Our moon is called a moon because the gravitational center of the two objects is under the Earth's surface.
Oh, and the Pluto - Charon system actually consists of four objects, not two, and the gravitational center is outside of them all. So it is a quintuple system, but certainly not a planet as it's orbit is littered with debris. The "cleared it's orbit" contingency is ingenious and it works.
I think that one of Jupiter's moons is named after a male figure. I am not familiar with mythology so I really don't know which one, but I'm sure it's mentioned in Wikipedia somewhere.
Finding other objects of Pluto's size was the catalyst for defining a planet. But Pluto orbits the sun outside of the solar plane, in the wrong direction, on a highly elliptical orbit that sometimes brings it closer to the sun than Neptune. It was obvious for a long time that Pluto differed from the other planets and should not be included. Finding other similar objects (which had been suspected for a long time) only cemented the deal.
If something that small can be a moon, the Pluto should still be a planet.
When Pluto clears it's orbit, it will be a planet.
Size is not used to define objects for good reason. I agree that some definition of a moon must be formulated, however, as Saturn has over 150 of these little moonlets orbiting her, and new ones are discovered every so often.
Can you really call an object a third of a mile wide a "moon" rather than "just a rocky piece of junk that orbits Saturn, like a whole bunch of other stuff."
However, nobody can find a good definition of a moon, just like the definition of the planet was hard to come by. The "cleared it's orbit" clause won't work for moons because they are the sources of the gas giant's rings (and gravitationally stabilize them), and the "gravitationally round" bit won't work either because it would eliminate lots of objects that we would like to call moons, such as the two rocks orbiting Mars. Come up with a good definition that does not rely on any arbitrary numbers (like size, mass, etc), and I'll submit it for approval.
I've got the money sitting there that I want to give to Solidworks, the minute that there is a Linux version available. I'll buy Photoshop, too, just to help support them even though I've become comfortable with Gimp. I've written to both companies to let them know that.
That was exactly my point! Asking for a 'standard' is akin to asking for devs to code to MS 'standards' and then have Linux devs reverse engineer them.
Uh, no, not if the ice caps melted and created anything resembling an ocean on Mars. If water flowed on Mars again they would no longer have roughly the same available landmass.
Would be excited to hear if underground water is found. The ice caps probably don't have the volume to fill what potentially could have been an Earth-ish looking planet.
They wouldn't need to. Mars has only about a third of the surface area of Earth. Which makes for a nice coincidence as we both have roughly the same available landmass!
Web browsers are _supposed_ to support HTML, which is not platform or software dependent.
Linux is POSIX-compliant, which does not cover the type of usage that a game would need. The best that you could hope for is to standardize win32, and help Wine develop an implementation of win32 on Linux.
I suggest then, that those who run _any_ application in wine, Eve Online or otherwise, contact the devs and ask for a Linux version. Else, you are just pinning yourself to Wine and the moving target that it is.
Alternatively, use an OS that runs the apps you need. If that is not a solution, then write to the devs!
I guess you missed the article a month ago on Auto-Tune software, or you'd have already had an idea why most music today is bland shit.
That is because the money is not in the music, it is in the music video, accessories, and other bullshit. Just find some beautiful woman to sync to a click track, the alter her voice to actually _sound_good_ and you've got a winner, with no accusations of lip syncing or whatnot.
Yes, they decided that there will be no more Eve Online for Linux and despite that they are expanding their market. I suppose that the the Linux devs are being moved to other platforms. What does that say about Linux marketshare? If we _really_ want to see games on Linux we need to start buying them, not buying the Windows version and running it in Wine (even if it runs better). If we don't encourage the software houses to write the games (encourage==buy) then they won't write them.
This sounds like the classic solar is not a renewable energy source tale because of the non-renewable materials in solar cells. You do realize that once the cells are built, that they continue to work until damaged or otherwise decommissioned, and that the nonrenewables are not consumed in the process? Also, there are alternative materials to use, and alternative places to mine what there is.
You apparently understimate the rising costs of energy of _all_ types. It is a feedback market, as one type of energy chages price, the others change along with it to keep within a natural price ratio. That ratio changes in the short term, but in the long term non-renewables become more expensive and renewables become cheaper. Are you arguing that solar energy is a non-renewable energy resource because of the tellurium supply? You do realize that there are tellurium supplies that are not currently being mined, because of cost? As volume and demand increase, those resources will be mined.
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You should present that argument to the IAU. Really.
http://www.iau.org/administration/secretariat/
Thanks, I stand corrected!
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Our moon is called a moon because the gravitational center of the two objects is under the Earth's surface.
Oh, and the Pluto - Charon system actually consists of four objects, not two, and the gravitational center is outside of them all. So it is a quintuple system, but certainly not a planet as it's orbit is littered with debris. The "cleared it's orbit" contingency is ingenious and it works.
I think that one of Jupiter's moons is named after a male figure. I am not familiar with mythology so I really don't know which one, but I'm sure it's mentioned in Wikipedia somewhere.
Finding other objects of Pluto's size was the catalyst for defining a planet. But Pluto orbits the sun outside of the solar plane, in the wrong direction, on a highly elliptical orbit that sometimes brings it closer to the sun than Neptune. It was obvious for a long time that Pluto differed from the other planets and should not be included. Finding other similar objects (which had been suspected for a long time) only cemented the deal.
It doesn't scale to other systems. Jupiter has a moon larger in volume than Mercury, for instance.
You mean that little tiny Spot in the G area? Is it that much of a surprise it took these men so long to find it?
It's a third of a mile wide. Maybe they're not into BBW's.
If something that small can be a moon, the Pluto should still be a planet.
When Pluto clears it's orbit, it will be a planet.
Size is not used to define objects for good reason. I agree that some definition of a moon must be formulated, however, as Saturn has over 150 of these little moonlets orbiting her, and new ones are discovered every so often.
Can you really call an object a third of a mile wide a "moon" rather than "just a rocky piece of junk that orbits Saturn, like a whole bunch of other stuff."
There's about 150 of those in Saturn's system alone:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_satellite
However, nobody can find a good definition of a moon, just like the definition of the planet was hard to come by. The "cleared it's orbit" clause won't work for moons because they are the sources of the gas giant's rings (and gravitationally stabilize them), and the "gravitationally round" bit won't work either because it would eliminate lots of objects that we would like to call moons, such as the two rocks orbiting Mars. Come up with a good definition that does not rely on any arbitrary numbers (like size, mass, etc), and I'll submit it for approval.
What do you think should be on Linux.com?
Porn.
Just like the rest of the internet.
I've got the money sitting there that I want to give to Solidworks, the minute that there is a Linux version available. I'll buy Photoshop, too, just to help support them even though I've become comfortable with Gimp. I've written to both companies to let them know that.
If you do win32 you MIGHT as well just use wine.
That was exactly my point! Asking for a 'standard' is akin to asking for devs to code to MS 'standards' and then have Linux devs reverse engineer them.
Uh, no, not if the ice caps melted and created anything resembling an ocean on Mars. If water flowed on Mars again they would no longer have roughly the same available landmass.
Hence "have" and not "will have if *".
Would be excited to hear if underground water is found. The ice caps probably don't have the volume to fill what potentially could have been an Earth-ish looking planet.
They wouldn't need to. Mars has only about a third of the surface area of Earth. Which makes for a nice coincidence as we both have roughly the same available landmass!
Although the web makes this sort of thing possible, the same web will help to mitigate the damage.
Riddick's thought of that. He's a domain squatter too:
http://www.islandview2.com/index3A.htm
Usually, when someone takes advantage of one facet of the World Wide Web, they take advantage of all of it.
Web browsers are _supposed_ to support HTML, which is not platform or software dependent.
Linux is POSIX-compliant, which does not cover the type of usage that a game would need. The best that you could hope for is to standardize win32, and help Wine develop an implementation of win32 on Linux.
On who's servers?
I see.
I suggest then, that those who run _any_ application in wine, Eve Online or otherwise, contact the devs and ask for a Linux version. Else, you are just pinning yourself to Wine and the moving target that it is.
Alternatively, use an OS that runs the apps you need. If that is not a solution, then write to the devs!
I guess you missed the article a month ago on Auto-Tune software, or you'd have already had an idea why most music today is bland shit.
That is because the money is not in the music, it is in the music video, accessories, and other bullshit. Just find some beautiful woman to sync to a click track, the alter her voice to actually _sound_good_ and you've got a winner, with no accusations of lip syncing or whatnot.
Yes, they decided that there will be no more Eve Online for Linux and despite that they are expanding their market. I suppose that the the Linux devs are being moved to other platforms. What does that say about Linux marketshare? If we _really_ want to see games on Linux we need to start buying them, not buying the Windows version and running it in Wine (even if it runs better). If we don't encourage the software houses to write the games (encourage==buy) then they won't write them.
Shall I go out on a limb and coin the term "net tablet" right now?
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Thanks, I really did not know that.
Didn't Google Chrome get 3% market share in like a day or something? Here's the /. story on that:
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/03/1343226
This sounds like the classic solar is not a renewable energy source tale because of the non-renewable materials in solar cells. You do realize that once the cells are built, that they continue to work until damaged or otherwise decommissioned, and that the nonrenewables are not consumed in the process? Also, there are alternative materials to use, and alternative places to mine what there is.
You apparently understimate the rising costs of energy of _all_ types. It is a feedback market, as one type of energy chages price, the others change along with it to keep within a natural price ratio. That ratio changes in the short term, but in the long term non-renewables become more expensive and renewables become cheaper. Are you arguing that solar energy is a non-renewable energy resource because of the tellurium supply? You do realize that there are tellurium supplies that are not currently being mined, because of cost? As volume and demand increase, those resources will be mined.