If he's going to be pedantic, he should know those aren't Venn diagrams (those by definition have to show ALL possible combinations of sets) but a Euler diagram.

I've served on two juries, and in both cases, I came to the part of the questionnaire where I promise to not exercise the principle of jury nullification. Of course it doesn't SAY "jury nullification." If it said that, someone would wait until voir dire to ask, and the shit would really hit the fan. In Cook County, IL, people have been held in contempt of court for mentioning those two words in front of the jury pool. In both cases, I clicked, "Yes", that I would not exercise the principle, then promptly vowed to do so if the case called for it. Dishonest? Perhaps, but not as dishonest as the court saying that I did not have the right in the first place. As it happens, I sorta exercised it in one case, when I was named foreman (I stepped into the washroom while we first entered the jury room, and emerged foreman). The case involved an accident along a stretch of road that I knew well, and the plaintiff did a terrible job of describing the trickiness of merging there. I introduced evidence not presented by either side (essentially a detailed diagram of the roadway). The result was that we asked more insightful questions to each other and were able to determine relative culpability far more easily. I hadn't made up my mind prior to entering the jury room, and used my 'extra knowledge' to clarify, not influence. It's been almost nine years, and I have not been called since. If I do, I won't check that box.

Google "electrical outlet wiring diagram", and you get useful hits.

Part of the problem is that technical people sometimes forget that normal human beings speak in conversational English, and don't really intuitively grasp that a computer search needs a unique key in order to zero in on the information you want.

Greedy people looking to make a quick buck intuitively grasp what questions people will ask, but don't know (or care) about useful information.

Hence, the effect described in the article...

>> ^jimnms:

I'm cornfused? If the water boiled away into water vapor under the vacuum, how did it end up back in the glass as ice when the vacuum was removed?


Not all of the water boiled off.

When they initially removed the pressure the liquid boiled rapidly because it's temperature was much higher than water's boiling point at that pressure (see the phase diagram linked above). The energy loss from the boiling dropped the temperature of the remaining liquid to it's new lower boiling phase-change point (notice the boiling slows significantly).

Since the pressure was too low for liquid water to exist, any water that hadn't escaped in the boiling instead solidified. From that point any vapor escaping would go directly from solid to gas (like dry ice does at normal pressures).

>> ^Psychologic:
>> ^SuperHotbUNZ:
I knew it would boil. I did not know it would freeze.

Actually, below .006 atm liquid water isn't stable... it either freezes or boils, depending on the temperature. If they had left it in the vacuum then it wouldn't have frozen. As said above this is what happens to a person tossed out of an air lock in space, and it is also closely related to the damage deep-sea divers experience if they surface too quickly.
Another interesting property of H2O is that adding pressure to ice at just under the freezing point (and above .006 atm pressure) turns it back into water, where as most substances freeze under increased pressure.
♥ Chemistry


Phase diagram for general fluids: http://www.teamonslaught.fsnet.co.uk/co2%20phase%20diagram.GIF

Phase diagram for water: http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~gladish/teaching/eao/water-phase-diagram.jpg


These diagrams show what you're describing. Notice the line separating solid and liquid. Under general fluids, the line tilts to the right showing that when pressure is added and temperature is constant, the phase of that fluid will move from liquid to solid. But for water, the line is tilted to the left, showing that with increased pressure at a constant temperature, ice would turn to water

Good thing CNN had the diagrams, otherwise I would never would have understood it.

During a physics degree, you're taught over and over and over and over and over and over to draw diagrams. Sometimes, you can notice something devastatingly simple that reduces what you think is a nightmare of maths into a simple number.

I'm impressed with the guitarist on the left, and the bassist on the right.

I like the rhythm played high up on the neck of the guitar.

http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/c/cee_lo_green/fuck_you_crd.htm

You can turn on the chord diagrams, and set the variations to be around the 12 and 13 fret, and you'd have something approximate to the chords the guitarist on the left is playing.

Not a bad idea, but also kinda already covered - I'll include this venn diagram of things to best explain.

http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/6153/bestof.png

edit: hmm, all these replies didn't appear before I bothered with this - ah well, it's still relevant :>

I've redrawn the diagram to work on dark backgrounds and to correct the time out from queued to pqueued (from 3 days to 2 days).

>> ^lucky760:

>> ^ant:
Nice. Now, add it to FAQ!

It's been in the FAQ for months.
>> ^radx:
Time-out for queued videos is 2 days, not 3.

That's what the diagram says. Oh, queued videos. Is it really 2 days now? I guess I'll have to re-diagram.


Oh, I never noticed that. Heh.

>> ^ant:

Nice. Now, add it to FAQ!


It's been in the FAQ for months.

>> ^radx:

Time-out for queued videos is 2 days, not 3.


That's what the diagram says. Oh, queued videos. Is it really 2 days now? I guess I'll have to re-diagram.

It irritates the shit out of me when people have a clip of a window that gets covered in blood splatter.


Window(|) - head(o) - gun(=) diagram: | o = . In this diagram, the gun shoots the head and we end up seeing the splatter from the other side. Well, guess what, dickhead director? In order for the blood to come out the back side, pellets need to come out the back side. If the blood hits the window, why didn't the pellets? The only movie I can think of that did this was the Shawshank Redemption, when the warden offs himself and the window behind him shatters.

Take a note, filmmakers.

>> ^Lann:
I'd love to see the big convoluted one too.
Me too, and not just because I wanna make a t-shirt of it on TeeVirus with the text "This is what I do for fun..." above it.

>> ^garmachi:

As one who generates process flow diagrams for a living, I feel it necessary to point out that there's no path form pqueue to deadpool (or several of the other pathing options to deadpool...)


That's because such paths do not exist.

>> ^gwiz665:

I like it, but I think it's missing a few of the more obscure workings.


That is intentional. As I started plotting out all the extraneous states of a video, it got extremely messy and convoluted, so I decided to stick with the basics, especially because that's what's most needed by new (confused) members.