Hopefully the non-planetologists (or whatever they're called) in the IAU who are sick of the topic will just vote in favor of the proposal and put an end to this. Those who study planetary science and want to nitpick for the rest of their lives are probably outnumbered.
What I'd like to see is an actual name for Xena (it's just a nickname currently, it's still technically named 2003 UB313). It should not be called Xena.
Look at these animations. Second from the left is Pluto and Charon. That's why they're both planets. The definition being proposed is rather elegant, I think. It leaves it up to gravity to determine what a planet is, and catches special cases like Pluto and Ceres rather nicely too. You have your 8 classical planets in nice orbits, you have your N plutons in crazy orbits, and you have your really small dwarf planets like Ceres that never quite made it.
Heh, I would've preferred Informative. In any case, yes, the names of these sites are stupid. However, my point was that sites like YouTube that restrict their searches to themselves are inferior to those that can search through many dozens of video sites. They free up people to pick the most user-friendly site to upload to, rather than which is the most "popular", and still get lots of views.
Spears had nothing to do with it. We invented fire in order to cause global warming and end the ice age those evil cats depended on. Human ingenuity at its finest. Oo-rah!
Brand recognition isn't everything. With sites like Truveo and Blinkx TV, you can just search through all the various video websites out there, no matter what site they're on.
People will debate Pluto's class until the end of the solar system. This is not a new story, in the sense that this is not the first time Pluto's status has been discussed. I think it should just be grandfathered in, if anything. Plus we have a bunch of other objects out there that could be considered planets too. Sedna, Xena, Quaoar, Varuna, Ixion... what do we do with those?
This Paul Thurrott guy is a true genius in getting the ADD-ridden Apple-zealots giddy.
I can't really imagine why. What he said was pretty tame, and even said he was rooting for Leopard. He just didn't like the attitude, which is understandable, although I think he misinterpreted the intent. The rest of the stuff is a fairly complete list of the new stuff shown in the keynote. But considering he wasn't privy to any of the closed door sessions for developers where a lot of other stuff was shown off, he's not all that able to make a complete judgement. The developers I've talked to and information I've heard through 3rd parties leads me to believe that things are better than they seem just from watching the keynote.
So then somebody intercepts and decrypts the packets or simply gets a job working for that bank and acesses the database directly. If somebody is determined enough, they will get your data eventually. The point of security is to simply make it as hard as possible, hopefully hard enough so that they'll go after somebody easier, or hard enough so that it the benefits of breaking in are outweighed by the costs to do so.
That's better than them stealing your money on that first day. But remember, they still need to put a keylogger on your system to begin with. Security starts at home.
Well it's not so bad. He made some valid points, the keynote was relatively sparce in information. But that's largely because so much of the new stuff is only being revealed behind closed doors with NDAs being signed and whatnot. It's a developer conference, and Leopard is still a ways off from release.
Of course, if you need something now, then buy it now. That obvious.
But if you want to know when the latest and greatest will probably come out as the guy I was responding to wanted, that webpage answers those questions pretty well.
I think I'll wait to see it to believe it. If Cider is supposed to radically shorten port times, then we should be seeing ports come out pretty soon. And then all this speculation and rumor will be come to an end.
You really are full of it. It's a well known fact that Apple has an increasing marketshare, selling computers at a rate much faster than any other manufacturer. Five years ago you might have been correct, but this isn't five years ago.
Yes, Apple does have problems, so does everybody else. But it's not constant.
I should add, Apple also has a history of fixing problems rather quickly when they arise. Dell is still "investigating" the multiple battery explosions, aren't they?
I'll grant you the iPod battery thing, although I've never had any problems personally with mine (mine being plural). However, I've only heard of one iMac catching on fire years ago (one of the lampshades, I think), but no laptop fires. The only laptop fires I've heard about lately were Dells. I have no idea where you came up with motherboard defects either. Overall Apple's problems have been largely cosmetic of late.
The problems I've had were Harddrive (IBM made it), and graphics card (nVidia made it). Oh, and I had lots of trouble with Apple printers, back when they made printers. And there was the one Performa with the clogged up fan leading to a power unit overheat and failure, but I blame myself for never dusting the poor thing. In any case, I've been a Mac user for a very long time, and haven't had many hardware problems at all. I've been a Gen 1 user more than once too. Of course this is anecdotal, but so are many of the reports everyone else is reporting problems in. I really think it's just Apple's high profile that makes them a target. Apple is arrogant, a lot of their customers are arrogant (arguably for a reason), and people who don't use their products love to jump on every little problem they can find.
Yes, Apple does have problems, so does everybody else. But it's not constant.
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Hopefully the non-planetologists (or whatever they're called) in the IAU who are sick of the topic will just vote in favor of the proposal and put an end to this. Those who study planetary science and want to nitpick for the rest of their lives are probably outnumbered. What I'd like to see is an actual name for Xena (it's just a nickname currently, it's still technically named 2003 UB313). It should not be called Xena.
Look at these animations. Second from the left is Pluto and Charon. That's why they're both planets. The definition being proposed is rather elegant, I think. It leaves it up to gravity to determine what a planet is, and catches special cases like Pluto and Ceres rather nicely too. You have your 8 classical planets in nice orbits, you have your N plutons in crazy orbits, and you have your really small dwarf planets like Ceres that never quite made it.
Heh, I would've preferred Informative. In any case, yes, the names of these sites are stupid. However, my point was that sites like YouTube that restrict their searches to themselves are inferior to those that can search through many dozens of video sites. They free up people to pick the most user-friendly site to upload to, rather than which is the most "popular", and still get lots of views.
The problem is, we're not all rational.
Spears had nothing to do with it. We invented fire in order to cause global warming and end the ice age those evil cats depended on. Human ingenuity at its finest. Oo-rah!
You forgot the War of 1812. Everybody always forgets the War of 1812. It's a very good thing we won that one.
What exactly do they need to manage?
Brand recognition isn't everything. With sites like Truveo and Blinkx TV, you can just search through all the various video websites out there, no matter what site they're on.
Is that even a choice? Vista won't be released for another 3 years!
She? Pluto was a guy, in the Greek mythology. And that Disney character was a guy too.
We should just use Star Trek terminology. Like M-Class and stuff.
People will debate Pluto's class until the end of the solar system. This is not a new story, in the sense that this is not the first time Pluto's status has been discussed. I think it should just be grandfathered in, if anything. Plus we have a bunch of other objects out there that could be considered planets too. Sedna, Xena, Quaoar, Varuna, Ixion... what do we do with those?
So then somebody intercepts and decrypts the packets or simply gets a job working for that bank and acesses the database directly. If somebody is determined enough, they will get your data eventually. The point of security is to simply make it as hard as possible, hopefully hard enough so that they'll go after somebody easier, or hard enough so that it the benefits of breaking in are outweighed by the costs to do so.
That's better than them stealing your money on that first day. But remember, they still need to put a keylogger on your system to begin with. Security starts at home.
Well it's not so bad. He made some valid points, the keynote was relatively sparce in information. But that's largely because so much of the new stuff is only being revealed behind closed doors with NDAs being signed and whatnot. It's a developer conference, and Leopard is still a ways off from release.
...or The Woz? Funny just how many Steves went into the computer business, really.
It's all in good fun. It keeps an otherwise dull work-oriented conference more light-hearted.
But then doesn't this say that HSBC is more secure? It takes 9 log-ins while being keylogged instead of one.
I don't why they have to turn it into music first. Why can't they just do pattern analysis on the original sound itself?
Of course, if you need something now, then buy it now. That obvious.
But if you want to know when the latest and greatest will probably come out as the guy I was responding to wanted, that webpage answers those questions pretty well.
I think I'll wait to see it to believe it. If Cider is supposed to radically shorten port times, then we should be seeing ports come out pretty soon. And then all this speculation and rumor will be come to an end.
You really are full of it. It's a well known fact that Apple has an increasing marketshare, selling computers at a rate much faster than any other manufacturer. Five years ago you might have been correct, but this isn't five years ago.
I'll grant you the iPod battery thing, although I've never had any problems personally with mine (mine being plural). However, I've only heard of one iMac catching on fire years ago (one of the lampshades, I think), but no laptop fires. The only laptop fires I've heard about lately were Dells. I have no idea where you came up with motherboard defects either. Overall Apple's problems have been largely cosmetic of late.
The problems I've had were Harddrive (IBM made it), and graphics card (nVidia made it). Oh, and I had lots of trouble with Apple printers, back when they made printers. And there was the one Performa with the clogged up fan leading to a power unit overheat and failure, but I blame myself for never dusting the poor thing. In any case, I've been a Mac user for a very long time, and haven't had many hardware problems at all. I've been a Gen 1 user more than once too. Of course this is anecdotal, but so are many of the reports everyone else is reporting problems in. I really think it's just Apple's high profile that makes them a target. Apple is arrogant, a lot of their customers are arrogant (arguably for a reason), and people who don't use their products love to jump on every little problem they can find.
Yes, Apple does have problems, so does everybody else. But it's not constant.