Of course it's both forces (pressure and gravity). This is simply a pedantic attack at the way the dictionary defines the process.
Dictionary definition:
"A pipe or tube of glass, metal or other material, bent so that one leg is longer than the other, and used for drawing off liquids by means of atmospheric pressure, which forces the liquid up the shorter leg and over the bend in the pipe."
This definition is correct as atmospheric pressure differences start the process. However the dictionary doesn't explain that gravity eventually takes over. Dr. Hughes sums up:
As any petrol thief knows, to get the liquid over the "hump" of the tube you have to suck the other end or, more pedantically, lower the pressure in your lungs to beneath atmospheric pressure by expanding them. Once the liquid has passed the highest point in the tube, the continuous chain of cohesive bonds between the liquid molecules in the tube, and the force of gravity, do the rest.
Methanol has been generated directly from carbon dioxide in solution using copper oxide (CuO) nanorods coated by cuprous oxide (Cu2O) and energy from (simulated) sunlight. The process operated with 95% electrochemical efficiency and is claimed to be scalable to industrial size.
It's astonishing this technology isn't more widely used.
So homeopathy is almost the equivalent of a primitive form of vaccination? If they were infecting healthy people with diluted and forms of a disease to build immunity I would reason it would almost qualify.
Yes it's quite clear. It has set a precedent in the minds of people like you that this sort of invasion into the private lives of citizens and corporations is the government's mandate. Where it ends? Only time will tell.
If you think the government cares about you getting too drunk and leaving your phone at the bar, I have some snake oil to sell you. This has nothing to do with protecting the citizen's property. It is a typical fear-based red herring being used to legally extort more control over our lives.
It's easy to give away all your freedoms for minor conveniences and safety when you currently have nothing to hide. The problem is that, historically, liberty is given away with the stroke of a pen, but has to be taken back with the spilling of blood.
One day you may have something to hide from the establishment. You want a concrete example? How about allegiance with a controversial political party? You don't have to go back very far in world history to find great examples of why a surveillance state isn't a good idea.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. -George Santayana
Remote wiping is already possible. What they want is centralized control over the functionality for governing purposes. We're not idiots. Well... not all of us.
The logical person in me says this probably isn't a good idea. But then the mad scientist in me completely takes over and can't wait to eat a mammoth burger.
As soon as he mentioned wireless I knew this was likely what was going on. The IT department simply doesn't want to frighten you by accepting a non trusted certificate when you connect to their network. This is what wpa enterprise authentication requires. However, I'm not sure you'd need to deploy a root CA. That's certainly the lazy way to do it... And they probably figured no one was watching anyways. I imagine their "fix" was to deploy a more targeted self signed certificate, actually pay for a trusted certificate, or to create another wifi network for guest machines.
I can't help but notice that he didn't actually try very hard to remain anonymous. His full name is plastered all over the source code for crying out loud. That's what makes this news story so strange. Is this really him? Why would you use your full name and then try to hide... in plain sight? The whole thing doesn't make any sense if you ask me.
I just don't understand what kind of market these are going for. These retail for $129. A Wii U is $250, the PS4 retails for $399, and Steam boxes are coming soon. So who would buy one of these? And why would I want to play silly little android games on my TV? I barely want to play them on my phone.
The only use I could see would be to run emulators and play old Nintendo, Super Nintendo, etc roms on it. Of course you could just spend $20 on a gamekilp to accomplish this. And it's pretty trivial to share your phone screen with your tv these days if you wanted to play it on there.
Hmm.. well I'm glad you've been able to exist without Exchange. Personally I've tried Zimba, Groupwise, Google Apps, etc and I've never found a platform that can support users as seamlessly and easily as Exchange can. IMAP is completely fine, but users expect so much more from their mail these days. Contacts, Global address book, Calendar, Room Calendars, Shared Calendars, Tasks, etc. Using Outlook they can easily share calendars. I can easily give management full access permission to a mailbox and it will automatically add to Outlook. This business is rather large so boardroom space can be scheduled and booked. They can see eachother's availability, etc.
I've never used Communigate, and maybe Zimbra has gotten better. Thanks for the information. Perhaps I'll give them a try.
I thought the article was going to talk about all the hipsters and Apple-lovers reducing the idea of geek culture to some big bang theory pussy with an iPad.
I wonder if they're finding it difficult to port their titles to Linux. I've been steadily watching my Linux games section of Steam for months now (since the announcement of SteamOS) and I have to say it is still pretty much just as pitiful as it ever was in comparison to the Windows list. Studios don't seem to be jumping on board... yet.
Our default browser is IE, and it's not because I have any love for Microsoft, or spending extortionate amounts of my IT budget on Microsoft licensing. I personally use firefox on a day to day basis, but the official "supported" browser in the company is still IE simply because it's easily configurable within the domains group policy, and most widely supported when it comes to corporate browser applications.
I know what you're getting at, and I'd have to disagree. Most company's are forced to be a Microsoft shop simply for compatibility reasons. The software my users depend on daily to do their jobs is Windows only... and there's nothing I can do about this.
Accounting needs Word and Excel. In fact, they "need" 2010 or they all need to be on the same versions. If I have even one of them on a different version they will complain about compatibility issues.
Geology needs a plethora of Windows only client/server software first written in the early 2000's and sparingly updated. This is specialized stuff.. you can't just get it off the shelf anywhere. This requires Windows desktops and Windows servers.
I could go department by department but I think you get the point. Once you require Windows on the desktop for end user software, it makes the most sense to have a Microsoft domain and Exchange Server because they all play nicely together. Exchange is especially nice since every member of my staff took some business course in community college and is comfortable with Outlook. We did a test run of gapps using the outlook plugin but it wasn't nearly as intuitive or function rich as an Exchange environment; especially when it comes to calendars, room booking, scheduling, and tasks.
So at the end of the day, when everything else is Microsoft, it makes the most sense to use IE, because it plays nicely with all of the above. I probably could struggle with getting everything to work on Firefox, and deploying policies through the registry or batch scripts, but in my experience it's just not worth the hassle. You're not busy enough, or responsible for enough if you haven't yet learned to leave your ideals at the door, and just use what works.
To play Bitcoin, you have to trust your Bitcoin exchanges.
Simply incorrect. You could "play" Bitcoin easily without ever touching an exchange. Exchanges are used to... well exchange other currencies for Bitcoin. You can still provide goods and services for bitcoin, purchase goods and services with bitcoin, or mine bitcoin, without ever touching an exchange.
Also, the real issue with MTGox's collapse was not that it was a popular exchange, it was all the people who lost bitcoin because they were storing it there. Storing your money in an online wallet is not required. There's several software wallets, and the source code for the protocol is available so you could even write your own if you'd like.
There may be issues with Bitcoin (deflationary, monopolized network, etc) but lack of regulation in exchanges is a problem manufactured by people that don't really understand the currency.
CAVirtEx allows you to do a direct conversion of Canadian dollars, debited directly from your bank account to a bitcoin wallet address of your choice. The site never holds the funds and the transfer is nearly instant. This is how it should be done.
Always think of an online wallet as asking some stranger to hold your money and promise to give it back. We're used to this idea because traditional banks are federally regulated and insured, but without those protections it's a terribly foolish practice. The only reason to let someone else hold your money would be if they could do so more securely and with a reasonable guarantee. Online wallets/exchanges can provide neither.
Distracted driving laws are useless. I live in Alberta and they passed a law that you can't be on your cell phone while driving maybe a year or two ago. Since then everyone has been "crotch watching" which is so much more dangerous that the government has had to run TV and radio advertisements in an attempt to guilt people into stopping.
So all they've done is waste money making driving more dangerous as everyone becomes even more distracted attempting to hide the fact that they're allowing themselves to be distracted. When will this nanny-state bullshit end?
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Dictionary definition:
"A pipe or tube of glass, metal or other material, bent so that one leg is longer than the other, and used for drawing off liquids by means of atmospheric pressure, which forces the liquid up the shorter leg and over the bend in the pipe."
This definition is correct as atmospheric pressure differences start the process. However the dictionary doesn't explain that gravity eventually takes over. Dr. Hughes sums up:
As any petrol thief knows, to get the liquid over the "hump" of the tube you have to suck the other end or, more pedantically, lower the pressure in your lungs to beneath atmospheric pressure by expanding them. Once the liquid has passed the highest point in the tube, the continuous chain of cohesive bonds between the liquid molecules in the tube, and the force of gravity, do the rest.
How do you think methanol would be produced at industrial scale?
You can produce methanol from methane (a problem greenhouse gas), and more importantly carbon dioxide.
From wikipedia:
Methanol has been generated directly from carbon dioxide in solution using copper oxide (CuO) nanorods coated by cuprous oxide (Cu2O) and energy from (simulated) sunlight. The process operated with 95% electrochemical efficiency and is claimed to be scalable to industrial size.
It's astonishing this technology isn't more widely used.
So homeopathy is almost the equivalent of a primitive form of vaccination? If they were infecting healthy people with diluted and forms of a disease to build immunity I would reason it would almost qualify.
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Yes it's quite clear. It has set a precedent in the minds of people like you that this sort of invasion into the private lives of citizens and corporations is the government's mandate. Where it ends? Only time will tell.
And the nannystate strikes again. It's so comforting to know that even after my children leave home, they'll still have parents to take care of them.
If you think the government cares about you getting too drunk and leaving your phone at the bar, I have some snake oil to sell you. This has nothing to do with protecting the citizen's property. It is a typical fear-based red herring being used to legally extort more control over our lives.
One day you may have something to hide from the establishment. You want a concrete example? How about allegiance with a controversial political party? You don't have to go back very far in world history to find great examples of why a surveillance state isn't a good idea.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-George Santayana
Remote wiping is already possible. What they want is centralized control over the functionality for governing purposes. We're not idiots. Well... not all of us.
Just put on your resume that you have a BSc. They'll never require proof and they're idiots for demanding you have one anyways.
Given this statement, it must just kill Woz to see what's happened to Apple.
The logical person in me says this probably isn't a good idea. But then the mad scientist in me completely takes over and can't wait to eat a mammoth burger.
As soon as he mentioned wireless I knew this was likely what was going on. The IT department simply doesn't want to frighten you by accepting a non trusted certificate when you connect to their network. This is what wpa enterprise authentication requires. However, I'm not sure you'd need to deploy a root CA. That's certainly the lazy way to do it... And they probably figured no one was watching anyways. I imagine their "fix" was to deploy a more targeted self signed certificate, actually pay for a trusted certificate, or to create another wifi network for guest machines.
I can't help but notice that he didn't actually try very hard to remain anonymous. His full name is plastered all over the source code for crying out loud. That's what makes this news story so strange. Is this really him? Why would you use your full name and then try to hide... in plain sight? The whole thing doesn't make any sense if you ask me.
I just don't understand what kind of market these are going for. These retail for $129. A Wii U is $250, the PS4 retails for $399, and Steam boxes are coming soon. So who would buy one of these? And why would I want to play silly little android games on my TV? I barely want to play them on my phone.
The only use I could see would be to run emulators and play old Nintendo, Super Nintendo, etc roms on it. Of course you could just spend $20 on a gamekilp to accomplish this. And it's pretty trivial to share your phone screen with your tv these days if you wanted to play it on there.
Hmm.. well I'm glad you've been able to exist without Exchange. Personally I've tried Zimba, Groupwise, Google Apps, etc and I've never found a platform that can support users as seamlessly and easily as Exchange can. IMAP is completely fine, but users expect so much more from their mail these days. Contacts, Global address book, Calendar, Room Calendars, Shared Calendars, Tasks, etc. Using Outlook they can easily share calendars. I can easily give management full access permission to a mailbox and it will automatically add to Outlook. This business is rather large so boardroom space can be scheduled and booked. They can see eachother's availability, etc.
I've never used Communigate, and maybe Zimbra has gotten better. Thanks for the information. Perhaps I'll give them a try.
I thought the article was going to talk about all the hipsters and Apple-lovers reducing the idea of geek culture to some big bang theory pussy with an iPad.
Fair enough. I'm curious then. What do you use for email?
But if this happens on a corporate network, ever, your IT team is incompetent and needs to be replaced.
I wonder if they're finding it difficult to port their titles to Linux. I've been steadily watching my Linux games section of Steam for months now (since the announcement of SteamOS) and I have to say it is still pretty much just as pitiful as it ever was in comparison to the Windows list. Studios don't seem to be jumping on board... yet.
Our default browser is IE, and it's not because I have any love for Microsoft, or spending extortionate amounts of my IT budget on Microsoft licensing. I personally use firefox on a day to day basis, but the official "supported" browser in the company is still IE simply because it's easily configurable within the domains group policy, and most widely supported when it comes to corporate browser applications.
I know what you're getting at, and I'd have to disagree. Most company's are forced to be a Microsoft shop simply for compatibility reasons. The software my users depend on daily to do their jobs is Windows only... and there's nothing I can do about this.
Accounting needs Word and Excel. In fact, they "need" 2010 or they all need to be on the same versions. If I have even one of them on a different version they will complain about compatibility issues.
Geology needs a plethora of Windows only client/server software first written in the early 2000's and sparingly updated. This is specialized stuff.. you can't just get it off the shelf anywhere. This requires Windows desktops and Windows servers.
I could go department by department but I think you get the point. Once you require Windows on the desktop for end user software, it makes the most sense to have a Microsoft domain and Exchange Server because they all play nicely together. Exchange is especially nice since every member of my staff took some business course in community college and is comfortable with Outlook. We did a test run of gapps using the outlook plugin but it wasn't nearly as intuitive or function rich as an Exchange environment; especially when it comes to calendars, room booking, scheduling, and tasks.
So at the end of the day, when everything else is Microsoft, it makes the most sense to use IE, because it plays nicely with all of the above. I probably could struggle with getting everything to work on Firefox, and deploying policies through the registry or batch scripts, but in my experience it's just not worth the hassle. You're not busy enough, or responsible for enough if you haven't yet learned to leave your ideals at the door, and just use what works.
Do you think it's necessary, or even a good idea? Do you own any?
To play Bitcoin, you have to trust your Bitcoin exchanges.
Simply incorrect. You could "play" Bitcoin easily without ever touching an exchange. Exchanges are used to... well exchange other currencies for Bitcoin. You can still provide goods and services for bitcoin, purchase goods and services with bitcoin, or mine bitcoin, without ever touching an exchange.
Also, the real issue with MTGox's collapse was not that it was a popular exchange, it was all the people who lost bitcoin because they were storing it there. Storing your money in an online wallet is not required. There's several software wallets, and the source code for the protocol is available so you could even write your own if you'd like.
There may be issues with Bitcoin (deflationary, monopolized network, etc) but lack of regulation in exchanges is a problem manufactured by people that don't really understand the currency.
CAVirtEx allows you to do a direct conversion of Canadian dollars, debited directly from your bank account to a bitcoin wallet address of your choice. The site never holds the funds and the transfer is nearly instant. This is how it should be done.
Always think of an online wallet as asking some stranger to hold your money and promise to give it back. We're used to this idea because traditional banks are federally regulated and insured, but without those protections it's a terribly foolish practice. The only reason to let someone else hold your money would be if they could do so more securely and with a reasonable guarantee. Online wallets/exchanges can provide neither.
Distracted driving laws are useless. I live in Alberta and they passed a law that you can't be on your cell phone while driving maybe a year or two ago. Since then everyone has been "crotch watching" which is so much more dangerous that the government has had to run TV and radio advertisements in an attempt to guilt people into stopping.
So all they've done is waste money making driving more dangerous as everyone becomes even more distracted attempting to hide the fact that they're allowing themselves to be distracted. When will this nanny-state bullshit end?