Actually, yes, Charon is roughly the same size as Pluto. This, along with Charon's orbit, has led many (including myself) to consider Pluto and Charon as a dual-planet system (i.e. they are both planets, orbiting around each other). Meanwhile, there are some that insist that neither is a planet. Astronomy is a tricky business, it seems.
It depends on what you call "moons". Personally i think the term "moon" is less specific than the term "satellite". Pretty much anything that has a permanent orbit around a planet is a satellite. I wouldn't really consider a bunch of large rocks (i.e. under a few kilometres) "moons", though. Essentially it's semantics, but you can't deny the fact that they are satellites.
As for where the other satellites came from....
The discovery of the last eleven of them is discussed here (39);
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Pacifism is an extremely broad notion. You can't just say all pacifism (except for the one-that-refuses-to-live-among-society one) is immoral. Maybe if, like you said, some situation arose that was impossible to overcome without violence, like Hitler's attempts at genocide/domination/what-have-you, you could then say that being pacifist in that situation was immoral. But there's nothing to say that that Hitler couldn't have been overcome without violence. We don't know that. Most likely not, but had just a few things happened differently, perhaps Hitler could've been stopped in a different way. A non-violent guard/military/police revolt, a citizen revolt, an outside tactic; something could conceivably stopped Hitler in a non-violent way. The odds are extremely slim, of course, but there's enough of a chance there that doesn't permit an absolute "pacifism is immoral" standpoint.
What about more trivial cases? What if, for example, when you were children, your brother took away a toy of yours, or something of that nature? You're presented with two options: beat his ass and get it back, or solve it in a non-violent way. I don't see how anyone could possibly say that someone doing the latter is "immoral". That's ridiculous. You're basing an entire philosophy on a very small per-centage of possible occurances. Maybe World War I and II were justified somewhat, but there are other wars that have happened with somewhat questionable motives. Again, i don't see how not participating in something like that could be considered immoral, if your opinion is that the war itself is immoral.
Defending one's country represents a VERY small piece of the possible-violent-conflicts pie. Most likely 90% of all would-be violent conflicts in one's life would be trivial, stupid things, like the example i mentioned above. And pacifism does NOT mean inactivity, as your posts seem to suggest. Pacifism simply means non-violence. A peace accord, a compromise, a petition, a refusal to obey orders; these are non-violent ways to end conflicts. Pacifism does not mean simply sitting on your ass and watching the world go by because you're a coward. Pacifism means you strive to solve conflicts without violence.
You obviously either don't know what pacifism means, or you're choosing to ignore the broader scope of it.
People have been ripping off the Windows (all versions) interface since day one. It shows just what Microsoft deems important. I've never heard of Microsoft saying the slightest thing about all the many people that have been so blatantly ripping off the Windows GUI (though maybe this has happened after all? correct me if i'm wrong).
Instead they appear to go after stuff they deem more important. On the other hand... Apple is notorious for their legal guys, who seem to have nothing better to do than hunt down any and all reincarnations of the Aqua interface, even if they're not exact rip-offs. They find something that's just in the STYLE of Aqua, they sue.
I don't know, i hate Microsoft as much as the next guy, but at least in this matter they seem to have their priorities straight.
Sir, Macromedia has little to do with those faggot advertisements you've been seeing recently. Those advertisements are a relatively new thing (as in, maybe a year or so old); Flash has been just super with everybody until those came along.
Truly, the ironic thing is that you like to visit the sites with those Flash advertisements on them. Is it Macromedia's fault? Are there just some malicious random people sneaking Flash advertisements into good, humble folk's Web sites?
NO! THE WEBSITES YOU ARE VISITING ARE TO BLAME. IF YOU DON'T LIKE THE ADVERTISEMENTS, DON'T BLAME MACROMEDIA. BLAME THE PANSY-ASS FUCKING WEBSITE THAT YOU INSIST ON VISITING AND THEN SAYING "OH GEE GOLLY GOSH I HATE THIS DARNEDED FLASH CONTRAPTION, WHY MUST IT TAKE OVER THIS LOVELY INNOCENT WEBSITE???".
Perhaps you're not quite as familiar with games as you go on. Ignoring the whole piracy issue for the moment, cheat devices have many uses beyond just "i'm going to buy/rent this game so i can beat it in 5 minutes and impress my friends". Firstly, there are some of us (me included) who purchase LEGITIMATE Japanese hardware/software. I, for instance, purchased a Sony PocketStation a year or so ago. Many of the games that featured PocketStation support in Japan (a certain Street Fighter game, Alpha 3, i think, being the most popular example) had that support removed, or should i say hidden, from the American retail version. How did i (and others living in America) get to play Street Fighter on their PocketStation? We used a GameShark to enable the feature. What was the disrespect in this case was not our use of the GameShark, but rather the American team that fucked with the original Japanese design. This "disrespect" can be seen in hundreds upon hundreds of Japanese games, where the American translaters/localisers/what-have-you have come in and stripped the games of their original meaning and/or features. But that's another point entirely.
The Japanese software/hardware thing aside, there are other uses for cheat devices. Personally, when i buy a game (my favourite genre being RPGs), i play it as a challenge, an interactive story that desires my hand in completing it. However, once i've beaten the game, and got the satisfaction of completing it myself, i may want to play it again. When i play Final Fantasy VIII for the six hundredth time, am i playing it to relive the billion annoying random battles that i had to spend hours on defeating insignificant enemies? No, i'm playing it to relive the story. Using a cheat device here to maybe boost my attack strength, or give me all the spells, or give me quick level gain, is not disrespecting the developers. I paid my money, i got the satisfaction of beating it once. Now i want to relive the story, and i don't want to be bothered by the less-than-stellar parts of the game.
Besides that. This isn't the way i would do it it, but if someone felt so inclined to purchase a $60 video game and cheat the whole way through, fine. Let them. They paid 60 fucking dollars for it. Maybe the people that are ultimately "behind" the game will object, saying that that's not what it was intended for... but to Nintendo, Sony, Square, Sega, etc., IT'S JUST ANOTHER 60 DOLLARS.
As for piracy... there's two sides to this. Mod chips != piracy. More often than not, they do, yes. But this is like the whole RIAA thing and disabling CDs on computers and all that jazz. Just because some people rip the CDs that they buy and distribute them to millions of people doesn't mean the legit people like me, who rip their music to play on their PC because they don't feel like swapping through hundreds of CDs, should have to pay for that. The same goes for pirating. Just because there's a bunch of pirates out there ripping off Sony for their games doesn't mean i shouldn't be allowed to buy an import game and play it in my modded PlayStation. The money goes back to Sony anyway, why does it matter?
You've picked up some misconceptions about mod chips, ace. Not everybody is a bad guy.
The article was written in Danish, guy. The "you didn't even read the article" thing doesn't work here, considering that only a minute per-cent of Slashdotters understand Danish. Perhaps this person is one of the majority.
I think, unfortunately, that you have touched on something here that nobody else seems to have yet. With the recent (and not-so-recent, in hindsight) onslaught of stupid and pointless lawsuits over every little thing ("omgz mcd0naldz maed me teh fat izt there fault"), one wonders if perhaps some damned fool reading this guy's page might sue FhG, et al., for "making him deaf". That would truly be a sad thing... but i wouldn't put it past anybody, not for a second.
Woah woah now, are you sure you're old enough to have a girlfriend? I mean... the teachers didn't start letting me say "sex" like it wasn't a swear word until i was in, like, the third grade.
We're all grown-ups now. And despite what your kindergarten teacher may have told you, "sex" is not a bad word. It is the process by which creatures reproduce; a natural and necessary occurance.
The word "starcraft" makes just as much sense as "space ship", "spacecraft", or "starship". It is a CRAFT that navigates the STARS. How many of these words do you use in everyday conversation, though?
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This wasn't really the point of your article, i understand, but i'd just like to point out:
First of all, the Mac OS doesn't have "processing speed". You're referring to the hardware found in Macs (specifically the Motorola processors). Secondly, assuming thus (unless you really meant something else that i don't quite grasp), your statement that the platform has been "at least 6 month behind in processing speed for 4 years" is still incorrect. You can't compare Motorola processors and Pentium-class processors strictly by numbers. A 1.25-GHz G4 != a 1.25-GHz Pentium 4. They are completely different architectures.
And, if i may throw in an anecdote here: i reformatted (i guess you could call it) my 333-MHz G3 iMac a few months ago, and reinstalled System 8.5 on it. After getting some of my junk installed on there, including Kaleidoscope, i went back to my 1.8-GHz P4 with Windows XP, and noticed that, hark!, the Mac seemed unexpectedly on-par, in terms of performance, with the PC! Can't explain it really, heh, except to say that the Mac was newly-reformatted, and the PC was running on a year-old copy of Windows with a fairly bogged-down hard drive. YMMV, of course, but i just thought i'd share a story with the other kids.
$0, heh, my dad runs an ISP. Unlimited space (well, as much as the server can hold), PHP, SQL, ASP, all those other lovely server technologies (FrontPage, yadda yadda); option of either using FrontPage or FTP to upload files (i prefer the latter), etc., etc..
Late in the discussion, but i'd like to point you to a reply i made above. I didn't make these numbers up, i stated explicitly in my post that these are someone else's numbers. For anybody that missed it before, YES, SOME OF THE NUMBERS ARE INCORRECT, YES, SOME OF THE NUMBERS ARE BIASED. I DO NOT DISPUTE IT. I pasted the quote to prove a point, not to deliver concise and super-accurate death tolls.
And for the record, i'm neither a liberal nor a conservative, i fall somewhere inbetween. I'm the first person to insult either side, and while i'm not a politician, and i don't play one on television, i think some of the things that the United States (and other countries, of course, but my post was in reply to a person who appears (from my perspective) to be one of the "oh no the United States is getting picked on, let's all change our way of life" people", so i'm keeping to the topic of the US) do are just plain against common sence. (Yeah, that was a big parenthetical explanation, sorry, but i don't want people to get the wrong idea about me again.:/ )
So anyway, i'm sorry if those numbers offended people; i used them strictly for making a point that the world is a bigger place than the United States. Insert any other numbers in there if you want, the places/events/exact numbers/etc., don't matter.
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Actually, yes, Charon is roughly the same size as Pluto. This, along with Charon's orbit, has led many (including myself) to consider Pluto and Charon as a dual-planet system (i.e. they are both planets, orbiting around each other). Meanwhile, there are some that insist that neither is a planet. Astronomy is a tricky business, it seems.
As for where the other satellites came from....
The discovery of the last eleven of them is discussed here (39);
the eleven before those are discussed here (28);
the one before those is discussed here (17);
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A man to whom a woman is engaged to be married.
Think you meant "fiancée", there, ace.
You can't define a word using the very same word, guy.
Not that that's going to happen anyway.
What about more trivial cases? What if, for example, when you were children, your brother took away a toy of yours, or something of that nature? You're presented with two options: beat his ass and get it back, or solve it in a non-violent way. I don't see how anyone could possibly say that someone doing the latter is "immoral". That's ridiculous. You're basing an entire philosophy on a very small per-centage of possible occurances. Maybe World War I and II were justified somewhat, but there are other wars that have happened with somewhat questionable motives. Again, i don't see how not participating in something like that could be considered immoral, if your opinion is that the war itself is immoral.
Defending one's country represents a VERY small piece of the possible-violent-conflicts pie. Most likely 90% of all would-be violent conflicts in one's life would be trivial, stupid things, like the example i mentioned above. And pacifism does NOT mean inactivity, as your posts seem to suggest. Pacifism simply means non-violence. A peace accord, a compromise, a petition, a refusal to obey orders; these are non-violent ways to end conflicts. Pacifism does not mean simply sitting on your ass and watching the world go by because you're a coward. Pacifism means you strive to solve conflicts without violence.
You obviously either don't know what pacifism means, or you're choosing to ignore the broader scope of it.
Instead they appear to go after stuff they deem more important. On the other hand... Apple is notorious for their legal guys, who seem to have nothing better to do than hunt down any and all reincarnations of the Aqua interface, even if they're not exact rip-offs. They find something that's just in the STYLE of Aqua, they sue.
I don't know, i hate Microsoft as much as the next guy, but at least in this matter they seem to have their priorities straight.
I believe the quote was "'tain't your HMMM, and 'tain't your HA, so it's taint".
This guy's a fake! The REAL Santa would know that his name was "Santa Claus"!
Well said, well said!
Truly, the ironic thing is that you like to visit the sites with those Flash advertisements on them. Is it Macromedia's fault? Are there just some malicious random people sneaking Flash advertisements into good, humble folk's Web sites?
NO! THE WEBSITES YOU ARE VISITING ARE TO BLAME. IF YOU DON'T LIKE THE ADVERTISEMENTS, DON'T BLAME MACROMEDIA. BLAME THE PANSY-ASS FUCKING WEBSITE THAT YOU INSIST ON VISITING AND THEN SAYING "OH GEE GOLLY GOSH I HATE THIS DARNEDED FLASH CONTRAPTION, WHY MUST IT TAKE OVER THIS LOVELY INNOCENT WEBSITE???".
The Japanese software/hardware thing aside, there are other uses for cheat devices. Personally, when i buy a game (my favourite genre being RPGs), i play it as a challenge, an interactive story that desires my hand in completing it. However, once i've beaten the game, and got the satisfaction of completing it myself, i may want to play it again. When i play Final Fantasy VIII for the six hundredth time, am i playing it to relive the billion annoying random battles that i had to spend hours on defeating insignificant enemies? No, i'm playing it to relive the story. Using a cheat device here to maybe boost my attack strength, or give me all the spells, or give me quick level gain, is not disrespecting the developers. I paid my money, i got the satisfaction of beating it once. Now i want to relive the story, and i don't want to be bothered by the less-than-stellar parts of the game.
Besides that. This isn't the way i would do it it, but if someone felt so inclined to purchase a $60 video game and cheat the whole way through, fine. Let them. They paid 60 fucking dollars for it. Maybe the people that are ultimately "behind" the game will object, saying that that's not what it was intended for... but to Nintendo, Sony, Square, Sega, etc., IT'S JUST ANOTHER 60 DOLLARS.
As for piracy... there's two sides to this. Mod chips != piracy. More often than not, they do, yes. But this is like the whole RIAA thing and disabling CDs on computers and all that jazz. Just because some people rip the CDs that they buy and distribute them to millions of people doesn't mean the legit people like me, who rip their music to play on their PC because they don't feel like swapping through hundreds of CDs, should have to pay for that. The same goes for pirating. Just because there's a bunch of pirates out there ripping off Sony for their games doesn't mean i shouldn't be allowed to buy an import game and play it in my modded PlayStation. The money goes back to Sony anyway, why does it matter?
You've picked up some misconceptions about mod chips, ace. Not everybody is a bad guy.
The article was written in Danish, guy. The "you didn't even read the article" thing doesn't work here, considering that only a minute per-cent of Slashdotters understand Danish. Perhaps this person is one of the majority.
What, no commentary?
I think, unfortunately, that you have touched on something here that nobody else seems to have yet. With the recent (and not-so-recent, in hindsight) onslaught of stupid and pointless lawsuits over every little thing ("omgz mcd0naldz maed me teh fat izt there fault"), one wonders if perhaps some damned fool reading this guy's page might sue FhG, et al., for "making him deaf". That would truly be a sad thing... but i wouldn't put it past anybody, not for a second.
We're all grown-ups now. And despite what your kindergarten teacher may have told you, "sex" is not a bad word. It is the process by which creatures reproduce; a natural and necessary occurance.
The word "starcraft" makes just as much sense as "space ship", "spacecraft", or "starship". It is a CRAFT that navigates the STARS. How many of these words do you use in everyday conversation, though?
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Hmm... maybe it's got something to do with the Registry?
First of all, the Mac OS doesn't have "processing speed". You're referring to the hardware found in Macs (specifically the Motorola processors). Secondly, assuming thus (unless you really meant something else that i don't quite grasp), your statement that the platform has been "at least 6 month behind in processing speed for 4 years" is still incorrect. You can't compare Motorola processors and Pentium-class processors strictly by numbers. A 1.25-GHz G4 != a 1.25-GHz Pentium 4. They are completely different architectures.
And, if i may throw in an anecdote here: i reformatted (i guess you could call it) my 333-MHz G3 iMac a few months ago, and reinstalled System 8.5 on it. After getting some of my junk installed on there, including Kaleidoscope, i went back to my 1.8-GHz P4 with Windows XP, and noticed that, hark!, the Mac seemed unexpectedly on-par, in terms of performance, with the PC! Can't explain it really, heh, except to say that the Mac was newly-reformatted, and the PC was running on a year-old copy of Windows with a fairly bogged-down hard drive. YMMV, of course, but i just thought i'd share a story with the other kids.
And no, you can't have any. :p
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And for the record, i'm neither a liberal nor a conservative, i fall somewhere inbetween. I'm the first person to insult either side, and while i'm not a politician, and i don't play one on television, i think some of the things that the United States (and other countries, of course, but my post was in reply to a person who appears (from my perspective) to be one of the "oh no the United States is getting picked on, let's all change our way of life" people", so i'm keeping to the topic of the US) do are just plain against common sence. (Yeah, that was a big parenthetical explanation, sorry, but i don't want people to get the wrong idea about me again. :/ )
So anyway, i'm sorry if those numbers offended people; i used them strictly for making a point that the world is a bigger place than the United States. Insert any other numbers in there if you want, the places/events/exact numbers/etc., don't matter.