Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Will it be the longest dinosaur fossil in Asia?

Days ago, in SinKiang and NingXia, two places dug at the same time to try to recover a real dinosaurian world. In NingXia, there will a museum at the location. And all unearthed fossil seems 1.6 billion years before and they will be displayed at local.

According to introduction and research, the fossil disinterred in NingXia would be the first diplodocus in Asia, and this discovery might probably impact the plate floating theory. Also, it would be the longest dinosaurian fossil in Asia.

Evolutionism, an overwhelming nature force, makes dinosaur disappeared billions ago. But in both fiction and real world, people try to figure out the construction of dinosaurian DNA for bring back prehistoric creature today. People will not forget the vividly series movie – Jurassic Park or the amazing scientific work and lab.

Saturday, August 26, 2006

I can remember other’s name and how to settle

That seems a big problem for me. I am always admiring that other can remember the name of strangers newly encounter. Especially when the other first calls my name out, I can’t even ring the bell. I feel so embarrassed. Years ago after I read in the Chicken Soup For Soul, I knew it is very impolite to forget the other’s name and even bad impact in business.

Forgetting other’s name probably means regardlessness of them and even you think so, you may not like to pass such feelings to them. As we all known, it seems simple for people to remember those of bosses, lovers. Except that, recollection of names of uninterested people must be more difficult and forget them more quickly. Though in the same way, we also neglect the names of people we are interested in.

Such case makes me discourtesy and inurbanity, and also signs difficulty in further career. In business, forgetting is not a good beginning.

Lucy Kellaway from British Financial Tims tried to give some advices about the thing.

At first, you should try to repeat the name of person newly introduced to you. For example, Nice to meet you, John! How long have you been in BP(British petroleum), John? Such skill might be useful about I will not to attempt. It has something of personal style. It seems artificial and unnatural. Another way is to find an anchor to fix name in your mind, for example by features or partial tone. Or store all their information into PDA, for better recall in future in a cross references form. However, if you don’t have a PDA, it seems ineffective for you.

So I think the better solution is to improve memory fully, or begin to form an habit of remember. Try to ask yourself that is it really true that recognizing name is so hard? In the most cases, the reason of that people can not concentrate well. If trying every efforts to remember their names, things will be easier.

If we were in ancient Roman times, it is possibly much simpler. Usually the big man had a special slave called nomenclator, who would accompany him all the times and tell the big man who was coming up. But at contemporary the big trouble is where to find such good nomenclator.

Don’t wait for miracle. Try to intense the ability of memory, in my opinion, it is the only way to settle the problem

Thursday, August 24, 2006

GRE-Math (ALGEBRA)

Basic algebra is essentially advanced arithmetic, therefore much of the terminology and many of the rules are common to both areas. The major difference is that in algebra variables are introduced, which allows us to solve problems using equations and inequalities.

Algebraic expressions are used to describe combinations of letters (variables) and numbers. One way to work with algebraic expressions is to think of them as functions.

We say that equation defines the function f, and the output is called the value of the function corresponding to the input x. Every algebraic expression concludes the coefficient of variable part and the constant term and the terms with the same variable part can be combined.

A statement that equates two algebraic expressions is called an equation.

To solve a linear equation is one variable means to find the value of variable that makes the equation true. Two equations that have the same solution are said to be equivalent. There are two basic rules to help solving linear equations that whether the same constant is added or an equation are multiplied or divided by the same nonzero constant, the quality is preserved, and the new equation is equivalent to the original.

To solve linear equations in tow variables, it is necessary to have two equations that are not equivalent, in another word to solve such a system of simultaneous equations. The only way to resolve them is to eliminate one variable.

A quadratic equation is any equation containing quadratic variable. Such equation can always be solved by the formula or more quickly by factoring.

Any mathematical statement that uses symbols (, , , <, > )is called an inequality. The solutions dissemble of equation is that while both sides of the inequality multiplied (or divided) by the same constant, the direction of inequality is preserved if the constant is positive, but reserved if the constant is negative.

GRE – Math

ARITHMETIC
INTEGER

The set of integers, I, is composed of all the counting numbers including positive, zero, and negative.

Integers that are multiples of 2 are called even integers, the rest are odd integers.

Integers in a sequence are called consecutive integers

Dividing evenly means the division of one integer yields a zero remainder.

An integer N is divisible by an integer x, means that N divided by x yields a zero remainder, and x is a divisor of N.

The multiplication of two factors yields a product , which is said to be a multiple of both factors.

Prime number has exactly two distinct positive divisors, 1 and N.

A fraction is a number of the form a/b, where a and b are integers and b is unequal to zero. The a is called the numerator of the fraction, and b is called the denominator .

Mixed fraction means an integer plus a fraction.

In our number system, all numbers can be expressed in decimal form using base 10. A decimal point is used, and the place value for each digit corresponds to a power of 10, depending on its position relative to the decimal point.

A fraction can be reduced to lowest terms by dividing their greatest common factor.

Exponents or power provide a shortcut notation for repeated multiplication of a number by itself. When the exponent is 2, we call the process squaring.

A square root of a positive number N is a real number which, when squared, equals N. If N>0, then the positive square root of N is called radical N.

Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Just one day out of firefox extension

thank my lucky stars, my Firefox returns.

It must be my fault. Yesterday evening my laptop shut down for high temperature.Then this morning after I turned on it, surprisely I found it updates itself, but unfortunately all extensions and themes have gone without any trace. The bad news was that I could't even install them.Suddenly I felt all things got wrong or in another word so inconvenient and uncomfortable to me. I realized that what did all these extesion mean to me. That upset me all day.

After trying to fix it for severy hours, I gave up. The best way to recover myself is to get some sleep. In the afternoon, the battle was more severe. I even tried different editions of Firefox and kept uninstalling and installing. But all such strategies failed. Then I thought it might acount for virus or operation system. Finally I turned to Internet for help especially the home page of Mozilla Firefox. From techical articals to forum, all solutions have been used. But none of them were telling. Then I found one of the bug report was similar with mine problem. Then I found out that though I unintall the Firefox, there still remained the former settings and archives in system. It was entirely possible that while I crashed down, the saving files were not integrated and they impacted the latter one. After I deleted such files, I started Firefox. Later it generated the new ones, then it came back again and all familiar icons and toolbar came out.

The most important thing I learn from such event is that though such fixing course costs me half a day, I learned much details of software and system. And If you really trid to find out the answer of a problem and if you have enough patient, almost everything can be figured out. And also I must thank for all the experts in team of product supportors. They try their best to help users to settle down every problems in details. It reminds me the experts of Flickr. One day I gave them a letter about my problem about the compatibility of beta blogger with Flickr, and not for a long time, they connected with me and gave the promise to resolve it as quickly as possilble. Though I am not their professional user, they really showed the respect and responsibility. These must be the spirit of duty and that is why they are so successful.

Monday, August 21, 2006

a caught sight

a caught sight
underground channel.
just lights, just empty road
maybe full of footprints of different kinds of people, full of member, full
of imagination

my mother's work of painting

my mother's work of wash
every week, when I come home.
Mother will proudly show me her new work.
Week by week, huge improvement has been achived by her.
So happy to have such a kind and brilliant mother

Sunday, August 20, 2006

Opinions about work and money

Just as one of ancient Greek philosophers Euripides said, "No man on earth is truly free. All are slaves of money or necessity." Most of ordinaries are pursuing for a better live just on their wages which will afford all burdens out of work and later life when they retire. Meanwhile most of them have a family to support.

He might be a father of several children and he has to caltivate them to be useful persons. What they need to consider are these facts, that all children have comfortable home, warm clothes, and well education, even all kinds of facilities to satisfy their wishes and desires. He also needs early plans for emergency, insurance or other extravagant travel or luxury consumption. All these come from their normal work. They must face that where they live is in a real world not fantasy and what they can rely on is just their hands and mind.

Or in same sense, work equals money to suffice basic living standard and further requirement. Of course, none of us have courage as Socrates to abandon all unnecessary things to follow call from deep heart. Even if a few have such admiring spirit, they probably can't bear the attack from families or other social relationships. At such occasion, you can remind the common scenario as in the movie or story.

There are also many anonymous hero or heroines working for their dream a better society. Ford, though he was a monopoly in his time, he did good things for his workers. That's because he can thoroughly comprehend ordinary lives. In one of his book, he presented that most of people in this country are living on wages. The improvement of their lives, to some extent the increase of wages determines the prosperous of this country. As a leader, the aim of a company is to provide higher salary than any other company in the same area dose. What a wonderful world! It seems to exist in communistic world. Also he did what he thought, and became the hero of that time. On the contrary, nowadays the gold rule in business is to gain maximum profits with minimum costs. Money is the highest target regardless of environment, health or even ordinary lives.

Nevertheless he has magnitude capital and ability to impact lives of ordinary people, he also has the same choice as normal ones. Obviously, there is no necessary for him to worry the capacity of deposit or other details. He has to choose between making money and staying with families. One of the statistics about the time spending on work and leisure life indicates that middle classes prefer more leisure life than work even they will decline incomes. Fast pace life style and sophisticated social relationship and working environment make people materialist. All those in their mind are more money. Life changes greatly, so does the value hold by ordinaries, and also together with many social problems, such as juvenile crime, senior without care. Even relation of parent to child becomes the patronage and beneficiary.

While looking through web sides, various pages about teaching you how to be rich. What they real need is a firm heart to stick to one goal concerning others' feeling at the same time.

the most important feature for the Internet

Google seems to be one of the most frequent words in my blog. This morning after the routine work checking the news on the Internet, one article of the famous blogger attracted me, which is about the comparison between the google and the nova of the Internet Myspace which achieves the largest accessing times in the whole American. Though its prosperous achievement even surpass accessing times of google, however some of the analysis attribute it to the robust system but the simple and crude page layout, and the others to the explanation to the bad effect on the adolescence. One of the people said, 'Explanations for the phenomenal growth in traffic, page views per session, membership explosion and brandshare have been attributed to everything from the ugly design to the music industry affiliations to the youthful need for freedom of expression and the fact that Tom is everyone's friend. Kids want to have sex and Myspace delivers which is the reason of the success of Myspace.'

Let's retrospect to the process of the development of the Internet. For less than 10 years, after the first Internet Café came into the society, the social networking website, the Internet game and the mass data of music and movie caters primarily to the teenage and the young adult demographics. The result is almost the youth can get what ever they want just from the Internet. I remember I have written and article about the bad effects of the Internet, about two girls imitate the Myspace to plunder a man. The adolescence seems engaging to seek for the identity through the rebellion against authority, making trouble and all kinds of strange behavior. And another significant character is the curiosity about sex. All these need are satisfied by the Myspace, providing the community with millions of members of the desired age, gender and the same character, the easy and free access of the personal information and details, even available anonymity if desired. All such gives the facility to gain the goal. Even the majority of the ads on Myspace are geared around sex.

However, from the other side of it, it also provides the easiest way to communicate. People share the pictures, the news and the ideas with friends and siblings. It is just a scrapbook, communication tool or a bulletin board. I am always agreeing the technology is of neutralization. The technology declines the entry to the Internet, and supplies the convenient method for communication and acquiring information. Even those amorous ads are from the motivation from people. Though the company may have the ability to hinder these incidents, we can not blame these to the Internet itself, neither the company who is trying to promote benefit to public not these amorous ads. Maybe it is the responsibility of the government to generate more strict regulation to prevent these incidents to breed the freer but safer environment for the beneficiaries of the Internet.

Then for the most important feature of the Internet should not be the guarantee of the content but the concentration and arrangement of the useful information and the access to such data. I remember one people said, the Internet should not only funny but useful; not only the time-killer but also the helper; not only for consuming but also for the creation. But all these features should base on one another one the freedom under certain constrain, then it can vivify.

cherry bloom


cherry bloom
Originally uploaded by sunqxj.
Cherry Festival in my college, beautifal day

do what you like or like what you do

There is only twelve days left, inevitable I feel so worry about it.

Also these days, I try to figure out what the Churchill said: 'there is no use doing what you like; you have to like what you do.'
However, a brilliant philosopher once said: 'the behavior and the thought always happen together.' That means if you think it would be better to do a thing, then you pretend to do the thing vigorously. The result is it won't be long, you will feel real exited about doing such thing. It seems pretty well in the routine life. However for me, the happiest man is doing what he likes. I think that is there the rub is.

Whatsoever, there is no need for everyone to comprehend all the reasons of everything. Just do it yourself in your own way. Be the happiest one in the earth, even if you will be the misfit in others' eyes and the social prosecution target. Let alone, just be yourself.

one of the favorate dog --ZangAo


one of the favorate dog --ZangAo
Originally uploaded by sunqxj.
one of the faithful dog in the world may be
One day....

what can you find


DSCN2212
Originally uploaded by sunqxj.
come across it, full of imagination

Happiness index

That technical term first came out from the brilliant economist – Paul Samuelson who laurelled the Economy Nobel Price. In his famous textbook – economic textbook, he gave an equationthe happiness equals consumption divided by desire. At a surface glance, it is more tempting to get to the conclusion mechanically just the same as the Buddhism doctrine that the less you long, the more you will be happy. Notwithstanding, the desire comes from the basic request of live can be abandoned thoroughly. Only people will think about the happiness until they satisfy their survival requirement, the same as the relationship between the structure of architecture and decoration.

However, the happiness index, as the evaluation of harmony social system is introduced into the political purpose. In some sense, it signs the government put the happiness of the public into further consideration of political agenda, and that is a development of the public policy. As an ordinary person, everyone has the right to pursue his own happiness, and the final purpose of great society must be the most of the people feel happiness in greatest extent. Moreover, getting into basic fundamental principles, government serves for the majority not ruling the mass and all it does should accord to most interests of the public. But there are a lot of deficiencies of the action which need to be addresses in order to conform to its original aim.

Firstly, can the happiness be quantifiable? In technical sense, it is one of the subject emotions which can not be directly analyzed in such scientific method of economics. What we can rely on is how much money they spent on the certain items which can sufficiently judge the sense of happiness. Maybe in future, economists would study a more effective and efficient way to quantify the happiness, however at present that is only theory numbers from the most survey. Many factors play an important role of the happiness index, such as culture and basic psychology of comparison with others. For instance, after a person purchases a car, his life becomes more convenient, and then his happiness index might rise. However later for a while, he encounters the unpredictable questions about high maintenance, fuel fee and traffic jam, and on the contrary, his index falls. Different culture also breeds different index. If the culture prefer modesty, the answer might be just so, but the aggression, the answer might be happy.

When coming to the judgment of the political performance of the politics, it evolves the development of other direction. Considering the GDP, once become the estimate of the political achievement, it overwhelm all the other index, such as the education, culture, sanitation, resource, environment even the basic public policy of pension, supported from the whole aspect. Absolutely the leaders eager for the quick success and instant interest and ignore the majority happiness. They probably adopt the policy to forge the dates or invest on immediate interest industries. From long term, they will reduce the happiness index. Inevitably, the happiness index goes to the dissimilation, formation and philistinism. What government should really concern it the living condition and investment environment, social security, health care, education, reduction of the gap between the rich and the poverty and so forth, and find the inadequacy of social economic growing through the index, but not as the purpose. Also they should take every effort to solve such these social problems to raise the sense of happiness of the residents.