tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50911872011-09-29T03:00:47.726+05:30Random ThoughtsRamkinoreply@blogger.comBlogger2521100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5091187.post-53908637294736568802008-11-14T05:34:00.000+05:302008-11-14T05:35:12.340+05:30

Bombay Stock Exchange trades in Equity, derivatives & debt. The BSE SENSEX (BSE 30 index) is a index composed of thirty scrips, with the base set on April 1979 to be  100. The set of companies which make up the index has been changed very few times in the last twenty years. These companies account for 20% of the market capitalization of the BSE.Sensex Milestones1979 Sensex set at 1001990 Sensex

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Derivatives are financial contracts. They derive their value from an underlying stuff. This stuff can be anything - for example it can be an asset ( stocks, real estate, loans) or index ( interest rate, Sensex, ) or other stuff ( weather conditions, freight rates etc).Forward ( when traded on exchange, it is called futures), options and swaps are types of drivatives.Derivatives are used to lessen

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Liquidity can be checked with a few more ratios :Quick ratio / Acid test ratio takes only the most liquid current assets ( cash + A/c receivable), but not inventory and other less liquid current assets.Quick ratio = Liquid current assets / current liabilitiesTells if a company has enough cash to meet liabilitiesIf current ratio is significantly higher than Quick ratio it means the company has a

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Was sp impressed by Buffet's philosophy of investing, have started reading about Balance sheets and investing principles. Will post a few articles, summarising what I read everyday.Balance SheetA balance sheet is a snapshot of the company’s financial position at a point in time.It is organised in two colums . The left column lists what the company owns. The rigth column lists the sources of

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Dinakaran, the Tamil daily is carrying an article on the One page cookbooks tomo and I've made the book available for free download in my cookblog.So new entries go here, for the timebeing.Naan : Leavened Asian Flatbread Naan is the most popular bread in central Asia. It was the breakfast food of the Moghul royalty. Under the name of Nan bya, it is still a popular breakfast food in Burma.Naan is

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I used to think Baking soda and Baking Powder were one and the same - how wrong !Baking soda is an alkali. When mixed with an acid ( Buttermilk, Yogurt , lemon juice/ vinegar), it gives off carbon di oxide. Baking soda will not work without an acidic ingredient.Baking powder is a blend of acid and alkali. So it does not depend on external acid for rising dough.Double acting baking powder( the

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For the past few days, I've spent most of my time in my campervan. I've slowly beginning to accept it as a living space, instead of a locomotive device. It has been an enjoyable experience. Learnt another tip today - the Navy shower. This technique teaches you how to shower with very little water. Fresh water is at a premium in Naval ships and sailors have to go to great lengths to minimise the

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Did a chart for Ravi's daughter . Found some new interesting stuff too..

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Learnt another time saving technique yesterday. To make easy hard boiled eggs you just need to pressure cook for 1 whistle. i suspect a dozen eggs can be cooked this way at once, though I cooked just 5 ( and they were overdone). Would be a handy tip while cooking outdoors where you have to have a lot of food cooked up in a jiffy.

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Cooked for over 7 guys yesterday. It is actually easy if a few simple principles are followed.1. Get the base ready - Kneaded half a kg of maida and it is enough for 6-7 guys. This can be made into chappatis, parathas or stuffed parathas. Once the kneaded dough is ready it takes just a couple of minutes to cook up a flatbread.2. Prepare onion-tomato base. Once this base is cooked and ready, it

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Made my first pita bread today. Realised how versatile this bread can be.Recipe: Make regular chappati dough but remember to add some baking powder as this will puff the bread up and make a pocket.Roll it into thickish rounds and cook on a hot skillet. The bread with puff up after a while. Toasting it over naked flame will puff it up even bigger. Remove from fire, cool and cut into two semi

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You can cook in less time than you take to reach a restaurant. I've long believed it, and I decided to time myself today. This week has been parotta week and I'm thrilled that I've cracked the parotta problem - how to make flaky parottas at home, without any manual skill. So I decided to make parotta and kuruma.Ready, set go !Heat a skillet, pour some oil. Chop onions tomatoes, crush garlic, cut

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I've not cooked desserts as I thought they were time consuming and messy. How wrong ! Had four packets of milk leftover and decided to cook rasgullas- with the taste of the soft spongy K.C.Das rasgulla that I had in Calcutta a decade ago still fresh in my mind..Once the basic principles are understood, it is very tough to go wrong. I've never made these sweets before, but these came out perfectly

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Is God moral ? Does God stand above morality, defining for us what is moral and what is immoral in accordance with His will? If so, whatever God does is moral. If God is bound by moral rules, then He is not omnipotent as certain immoral actions would be beyond him. I believe it is morally wrong to physically impose one's will upon other life. Taking this point to its extreme, it is morally wrong

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Long long time ago, 1500 crore years back to be exact, there was a big bang, bigger than any bang you can imagine. There was nothing before the bang and after it appeared everything needed to build our universe - matter, space and time. For the next 100 crore years, nothing much happened and suddenly thousands of stars started popping up all over the place. It took another 900 crore years

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Here's another way to appreciate the immense distances and sizes of objects in our galaxy. (Images gathered from various sources and photoshopped together).

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In space distances are vaaaaast. An atlas gives us a very distorted viewof the solar system because it is impossible to show the sizes ordistances to scale.This picture makes an attempt to show the sizes to scale.Let us now understand how large the distances actually are...Let us assume the distance from Earth to Sun is 1 cm.( The actual distance is 15 crore Km)At this units, our spacecrafts can

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Excerpts from an excellent article... (emphasis mine) Millions of Americans spend their lives semi-conscious, unable to awaken from the darker version of the American Dream – an endless parade of office buildings, meetings, shopping malls, and television commercials. Instead of pursuing purpose, we pursue material things: plasma televisions, new cars, and granite countertops. We work at jobs we

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I'm amazed the kind of stuff boys do on a BMX bicycle - they leap, slide, jump and seem to go over almost anything. I've decided to buy one to see if I can at least jump a foot ( over pesky road dividers). The bike is also very portable and so can accompany me on suburban electric trains. Take a train to chengalpet, cycle to vedanthangal, pitch a tent and stay overnight, and take the train back

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Epicurus , Martin Seligman and many others emphasize once the basic needs of food , clothing and shelter are taken care of, money does not buy additional happiness. After my retirement, these are the areas I focussed on... Food : Learning to cook has been very rewarding. I've stopped eating out ( unless the cooking is extraordinary) - and the thought that world cuisine is just a googling away is

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Cycle Jayaraman, (the man who introduced me to the pleasures of cycling, and who took me on a cycling trip from Chennai to Tirupur - I gave up after 120 Kms - but that's another story) was raving about momos he had during his Himalayan trek. I decided to do them.Momos are nothing but Kozhukattai, made from maida instead of rice flour. They are very popular in the North East , probably due to the

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Travel & Living channel showed the way Udupi temple prepares lunch for 50,000 people .Cooking on such a scale is done in huge vats. This batch process seems inefficient to me. And what if an insect fell into the vat ( very possible since the kitchens, though divine, are certainly not hygienic)? Do you make the devotees wait for hours before another batch is cooked up ?An easier solution might be

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Rupa & Co are not too impressed by my one page cookbooks. but they were decent enough to send it back, with a personal covering letter .I'd secretly thought any publisher would jump at the thought of publishing these, but am prepared to sit through atleast a hundred such rejections.So one down and 99 more to go !

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Rupa & Co are not too impressed by my one page cookbooks. but they were decent enough to send it back, with a personal covereing letter .I'd secretly thought any publisher would jump at the thought of publishing these, but am oprepared to sit through atleast a hundred such rejections.So one down and 99 more to go !

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I learnt to make yogurt the last month with the delicious 'valarmathi' curd. It was simplicity itself. Add curd to lukewarm milk - that's it ! All through Summer, I must have drunk litres of buttermilk each day, after learning this technique.Fresh made buttermilk is a great refresher. Just add a few spoons of curd to a tumbler with a lid, add salt and shake all together. Coming back from a

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Learning to cook an old dish in a new , easy way is sure fun.Kothu Parota is a often eaten dish in my studio, with Siva being an ardent loyalist. Parotas were complicated dishes requiring great manual dexeterity in spreading the dough, or so I thought. Today, when Giri asked for a parota and the corner shop did not have anything ready I decided to do it myself.The french open was on and Federer

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I used to think fish is fish, and once you've learnt to cook one, you've learnt to cook them all. Apparently I'm wrong.I came upon a blindingly simple tip to cook fish :If fish has fat, do not add more fat. ( avoid frying / cooking with a lot of oil)If a fish has low fat, avoid cooking it without fat ( Baking/ grilling).

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Africans like their soups/ stews slimy. Sliminess comes from dried, powdered leaves of Boabob tree or from Okra powder.In some recipes Rice is cooked in coconut water. ( Instead of cooking rice in plain water, cooking it in coconut water / stock adds much more flavour to rice).Maize was introduced in the 1700's and has become a staple food.Black eyed peas are the most common

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Came across an excellent site with Sudanese recipes. It is always exciting to see how different cultures mix and match.Gorraasa :: Godumai dosaiWheat flour + baking powder + water + salt : cooked into a dosaiDama : (Onion Tomato Chuthey with cardamom, cinnamon and garlic)Cook onions, tomatoes, green chilies . Add salt, cardamom, cinnamon. Simmer. Add crushed garlic. Best with Gorrasa.(Dama is

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It is always a pleasure discovering a new author. I discovered Alain de Botton through his Architecture of happiness - an amazingly insightful book an why we build what we build. It changed the way I look at buildings forever.My library had another of his books, and it is even more readable - The consolation of philosophy. I've always wanted to read philosophy but was never able to appreciate the

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The source of all wealth is the amount of energy it is able to control. So wealth can be thought of in terms of energy - the larger the energy you are able to invoke, the wealthier you are. In spite of its huge debts , the US is the wealthiest nation on earth because it is able to harness the greatest energy.All source of Earth's energy is our Sun. And the earth receives just a million billionth

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From an email to Ramesh after a long discussion of the amount of money people are willing to blow up to keep them 'happy'.Babs,Why does Venky believe blowing up 20K per night on a hotel room is ok and Raju is dissatisfied with a 1 lac pm job ? Most people are hellbent on increasing their prosperity. As all these people try to upgrade their standards of living, the invisible hand of the market

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Science Mag talks about the biggst questions to keep us busy for the next few hundred years. I've tried commenting on some them below...> What Is the Universe Made Of?It looked simple - Hydrogen which eventually cooked up all the visible matter. Then scientists tell us that the visible matter accounts for less than 15% of the mass of the Universe. The rest is thought to be 'dark' matter -

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Just saw Russel Crowe being handcuffed and frog marched to a US prison for assaulting a hotel employee because he could not get a line through to his wife in Australia.Other news stories about Michael Jackson's pecadillos, Pari's Hilton's videos etc come to my mind. Aren't these people 'special' ? Should'nt they be able to control the environment to make it easier for them to indulge in their

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We try to live in a changed world with an old set of rules. This causes much stress and frustration.Every society tries to find solutions to problems it faces. But these solutions over time acquire the halo of culture and tradition. They are no longer fit solutions and most people even forget the problems these solutions were designed to solve. Instead, thesearchaic solutions stay on, because "

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Hi,Kevin Kelly, one of the unschooled, irreverent authors I admire has this site I discovered recently. Here are excerpts from some books he enjoys. Fits in pretty well with mypersonal philosophy of life, work and fun.http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/cat_livelihood.phpToo many people approach being a giver from the wrong perspective. They look at the resources they possess and invariably fail

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Finally managed to 'officially retire' at 36. Hope it lasts. Lots of free time now. Becomes boring if activities are not planned. Have taken to reading fiction lately ( Da vinci code - Borrowed in the afternoon, finished by night , just like the college days !). Just started on King Rat. Promises to be a riveting read. Here are a few topics I want to start writing about. Hopefully can compile

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Researchers in 1984 showed that on average, patients were interrupted 18 seconds into explaining their problems to a doctor.In 1999 they found docs took 23 sec to interrupt. Fewer than 2 percent of the patients got to finish their explanations. Only 15 percent of patients fully understand what their doctors tell them, and that 50 percent leave their doctors' offices uncertain of what they are

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Green Pea Soup Saute the onion in butter. Add the chopped garlic - Add stock and the peas. Stir in the chooped herbs with a little salt and cover. Bring to a boil and simmer unitl the peas are tender. Puree the soup into a smooth consistancy. Stir in 1/2 cup of cream and serve. Garnish each serving with a sprinkling of chopped herbs and some fresh whole peas that have been blanched in salted

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Pot-in-Pot Cooling System. Invented by Mohammed Abba, Nigeria A small earthenware pot is placed inside a larger one, and the space between the two is filled with moist sand. The inner pot is filled with fruit, vegetables or soft drinks; a wet cloth covers the whole thing. As water in the sand evaporates through the surface of the outer pot, it carries heat, drawing it away from the inner core.

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mademyday On tuesday June 8th, the sun will be fainter than usual. On the face of the sun will be a small, dark dot. The dot is Venus, passing directly between Earth and the sun for the first time since 1882 The interest in observing the transit of Venus led to the invention of the movie camera and to the discovery of the great barrier reef Kepler first predicted a transit of Venus in 1631.

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From Jeremy Allaire's article A Short History of Technology and the Web Trends fuelling the growth of the Internet Affordable personal computers. Around 1994/95 price functionality made PC's viable household goods. Low-cost connectivity. TIll 1994, dial-up connectivity belonged to geeks. After 1994, large-scale connectivity infrastructure investments by AOL, Microsoft, and thousands of

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The Economist speaks.... DVD piracy may be coming soon with broadband rising and file storing becoming smarter. How do you fight it ? American Media Moguls are adopting the following strategies 1. Delete content after the user has “consumed” it. 2. Offer movies cheaply online 3. seeking new laws 4. Educate the young with new curriculum which teaches that swapping content is wrong. 5.Go after

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The Indian e-learning market is still in its infancy at just $4 million as per the 2002 estimates, with an expected 4-year CAGR of 20-25 per cent, the apex body pointed out The worldwide corporate e-learning market is expected to reach revenues of $23 billion by 2005, with a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 25 per cent, said National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom

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Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later. When all else fails, read the instructions. Every task takes twice as long as you think it will take. If you double the time you think it will take, it will actually take four times as long. There is always one item on the screen menu that is mislabeled and should read "ABANDON HOPE ALL YE WHO ENTER HERE." Do not believe in

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My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met." "I drink to make other people interesting." "A man's only as old as the woman he feels." "Time is never wasted when you're wasted all the time." "I can resist everything except temptation." "I'm very pleased to be here. Let's face it, at my age I'm very pleased to be anywhere." "Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is

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Web Services and Semantic Web Web services integrate programs across applications, across boundaries. Semantic Web integrate data across applications, across boundaries. Web Services : Program Semantic Web : Data Everything has a URI Don't say "color" say Can be encoded in XML Simplicity and mathematical consistency This is called Resource Description Framework (RDF) RDF: Semantic

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$160 billion-a-year global industry A curvy body, with big breasts and a waist-to-hip ratio of less than 0.8?( Barbie's is 0.54 ) ?shows an ideal stage of readiness for conception an American scientist, logged the mating preferences of more than 10,000 people across 37 cultures. It found that a woman's physical attractiveness came top or near top of every man's list Paul Beiersdorf, a Hamburg

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From Scientific American... According to the fossil record, the australopithecines never became much brainier than living apes, showing only a modest increase in brain size, from around 400 cubic centimeters four million years ago to 500 cubic centimeters two million years later. Homo brain sizes, in contrast, ballooned from 600 cubic centimeters in H. habilis some two million years ago up to

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http://www.intuitor.com/moviephysics/ Stupid movie Physics The vast majority of bullets are made of copper-clad lead. They simply don't create bright flashes of light when they strike objects Gasoline has a very narrow flammable range of about 0.8 to 6% gasoline vapor in air. In other words, the vapor-air mixture must be exactly as specified or the gas will not burn, let alone explode! Note

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Google Toolbar Installed Three-D printing is changing the world of product design. These printers typically shape objects by laying down materials, such as wax or plaster, one layer upon the other. A small model can take as little as an hour to create, and some printers can create objects in full color. Three-D printing is being used to design everything from children's strollers at Graco to

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Intel Fellow and Director of Circuit Research Shekhar Borkar speaks.... The transistors are becoming so small that the atoms and molecules that used to look like a continuum now look like discretes. We will shift from the deterministic designs of today to probabilistic and statistical designs of the future. if you take a thousand samples of Intel® Pentium® 4 processors, there is some speed

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Who'll pay for Internet Content ? Borders is a co-founder of Borders Group, the $3.4 billion company that today is the nation's second-largest bookseller. He is also the man behind the great bust of Webvan, the billion-dollar online grocer. Borders now launches KeepMedia a subscription-based stuff for magazines such as Business Week, U.S. News and World Report and Esquire. Though it's an idea

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Real and the Gaming World. In the multiplayer EverQuest" a black market exchange exists between the EverQuest characters, items and US Dollars. Sony has outlawed the exchange of EverQuest items for real money. You can purchase upgrades or trade characters for real money. This paper proposes a revenue model for massively multiplayer gaming based on copying the real world economy enough to

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In search of Stupidity The race goes not to the strong, nor swift, nor more intelligent but to the less stupid 100 largest personal computer software publishers in 1984 #1 Micropro International $60,Mn #2 Microsoft Corp. $55,Mn #3 Lotus $53 Mn #4 Digital Research $45 Mn #5 VisiCorp $43Mn #6 Ashton-Tate $35Mn #7 Peachtree $21Mn #8 MicroFocus $15Mn #9 Software Publishing $14Mn #10

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Foreign Policy: China focussed on getting as much foreign investment ina s possible. It did get them, on a scale much larger than India . During the last 20 years, the Chinese economy has taken off, but few local firms have followed, leaving the country’s private sector with no world-class companies to rival the big multinationals. But India has managed to spawn a number of companies that now

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Salon.com News | Vatican launches campaign against gay marriage: "-- The Vatican launched a global campaign against gay marriages" The Vatican launched a global campaign against gay marriages claiming "Marriage is holy, while homosexual acts go against the natural moral law " Interesting to note that Vatican is the sole authority on definition of the following terms Marriage (Bertrand Russel

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Depression:Hardcoded? Researchers found that violence in adults could result from the interaction between an abusive childhood and two different versions of a DNA switch that controls a gene called monoamine oxidase. Both childhood abuse and a particular version of the switch are needed to give a high chance of a person's becoming violent. In other words, then, it is nature with nurture that is

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The Anthromorphic explanation ? Why are critical values so perfect in our universe? Are there infinite universes where these critical numbers can take all possible values? So an infinity of universes with infinities of critical values and an infinity of universes with the same values as ours, but split from our universe on account of each decision taken ( Like the schroedinger's cat example).

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DNA Computers: After a longish time lag, have just started understanding the beauty of organisation of DNA. HAve no idea yet about how DNA computers work. The following article offers tantalising glimples of what it could be.... DNA is also a wonderful way to store information. One gram of genetic material, which would occupy about one cubic centimeter, can hold as much information as 1

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O Reilly again ! Could'nt get my fill of O'Reilly today. Makes excellent reading ! On where the Net is heading The new medium will eventually drive the development of new intermediaries who help people to find the content they want. (Think google and the web.) I'd say that you want to watch the folks who are figuring out that applications are no longer local to a single machine. Whether it's

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Starbucks ! I'll never forget the day I mistakenly ordered a 10 Dinar awful tasting Starbucks at Dubai Airport. But have been pretty fascinated about what drives the company's success. This article does'nt answer it, though makes an interesting read. From one coffee-bean store in 1971 (the outlet still in Pike Place Market), Starbucks now has 6,458, mostly in the U.S. and in all but one state

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Tim O Reilly speaks about how MS almost won the Web The antitrust suit and Judge Jackson's finding of fact have focused on how Microsoft used its operating system dominance to wrest control of the Web browser market from Netscape. Perhaps even more significant is the untold story of Microsoft's attempts to corner the Web server market. As someone whose company competes directly with Microsoft, (

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MS Failures In 1993, Microsoft hoped to appeal to the masses of "multimedia PC" buyers (that is, PCs with both a CD-ROM drive and a sound card, revolutionary at the time) by introducing a line of software called Microsoft Home. More than 100 products were launched in rapid succession over 18 months, from childhood creativity (Fine Artist) to a cartoony "social interface" to make Windows appear

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Tim O Reilly on DRM DRM is a non-starter, at least as currently conceived. It's baffling to me that the content industries don't look at the experience of the software industry in the 80's, when copy protection on software was widely tried, and just as widely rejected by consumers. As science fiction writer William Gibson said, "The future is here. It's just not evenly distributed yet." The

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Who's right ? I'm biased against pdf, as it is a pain in the butt. But was checking out what Adobe has to say about Nielson's report. They have not made a good job of replying, instead resorting to cheap tricks and base allegations against Nielson. Nielson's basic complaint is "A computer screen is not a good way to veiw documents. So use PDF to print it out if you want, but don't force

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PDF Unfit for Human COnsumption From Nielson... Users get lost inside PDF files, which are typically big, linear text blobs that are optimized for print and unpleasant to read and navigate online. PDF is good for printing, but that's it. Don't use it for online presentation. Problems with PDF Optimised for printing, not for viewing Don't follow standard browser commands More likely to crash

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Print Vs Paper From Jacob Nielson Computer screens lead to a reading speed that is approximately 25% slower than reading from paper. Users do like the ability to get long documents in hardcopy. So even online publishing systems need a print feature. The implication for web design is to provide printable versions of any long documents. Now comes in PDF claiming to solve this problem...

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Contribute Macromedia unveiled contribute in The FFC 2003. Here's what it is... Web browser cum editor. Contribute browser looks like a standard web browser. Like earlier netscape, you can view a site or open a site in it to edit It can Add content to existing web pages easily. Add paypal buttons and instantly accept credit card payments Convert any document to flashpaper Prices start from

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Flash Paper.. Taking on PDF ? Macromedia FlashPaper lets you publish any document with total control as to how it will come out on a printer. It is a printer driver technology for Windows 2000 and XP that can transform any printable document into a compact, web-friendly Macromedia Flash format and then embed the document as an intrinsic part of a web page. Inserting documents os simple. Just

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Matador and Toreador. ( From the Goog...article since removed) Toreador - A bull fighter ( Toro Lat, Bull.) Matador - A Bullfighter who kills the bull ( Mata Sp,To Kill ) There are now two versions of Flash: Matador and Toreador. Matador: For beginners ,Web designer, interactive media professional, or for the teacher developing multimedia content. Emphasis is on creation, import, and

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Grant Skinner's 3 C's of UI design Context Ensure that the options and content presented to the user are relevant to their context. Showing a user too many options at a time will confuse him, hiding too many will obstruct his ability to get anything done. Consistency Maintaining consistent interface standards throughout your application will reduce your users' learning curve for your

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India Key Stats from the Economist Population 1 Bn Population growth 1.6% Land area : 3.3m sq km GDP US$500 bn , US$2.73trn (at PPP) GDP per head : US$480 , US: $2,610 ( at PPP)( Half of China's) GDP growth: 4.% Inflation: 4.% Two-thirds of India's population work in agriculture. Agriculture,forestry and fishing account for a quarter of GDP. Services account for about half the GDP.

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Dowry Economics Caste remains a source of status. Women compete for the limited pool of men in castes above them. They bid up the price of this scarce quantity claims a theory ( Siwan Anderson, economist at the University of Tilburg) But, 1. Why are men suddenly scarce ? 2. Intercaste marriages are becoming more common and why has it not reduced dowry ? 3. What happens in same caste marriages

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Backing up your brain If you are just a sum of your memories, backing up your brain could be the way to eternal life. Getting hardware and wetware to talk to each other is becoming a reality. Researchers have successfully developed the cochlear implant (a device that can restore a semblance of hearing to the severely deaf). We still have to learn a lot, but we are getting there fast A team in

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Riemann's hypothesis No one knows how prime numbers are distributed. At some places they crowd together and at others they are sparse. Mathematicians have succeded in proving only that prime numbers become rarer as they grow larger. But how exactly they are distributed is still not known. Riemann observed that the frequency of prime numbers is very closely related to the behaviour of an

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Kepler's Laws Till the 16th century people believed Ptolemy's ( 85 - 165 AD) words,spoken 1400 years earlier, that the planets, Moon, and Sun orbited around the Earth. In 1543, Copernicus proposed that the planets and the Earth orbited around the Sun. But his proposal was not very useful in predicting the motion of the planets. The world had to wait for 50 more years and Johannes Kepler to

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DRK 4 Flash Charts http://www.macromedia.com/software/drk/productinfo/product_overview/volume4/ Sample chart at http://www.macromedia.com/software/drk/productinfo/product_overview/volume4/flash_chart.html and at http://www.peterjoel.com/upload/pie.html

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http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/bigflash.htm Flash - Little Known Facts Stand-alone projector files can be created from flash movies. This lets the movie to play outside the browser, even without flash player installed. But these typically double ( or more) the file size. The limits of Flash A Flash movie can have up to 16000 frames. Exceed this and the movie stops. For

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The Art of Travel Like Sex, it is all in the mind. When Peter Macinnis says " ...My hand on sedimentary rock spans a gap of 100 million years in geological history. ", it lets you see everyday objects in a new light. Imagine the millions of years when the sediments were deposited layer by patient layer, embedding clues of interesting events from each eon, the process proceeding patiently, over

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Load a JPEG in a single Line of Code this.createEmptyMovieClip("img_mc", 0).loadMovie("my.jpg"); That's it !

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Flash Forward Conference in NYC.. Key developments ( Summary of various posts) DRK 4 announced. Advanced Charting component set shown ( Bar, Line, Area, Pie, Combo). Features include support for multiple datasets, 2d and 3d rendering, and the ability to chart different chart types in a single chart. Should integrate this with the COT module soon. Stock Chart Sample Application : Using Flash

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Multi user Content In a network, users create content. This live content is best suited for network delivery. I've been breaking my nead as to how to make animations on web different from animations delivered on a CD. Moock hits the nail on its head with this example. Should build a proto application fast. Presentation at http://moock.org/webdesign/lectures/ff2003Harmony/ The utulip app is

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What is Apple up to ? Adobe Premiere ( video editing software) has stopped producing for MAC. Internet Explorer has done the same for Mac last month. Apple has launched products which directly compete with Adobe's Premiere and Microsoft's IE. Did this prompt the move ? Apple hasn't built its version of Microsoft Office, but reports say it is working on it. What is Apple trying to do ? Apple

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Unicode Converter For using Unicode characters in the FLA file the only way is to use notations. This application converts the typed string into the escape sequence Ellison on the future of Databases "We sell databases, and y'all have bought too many of them," Ellison quipped. "The reason you can't find out what's going on in your business is that information is stored in too many databases."

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The Network Effect Kevin Kelly argues "In the Old Economy what was rare was valuable. In the New Economy what is common is valuable." This theme is echoed in Ross in Living Networks which argues " as more people use a technology the greater the positive returns to each" In the SWF format Macromedia gave up proprietary advantage in creating and using SWF in order to expand the pool of people who

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Gates on Spam, Longhorn, Linux and Office On Anti Spam solutions Strategy 1: If you want somebody to read an e-mail you would put up a certain amount of money. So you say, "OK, if he reads this e-mail, I offer 20 cents for the person to read the e-mail." What's the valuable resource? It's the reader's time. And if they read it and say, "Oh this is my long-lost brother." Then they can say, "

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In a networked Economy everyone is a competitor ! Read an article which argues Google and Ebay are competitors. " If you're a vendor, you can advertise on a search page, or put up your wares on EBay's bazaar A vendor pays EBay roughly 7 percent for an item worth $100. In the same way, Google gets a fee for sending a prospective buyer to a seller. In time, as Google and other search engines

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Is Google God ? "If I can operate Google, I can find anything. And with wireless, it means I will be able to find anything, anywhere, anytime. Which is why I say that Google, combined with Wi-Fi, is a little bit like God. God is wireless, God is everywhere and God sees and knows everything. Throughout history, people connected to God without wires. Now, for any questions in the world, you ask

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Five Clues for Geeks (1). Intermediaries add value. The Internet does not mean that the destiny is for producers to launch creative works directly to consumers. On the contrary the low cost of producing on computers and distributing over the Internet means that filtering by intermediaries becomes even more important. (2). Property is not evil. Searls and Weinberger point out that the

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How to build a Flash app easily using the the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern. The MVC pattern specifies that your application should be divided into three main pieces: the model which handles your application's data, the view which handles the visual interface, and finally the controller which handles user input. Each of the pieces are independent, so they can be both tested on their own

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George Orwell's six elementary rules Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use a long word where a short one will do. If it is possible to cut out a word, always cut it out. Never use the passive where you can use the active. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English

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DURUM wheat - The pasta base My pasta research continues .... wheat Wheat is the second most consumed cereal, next only to rice. Unlike other cereals wheat has more gluten, the protein that provides the elasticity necessary for excellent breadmaking. The three major types are hard wheat, soft wheat and durum wheat. Hard wheat is high in protein and gluten . So suitable for breads.

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My very first Homemade Pasta Pasta especially Italian ones are pretty expensive here. Half a Kg costs over Rs.130. So tried my hand at home made pasta on this lazy sunday morning and it was delicious ! Here's how you do it. You can make pasta from any flour. Atta ( Wheat flour), Maida ( Refined wheat flour) or just about any flour. Make a mound of flour, make a well in centre, crack eggs (

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Grains Flours and Pasta Grains are the seeds or fruit of cereal plants, used as food by humans and animals. Each grain has the following Germ - the embryo of the plant, rich in vitamins and minerals. Endosperm - the starchy food which the germ needs to grow. Contains complex carbohydrates and some protein. Bran - the tough outer coating which protects the grain until it sprouts. A good

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Pasta History Pasta is bread. It is just unleavened bread cooked in boiling water. That's it. The bread can be fresh or dried, made from a variety of flours/starches/beans, with a variety of ingredients added to it. Italy has elevated pasta to an art form, but pasta is native to various cuisines. The Chinese had it by the first century AD--and noodle shops were all the rage by the Sung dynasty

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Today's Recipe Take tamarind water. Add salt, vellam, Turmeric powder Boil cut eggplant, raw shelled groundnuts shallow fry coriander seeds, kadalai paruppu, ulutham paruppu, dried red chillies. Grind it. Add it to the boiling tamarind water. Keep stirring. Grate coconuts, put them in a pan and stir to dry them, add to boiling mixture Shallow fry Mustard seeds, curry leaves, ulutham paruppu

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RIA Devlopment COG ( Splendour) 1. Reads questions, answers and images from a text file 2. User can change questions, answers, images COT ( Splendour) Demos multilanguage support ( Arabic and English) Watch Finder ( Prakash ) Demos page hits as clock face shading

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SCORM Scorm is a rough equivalent of Object Oriented programming as applied to e-Learning. A variety of proprietory learning management systems were being sold. The components of these also were proprietory and had to be bought from the same vendor. A rough analogy would be that you have to buy the hard disk, mother board, softwars, mouse and keyboard from Microsoft, just because the operating

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Different methods of cooking : Bake : Cook in an oven Bake in a bag - also called baking 'en papillote', to place something( normally fish) in a sealed foil or paper bag with seasonings and a littlel iquid and baking it in the oven until cooked. Baste - to spoon hot fat or stock from the roasting tray over whatever you're roasting to moisten it and to encourage caramelisation Bat out - to

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