Several times in recorded history, lakes have "belched" massive amounts of carbon dioxide, killing off not only fish, but people in surrounding areas. Lake Nyos is one such example. The circumstances vary, but always involve extremely deep water, saturated with CO2, being shifted to a shallower depth. When this happens, water has a much lower capacity for CO2, and it is released into the air.
Not that I'm predicting this will happen here, but it's usually best not to heat deep water like that.
Fine, insert into the definition: if anything is undergoing sustained hydrogen fusion, it's a star. If it's undergoing deuterium fusion, it's a brown dwarf.
You might, but then you're being human-centric. Our definition of moon shouldn't depend on our size/weight. I'd say that if two or more bodies are obriting around each other, which in turn are orbiting around a stellar body, then the largest one is a planet, and the smaller one(s) is/are a moon.
All of these objects must have a spherical shape, ie enough mass to have collapsed into a planetoid configuration.
Using this defintion, I would call mars's "moons" "captured astroids" or "natural satellites", since they fail a spherical test. Similarly, I would call Pluto/Charon a planet/moon system, because both a spherical, even though they don't really lie in the stellar plane.
You're right, that is flamebait. MySQL isn't a niche. The "small/medium" website = 99% of websites out there. And who cares if it "makes the hard things impossible"? By hard, you should have said obscure, because most people won't need the extra functionality of PostgreSQL, EVER. It's odd that you would call these same people "clueless n00b"s, when they prefer ease over obscure.
The thing is, I always surf using my mousing (right) hand. ya know how most people have asymmetric arms because they prefer their right over their left? Lets just say I'm a bit more... ahem... even.
It's probably a blessing in disguise that Athens took so long to finish preparations for the olympics. Since it is said Al Qaeda spends years preparing for an attack, I don't think anything big will happen at the olympics. That's also the kind of thing a bunch of cameras won't do shit against.
No, it's not and yes you do. Repairing hubble is much cheaper than designing/building/launching a new telescope. Hubble has a failure rate, yes, but so will any other space based telescope. Tell that to those people planning the next generation space telescope at earth-moon l3, an orbit which is NOT servicable. Your new telescope better require NO maintenence.
Additionally, how exactly do you "let the Hubble go"? Ever wonder what an enormous 2.4 meter, aerodynamic chunk of glass will do if you let its orbit decay? SOMEONE is going to get hurt, because many parts of hubble will not burn up in re-entry. To "let the Hubble go" would require another servicing mission. Might as well fix the STIS anyway, eh?
I know you're trying to be funny, but this failure in no way prevents hubble from taking all those pretty pictures. All you need for those is a few filters and the wide field camera.
um. no. sorry. And yes, HST does check quite often with its shutter closed (after each exposure, probably) to account for temperature changes across the CCD.
Hubble is NOT blind, although this is a major setback. There is still a working spectograph on the space telescope called the ACS grism. You can still do spectroscopy!
I'm no expert in disk usage/compression, but is it possible to be so inneficient in disk usage, that a game that would normally take 1 gig is expanded to 50 gigs in such a way that it is incompressable using normal methods? I'd say that if this is the case, then Sony has a great way to prevent piracy. Forget DRM. Forget lock outs, or strict rules. SURE! put it on your computer, SURE! give it to your friends, just have fun copying 50 gigs over DSL.
How will I know who will use the data in the US-Visit database?
Seeing as the data consists of a picture and finger scan, it'll most probably be sold to advertisers of skin care products, using advanced image analysis tehniques to determine what products certain individuals might need.
"Hey, this kid has acne! Let's send him some sample treatments!", or "This dude has dry skin, let's sell him some moisturizer!"
What, you don't think the dermatology industry doesn't have its well-cared-for hands on the puppet strings in washington? Think again!
Put away that tin foil hat. Would you say the same thing about normal firewalls? After all, normal firewalls don't allow traffic from Bittorrent, most online games, etc etc etc without configuration. So.... "Who will control what defines an attack?" The answer is, as always, you.
...And in both cases, you're a hopeless computer nerd, so regardless of status among your fellow coders, you're still not getting laid. You'd best get your satisfaction and comfort in the fact that at least women are USING your code. I dunno, I kinda get a kick out of that.
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Not that I'm predicting this will happen here, but it's usually best not to heat deep water like that.
Ok, what do you think would be a better definition?
PICKY!
All of these objects must have a spherical shape, ie enough mass to have collapsed into a planetoid configuration.
Using this defintion, I would call mars's "moons" "captured astroids" or "natural satellites", since they fail a spherical test. Similarly, I would call Pluto/Charon a planet/moon system, because both a spherical, even though they don't really lie in the stellar plane.
You're right, that is flamebait. MySQL isn't a niche. The "small/medium" website = 99% of websites out there. And who cares if it "makes the hard things impossible"? By hard, you should have said obscure, because most people won't need the extra functionality of PostgreSQL, EVER. It's odd that you would call these same people "clueless n00b"s, when they prefer ease over obscure.
If you really want to get cool, make a html table with each cell one pixel of the image.. your image is now one big html file!
The thing is, I always surf using my mousing (right) hand. ya know how most people have asymmetric arms because they prefer their right over their left? Lets just say I'm a bit more... ahem... even.
Please?! I for one don't mind if they keep their source closed. Just use the damn code, and we can all be standards compliant for once.
I wasn't trying to be funny. Whoever finds this funny has some serious problems.
It's probably a blessing in disguise that Athens took so long to finish preparations for the olympics. Since it is said Al Qaeda spends years preparing for an attack, I don't think anything big will happen at the olympics. That's also the kind of thing a bunch of cameras won't do shit against.
Don't forget the 3D OS!
without. It means they can't fix it from the ground.
Additionally, how exactly do you "let the Hubble go"? Ever wonder what an enormous 2.4 meter, aerodynamic chunk of glass will do if you let its orbit decay? SOMEONE is going to get hurt, because many parts of hubble will not burn up in re-entry. To "let the Hubble go" would require another servicing mission. Might as well fix the STIS anyway, eh?
I know you're trying to be funny, but this failure in no way prevents hubble from taking all those pretty pictures. All you need for those is a few filters and the wide field camera.
um. no. sorry. And yes, HST does check quite often with its shutter closed (after each exposure, probably) to account for temperature changes across the CCD.
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Only on slashdot: Score: 4, Funny...
I'm no expert in disk usage/compression, but is it possible to be so inneficient in disk usage, that a game that would normally take 1 gig is expanded to 50 gigs in such a way that it is incompressable using normal methods? I'd say that if this is the case, then Sony has a great way to prevent piracy. Forget DRM. Forget lock outs, or strict rules. SURE! put it on your computer, SURE! give it to your friends, just have fun copying 50 gigs over DSL.
Or, if you're like me, you're just desperate for a call, from ANYONE, even though it's probably just mom...
Seeing as the data consists of a picture and finger scan, it'll most probably be sold to advertisers of skin care products, using advanced image analysis tehniques to determine what products certain individuals might need.
"Hey, this kid has acne! Let's send him some sample treatments!", or "This dude has dry skin, let's sell him some moisturizer!"
What, you don't think the dermatology industry doesn't have its well-cared-for hands on the puppet strings in washington? Think again!
Unfortunately, google will have indexed your comment by now, which of course contains "qqqqqqqq"...
Suddenly, the iPhone is making a whole lot of sense.
Put away that tin foil hat. Would you say the same thing about normal firewalls? After all, normal firewalls don't allow traffic from Bittorrent, most online games, etc etc etc without configuration. So.... "Who will control what defines an attack?" The answer is, as always, you.
Yep. PHP-Nuke.
Oh how I wish code was like cars...