And what does distributing mean in this case? Their servers are IIRC in Hungary. Most of the developers seem to also be located in Eastern Europe. Still I guess that you are right about getting a judgment against Google if Google didn't license the patent would be relatively easy.
You're forgetting that some of these patents only apply to the USA. So if in Hungary or wherever the developers reside doesn't recognize these patents then needing a license is mute.
As of today (revision 19134) you can configure it like so
... Configuration options:...
--enable-gpl allow use of GPL code, the resulting libs
and binaries will be under GPL [no]
--enable-version3 upgrade (L)GPL to version 3 [no]
--enable-nonfree allow use of nonfree code, the resulting libs
and binaries will be unredistributable [no]...
The version 3 stuff was added a couple of days ago to allow linking against some apache code and the nonfree may be gone tomorrow if they remove support for libamr. Default is lgpl v2.1. BTW it is spelled FFmpeg
From what I gather from lurking on the FFmpeg developers list, they care about being credited and the source being available including modifications. Basically the terms of the lgpl v2.1.
Perhaps when VHS machines and tapes are not sold anymore people will sue. For now VHS machines and tapes are still fairly easy to buy as there is a demand and a free market
Here is a list of various States Marijuana taxes including some court cases about double jeopardy, self-incrimination etc. Note that most of these laws were found constitutional or amended to become constitutional. http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=6668
According to NORML, there are still 20 states that require tax stamps on marijuana. And places like Minnesota have penalties like 7 years in jail and fines up to $14000. http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=6670
Ok, perhaps I shouldn't of used quite such a strong statement as "some drugs have been shown to cause problems". I did spend 1/2 an hour gathering what seemed like peer reviewed studies on the negative affects of meth. Then I realized that I could of done the same with marijuana. And look how you have been sucked into the tobacco causes death studies. Not only are quasi-peer-reviewed studies very easy to make, but as has been shown lately here on Slashdot, setting up a bullshit peer-reviewed journal isn't very hard. Look at the tobacco studies, while it is easy to show that straight nicotine has a very low LD50 level, the form that comes in tobacco is not straight nicotine. Tobacco was treated for a long time prior to WW2 with lead-arsenic as an insecticide. It was fertilized with fertilizer that contained polonium (something that is pretty harmless unless ingested in such a way to get in the bloodstream much like plutonium) and has so many additives that it is very hard to judge what is killing smokers. Probably if marijuana was treated the same as tobacco we would have lots of deaths attributed to marijuana. Note that people smoked for hundreds of years before lung cancer became common. As recently as the 1930's a case of lung cancer was such a rarity that if a case surfaced every Doctor in the area would rush over to study it. Anyways I was not suggesting that certain drugs should be illegal. I was suggesting that people in pain should be encouraged to take the drugs that have been shown to be fairly safe and effective rather then drugs whose main use has been to hype up soldiers during wartime.
I have a copy of WordPerfect 7 that must be 10+ years old, after using apt to install libc05 and xlib05 IIRC it runs fine on Ubuntu. One nice thing about Linux is the shared libs lend themselves to versioning.
A bit of Googling will show lots of studies on the effect of Meth on people and rats. Unluckily I'm not qualified to judge the studies and as my research into marijuana studies has shown, there are a lot of bullshit studies. The same can be said about alcohol, are the studies accurate? In both the case of meth and alcohol I'm left to watching the results which with excessive abuse can be pretty horrible. Anyways there are quite a few drugs that do have bad side affects, even aspirin kills quite a few thousands of people a year. So if something works very well as a pain killer and has minimal side affects shouldn't its use be encouraged instead of the more destructive alternatives?
We also did not put taxation in the hands of the executive (not sure if the English did or not, honestly),
Actually that was the main power of Parliament, the power of taxation. With that power they wrestled all their other powers from the executive. Basically when the King asked Parliament for more funds, Parliament could turn around and say OK, if you do this. Even the French were similar, the French revolution started when the King needed funds and had to convene the estates general to OK some taxes. Even today the main power of Congress over the President of the USA is the purse.
Windows 3.x and I guess Win386 only supported preemptive multitasking separate DOS sessions, all Windows programs were cooperatively multitasked. I think even under WIN9x 16 bit Windows programs still were cooperatively multitasked. And NT was developed totally separately from the Win 3.x/Win9x line with just some APIs in common.
Yet, here in Canada I look at the back of the local paper and see an Acer Aspire 5315 advertised ($399.99 cdn) with Vista Home Basic. The cheapest with Home Premium is $599.99 and other cheap laptops/netbooks have various versions of XP. If they're selling Vista Home Basic here in Canada I'd think they'll sell Win 7 Home Basic.
In my time a car (or truck) with only 300,000 miles on it was still close to new. Of course these were not American vehicles and we're talking the '70s. Even the ones from the late '60s would see the odometre turn over a couple of times before the body rusted out. Meanwhile you talk about vehicles that are barely broken in like it's amazing that they've surpassed 100,000 miles. Really all American car manufacturers should of gone out of business in the '70s.
Well I'm about to replace the crappy made in America side window motor for the third time on my '88 F150. And engines, I grew up with Japanese engines that were good for 500 Kms, Much more if you looked after them, and of course they improved when the '80s started. Never could understand the idea that lasting 100,000 miles was fantastic when it came to American designed vehicles.
The thing with SnapOn tools is they also worked better, eg a box end wrench had a smaller box and could get into tighter areas. This by itself (plus the fact that it wouldn't break when used for its intended purpose) was worth the premium bucks.
Last time I quit (tobacco) I got hooked again from hanging around some people who insisted on smoking their hash with tobacco. I personally feel that my addiction to tobacco is much worse then my usage of pot. Shit I can quit pot easier then coffee, little well tobacco which costs a fortune due to government taxes and is hard to grow and cure for personal use.
So you have no problem with China putting people in jail for using the internet unrestricted? The old Soviet Union putting people in gulags for talking politics the wrong way? As long as they went to court on the way. Personally I think that political crimes and political prisoners are bad no matter whether they were fairly tried for a bad law or not. And the drug laws are as much as a political crime as using the internet in unprescribed ways or talking about the wrong type of politics.
Actually some drugs have been shown to cause problems, I'm thinking of meth, where long time abusers can even be worse then alcoholics. Best thing with these people (including the hardcore alcoholics) would be to give them cheap heroin. Cheap heroin is pretty harmless, people using can take 1/2 to 3/4 of a dose in the morning, and be productive members of society and get wasted in the evening. Even a heroin user who uses way to much is pretty harmless as long as he can get more.
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We've both read Ringworld, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringworld
And what does distributing mean in this case?
Their servers are IIRC in Hungary. Most of the developers seem to also be located in Eastern Europe.
Still I guess that you are right about getting a judgment against Google if Google didn't license the patent would be relatively easy.
The FFmpeg authours do like it to be spelled correctly.
You're forgetting that some of these patents only apply to the USA. So if in Hungary or wherever the developers reside doesn't recognize these patents then needing a license is mute.
As of today (revision 19134) you can configure it like so
... ... ...
Configuration options:
--enable-gpl allow use of GPL code, the resulting libs
and binaries will be under GPL [no]
--enable-version3 upgrade (L)GPL to version 3 [no]
--enable-nonfree allow use of nonfree code, the resulting libs
and binaries will be unredistributable [no]
The version 3 stuff was added a couple of days ago to allow linking against some apache code and the nonfree may be gone tomorrow if they remove support for libamr.
Default is lgpl v2.1.
BTW it is spelled FFmpeg
From what I gather from lurking on the FFmpeg developers list, they care about being credited and the source being available including modifications. Basically the terms of the lgpl v2.1.
No it isn't. Rishathra is doing it with other hominoids, usually intelligent.
Possibly actually happened with Neanderthals.
Perhaps when VHS machines and tapes are not sold anymore people will sue. For now VHS machines and tapes are still fairly easy to buy as there is a demand and a free market
Still in 20 states, http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=6668
Here is a list of various States Marijuana taxes including some court cases about double jeopardy, self-incrimination etc. Note that most of these laws were found constitutional or amended to become constitutional.
http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=6668
According to NORML, there are still 20 states that require tax stamps on marijuana. And places like Minnesota have penalties like 7 years in jail and fines up to $14000.
http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=6670
Ok, perhaps I shouldn't of used quite such a strong statement as "some drugs have been shown to cause problems". I did spend 1/2 an hour gathering what seemed like peer reviewed studies on the negative affects of meth. Then I realized that I could of done the same with marijuana. And look how you have been sucked into the tobacco causes death studies.
Not only are quasi-peer-reviewed studies very easy to make, but as has been shown lately here on Slashdot, setting up a bullshit peer-reviewed journal isn't very hard.
Look at the tobacco studies, while it is easy to show that straight nicotine has a very low LD50 level, the form that comes in tobacco is not straight nicotine. Tobacco was treated for a long time prior to WW2 with lead-arsenic as an insecticide. It was fertilized with fertilizer that contained polonium (something that is pretty harmless unless ingested in such a way to get in the bloodstream much like plutonium) and has so many additives that it is very hard to judge what is killing smokers. Probably if marijuana was treated the same as tobacco we would have lots of deaths attributed to marijuana.
Note that people smoked for hundreds of years before lung cancer became common. As recently as the 1930's a case of lung cancer was such a rarity that if a case surfaced every Doctor in the area would rush over to study it.
Anyways I was not suggesting that certain drugs should be illegal. I was suggesting that people in pain should be encouraged to take the drugs that have been shown to be fairly safe and effective rather then drugs whose main use has been to hype up soldiers during wartime.
I have a copy of WordPerfect 7 that must be 10+ years old, after using apt to install libc05 and xlib05 IIRC it runs fine on Ubuntu.
One nice thing about Linux is the shared libs lend themselves to versioning.
A bit of Googling will show lots of studies on the effect of Meth on people and rats. Unluckily I'm not qualified to judge the studies and as my research into marijuana studies has shown, there are a lot of bullshit studies. The same can be said about alcohol, are the studies accurate?
In both the case of meth and alcohol I'm left to watching the results which with excessive abuse can be pretty horrible.
Anyways there are quite a few drugs that do have bad side affects, even aspirin kills quite a few thousands of people a year. So if something works very well as a pain killer and has minimal side affects shouldn't its use be encouraged instead of the more destructive alternatives?
We also did not put taxation in the hands of the executive (not sure if the English did or not, honestly),
Actually that was the main power of Parliament, the power of taxation. With that power they wrestled all their other powers from the executive. Basically when the King asked Parliament for more funds, Parliament could turn around and say OK, if you do this.
Even the French were similar, the French revolution started when the King needed funds and had to convene the estates general to OK some taxes.
Even today the main power of Congress over the President of the USA is the purse.
Actually female tigons are usually fertile whereas the males aren't. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigon
FYI here is the stores website, http://www.mikescomputershop.com/
Note at the top of the page both systems come with Home Basic.
Windows 3.x and I guess Win386 only supported preemptive multitasking separate DOS sessions, all Windows programs were cooperatively multitasked. I think even under WIN9x 16 bit Windows programs still were cooperatively multitasked.
And NT was developed totally separately from the Win 3.x/Win9x line with just some APIs in common.
Yet, here in Canada I look at the back of the local paper and see an Acer Aspire 5315 advertised ($399.99 cdn) with Vista Home Basic. The cheapest with Home Premium is $599.99 and other cheap laptops/netbooks have various versions of XP.
If they're selling Vista Home Basic here in Canada I'd think they'll sell Win 7 Home Basic.
In my time a car (or truck) with only 300,000 miles on it was still close to new. Of course these were not American vehicles and we're talking the '70s. Even the ones from the late '60s would see the odometre turn over a couple of times before the body rusted out.
Meanwhile you talk about vehicles that are barely broken in like it's amazing that they've surpassed 100,000 miles.
Really all American car manufacturers should of gone out of business in the '70s.
Well I'm about to replace the crappy made in America side window motor for the third time on my '88 F150. And engines, I grew up with Japanese engines that were good for 500 Kms, Much more if you looked after them, and of course they improved when the '80s started. Never could understand the idea that lasting 100,000 miles was fantastic when it came to American designed vehicles.
The thing with SnapOn tools is they also worked better, eg a box end wrench had a smaller box and could get into tighter areas. This by itself (plus the fact that it wouldn't break when used for its intended purpose) was worth the premium bucks.
Last time I quit (tobacco) I got hooked again from hanging around some people who insisted on smoking their hash with tobacco.
I personally feel that my addiction to tobacco is much worse then my usage of pot. Shit I can quit pot easier then coffee, little well tobacco which costs a fortune due to government taxes and is hard to grow and cure for personal use.
So you have no problem with China putting people in jail for using the internet unrestricted? The old Soviet Union putting people in gulags for talking politics the wrong way? As long as they went to court on the way.
Personally I think that political crimes and political prisoners are bad no matter whether they were fairly tried for a bad law or not. And the drug laws are as much as a political crime as using the internet in unprescribed ways or talking about the wrong type of politics.
Actually some drugs have been shown to cause problems, I'm thinking of meth, where long time abusers can even be worse then alcoholics.
Best thing with these people (including the hardcore alcoholics) would be to give them cheap heroin. Cheap heroin is pretty harmless, people using can take 1/2 to 3/4 of a dose in the morning, and be productive members of society and get wasted in the evening.
Even a heroin user who uses way to much is pretty harmless as long as he can get more.