"That's a good point. I always thought that there would just be another "terrorist" incident just before the 2008 enections, and martial law would be declared, thus keeping Bush in office indefinitely. I guess this is a cleaner, more permanent way to accomplish the implementation of [what I perceive to be] the new dictatorship of the USA."
That's perhaps not necessary. Did anyone of you read the following proposed bill:
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the 22nd amendment to the Constitution. (Introduced in House)
JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the 22nd amendment to the Constitution.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years after the date of its submission for ratification:
`Article --
`The twenty-second article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is repealed.'.
Nonsense. I just pointed you to section 3 which clearly gives someone the right and ability to redistribute the binaries. Pull your head out and pay attention.
Yes, you can ask as much as you want for the binaries. But, you left something out:
"3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:"
Then you have two options: a) include the sources with the binaries. This way you can ask as much money for the combo (binaries + sources) as you want. b) make sure the source is available upon request from a different place than the binaries. In this case you are only allowed to ask a fee for the sources.
In both cases however, the sources are in principle available for everyone.
I didn't RTFA but, if I remember correctly, the OP has some major misinformation in his post.
It was my impression that WMV9 was approved by the HD DVD groups to be supported in ADDITION to the MPEG4 codec. It didn't REPLACE the MPEG4 codec.
Your impression is not correct. The decision was as follows:
Provisional approval of MPEG2, WM9 (VC-9) and MPEG4 AVC(H.264) Video CODECs as mandatory for the HD DVD Video specification for playback devices, subject to (a) an update in 60 days regarding licensing terms and conditions, (b) a presentation by each of the respective licensing bodies at the next SC meeting and (c) possible elimination of any of the above CODECs at the next SC meeting.
see point 24 of http://www.dvdforum.org/25scmtg-resolution.htm
At the meeting of June 9/10, 2004, there was a request which was not approved. So, that's not relevant here.
Bottom line is, there was still a provisional approval of VC-1 (and also of h.264).
Btw, did anyone mention the following "Microsoft also donated $100,000 to the SMPTE Foundation at about the same time they submitted VC-1 to SMPTE for standardization".
source: http://www.smpte.org/foundation/foundation.cfm
a formula to determine the roots of any polynomial equation. Does this conflict with Abel's proof that such a formula cannot exist?
There are some misunderstandings here.
Abel's result says it's not possible to solve polynomials of degree 5 or higher in terms of multiplication, addition and taking roots.
If you allow fancier functions (like elliptic functions, which are similar as sin/arcsin), it's possible to solve polynomials of degree 5 [1].
The solution that the student posted is an exact solution (no numerical one). The series is exact (unless you take only a few terms of course). You can write down its coefficients explicitly in terms of the coefficients of the original polynomial.
Two important remarks:
1) There exists several classes of functions (hypergeometric functions in several variables, and Siegal modular functions) which can be used to solve polynomials of any degree (this is known since 30 years or so). See bottom of [2].
2) The method which the student used, is also known since 30 years. It can be found in the same link [3].
So, nothing new...
[1] http://mathworld.wolfram.com/QuinticEquation.html
[2] http://library.wolfram.com/examples/quintic/main.h tml#higher
[3]: http://library.wolfram.com/examples/quintic/main.h tml#diffeq
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"That's a good point. I always thought that there would just be another "terrorist" incident just before the 2008 enections, and martial law would be declared, thus keeping Bush in office indefinitely. I guess this is a cleaner, more permanent way to accomplish the implementation of [what I perceive to be] the new dictatorship of the USA."
S .24.IH:
That's perhaps not necessary. Did anyone of you read the following proposed bill:
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the 22nd amendment to the Constitution. (Introduced in House)
JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the 22nd amendment to the Constitution.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years after the date of its submission for ratification:
`Article --
`The twenty-second article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is repealed.'.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c109:H.J.RE
Nonsense. I just pointed you to section 3 which clearly gives someone the right and ability to redistribute the binaries. Pull your head out and pay attention. Yes, you can ask as much as you want for the binaries. But, you left something out: "3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:" Then you have two options: a) include the sources with the binaries. This way you can ask as much money for the combo (binaries + sources) as you want. b) make sure the source is available upon request from a different place than the binaries. In this case you are only allowed to ask a fee for the sources. In both cases however, the sources are in principle available for everyone.
a formula to determine the roots of any polynomial equation. Does this conflict with Abel's proof that such a formula cannot exist? There are some misunderstandings here. Abel's result says it's not possible to solve polynomials of degree 5 or higher in terms of multiplication, addition and taking roots. If you allow fancier functions (like elliptic functions, which are similar as sin/arcsin), it's possible to solve polynomials of degree 5 [1]. The solution that the student posted is an exact solution (no numerical one). The series is exact (unless you take only a few terms of course). You can write down its coefficients explicitly in terms of the coefficients of the original polynomial. Two important remarks: 1) There exists several classes of functions (hypergeometric functions in several variables, and Siegal modular functions) which can be used to solve polynomials of any degree (this is known since 30 years or so). See bottom of [2]. 2) The method which the student used, is also known since 30 years. It can be found in the same link [3]. So, nothing new ...
[1] http://mathworld.wolfram.com/QuinticEquation.html
[2] http://library.wolfram.com/examples/quintic/main.h tml#higher
[3]: http://library.wolfram.com/examples/quintic/main.h tml#diffeq