They have indexed 40 billion pages. Read the entire Google post. It says it right there.
I didn't see that information in either post, only that their index is somewhat less than the full 1T unique URLs. The full size of the Google index is probably confidential, proprietary info. Their competitors could use it as a benchmark for assessing how their service compares, so I'm not surprised that it's not there--or if it was there that it was removed.
You're missing the point. By Earth-like they mean telluric planet, as in, not a gas giant.
In this case, they don't actually mean even this. From TFA:
"What we have," Udry says, "is the minimum mass of the planet and its separation" from its star.
They don't actually know if it's rocky. All that they know is that the mass is about right, and it's about close enough to a red dwarf for liquid water.
I hate how unbox shows bought by/through/for the Tivo have to be completely downloaded before you can start watching them. That seems inane to me. Is that fixed with this new service?
The summary says that the money for these accommodations was denied by Congress. If you don't like being subject to the whim of the taxpayer, you shouldn't be in public service. And the last time I checked the Constitution, that still included the military. Asshole.
So I learned my lesson: Always research before you bid on eBay, even if the bid's not serious.;-)
And to think--I knew that already, without having to go through your experience. Really, did you expect us to sympathize with you for placing bids that you had no intention of keeping?
Don't forget that home upload rates suck.
ig I have 3/1 service, so about 1Mb/s up. 100GB is 819,200 Mb, so it'd take me about 250 hours to upload, or 10 days running constantly.
That's doable, but fairly painful too.
You're blaming the user for overpaying on your storage solution? It's hardly their fault that the $/GB you paid is too high. And before you ask: I'm familiar with large storage systems. I can comfortably say that I see more storage on Tuesday of any week than you will your entire career. We have lots, because we get it cheap.
The current working assumptions are for life to be supported in a form that we recognize, it needs to be in temperature ranges where water can remain liquid. ie not too cold for consistent frozen water, and not too hot for consistent boiling temperatures. Water was chosen as the benchmark as it provides the primary mechanism for the chemistry of Earth life. There are other theoretical chemistries, but until we have a sample we won't know how realistic those alternate biological chemistries are.
Therefore, planets that are in the "Goldilocks zone" where liquid water exists at the surface are considered ideal. Future evidence may correct those assumptions, as always in science, but we currently have one positive example where life exists according to that rule, as well as other supporting evidence, so we extrapolate from that as being most probable conditions necessary to support life.
It may be that the environmental conditions preclude liquid water at the surface, but nevertheless support life other than at the surface; that is why there is speculation about life on Mars and possibly Europa. So you're right: conditions on moons or planets outside of the habitable zone could theoretically support life regardless. Were we in fact to find life under the ice on Europa I imagine that we would expand our search for life considerably, as we would have demonstrated that life is possible outside of the Goldilocks zone. That's part of the excitement around those experiments--if we can find life in those conditions, it makes it much more likely that we will find extrasolar life also.
However, since we have limited resources in which to search for life, those resources will be applied to the most likely candidates first and the less likely only after we have exhausted our explorations of the most likely. And right now, we have only found life in exactly one place: on a rocky body in the Goldilocks zone. Our searches are guided by precedence.
No. Maybe it should be. Until then I can take it into consideration as I decide for whom to vote for. I can do that for any arbitrary standard I determine, including the color of his socks. I try to cast my vote on the basis of what I think to be healthy to the country--and I don't think a $160K contribution will have long term healthy ramifications for our country.
The OP didn't say that. He said he wanted to liberate it for his use, not for everyone's, or the "common good". His attitude would lead exactly to the problems identified by the parent poster. As soon as you were old enough to be combat worthy, you would attempt to evict someone else older from their property--but you would call it "reclaiming your birthright". What a ridiculous position to take, it amounts to inter-genearational war.
You can bet that before I type my password for a customs agent, I'm going to talk to my company's legal department. And I'll wait in the customs office as long as it takes. Or simply forfeit the laptop and put it in the trash.
The IP on my laptop is easily worth 10x more than the value of the laptop itself.
I cleaned up forty Macs that were all infected with dozens of worms and viruses.
You're a flat out bald faced liar. "Dozens of worms and viruses" simply don't exist on OS X, and especially not in the wild. Maaybe you're cleaning up old OS 9 installs, but even then it's pretty hard to imagine--and by now that's a 10 year old OS. More likely is that you're a Microsoft shill desperately trying to prop up Vista, and aren't even aware that a whole other world of possibility exists. In this case your ignorance of reality makes you easily identifiable, and your employer should get their money back.
OS X is theoretically susceptible to a virus and worm--no doubt. However, the fact is that none have yet been written. Someday OS X may be targeted and your story will be more believable--but until then your post isn't worth reading past the first line.
You're not going to convince ME there was no link. Thimerosal has been removed from vaccines, and yet autism continues to develop. Really, I have read anecdotes such as yours, and was doubtful. But that fact pretty much cinches it for me--if there was a casual link, autism should have vanished overnight. It didn't.
I keep picturing the look on the face of the surveillance agent when he got a hit.
There he was, on "radiation duty" to search for something not really that likely to happen. If we're charitable, we'll assume that he was doing the crossword puzzle--but I wouldn't be surprised if "radiation duty" was reserved for the guys with hangovers or the guys gently nodding towards retirement.
"Wheeooo. Wheeoo." Goes the alarm--and the agent sits bolt upright. Holy cow! This is a live one! There might be a gosh-durn terrist, and he's the man on the job! He might get his face on the cover of Time! Reflexes he hasn't used since he clubbed hippies in the 60s spring into action, and he's off to the races.
Next, imagine his disappointment. First, he pulls over a car full of white folks, including women. Let's be honest--that's not the profile that you would expect to set of a terrist detector. (I didn't read TFA to learn if there were actually women in the car, but I think that's a safe assumption for someone that has pet cats, let alone will put them through radiation treatment.)
When the investigation focused and was resolved by the cat, well Mr Radiation Duty had a story for his grandkids. And I'm sure he got right back to doing the crossword puzzle--if he was fast he could finish it by nap time.
We would have pressured the German political system to write a special law just for him, that would allow extradition. Or face some kind of economic penalty, including the withdrawal of the US armed forces bases from Germany. That would make it both legal, problem solved.
I think this has already come up in the past, as other EU nations don't allow extradition to the US when the suspect faces the death penalty; but I can't quite remember how it turned out. I think in that case we agreed to take the death penalty off the table.
That argument became useless when we defined our enemies by evil acts, and vilified them for it--up until we were caught doing the same thing, then we had to go back and justify how in some cases it might actually be necessary, but "trust us, the other guys are still worse" 'cause, uh, they've been doing it longer.
"Look not into in the abyss".
I think it has been proven time and time again, that, in fact, we are not.
We like to think we are, we congratulate ourselves for being it, and maybe once upon a time we were. But our morals and ethics have faced the biggest test they have had in a long time, if not ever, and we failed. Pretty spectacularly.
I think the fact that we were debating if "waterboarding" constituted torture, on C-SPAN, clearly indicates that ethics, morals, and justice are just so much rhetoric until those notions are put to the test. And we caved to our baser notions in what can only be a speed record.
We have laughed at the French for the speed in which they surrender(ed) when put to the test; I wonder if the US will be known for generations for the speed in which our character collapsed when we were faced with a test.
Is this something they teach in schools in the US? I find it bewildering that so many people from that country have this extraordinarily unbalanced view of WWII.
Hm, good point. I'll try playing Axis and Allies without the US pieces on the board.
Why should your children benefit from your creation? My employer isn't going to continue to pay my children my salary should I die.
Of course, you can pass on the money you collect, just as I can. But why should the compensable value of your creation last longer than you do? The value of my work doesn't survive my life.
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They have indexed 40 billion pages. Read the entire Google post. It says it right there.
I didn't see that information in either post, only that their index is somewhat less than the full 1T unique URLs. The full size of the Google index is probably confidential, proprietary info. Their competitors could use it as a benchmark for assessing how their service compares, so I'm not surprised that it's not there--or if it was there that it was removed.
You're missing the point. By Earth-like they mean telluric planet, as in, not a gas giant.
In this case, they don't actually mean even this. From TFA:
"What we have," Udry says, "is the minimum mass of the planet and its separation" from its star.
They don't actually know if it's rocky. All that they know is that the mass is about right, and it's about close enough to a red dwarf for liquid water.
I hate how unbox shows bought by/through/for the Tivo have to be completely downloaded before you can start watching them. That seems inane to me. Is that fixed with this new service?
The summary says that the money for these accommodations was denied by Congress. If you don't like being subject to the whim of the taxpayer, you shouldn't be in public service. And the last time I checked the Constitution, that still included the military. Asshole.
So I learned my lesson: Always research before you bid on eBay, even if the bid's not serious.
And to think--I knew that already, without having to go through your experience. Really, did you expect us to sympathize with you for placing bids that you had no intention of keeping?
We *have* declared war and it is because we were attacked on our own soil.
We have not. A declaration of war is a bill that must be ratified by Congress, and no such bill has been passed.
Don't forget that home upload rates suck. ig I have 3/1 service, so about 1Mb/s up. 100GB is 819,200 Mb, so it'd take me about 250 hours to upload, or 10 days running constantly. That's doable, but fairly painful too.
ON OUR REALLY EXPENSIVE SAN STORAGE
You're blaming the user for overpaying on your storage solution? It's hardly their fault that the $/GB you paid is too high. And before you ask: I'm familiar with large storage systems. I can comfortably say that I see more storage on Tuesday of any week than you will your entire career. We have lots, because we get it cheap.
The current working assumptions are for life to be supported in a form that we recognize, it needs to be in temperature ranges where water can remain liquid. ie not too cold for consistent frozen water, and not too hot for consistent boiling temperatures. Water was chosen as the benchmark as it provides the primary mechanism for the chemistry of Earth life. There are other theoretical chemistries, but until we have a sample we won't know how realistic those alternate biological chemistries are.
Therefore, planets that are in the "Goldilocks zone" where liquid water exists at the surface are considered ideal. Future evidence may correct those assumptions, as always in science, but we currently have one positive example where life exists according to that rule, as well as other supporting evidence, so we extrapolate from that as being most probable conditions necessary to support life.
It may be that the environmental conditions preclude liquid water at the surface, but nevertheless support life other than at the surface; that is why there is speculation about life on Mars and possibly Europa. So you're right: conditions on moons or planets outside of the habitable zone could theoretically support life regardless. Were we in fact to find life under the ice on Europa I imagine that we would expand our search for life considerably, as we would have demonstrated that life is possible outside of the Goldilocks zone. That's part of the excitement around those experiments--if we can find life in those conditions, it makes it much more likely that we will find extrasolar life also.
However, since we have limited resources in which to search for life, those resources will be applied to the most likely candidates first and the less likely only after we have exhausted our explorations of the most likely. And right now, we have only found life in exactly one place: on a rocky body in the Goldilocks zone. Our searches are guided by precedence.
using reason and facts will just confuse them. Macs suck this week, please read the memo.
Is it illegal to be a campaign supporter now?
No. Maybe it should be. Until then I can take it into consideration as I decide for whom to vote for. I can do that for any arbitrary standard I determine, including the color of his socks. I try to cast my vote on the basis of what I think to be healthy to the country--and I don't think a $160K contribution will have long term healthy ramifications for our country.
The OP wants to liberate it for everyone's use.
The OP didn't say that. He said he wanted to liberate it for his use, not for everyone's, or the "common good". His attitude would lead exactly to the problems identified by the parent poster. As soon as you were old enough to be combat worthy, you would attempt to evict someone else older from their property--but you would call it "reclaiming your birthright". What a ridiculous position to take, it amounts to inter-genearational war.
You can bet that before I type my password for a customs agent, I'm going to talk to my company's legal department. And I'll wait in the customs office as long as it takes. Or simply forfeit the laptop and put it in the trash.
The IP on my laptop is easily worth 10x more than the value of the laptop itself.
That would be fine, as long as those same countries lose their Most Favored Nation trading status. What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
I cleaned up forty Macs that were all infected with dozens of worms and viruses.
You're a flat out bald faced liar. "Dozens of worms and viruses" simply don't exist on OS X, and especially not in the wild. Maaybe you're cleaning up old OS 9 installs, but even then it's pretty hard to imagine--and by now that's a 10 year old OS. More likely is that you're a Microsoft shill desperately trying to prop up Vista, and aren't even aware that a whole other world of possibility exists. In this case your ignorance of reality makes you easily identifiable, and your employer should get their money back.
OS X is theoretically susceptible to a virus and worm--no doubt. However, the fact is that none have yet been written. Someday OS X may be targeted and your story will be more believable--but until then your post isn't worth reading past the first line.
Liar liar pants on fire.
You should consider not flying through, or doing business in, Texas.
You're not going to convince ME there was no link.
Thimerosal has been removed from vaccines, and yet autism continues to develop. Really, I have read anecdotes such as yours, and was doubtful. But that fact pretty much cinches it for me--if there was a casual link, autism should have vanished overnight. It didn't.
I wonder if this will backfire. A modular OS means that each component is easier to replace, as it's not intrinsically linked with the rest of the OS.
If you can replace a component, and choose which pieces to run piece by piece, people might make choices that aren't in Microsoft's interest.
I keep picturing the look on the face of the surveillance agent when he got a hit.
There he was, on "radiation duty" to search for something not really that likely to happen. If we're charitable, we'll assume that he was doing the crossword puzzle--but I wouldn't be surprised if "radiation duty" was reserved for the guys with hangovers or the guys gently nodding towards retirement.
"Wheeooo. Wheeoo." Goes the alarm--and the agent sits bolt upright. Holy cow! This is a live one! There might be a gosh-durn terrist, and he's the man on the job! He might get his face on the cover of Time! Reflexes he hasn't used since he clubbed hippies in the 60s spring into action, and he's off to the races.
Next, imagine his disappointment. First, he pulls over a car full of white folks, including women. Let's be honest--that's not the profile that you would expect to set of a terrist detector. (I didn't read TFA to learn if there were actually women in the car, but I think that's a safe assumption for someone that has pet cats, let alone will put them through radiation treatment.)
When the investigation focused and was resolved by the cat, well Mr Radiation Duty had a story for his grandkids. And I'm sure he got right back to doing the crossword puzzle--if he was fast he could finish it by nap time.
Formal College education tends to improve writing skills, for one thing. I think you may have benefited from that.
We would have pressured the German political system to write a special law just for him, that would allow extradition. Or face some kind of economic penalty, including the withdrawal of the US armed forces bases from Germany. That would make it both legal, problem solved.
I think this has already come up in the past, as other EU nations don't allow extradition to the US when the suspect faces the death penalty; but I can't quite remember how it turned out. I think in that case we agreed to take the death penalty off the table.
That argument became useless when we defined our enemies by evil acts, and vilified them for it--up until we were caught doing the same thing, then we had to go back and justify how in some cases it might actually be necessary, but "trust us, the other guys are still worse" 'cause, uh, they've been doing it longer. "Look not into in the abyss".
We're a better nation than this.
I think it has been proven time and time again, that, in fact, we are not.
We like to think we are, we congratulate ourselves for being it, and maybe once upon a time we were. But our morals and ethics have faced the biggest test they have had in a long time, if not ever, and we failed. Pretty spectacularly.
I think the fact that we were debating if "waterboarding" constituted torture, on C-SPAN, clearly indicates that ethics, morals, and justice are just so much rhetoric until those notions are put to the test. And we caved to our baser notions in what can only be a speed record.
We have laughed at the French for the speed in which they surrender(ed) when put to the test; I wonder if the US will be known for generations for the speed in which our character collapsed when we were faced with a test.
Is this something they teach in schools in the US? I find it bewildering that so many people from that country have this extraordinarily unbalanced view of WWII.
Hm, good point. I'll try playing Axis and Allies without the US pieces on the board.
Why should your children benefit from your creation? My employer isn't going to continue to pay my children my salary should I die.
Of course, you can pass on the money you collect, just as I can. But why should the compensable value of your creation last longer than you do? The value of my work doesn't survive my life.