Patriotism in China surged fairly recently while the stock is still in doldrums. On my MSN list, the sign of (L) China mushroomed overnight. Just like those in US who adopt the "supporting our troops" bumper sticks, a MSN emotion can be the ticket for patriotic bandwagon.
French are the most idiosyncratic folks you would be able to find on earth, as Uncle Sam can attest. They have a gift to launch the torpedo at the most inopportune moment you can ever imagine. And our young patriots are not gonna let them get away so easily this time. As one beautiful young patriot suggested to me, Carefour Market is French evil and shopping there is gravely harmful to our national security.
But life is full of dilemma. Minutes later I helped her unmasked another French evil market. And surprisingly the latter evil has already infiltrated into an area super close, super accessible and super convenient to where she lives. Seems our young patriot is facing the greatest challenge ever posted by French evil. I've know this beautiful young patriot very well. I am sure she would be willing to go extra miles in order not to be comprised by such French evil. Kudos to our young patriot and I keep my fingers crossed in the meantime :-)
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Congratulation to Z.N
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4/01/2008
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Doctor Z.N no longer holds the Bachelor degree!
Congratulation and Best Wishes!
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Documentary on Tibet Riot
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3/22/2008
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In addition to CNN, MSNBC and The Economist
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Free Tools on the Internet
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3/17/2008
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*) Wire Shark, Network Traffic Monitor
http://www.wireshark.org/
*) Putty, SSH client
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html
*) FileZilla, SFTP
http://filezilla-project.org/
*) CoreFTP
http://www.coreftp.com/
*) Convert Text to PNG
http://www.zituyuan.com/
*) Convert Chinese Characters to Unicode
http://www.pinyin.info/tools/converter/chars2uninumbers.html
*) Convert other file format to pdf
http://www.pdfonline.com/
*) Almost anything you can think of
http://www.cygwin.com/
*) Whois
http://www.whois.sc/
It is regretful that Tibet was moored in violence again. I understand some people there admire Dalai Lama more than anyone else. But to be honest, I think Tibet is better off with China instead of being against China. Where is Dalai doing at this moment in addition to banging his followers' heads against gun barrel? He is nothing but "a very political old monk shuffling around in Gucci shoes". (Ref [1]) And I am sure Chinese government will be working hard to make sure he fails and fails miserably.
By the way, the 'Free Tibet' also did a lousy PR job (Ref[2]) . These four nuns are so ..., let me just say they at the un-favored end of my beauty spectrum. And this is one of the worst propagandas I have ever seen.
References
[1] BBC News : World: Asia-Pacific, Anger over Murdoch's Tibet comments
[2] CNN Video, 'Free Tibet' Movement
Clock divider is widely used in the digital design. The following is a summary of this cliche topic:
(1) divide by an even number (n = 2k)
A simple counter will do it
(2) divide by an odd number (n = 2k + 1)
If apply a counter that only triggers on rising clock edge, 50% duty cycle can not be obtained. To maintain 50%, the counter has to be triggered on both rising dege and falling edge
(3) divide by fractional n = (2k + 1 ) / 2
The same "triggering on both edge" idea applies here. Triggering on both edge is close to double the clock frequency. To do this in Verilog, two "always" statement can be used. One is hinged on rising edge and the other is on falling edge. Each always statement can produce one pulse train with correct phase and the two pulse trains can be OR-ed together to achieve the goal. 50% duty cycle is obtainable in this special case.
(4) divide by m/n, (m, n) = 1, m > n > 2
It is next to impossible to get 50 % duty cycle. And jitter is also unavoidable. A counter with step n and wrapping at m or (m/2) might be considered.
Despite its dominance on the Internet, JPG falls short when it comes to the TEXT and Line Arts. In the eyes of spectrum analyzer, those sharp angles in the TEXT and Line Arts are interpreted as high frequency components, which is the soft belly of JPG since it sacrifices high frequency components in favor of better compression ratio.
Another shortcoming of JPG is that it does not support 1 bit black and white format. But for TEXT, 1 bit is probably good enough for the legibility.
PNG, on the other hand, does a better job if the picture content comprises mostly of TEXT, since it is a lossless format and supports 1 bit black/white format.
A side by side comparison can be found at zituyuan ( http://www.zituyuan.com, Ref[1] ), this is a Chinese website that converts text to PNG format online. GFW might have to consider adding OCR to its web patrol's arsenal.
References:
[1] http://www.zituyuan.com/t2p.php?mode=8
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Stay Foolish
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Blotter
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Notebook
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*) Rabbit Hole
*) I Love Rei
*) TEXT2PNG
*) China Blog List
*) Bertrand
*) Bruin
*) Bulldog
*) Hua
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