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Is this true? Software patent is a gray area in the EU and I would not recommend to take for granted that European companies do not have to pay the h.264 license, even if they only distribute in Europe.

Concerning VLC, their FAQ [1] does not mention the EU aspect: they say that they cannot pay for the license because the software is free and that "the end-user becomes responsible for complying with the licensing and royalty requirements" (whether this would be defensible in court is debatable)

[1] https://wiki.videolan.org/Frequently_Asked_Questions/#What_a...

While the thesis is interesting and while there is probably some truth to it, the argument doesn't seem fair to me...

Sure if you repeat endlessly a task which is not related to the objective, it may fail to prove successful (without much surprise). However, if I repetitively compare images of one correct coin and one incorrect coin, I am pretty sure that I would improve in some way, without putting so much effort in the process. If every day someone recalls me the position of the nearest fire extinguisher, I will certainly learn this information at some point, once again without much effort.

And this type of wrong arguments can be reversed against the author thesis. Try to learn a new programming language while doing a one armed handstand, the difficulty will be way higher, however I doubt that it will generally improve your learning pace. Does that mean that difficulty is not a key to remembering? Nope, only that it is not per se a sufficient condition to remembering.

actually 0^0 is usually chosen equal to 1... which probably still supports your argument.

And now you're ability to exclude reviewers is a significant factor in the acceptation of your paper... Not sure if this is really what we should whish for.

What kind of inner products are defined by the absolute value, cuberoot of absolute cubes, fourth root of fourth powers? I never heard of that and would be glad to learn about it.

This notion is introduced in a pedagogical way here http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2013/n358...