I'm fond of Julie Sahni's Classic Indian Cooking, though it probably doesn't taste to your buds like "proper" indian (and the recipes are none too quick). I avoid the jars. Sahni does have recipes for relishes/chutneys, though I've never used them. Don't know about popadoms. I've made samosas before. Labor intensive, but good.
Rice is easy. Take one part rice, soak in two parts water for thirty minutes. Decant the water, boil it. Put the rice in the pot, and simmer, loosely covered over low heat for seven--ten minutes. Turn the heat down to it's lowest point, and use a wok ring or something to support the pot over the burner at a distance. Cover the pot tightly, and cook for ten minutes more. Turn the heat off. Wait five minutes. Enjoy the rice. It does help if you have a gas stove.
And learning to cook takes patience and practice. It's just like learning to program.
I don't know about knives-- I just have calphalons. They work, unless the purpose of this whole exercise was to blame your tools. I do have a cuisinart, which is actually quite handy for preparing curries.
Try making a curry at home, it'd take you six months to track down all the spices I think you haven't tried. Or perhaps you're afraid to visit an indian food store. Safeway has most of them. World Market has most of them cheaply.
As for sharp knives, you can buy those. Even a electric sharpener if you're afraid of honing things by hand.
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$15.50 for a 3 ft cable. $96 for a 50 ft cable. The longer cables are useful if you're using a projector, or perhaps a multizone receiver/whole house audio system.
Primarily because the new bluray and hd-dvd discs deliver better audio and video than hdtv. True, 1080p video can be delivered by a ATSC station, but in many cases, the video has lots of visible artifacts. The sound is better too-- atsc only supports dolby digital, while bluray and hd-dvd have lossless tracks.
RF was similarly inferior to composite video, but it was also cheap to implement. An atsc output would involve recompressing the video in to mpeg2, the audio into dolby digital, and so on. You'd end up running into exciting and new compatibility errors
In the early days, firewire was proposed as an alternative, though perhaps hollywood didn't like the comparatively week encryption. My first hdtv tuner had a set of firewire ports-- I hooked it up to my mac and used it as a digital VCR. Fun to play with, but not really straight forward.
And the power light on my old APEX DVD player is so bright I either tape it, or turn it the other way. Nothing like a red super bright LED in your line of sight when you're trying to watch a movie.
The display for my CD player (Sony scd-2000es) can be turned off completely. I haven't figured out why this might be useful. I have three theories. 1. The display generates a tiny amount of noise that might be heard if the listener had a soundproofed living room 2. The CD player has a hard power switch in front. But the display can be turned on and off using the remote. The owner can leave his player on, and ready to play, all the time, turning the display on and off when needed. Perhaps leaving the player on for months on end does something to the audio 3. It's less distracting, and more conducive to critical listening. Alas, my receiver's display can only be dimmed.
SPIEGEL: Some climate protection groups and politicians are calling on Germans to spend their summer vacations in their own country in the future.
Storch: That's just another one of those typically German attempts to save the world with symbolic acts. It makes us feel like better people and morally superior to everyone else.
SPIEGEL: What's wrong with reducing CO2 emissions?
Storch: It is in fact necessary to reduce CO2 emissions. There is no reason why we shouldn't spend our vacations on (the North Sea island of) Sylt instead of in the Seychelles, or drive more economical cars -- for the sake of preserving increasingly scarce resources if nothing else. But that won't enable us to stop climate change. As long as China, India and the United States continue the way they have been, what we Germans do is more or less irrelevant.
SPIEGEL: Is it even possible to prevent global warming at this point? Storch: No. Because of the inherent time lag in the climate system, the greenhouse gases that have already been pumped into the atmosphere will undoubtedly lead to a certain increase in temperature in the coming decades. We can no longer completely avoid anthropogenic climate change. At best, limiting the temperature rise to two degrees is just about possible, according to optimistic estimates. That's why we should spend more time talking about adjusting to the inevitable and not about reducing CO2 emissions. We have to take away people's fear of climate change.
I've stayed in a college dorm, where the handles of the fire alarms and fire extinguishers had been painted with an odd silvery metallic powder. The powder reacts with water to produce blue ink.
Essentially the same technology? Not really. Bluray layers are 25 GB, HD-DVD layers are 15 GB. Bluray also uses a lens with a numerical aperture of.85; HDDVD uses.65 lens, closer to that of DVD.
The first DVD players were $1000. The prices eventually came down or went up. It's in the nature of most consumer products.
Do realize, however, there are other advantages besides better video associated with HD-DVD and BluRay. Unfortunately, to amplify the superior audio, you'll have to either use analogue jacks or HDMI. Lower priced players will probably cut out the analogue outputs. The new formats also have better menuing systems than DVD-- but this too can be eliminated. The LG combo player, for instance, skimped on one format's interactivity features.
Who actually has 8-channel 24-bit 96kHz audio content and how do they get it?
DVD-Audio is 6 channel, 96 KHz. Of course, it failed in the marketplace. (SACD is kind of similar, but doesn't use PCM, and Sony's paranoia prevents the widespread use of external DSD decoders anyway).
Both HD-DVD and Bluray support 8 channel 192 Khz audio, which might prove useful for concert recordings. Conceivably, you could use your computer as a glorified graphic equalizer for room connection. But copy protection paranoia will limit the usefulness of such software.
I find it amusing that the writers chose to illustrate their article with a Denon 5805 receiver (which has every conceivable connection, and is quite expensive) but neglected to mention Firewire, HDMI, DenonLink, or ethernet. No, it's either analogue 5.1 or spdif, both of which have been out for some time.
You can use an assortment of filters that use the ultra high frequencies essentially as a garbage dump. All the errors are placed in the inaudible region.
It's just a game. It's just a movie. Back when I was a kid, Tipper Gore's campaign against "explicit" lyrics in music was regarded as somewhat bizarre. Getting into or renting 'R' movies was easy. Our money was as good as anyone's.
It's just one organization's opinion. One of favorite games, as of late has been "Ghost Recon 1"-- a wargame that at least pretends to be realistic. I'm not sure why it's rated 'M', but it is. It's really little different than watching military footage on TV.
Ethane is C2H6. TetraFluoroethane replaces 4 of those hydrogens with fluorines: C2H2F4. But fluorinert is a perfluorocarbon-- it has no residual hydrogens, and as a result is chemically inert for most practical purposes.
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I serve it with curries-- and the basmati variety, which I use exclusively, has a flavor of its own.
Dietary advice bores me. If it's fun to cook and good to eat, well then...
There are many ways to cook things. Sometimes the complicated ways produce a subtle improvement.
Of course it's complicated. It produces a decent simulacrum of how basmati rice is supposed to taste. Works for me.
Never mastered sushi rice cooking-- I suppose I got tired of fanning it.
I'm fond of Julie Sahni's Classic Indian Cooking, though it probably doesn't taste to your buds like "proper" indian (and the recipes are none too quick). I avoid the jars. Sahni does have recipes for relishes/chutneys, though I've never used them. Don't know about popadoms. I've made samosas before. Labor intensive, but good.
Rice is easy. Take one part rice, soak in two parts water for thirty minutes. Decant the water, boil it. Put the rice in the pot, and simmer, loosely covered over low heat for seven--ten minutes. Turn the heat down to it's lowest point, and use a wok ring or something to support the pot over the burner at a distance. Cover the pot tightly, and cook for ten minutes more. Turn the heat off. Wait five minutes. Enjoy the rice. It does help if you have a gas stove.
And learning to cook takes patience and practice. It's just like learning to program.
I don't know about knives-- I just have calphalons. They work, unless the purpose of this whole exercise was to blame your tools. I do have a cuisinart, which is actually quite handy for preparing curries.
Try making a curry at home, it'd take you six months to track down all the spices
I think you haven't tried. Or perhaps you're afraid to visit an indian food store. Safeway has most of them. World Market has most of them cheaply.
As for sharp knives, you can buy those. Even a electric sharpener if you're afraid of honing things by hand.
You're missing legal advice, appeals, patent searches, fees for multiple claims...
$15.50 for a 3 ft cable. $96 for a 50 ft cable. The longer cables are useful if you're using a projector, or perhaps a multizone receiver/whole house audio system.
Primarily because the new bluray and hd-dvd discs deliver better audio and video than hdtv. True, 1080p video can be delivered by a ATSC station, but in many cases, the video has lots of visible artifacts. The sound is better too-- atsc only supports dolby digital, while bluray and hd-dvd have lossless tracks.
RF was similarly inferior to composite video, but it was also cheap to implement. An atsc output would involve recompressing the video in to mpeg2, the audio into dolby digital, and so on. You'd end up running into exciting and new compatibility errors
In the early days, firewire was proposed as an alternative, though perhaps hollywood didn't like the comparatively week encryption. My first hdtv tuner had a set of firewire ports-- I hooked it up to my mac and used it as a digital VCR. Fun to play with, but not really straight forward.
I'm going to need a cite here.
The display for my CD player (Sony scd-2000es) can be turned off completely. I haven't figured out why this might be useful. I have three theories.
1. The display generates a tiny amount of noise that might be heard if the listener had a soundproofed living room
2. The CD player has a hard power switch in front. But the display can be turned on and off using the remote. The owner can leave his player on, and ready to play, all the time, turning the display on and off when needed. Perhaps leaving the player on for months on end does something to the audio
3. It's less distracting, and more conducive to critical listening. Alas, my receiver's display can only be dimmed.
A gimmick, in my opinion.
Minimum 973 K +/- 33 K
Maximum 1211 K +/- 11 K
That's 1751 +/-59 R and 2171 +/-20 R, for you non SI types. Subtract 459 degrees to get Fahrenheit.
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At the time, I was curious enough about the powder to take a sample, but I didn't have the chemistry background to analyze the substance.
I've stayed in a college dorm, where the handles of the fire alarms and fire extinguishers had been painted with an odd silvery metallic powder. The powder reacts with water to produce blue ink.
Essentially the same technology? Not really. Bluray layers are 25 GB, HD-DVD layers are 15 GB. Bluray also uses a lens with a numerical aperture of .85; HDDVD uses .65 lens, closer to that of DVD.
The first DVD players were $1000. The prices eventually came down or went up. It's in the nature of most consumer products.
Do realize, however, there are other advantages besides better video associated with HD-DVD and BluRay. Unfortunately, to amplify the superior audio, you'll have to either use analogue jacks or HDMI. Lower priced players will probably cut out the analogue outputs. The new formats also have better menuing systems than DVD-- but this too can be eliminated. The LG combo player, for instance, skimped on one format's interactivity features.
DVD-Audio is 6 channel, 96 KHz. Of course, it failed in the marketplace. (SACD is kind of similar, but doesn't use PCM, and Sony's paranoia prevents the widespread use of external DSD decoders anyway).
Both HD-DVD and Bluray support 8 channel 192 Khz audio, which might prove useful for concert recordings. Conceivably, you could use your computer as a glorified graphic equalizer for room connection. But copy protection paranoia will limit the usefulness of such software.
I find it amusing that the writers chose to illustrate their article with a Denon 5805 receiver (which has every conceivable connection, and is quite expensive) but neglected to mention Firewire, HDMI, DenonLink, or ethernet. No, it's either analogue 5.1 or spdif, both of which have been out for some time.
You can use an assortment of filters that use the ultra high frequencies essentially as a garbage dump. All the errors are placed in the inaudible region.
It's just a game. It's just a movie. Back when I was a kid, Tipper Gore's campaign against "explicit" lyrics in music was regarded as somewhat bizarre. Getting into or renting 'R' movies was easy. Our money was as good as anyone's.
It's just one organization's opinion. One of favorite games, as of late has been "Ghost Recon 1"-- a wargame that at least pretends to be realistic. I'm not sure why it's rated 'M', but it is. It's really little different than watching military footage on TV.
Ethane is C2H6. TetraFluoroethane replaces 4 of those hydrogens with fluorines: C2H2F4. But fluorinert is a perfluorocarbon-- it has no residual hydrogens, and as a result is chemically inert for most practical purposes.
Not if you organize your keyblock as a binary tree.
Would anyone care to explain the essential difference between designing a chip and "architecting" it?