug. 17 and 23, 1990, and indecently assaulting her Between june 22 and aug. 31,1990. The girl who is now 16 or 17, was in court for the 10-minute hearing. Her family clapped when the businessman was led from the court. In a referendum following the supreme court ruling Irish voters approved changes in the Law affirming the right to travel to seek an abortion and the right to distribute information about abortion services abroad