If you install some distro of Linux on the Drive, being sure to repartition and reformat with some non MS filesystem, that could overwrite it enough to make any previous data non-recoverable. Plus you also do the public service of letting the buyer experience a properly configured Linux system. (which you set up)
This would kill two birds with one stone.
I imagine it would be a pain to do data recovery on system like that.
But: do you want to meet people on the Web at all?"
could easily be rendered as:
But: do you want to meet people at all?"
For a lot of people, this involves some sort of a negative answer, one way or another. Some folks have a low tolerance of human beings, depending on circumstances.
Re:Maporama
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Open Maps?
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There are a few oddities I've noticed, often due to the boundaries for bodies of water being defined at the province or stare level, and not being detailed enough at the local level. But often they are quite good.
I actually prefer using Maporama, which allows you to generate maps up to 999x999 pixels.
You can choose a number of color styles, and you can save the generated map as a gif file, which is can then edit with common software. Very configurable, and an account is not needed.
They also provide street numbers when you are zoomed in close enough.
USA Today has an interesting article on the inaccuracies of the movie "A Beautiful Mind". The film has been been noted for its praise of anti-psychotic drugs, and winds up being very much at odds with the actual facts of Professor Nash's life.
The brilliant mathematician stopped taking anti-psychotic drugs in 1970, and then slowly recovered over two decades. This is much more the rule rather than the exception. In ''undeveloped'' countries, nearly two-thirds of schizophrenia patients are doing fairly well five years after initial diagnosis; about 40% have basically recovered. But in the USA and other developed countries, most patients become chronically ill.
The outcome differences are so marked that WHO concluded that living in a developed country is a ''strong predictor'' that a patient never will fully recover."
Hollywood is known to never let facts get in the road of a good story. Or would the lack of drugs be a better story? It is also worth while to check out Psych Watch for various items about psychiatry going down the tubes, etc.
bottom line, this stuff has been debated since 1985. Now someone claims to discover a new form of life? That's like not naming the new world Columbus discovered Columbia (with apologies to the American Indians, who were there all along) Plenty of prior art.
"The fine folks at the MITSound Media Lab have come up with a cheap and practical way to focus sound: "A beam of light can be controlled in many ways - it can be aimed at one person in a crowd, spread to fill a room, or projected to create rich, distant imagery. We can now do these very same things with sound. The Audio Spotlight can be used in two major ways: As directed audio, sound is directed at a specific listener or area, to provide a private or area specific listening space. As projected audio, sound is projected against a distant object, creating an audio image. This audio image is literally a projected loudspeaker - sound appears to come directly from the projection, just like light." While still under development, they are testing applications of the device in collaboration with several of their media lab sponsors in preparation for eventual commercial release."
I also recall another story someplace where a guy was messing with a portable version of this in a mall, spooking people out. Apparently the sound appears in the persons head, but you do know exactly which direction it is coming from.
I can see the potential to harrass politicians and other public speakers right now. It is definitely an acquired skill to be able to speak without stumbling despite that kind of distraction.
What is the RIOT Wheel?
It's an 1100lb motorized single-wheel vehicle, with
the driver in front. Why, what does it look like?
Is it NEW?
Completely. There's nothing like it. It's the first radical
departure in single-wheel designs in over a hundred years.
Can I BUY one?
Are you NUTS? Yes? Then of course you can buy one. These are prototypes, and so stupidly dangerous, but if you'd have bought a Wright Flyer in 1904, then contact us NOW. And if you
want us to build you something similar, or something entirely different, we can talk about that, too.
How does it work?
Check out the Technical section for a complete
explanation.
Is make public knowledge, published in every paper, of the comings and goings of every public official.And let the conspiracy theorists go after them. Might cure them of a lot of things.
What do you mean councilman Jones never shows up for work on Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays? Let's have a talk with him
Prof Sundar said there computer manufacturers and advertisers could learn from the results of the study. In general, computers are marketed as things that can easily be phased out and replaced.
"A better advertising strategy might be to portray computers as something durable and reliable, something that grows with you," Prof Sundar told BBC News Online.
they can't do that. No, seriously.
This means that the industry would have to get off the treadmill of constant upgrades. It is no secret that MS is upset with the slow rate of people upgrading to XP. Most people now only upgrade when there is a definite need for it.
This would be the end of the world as they know it, and I feel fine.
I thought I saw something on the google site that said they pulled systems every once in a while. They probably send a guy through with a cart to clear off the shelf or rack.
How can the universe, the sum of everything which exists, have shape? What, then, is outside this funnel? Isn't it infinitely large by definition?
Modern science holds that the universe is not infinite, but is of limited size.
It looks like to me that the universe is funnel shaped along the dimension of time. Since light takes time to reach us, the effect would be similar to a funnel shape in space, in every direction.
This would be because the further back in time we go, the smaller the universe is. And the farther away we observe, the further back in time we go. Thus the distortion in perception could be introduced by the effect of time across a vast distance.
However, the universe itself could still be "spherical" or whatever, and you would still see this effect.
It is used to implant a GPS-microchip in the body of a human being, using a high powered sniper rifle as the long distance injector. The microchip will enter the body and stay there, causing no internal damage, and only a very small amount of physical pain to the target. It will feel like a mosquito-bite lasting a fraction of a second. At the same time a digital camcorder with a zoom-lense fitted within the scope will take a high-resolution picture of the target. This picture will be stored on a memory card for later image-analysis.
Friday, 15 November, 2002 - A 700-year-old fresco bearing an uncanny resemblance to Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse has been discovered in Austria. The mouse figure was unearthed by an art historian working on the church in the southern village of Malta. Click here to see the image of the fresco in full The figure bears an enormous resemblance to Walt Disney's famous mouse to this 14th Century figure. Art historians are claiming the discovery could mean the end of Disney's copyright on the character.
on the other hand, imagine a large collection of such web pages venting such a sentiment against any such persons.
Imagine any normal human as a CEO reading that that there were thousand of custom designed pages cursing him or her explicily and by name. Should give anyone pause.
Slashdot Mirror
This would kill two birds with one stone.
I imagine it would be a pain to do data recovery on system like that.
But: do you want to meet people on the Web at all?"
could easily be rendered as:
But: do you want to meet people at all?"
For a lot of people, this involves some sort of a negative answer, one way or another. Some folks have a low tolerance of human beings, depending on circumstances.
There are a few oddities I've noticed, often due to the boundaries for bodies of water being defined at the province or stare level, and not being detailed enough at the local level. But often they are quite good.
You can choose a number of color styles, and you can save the generated map as a gif file, which is can then edit with common software. Very configurable, and an account is not needed.
They also provide street numbers when you are zoomed in close enough.
Overall, worth a bookmark.
The brilliant mathematician stopped taking anti-psychotic drugs in 1970, and then slowly recovered over two decades. This is much more the rule rather than the exception. In ''undeveloped'' countries, nearly two-thirds of schizophrenia patients are doing fairly well five years after initial diagnosis; about 40% have basically recovered. But in the USA and other developed countries, most patients become chronically ill.
The outcome differences are so marked that WHO concluded that living in a developed country is a ''strong predictor'' that a patient never will fully recover."
Hollywood is known to never let facts get in the road of a good story. Or would the lack of drugs be a better story? It is also worth while to check out Psych Watch for various items about psychiatry going down the tubes, etc.
Nanobacteria - Is Cardiovascular Disease an Infection??
1998 Nanobacteria paper for biology geeks and Doctors
bottom line, this stuff has been debated since 1985. Now someone claims to discover a new form of life? That's like not naming the new world Columbus discovered Columbia (with apologies to the American Indians, who were there all along) Plenty of prior art.
Note also the results from the usual Google Search on NanoBacteria
Origin : When the wind changes direction the sails of a sailing ship sometimes blow back against the mast, i.e. they are taken aback.
Including things to do if you *need* to run MSIE
Useful article
"The fine folks at the MIT Sound Media Lab have come up with a cheap and practical way to focus sound: "A beam of light can be controlled in many ways - it can be aimed at one person in a crowd, spread to fill a room, or projected to create rich, distant imagery. We can now do these very same things with sound. The Audio Spotlight can be used in two major ways: As directed audio, sound is directed at a specific listener or area, to provide a private or area specific listening space. As projected audio, sound is projected against a distant object, creating an audio image. This audio image is literally a projected loudspeaker - sound appears to come directly from the projection, just like light." While still under development, they are testing applications of the device in collaboration with several of their media lab sponsors in preparation for eventual commercial release."
I also recall another story someplace where a guy was messing with a portable version of this in a mall, spooking people out. Apparently the sound appears in the persons head, but you do know exactly which direction it is coming from.
I can see the potential to harrass politicians and other public speakers right now. It is definitely an acquired skill to be able to speak without stumbling despite that kind of distraction.
It's an 1100lb motorized single-wheel vehicle, with the driver in front. Why, what does it look like?
Is it NEW?
Completely. There's nothing like it. It's the first radical departure in single-wheel designs in over a hundred years.
Can I BUY one?
Are you NUTS? Yes? Then of course you can buy one. These are prototypes, and so stupidly dangerous, but if you'd have bought a Wright Flyer in 1904, then contact us NOW. And if you want us to build you something similar, or something entirely different, we can talk about that, too.
How does it work?
Check out the Technical section for a complete explanation.
Do you think there would be a market for something like this?
Step 3 - Profit!
probably named by the geeks who invented the idea.
Of course, you may happen to like politicians. Your milage may vary.
What do you mean councilman Jones never shows up for work on Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays? Let's have a talk with him
could be useful
I had submitted them earlier, and fortunately it was rejected. I can just imagine the slashdotting they would get....
smoke and broken electronics everywhere.
not a pretty sight
1 GB e-mail account, 350 MB combined storage, personal blog, forum, gallery, auctions and more
Of course, They are primarily mac-oriented, but I can deal with it.
"A better advertising strategy might be to portray computers as something durable and reliable, something that grows with you," Prof Sundar told BBC News Online.
they can't do that. No, seriously.
This means that the industry would have to get off the treadmill of constant upgrades. It is no secret that MS is upset with the slow rate of people upgrading to XP. Most people now only upgrade when there is a definite need for it.
This would be the end of the world as they know it, and I feel fine.
As their announcement says:
As an active Blogger user, we would like to invite you to be one of the first to try out Google's new email service, Gmail.
Would you like to give it a whirl? YES / NO
Where to Publish Your Paper
- If you understand it and can prove it, then send it to a journal of mathematics.
- If you understand it, but can't prove it, then send it to a physics journal.
- If you can't understand it, but can prove it, then send it to an economics journal.
- If you can neither understand it nor prove it, then send it to a psychology journal.
- If it attempts to make something important out of something trivial, then send it to a journal of education.
- If it attempts to make something trivial out of some-thing important, send it to a journal of metaphysics.
I'm sure folks can add a few items suitable to this conversation and Slashdot.I thought I saw something on the google site that said they pulled systems every once in a while. They probably send a guy through with a cart to clear off the shelf or rack.
heck they plan on hardware failure, and if a box drops dead, they do not even pull it out of the line up until sometime the following week.
Modern science holds that the universe is not infinite, but is of limited size.
It looks like to me that the universe is funnel shaped along the dimension of time. Since light takes time to reach us, the effect would be similar to a funnel shape in space, in every direction.
This would be because the further back in time we go, the smaller the universe is. And the farther away we observe, the further back in time we go. Thus the distortion in perception could be introduced by the effect of time across a vast distance.
However, the universe itself could still be "spherical" or whatever, and you would still see this effect.
What is the ID SNIPERTM rifle?
It is used to implant a GPS-microchip in the body of a human being, using a high powered sniper rifle as the long distance injector. The microchip will enter the body and stay there, causing no internal damage, and only a very small amount of physical pain to the target. It will feel like a mosquito-bite lasting a fraction of a second. At the same time a digital camcorder with a zoom-lense fitted within the scope will take a high-resolution picture of the target. This picture will be stored on a memory card for later image-analysis.
Now this is scary.
An Anonymous coward posted this link, but since it did not make it above the noise, here is the link to the news story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2481749.s tm
Friday, 15 November, 2002 - A 700-year-old fresco bearing an uncanny resemblance to Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse has been discovered in Austria. The mouse figure was unearthed by an art historian working on the church in the southern village of Malta. Click here to see the image of the fresco in full The figure bears an enormous resemblance to Walt Disney's famous mouse to this 14th Century figure. Art historians are claiming the discovery could mean the end of Disney's copyright on the character.
LOL.
on the other hand, imagine a large collection of such web pages venting such a sentiment against any such persons.
Imagine any normal human as a CEO reading that that there were thousand of custom designed pages cursing him or her explicily and by name. Should give anyone pause.