I changed planes in Toronto on Saturday and turned down the full booty machine, and was given a fairly perfunctory frisk instead. Not what the USA TSA has been trained to do (I plan to turn down the US booty scan too, but haven't had the experience yet).
The press release didn't say that, but that it was the decay with time that was determinative. I don't see it, but I suspect that there are some missing pieces in the paper, but not the press release, that fill in the gaps.
I liked Xenia a lot better, and don't understand the sort of pedantry that disallowed it. Now it resides with the Brontosaurus in the land of cool, but abandoned, names.
If you want an odd body, look at Sedna, which may be a world from an alien solar system.
Don't give Eris out yet. There was a lot of discussion on the MPML about this.
First, Eris is definitely more massive, by about 28%. They both have satellites with good orbits, so their masses are pretty well determined.
Second, it is not really that clear that Pluto is really larger than Eris. There have been a number of estimates of Puto's size; by the most recent one presented by Angela Zalucha at the DPS meeting (a radius fit to occultation measurements with a new atmospheric model), Pluto and Eris have roughly the same radius within the respective error bars (1146 +-20 km in diameter for Pluto versus 1170 km for Eris).
What is more interesting to me is that Eris is dense and very bright - could something as rare as Deuterium snow be covering its surface ?
It's that word most in "Most of what we do..." that may be important here. Most doesn't mean all. Also note he did not mention their cryptographic techniques, which is where I would expect them to be especially advanced.
You've got Point Mugu Pacific Missile Range Facility just North of LA and Vandenberg AFB North of that. They both have big exclusion zones, and the authority to expand them it it's really needed. Don't go shooting stuff off outside the exclusion zones. You will get someone hurt.
If this was unauthorized, whoever did it should be court-martialed. If there wasn't an exclusion zone, at the least there should be a Court of Inquiry.
In connection with spam marketers and clients, it is.
Here is an observation. I have a bunch of news filters for my sites and client site. 5 years ago, these would mostly return real hits (mentions in blogs, or the press, or a link, whatever). Today, they mostly return spam sites (sites that have a bunch of links to real businesses, but no real information and, of course, a bunch of ads). I presume that these sites are mostly put up to get hits from Google searches, and that it must be working (as there are so many of them).
Our children's children's children won't know, really (unless we find a copy of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy lying around). But the statistical estimate will continue to improve.
Everybody supports all sorts of things in principle, but, in the country I live in, Republicans in practice rarely support Democratic initiatives, which this now is.
And, it needs a 2/3 vote, so it wouldn't take much opposition to stop it.
Of course this is a treaty and of course it needs Senate approval, which it is highly unlikely to get.The attempt to do an end-run around this obligation is, frankly, sleazy and sufficient reason to oppose ACTA all by itself, even if all it did was support Mother's Day.
I read somewhere (maybe Max Hasting's book on Winston's War) about a problem the British had with some infantry equipment getting wet and non-functional. They supposedly solved it by going to condom makers, who made a several foot long condom to fit over the gear and keep it dry.
When Churchill saw this, he said that it wouldn't do at all - he wanted each pack labeled "British Condom. Size - Medium."
I sure don't see the kind of numbers Gartner is talking about. I see lots of iPhones, not many Androids, and never hear "civilians" talking about the Android. There is a Android kiosk in my local mall - I don't see any lines in front of it.
Look, I know plenty of people who use Facebook and the like basically as a means to post blogs (or, as "twitter with 420 character posts"). They don't put up anything personally sensitive, but they would still be pissed off if someone stole their info and started putting up posts in support of neo-Nazi child pornography or whatever.
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I changed planes in Toronto on Saturday and turned down the full booty machine, and was given a fairly perfunctory frisk instead. Not what the USA TSA has been trained to do (I plan to turn down the US booty scan too, but haven't had the experience yet).
Get yourself a telescope, find one, and you can pretty much name it as you please.
Oh, and the first announcement is out on the NASA conference next year on The Importance of Solar System Sample Return Missions to the Future of Planetary Science, March 5–6, 2011. Hope the Hayabusa scientists get to go.
Bravo. Now, do it again !
The press release didn't say that, but that it was the decay with time that was determinative. I don't see it, but I suspect that there are some missing pieces in the paper, but not the press release, that fill in the gaps.
Neutron Stars can have accretion disks too. (LSI 31 303 is supposed to have one, for example.)
So I am not sure I see why that is determinative. Off to read the article.
I like the first name, Xenia, much better.
I liked Xenia a lot better, and don't understand the sort of pedantry that disallowed it. Now it resides with the Brontosaurus in the land of cool, but abandoned, names.
If you want an odd body, look at Sedna, which may be a world from an alien solar system.
Don't give Eris out yet. There was a lot of discussion on the MPML about this.
First, Eris is definitely more massive, by about 28%. They both have satellites with good orbits, so their masses are pretty well determined.
Second, it is not really that clear that Pluto is really larger than Eris. There have been a number of estimates of Puto's size; by the most recent one presented by Angela Zalucha at the DPS meeting (a radius fit to occultation measurements with a new atmospheric model), Pluto and Eris have roughly the same radius within the respective error bars (1146 +-20 km in diameter for Pluto versus 1170 km for Eris).
What is more interesting to me is that Eris is dense and very bright - could something as rare as Deuterium snow be covering its surface ?
So that's how Fanghorn and the Ents got their leafy homes to light up at night !
It's that word most in "Most of what we do..." that may be important here. Most doesn't mean all. Also note he did not mention their cryptographic techniques, which is where I would expect them to be especially advanced.
Guys. Really now.
You've got Point Mugu Pacific Missile Range Facility just North of LA and Vandenberg AFB North of that. They both have big exclusion zones, and the authority to expand them it it's really needed. Don't go shooting stuff off outside the exclusion zones. You will get someone hurt.
If this was unauthorized, whoever did it should be court-martialed. If there wasn't an exclusion zone, at the least there should be a Court of Inquiry.
15 Euros per song - or, maybe, $ 25. If it is good enough for Germany and the EU, it is good enough for the USA.
I use math (including some advanced stuff) every day. And, I am not talking about work. Literature, history, politics and music, not so much.
In connection with spam marketers and clients, it is.
Here is an observation. I have a bunch of news filters for my sites and client site. 5 years ago, these would mostly return real hits (mentions in blogs, or the press, or a link, whatever). Today, they mostly return spam sites (sites that have a bunch of links to real businesses, but no real information and, of course, a bunch of ads). I presume that these sites are mostly put up to get hits from Google searches, and that it must be working (as there are so many of them).
If that's not pollution, I don't know what is.
No, I got it. If I make it to that restaurant, I'm going to demand hover-cover.
Our children's children's children won't know, really (unless we find a copy of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy lying around). But the statistical estimate will continue to improve.
This has been "known" for a long time. If I remember correctly, that's what Carl Sagan was talking about with his "billions and billions."
Everybody supports all sorts of things in principle, but, in the country I live in, Republicans in practice rarely support Democratic initiatives, which this now is.
And, it needs a 2/3 vote, so it wouldn't take much opposition to stop it.
Of course this is a treaty and of course it needs Senate approval, which it is highly unlikely to get.The attempt to do an end-run around this obligation is, frankly, sleazy and sufficient reason to oppose ACTA all by itself, even if all it did was support Mother's Day.
Correct me if I am wrong, but don't both parties have to agree to a contract to make it binding?
Search on "contracts by adhesion"
I read somewhere (maybe Max Hasting's book on Winston's War) about a problem the British had with some infantry equipment getting wet and non-functional. They supposedly solved it by going to condom makers, who made a several foot long condom to fit over the gear and keep it dry.
When Churchill saw this, he said that it wouldn't do at all - he wanted each pack labeled "British Condom. Size - Medium."
the article is 4 years old - sure that the copying didn't go the other way ?
I sure don't see the kind of numbers Gartner is talking about. I see lots of iPhones, not many Androids, and never hear "civilians" talking about the Android. There is a Android kiosk in my local mall - I don't see any lines in front of it.
So, pardon me if I doubt.
Look, I know plenty of people who use Facebook and the like basically as a means to post blogs (or, as "twitter with 420 character posts"). They don't put up anything personally sensitive, but they would still be pissed off if someone stole their info and started putting up posts in support of neo-Nazi child pornography or whatever.