Mix of right and wrong. Pricing is not just an arbitrary number set by the distributer but is a combination of supply and demand and of marketing. Many vineyards are physically very small and can only produce a small number of bottles per year. On top of that some years have much better harvests than others. Though many wines have loyal fans and can trade comfortably on reputation alone, being recommended as a hot pick by a major magazine or newspaper can cause the price to spike. The distributor has his margin but he gets less control than you think.
The shaking thing I have NEVER heard of. If a wine has sediment at the bottom then you do not want it mixed into the wine. You do not mention if the bottle was open or not. If the latter then it is obviously not true, but if the former then yes that is true but you do not shake for the reason mentioned before. You simply open and leave for half an hour. In parlance it's called "letting the wine breath". If you watch professional wine tasters you will see them sometimes take a sip of wine and then breath in almost in a manner of gargling before swallowing to get much the same effect.
Your opinion about aging not helping all wine is actually fact, though not true that *today* most wine isn't designed to be aged. It has always been that most is to be drank early rather than aged. In fact Beaujolais turns this into a trademark, with one day each year where stalls are set out in the street all over France and you can taste the latest "Nouveau Beaujolais" which is designed to be drank immediately. Regions tend to specialise in wine that is one or the other and so you can generally follow a rule of thumb, for example Bourgogne you can usually keep for many years but Cotes de Provence only a few.
Definitely buy what you like as a staple but feel free to experiment as well. If you drank a different bottle of wine every day for the rest of your life, you would have to live an awful long time before you tried them all.
So what you are saying is that an easily hacked account is ok for storing data that could be used for your financial loss, because of the convenience, but you use a different account to protect your boring private gossip? It sounds like you are using the wrong tool for the job, and that a password manager that you back up encrypted online or to a usb key would be better.
In online poker: * the house doesn't need to cheat. The amount they make verses their costs means they don't need to * players try and cheat via collusion, but their edge is so small it's not worth worrying about * if you are playing cash games you will probably be fleeced by bot networks. I know people that run them, they live in tax havens and siphone off fortunes via a network of Net-teller accounts etc. Most of the bots run via valid accounts and credit cards, with the recipients that run the software 24/7 on their machines via DSL rake in 10%. The bots don't run on tournaments so that's where I play.
In real life: * the house doesn't need to cheat. It's still a profitable business * in a poker club or a casino the other players rarely cheat. It's such security that justifies the house rake * in private games you have to watch for cheating. Eg thumbnail imprints on the back of cards, bent corners, etc.
I'm playing online as we speak, and only play for fun after some wine or a night out (just having a bottle of rose after watching Champions League football). I'm up a grand, though the past couple of weeks I have broken even, and I'm not particularly good.. just less impulsive than some. Down here a night out can costs hundreds of dollars. As billcopc says, spending a few bucks that lasts a few hours is great value entertainment. I make sure I play tournaments rather than cash games. First it limits your financial exposure, and second because I know people that run bot networks and make hundreds of thousands of dollars through fleecing people on major sites that you will have heard of.
Because Y is such a small amount that if you are slightly above average you should easily have it covered. Unless you have a rotating game, even if you play at a friends place you still have to fork out Y in alcohol, food, etc. It's only fair that you need to compensate for the rent, heating, lighting, etc. Unlike casino games where they are bound to make X-Y as time -> infinity (not true of course as the bank nearly always wins automatically by having deeper pockets), a fixed rake in poker is just like paying a bit of rent.
http://www.shell.com/home/Framework?siteId=ca-en&FC2=/ca-en/html/iwgen/zzz_lhn.html&FC3=/ca-en/html/iwgen/shell_for_motorists/fuels/diesel/diesel_properties_shared.html "Viscosity is a measure of a liquid's resistance to flow under pressure and is dependent upon temperature. At higher temperature, the viscosity of the fuel decreases and at lower temperature its viscosity increases. Viscosity of diesel fuel influences engine performance in two ways: injection pump and injector performance, and injected fuel spray pattern and atomization.
A very low viscosity fuel can cause internal leakages in the injection pump causing low pressure build up resulting to fuel starvation in the combustion chamber of the engine. This could also lead to undesirable spray pattern that promotes incomplete combustion. Fuel starvation and incomplete combustion will both contribute to reduced power and excessive emission. A very low viscosity fuel also causes excessive wear in the injection system and poor hot re-start.
On the other hand, a very high viscosity fuel will cause poor atomization during injection. As a result, the fuel is not evenly distributed in the combustion chamber to mix well with the air - a requisite for good combustion."
It appears that a magnet (electric or otherwise) will have little effect: http://en.allexperts.com/q/Chemical-Engineering-3248/2008/2/magnets.htm
Sounds like a fuel line heating element linked to the onboard computer would be more effective.
One of the reasons I avoided Java and anything related for so long (still do out of habit) was all that EULA nonsense you had to go through to install it. If Firefox is going down this route then I definitely think Ubuntu should withdraw it from the standard distribution. Nothing to stop them listing it as a recommended application, but these days I expect to be able to install an OS and boot up a browser without any hassle. So if Firefox is going to be taken out of Ubuntu what is going to replace it?
The initial Internet didn't have any security but didn't need any as it was a closed garden of academics. My friend worked for CERN and he was a Linux guy with a good grasp of security. In fact I am guessing you know very little about CERN.
I think you can judge her attitude to technology by her track record so far without needing a media debate. Seems to me +1 technology enabling public access to government services, -1 pushing cheap broadband for all.
Sorry, I don't see any evidence of censorship in the Slashdot-linked article. Completely the opposite, it says that any cheque written by the government over $1,000 is instantly posted up on a government web site.
What's this got to do with the technology decisions made by Palin? Every one of the US leaders has believed in a Supreme Being since the inception when it gained independence. It has maintained roughly the same 'regime' ever since, has has caused millions of deaths as well as saving millions of lives. You don't say where this 8,000 miles away is, but there is a good chance it benefited from the alliance of the US during the second world war.
And what is this 'we'? You don't speak for every person outside of the US.
How is that insightful? When you take upon the burden of doing a documentary or science program, even if you dress it up in an entertaining way, you still have a responsibility. When every you try and test established convention there will always be people that complain. If the BBC were to offer them a budget I hope they will now give Discovery the finger.
The post started badly as many Linux users don't care if it becomes an important player or not, or what the market share is. It works for *us* and that's what we care about. However you did end up on an important point. Things like menus, desktop settings, bookmarks, etc really should be centralised so I can switch between Gnome, xfce, KDE etc and not have to completely reconfigure each desktop every time. FooBarWidget has a very good point.
Or just make it invite-only, with guests having to sign a guest book (and have a pic taken). That should be *more* than enough for something as easy-going as a LAN party. And just tell people they are responsible for their own computers.
I had the same thing. I let the woman drive away without calling the police, and even without her number as she told me without her glasses she was completely blind and unable to read or write. I gave her mine to call me so we could resolve things amicably. And the middle-class snotty Mercedes-driving woman that had inexplicably side-swiped my car subsequently claimed I had turned into HER and my rear door had damaged the front of her car. Despite it took me giving the license plate to the police to track her down and a witness statement (discounted because I said I knew the person) I was held 50% responsible. Crazy. Actually I've worse stories here in France but I don't want to depress you. I think we've moved into an age where people are either obsessed with easy money or with avoiding personal responsibility. Continue to have your faith in humanity, but those that abuse it have to be taken down with extreme prejudice. If she is fighting dirty, give your lawyer a blank cheque and tell him do to whatever it takes, and follow his advice even if you have to play dirty. You won't regret it.
I have run a small software company and have found UK copyright law perfectly simple and adequate. Please elaborate on their issues you know of. They must be pretty extreme if the relative costs of managing are a large percentage relative to software development and marketing.
First of all I will ignore your pathetic comment about hoping he will rot in jail. But really, how large an organisation do you run? I've worked in tech companies of up to 1,500 people and nowhere have we ever rotated skills in the manner you've suggested. In fact it would be insane. People are hired on exorbitant salaries based on the skill they have so rotating them to skills they know nothing about would be throwing obscene amounts of money down the dustbin. In fact the more I read this post the more I find it is one of the worst I have ever read. Sure... all you young admins out there taking expensive certification exams at your own expense... don't bother as they will be worthless. Why pay for certification as we expect your to learn from the "X for Dummies" series of books. Please ignore the above post, it is complete nonsense from start to finish.
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Mix of right and wrong. Pricing is not just an arbitrary number set by the distributer but is a combination of supply and demand and of marketing. Many vineyards are physically very small and can only produce a small number of bottles per year. On top of that some years have much better harvests than others. Though many wines have loyal fans and can trade comfortably on reputation alone, being recommended as a hot pick by a major magazine or newspaper can cause the price to spike. The distributor has his margin but he gets less control than you think.
The shaking thing I have NEVER heard of. If a wine has sediment at the bottom then you do not want it mixed into the wine. You do not mention if the bottle was open or not. If the latter then it is obviously not true, but if the former then yes that is true but you do not shake for the reason mentioned before. You simply open and leave for half an hour. In parlance it's called "letting the wine breath". If you watch professional wine tasters you will see them sometimes take a sip of wine and then breath in almost in a manner of gargling before swallowing to get much the same effect.
Your opinion about aging not helping all wine is actually fact, though not true that *today* most wine isn't designed to be aged. It has always been that most is to be drank early rather than aged. In fact Beaujolais turns this into a trademark, with one day each year where stalls are set out in the street all over France and you can taste the latest "Nouveau Beaujolais" which is designed to be drank immediately. Regions tend to specialise in wine that is one or the other and so you can generally follow a rule of thumb, for example Bourgogne you can usually keep for many years but Cotes de Provence only a few.
Definitely buy what you like as a staple but feel free to experiment as well. If you drank a different bottle of wine every day for the rest of your life, you would have to live an awful long time before you tried them all.
Phillip.
When talking about winning, you need to learn about strategy vs tactics.
Phillip.
So what you are saying is that an easily hacked account is ok for storing data that could be used for your financial loss, because of the convenience, but you use a different account to protect your boring private gossip? It sounds like you are using the wrong tool for the job, and that a password manager that you back up encrypted online or to a usb key would be better.
Phillip.
I'm glad you were modded funny and were obviously being sarcastic. Otherwise I would have been worried.
Phillip.
In online poker:
* the house doesn't need to cheat. The amount they make verses their costs means they don't need to
* players try and cheat via collusion, but their edge is so small it's not worth worrying about
* if you are playing cash games you will probably be fleeced by bot networks. I know people that run them, they live in tax havens and siphone off fortunes via a network of Net-teller accounts etc. Most of the bots run via valid accounts and credit cards, with the recipients that run the software 24/7 on their machines via DSL rake in 10%. The bots don't run on tournaments so that's where I play.
In real life:
* the house doesn't need to cheat. It's still a profitable business
* in a poker club or a casino the other players rarely cheat. It's such security that justifies the house rake
* in private games you have to watch for cheating. Eg thumbnail imprints on the back of cards, bent corners, etc.
Phillip.
I'm playing online as we speak, and only play for fun after some wine or a night out (just having a bottle of rose after watching Champions League football). I'm up a grand, though the past couple of weeks I have broken even, and I'm not particularly good.. just less impulsive than some. Down here a night out can costs hundreds of dollars. As billcopc says, spending a few bucks that lasts a few hours is great value entertainment. I make sure I play tournaments rather than cash games. First it limits your financial exposure, and second because I know people that run bot networks and make hundreds of thousands of dollars through fleecing people on major sites that you will have heard of.
Phillip.
Because Y is such a small amount that if you are slightly above average you should easily have it covered. Unless you have a rotating game, even if you play at a friends place you still have to fork out Y in alcohol, food, etc. It's only fair that you need to compensate for the rent, heating, lighting, etc. Unlike casino games where they are bound to make X-Y as time -> infinity (not true of course as the bank nearly always wins automatically by having deeper pockets), a fixed rake in poker is just like paying a bit of rent.
Phillip.
http://www.shell.com/home/Framework?siteId=ca-en&FC2=/ca-en/html/iwgen/zzz_lhn.html&FC3=/ca-en/html/iwgen/shell_for_motorists/fuels/diesel/diesel_properties_shared.html
"Viscosity is a measure of a liquid's resistance to flow under pressure and is dependent upon temperature. At higher temperature, the viscosity of the fuel decreases and at lower temperature its viscosity increases. Viscosity of diesel fuel influences engine performance in two ways: injection pump and injector performance, and injected fuel spray pattern and atomization.
A very low viscosity fuel can cause internal leakages in the injection pump causing low pressure build up resulting to fuel starvation in the combustion chamber of the engine. This could also lead to undesirable spray pattern that promotes incomplete combustion. Fuel starvation and incomplete combustion will both contribute to reduced power and excessive emission. A very low viscosity fuel also causes excessive wear in the injection system and poor hot re-start.
On the other hand, a very high viscosity fuel will cause poor atomization during injection. As a result, the fuel is not evenly distributed in the combustion chamber to mix well with the air - a requisite for good combustion."
It appears that a magnet (electric or otherwise) will have little effect:
http://en.allexperts.com/q/Chemical-Engineering-3248/2008/2/magnets.htm
Sounds like a fuel line heating element linked to the onboard computer would be more effective.
Phillip.
Personally, I absolutely love the interface of Google's stock ticker - the interface is nice, the information is top notch.
What's it currently quoting for United Airlines?
Phillip.
One of the reasons I avoided Java and anything related for so long (still do out of habit) was all that EULA nonsense you had to go through to install it. If Firefox is going down this route then I definitely think Ubuntu should withdraw it from the standard distribution. Nothing to stop them listing it as a recommended application, but these days I expect to be able to install an OS and boot up a browser without any hassle. So if Firefox is going to be taken out of Ubuntu what is going to replace it?
Phillip.
The initial Internet didn't have any security but didn't need any as it was a closed garden of academics. My friend worked for CERN and he was a Linux guy with a good grasp of security. In fact I am guessing you know very little about CERN.
Phillip.
Would be interesting to know which candidates use Word and which use OpenOffice.
Phillip.
Why do I want to discuss the personal life of some 17 year of child?
Phillip.
I think you can judge her attitude to technology by her track record so far without needing a media debate. Seems to me +1 technology enabling public access to government services, -1 pushing cheap broadband for all.
Phillip.
Why would a US vice-president burn all library books in the USA? It sounds like you are making crap up.
Phillip.
Sorry, I don't see any evidence of censorship in the Slashdot-linked article. Completely the opposite, it says that any cheque written by the government over $1,000 is instantly posted up on a government web site.
Phillip.
Can we move back to Palin's stance on science and technology please?
Phillip.
What's this got to do with the technology decisions made by Palin? Every one of the US leaders has believed in a Supreme Being since the inception when it gained independence. It has maintained roughly the same 'regime' ever since, has has caused millions of deaths as well as saving millions of lives. You don't say where this 8,000 miles away is, but there is a good chance it benefited from the alliance of the US during the second world war.
And what is this 'we'? You don't speak for every person outside of the US.
Phillip.
How is that insightful? When you take upon the burden of doing a documentary or science program, even if you dress it up in an entertaining way, you still have a responsibility. When every you try and test established convention there will always be people that complain. If the BBC were to offer them a budget I hope they will now give Discovery the finger.
Phillip.
The post started badly as many Linux users don't care if it becomes an important player or not, or what the market share is. It works for *us* and that's what we care about. However you did end up on an important point. Things like menus, desktop settings, bookmarks, etc really should be centralised so I can switch between Gnome, xfce, KDE etc and not have to completely reconfigure each desktop every time. FooBarWidget has a very good point.
Phillip.
Or just make it invite-only, with guests having to sign a guest book (and have a pic taken). That should be *more* than enough for something as easy-going as a LAN party. And just tell people they are responsible for their own computers.
Phillip.
I had the same thing. I let the woman drive away without calling the police, and even without her number as she told me without her glasses she was completely blind and unable to read or write. I gave her mine to call me so we could resolve things amicably. And the middle-class snotty Mercedes-driving woman that had inexplicably side-swiped my car subsequently claimed I had turned into HER and my rear door had damaged the front of her car. Despite it took me giving the license plate to the police to track her down and a witness statement (discounted because I said I knew the person) I was held 50% responsible. Crazy. Actually I've worse stories here in France but I don't want to depress you. I think we've moved into an age where people are either obsessed with easy money or with avoiding personal responsibility. Continue to have your faith in humanity, but those that abuse it have to be taken down with extreme prejudice. If she is fighting dirty, give your lawyer a blank cheque and tell him do to whatever it takes, and follow his advice even if you have to play dirty. You won't regret it.
Phillip.
I have run a small software company and have found UK copyright law perfectly simple and adequate. Please elaborate on their issues you know of. They must be pretty extreme if the relative costs of managing are a large percentage relative to software development and marketing.
Phillip.
First of all I will ignore your pathetic comment about hoping he will rot in jail. But really, how large an organisation do you run? I've worked in tech companies of up to 1,500 people and nowhere have we ever rotated skills in the manner you've suggested. In fact it would be insane. People are hired on exorbitant salaries based on the skill they have so rotating them to skills they know nothing about would be throwing obscene amounts of money down the dustbin. In fact the more I read this post the more I find it is one of the worst I have ever read. Sure... all you young admins out there taking expensive certification exams at your own expense... don't bother as they will be worthless. Why pay for certification as we expect your to learn from the "X for Dummies" series of books. Please ignore the above post, it is complete nonsense from start to finish.
Phillip.
Referring to yourself as we is a sign you are either the Queen or schizophrenic, not insane...
Phillip.