This is indeed true. Rennet-like substances can also be derived from Thistle (cardoon), fig tree bark, fungal and microbial sources, and organisms genetically modified to produce the appropriate enzyme. The enzyme sought after is called Chymosin (rennin).
Carlton Yoder, of Champlain Valley Creamery, makes one of America's only stabilizer- and gum-free cream cheeses. You can learn about his products and creamery from his website at http://www.cvcream.com/, and buy the cream cheese here. He is a very enthusiastic proponent of sustainable agriculture, in Vermont.
The texture of Old Fashion Organic Cream Cheese is similar to fresh goat cheese, but with more creaminess and without that distinct goats milk flavor. Because we dont stabilize the cheese with any sort of gums (carob bean, xanthan, etc), the cheese may separate. The liquid is simply whey, just stir it up and enjoy! The cheese is best in the first week after its made, but it will last 4 weeks in your fridge.
On the subject of cheese, the distinctions between things like soured, curdled milk, sour cream, cream cheese, mascarpone, and full-fledged cheese are myriad and arcane. I wrote a quick blurb for a friend, explaining what cheese exactly is. I have attached it below, for your perusal. IAACE (I am a cheese expert)...
Cheese is a rather general term describing curdled milk (or cream). To curdle milk means to separate the whey from the curds. Milk proteins (casein) are ostensibly broken in half. One half precipitates out of the milk, becoming a solid (the curds). The other half remains liquid (the whey), though it ceases to be white. The distinction between true cheese and things like cream cheese, sour cream, mascarpone, creme fraiche, etc. is the way in which the milk is curdled.
Milk can be curdled either by acid and/or by rennet. To be considered a true cheese (e.g. cheddar, swiss, brie, et. al.), acid AND rennet coagulation (i.e. curdling) is required. First, a culture is added to the milk (or is already present in the milk in the case of some raw milk cheeses). This culture "ferments" the milk, slowly lowering the pH (raising the acidity) of the milk. Then, rennet is added - this is an enzyme derived from the fourth stomach chamber of an unweaned ruminant animal (e.g. a calf, kid, or lamb). This enzyme literally breaks apart the proteins in the milk, an action facilitated by the presence of acid (and heat), and separates the milk into curds and whey. The whey is poured off (either to make ricotta, or to feed to hogs). The curds are then cut, releasing more whey, drained, and molded (this is a gross simplification - most of the textural variations in cheese stem from this process). At this point, the curds have become cheese.
False cheeses like creme fraiche, mascarpone, sour cream, etc. are curdled very lightly and without the use of rennet. The acid required can be produced by natural or added bacteria, vinegar, lemon juice, etc. The variations in the acid-curdled "cheeses" come from the extent of acidification, coagulation, variations in fat content, types of cultures, etc. For example, creme fraiche is cream (thus, high in fat) that is lightly coagulated (lower acidity). Sour cream is cream that is more heavily coagulated. This slight difference in acidity and cultures will cause sour cream to fully curdle (i.e. turn chunky) when boiled, whereas creme fraiche will not.
The diversity and complexity of cheesemaking processes is overwhelming. I hope this helps to illustrate (if not simplify) the breadth of the cheese world.
"Creating a free beer sounds fun but frivolous - one may ask what meaning this really has concerning food, or other physical products. I believe it is quite the opposite; that is, that Vores Øl has given us the freedom to protect our ideas and promote innovation. Already many recipes, cooking methods, ingredients, even entire species of plants and animals are patented and copyrighted. Vores Øl aims to publicize the fact that there is an alternative to the monopolistic act of traditional copyright law - and a simple alternative at that. Share and share alike is the mantra here. So how about you share some of your beer with me?"
-I wrote this on my food blog last week about the Free beer. Too many real world physical things are becoming patented. Innovation is being stifled and aggressive capitalism is preventing creativity. I think the best part of this project is that it simply raises awareness of the fact that copyright, trademark, int. property law, etc. don't have to continue going the way they are going.
I can see the case now for declaring cable internet lines to be informational services. But what about in 5-10 years when a substantial, if not majority, portion of telecommunication will occur over these cable lines? Can their purpose be reclassified? And not only will cable internet lines be home to VoIP and Internet... TV and movies on demand will also move to the internet domain. I'm not sure how long this decision will remain accurate.
um, ever hear the phrase "have to start somewhere..."? The subject of the post was email aliases, not how I got started programming. Besides, what better way to show your friends that you learned something, than by sharing your stupid program with them so they can mail and IM bomb eachother. Who cares how you start as long as it gets you interested in computers...
Way way back when, I used to mess around with pre-written VB (VB 3,4) modules already set up with API to interface with AOL. You could make a mail bomber and other malicious programs with very little actual programming experience. I remember testing my work on "Screenname@aol.com". I assumed that since AOL often used the handle to indicate where to use a screenname, it couldn't actually be someone's screenname. Wrong. He emailed me back after I sent him a few thousand emails, threatening to report me.
Just got my GMail account yesterday. Had already sent off an email to my contacts telling them my exclusive new email address. Then I found out GMail doesn't support the Opera browser (or vice versa) yet. Bummer, I love Opera like I love my family. So I download this Pop Goes The GMail program, and it is sorely disappointing. I haven't checked it with other clients, but it doesn't seem to function well at all with Opera's mail client. Hotmail Popper was fantastic in it's compatability and reliability. So I will wait patiently for Opera to play nicely with GMail. In the mean time, I've got to use IE. I am however thinking of having my work email forwarded to my GMail account for it's search abilities alone.
BTW, if anyone has any potential solutions to my problems, let me know! If you can help me, who knows, maybe you might get a Gmail account;-)
The units use DDR 266 RAM, and have one slot for memory. If you remove the battery, you'll see a door held in place by a phillips head screw for the tiny RAM module. 512 megs seems to be the max the unit can address,
and both have a 20 meg 1.8" hard drive. These nifty drives aren't quite as fast as standard 2.5mm notebook hard drives, but they do use half the power. The drive has a 2 meg cache (the same as most notebook and basic desktop hard drives), a 4,200 RPM rotational speed and has an ATA-5 interface capable of 100MB/sec transfer rates.
I could be wrong, but I think he means 20 Gig hard drive.
"For years, my car's been equipped with a portable Casio colour TV for whenever I find myself sitting in the parking lot waiting for someone. A little smaller than a paperback, it fits into the armrest compartment on my VW Golf. Compared to the Buick-like size of my old B/W portable beast, my "armrest TV", is a Mini Cooper."
Maybe it is just me, but did anyone else read this and think "why are you even carrying a paperback-size TV around... carry a paperback book instead." There is still no more useful timekiller while you are waiting in a parking lot, on the subway, in a doctor's office, or just have a lot of free-time, than reading a book. TV rots your brain, didn't anyone ever tell you that?
Perhaps this is how 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was able to so excellently impersonate Ron Jeremy. Google for more links but here is a teaser: http://www.gwilly.ca/357/ronjeremy.html
Actually, when I went to St. John's College, there was an administrator named Sus3an Borden. Apparently, when she was young, she was always in class with two other Susans, and the 3 became a way to distinguish herself. Now she is called "Susan" but then I think it was "Susan-3". I believe it is her legal name. Google for her name and the first entry is in the St. John's College campus directory.
It's a shame my mod points just expired, as this is quite insightful. You'll notice the same demystification occurring in the Star Wars franchise... Metachloriates (sp?), little life forms, are now responsible for the force and the virgin birth of Anekin, instead of it simply being the way things are in the universe... a natural balance. But perhaps the veiwing majority prefers the tech aspect of scifi. They want to know how warp speed works and how dematerialization works, etc. Perhaps TV is itself responsible in part for taking the burden of imagination off of the viewer and putting onto the writers, etc. Special effects budgets could be better spent paying more talented writers.
I don't know about you, but when I drink any kind of coffee- home-brewed, starbucks, instant, etc., I think about these things:
1. Is this coffee made from 100% Arabica beans? -Arabica beans, unlike Robusta beans, taste cleaner, less harsh, and require more care to grow. Trust the experts, they are better.
2. Is this coffee organic? -This matters to me, at least. Your mileage may vary.
3. Is this coffee purchased at Fair Trade prices? -Others have gone into depth on Fair Trade in this thread- that said, I only buy Fair Trade.
4. Is this coffee decaffeinated? How? -There havent been too many studies showing that CO2 and Swiss Water process decaffeination are better for your health... however I am wary of the VERY toxic chemicals required to decaffeinate coffee traditionally. That, and there is the question of environmental impact due to disposal of said chemicals, at the very least.
Less Important: Is this coffee shadegrown, locally roasted, ever been frozen, etc.?
Disclaimer: I am a coffee buyer for a large supermarket chain, and I carry Mount Hagen Organic Freeze Dried Instant Coffee. It satisfies all my requirements, and tastes good. And they make a decaf that is CO2 process. 50 or so servings for 7 bucks, not bad eh. There are other organic instant coffees available now, but Mount Hagen was the first.
Actually, I find French Press brews the third best coffee in the world. Now we are talking about home brewing here with non-home-roasted beans:
Tie for first: Mocha Pot / Glass Vacuum Pot Second: French Press
It depends on what mood I am in... If I want a velvety rich coffee with a good bite to it, I will go for the mocha pot. If I want a lighter cup of coffee, to ease me into a good book or something, I go for Vacuum pot. It is like ethereal, actually good, drip coffee.
I am not sure whether you mean the Blue Mountain bean from Jamaica, or some other coffee. If you do mean Jamaican Blue Mountain, I have to advise against this. In the previous century, Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee, a transplant from Papua New Guinea, was renowned for its clean, bright, flowery flavor, and easy acidity. However, due to the economic situation of Jamaica, the Arabica (read: good) plantings were cross-bread with any number of harsh Robusta plants to increase yield and simplify farming. There is no certification board in Jamaica for JBM, and thus no real way to know whether you are getting what you are paying (outrageous prices) for. All this, plus pesticides, below fair trade prices for growers, robusta beans, and whatever violence is engendered against mindful Jamaican growers, makes for plenty of reasons not to buy JBM. On the other hand, Papua New Guinea still produces excellent Arabica coffee, which can be found at a large number of coffee sellers nationwide.
Actually, the production line they have built can only produce 5000 units per year. As they say, this is more than research, but less than commercial production. Also, this unit only produces black, white, and 4 types of gray. So don't expect to be able to take your pr0n with you on the road just yet in electric, rollable form.
First, the technology has not been available to us for the last thirty years... in fact, it isn't available now. Have we sent people to Mars yet? No. We can't even (super-)reliably get people into a near Earth orbit. And I am not going to spout the same old "how can we deal with the radiation on such a long journey" bullshit. Radiation can be dealt with easily with shielding.
The real question is, how do we get a sufficiently shielded (read: heavy) craft into space in the first place? There are two options for this: One is to simply attach a ridiculous amount of rockets to the ship we want to send and blast off. This is unlikely because it is expensive, dangerous, and just impractical in general. The other option is to build the craft in space.
Do we have the technology to build (i.e. assemble) interplanetary craft in space or on the moon? Probably not yet. Chances are we need the shuttle's predecessor to put the parts into space, as our current shuttle has proven itself unreliable. So add 6-10 years there. Next, we need a manifold in space, aside from the ISS, because God knows we wont be building any spacecraft there. So add 9-15 years there. Then add another 5-10 years for miscellaneous reasons (training, budgeting, technology snafus, big fiery explosions, etc). So conservatively, we will have the technology to send people to mars in anywhere from 20-45 years. This estimate, is, I stress, very conservative. I think 20 years could be tacked on easily, assuming we even want to go to Mars in 50 years.
So, in response to the parent, if you mean by saying that we already have the technology, that we have the ability to send humans to Mars, fine. But if you mean to say we could launch tomorrow, or in 10 years, I think you're crazy.
Landing on the Moon is far easier than landing on Mars.
"At this point the Yopy is only designed to sync with the Windows Operating System."
So I am supposed to dual-boot, first developing my own software in Linux, then boot into windows just to load it onto the device. NO THANK YOU. Zaurus it is.
No, as far as I know it is only one screen. It displays in two directions since it does not require the elaborate electronics behind it that an LCD screen does. So, theoretically, people on the outside can see what you are seeing, only mirrored, as you said. However, it is very simple to have the phone check to see if it closed or not, and, if it is, display the text so that it can be properly read when it is closed. I hope that is clear, if not, ask and I will try to clarify. I know it is silly, but I really can't wait for OLEDs in everything.
OK Guys- the jokes about using a mirror to see both screens and spinning your phone fast are not that funny. This has serious uses, not to mention it is a great example of the mythical OLED technology finally coming to market. For example: you know how your flip phone has that single line of text for caller ID or whatever on the outside? What if it had a whole screen, and you could see the person's picture when the called. How about if it were a viewfinder for a now-smaller ELF like camera? It is clunky moving an open phone around to take pictures. Now you can have Geiss like effects when you listen to your phone as an MP3 Player too. In other words, it just provides the possibility and the convenience of doing everything (non-call related) with the phone closed, that you normally require the phone open for.
This is funny. I live in a suburb of Philadelphia too. Lafayette Hill. Trepia found people in Lancaster, then tokyo and Austria. But hey, people talking and complaining about Trepia finds me someone in my own backyard. Drop me an email mysterious one from the suburbs.
I don't know how enterprising a programmer you are, but this shouldn't be too hard with a text-to-speech SDK. Below is a copy of a post I wrote in an ask slashdot: Communication Devices For Stroke Victims.
In this thread, the subject wasn't blind, but was restricted in motion. I suggested a moving cursor type summary of screen using a simply few-button interface. This could be easily altered to service the blind by having the choices read as they are scrolled. Keep this in mind, and here is a link to the thread. Good Luck.
Slashdot Mirror
This is indeed true. Rennet-like substances can also be derived from Thistle (cardoon), fig tree bark, fungal and microbial sources, and organisms genetically modified to produce the appropriate enzyme. The enzyme sought after is called Chymosin (rennin).
Thanks for bringing this up.
On the subject of cheese, the distinctions between things like soured, curdled milk, sour cream, cream cheese, mascarpone, and full-fledged cheese are myriad and arcane. I wrote a quick blurb for a friend, explaining what cheese exactly is. I have attached it below, for your perusal. IAACE (I am a cheese expert)...
"Creating a free beer sounds fun but frivolous - one may ask what meaning this really has concerning food, or other physical products. I believe it is quite the opposite; that is, that Vores Øl has given us the freedom to protect our ideas and promote innovation. Already many recipes, cooking methods, ingredients, even entire species of plants and animals are patented and copyrighted. Vores Øl aims to publicize the fact that there is an alternative to the monopolistic act of traditional copyright law - and a simple alternative at that. Share and share alike is the mantra here. So how about you share some of your beer with me?"
-I wrote this on my food blog last week about the Free beer. Too many real world physical things are becoming patented. Innovation is being stifled and aggressive capitalism is preventing creativity. I think the best part of this project is that it simply raises awareness of the fact that copyright, trademark, int. property law, etc. don't have to continue going the way they are going.
-Aaron
http://aliment.blogspot.com/
I can see the case now for declaring cable internet lines to be informational services. But what about in 5-10 years when a substantial, if not majority, portion of telecommunication will occur over these cable lines? Can their purpose be reclassified? And not only will cable internet lines be home to VoIP and Internet... TV and movies on demand will also move to the internet domain. I'm not sure how long this decision will remain accurate.
um, ever hear the phrase "have to start somewhere..."? The subject of the post was email aliases, not how I got started programming. Besides, what better way to show your friends that you learned something, than by sharing your stupid program with them so they can mail and IM bomb eachother. Who cares how you start as long as it gets you interested in computers...
Way way back when, I used to mess around with pre-written VB (VB 3,4) modules already set up with API to interface with AOL. You could make a mail bomber and other malicious programs with very little actual programming experience. I remember testing my work on "Screenname@aol.com". I assumed that since AOL often used the handle to indicate where to use a screenname, it couldn't actually be someone's screenname. Wrong. He emailed me back after I sent him a few thousand emails, threatening to report me.
Just got my GMail account yesterday. Had already sent off an email to my contacts telling them my exclusive new email address. Then I found out GMail doesn't support the Opera browser (or vice versa) yet. Bummer, I love Opera like I love my family. So I download this Pop Goes The GMail program, and it is sorely disappointing. I haven't checked it with other clients, but it doesn't seem to function well at all with Opera's mail client. Hotmail Popper was fantastic in it's compatability and reliability. So I will wait patiently for Opera to play nicely with GMail. In the mean time, I've got to use IE. I am however thinking of having my work email forwarded to my GMail account for it's search abilities alone.
;-)
BTW, if anyone has any potential solutions to my problems, let me know! If you can help me, who knows, maybe you might get a Gmail account
I have two words for you: mouse gestures.
I could be wrong, but I think he means 20 Gig hard drive.
Maybe it is just me, but did anyone else read this and think "why are you even carrying a paperback-size TV around... carry a paperback book instead." There is still no more useful timekiller while you are waiting in a parking lot, on the subway, in a doctor's office, or just have a lot of free-time, than reading a book. TV rots your brain, didn't anyone ever tell you that?
Perhaps this is how 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was able to so excellently impersonate Ron Jeremy. Google for more links but here is a teaser: http://www.gwilly.ca/357/ronjeremy.html
Actually, when I went to St. John's College, there was an administrator named Sus3an Borden. Apparently, when she was young, she was always in class with two other Susans, and the 3 became a way to distinguish herself. Now she is called "Susan" but then I think it was "Susan-3". I believe it is her legal name. Google for her name and the first entry is in the St. John's College campus directory.
I am not sure what you are saying here, but I am pretty sure that you mean
It's a shame my mod points just expired, as this is quite insightful. You'll notice the same demystification occurring in the Star Wars franchise... Metachloriates (sp?), little life forms, are now responsible for the force and the virgin birth of Anekin, instead of it simply being the way things are in the universe... a natural balance. But perhaps the veiwing majority prefers the tech aspect of scifi. They want to know how warp speed works and how dematerialization works, etc. Perhaps TV is itself responsible in part for taking the burden of imagination off of the viewer and putting onto the writers, etc. Special effects budgets could be better spent paying more talented writers.
I don't know about you, but when I drink any kind of coffee- home-brewed, starbucks, instant, etc., I think about these things:
1. Is this coffee made from 100% Arabica beans? -Arabica beans, unlike Robusta beans, taste cleaner, less harsh, and require more care to grow. Trust the experts, they are better.
2. Is this coffee organic? -This matters to me, at least. Your mileage may vary.
3. Is this coffee purchased at Fair Trade prices? -Others have gone into depth on Fair Trade in this thread- that said, I only buy Fair Trade.
4. Is this coffee decaffeinated? How? -There havent been too many studies showing that CO2 and Swiss Water process decaffeination are better for your health... however I am wary of the VERY toxic chemicals required to decaffeinate coffee traditionally. That, and there is the question of environmental impact due to disposal of said chemicals, at the very least.
Less Important: Is this coffee shadegrown, locally roasted, ever been frozen, etc.?
Disclaimer:
I am a coffee buyer for a large supermarket chain, and I carry Mount Hagen Organic Freeze Dried Instant Coffee. It satisfies all my requirements, and tastes good. And they make a decaf that is CO2 process. 50 or so servings for 7 bucks, not bad eh. There are other organic instant coffees available now, but Mount Hagen was the first.
Actually, I find French Press brews the third best coffee in the world. Now we are talking about home brewing here with non-home-roasted beans:
Tie for first: Mocha Pot / Glass Vacuum Pot
Second: French Press
It depends on what mood I am in... If I want a velvety rich coffee with a good bite to it, I will go for the mocha pot. If I want a lighter cup of coffee, to ease me into a good book or something, I go for Vacuum pot. It is like ethereal, actually good, drip coffee.
I am not sure whether you mean the Blue Mountain bean from Jamaica, or some other coffee. If you do mean Jamaican Blue Mountain, I have to advise against this. In the previous century, Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee, a transplant from Papua New Guinea, was renowned for its clean, bright, flowery flavor, and easy acidity. However, due to the economic situation of Jamaica, the Arabica (read: good) plantings were cross-bread with any number of harsh Robusta plants to increase yield and simplify farming. There is no certification board in Jamaica for JBM, and thus no real way to know whether you are getting what you are paying (outrageous prices) for. All this, plus pesticides, below fair trade prices for growers, robusta beans, and whatever violence is engendered against mindful Jamaican growers, makes for plenty of reasons not to buy JBM. On the other hand, Papua New Guinea still produces excellent Arabica coffee, which can be found at a large number of coffee sellers nationwide.
Actually, the production line they have built can only produce 5000 units per year. As they say, this is more than research, but less than commercial production. Also, this unit only produces black, white, and 4 types of gray. So don't expect to be able to take your pr0n with you on the road just yet in electric, rollable form.
Troll, troll, troll.
First, the technology has not been available to us for the last thirty years... in fact, it isn't available now. Have we sent people to Mars yet? No. We can't even (super-)reliably get people into a near Earth orbit. And I am not going to spout the same old "how can we deal with the radiation on such a long journey" bullshit. Radiation can be dealt with easily with shielding.
The real question is, how do we get a sufficiently shielded (read: heavy) craft into space in the first place? There are two options for this: One is to simply attach a ridiculous amount of rockets to the ship we want to send and blast off. This is unlikely because it is expensive, dangerous, and just impractical in general. The other option is to build the craft in space.
Do we have the technology to build (i.e. assemble) interplanetary craft in space or on the moon? Probably not yet. Chances are we need the shuttle's predecessor to put the parts into space, as our current shuttle has proven itself unreliable. So add 6-10 years there. Next, we need a manifold in space, aside from the ISS, because God knows we wont be building any spacecraft there. So add 9-15 years there. Then add another 5-10 years for miscellaneous reasons (training, budgeting, technology snafus, big fiery explosions, etc). So conservatively, we will have the technology to send people to mars in anywhere from 20-45 years. This estimate, is, I stress, very conservative. I think 20 years could be tacked on easily, assuming we even want to go to Mars in 50 years.
So, in response to the parent, if you mean by saying that we already have the technology, that we have the ability to send humans to Mars, fine. But if you mean to say we could launch tomorrow, or in 10 years, I think you're crazy.
Landing on the Moon is far easier than landing on Mars.
Maybe then can start simulating nuclear test blasts instead of actually conducting them.
Is this a joke:
"At this point the Yopy is only designed to sync with the Windows Operating System."
So I am supposed to dual-boot, first developing my own software in Linux, then boot into windows just to load it onto the device. NO THANK YOU. Zaurus it is.
No, as far as I know it is only one screen. It displays in two directions since it does not require the elaborate electronics behind it that an LCD screen does. So, theoretically, people on the outside can see what you are seeing, only mirrored, as you said. However, it is very simple to have the phone check to see if it closed or not, and, if it is, display the text so that it can be properly read when it is closed. I hope that is clear, if not, ask and I will try to clarify. I know it is silly, but I really can't wait for OLEDs in everything.
OK Guys- the jokes about using a mirror to see both screens and spinning your phone fast are not that funny. This has serious uses, not to mention it is a great example of the mythical OLED technology finally coming to market. For example: you know how your flip phone has that single line of text for caller ID or whatever on the outside? What if it had a whole screen, and you could see the person's picture when the called. How about if it were a viewfinder for a now-smaller ELF like camera? It is clunky moving an open phone around to take pictures. Now you can have Geiss like effects when you listen to your phone as an MP3 Player too. In other words, it just provides the possibility and the convenience of doing everything (non-call related) with the phone closed, that you normally require the phone open for.
This is funny. I live in a suburb of Philadelphia too. Lafayette Hill. Trepia found people in Lancaster, then tokyo and Austria. But hey, people talking and complaining about Trepia finds me someone in my own backyard. Drop me an email mysterious one from the suburbs.
I don't know how enterprising a programmer you are, but this shouldn't be too hard with a text-to-speech SDK. Below is a copy of a post I wrote in an ask slashdot: Communication Devices For Stroke Victims.
In this thread, the subject wasn't blind, but was restricted in motion. I suggested a moving cursor type summary of screen using a simply few-button interface. This could be easily altered to service the blind by having the choices read as they are scrolled. Keep this in mind, and here is a link to the thread. Good Luck.