I'm sorry, but these types of ads are absolutely moronic no matter who uses them. They are both arrogant and condescending. Personally, I've never been swayed by commercials to buy something, but the Apple commercials DID sway me NOT to buy an Apple. Here I was on the verge of buying an iBook and then I saw those commercials and I chose not to buy it. My friends have expressed similar disgust. This is so true.
It could be possible that carbonyl suphide might be made by non-biological processes, but it is highly improbable given the time scale of such a reaction. A lot of organic compounds (like carbonyl suphide) can be made without biological processes, but the energy and time requirements are too extremely high to be produced in the AMOUNT that was found on Venus. However, if you add biological catalysts (protiens), you can get these compounds extremely quickly.
So, when someone sees a large amount of one of these compounds, he can safely say that some sort of catalyst is causing this reaction. Since carbonyl suphide is a common compound produced by life on Earth, it isn't a giant leap to say that it might be produced by life on Venus.
...because they are both insecure enough to be a hazard in a real world situation. If I want to run a secure box, I'll run a BSD (probably OpenBSD). One remote exploit in six years is a bit better than a new one every month (a trend both Linux and Windows seem to share).
The only way to keep a Linux or Windows box secure is to patch it almost constantly. To be honest, that is a task that sysadmins don't want to be doing all the time. There are much more important things to be doing.
Hell no. If that happened, Korea would take over the world. Starcraft has taught us that we should never mess with the Koreans when it comes to virtual war!
So, I've been wondering for a while if there is a "definitive" definition of a planet. I've always used the definition that a planet was any object that was formed in the accretion disc of a star. Is this correct or not at all?
Also, if you are to believe in the Bode-Titius Rule, the new planet should be 77 or so AU from the sun, which may be a reason to believe Quaoar isn't a planet.
Why did they name it Quaoar or whatever it is? It seems completely idiotic that they would deviate completely from the conventions of naming planets; all the other planets are named after Roman gods, so it seems reasonable that they should have named this one after a Roman god.
In fact, it would have been completely appropriate to name it Erebus, the darkness of the underworld.
Actually, Aristarchus, a Greek aroud the early part of the 3rd century BC, came up with it. Copernicus basically rehashed what Aristarchus said, improved on it a bit, and now most people believe that Copernicus came up with the idea.
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I'm sorry, but these types of ads are absolutely moronic no matter who uses them. They are both arrogant and condescending. Personally, I've never been swayed by commercials to buy something, but the Apple commercials DID sway me NOT to buy an Apple. Here I was on the verge of buying an iBook and then I saw those commercials and I chose not to buy it. My friends have expressed similar disgust. This is so true.
It could be possible that carbonyl suphide might be made by non-biological processes, but it is highly improbable given the time scale of such a reaction. A lot of organic compounds (like carbonyl suphide) can be made without biological processes, but the energy and time requirements are too extremely high to be produced in the AMOUNT that was found on Venus. However, if you add biological catalysts (protiens), you can get these compounds extremely quickly. So, when someone sees a large amount of one of these compounds, he can safely say that some sort of catalyst is causing this reaction. Since carbonyl suphide is a common compound produced by life on Earth, it isn't a giant leap to say that it might be produced by life on Venus.
...because they are both insecure enough to be a hazard in a real world situation. If I want to run a secure box, I'll run a BSD (probably OpenBSD). One remote exploit in six years is a bit better than a new one every month (a trend both Linux and Windows seem to share). The only way to keep a Linux or Windows box secure is to patch it almost constantly. To be honest, that is a task that sysadmins don't want to be doing all the time. There are much more important things to be doing.
Well, I guess his parents can truly say, "He died doing what he loved."
Hell no. If that happened, Korea would take over the world. Starcraft has taught us that we should never mess with the Koreans when it comes to virtual war!
So, I've been wondering for a while if there is a "definitive" definition of a planet. I've always used the definition that a planet was any object that was formed in the accretion disc of a star. Is this correct or not at all? Also, if you are to believe in the Bode-Titius Rule, the new planet should be 77 or so AU from the sun, which may be a reason to believe Quaoar isn't a planet.
Why did they name it Quaoar or whatever it is? It seems completely idiotic that they would deviate completely from the conventions of naming planets; all the other planets are named after Roman gods, so it seems reasonable that they should have named this one after a Roman god. In fact, it would have been completely appropriate to name it Erebus, the darkness of the underworld.
Actually, Aristarchus, a Greek aroud the early part of the 3rd century BC, came up with it. Copernicus basically rehashed what Aristarchus said, improved on it a bit, and now most people believe that Copernicus came up with the idea.