Really, it could go either way. Since the intent of the GPL is to allow people to freely use your code, then a judge might see it as identical to PD. Not in my jurisdiction. (and I am/was a paralegal) Nor in any jurisdiction with civil law and a copyright law similar to what is dictated by the Geneva convention. In those countries, the ONLY things in public domain are those (a) that do not involve creative work and (b) those whose copyrights terms expired. And to boot, the intent of the GPL is NOT "to allow people to freely use your code", it is to allow that your code stays free all the time -- and this can be determined by any judge who takes ten minutes to read the GPL. Or one minute to read its preamble.
Researching and developing these technologies now will help save the major studios and other motion picture producers and distributors money in the future.
I usually drive 3m (ten feet) from the car in front of me when in a congested avenue. Not exactly "safety distance", but I tend to keep the same speed as the front car, and then it's enough so I can figure out some emergency exit if needed, and not big enough to fit a car. If people try to fit themselves into that space I usually make them come to their senses with a long and loud honk.
Now, if you are driving at 80km/h in snowstorms, all I can offer you is prayer.:-) We don't have snowstorms down here but we *do* have severe rainstorms. And hail. It's not funny to be driving while 10cm-wide rocks of ice fall from the sky:-)
Every single game I know (Ok, I'm old-school) has a linux version or runs in a console for which linux has a working emulator... approximately 1000 games.
none. Our "computer programs law" explicitly excludes "similarity from a preexisting program functionality" from copyright protection, and our patents law explicitly excludes computer programs, methods and algorithms, from patent protection.
There are a lots of stray cats on the streets, and if you live in a metropolis (like I do - 3 million ppl.) chances are that the City already kills -- puts down -- 100s of cats everyday.
Get a better (more economic) car -- mine (GM Celta 1.0) makes 17 km/l (40mi/gallon) in the highway. Or, even better, if you only have one kid, a motorcycle: a Honda 250cc makes 29 km/l (70mi/gallon), which would triple your mileage with the same budget.
Scenario 1: I'm at the front seat, parked in front of my son's school. Truck with brake problems comes down the street, hits me frontally. I just unfastened the seat belt, turned the engine off. The air bag can be of help here. Scenario 2: (continuing) The air bag protected my head and torso, but both my legs were broken. The car was still locked when the truck hit me. People on the street are trying to get me out of the car as fast as they can.
Yes, those are worse-case scenarios, but the risk of car theft is less important than the risk of loss-of-life.
cache consistency. When I modify a page that is in my processor cache, now I have to put the word out to the whole network -- and I can't really commit that page until I know for sure that other threads in the cluster did not modify the same page (and, in the case someone did, I must decide how do I merge their modifications and mine, notify them of the merging, etc, etc...) What was a quick (important for performance) operation becomes a dog-slow operation, and maybe puts the whole motif for using a cluster in jeopardy... HTH,
And CC-BY (the license for tviv.info) is non-free either, but only because it's buggy. With luck, Creative Commons will fix it, and tviv will adopt a newer version.
I googled for "slippery slope fallacy". The first link brough four examples: "We have to stop the tuition increase! The next thing you know, they'll be charging $40,000 a semester!" "The US shouldn't get involved militarily in other countries. Once the government sends in a few troops, it will then send in thousands to die." "You can never give anyone a break. If you do, they'll walk all over you." "We've got to stop them from banning pornography. Once they start banning one form of literature, they will never stop. Next thing you know, they will be burning all the books!" All four examples are real examples of this fallacy. All four examples are logically incorrect. All four examples lead to a correct conclusion, for the incorrect reasoning:-)
Pretty please? With so many 3 and 4-digit uids, Your Honorable Sirs must be white of hair and wise of head, so can you all tell me why are you bashis His Honorable Gunman ESR?
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And Oracle 7 for the two years before -- in a not-so-large database -- I think there is not much to fear...
DVD-Jon works on Windows.
he was referring to the politicians...
Really, it could go either way. Since the intent of the GPL is to allow people to freely use your code, then a judge might see it as identical to PD.
Not in my jurisdiction. (and I am/was a paralegal)
Nor in any jurisdiction with civil law and a copyright law similar to what is dictated by the Geneva convention. In those countries, the ONLY things in public domain are those (a) that do not involve creative work and (b) those whose copyrights terms expired.
And to boot, the intent of the GPL is NOT "to allow people to freely use your code", it is to allow that your code stays free all the time -- and this can be determined by any judge who takes ten minutes to read the GPL. Or one minute to read its preamble.
did not specify anything. We don't know why his patches didn't make it. That was my point, not some "purity" of mozilla. (I tend to use konqi).
was the CSS feature in question a standard CSS feature, or something non-standard your company used from IE?
I usually drive 3m (ten feet) from the car in front of me when in a congested avenue. Not exactly "safety distance", but I tend to keep the same speed as the front car, and then it's enough so I can figure out some emergency exit if needed, and not big enough to fit a car. If people try to fit themselves into that space I usually make them come to their senses with a long and loud honk.
:-) We don't have snowstorms down here but we *do* have severe rainstorms. And hail. It's not funny to be driving while 10cm-wide rocks of ice fall from the sky :-)
Now, if you are driving at 80km/h in snowstorms, all I can offer you is prayer.
My wife used to use 9dioptra Coke bottles :-) Her glasses were certainly MORE reflective than the lens on my Nokia phone. Pity she made laser surgery.
How can I associate with its development?
How can I get an emulator and, if possible, a developer preview?
Every single game I know (Ok, I'm old-school) has a linux version or runs in a console for which linux has a working emulator... approximately 1000 games.
can be just what you need.
settled out of court, IIRC.
none.
Our "computer programs law" explicitly excludes "similarity from a preexisting program functionality" from copyright protection, and our patents law explicitly excludes computer programs, methods and algorithms, from patent protection.
It's the minimum amount of time Halliburton wants to stay in power. Heh.
There are a lots of stray cats on the streets, and if you live in a metropolis (like I do - 3 million ppl.) chances are that the City already kills -- puts down -- 100s of cats everyday.
Get a better (more economic) car -- mine (GM Celta 1.0) makes 17 km/l (40mi/gallon) in the highway. Or, even better, if you only have one kid, a motorcycle: a Honda 250cc makes 29 km/l (70mi/gallon), which would triple your mileage with the same budget.
You do know that mplayer/meconder can save the stream to a file, don't you?
Scenario 1: I'm at the front seat, parked in front of my son's school. Truck with brake problems comes down the street, hits me frontally. I just unfastened the seat belt, turned the engine off. The air bag can be of help here.
Scenario 2: (continuing) The air bag protected my head and torso, but both my legs were broken. The car was still locked when the truck hit me. People on the street are trying to get me out of the car as fast as they can.
Yes, those are worse-case scenarios, but the risk of car theft is less important than the risk of loss-of-life.
like "mplayer mms://machine.network.org/stream.wmv" ??
cache consistency. When I modify a page that is in my processor cache, now I have to put the word out to the whole network -- and I can't really commit that page until I know for sure that other threads in the cluster did not modify the same page (and, in the case someone did, I must decide how do I merge their modifications and mine, notify them of the merging, etc, etc...) What was a quick (important for performance) operation becomes a dog-slow operation, and maybe puts the whole motif for using a cluster in jeopardy...
HTH,
I withdraw my other comment... I think CC-BY 2.0 was deemed non-free, but 2.5 I don't know yet (seems OK to me).
And CC-BY (the license for tviv.info) is non-free either, but only because it's buggy. With luck, Creative Commons will fix it, and tviv will adopt a newer version.
I googled for "slippery slope fallacy". The first link brough four examples: :-)
"We have to stop the tuition increase! The next thing you know, they'll be charging $40,000 a semester!"
"The US shouldn't get involved militarily in other countries. Once the government sends in a few troops, it will then send in thousands to die."
"You can never give anyone a break. If you do, they'll walk all over you."
"We've got to stop them from banning pornography. Once they start banning one form of literature, they will never stop. Next thing you know, they will be burning all the books!"
All four examples are real examples of this fallacy. All four examples are logically incorrect. All four examples lead to a correct conclusion, for the incorrect reasoning
Pretty please?
With so many 3 and 4-digit uids, Your Honorable Sirs must be white of hair and wise of head, so can you all tell me why are you bashis His Honorable Gunman ESR?