You have enough time to finish (first part of) the Dragonlance Chronicles:
Dragons of Autumn Twilight (April 1984), Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, (ISBN 0-88038-173-6)
Dragons of Winter Night (April 1985), Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, (ISBN 0-394-73975-2)
Dragons of Spring Dawning (September 1985), Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, (ISBN 0-88038-175-2)
Also, the most famous Legend of the series:
Time of the Twins (February 1986), by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, (ISBN 0-7869-1804-7)
War of the Twins (May 1986), by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, (ISBN 0-7869-1805-5)
Test of the Twins (August 1986), by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, (ISBN 0-7869-1806-3)
Must read for leisure and pleasure, if you like LoTR style fictions.
Samsung is blocked selling their tablets and phones elsewhere.
Now with a little luck within a year or two no-one is allowed to sell any smartphone or tablet anywhere in the world.
The winners will be: the Chinese manufacturers who don't care about patents and copyrights, who will just continue to produce, and sell their products all over the world on the grey markets at rock-bottom prices.
Works for me.
Nah, blackmarket prices of iPhone/iPad would be hyping up when they are getting more difficult to get, and the prices of China made tablets and phones would also raise with the absent of major competitors. The whole world would be hurting, and surely Apple would hurt much less because their products are still in very high demand thanks to their brilliant production strategy by scarcity.
In where I live, you could be charged of national treason for reporting a police officer locking six girls in his own basement for his own pleasure and occasionally taking them out for earning money by prostitution (that how he got caught - after locking them up for two years, and two girls were already found dead).
I'm risking my life telling you this. Now please excuse while I get the door, someone has been knocking my door vigorously for several minutes already...
Go do some googling, a simple ONE PASS of 0's on the disk WILL make the data absoloutely, without question unrecoverable, anyone who tells you otherwise is in to voodoo and black magic or trying to make some profit.
There are really some voodoo and black magic that can recover data if you erase disk that way. Last time my colleague has to pay ~US$600 on his own accord to recover data on a harddisk he accidentally overwrote with a ghost image. We didn't call for rocket scientists's help, just paid a specialist and the data was back.
Also, you would like to be aware of the fault-tolerant design of modern harddisk that might replicate data in hidden storage, which might be up to 15% of the published space.
So, erase 7 times with patterns, degauss, or even physical destroy is really necessary for erasing sensitive data.
Legend said that it carried strange messages on its shell. The messages looked simple (as you can see in the picture above) but people later found the complex meanings behind them.
This messages are the building blocks of most numerologies in ancient China, including Fengshui and I-Ching.
This is one of the most famous OPA (Out of Place Artifact) in China history.
While many people here thought it's a fair judgement, are skipping the fact that it was the Department of Interior who explicitly told bidders to deploy BPOS (Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Suite) to deliver cloud-based e-mail and messaging services. The bidders must comply as a bidding requirements.
Taking the prejustice out of the case, I personally don't think it's fair to penalize agency for being complied to bidding requirements. However, may be it's the only way to stop Department of Interior from issuing such bid again.
Funny as it seems, but overclocking could sometime save battery life as it could alter the default voltage usage of a particular frequency. At least, this is the case of Nokia N900 with Titan's Kernel Power, where we could choose 'starving' profile for overclocking with less voltage than default. Say it can run at almost half as much voltage at 600Mhz than normal. (fyi. N900 can be overclocked to 1.15GHz max. with Kernel Power)
You may say I'm a ill-taste reviewer, but I do think there are good videogame movies:
Biohazard (at least the first one is great)
Silent Hill (how I wish there's a 3D version...)
Prince of Persia (well it deviated far far away from original video game, but still, the story is complete on its own)
I've got cockroach phobia when I was young chasing by a huge flying cockroach like you've seen in some cheap horror movies. It actually knocked me off and took me to its nest to feed its kids. (Ok, the nest part might be in my imagination but it was so real).
For all those years I tried to fight the phobia, say fighting them, killing them, catching them bare hand and even change my facebook profile photo to cockroach.
All in vain, I tell you what. The only thing that could help us is to find a place where no cockroach can be seen to live. I'm at peace for many years.
Now you slashdot put a large freaking photo of cockroaches in the news that broke my nerves. I need to transfer to intensive care unit for severe phobia. Thanks a bunch ass-
Used papers are unused printed papers, before they're putting into garbage bins most people would make use of the unused side in printing, and that damage the printers.
So what do we do with the printed paper? Recycle them, don't reuse them. Then you might think I'm contradict myself. No, I'm NOT opposing to recycling papers (I'm in the business how'd I suppose to oppose to recycling?), I'm just opposing to making pearly white recycled papers, as the entire process is unnecessary and abusive.
Some people in the recycling business care about the environment, some just don't give a dam, and recycled papers manufacturers are the latter. Support the use of recycled papers in any way other than printer papers. That's what I mean. Thank you for giving me chance to express my point.
Hi moon, thank you for your information. Actually I've seen related studies, but they're over-simplifying the reality so as to make a point.
The calculator is based on pure theory, but in reality collected used papers contains lots of contaminations, some contains heavy metals. In theory you could use chemical to separate the impurities from paper, but manufacturers who produce in large would simple bleach the contaminations to pearly white, because it's much cheaper do it that way.
That's why I said we should support the use of recycled papers in packing and decoration but definitely not printer papers. Bleaching them to pearly white is just too much, but since most people think recycled papers is good that drives the economical incentive for them to produce. You see whta I mean.
The calculator wrongly assumed that virgin papers are made from forest wood. If you've been visiting a paper farm(as you may see paper are grown), you can see that the raw materials are soft like grass, thus no need to use that much energy to make the hard wood soft. Also, I didn't even mention the water wastage during the entire recycling process. Paper collectors would soak the collected paper in water in order to make them heavier so as to get more subsides.
The differences between our understandings are exactly the differences between theory and reality. Don't get me wrong, I'm not representing paper manufacturers to argue with you! I'm in the recycling business but I do care about the environment and what I told you would eventually hurt my profit (thanks God my business partner didn't know heh). Some people in the same recycling business are evil as hell, those who makes recycling papers are typical.
I mean, you may support recycling, but I recommended support recycling papers (to printer quality) with reservation.
As an interesting side note, support the use of new papers can actually help negating the greenhouse effect. More paper farms would be establish in face of higher paper demand, and you may see the benefit it brings to the environment (as oppose to cattle farming, which produce more greenhouse gases and damage the environment).
Anyway, I'm so glad to talk to you. You bring a lots insight to the discussion.
First you said recycling paper uses far less water and energy. It's true, as long as you're not making recycled papers up to the printer paper quality.
I'm not saying you're making up the figures and results, but I personally witness the paper recycling processes and lots of water and bleaching reagents are consumed. Of course, you and the researchers who carried out the studies you mentioned might not realize, as the industries are recycling papers in the countries where environmental regulations are less restrictive. Using recycled 'printer papers' practically pollutes those countries, but I'm afraid not too many people would care.
Your second point shows that you confused 'used' papers and 'industrial recycled' papers. Actually 'industrial recycled' papers are good for printers (as they're thicker in general) but 'used' papers are not.
Nevertheless, what I really want to bring out was that making white papers from used papers are unnecessary and abusive (to the environment). People might not care about the countries we polluted, but since we're living in the same eco-system, I think it makes sense we'd start aware of their environmental problem as a results of recycling papers. Support the use of recycled papers in packaging and decoration, and stay away from recycled printer papers.
Thank you for your reply. I just gave a worse example, in fact as far as we can see, no brand could produce printer that could be suited to use 'used' paper.
I don't know the class action suit you mentioned, but they definitely deserve it. XD
In the first paragraph I mentioned 'used' papers, not industrial recycled papers. Note that what I said actually damage the image of recycling business I'm in, so I don't know why they said I'm spreading lies for the paper industries.
Water doesn't bleach, but more water needed to be use for bleaching process where more reagent are used. I'm not totally opposing to paper-recycling, I actually support recycled papers in packing, decoration etc, but definitely NOT for printing papers. Think about it, we all know bleaching used papers to printer-paper quality is very costly, , unnecessary and abusive(to the environment).
I agree with your last point, I support use less paper. Well it looks like I'm supporting the article, I think it's my fault bringing the wrong message you.:)
Slashdot Mirror
You have enough time to finish (first part of) the Dragonlance Chronicles:
Dragons of Autumn Twilight (April 1984), Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, (ISBN 0-88038-173-6)
Dragons of Winter Night (April 1985), Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, (ISBN 0-394-73975-2)
Dragons of Spring Dawning (September 1985), Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, (ISBN 0-88038-175-2)
Also, the most famous Legend of the series:
Time of the Twins (February 1986), by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, (ISBN 0-7869-1804-7)
War of the Twins (May 1986), by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, (ISBN 0-7869-1805-5)
Test of the Twins (August 1986), by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, (ISBN 0-7869-1806-3)
Must read for leisure and pleasure, if you like LoTR style fictions.
Well, let's see, the tally so far.
Apple is blocked from selling iPad and iPhone.
Samsung is blocked selling their tablets and phones elsewhere.
Now with a little luck within a year or two no-one is allowed to sell any smartphone or tablet anywhere in the world.
The winners will be: the Chinese manufacturers who don't care about patents and copyrights, who will just continue to produce, and sell their products all over the world on the grey markets at rock-bottom prices.
Works for me.
Nah, blackmarket prices of iPhone/iPad would be hyping up when they are getting more difficult to get, and the prices of China made tablets and phones would also raise with the absent of major competitors. The whole world would be hurting, and surely Apple would hurt much less because their products are still in very high demand thanks to their brilliant production strategy by scarcity.
It doesn't work for me.
In where I live, you could be charged of national treason for reporting a police officer locking six girls in his own basement for his own pleasure and occasionally taking them out for earning money by prostitution (that how he got caught - after locking them up for two years, and two girls were already found dead).
And good luck of being caught misbehaved in public, or you would be dragged into the police station and being hit for at least two hours, even when you are a high ranking military officer yourself.
I'm risking my life telling you this. Now please excuse while I get the door, someone has been knocking my door vigorously for several minutes already...
It was because someone was activating HAARP (Conspiracy theory alert)
Go do some googling, a simple ONE PASS of 0's on the disk WILL make the data absoloutely, without question unrecoverable, anyone who tells you otherwise is in to voodoo and black magic or trying to make some profit.
There are really some voodoo and black magic that can recover data if you erase disk that way. Last time my colleague has to pay ~US$600 on his own accord to recover data on a harddisk he accidentally overwrote with a ghost image. We didn't call for rocket scientists's help, just paid a specialist and the data was back.
Also, you would like to be aware of the fault-tolerant design of modern harddisk that might replicate data in hidden storage, which might be up to 15% of the published space.
So, erase 7 times with patterns, degauss, or even physical destroy is really necessary for erasing sensitive data.
Are available here.
Happy studying.
Don't be Evil
...for everything else, there is Google.
The list lacks Google too -- they have evil sides too, but they are at least trying, unlike most.
Hidden message behind Google's slogan "Don't be Evil":
"....and don't be so good neither".
(Seriously, American Express is ethical? Yep they subcontracted the bullying jobs to local gangs and goons so they could still remain clean. XD)
In the beginning they said there's no radiation leakage hazard, hours later they said ONLY four people within 10 miles infected by radiation.
So tell me how these four people infected? By television radiation?
It seems that vengeful psycho bitch is also a slashdoter, and now your big head photo scored the highest rank in google image.
It was no ordinary turtle. It is called a dragon turtle which is huge in size with a dragon head: http://www.kunde.org.tw/image3/01-book-032.jpg
Legend said that it carried strange messages on its shell. The messages looked simple (as you can see in the picture above) but people later found the complex meanings behind them.
This messages are the building blocks of most numerologies in ancient China, including Fengshui and I-Ching.
This is one of the most famous OPA (Out of Place Artifact) in China history.
Microsoft for their honesty in marketing
PREDICTABLE ENTERPRISE SECURITY UPDATE PROCESS - security patches released 2nd Tuesday of each month
(at the last slide of the presentation: http://i.zdnet.com/gallery/6188791-672-464.jpg)
as they've to pay full for merely first few days of internet access every month...
Like you get used to eating shrimps and crabs, you'd probably get used to eating all kind of insects as long as scientists growing them bigger...
*Clicking on TFA and looking at the giant freaking COCKROACH*
Ok, I take my words back. I'll never get used to it.
Hundreds of twitter users are charged with some creative sex crime.
While many people here thought it's a fair judgement, are skipping the fact that it was the Department of Interior who explicitly told bidders to deploy BPOS (Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Suite) to deliver cloud-based e-mail and messaging services. The bidders must comply as a bidding requirements.
Taking the prejustice out of the case, I personally don't think it's fair to penalize agency for being complied to bidding requirements. However, may be it's the only way to stop Department of Interior from issuing such bid again.
Funny as it seems, but overclocking could sometime save battery life as it could alter the default voltage usage of a particular frequency. At least, this is the case of Nokia N900 with Titan's Kernel Power, where we could choose 'starving' profile for overclocking with less voltage than default. Say it can run at almost half as much voltage at 600Mhz than normal. (fyi. N900 can be overclocked to 1.15GHz max. with Kernel Power)
You may say I'm a ill-taste reviewer, but I do think there are good videogame movies:
Biohazard (at least the first one is great)
Silent Hill (how I wish there's a 3D version...)
Prince of Persia (well it deviated far far away from original video game, but still, the story is complete on its own)
Don't just look at the lousy ones. ^^
It's now termed as Wardriving
I've got cockroach phobia when I was young chasing by a huge flying cockroach like you've seen in some cheap horror movies. It actually knocked me off and took me to its nest to feed its kids. (Ok, the nest part might be in my imagination but it was so real).
For all those years I tried to fight the phobia, say fighting them, killing them, catching them bare hand and even change my facebook profile photo to cockroach.
All in vain, I tell you what. The only thing that could help us is to find a place where no cockroach can be seen to live. I'm at peace for many years.
Now you slashdot put a large freaking photo of cockroaches in the news that broke my nerves. I need to transfer to intensive care unit for severe phobia. Thanks a bunch ass-
Used papers are unused printed papers, before they're putting into garbage bins most people would make use of the unused side in printing, and that damage the printers.
So what do we do with the printed paper? Recycle them, don't reuse them. Then you might think I'm contradict myself. No, I'm NOT opposing to recycling papers (I'm in the business how'd I suppose to oppose to recycling?), I'm just opposing to making pearly white recycled papers, as the entire process is unnecessary and abusive.
Some people in the recycling business care about the environment, some just don't give a dam, and recycled papers manufacturers are the latter. Support the use of recycled papers in any way other than printer papers. That's what I mean. Thank you for giving me chance to express my point.
Hi moon, thank you for your information. Actually I've seen related studies, but they're over-simplifying the reality so as to make a point.
The calculator is based on pure theory, but in reality collected used papers contains lots of contaminations, some contains heavy metals. In theory you could use chemical to separate the impurities from paper, but manufacturers who produce in large would simple bleach the contaminations to pearly white, because it's much cheaper do it that way.
That's why I said we should support the use of recycled papers in packing and decoration but definitely not printer papers. Bleaching them to pearly white is just too much, but since most people think recycled papers is good that drives the economical incentive for them to produce. You see whta I mean.
The calculator wrongly assumed that virgin papers are made from forest wood. If you've been visiting a paper farm(as you may see paper are grown), you can see that the raw materials are soft like grass, thus no need to use that much energy to make the hard wood soft. Also, I didn't even mention the water wastage during the entire recycling process. Paper collectors would soak the collected paper in water in order to make them heavier so as to get more subsides.
The differences between our understandings are exactly the differences between theory and reality. Don't get me wrong, I'm not representing paper manufacturers to argue with you! I'm in the recycling business but I do care about the environment and what I told you would eventually hurt my profit (thanks God my business partner didn't know heh). Some people in the same recycling business are evil as hell, those who makes recycling papers are typical.
I mean, you may support recycling, but I recommended support recycling papers (to printer quality) with reservation.
As an interesting side note, support the use of new papers can actually help negating the greenhouse effect. More paper farms would be establish in face of higher paper demand, and you may see the benefit it brings to the environment (as oppose to cattle farming, which produce more greenhouse gases and damage the environment).
Anyway, I'm so glad to talk to you. You bring a lots insight to the discussion.
Thank you for your reply.
First you said recycling paper uses far less water and energy. It's true, as long as you're not making recycled papers up to the printer paper quality.
I'm not saying you're making up the figures and results, but I personally witness the paper recycling processes and lots of water and bleaching reagents are consumed. Of course, you and the researchers who carried out the studies you mentioned might not realize, as the industries are recycling papers in the countries where environmental regulations are less restrictive. Using recycled 'printer papers' practically pollutes those countries, but I'm afraid not too many people would care.
Your second point shows that you confused 'used' papers and 'industrial recycled' papers. Actually 'industrial recycled' papers are good for printers (as they're thicker in general) but 'used' papers are not.
Nevertheless, what I really want to bring out was that making white papers from used papers are unnecessary and abusive (to the environment). People might not care about the countries we polluted, but since we're living in the same eco-system, I think it makes sense we'd start aware of their environmental problem as a results of recycling papers. Support the use of recycled papers in packaging and decoration, and stay away from recycled printer papers.
Thank you for your reply. I just gave a worse example, in fact as far as we can see, no brand could produce printer that could be suited to use 'used' paper.
I don't know the class action suit you mentioned, but they definitely deserve it. XD
In the first paragraph I mentioned 'used' papers, not industrial recycled papers. Note that what I said actually damage the image of recycling business I'm in, so I don't know why they said I'm spreading lies for the paper industries.
:)
Water doesn't bleach, but more water needed to be use for bleaching process where more reagent are used. I'm not totally opposing to paper-recycling, I actually support recycled papers in packing, decoration etc, but definitely NOT for printing papers. Think about it, we all know bleaching used papers to printer-paper quality is very costly, , unnecessary and abusive(to the environment).
I agree with your last point, I support use less paper. Well it looks like I'm supporting the article, I think it's my fault bringing the wrong message you.