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High failure rate sparks boycott of HSC maths - National : "An investigation by The Sun-Herald has found:
 The number of students enrolling for HSC maths is declining.
 The failure rate in HSC maths has increased to 10 per cent.
 A shortage of qualified teachers means three Sydney high schools and five regional schools don't have a full maths teaching staff."

Can We Identify Antichrist?, What Do the Apostles Say? - bible411.com

跳舞的蜜蜂
蜜蜂是靠跳舞的方式与频率来传达信息的。 他们没有语言，但先天性地都会按一定的图形“跳舞“。
- the sickle dance, in this case the food source is 20-60 feet from the hive.
- the number of times per mintues the bee dance( a complete pattern) indicate the distance from the food source/food quality or direction。

The bees' dance is an effective system of communication, capable, in principle, of infinitely many different messages, and in this sense the bees' dance is infinitely variable, like human language.
But unlike human language, the communication system of the bees is confined to a single subject. It is frozen and inflexible. For example, an experimenter forced a bee to walk to the food source. When the bee returned to the hive, it indicated a distance twenty-five times farther away than the food source actually was. The bee had no way of communicating the special circumstances or taking them into account in its message. This absence of creativity makes the bees' dance qualitatively different from human language.
For bee language is not a learned phenomenon, but appears genetically predetermined. As Rosin aptly points out, “honeybee dances, which are neither learned from experienced dancers nor discovered in a crude manner and perfected through practice, must be instinctive (i.e., genetically predetermined).” In other words, bees do not go through a period of language acquisition as humans do, but are able to use their language as soon as they can forage.
Bee tail-wagging Dance

廊桥遗梦 Someone said this is a good translation.

LE PETIT PRINCE

LE PETIT PRINCE （法文）
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

English The Little Prince

中文 小王子 - 圣·德克旭贝里
" 很薄的一本童话书，作者自己绘画的拙拙的插图，却并不是年幼儿童能够看得懂的。小王子和他的玫瑰花，希望被驯养的狐狸，沙漠，蛇，不一样的星球，组成了这个想象丰富而略带忧郁色彩的童话。"

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國際廣告文化與翻譯

三角公園

There's a deep girl in the corner shop
Selling sugar for money in the dead of the night
And her soul's in the sugar and her heart's in the mud
And she's crying with a stranger
For someone to love
And she sings

"Look at me, see me' 'look at me, save me'
'Free me, find me 'cos if there's
Somebody for someone, yeah look at me"
Somebody for someone

There's a deep boy at the corner shop
Watching sugar sell for money to the dead at night
And he sees in her an angel in the cruelest of worlds
Hiding in the darkness
Screaming out for love (screaming out for love)
And he sings

(Somebody's gonna make it right) "look at me"
(Somebody's gonna make it right) "see me"
(Somebody's gonna make it right) "look for me"
(Somebody's gonna make it right) "save me"
(Somebody's gonna make it right) "free me"
(Somebody's gonna make it right) "find me"
"Cos if (Somebody's gonna make it right)there's somebody for
someone, come look at me"

[Violin solo]

Dr ZY 在课上讲到《鸿》content中一句“even plain cold water is sweet”时说，若一个女子/男子能爱你到“有情饮水饱”的地步，此乃你人生中的大幸。呜呼！只有两情相悦，才能真爱无敌。
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另一句"They all say what a happy place Manchukuo is".
happy place = happy land = 乐土 = heaven.
大东亚中的满洲国在日本人的眼中竟然可以与天堂相提并论！
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"Suffering will make you a better communist".
He asked "what do you think about when you first see the word 'suffering'"? 腾飞大声回答“耶稣”。
我激动不已，后来一想，这可能得归功于Mel的《受难记》。

与你分享五句话
第一句是：优秀是一种习惯。
这句话是古希腊哲学家亚里士多德说的。如果说优秀是一种习惯，那么懒惰也是一种习惯。人出生的时候，除了脾气会因为天性而有所不同，其他的东西基本都是后天形成的，是家庭影响和教育的结果。所以，我们的一言一行都是日积月累养成的习惯。我们有的人形成了很好的习惯，有的人形成了很坏的习惯。到20岁左右的时候，我们已经有了自觉意识，已经开始明白什么样的习惯会使我们终身受益。所以我们从现在起就要把优秀变成一种习惯，使我们的优秀行为习以为常，变成我们的第二天性。让我们习惯性地去创造性思考，习惯性地去认真做事情，习惯性地对别人友好，习惯性地欣赏大自然。
第二句话是：生命是一种过程。
事业的结果尽管重要，但是做事情的过程更加重要，因为我们是在每一天的过程中生活，每一天都不幸福，就等于整个生命都不幸福。所以尽管我们注重事业的结果，因为结果好了我们会更加快乐，但过程使我们的生命充实。
欢乐是生命本身的渴望，人类是世界上惟一会笑的动物，但不是惟一懂得欢乐的动物。所有的动物都有欢乐的天性，这从很多小动物欢乐地奔跑和嬉戏中能够看出来。人类的生存常常必须有比维持生存更高的目标，因为人类除了物质生活，还必须要有精神生活的满足，因此人类必须比动物付出更艰辛的劳动。

所以大家一定要寻求每一天的充实。世界上很少有永恒，大学生谈恋爱，每天都在信誓旦旦地说我会爱你一辈子，这实际上是不真实的，只是在表达一种愿望而已。但我们还是在说，因为至少在那一刻，我们这样的表达是真实感情的流露。追求永恒的爱是人类的毕生梦想，因为人在爱中永远充实。但现实生活并不是这样的，统计数据表明，大学生谈恋爱的100对里有90对最后会分手，最后结婚了的还有一半会离婚。你说爱情能永恒吗？所以最真实的说法是：“我今天，此时此刻正在真心地爱着你。”明天也许你会失恋，失恋后我们会体验到失恋的痛苦。那我们就去体会，去体验，这种体验也是丰富你生命的一个过程。

第三句话是：两点之间最短的距离并不一定是直线。
特别是在人与人的关系以及做事情的过程中，我们很难直截了当就把事情做好。我们有时需要等待，有时需要合作，有时需要技巧。也许飞机能够在两点之间直飞，但即使飞机飞行，如果前面有个大气流，也通常只能绕过那个大气流飞行。我们做事情会碰到很多困难和障碍，有时候我们并不一定要硬挺、硬冲，我们可以选择有困难绕过去，有障碍绕过去，也许这样做事情更加顺利。

第四句话是：只有知道如何停止的人才知道如何加快速度。
汽车的质量越高，开得就越快。比如像奔驰和宝马这一类车，它们的高质量不仅体现在发动机系统上，还体现在刹车系统上。你开这些车的时候，就敢于高速行驶，因为你知道，只要你踩刹车，车就能稳稳地停下来，不至于翻车或跑到马路外面去。但当我们开夏利车的时候，我们一定不会开得和奔驰车一样快，因为我们知道如果让它跑得太快了，就很难刹车了，说不定就会撞栏杆或者翻了。所以说，没有把握停下来的人是跑不快的人。

最后一句话是：放弃是一种智慧，缺点是一种恩惠。
在生活中，我们最愚蠢的行为就是太执著于自己的东西，把自己的东西捏着不放，不愿意放弃。结果呢，你捏着不放，别人就不会把他的东西和你一起分享。没有放弃就没有得到，这是再明白不过的理论。人一定要学会用你拥有的东西去换取对你来说更加重要和丰富的东西。
当一个人什么都不缺的时候，他的生存空间就被剥夺掉了。如果我们每天早上醒过来，感到自己今天缺点儿什么，感到自己还需要更加完美，感到自己还有追求，那是一件多么值得高兴的事情啊！

Hurray!!! Finally got full version of matlab 6.1 running on my own box!!! The 72-digit plp code did do me a big favour. Well, this version is slightly different from any of the versions they used at uni and i still have to download constell toolbox to run my assignment.
-_-

W32ssi.dll (encryption routines inside)is the DLL that will check for your dongle by calling its driver.

(将诗翻译成另一种文字，很难, 翻得很肉麻。在此只好apply "death of the author"的理論了。好心的人﹐請幫我校改﹗）
My Country by Dorothea Mackellar (1885 - 1968)
The love of field and coppice,
Of green and shaded lanes.
Of ordered woods and gardens
Is running in your veins,
Strong love of grey-blue distance
Brown streams and soft dim skies
I know but cannot share it,
My love is otherwise.
愛你的田野﹐愛你的灌木林﹐
綠蔭下的小路﹐和那整齊的树林與花苑。
對你的愛奔騰在血脈﹐
灰藍的遠景, 褐色的山川﹐
和那溫柔暗淡的天空。
那麼熟悉我卻無法分享﹐我的爱不那样。

I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,

Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror -
The wide brown land for me!
我愛日灼下的她﹐有一望無際的平原﹐起伏的山脈﹐
還有她的干旱﹐她的傾盆大雨。
我爱她的深遠的地平线，我爱她的寶石般的大海，
她的美麗她的惊骇﹐
就請給我那一片寬廣的紅棕地吧﹗

A stark white ring-barked forest
All tragic to the moon,
The sapphire-misted mountains,
The hot gold hush of noon.
Green tangle of the brushes,
Where lithe lianas coil,
And orchids deck the tree-tops
And ferns the warm dark soil.
一個純然白淨有著圓環樹皮的森林﹐
將所有悲劇對月亮述說。
青玉薄霧瀰漫山谷﹐金色靜寂籠罩晌午,
在那綠色纏繞的雜木林﹐藤蔓柔軟地盤卷﹐
還有還有﹐是那被蘭花裝扮著的樹梢和蕨萋溫暖的黑色土壤。

Coke Classic. Coca-Cola is hiding a cell phone/GPS in 120 cans of its products. When a purchaser finds one, he or she calls in on the phone and agrees to allow Coke (and everyone else, which perhaps makes this a conundrum) to track the can, which must be carried around at all times. At some point the prize patrol will deliver the goods, which may be the grand prize, a sport utility vehicle. The website for the promotion correctly shows a satellite sending out signals to the Coke can, not the other way round! When the tracking starts, the can will effectively send out signals.
Chris Rizos

Translation quality

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關於嚴復翻譯的《馬可福音》

Slashdot | EU Moves Toward Software Patents

PCWorld.com - It's Really Big: New 400GB DriveThe 7200-rpm Serial ATA hard drive comes with an 8MB buffer and a staggering 400GB of storage.

virus check:
http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/sasser.asp
Symantec Security Response - W32.Sasser.Worm

Start my first Moore correspondence course today and I've got both english and chinese version of the book. gOoD!

editing

ABC Radio National - Background Briefing: 25 April? 2004? - Mutating Mobiles Interesting article on mobile devices...mention GPS & Location-Based Services.

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How to make a good cup of Greek coffee: To a metal coffee-pot(briki) containing lukewarm water, add a teaspoonful of Greek Coffee ( for every cup served) and sugar to taste. Stir well once and simmer until coffee rises, at which time coffee is ready to serve.
After pouring in, foam forms on surface and residue sinks to the bottom of the cup. Bravo!