If you buy a name brand, like Verbatim or Memorex, you should be okay
RCTFA (Read Carefully The Fine Article)
I didn't find in the article any evidence supporting your statement. It doesn't mention and brands. Actually, if you read the Media Forum on the english site, someone is posting the following, where some popular brands are in the worst list:
TOP 10(the best first):
Kodak
Mitsui toatsu
Richo made by richo(not those made by ritek).
MPO
Fujifilm (their new phthalocyanine media is REALLY good)
Tayo yuden
Prodisc
Acer gold
ritek(and richo made by ritek), only phthalocyanine
Moser baer india/multimedia masters & machinery, only phthalocyanine type.
CR readers have error correction built-in. You can't estimate disk corruption by reading a file, until the errors become unfixable and you can't read the file anymore. Therefore the MD5 checksum is useless: you will keep getting a correct MD5 checksum for a slightly damaged file, because it gets fixed during reading.
Compression can only make things worse, because it reduces data redundancy making error recovering harder.
Um, why are you running a removal tool on a "non-infected" machine?
1. Any verboseremoval tool, despite the name, can be used as a diagnosis tool. In other words: the fact that now I say "non-infected" doesn't mean that I knew it when I run the tool
The removal tool crashed on my (non-infected) Windows XP Pro, so don't count too much on it!
Actually it crashed while opening a particular zip file (shown in the tool status line after the crash) and started to work fine after I removed that file.
"People still act like animals, why are people aggressive? Why do we have wars? Why do people abuse power, and human rights?"
Forget about people. Do you act like an animal, are you aggressive, do you start wars, do you abuse power and human rights? If not, then you have progressed since you were a trilobite.
You saw that lion at the zoo. How do you think he'll behave when he'll be reborn as a human being?
Real Life gives a chance to anyone. There must be a place where a lion-reborn can learn to overcome his aggressiveness.
There will always be wars and pain and abuse in the World of Real Life, because even the most hopeless players need a chance to level-up... or level-down.
... and I bet Real Life is no fun at all for them!
P.S.
I'm not saying that people who are suffering now (for famine, deseases, wars) deserve to suffer because they are on a lower level of the game. They might in fact be much higher in score than myself: less selfish, less cynical, more open-minded, and for sure everyone who is suffering deserves our help.
Even if re-encarnation is true, its a clean slate and you don't remember what happened before.
Of course socieity in a way fills this gap through historical records
You might not remember them, but you are the result of your previous lives. If you achieve some spiritual insight in the current life, you won't need to learn it all over in the next one.
It will be inside you when you'll be born again, even if you won't realise.
This why I don't kill anyone now, even if I probably did 3k years ago (who knows).
It is not by studying history that civilisation progresses. Civilisation is about individuals living together. History is not about individuals: you don't really know what was in the mind of Napoleon as a man. Learning history doesn't remove fears, anger, greed from people. Only life can teach.
But learning through experience is not as easy as learning through reading.
This is why Real Life is not a very fun game:
1. you mostly level-up after a failure, after gaining consciousness of your limitations, after accepting the bad part of yourself.
2. because you don't remember being reborn, fear of ruining your precious only life prevents you from doing what destiny might offer you to make life itself more interesting
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RCTFA (Read Carefully The Fine Article)
I didn't find in the article any evidence supporting your statement. It doesn't mention and brands. Actually, if you read the Media Forum on the english site, someone is posting the following, where some popular brands are in the worst list:
TOP 10(the best first):
Kodak
Mitsui toatsu
Richo made by richo(not those made by ritek).
MPO
Fujifilm (their new phthalocyanine media is REALLY good) Tayo yuden
Prodisc
Acer gold
ritek(and richo made by ritek), only phthalocyanine
Moser baer india/multimedia masters & machinery, only phthalocyanine type.
BOTTOM 10(the worst first):
Fornet international (only cyanine type)
CMC Magnetics
AMS Technology
Lead data
Xcitek
XEO Corporation
Multimedia masters & machinery (only cyanine type)
TDK
Ritek (only cyanine type)
Mitsubishi chemicals/verbatim
CR readers have error correction built-in. You can't estimate disk corruption by reading a file, until the errors become unfixable and you can't read the file anymore. Therefore the MD5 checksum is useless: you will keep getting a correct MD5 checksum for a slightly damaged file, because it gets fixed during reading.
Compression can only make things worse, because it reduces data redundancy making error recovering harder.
1. Any verbose removal tool, despite the name, can be used as a diagnosis tool. In other words: the fact that now I say "non-infected" doesn't mean that I knew it when I run the tool
2. I run it because I was curious
Choose the answer you grok better.
Note to MODS: please mod us below zero.
The removal tool crashed on my (non-infected) Windows XP Pro, so don't count too much on it! Actually it crashed while opening a particular zip file (shown in the tool status line after the crash) and started to work fine after I removed that file.
Forget about people. Do you act like an animal, are you aggressive, do you start wars, do you abuse power and human rights? If not, then you have progressed since you were a trilobite.
You saw that lion at the zoo. How do you think he'll behave when he'll be reborn as a human being?
Real Life gives a chance to anyone. There must be a place where a lion-reborn can learn to overcome his aggressiveness.
There will always be wars and pain and abuse in the World of Real Life, because even the most hopeless players need a chance to level-up... or level-down.
Of course socieity in a way fills this gap through historical records
You might not remember them, but you are the result of your previous lives. If you achieve some spiritual insight in the current life, you won't need to learn it all over in the next one. It will be inside you when you'll be born again, even if you won't realise. This why I don't kill anyone now, even if I probably did 3k years ago (who knows).
It is not by studying history that civilisation progresses. Civilisation is about individuals living together. History is not about individuals: you don't really know what was in the mind of Napoleon as a man. Learning history doesn't remove fears, anger, greed from people. Only life can teach.
But learning through experience is not as easy as learning through reading.
This is why Real Life is not a very fun game:
1. you mostly level-up after a failure, after gaining consciousness of your limitations, after accepting the bad part of yourself.
2. because you don't remember being reborn, fear of ruining your precious only life prevents you from doing what destiny might offer you to make life itself more interesting