Wednesday, August 31, 2005
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Thursday, August 25, 2005
Samsung to Launch Phone with Mini Hard Drive
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., the world's third-largest handset maker, said on Tuesday it was launching the first mobile phone with a stamp-sized hard disc drive this month that would expand the memory capacity by 15 times.
The phone is equipped with a one-inch diagonal 1.5 gigabyte hard disc drive that expands the memory capacity of mobile phones from the conventional 100 megabyte.
It also comes with a mega-pixel camera and boasts a high-resolution 2.2-inch liquid crystal display. The phone includes features such as MP3 player, electronic book and a dictionary. The South Korean firm said a powerful microphone enhanced the phone's camcorder function, while dual speakers provide a three dimensional sound effect. It did not give a price for the phone, which will be available in Korea this month.
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., the world's third-largest handset maker, said on Tuesday it was launching the first mobile phone with a stamp-sized hard disc drive this month that would expand the memory capacity by 15 times.
The phone is equipped with a one-inch diagonal 1.5 gigabyte hard disc drive that expands the memory capacity of mobile phones from the conventional 100 megabyte.
It also comes with a mega-pixel camera and boasts a high-resolution 2.2-inch liquid crystal display. The phone includes features such as MP3 player, electronic book and a dictionary. The South Korean firm said a powerful microphone enhanced the phone's camcorder function, while dual speakers provide a three dimensional sound effect. It did not give a price for the phone, which will be available in Korea this month.
Wednesday, August 24, 2005
SAY NO TO DRUGS
The word Drug is defined as "any substance other than food that can affect the way your mind and body work." There are hundreds of different drugs, each with its particular effect on the body's nervous system. Narcotics are a series of drugs that affect the mind, causing mental changes. Unstable drugs, referred to on the streets as Crack, PCP, Ice, LSD, Speed and many others, are made up of several chemical substances which are made illegally in hideaways without proper equipment or skills to carefully measure exact proportions - resulting in a drug that no one knows what the after-effects will be. FACT: Unstable drugs are responsible for killing thousands of young people experimenting with drugs each year. Those who escape death are sometimes confined to a mental institution. A drug dealer's interest is in your money - not your health!
The word Drug is defined as "any substance other than food that can affect the way your mind and body work." There are hundreds of different drugs, each with its particular effect on the body's nervous system. Narcotics are a series of drugs that affect the mind, causing mental changes. Unstable drugs, referred to on the streets as Crack, PCP, Ice, LSD, Speed and many others, are made up of several chemical substances which are made illegally in hideaways without proper equipment or skills to carefully measure exact proportions - resulting in a drug that no one knows what the after-effects will be. FACT: Unstable drugs are responsible for killing thousands of young people experimenting with drugs each year. Those who escape death are sometimes confined to a mental institution. A drug dealer's interest is in your money - not your health!
Monday, August 22, 2005
Destroying the earth
Destroying the Earth is harder than you may have been led to believe.You've seen the action movies where the bad guy threatens to destroy the Earth. You've heard people on the news claiming that the next nuclear war or cutting down rainforests or sisting in releasing hideous quantities of pollution into the atmosphere threatens to end the world.Fools.
The Earth was built to last. It is a 4,550,000,000-year-old, 5,973,600,000,000,000,000,000-tonne ball of iron. It has taken more devastating asteroid hits in its lifetime than you've had hot dinners, and lo, it still orbits merrily. So my first piece of advice to you, dear would-be Earth-destroyer, is: do NOT think this will be easy.
Art or Junk
Most of the great artists of the past were received with very little respect in their own times. Anything new, especially with respect to taste, is met with a certain amount of resistance because of the fear of the unknown. This sounds natural, but I've been recently noticing that there may be more fundamental reasons why some people fail to see any value in contemporary art.Recently I've had a little misunderstanding with a friend of mine because I didn't like the work of the so called Film-Noir Director Mr David Lynch. As far as I know Lynch cheats his audience, pulling the rug out from under us. He throws everything the mix the long goal of confusing us. I don't think there would be anybody other than he himself can make sense out of his psychedelic visions.Nothing makes any sense because it's not supposed to make any sense. There's no purpose or logic to events. Lynch is playing a big practical joke on us. He takes characters we have come to care about and obscures their fates in gibberish. Some people will undoubtedly decide this is all very deep and will find hidden meanings in everything, but they're giving Lynch too much credit. This is not good film making; it's immature and wasteful.If his work is art then, "Dhon Annaaray's" directions should be masterpieces.
Most of the great artists of the past were received with very little respect in their own times. Anything new, especially with respect to taste, is met with a certain amount of resistance because of the fear of the unknown. This sounds natural, but I've been recently noticing that there may be more fundamental reasons why some people fail to see any value in contemporary art.Recently I've had a little misunderstanding with a friend of mine because I didn't like the work of the so called Film-Noir Director Mr David Lynch. As far as I know Lynch cheats his audience, pulling the rug out from under us. He throws everything the mix the long goal of confusing us. I don't think there would be anybody other than he himself can make sense out of his psychedelic visions.Nothing makes any sense because it's not supposed to make any sense. There's no purpose or logic to events. Lynch is playing a big practical joke on us. He takes characters we have come to care about and obscures their fates in gibberish. Some people will undoubtedly decide this is all very deep and will find hidden meanings in everything, but they're giving Lynch too much credit. This is not good film making; it's immature and wasteful.If his work is art then, "Dhon Annaaray's" directions should be masterpieces.
Far from being a teenage problem, more than 80 million adults worldwide suffer from acne.
Mary matured early. But reaching puberty at the age of 11 not only made her one of the first girls in her school class to wear a bra, it also triggered the onset of a 20-year battle with acne.
"My face was so oily during my teens that I coated it with powder every night so that I would wake up with reasonably dry skin," Nisha says. "All through my 20s, I tried one treatment after another to get rid of my acne, from Accutane to Retin A. Suffering from adult acne is a depressing experience. You lose your self-esteem and confidence."
Saturday, August 20, 2005
President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom has said that the government had a responsibility to ensure the safety and wellbeing of the people, and to promote peace and harmony. He made the statement at a special meeting held on Wednesday night at Kalhuthukkalaa Koshi, to thank the NSS and the Police for the excellence with which they performed their duties during the recent disturbances in Male.The President noted that upholding the law was another important responsibility of the government, and that laws and regulations were there to safeguard people?s rights, promote justice and maintain peace and harmony. He went on to highlight that, over the years Maldives had earned a global reputation as a country of exemplary peace and harmony. In his speech, Gayoom reaffirmed the government?s commitment to press ahead with the speedy implementation of his reform agenda, and noted that the violent activities of people holding extreme political views could not derail the process.
Friday, August 19, 2005
An Animated Cartoon Theology:
People are animals. The body is mortal and subject to incredible pain. Life is antagonistic to the living. The flesh can be sawed, crushed, frozen, stretched, burned, bombed, and plucked for music. The dumb are abused by the smart and the smart destroyed by their own cunning. The small are tortured by the large and the large destroyed by their own momentum. We are able to walk on air, but only as long as our illusion supports us.
Thursday, August 18, 2005
President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom has appointed prominent businessman Gasim Ibrahim to the post of Minister of Finance and Treasury on Thursday. The letter of appointment was presented to Gasim Ibrahim by President Gayoom in a ceremony held in the President's Office.In addition to that Abdullah Jihad was appointed as Minister of State for Finance and Treasury while Hussain Shihab was appointed as Minister of State for Arts. Shihab was formerly deputy minister of Foreign Affairs.
Monday, August 01, 2005
BOGOS .the CRAZY
It is human nature to fear what we don't understand. As such, mental illness is feared by many people and, unfortunately, still carries a stigma (a stigma is defined as a mark or sign of disgrace). Because of this stigma, many people hesitate to get help for a mental health problem for fear of being looked down upon. It is unfortunate that this happens because effective treatment exists for almost all mental illnesses. Worse, the stigma experienced by people with a mental illness can be more destructive than the illness itself.
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