All of these operational vendors support a process of discovery, but usually it is on that is far more intermediated than the hands on experience of using something like Splunk or 1010data.

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Air Fuel Synthesis build on these methods by turning the methanol into something more like petrol, using processes well entrenched already in the petroleum industry.

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The BMA is worried that the more people start using e-cigarettes the more it will normalise something that looks like smoking.

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Although the theory that describes the interaction of quarks and gluons is on a firm conceptual footing, it is so complicated in practice that it can take years to make a single calculation of something like the shape of a proton even using the most powerful supercomputers.

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Rather, companies like Facebook took Web technologies that already existed, using software coding platforms that competitors already used and created something better, more scalable and more intuitive.

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