Most astronomers would say that a reasonable idea would be large enough for gravity to make it spherical (or close to, like Earth). However, then other KBOs and asteroids qualify as planets. You simply can't come up with a rigorous definition that includes Pluto and excludes the others unless you work customize your definition in a manner that is not scientific.
Only one asteroid qualifies as a planet under that definition, Ceres, and only just barely. Anyway, I suppose you could categorize people into four groups on this issue:
1) Pluto should not be considered a planet, but the definition of planet should be broad enough that a sufficiently large yet undiscovered object in the outer solar system may exist that would qualify as such.
2) Pluto should not be considered a planet, and any possible TNO would be far too weird to qualify as a planet.
3) The only sensible definition of a planet is a body that orbits a star and is large enough that it is roughly spherical due to gravity, but not so large that it can sustain fusion, and this definition includes Pluto, Ceres, Quaoar, Sedna, and many other objects yet to be discovered.
4) Pluto is so a planet, you insensitive clod, but not Sedna, Quaoar, Ceres, etc.
Those in groups two or four would have to have a pretty contrived definition of planet in order to make their argument. I would place myself in group three. I think group one has the problem that there seems to be no simple definition for planet that would exclude Pluto, other than just declaring that Pluto is too weird.
I keep hearing the argument that Pluto would never have been called a planet but for ignorance of its actual properties at the time of its discovery, if only it had been known at the time how small it really is, it would not have been given the honor. In fact, I recall reading in Scientific American that the size of Pluto kept being revised downward at such a pace, that by the year 2000, it would disappear completely! But now we know the real size, and it is big enough to be made spherical by its gravity, in fact it is thirteen times as massive as the smallest known body in the solar system that has that property. So we are left with its other eccentricities, the tilt of its orbital plane being the one most often cited. But that has been known since its discovery, right? It was accepted as a planet and really the only thing it lied about on its resume is its size, but now we have that nailed down.
I think that a lot of people have a problem with the inclusive definition because it means there will eventually be dozens, even hundreds of known planets, but I don't have that problem. I mean, get over it! It's hardly even a challenge to memorize all of the current roster and all of the relevant stats, think of the accomplishment for some kid a hundred years from now when they recite all 263 known planets, and the relevant properties of each of them.
Being able to fit several hundred shots on a single memory card is fine, but it is not necessarily a good situation for learning photography. I would take the opposite approach and start with a 6x9 medium format rangefinder, that gets eight shots per roll, and is not much bigger than a modern digital SLR. This would force the student to be more deliberative. It is also cheaper, and *much* higher resolution than a dSLR.
Wow! I never thought of it that way. I surely would not have bought the DVD of Mallrats if I could have easily pirated the ABC broadcast of it! All those edits for content and time didn't harm that movie at all!
"Stanford law professor Hank Greely, who chaired the ethics committee, said the board was satisfied that the size and shape of the mouse brain would prevent the human cells from creating any traits of humanity. Just in case, Greely said, the committee recommended closely monitoring the mice's behavior and immediately killing any that display human-like behavior."
OK, I can just see it now:
"Same thing we do every night, Pinky, try to take over the" [splat!]
The problem is if you sell twenty times the number of songs at a cost of five cents, your customers are using twenty times as much bandwidth. Unless you go to a torrent model or something.
There is an open source computer version of Titan, that covers many varients and can be played online or against rather weak AI, called Colossus. If you feel like playing against a human opponent, email me. I can also recommend Carolous Magnus (also out of print unfortunately, but more easily obtained than a copy of Titan.)
You make a good point, however, in response I would point out that during the time that the discs are in the mail back to Netflix, they are officially "checked out" by you. So they are still "in your possession" as far as your Netflix account is concerned. I would argue that up until the moment that Netflex actually receives them, you should have a fair use right to a single backup copy. I'm sure Netflix would disagree, however a super strict anti fair use, anti first sale legal climate would wind up hurting Netflix in the long run, as the latter is what allows them to opperate their rental business. I'm certain the MPAA would like to see them go away, along with all the other traditional video rental outlets, and used-video stores.
Thought Experiment: Suppose a Netflix customer does not have time to watch all three DVDs the day they arrive. They copy them to a hard drive, mail them back that day, watch them all in the two day time they are in the mail, and then delete them before getting the notice from Netflix that they have been received. Illegal? Probably. Unethical?
Suppose they keep them on the hard drive for the five day window from the day they are received to the day they get the next set? An interesting question...
Dean? A Democrat? Yes, he signed civil unions into law, but publicly declaired his discomfort about it and did the signing in private with no press allowed. He was practically the Republican governor of Vermont for ten years!
Boy, you will really be in trouble if you take a picture of the building, with the image of the bean reflected in the glass, with the image of the building reflected in the bean... and so on... you will owe an infinate amount of royalties!
It goes both ways, you know. It doesn't seem to me to be a very good deal for the consumer, especially since in my opinion they are likely to fail, and when they go out of business, all your songs go poof. Unless I am missing some clause that allows you to keep the songs should they go out of business.
The point is, they could have the same key pitch and have a numeric keypad and full sized function keys and arrow keys on the 17 inch powerbook, but they don't.
That's easy for you to say. I get 150 spams sent to my personal email address every day. Of course, I have had the same address since 1992, two years before Canter and Siegel began their usenet barrage. Taking your steps now would be the ultimate example of closing the barn door after the cows have wandered off.
The problem with LCD for color accuracy is twofold: the backlight is not consistant across the entire display; and the viewer's perception of the color of a pixel depends on the angle that they are viewing from. The first problem is solvable with higher quality backlights, the second is more fundimental but has been mitigated somewhat with technology refinements.
In other words, the Petabyte figure represents non-redundant data, and the hypothesis that the size of their archive proves that the internet is much biger than 230TB is correct.;-)
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Most astronomers would say that a reasonable idea would be large enough for gravity to make it spherical (or close to, like Earth). However, then other KBOs and asteroids qualify as planets. You simply can't come up with a rigorous definition that includes Pluto and excludes the others unless you work customize your definition in a manner that is not scientific.
Only one asteroid qualifies as a planet under that definition, Ceres, and only just barely. Anyway, I suppose you could categorize people into four groups on this issue:
1) Pluto should not be considered a planet, but the definition of planet should be broad enough that a sufficiently large yet undiscovered object in the outer solar system may exist that would qualify as such.
2) Pluto should not be considered a planet, and any possible TNO would be far too weird to qualify as a planet.
3) The only sensible definition of a planet is a body that orbits a star and is large enough that it is roughly spherical due to gravity, but not so large that it can sustain fusion, and this definition includes Pluto, Ceres, Quaoar, Sedna, and many other objects yet to be discovered.
4) Pluto is so a planet, you insensitive clod, but not Sedna, Quaoar, Ceres, etc.
Those in groups two or four would have to have a pretty contrived definition of planet in order to make their argument. I would place myself in group three. I think group one has the problem that there seems to be no simple definition for planet that would exclude Pluto, other than just declaring that Pluto is too weird.
I keep hearing the argument that Pluto would never have been called a planet but for ignorance of its actual properties at the time of its discovery, if only it had been known at the time how small it really is, it would not have been given the honor. In fact, I recall reading in Scientific American that the size of Pluto kept being revised downward at such a pace, that by the year 2000, it would disappear completely! But now we know the real size, and it is big enough to be made spherical by its gravity, in fact it is thirteen times as massive as the smallest known body in the solar system that has that property. So we are left with its other eccentricities, the tilt of its orbital plane being the one most often cited. But that has been known since its discovery, right? It was accepted as a planet and really the only thing it lied about on its resume is its size, but now we have that nailed down.
I think that a lot of people have a problem with the inclusive definition because it means there will eventually be dozens, even hundreds of known planets, but I don't have that problem. I mean, get over it! It's hardly even a challenge to memorize all of the current roster and all of the relevant stats, think of the accomplishment for some kid a hundred years from now when they recite all 263 known planets, and the relevant properties of each of them.
Being able to fit several hundred shots on a single memory card is fine, but it is not necessarily a good situation for learning photography. I would take the opposite approach and start with a 6x9 medium format rangefinder, that gets eight shots per roll, and is not much bigger than a modern digital SLR. This would force the student to be more deliberative. It is also cheaper, and *much* higher resolution than a dSLR.
Wow! I never thought of it that way. I surely would not have bought the DVD of Mallrats if I could have easily pirated the ABC broadcast of it! All those edits for content and time didn't harm that movie at all!
"Stanford law professor Hank Greely, who chaired the ethics committee, said the board was satisfied that the size and shape of the mouse brain would prevent the human cells from creating any traits of humanity. Just in case, Greely said, the committee recommended closely monitoring the mice's behavior and immediately killing any that display human-like behavior."
OK, I can just see it now:
"Same thing we do every night, Pinky, try to take over the" [splat!]
Congratulations, you have mastered copy and paste! You win!
You can spoof caller ID, but can you spoof ANI? Maybe Weastern Union needs to get an 800 number or something.
The problem is if you sell twenty times the number of songs at a cost of five cents, your customers are using twenty times as much bandwidth. Unless you go to a torrent model or something.
There is an open source computer version of Titan, that covers many varients and can be played online or against rather weak AI, called Colossus. If you feel like playing against a human opponent, email me. I can also recommend Carolous Magnus (also out of print unfortunately, but more easily obtained than a copy of Titan.)
You make a good point, however, in response I would point out that during the time that the discs are in the mail back to Netflix, they are officially "checked out" by you. So they are still "in your possession" as far as your Netflix account is concerned. I would argue that up until the moment that Netflex actually receives them, you should have a fair use right to a single backup copy. I'm sure Netflix would disagree, however a super strict anti fair use, anti first sale legal climate would wind up hurting Netflix in the long run, as the latter is what allows them to opperate their rental business. I'm certain the MPAA would like to see them go away, along with all the other traditional video rental outlets, and used-video stores.
Thought Experiment: Suppose a Netflix customer does not have time to watch all three DVDs the day they arrive. They copy them to a hard drive, mail them back that day, watch them all in the two day time they are in the mail, and then delete them before getting the notice from Netflix that they have been received. Illegal? Probably. Unethical?
Suppose they keep them on the hard drive for the five day window from the day they are received to the day they get the next set? An interesting question...
HAMMMMERRRRRRRR!
Dean? A Democrat? Yes, he signed civil unions into law, but publicly declaired his discomfort about it and did the signing in private with no press allowed. He was practically the Republican governor of Vermont for ten years!
Boy, you will really be in trouble if you take a picture of the building, with the image of the bean reflected in the glass, with the image of the building reflected in the bean... and so on... you will owe an infinate amount of royalties!
It goes both ways, you know. It doesn't seem to me to be a very good deal for the consumer, especially since in my opinion they are likely to fail, and when they go out of business, all your songs go poof. Unless I am missing some clause that allows you to keep the songs should they go out of business.
So put the numeric keypad on the right hand side and the arrow keys and navigation keys on the left.
The point is, they could have the same key pitch and have a numeric keypad and full sized function keys and arrow keys on the 17 inch powerbook, but they don't.
That's easy for you to say. I get 150 spams sent to my personal email address every day. Of course, I have had the same address since 1992, two years before Canter and Siegel began their usenet barrage. Taking your steps now would be the ultimate example of closing the barn door after the cows have wandered off.
Suppose you are attempting to download something in the public domain, but that has the same name as something else that is still under copyright.
Isn't that blatently illegal?
The problem with LCD for color accuracy is twofold: the backlight is not consistant across the entire display; and the viewer's perception of the color of a pixel depends on the angle that they are viewing from. The first problem is solvable with higher quality backlights, the second is more fundimental but has been mitigated somewhat with technology refinements.
No, nothing as kiborific as that. I just stumbled on it, really.
what makes you think that a low uid makes one less likely to jump to wrong conclusions?
I assume that we are discussing The Internet Archive's storage capacity, which would reflect the post-compression size.
In other words, the Petabyte figure represents non-redundant data, and the hypothesis that the size of their archive proves that the internet is much biger than 230TB is correct. ;-)
You think they don't compress it?