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May 29

复旦大学教授:中国正处于5000年来最大盛世

作者:谢百三教授   复旦大学金融与资本市场研究中心主任,博士生导师

中国处于5000年来最大的盛世

中国在有文字记载的5000多年中,被人们称道的有五大盛世。这就是汉朝的“文景之治”、唐 朝的“贞观之治”“开元之治”、清朝的“康熙之治”“乾隆之治”,以及今天的改革开放以来,尤其是最近15年来的稳定高速发展时期。尽管中国仍有这样那样 的事不尽如人意之处,但一些刚性的不可变的基石性因素却使得中国当之无愧的被世界人民看好,当之无愧的将被史学家们誉为5000年来最长最大的盛世。这些 刚性的不可变的基石性因素主要如下:

政治局面空前稳定;13多亿人民人心思治,台独势力得到了极有效的抑制。整个社会向着更实更强的和谐社会迈进。

人才多、劳动力多,且物美价廉。中国成为世界上最好的无法竞争的无可争议的最佳投资场所

市场无限大,每年增加人口800万,且人均国民收入,人均居民存款在增长,等于一年两个新加坡,三年一个台湾省,五年一个加拿大 (calculation formula: 8M growth in population = 2*4M (Singapore Population) or 1/3*23M(Taiwan Population) or  1/5*40M(Canada Population)。这样大的市场,这么多的人民,谁敢不重视,谁敢与之为敌

各级政府一心一意搞经济,全力以赴拼经济,而且都是战略性的大思维。

人民。中国人民是世界上最好的人民,勤劳、勇敢、拼搏创新,且遵纪守法,艰苦节俭,储蓄率为世界第一。小布什希望中国人民像美国人一样成为消费型居民现在完全不可能,中国有中国的国情。

以上五大因素,几十年不会变,中国将是21世纪世界上发展最快的大国。



May 27

(ZT)中文化Kindle 2

傻瓜汉化包下载及教程 (http://www.blogkindle.com/unicode-fonts-hack)

我用我的kindle2试了,效果还不错,大概测试了一下对kindle的其他功能都没什么影响,应该只是替换了字体。据说汉化以后就可以安装中英双语的字典,还没来得及试。终于可以在公车上看中文小说了,要不10分钟的路看英文的话还不够看一页呢。。。

简要中文翻译


第1步:去下载破解文件:
http://www.blogkindle.com/wp-con ... _hack_v01_droid.zip
第2步:将下载的2个文件拷到kindle的根本录下。文件是:update_unicode_fonts_droid_install.bin,update_unicode_fonts_droid_install_browser.bin
第3步,在kindle里找到升级,点:home/menu/settings/menu/update your kindle,升级完成后就可以看中文了。
第4步,因为kindle对TXT支持不好,看到一半就出乱码,所以纯文本不能直接读,必须要转成mobi或者azw,再放回到文档里就能读了,文件名目前不支持中文。
第5步,如果要升级kindle必须要卸掉前的破解。将前面下的升级程序的第三个文件:update_unicode_fonts_uninstall.bin,拷入根目录(破解时不用这个文件),执行第3步,这样kindle就回到了原始装态。
第6步,转mobi或者azw的程序目前在苹果上比较好。stanza,用这个程序转,http://www.lexcycle.com/download-windows,可以下PC版的。


UFHack is a hack for Amazon Kindle 2 that allows replacing default Kindle 2 fonts with different ones, including fonts that support broader range of characters like Cyrillic, Chinese, Japanese, etc. Hack comes in a form of manually installable patch and is fully reversible. Source code is included so you can customize the hack. If you do, please let me know and I’ll host or link to the modified version as I’m sure that one size doesn’t fit all.

Important!:

  • Use this hack and instructions at your own risk! Although I tested it to the best of my ability on my own device I can’t guarantee that it will work on yours and will not be responsible for any damage (including completely and irreversibly bricking your device) it may have caused!
  • This hack works only on Kindle 2. For Kindle 1 you’ll need a different one. If you are not sure which version you have it’s best not to mess with it all.
  • Having this hack installed will cause installation of official Amazon.com updates to fail. This is normal. You’ll need to reverse the hack (see instuctions below), install the Amazon.com update manually and then reapply the hack.

There are two versions of hack available. Functionally they are identical but they are prepacked with different sets of fonts:

  • kindle_font_hack_v01_liberation.zip - this hack uses Liberation fonts that come with RedHat Linux and are free to redistribute. All font styles are preserved (serif, sans-serif, mono-spaced, bold and italic) but these fonts only support Latin and Cyrillic characters. So if you are only interested in Russian books - this is the way to go. Otherwise this patch will do you little good.

kindle-ufhack-v01-liberation

  • kindle_font_hack_v01_droid.zip - this hack uses open-source Droid fonts  that are part of Google Android platform. Unfortunately not all fonts support all styles and some styles are missing completely. This patch uses DroidSansFallback to replace standard Serif fonts in Kindle. It supports Cyrillic, Chinese, Japanese and a bunch of other languages at a price of loosing styles such as bold and italic. This font also looks very good on the Kindle screen (in my opinion way better than native Kindle fonts). This is the patch I currently have installed on my Kindle 2.

kindle-ufhack-v01-droid

Installing the hack:

  1. Download either of the hacks from links above and unzip the archive.
  2. Connect your Kindle 2 to your PC via USB cable.
  3. Copy either update_unicode_fonts_droid_install.bin or update_unicode_fonts_liberation_install.bin to the root directory of your Kindle. Never copy more than 1 file! update_unicode_fonts_droid_install_browser.bin or update_unicode_fonts_liberation_install_browser.bin can also be copied - these patches install the same fonts as their counterparts but only for the web-browser. This is mostly useful if you would like to experiment with your own fonts (see below)
  4. Optionally but highly recommended: use “Safely Remove Hardware” to “eject” Kindle 2. In order for this to work you need to close all Windows Explorer and other file manager windows that display contents of Kindle drive
  5. Use menus to initiate manual update installation: Press “Home” to fo to the home screen, press “Menu” and select “Settings”, press “Menu” again and select “Update Your Kindle”, press the 5-way controller once more to confirm the update.
  6. Your Kindle 2 will switch through several update screens and then reboot.
  7. Once it reboots, you can test that the hack installed properly and works:
    1. First of all you should see apparent change in all of the fonts if you didn’t install browser-only update.
    2. press “Menu”, select “Settings”. In the bottom portion of the settings page you should see Kindle software version and “+ UFHack 0.1″.
    3. Start web browser and open http://www.wikipedia.org/ - you should see Russian text in the bottom left rather than boxes with question marks. If you used droid patch - Japanese characters in the upper-left will also display.
    4. And of course you can now copy books in different languages and start reading them.
  8. Connect your Kindle 2 to your PC via USB cable and copy *.orig files from the root directory to a safe location. Normally you’ll not need these to reverse the hack but it’s good to keep a copy of these just in case.

kindle-ufhack-v01-version

Uninstalling the hack:

  1. Connect your Kindle 2 to your PC via USB cable.
  2. Copy update_unicode_fonts_uninstall.bin to the root directory of your Kindle. Make sure that there are no other Update_*.bin files there.
  3. Optionally but highly recommended: use “Safely Remove Hardware” to “eject” Kindle 2. In order for this to work you need to close all Windows Explorer and other file manager windows that display contents of Kindle drive.
  4. Use menus to initiate manual update installation: Press “Home” to fo to the home screen, press “Menu” and select “Settings”, press “Menu” again and select “Update Your Kindle”, press the 5-way controller once more to confirm the update.
  5. Your Kindle 2 will switch through several update screens and then reboot.
  6. Once it reboots, you can test that the hack installed properly and works: there should be no “+ UFHack 0.1″ in the version string at the bottom of settings screen, fonts should be back to normal with boxed question marks displayed instead of unicode symbols.
  7. Unicode font files are not deleted from Kindle but should cause no problems. If you would like to delete them - contact me and I’ll provide a separate patch for that.

Known issues:

  1. There is not perfect one-size fit all font that would preserve styles and display all characters and look nice at the same time. Finding one that is free proved to be more difficult than creating the patch. If you find such a font or even a paid one for which redistribution rights will not cost a small fortune - let me know and I’ll try to arrange a patch with that font.
  2. Unicode titles of .mobi and .prc books will display like garbage. This is not an issue with the hack or the fonts. Amazon eBook reader appliation assumes these fields to be ASCII rather than Unicode so they’ll not display correctly no matter what fonts until Amazon fixes this.
  3. Patch that uses droid font is very redundant. I’m sure it could have been packed nicer but I don’t want to mess with it more until I find a way to revive Kindle via recovery mode. One typo in font.properties file or one corrupt font is enough to brick the device for good. I’m currently working on figuring out how to install patches from the recovery mode - then it will not be a problem.

Using your own fonts:

  1. Once again I’ll stress that this is done at your own risk. Using corrupted font files in the reader app will likely brick your Kindle entirely. If you don’t know what are you doing - don’t do it!
  2. In order to roll your own Kindle updates you’ll need to have Python installed. One from ActiveState will do nicely.
  3. In the /src directory of the hack you’ll find font files, update scripts and other related stuff. Feel free to look into any of it.
  4. To use your own fonts you need to replace the ones on that folder (preserving the file names!) and then run build-updates.cmd. This will generate 3 .bin files described above.
  5. If you use your own fonts it would be a good idea to test the browser-only update first. Keep in mind that browser-only update uses only Serif*.ttf fonts. So you will want to replace them with the ones that you are testing regardless of the actual typography. Replace all of the files even if you are using same font file.


March 11

面食姑娘的两个补充定理

zcc(李二逼的前室友)有一天特兴奋的说:“Jay~我发现一个特别好玩的事。你要是把一把面条往锅的中心一放,你猜怎么着?“zcc接着说:”面条成放射状散开!“

面食姑娘补充定理一:一般来说光会煮面的姑娘不予考虑,但是如果该姑娘能独立的发现”煮面条放射定理“可以优先考虑

那天关心一下dan的饮食起居,问dan:”你都吃什么啊?“,dan说”我自己做饼吃“,我惊讶的问”怎么做啊?”,dan说:“可简单了,你把面把锅里一扔,它就自动成个饼形。”

面食姑娘补充定理二:一般来说会做饼的姑娘优先考虑,但是如果该姑娘已经独立的发现”面自动成饼形定理“不予考虑。





汇报几个段子

(1)
圣诞节和李二逼和dan一起去space needle顶上的旋转餐厅吃饭,说起我问李二逼的问题:“给你哪几个女人(任意一个),你可以永远不弹吉他。”,拿去问dan,问”给你哪几个男娃子(任意一个),你可以不学经济学?“ dan一听问题,说:“那哪行啊?怎么能放弃理想呢?”,我发现dan还没意识到”给你任意一个男人“这个假设的牛逼,就问丹"给你brad pitt行不?”,丹说“不行!”。。。。。一直问问问,得问到80年代电视剧那几个了(黄日华,马景涛什么的)dan开始同意了,趁着这势头赶紧问dan"郑伊健行不?“,dan说:”那得搭个陈小春!“,我觉得以dan这经济学素养赵本山+范伟+高秀敏组合都好使。。。

(2)
问dan开车开怎么样了,dan说:“我开可好了,连alex都夸我,现在就一闯红灯毛病了。”。

我赶紧问“怎么会闯红灯呢?”

dan说“红灯一闪一闪的,把我给弄晕了。”

(3)
和李二逼在seattle北边发现一个北京餐馆,里面做的北京肉饼,韭菜合子,沙锅系列特别牛逼还有一个北京胖子(简直堪称北京民俗园)。现在正四处打听人给我介绍会做烧饼,面食的东北/北京姑娘(如果是北京姑娘最好是我们外地籍贯的并且住在三环以外)。

(4)
为了竞技体育需要昨天刚剃一寸头,印度哥们一看没吭声,后来听说是我自己剪的了,连夸剪得好,后来我说:“是啊,自己剪还省钱呢,每月省我30呢。”,印度哥们急了:“你tmd哪剪30的,我剪得最贵的也就20。”

李二逼一看我这头,说象马大帅二里面的宁静。

我妈看了,说象陈丹青,我心里那个美滋滋儿。。。。

 
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