Except in very unusual circumstances, it should be pretty easy to tell whether a point is inside or outside of a body.
That seems like about the least arbitrary distinction you can make between a 'binary planet system' and a 'planet/moon system'.
Assuming you want to make such a distinction - and since the main question here is "what should we call a planet?" someone wants to have criteria for planet-ness. In that case it's important to be able to tell a moon from a planet.
The 'mutually orbiting planetoids' situation is a perfect description of Pluto. Actually, "the Pluto/Charon system" would be a better name, since it behaves as you described.
Yes, but 160 is a lot. This post has 160 characters and look at how long it is. The average text message would be shorter, even with all the words spelled out.
RMS thinks that certain libraries (such as readline) should be GPL so that developers who want to use the libraries are forced to GPL their software. He believes that if there are enough good GPL libraries, it will be an incentive for developers to write GPL software (so they can use those libraries).
Actually, in the specific case of readline, it's probably because readline was extracted from bash (which is GPL) and it was easier to release it under the same license than to track down all the original authors (copyright holders) and get their permission to use a different license.
Not that I read the ariticle either, but one of them may have required a signature update. (The assertion was only that of those products which scored 6/6, two required no update.)
... Ruby is. (Rails a web application framework written in/for Ruby.)
I love Ruby, but Ruby (and probably Python) would not make a good first language. Ruby has a lot of features which are great for the productivity (and sanity) of an experienced programmer, but might prevent a beginner from learning everything they need to know. That is, programmers trained using a high level language like Ruby might have a hard time moving back to a lower level language (C or even Java - both still necessary skills).
As long as you avoid unix-isms like fork(), the major open-source scripting languages (perl, ruby, python,...) seem to be very multiplatform.
In ruby (the one I am most familiar with) some of the "platform-specific" APIs have no effect on platforms that don't support them (eg, chmod on Windows).
The rest of the platform-specific APIs (eg fork) simply cannot work on certain systems. These are documented as such.
Of course, they could be omitted altogether (this seems to be the Java approach... as far as I know you can't fork() in standard Java) but I don't see how this approach is any better then providing platform-specific APIs for those who need them and who know their application will only need to run on a certain platform (for example, a server application) or who are willing to detect and adjust for different platforms at compile or run time.
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True, but that has nothing to do with Dell's bizarre pricing structure.
So.. the logical thing to do is buy the PC with Windows and then resell the Windows license. Or is that not allowed?
s/Apple/Google/
What if malicious eavesdropper Eve poses as your wife?
Except in very unusual circumstances, it should be pretty easy to tell whether a point is inside or outside of a body. That seems like about the least arbitrary distinction you can make between a 'binary planet system' and a 'planet/moon system'. Assuming you want to make such a distinction - and since the main question here is "what should we call a planet?" someone wants to have criteria for planet-ness. In that case it's important to be able to tell a moon from a planet.
The 'mutually orbiting planetoids' situation is a perfect description of Pluto. Actually, "the Pluto/Charon system" would be a better name, since it behaves as you described.
"and tags"?
I suggest building one of these and sending an entire city to Mars. Why visit when you can colonize?
Prior Art: Delicious Library
Yes, but 160 is a lot. This post has 160 characters and look at how long it is. The average text message would be shorter, even with all the words spelled out.
But organizing music according to its whitened fluff content (mod 3) is obvious to anyone skilled in the art! Your patent is invalid!
King of Swamp Castle, aka Walt Disney (though at least his stayed up the first time).
Also, no more building houses below see level So they had better be visible now?
RMS thinks that certain libraries (such as readline) should be GPL so that developers who want to use the libraries are forced to GPL their software. He believes that if there are enough good GPL libraries, it will be an incentive for developers to write GPL software (so they can use those libraries). Actually, in the specific case of readline, it's probably because readline was extracted from bash (which is GPL) and it was easier to release it under the same license than to track down all the original authors (copyright holders) and get their permission to use a different license.
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Not that I read the ariticle either, but one of them may have required a signature update. (The assertion was only that of those products which scored 6/6, two required no update.)
... Ruby is. (Rails a web application framework written in/for Ruby.)
I love Ruby, but Ruby (and probably Python) would not make a good first language. Ruby has a lot of features which are great for the productivity (and sanity) of an experienced programmer, but might prevent a beginner from learning everything they need to know. That is, programmers trained using a high level language like Ruby might have a hard time moving back to a lower level language (C or even Java - both still necessary skills).
As long as you avoid unix-isms like fork(), the major open-source scripting languages (perl, ruby, python, ...) seem to be very multiplatform.
In ruby (the one I am most familiar with) some of the "platform-specific" APIs have no effect on platforms that don't support them (eg, chmod on Windows).
The rest of the platform-specific APIs (eg fork) simply cannot work on certain systems. These are documented as such.
Of course, they could be omitted altogether (this seems to be the Java approach... as far as I know you can't fork() in standard Java) but I don't see how this approach is any better then providing platform-specific APIs for those who need them and who know their application will only need to run on a certain platform (for example, a server application) or who are willing to detect and adjust for different platforms at compile or run time.
Unless they printing counterfeit bills (and I don't think they are), Microsoft does not "generate" any money. Only the government can do that.
Buf if you do:
iPod already has an audio input. It shares the headphone jack (I think). That's how the various audio recorder accessories work.