The Earth receives 164 Watts per squared meter of light power from the Sun, and Titan's illumination is 1/90 that of earth, so it receives 1.82 Watts per squared meters. This heat power is sufficient to sustain a methane cycle which is comparable to the water cycle on Earth, with methane evaporating in the atmosphere, condensing to form clouds then dropping back to the ground in raindrops or snowflakes. I don't think anyone can say for sure whether it's enough power to sustain or develop life.
And the Sun can't be that energy source since barely a few kilowatts of its energy reach Titan. Bzzzt, probably wrong. Plenty of the Sun's light reaches Titan thanks to reflection over Saturn. Think of the Moon's light, multiplied by a few billions of billions of time.
This comment was posted just 5 minutes before yours (while you were typing it ?) and even has the same md5sum (827ccb0...) and same Spaceballs reference, only in a longer form.
If they were to use uppercase letters as well, the total number of possibilities becomes about 222 trillion, and the search would take a lot longer.With a well-conceived indexing, wouldn't the search be proportional to the base 2 logarithm of that number ?
Chalk up one more synchronicity for the Noosphere hypothesis. It's been disturbingly apparent lately in Slashdot comments, that two unrelated persons will post the same reference at nearly the same time, despite consulting the article at differing times.
If snooping emails waiting to be downloaded is not interception of correspondence in transit, then it surely is trespassing, just like invading one's computer with spyware or any other form of trojan horse.
No one in his/her right mind will buy a used book and pay the same price as for a new one PLUS shipping. This decision litterally kills 1st sale law, which used to give individuals the right to do as they please with their owned goods: you're not allowed to sell under the given price, and no one will buy from you anyway.
So now the german book publishing industry has neatly buried its biggest competitor (their own customers!) through litigation. This is a sad day for individual freedoms.
WMV3 is a trojan horse for conquering the media diffusion market and preparing the battle for the media center. It's a tool of anticompetition, trying to extinguish open initiatives (XVid and al.) and push competitors (Quicktime and Real) out. It's intended to be platform-locked, especially in its last (and certainly in future) version. It's a plea for the exclusive use of proprietary software and abandon of interoperability, made by a convicted illegal monopoly.
Dissent is a National Sport in France. Ever lived there ? Everyday everyone talks about how the Government sucks, how other people are stupid, and that the whole country is going to Hell.
That's the closest thing to the US' Constitution's 1st Amendment they got. It's not going away anyday, I foretell thee.
As a matter of fact, the grandparent poster should not let his/her children watch any television. Nor hear radio. Not read newspaper. Nor read History books (and subject them to the cruelty and horror of the World Wars ? Think of the children !). Nor listen to any stranger (who knows what horrors they might be telling !). In fact he/she'd be better off ripping the children's eyes off and plugging definitely their ears with molten lead. I also suggest he/she cuts off the children's genitals, in case they start asking what function these serve.
This is the Real World(TM). Horrible things happen. Be scared, be very scarred, that's part of what makes us human. Hiding , masking and making up what reality is, only makes it harder to handle.
Their rationale is to stop other people from being subjected to hate and racist speech, in particular "sensitive" persons, such as children and teenagers. Unfortunately, as many other posters have remarked already or will soon remark, that kind of blinders does not make the hatred problem go away magically. And often the gag just plugs the vent, and after the frustration builds up, these people full of hatred go pop. Or rather, they go boom, if I may say so.
I'm not talking about software development, but of plain old operation of systems. There are a lot of measures that can be taken to reduce risks of incidents (data loss, denial of service, unauthorized accesses, failures, mistakes, etc...) in IT, they're not all expensive or complicated to implement, and can be combined to produce an excellent rate of security / safety.
Now that is a lie by omission if I ever saw one. Was it a hardware failure ? A software failure ? An operator mistake ? An external attack ? A natural catastrophe ?
Of course no one can guarantee a 100% rate of security. In commercial aerial transport the norm is one incident in a million of movements, it'd be nice if the same rate was enforced in IT as a general rule.
The NT kernel only supports up to 32 or 64 CPUs, IIRC. I think it's because the scheduler has one centralised list of CPUs to dispatch threads to, and it quickly becomes a bottleneck for performance. When you have too many threads to dispatch to too many CPUs, this list is completely locked. The MACH kernel has a thread-list per CPU, and dispatches new threads or moves existing threads in a distributed way, so there's no bottleneck (hence MacOS X's performance on clusters ?). I could be completely wrong here, though, correct me if you know better. So my guess is that MS will have to redo the scheduler of the NT microkernel. I don't know about the VM subsystem...
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The Earth receives 164 Watts per squared meter of light power from the Sun, and Titan's illumination is 1/90 that of earth, so it receives 1.82 Watts per squared meters. This heat power is sufficient to sustain a methane cycle which is comparable to the water cycle on Earth, with methane evaporating in the atmosphere, condensing to form clouds then dropping back to the ground in raindrops or snowflakes. I don't think anyone can say for sure whether it's enough power to sustain or develop life.
or in outer space (fungus on Mir)
The fungus was actually growing inside the space station, not outside in the nether voids. It was a combination of Aspergillus, Penicillium and Fusarium species of fungi and bacteria.
And the Sun can't be that energy source since barely a few kilowatts of its energy reach Titan.
Bzzzt, probably wrong. Plenty of the Sun's light reaches Titan thanks to reflection over Saturn. Think of the Moon's light, multiplied by a few billions of billions of time.
This comment was posted just 5 minutes before yours (while you were typing it ?) and even has the same md5sum (827ccb0...) and same Spaceballs reference, only in a longer form.
If they were to use uppercase letters as well, the total number of possibilities becomes about 222 trillion, and the search would take a lot longer.With a well-conceived indexing, wouldn't the search be proportional to the base 2 logarithm of that number ?
Chalk up one more synchronicity for the Noosphere hypothesis. It's been disturbingly apparent lately in Slashdot comments, that two unrelated persons will post the same reference at nearly the same time, despite consulting the article at differing times.
Think about it when you read next articles.
And blinded by any cheap air ionizer !
If snooping emails waiting to be downloaded is not interception of correspondence in transit, then it surely is trespassing, just like invading one's computer with spyware or any other form of trojan horse.
... and so will your recipient ! Didn't think about that, eh, Einstein ;)
You know, this is exactly the theme of "Les Olympiades truquées" (~fraud olympics) book by Joelle Wintrebert.
No one in his/her right mind will buy a used book and pay the same price as for a new one PLUS shipping. This decision litterally kills 1st sale law, which used to give individuals the right to do as they please with their owned goods: you're not allowed to sell under the given price, and no one will buy from you anyway.
So now the german book publishing industry has neatly buried its biggest competitor (their own customers!) through litigation. This is a sad day for individual freedoms.
You're just jealous :P You wish you were a lucky billionaire playing with a rocket toy to have sex in space, admit it.
WMV3 is a trojan horse for conquering the media diffusion market and preparing the battle for the media center. It's a tool of anticompetition, trying to extinguish open initiatives (XVid and al.) and push competitors (Quicktime and Real) out. It's intended to be platform-locked, especially in its last (and certainly in future) version. It's a plea for the exclusive use of proprietary software and abandon of interoperability, made by a convicted illegal monopoly.
But this is off-topic.
WMV is a tool of the Devil.
Dissent is a National Sport in France. Ever lived there ? Everyday everyone talks about how the Government sucks, how other people are stupid, and that the whole country is going to Hell.
That's the closest thing to the US' Constitution's 1st Amendment they got. It's not going away anyday, I foretell thee.
As a matter of fact, the grandparent poster should not let his/her children watch any television. Nor hear radio. Not read newspaper. Nor read History books (and subject them to the cruelty and horror of the World Wars ? Think of the children !). Nor listen to any stranger (who knows what horrors they might be telling !). In fact he/she'd be better off ripping the children's eyes off and plugging definitely their ears with molten lead. I also suggest he/she cuts off the children's genitals, in case they start asking what function these serve.
This is the Real World(TM). Horrible things happen. Be scared, be very scarred, that's part of what makes us human. Hiding , masking and making up what reality is, only makes it harder to handle.
Their rationale is to stop other people from being subjected to hate and racist speech, in particular "sensitive" persons, such as children and teenagers. Unfortunately, as many other posters have remarked already or will soon remark, that kind of blinders does not make the hatred problem go away magically. And often the gag just plugs the vent, and after the frustration builds up, these people full of hatred go pop. Or rather, they go boom, if I may say so.
And, yes, IAAE (I Actually Am European).
Then jsut calculate what the majority is by weighting in executive power ;)
Ever since the Hindenburg accident the technology has been nearly dead, just as if we had stopped building ships after the Titanic sank.
Goddess only smites snotty people. But I really really thought McBride would qualify...
I'm not talking about software development, but of plain old operation of systems. There are a lot of measures that can be taken to reduce risks of incidents (data loss, denial of service, unauthorized accesses, failures, mistakes, etc...) in IT, they're not all expensive or complicated to implement, and can be combined to produce an excellent rate of security / safety.
Now that is a lie by omission if I ever saw one. Was it a hardware failure ? A software failure ? An operator mistake ? An external attack ? A natural catastrophe ?
Of course no one can guarantee a 100% rate of security. In commercial aerial transport the norm is one incident in a million of movements, it'd be nice if the same rate was enforced in IT as a general rule.
There's finely a use for the "Burn before reading" Top Secret classification !
The NT kernel only supports up to 32 or 64 CPUs, IIRC. I think it's because the scheduler has one centralised list of CPUs to dispatch threads to, and it quickly becomes a bottleneck for performance. When you have too many threads to dispatch to too many CPUs, this list is completely locked. The MACH kernel has a thread-list per CPU, and dispatches new threads or moves existing threads in a distributed way, so there's no bottleneck (hence MacOS X's performance on clusters ?). I could be completely wrong here, though, correct me if you know better. So my guess is that MS will have to redo the scheduler of the NT microkernel. I don't know about the VM subsystem...