Tip To Get Handphone #

Dear Friends,

Ever faced a difficulty to get someone's handphone #.

You may use this wonderful trick. First find a calculator with 8 digits or more ready.

Ask the person to perform the following steps:

1) Key-in the first 3 digits of his or her handphone number (after the prefix 01x number) into the calculator.

2) multiply by 80

3) add 1

4) multiply by 250

5) plus last four digit of phone number

6) plus last four digit of phone number again

7) minus 250

8) divide by 2

9) The result is his or her handphone number.

See his or her reaction! AMAZING! Try it! Cheers!

Science Quiz

See if you still remember your Science.
Questions 1 to 10:
1. The shape of the galaxy
The galaxy we live in is called the Milky Way. It is shaped approximately like:
A) A round ball
B) A doughnut
C) A pretzel
D) A flat spiral
2. Not found in sharks
Unlike most other fish, sharks have no:
A) Bones
B) Teeth
C) Gills
D) Liver
3. Mercury
The metal mercury:
A) Is the hardest known metal
B) Is a liquid at room temperature
C) Is highly radioactive
D) Is extensively used in aircraft construction
4. The long hot squeeze
If you were to take a lump of coal and squeeze for a long time at very high temperatures, you would end up with:
A) Graphite
B) Volcanic glass, also known as obsidian
C) A smaller lump of coal
D) A diamond
5. End of an era
It is now believed that dinosaurs became extinct because of:
A) Viral diseases
B) Hunting by early humans
C) A worldwide period of climatic cooling
D) A meteorite impact
6. A matter of energy
Kinetic energy is:
A) Life energy, possessed only by living organisms
B) Only important at subatomic distances
C) Energy of movement
D) A rare form of energy sometimes observed in deep space
7. Darwin sailed the ocean blue
Charles Darwin began developing his theory of evolution while voyaging on a ship named:
A) The Enterprise
B) The Beagle
C) The Santa Maria
D) The Endeavour
8. Droid definition
An android is any robot that:
A) Has more than one basic function
B) Has the ability to make decisions and formulate plans
C) Is built by other robots
D) Looks and acts like a human
9. Sky dog
What is special about Sirius, the Dog Star?
A) It is the only star first observed by Albert Einstein
B) It is the brightest star in the sky
C) It always lies directly above the North Pole
D) It emits staccato barking sounds which radio telescopes can detect
10. Not your average mammals
The platypus and the echidna are the only mammals that:
A) Lay eggs
B) Have green blood
C) Live in Antarctica
D) Eat eucalyptus leaves


Answers:
1. D - The Milky Way has four spiral arms radiating out from a central cluster of stars or "nucleus". Our solar system is located on one of the spiral arms, quite far from the center.
2. A - Shark’s skeleton is made of cartilage, a material somewhat softer and more flexible than bone.
3. B - Mercury, or quicksilver, is also quite poisonous.
4. D - This process, occurring in the Earth’s crust, produces natural diamonds.
5. D - A large meteorite is thought to have collided with the earth at the end of the Cretaceous period, some 65 million years ago. It probably struck near Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula. The extinctions were caused by climate changes resulting from the collision.
6. C - Anything that moves has kinetic energy. In a collision between objects, kinetic energy is transferred from one object to the other.
7. B - Darwin was particularly intrigued by the many unusual plants and animals he observed in the Galapagos Islands.
8. D - So far, androids exist only in science fiction; engineers cannot yet build a robot that comes anywhere near human appearance or behavior.
9. B - Sirius belongs to the constellation Canis Major (the Big Dog).
10. A - These animals, called monotremes, are true mammals, but have some reptile-like features.

Score:
0~3 = Poor . Need to go back to school.
4~6 = Average. Need to refresh.
7~10 = Good. Keep it up.

Why Do Computer Become Slow?

Have you ever experience that your computer become slower and slower with time?

It gets longer to boot-up, applications become sluggish and file transfer take ages.

One possible reason is that the hard-disk has been filled with fragmented files, caused by writing and deleting. Try defragmenting the hard-disk to move the files nearer to one another and also away from the edge of the hard-disk.

Just follow the screen:

Run defragment for c and then d:

Fastest Gold Bumper In The World

The equipment is able to bump 30 gold bumps per sec. onto silicon wafers.

The wafers are then sawn into individual die and then flip-chip attached to a substrate.

Suitable for applications where the upper side of the die are not to be covered like LED, Laser head, etc.

Memory Card Handling

It is always a good habit to conserve the resources and reused when possible. One of the items that was always discarded is the memory cards. Although the price of the memory cards had declined recently, it is a waste to throw them aside, looking for the latest capacity for your new gadgets.

For those who wants to reused...........Read on....

Sometimes we are puzzled with the many types of memory cards in the market and have them mixed up between one another.

Have you ever wonder if the memory cards from our old Digital camera, handphones or MP4 player can be used with your new gadgets?

The answer is yes, just make sure that you are selecting your next new gadget with the same memory card type. The capacity isn't that imporatant if you are not a heavy user. A standard 1GB memory should suffice if you are not loading ton of movies onto your gadgets.

And periodically, move the memory card content to your hard-disk or burn them into CD rom to avoid running out of memory.

Fact About China Flag

Alumni are welcome to share papers, articles and experiences that would enrich EDSC body of knowledge. I have come across an interesting article on China to share with the Circle.

Interesting Facts About China

China, the new emerging power has been the oldest continuous civilization on Earth, for the last 4000 years.

Chinese flag is red which represents the blood spilled during the communist revolution. On the flag there is one large star, representing leadership, and four small stars which represent four social classes: capitalists, bourgeoisie, workers and peasants all united under one Communist Party.

Some of the China's inventions: gunpowder, paper, printing, compass, porcelain, first paper currency, animal zodiac, cast iron, chopsticks, crossbow, toilet paper, collapsible umbrella, fork and many other cool inventions. Interesting fact about China is that in last three years growth of China's economy was around 10% per year making China the country with largest world economy. The funny fact is that China was in dispute with WTO (World Trade Organization) because of the extremely low taxes on their exports.

However, United States was in the dispute with WTO because of the high taxes on U.S. imports. "We are committed to challenging China's WTO-inconsistent practices that harm American workers and businesses," said U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab.