In Belgium fries are super popular. They taste really amazing and are very different than the common American french fry. My question is, what is the secret to replicate a Belgian style french fry. They have a perfectly crispy golden shell, about 1inch wide, 1/3 inch thick, soft on the inside and totally different than your average American style french fry.
How do Belgian fries differ from the French fries we are accustomed to eat in the US and Canada in such places as McDonald's, Wendy's, Burger King and so on? Is it the variety of potato, the preparation involved or something totally different? What oil do they use in Belgium?   I remember having them while I was visiting family in Belgium. The fries were somewhat crispy and thicker than over here.
It is written everywhere that gravity is curvature of spacetime caused by the mass of the objects or something to the same effect. This raises a question with me: why isn't spacetime curved due to other forces or aspects of bodies?  Why isn't it that there are curvatures related to the charge of a body or the spin of particles or any other characteristics? I have start learning Selenium WebDriver, but i am confused between Java and Python. Which language should i choose? I do have basic ideas of Core Java but haven't wrote a single piece of code with python.  So please suggest me which is the better language for Selenium WebDriver? Where can I see the source code of the Sun JDK? I've googled and also searched the answers here but couldn't find my problem so here goes:  I know how to bevel a curve using another object and when I try it with a normal circle it's fine. But I'm trying to use this flat oval shape to bevel a larger curve of the same shape and it's not following the curve at the correct rotation. I've tried everything, rotating the bevel object, clicking random options in the object data menu.. I can't seem to budge it from looking how it is in the screenshot. In the screenshot you can see the curve I've failed to bevel correctly and also the bevel object in the bottom right.  Basically, I want the flat part of the oval to be above and below the curve, not on the sides as it is. I hope that makes sense. Anyone know what I need to do? Why are my PHP sessions dying? And why can't I restore them? I have an app using PHP and the PayPal API. The basic way it works to get a payment is that you do a web service call to PayPal to get a token and then do a browser redirect to PayPal with that token for the user to pay. After the payment details have been confirmed, PayPal redirects back to the URL you originally set in the service call.  This all works, millions of people use it every day, et cetera.  Strange thing is, when PayPal redirects back, the PHP session is gone. It's a .  First question: why is this happening? Both pages are on the same domain, both use HTTPS. The session works for all requests up until the PayPal redirect back.  The linked forum thread suggests a workaround, to persist the session ID in the PayPal request and then to retrieve it later and restore the session. Great, except it doesn't seem to work.  I can add some log statements:  log(session_id());   before and after the various redirects. When coming back from PayPal, I log some more.  log("session id is " . session_id()); $session_id = get_session_id_from_paypal(); log("setting it back to " . $session_id); session_id($session_id); session_start(); log("session id is now " . session_id());   The result is not at all what I'd expect:     session_id is fc8f459a186a3f4695ff9ac71b563825   setting it back to 82460dcf8c8ddd538466e7cb89712e72   session_id is now 360ba3fd99d233e0735397278d2b2e55     Second question: why is the session id not at all what I set it to? What am I doing wrong? Or, at least, why do none of the session variables come back? GNOME 2 allows one to either save the session automatically or manually (i.e. save the session as it looks right now). This is a nice feature because it restores the various desktop states between logins (and system restarts):   which apps were open where (physically) on the desktop were they open what specific window sizes were these apps set to   Looking around, I can't find the feature in GNOME 3? Did I not look hard enough? I want to crop (as in, take a subset of each frame, like when you crop a photo) a video in Windows Live Movie maker. Is there a way to do this, and failing that is there another free tool i can use to do that? Area of a parallelogram, vertices $(-1,-1), (4,1), (5,3), (10,5)$. I need to find the area of a parallelogram with vertices $(-1,-1), (4,1), (5,3), (10,5)$.  If I denote $A=(-1,-1)$, $B=(4,1)$, $C=(5,3)$, $D=(10,5)$, then I see that $\overrightarrow{AB}=(5,2)=\overrightarrow{CD}$. Similarly $\overrightarrow{AC}=\overrightarrow{BD}$. So I see that these points indeed form a parallelogram.  It is assignment from linear algebra class. I wasn't sure if I had to like use a matrix or something. There are four options. Which of them is correct?- (a)${p\over k}$ (b)${k\over p}$ (c)$\log({p\over k})$ (d)${\log p\over k}$ I somehow want to use the rule for evaluating this kind of sum using integration, i.e. $\int_{0}^{1} f(x) \ dx=\lim_{n\to\infty} {1\over n}\sum_{r=1}^{n}f({r\over n})$  But the given expression $\lim_{n\to\infty} [{1\over kn}+{1\over k(n+1)}+{1\over k(n+2)}+\cdots+{1\over k(n+p-k)}]={1\over k}\lim_{n\to\infty}{1\over n}\sum_{r=0}^{p-k}\frac{1}{1+{r\over n}}$, sum running from $0$ to $p-k$ instead of $n$. So, how to evaluate this limit? Thanks for assistance in advance. There is a hint to show that if there were points in $\mathbb{Q}$, then there would exist $r,s, t \in \mathbb{Z}$ with $\gcd(r, t) = 1$ such that $2s^2 = t^4 - 17r^4$ , and then show that any prime dividing $s$ is a quadratic residue modulo $17$.  I'm stuck on the first bit - if you suppose $\left(\frac{a}{b}, \frac{c}{d}\right)$ is a point on the curve in $\mathbb{Q}$ (so $a, b, c, d \in \mathbb{Z}$) then you get to $2a^2d^4 = b^2c^4 - 17b^2d^4$, but I'm not sure where to go from here since you don't know that $b$ is a square? Has there been any progress made on granting a developer account for SF and HubExchange Devs? It feels conceptually wrong to me a SF product doesn't allow developers to perfect and develop a wider solution offering without paying +10K license fee per year. Even without CRM the HubExchange market could be a richer portal for consumers and developers if we were allowed a means to test our concept.  I think we'd all be perfectly happy with an account that was blackholed or limited in such a way where we could only send a finite qty of emails to an email address associated to the user.  If there's a forum or avenue where we can assist in raising the value proposition please let us know as I know there are many people looking. Can you grab the blue shirts and socks?   Is the above sentence stating that both the shirts and the socks are blue? Or only the shirts?  At this stage, I am leaning towards the earlier (only the shirts) — though writing "Can you grab the blue shirts and blue socks?" seems redundant. Setup or "set up"? The word setup (as a noun), I feel, has become an acceptable part of the English language, at least insofar as technical manuals or computer textbooks are concerned. However I find that the word is used very often in verb form like so:     "You can setup the program quite easily ..."   when in fact my understanding is that the actual sentence should be:     "You can set up the program quite easily ..."   I would like to know if setup can be used as a verb. The situation seems be very similar to the word output (as a noun). Output is a purely technical word and its use is restricted solely to technical texts or at least in a technical context within non-technical books. However it is also used in verb form now like so:     "The system will output the signal ..."   I would be very grateful if this question is answered. Thank you Default currency symbol How is offside determined in football? The offside rule on the pitch is often unclear and called suddenly. How do I know if a player is offside? Can fresh pasta sheets be used to assemble a lasagne, then left in the fridge overnight before baking? Or will this make them mushy or otherwise degrade them?  I have recently gotten into making fresh pasta, and I want to prep a lasagne the night before. I have done this before with store-bough dried noodles, but I'm not sure if doing this will have a negative effect on fresh, more delicate pasta. An integrable and periodic function $f(x)$ satisfies $\int_{0}^{T}f(x)dx=\int_{a}^{a+T}f(x)dx$. I want to prove:     For an integrable function $f(x)$ and periodic with period $T$, for every $a \in \mathbb{R}$, $$\int_{0}^{T}f(x)\;dx=\int_{a}^{a+T}f(x)\;dx.$$   I tried to change the values and define $y=a+x$ so that $dy=dx$ and the limits of the integrals are as we want, but I'm not sure how to use the fact that $f(x)$ is periodic.  Thanks a lot! In several different contexts we invoke the  to justify whatever statistical method we want to adopt (e.g., approximate the binomial distribution by a normal distribution). I understand the technical details as to why the theorem is true but it just now occurred to me that I do not really understand the intuition behind the central limit theorem.  So, what is the intuition behind the central limit theorem?   Layman explanations would be ideal. If some technical detail is needed please assume that I understand the concepts of a pdf, cdf, random variable etc but have no knowledge of convergence concepts, characteristic functions or anything to do with measure theory. Isn't every subset of a compact space compact? Let $\mathfrak{C}$ be an open cover of a topological compact space $X$, and let $\mathfrak{B}\subseteq \mathfrak{C}$ be its finite subcover. Then every subset of $X$ also has the same cover and subcover! Shouldn't every such subset also be compact then?  Motivation: I read somewhere that every closed subset of a compact space is compact. I wonder why it shouldn't be the case for every subset of $X$, rather than just the closed ones. Choosing variables to include in a multiple linear regression model I am currently working to build a model using a multiple linear regression. After fiddling around with my model, I am unsure how to best determine which variables to keep and which to remove.  My model started with 10 predictors for the DV. When using all 10 predictors, four were considered significant. If I remove only some of the obviously-incorrect predictors, some of my predictors that were not initially significant become significant. Which leads me to my question: How does one go about determining which predictors to include in their model? It seemed to me you should run the model once with all predictors, remove those that are not significant, and then rerun. But if removing only some of those predictors makes others significant, I am left wondering if I am taking the wrong approach to all this.  I believe that  thread is similar to my question, but I am unsure I am interpreting the discussion correctly. Perhaps this is more of an experimental design topic, but maybe someone has some experience they can share.