Take a Break 休息一会

事情太多了，网络太慢了，种种理由表明，要偷懒了。
『不要着急，不要着急。休息，休息一会。』（映画『一休さん』：『あわてない、あわてない。一休み、一休み。』）


So many works, so slow network, so many excuses to have a lazy time.
Keep cool, keep cool. Take a break , take a break.

Slightly 稍稍地

『如果你拍得不够好，是你不够接近。』

——罗伯特·卡帕

卡帕的照片极富震撼力，但更富震撼力的，是他的话。


If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough.

--Robert Capa

Capa's pictures shaked the world, and his words did better.

Seven Again 又是七

七年。台湾的地震。本岛的让芯片价格飙红，海底的中断光缆：信息产业的七年之痒。还有，2007快要到了。

光缆中断一览：
• 中美海缆 12/26/06 12:25 UTC 枋山站+9.7千米
• 法新欧亚3号 12/26/06 12:25 UTC 枋山站+9.7千米
• 亚太光缆网络2号 S7段 12/26/06 16:06 UTC 淡水站+904千米
  S3段 12/26/06 18:00 UTC 崇明站+2100千米
• 全球海缆亚欧段 12/26/06 20:56 UTC 香港－上海段
• 恒通海缆亚洲北环
• 全球海缆亚太北环 12/27/06 12:43 UTC 韩国－香港段
• 城市到城市海缆 上海段
• 东亚交汇海缆
来源：中国电信 中国网通

Seven year. Earthquake in Taiwan. The upper one made semiconductor price higher, the under one made cables broken down: the seven year itch of IT. And the arriving of the year 2007.

Failed cables:
• China-US Cable Network, 12/26/06 12:25 UTC, Fangshan station+9.7km
• Sea-Me-We 3, 12/26/06 12:25 UTC, Fangshan station+9.7km
• Asia Pacific Cable Network 2, Segment S7 Tanshui station+904km
  Segment S3 Chongming station+2100km
• FLAG Europe Asia, 12/26/06 20:56 UTC, Hong Kong-Shanghai Segment
• REACH North Asia Loop
• FLAG North Asia Loop, 12/27/06 12:43 UTC, Korea-Hong Kong Segment
• City 2 City Shanghai Segment
• East Asia Crossing
Source: China Telecom, China Network Communications

Dependency 基础

朱傤堉的故事告诉我们，文化艺术的发展离不开科学技术，科学技术的发展离不开政治。这个问题上毛的理论比马克思的高明。

Chu Tsai-Yu's tale tells us, the development of arts & culture is depending on science & technology, of which developing never goes without politics. Maoism is better than Marxism at this point.

Of the Human Love in Winter 论人类的发情之冬

人类是目前人类所知唯一没有发情期的动物——不是不发情，而是一年四季都发情。而冬天：
一、寒冷令人感到格外寂寞；
二、穿着更多，有更大打扮空间；
三、有雪等浪漫因素，圣诞节－新年，乃至情人节的良好时段；
四、白天时间短暂，有更多时间进行夜生活；
五、运动时不至于大汗淋漓。
于是，大多数动物的春秋就变成了人类的冬天。


The human race is the only race that estrous period not exists known by the human race. It's not "not exists" but exists everytime. And winter, which:
1. is so cold that makes man feels lonely;
2. makes man dressing more, more fashion, more fantastic space;
3. has romantic elements such as snow, romantic time as Christmas - new year, then St. Valentine's Day;
4. has a short daylight time, more time could be used for night life;
5. makes man sweating less when doing sport.
So, the human race has changed the majority animals' spring or autumn into its winter.

New Style of Adobe 的新形象

Part of the logo from Illustrator 10,
a product from Adobe Systems Inc.

John Nack的blog上放出了Adobe新系列的图标设计。简约至上。很多人怀念Illustrator从20年前就开始用的那张维纳斯，我也一样。

John Nack has showed Adobe's new series of icons with a new style on his blog. Simple is the best. Many people miss the Venus came from Illustrator 20 years ago. So do I.

The Shortest Day 2006 最短一天

冬至，在一年里最短的一天。早早降临的夜幕同圣诞有着莫大的关系。这是寂寞的一天。

Winter solstice, in the shortest day of the year. Night falls down early, secretly ties to the Christmas. A lonely day today.

Merchant 商人 (1)

今天不打算贴照片。我本来想把所有有关测试都贴到一起，做个『继续阅读』功能把技术细节藏起来，但Blogger的帮助仍然在讲旧的模板标记。我记得用以前那个版本的时候，帮助和Beta的内容全部混在一起，我不知道这个『新版』有那里『新』，而且我也不知道去哪里反映。我似乎忘记，Google也是『公司』，并且我没有付钱。

There will be not photo today. I planned to post everything together, including the upcomings, and to make a "continue reading" like function to hide technical details that not everybody's interesting in. But the help of Blogger, which mixed a lot of new Beta contents in when this version's Beta, are still talking about the old template tags. I don't know how New is this New Version. And I don't know who and where should I going to ask. I'd forgotten that Google is a Inc. too, and I didn't pay anything.

Intel Core 2 Duo T7200:

Convolution (2048 x 256):

        microseconds     GFlops          microseconds        GFlops
         (average)      (average)           (best)           (best)
        ------------    ---------        ------------        ------
CPU # 1:    1634        0.6404            1599            0.6546
CPU # 2:    1628        0.6429            1599            0.6545


Complex Fast Fourier Transform (1024 elements):

        microseconds     GFlops          microseconds        GFlops
         (average)      (average)           (best)           (best)
        ------------    ---------        ------------        ------
CPU # 1:    5.666        9.036            5.227            9.795
CPU # 2:    5.602        9.139            5.234            9.782


Real Fast Fourier Transform (1024 elements):

        microseconds     GFlops          microseconds        GFlops
         (average)      (average)           (best)           (best)
        ------------    ---------        ------------        ------
CPU # 1:    3.747        6.148            3.615            6.373
CPU # 2:    3.906        5.899            3.621            6.363


Dot Product (1024 elements):

        microseconds     GFlops          microseconds        GFlops
         (average)      (average)           (best)           (best)
        ------------    ---------        ------------        ------
CPU # 1:    0.3114       6.574            0.312            6.561
CPU # 2:    0.3121       6.559            0.312            6.561

Motorola/Freescale PowerPC 7447A 167MHz*10:

Convolution (2048 x 256):

        microseconds     GFlops          microseconds        GFlops
         (average)      (average)           (best)           (best)
        ------------    ---------        ------------        ------
CPU # 1:    91.73        11.41            84.13            12.44


Complex Fast Fourier Transform (1024 elements):

        microseconds     GFlops          microseconds        GFlops
         (average)      (average)           (best)           (best)
        ------------    ---------        ------------        ------
CPU # 1:    5.623        9.106            5.528            9.262


Real Fast Fourier Transform (1024 elements):

        microseconds     GFlops          microseconds        GFlops
         (average)      (average)           (best)           (best)
        ------------    ---------        ------------        ------
CPU # 1:    3.214        7.169            3.125            7.373


Dot Product (1024 elements):

        microseconds     GFlops          microseconds        GFlops
         (average)      (average)           (best)           (best)
        ------------    ---------        ------------        ------
CPU # 1:    0.3919       5.223            0.36            5.686

IBM PowerPC 970FX 2*1150MHz*2:

Convolution (2048 x 256):

        microseconds     GFlops          microseconds        GFlops
         (average)      (average)           (best)           (best)
        ------------    ---------        ------------        ------
CPU # 1:    68.33        15.32            59.4             17.62
CPU # 2:    67.59        15.48            59.43            17.61


Complex Fast Fourier Transform (1024 elements):

        microseconds     GFlops          microseconds        GFlops
         (average)      (average)           (best)           (best)
        ------------    ---------        ------------        ------
CPU # 1:    5.059         10.12            4.86            10.53
CPU # 2:    4.981         10.28            4.83            10.6


Real Fast Fourier Transform (1024 elements):

        microseconds     GFlops          microseconds        GFlops
         (average)      (average)           (best)           (best)
        ------------    ---------        ------------        ------
CPU # 1:    2.649         8.699            2.52            9.143
CPU # 2:    2.756         8.361            2.55            9.035


Dot Product (1024 elements):

        microseconds     GFlops          microseconds        GFlops
         (average)      (average)           (best)           (best)
        ------------    ---------        ------------        ------
CPU # 1:    0.2887        7.09             0.24            8.529
CPU # 2:    0.2894        7.073            0.24            8.529

Merchant 商人 (0)

Lvli007的MacBook到了，酷睿2 T7200。我的测试癖又发作了。
其实现在的处理器已经足够应付办公级的工作了，于是我很关心数字媒体的处理性能。
于是我从这里找到了这个，修改制成通用二进制程序，在他的MacBook和我的PowerBook上同时跑。结果呢，傅立叶变换和内积还说的过去，卷积方面则简直不是一个数量级别的——T7200 6.4亿指令/秒的均值对7447A 114亿指令/秒的均值。我还没有测试970MP。这个问题很久以前就在邮件列表上讨论过，见这里。
我想起苹果电脑以前那些广告。他们用PowerPC的时候就吹PowerPC快，用Intel了就说Intel好。这些广告其实同那些苹果迷所广为耻笑的微软的疯狂广告是没区别的。
我一直很奇怪那些苹果迷是怎么想的。苹果电脑公司之所以称『公司』，因其本质系商人。而我国有句老话，无商不奸。

Lvli007's MacBook is arrived with a Core 2 Duo T7200. Then I forced myself to make a benchmark on it.
The contemporary CPUs are fast enough to have office works done, so what I cared is the performance of digital media processing.
Then I found something here and made this a Universal Binary with minor changes. Running on both his MacBook and my PowerBook, the result shows T7200 is not bad on Fast Fourier Transform and Dot Product, but on Convolution… T7200's 0.64 GFlops average versus 7447A's 11.4 GFlops average. I didn't have this done on a 970MP. Of course it's not only me who finds this out, there's an old mail in mail list here.
This remainds me those advertisements of Apple computers. They said PowerPC is faster when they use PowerPC, and it's Intel now. This is nothing difference than those crazy advertisements of Microsoft products, which lots of Apple Fans have laught at.
I've been surprised that there're so many Apple Fans for a long while. Apple Computer Inc. is called incorporated, as they're merchants. There's a Chinese idiom, Every merchant is liar.

Wearing 冬装

天冷了，消防栓也穿上了冬装。

It's cold, even hydrants are wearing suites.

KFC in China 肯德基

我不是想评论KFC的『美食』，因为在我看来，快餐店根本不会有美食（参见便利店）。
正题是，这名字起得很有水准。
我很好奇这虾的得名，服务生说是因为长得像。但打开包装，看到那异常苗条的虾体，我不禁，大概也只能想赵飞燕。百胜的本地化做得……至少很下功夫。大概百胜内部有文化功底很深的员工在做命名。我还记得那个『大納言小豆』馅蛋挞的广告，狄人杰谏武媚娘。很可惜，观众没什么懂的，这次没做这类广告，可能是学乖了吧。
顺带一提，百胜还有东方既白这样的品牌。

I'm not going to talk about the taste. Fast foods can't be delicious, by my vision(See Convenient Store).
What I want to say is, this name, 飞燕虾, which stands for a kind of Xia(shrimp) named Feiyan(flying swallow), is Chinese, is good.
I wondered how they named this. The waiter said it looks like the swallow, but I don't think so. Feiyan is a famous beauty who was born in Han Dynasty and finally became a queen. The poor, little shrimp is as thin as her. Yum's L10N is good. I am thinking about, if there's someone in Yum have a great job on Chinese culture done.
BTW, Yum has 东方既白. It sells traditional Chinese food as fast as KFC.

Wind from Siberia 来自西伯利亚的风

今天是周末，窗外是零度，却仍然有那么多的人不得不披星戴月地工作。生活总是如此的艰辛，就像这西伯利亚来的风，长途跋涉又吹了这么久，才把这里搞舒服（虽然他舒服了我们就不那么舒服了）。

As a weekend, as the emprature goes by zero, as the moon still smiles. Many people have to wake up and go to work. Life is hard, somehow like the air from siberia, blowing so far and so long to make here comfortable(well, for him, not for us).

Seek Lights 寻找光明

照片里没有诡异，书而已。人类不断地探索新知，却不知道什么是尽头——或许没有尽头。
我不是鼓吹消极论，人只要快乐就好。学而时习也很快乐。
可我又忍不住想说，这其实和我们所谓的『动物』没什么区别，当然他们吃、睡、讨老婆就很快乐了，我们还有些别的方法。

There's no strange, books only. People are interesting in learning, not what the end is. Maybe there isn't any "end".
Of course I'm not advocating negativism, I do think happy is the best thing in our lifes. Learning is happy.
Then I can't stop myself of writing: The only one thing else than the so called "animals" is, eat, sleep and make love satisfied most of them, but we get "meaningful" ways.

Problem with Baking Powder 发泡问题

今天一时兴起去吃吃油条，端上来却嗅到浓重的氨味。我知道这是用碳酸氢铵发的泡，大概没有完全分解就遇到了盘子里的水。硬着头皮吃了一根，结果是到现在都感到反酸。我宁可吃点铝，至少明矾发的口感要更脆，而且闻起来也不这么恐怖。
回来仔细研究下，发现不用铝也可以发泡。理论上讲，磷酸氢钙效果不错，而且至少应该比较脆，余下些对人体也没有太大毒性。
还有，这散发恐怖气味油条十分有名——真搞不懂为什么这么家大型企业，为了缩减成本就愣是不用点更安全更可口的？

I were going to eat fried bread sticks today, got a smell of ammonia. As I knew, it came from one of the ingredients, ammonia bicarbonate, which maybe not fully destructed and then dissolved in the water. As a result of tasting one, my stomach feels too much gastric acid till now. I'd say I prefer alum, it will resulting crisp ones at least, and will not smell so terrible.
Then I find out more without aluminium, such as Rumford Baking Powder, which uses calcium phosphate instead. Theoritically it
will be good, at least resulting crisp ones, with not so many toxic effects.
And, the fried bread sticks here are very famous, for their smelling. I wonder why such a huge company doesn't going to find something seems safer and more delicious out? Just for reducing the cost?

Answers to journalist Anan 答记者暗暗问

暗暗不是问过我为何还有英文版吗？上周末我放了一个分析器，这里是这几天的结果。可惜我不会法文。

Anan was wondering why I'm writing a version in English, and here's my analytic report since I placed the system last weekend. A pity is I can't write in French.

  

Danke, Max

不管怎么说，Max劳苦功高，明天要去开会，今天还边给我画画边解决那该死的DV带问题。这个帐只好等以后再结了。

Preparing meeting, Darwing, Solving the problem of the dammed DV cassette… It's merit of max, by any means. My acknowledgments, max.

Raining Again 又下雨了

又下雨了，接着小雪时的话，下雨总归是比较暖和的表现。

It's rain again. What can be appended on the words left Nov. 23th is: Rain is warm at least.

Blood Donation 献血

血细胞的抗原上多了个半乳糖，结果就是汉族可能最多的血型——B。希望在新鲜的时候发挥作用……

One more balactose on antigen, it's B, maybe the most common type in Han Nation. For my best wish… they'll be used before cryopreservatio.

Busy or not 忙与闲

Ye's passing by
看着一个个的『大忙人』匆匆走过，我很怀疑他们在忙什么，他们将得到什么。还有，我逃得掉么？抑或我已经如此了。

They're busy, they never stop. But I'm wondering what they're busy doing, as where they're going to. Then, am I or will I be a shadow of them too?

iBlackTea 爱红茶

i系列的第2款。爱红茶至少不像爱面那样不健康，甚至比那些高级餐厅里的红茶要好——根据我的观察，在那些地方以数百倍价钱买到的不过也是爱红茶，而且多数情况下还没有自己泡的美味。

Being the 2nd one in my iSeries, iBlackTea doesn't as unhealthy as iNoodle. Even more, this tastes better than those in cups, which sell hundreds more than this, in formal restaurants, because those in cups are what with i marks too, as I saw.

Visual 视觉系

没有三分法，没有对焦……按照Max的评价，只好叫视觉系了。
其实应该鼓励Max出本书，《APS拍风景》

No trichotomy, no focus……A Visual photo, by max' vision.
By the way, we should encourage Max to write a book: Landscape Photographing by APS

Air Condition System 空调系统

空调打开的时候，我明显嗅到了霉菌的味道。脑海中突然出现了一个镜头……病毒通过空调系统扩散，似乎是一个不错的桥段。
这又让我想到了医院。
世界上通过空气传播的病毒越来越多了，医院还保持那毫无安全感可言的中央空调吗？

When the air conditioner turns on, a smelling of mildew disturbs me. That remainds me of a scene… a not bad bridge scene showing a lump of virus diffusing by the air condition system.
That reminds me of hospitals also.
As kinds of virus which diffusing by air growing, how can hospitals providing us safty feelings by those central air condition systems?

Convenient Store 便利店

有时候我会怀念起杂货铺。
因为在我们的世界中他们已经被便利店取代。
显然，便利店意味着完整的品质管理体系——意味着你可以在同样的招牌下用统一的价格买到一样的商品，不必担心过期，不必害怕上当受骗。店员都着制服，面带微笑，不会遇到怠慢，不会被当出气筒。
但他们是店员，不再是老板娘兼隔壁大妈，不再有闲聊说笑，不再有小礼品，也不再有哄小孩的糖果玩具。不再有一个又一个的故事。
这就好比好吃的东西总是出现在餐馆而不是连锁快餐一样。

Sometimes I miss grocery stores.
But there're convenient stores only.
Surely CvS means quality management, means you can buy the same thing at the same price in stores with the same brand. Everything is normalized, no cheats, no expires. Smiling serveses, of course.
And everything is in control. No chat, no candy, no flower and no firework - there're just keppers, not ever bosses.
Then no more stories, just like the delicious foods which are only appeared in restaurants, not PizzaHuts.