Please apply a little logic to your reply. The IAU definition of a planet does not consider the inclination or eccentricity of the orbit. That would have made more sense than "clearing the area".
By the way, how many other KBOs have their own satellites as large as Charon?
Joomla setup isn't too bad as it's a pretty standard PHP/MySQL application. After that, the installer does a pretty good job of getting things going.
The admin interface is smooth, but the main problem with Joomla is figuring out WHAT TO DO in the admin pages to build your site. Web pages are abstracted into an arcane menu structure, and "articles" need to be universally structured into a fixed hierarchy of "sections" and "categories". So unless you know all of your web site's contents in advance, you can easily build a system that "can't get there from here".
I've also been waiting for a long time for pure CSS templates. The table-driven templates that I've used are very fragile - the smallest innocuous change can knock the entire site out of whack.
Joomla has great potential and it's still getting better. There's great support for open source plug-ins, and out of the box, it's quite reliable. However, if you're building a large, complex site with Joomla, be sure to map it out very carefully.
Actually, the current IAU definition of a planet only applies to our own solar system. The IAU's definition purports to be a universal definition while in reality it is a vague "hack" designed specifically to exclude Pluto as a planet. Vague criteria such as a "nearly round" shape may at least have an intuitive interpretation, but the "clearing the area" criteria has no meaning other than whatever the rule-makers decide it should mean.
While U.S. members of the IAU make up almost 26 percent of the total, the distribution among the voting members (a small subset of the total) is unknown. Why do I mention this? Pluto was the only planet discovered by an American, and anti-American sentiment is widespread. The BS definition promulgated by the IAU is what raises my suspicions.
Brooks is about 10 years too late. True geeks have nothing to do with Facebook; they were hacking HTML with notebook.exe over a decade ago.
As for me, Harry Potter? No interest whatsoever. Seen none of the movies nor read the books. I was 12 in the '60's and spent my time with Clarke, et.al.
Blogs were first created by geeks but are now ford anyone who can type. Been that way for years. A geek becomes a geek by creating tools and resources for "users" (including himself), not by becoming a "user" on a social networking site or opening a blog account somewhere.
Before the PC era, there were still geeks, but they were universally disparaged. The difference now is that being geek is now very useful. We've all surrounded ourselves with technology that is beyond the comprehension of the typical user. Now, when the average joe is having trouble with his cable modem, cell phone, web browser, nav system, email account, etc, who does he call upon?
His geek friend.
Geeks RTFM, they don't Twitter (whatever that is).
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Please apply a little logic to your reply. The IAU definition of a planet does not consider the inclination or eccentricity of the orbit. That would have made more sense than "clearing the area".
By the way, how many other KBOs have their own satellites as large as Charon?
Joomla setup isn't too bad as it's a pretty standard PHP/MySQL application. After that, the installer does a pretty good job of getting things going. The admin interface is smooth, but the main problem with Joomla is figuring out WHAT TO DO in the admin pages to build your site. Web pages are abstracted into an arcane menu structure, and "articles" need to be universally structured into a fixed hierarchy of "sections" and "categories". So unless you know all of your web site's contents in advance, you can easily build a system that "can't get there from here". I've also been waiting for a long time for pure CSS templates. The table-driven templates that I've used are very fragile - the smallest innocuous change can knock the entire site out of whack. Joomla has great potential and it's still getting better. There's great support for open source plug-ins, and out of the box, it's quite reliable. However, if you're building a large, complex site with Joomla, be sure to map it out very carefully.
Actually, the current IAU definition of a planet only applies to our own solar system. The IAU's definition purports to be a universal definition while in reality it is a vague "hack" designed specifically to exclude Pluto as a planet. Vague criteria such as a "nearly round" shape may at least have an intuitive interpretation, but the "clearing the area" criteria has no meaning other than whatever the rule-makers decide it should mean. While U.S. members of the IAU make up almost 26 percent of the total, the distribution among the voting members (a small subset of the total) is unknown. Why do I mention this? Pluto was the only planet discovered by an American, and anti-American sentiment is widespread. The BS definition promulgated by the IAU is what raises my suspicions.
Brooks is about 10 years too late. True geeks have nothing to do with Facebook; they were hacking HTML with notebook.exe over a decade ago.
As for me, Harry Potter? No interest whatsoever. Seen none of the movies nor read the books. I was 12 in the '60's and spent my time with Clarke, et.al.
Blogs were first created by geeks but are now ford anyone who can type. Been that way for years. A geek becomes a geek by creating tools and resources for "users" (including himself), not by becoming a "user" on a social networking site or opening a blog account somewhere.
Before the PC era, there were still geeks, but they were universally disparaged. The difference now is that being geek is now very useful. We've all surrounded ourselves with technology that is beyond the comprehension of the typical user. Now, when the average joe is having trouble with his cable modem, cell phone, web browser, nav system, email account, etc, who does he call upon? His geek friend.
Geeks RTFM, they don't Twitter (whatever that is).
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