Sunday, March 30, 2008

Visual display unit

A visual display unit, frequently called simply a monitor, is a piece of electrical equipment which displays viewable images generate by a computer without producing a permanent record. The word "monitor" is used in other contexts; in exacting in television broadcasting, where a television picture is displayed to a high standard. A computer display device is typically either a cathode ray tube or some form of flat panel such as a TFT LCD. The monitor comprises the display device, circuitry to produce a picture from electronic signals sent by the computer, and an enclosure or case. Within the computer, either as a necessary part or a plugged-in interface, there is circuitry to convert internal data to a format compatible with a monitor.

Sunday, March 23, 2008

Vegetable

Vegetable is a cookery term which usually refers to an edible part of a plant. The definition is traditional rather than scientific and is somewhat random and subjective. All parts of herbaceous plants eaten as food by humans, whole or in part, are in general considered vegetables. Mushrooms, though belong to the biological kingdom fungi, and are also commonly considered vegetables. In common, vegetables are consideration of as being savory, and not sweet, although there are many exceptions. Nuts, grains, herbs, spices and culinary fruits are usually not exact vegetables.

Sunday, March 16, 2008

Salwar kameez


Salwar kameez is also spelled shalwar kameez and shalwar qamiz is a customary dress worn by both women and men in Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan. It is now and then known as Punjabi suit owing to its popularity in the Punjab region and the Pathani suit, due to the fact that the Pathans of Kabul set up the dress to the rest of South Asia.

It is loose pajama like trousers the legs are wide at the top and thin at the bottom,
The kameez is a long shirt or tunic. The part seams known as the chaak are left open under the waist-line, which gives the wearer greater freedom of movement. In Afghanistan and Pakistan, it is the special garment of both sexes. In Bangladesh and India, it is usually a woman's garment though the majority of Indian women wear traditional clothing, the men in India can be found in more comfortable in western clothing. Shalwar kameez is the traditional dress worn by a many peoples of south-central Asia. In India and Pakistan it is a largely popular style of dress, Shalwar or Salwar is a short loose or parallel trouser.

Sunday, March 09, 2008

Bond market

The bond market is also known as the debt, credit, or fixed income market is a financial market where member can buy and sell debt securities, usually in the form of bonds. As of 2006, the size of the global bond market is a predictable $45 trillion, of which the size of the outstanding U.S. bond market debt was $25.2 trillion.

"Bond market" is usually refers to the government bond market, because of its size, liquidity, lack of credit risk and, therefore, compassion to interest rates. Because of the inverse relationship between bond valuation and interest rates, the bond market is regularly used to indicate changes in interest rates or the shape of the yield curve.

Monday, March 03, 2008

Neptune

Neptune (pronounced /'n?ptju? n/[8]) is the eighth and farthest planet from the Sun in the Solar System. It is the fourth largest planet by diameter, and the third major by mass. Neptune is 17 times the mass of Earth and is somewhat more massive than its near-twin Uranus, which is 15 Earth masses and less dense. The planet is named following the Roman god of the sea. Its astronomical symbol is a stylized story of Poseidon's trident.

Discovered on September 23, 1846, Neptune was the first planet found by mathematical prediction quite than regular observation. Unexpected changes in the orbit of Uranus led astronomers to realize the gravitational perturbation of an unknown planet. Neptune was found within a degree of the predict position. The moon Triton was found shortly thereafter, but none of the planet's other 12 moons were discovered preceding to the twentieth century. Neptune has been visit by only one spacecraft, Voyager 2, which flew by the planet on August 25, 1989.