Correct me if I am wrong here, but water expands as it freezes, right? Thus its volume increases and would displace more water than it would if it were not frozen. The WEIGHT of that water, frozen or otherwise, would not change. Therefor, would not the frozen ice, that is then melted, displace less volume once it becomes water, and therefor LOWER the sea level.
You are correct that water expands when it freezes. The "expanded" portion is visibile on polar ice caps as the ice OVER the sea level (if it wasn' expanding, it would have no reason to go over sea level...) So when it melts the sea level will not change.
Actually, there will be a small change since the ocean is salt water, while the ice is fresh water. But the effect is quite minor.
The database backend is not really stressed. What's killing Wikipedia is the scaling (or lack thereof) of PHP.
Of the 100+ wikipedia servers, about 80% are Apache servers busy with PHP code. Most of the rest are caching systems designed to lower the load placed on PHP. Database servers are a small minority.
Dude, cool down. Since the "permanent link" was introduced only a few weeks ago, it would have been difficult for previous Slashdot comments to reference it.
It excludes Pluto (twin planet with Charon). It doesn't exclude Earth by a hair, since the center of orbit of the Earth-Moon system is only 1/6 of the way down from the crust.
Amusingly, it would exclude Jupiter as a planet of the Sun (!), since the center of orbit of the Sun-Jupiter system falls outside the Sun itself.
Perhaps only one of the two groups ought "rightly" be called planets, and the other given a new name. Or perhaps the two planet categories should be given distinct names (rocks and clouds),
I have my doubts about this story. Italian is derived more or less directly from Latin, and the Italian word for satellite is... "satellite" (it's pronounced differently than in English of course). Part of this confusion comes from the fact that the Latin "satelles" is a highly irregular term and, for example, the accusative is "satellitem".
Firefox 1.5 has drag and drop tab reordering. And even in the current version there's a red X at the right side of the tab bar to close the current tab.
Communism is an economic system, not a government system. You can have any combination of a communist/market economy and a democratic/totalitarian government.
just to nitpick a little, the 9200 is more like 300-600% slower than an x800.
You mean that a 9200 gets negative benchmark numbers? Like, pulling pixels out of the screen, into the memory buffers and finally moving your mouse with the data so obtained?
Dude, wikipedia license is GFDL, like the GPL for software. Anyone can fork the entire contents if they want. Commercial profit, by Wikipedia or any other individual with a hard disk and a printer has always been allowed by the license.
If you don't reach the Sun's escape velocity you'll just orbit it like any other body in the solar system. Reaching escape velocity for the Sun means leaving the solar system for outer space.
Do you want to stay on the wrong side of the road for 10 seconds or for 2 seconds? The latter is way safer, but it probably means that you're speeding.
Data from Cassini indicate that Saturn has slowed down its rotation compared to what other automatic probes measured in the '70s and '80s. So no big bodies and no significative dispersion of mass - we would have seen it.
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What "inexhaustible supply of uranium"? Are you planning to make a supernova every now and then?
Slashdot automatically inserts a space into long URLs.
Pardon my ignorance of European political systems, but what country is this?
I don't know the parent's country, but in mine (Italy) if you collect 500,000 signatures you can either:
- have a referendum
- have a law voted in parlament
sometimes it works.
Correct me if I am wrong here, but water expands as it freezes, right? Thus its volume increases and would displace more water than it would if it were not frozen. The WEIGHT of that water, frozen or otherwise, would not change. Therefor, would not the frozen ice, that is then melted, displace less volume once it becomes water, and therefor LOWER the sea level.
You are correct that water expands when it freezes. The "expanded" portion is visibile on polar ice caps as the ice OVER the sea level (if it wasn' expanding, it would have no reason to go over sea level...) So when it melts the sea level will not change.
Actually, there will be a small change since the ocean is salt water, while the ice is fresh water. But the effect is quite minor.
The database backend is not really stressed. What's killing Wikipedia is the scaling (or lack thereof) of PHP.
Of the 100+ wikipedia servers, about 80% are Apache servers busy with PHP code. Most of the rest are caching systems designed to lower the load placed on PHP. Database servers are a small minority.
Dude, cool down. Since the "permanent link" was introduced only a few weeks ago, it would have been difficult for previous Slashdot comments to reference it.
They are in fact considered cadavers.
It excludes Pluto (twin planet with Charon). It doesn't exclude Earth by a hair, since the center of orbit of the Earth-Moon system is only 1/6 of the way down from the crust.
Amusingly, it would exclude Jupiter as a planet of the Sun (!), since the center of orbit of the Sun-Jupiter system falls outside the Sun itself.
Perhaps only one of the two groups ought "rightly" be called planets, and the other given a new name. Or perhaps the two planet categories should be given distinct names (rocks and clouds),
Already done and in common use. See Terrestrial planet and Gas giant.
I have my doubts about this story. Italian is derived more or less directly from Latin, and the Italian word for satellite is... "satellite" (it's pronounced differently than in English of course). Part of this confusion comes from the fact that the Latin "satelles" is a highly irregular term and, for example, the accusative is "satellitem".
Dude, re-read comment #13662038, which is the one from which the quote is taken.
Firefox 1.5 has drag and drop tab reordering. And even in the current version there's a red X at the right side of the tab bar to close the current tab.
No, 70% of the country has decided to let the other 30% choose a government. If they get something they don't like, it's too late now to complain.
around 17km each way
That's less than one hour with a bike. If the road is flat it would be a light exercise, not more.
Communism is an economic system, not a government system. You can have any combination of a communist/market economy and a democratic/totalitarian government.
You dudes need to learn to spell Michelangelo correctly (that's the modern spelling. The old Italian one was Michelangiolo).
just to nitpick a little, the 9200 is more like 300-600% slower than an x800.
You mean that a 9200 gets negative benchmark numbers? Like, pulling pixels out of the screen, into the memory buffers and finally moving your mouse with the data so obtained?
Dude, wikipedia license is GFDL, like the GPL for software. Anyone can fork the entire contents if they want. Commercial profit, by Wikipedia or any other individual with a hard disk and a printer has always been allowed by the license.
If you don't reach the Sun's escape velocity you'll just orbit it like any other body in the solar system. Reaching escape velocity for the Sun means leaving the solar system for outer space.
Do you want to stay on the wrong side of the road for 10 seconds or for 2 seconds? The latter is way safer, but it probably means that you're speeding.
In the US, a Supreme Court ruling is as much a law as any law can ever hope to be.
Data from Cassini indicate that Saturn has slowed down its rotation compared to what other automatic probes measured in the '70s and '80s. So no big bodies and no significative dispersion of mass - we would have seen it.
HAHAHAHAHAHA
How can some people believe that!
I wrote 11MBps
Who ever writes MB/sec using MBps? I've only seen the latter when referring to bits per second, or megabits per second.
USB 2.0 "High-speed" is incredibly slow. Around 11MBps on my Linux box.
Dude, you have a USB 1.1 driver.