Thursday, July 17, 2008
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
same old topic
Philosophy is the art of thinking and questioning. We always look for definition of everything including definition. We want to find out the answers. We want to ask questions and even questions about questions.
We know what we know. We know something that we don't know. We don't know what we don't know. Is it beyond our imagination? Still in our imagination?
We also want to understand how we understand. We also want to understand why others cannot understand.
It is a process of learning. Learn how to learn. Maybe we practice to learn. Sometimes, we have to teach and even teach how to teach.
Why do we do so much? Maybe we can make a better life. But what is "better"? And what is "life"?
We know what we know. We know something that we don't know. We don't know what we don't know. Is it beyond our imagination? Still in our imagination?
We also want to understand how we understand. We also want to understand why others cannot understand.
It is a process of learning. Learn how to learn. Maybe we practice to learn. Sometimes, we have to teach and even teach how to teach.
Why do we do so much? Maybe we can make a better life. But what is "better"? And what is "life"?
Friday, March 21, 2008
To make a better world (part 2)
(Continued from Part 1)
The whole world has been changing very quickly over past 100 years. Most of innovations, systems and development only happened in this period. The societies and international affairs are getting much more complex. There are great demands on the quality of new capabilities of global citizens.
Creativity is one of crucial ability that allows global citizens to adapt the ever-changing world, to find out new solutions for new problems and to find out new way to ensure sustainable development.
Regarding to culture conflict, love and respect in our heart becomes to the understanding, appreciation and forgiving to other culture.
Learning ability is another crucial ability. Confucius said there exists one teacher among three persons. In global context, we can learn merits from other better cultures and demerits from the worser. We need to compare these cultures objectively with a reasonable scheme and enough reflection. Reasoning is one of our valuable assets. It leads us to take actions in a concrete and constructive way.
Courage to adapt changes, introduce changes and implements changes. Every normal person would stay in its own comfort zone. It is quite similar to a country. It is very hard to change a country because of legacy especially the resistance from our own value system and the one who is taking advantages.
Leadership is also required. We need to encourage and motivate other team members. We need to have ability to resolve conflicts, make judge in controversy and so on. One of critical requirement for leadership is language power. Not only communicate effectively but also touch everyone's heart. It is like a poet to write a poem which makes others feel what author felt. It also helps other understand the leader's goal and purpose. It helps to determine a plan and comes to the agreement.
After everyone comes to the agreement, the rest depends on the power of execution. How can we implement the plan? How can we make it happen? How can we get the final result? Of course, every member must work together as a single team. Every citizen must take part in the public life. Public life can be in community level, national level and international level. Every global citizen must understand its own identity and responsibility.
The whole world has been changing very quickly over past 100 years. Most of innovations, systems and development only happened in this period. The societies and international affairs are getting much more complex. There are great demands on the quality of new capabilities of global citizens.
Creativity is one of crucial ability that allows global citizens to adapt the ever-changing world, to find out new solutions for new problems and to find out new way to ensure sustainable development.
Regarding to culture conflict, love and respect in our heart becomes to the understanding, appreciation and forgiving to other culture.
Learning ability is another crucial ability. Confucius said there exists one teacher among three persons. In global context, we can learn merits from other better cultures and demerits from the worser. We need to compare these cultures objectively with a reasonable scheme and enough reflection. Reasoning is one of our valuable assets. It leads us to take actions in a concrete and constructive way.
Courage to adapt changes, introduce changes and implements changes. Every normal person would stay in its own comfort zone. It is quite similar to a country. It is very hard to change a country because of legacy especially the resistance from our own value system and the one who is taking advantages.
Leadership is also required. We need to encourage and motivate other team members. We need to have ability to resolve conflicts, make judge in controversy and so on. One of critical requirement for leadership is language power. Not only communicate effectively but also touch everyone's heart. It is like a poet to write a poem which makes others feel what author felt. It also helps other understand the leader's goal and purpose. It helps to determine a plan and comes to the agreement.
After everyone comes to the agreement, the rest depends on the power of execution. How can we implement the plan? How can we make it happen? How can we get the final result? Of course, every member must work together as a single team. Every citizen must take part in the public life. Public life can be in community level, national level and international level. Every global citizen must understand its own identity and responsibility.
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
To make a better world?
Someone would say that its own principal is to make a better world. Thus whatever he do would be meaningful. However did all of us have mutually agreed on the concrete meaning of a better world? Everyone has its own definition.
Establishmentalists favour to develop systems for everything. To them, a better world would be a world full of systems. Minimalists prefer to manage the world with minimum effort. Optimists would think too much on future problems. Their better world is already here.
Do we mean that a better world is a world of rich, a world of materials or a world of high technology? No. No. No. Money does not equal to happiness. The poors always exist and nobody can get rid of it. We cannot make everyone rich in the world. In fact, we cannot buy happiness, friendship, family, self-esteem and peace. We can only buy products and services. Our money is limited. Our time is limited. If our greed is unlimited, there is no way to make ourselves satisfied.
Technologies are just tools. Technologies only improve our efficiency and provide new ways. It won't provide us goals, purposes and attitude. However, it may magnify our effects. We cannot fully rely on technologies.
Basically there is a common place. A better world is a peaceful world where everybody can have a happy and healthy life. There is no pollution. The waters and the skies are clear. No more extinction. Everyone can enjoy the living place. They would respect each other, help each other, inspire each other and support each other. These imply that we need just, love and peace such that human being can enjoy the good times and overcome the bad times. In fact, we cannot expect we can make it immediately. Regarding to the dynamic sense of goodness, the whole world should be improved from time to time. Then, one day, we will be there.
Once we make up our mind about a better world. Then how can we make it? What are the conditions? What are the requirements on ourselves?
The persons who put effort to improve the world should outnumber the rest. We need education, mentoring, coaching and good examples. Reasoning is our critical tool to prove the definition and find out the feasible solution. We need all of us not just to focus on personal interest but also the global interest. We need enough knowledge to judge our values. We need to agree the global goal and put effort on it. We need courage to take action. We need to spread this idea and make others to spread this idea.
Very hard? Yes, it is very hard.
Establishmentalists favour to develop systems for everything. To them, a better world would be a world full of systems. Minimalists prefer to manage the world with minimum effort. Optimists would think too much on future problems. Their better world is already here.
Do we mean that a better world is a world of rich, a world of materials or a world of high technology? No. No. No. Money does not equal to happiness. The poors always exist and nobody can get rid of it. We cannot make everyone rich in the world. In fact, we cannot buy happiness, friendship, family, self-esteem and peace. We can only buy products and services. Our money is limited. Our time is limited. If our greed is unlimited, there is no way to make ourselves satisfied.
Technologies are just tools. Technologies only improve our efficiency and provide new ways. It won't provide us goals, purposes and attitude. However, it may magnify our effects. We cannot fully rely on technologies.
Basically there is a common place. A better world is a peaceful world where everybody can have a happy and healthy life. There is no pollution. The waters and the skies are clear. No more extinction. Everyone can enjoy the living place. They would respect each other, help each other, inspire each other and support each other. These imply that we need just, love and peace such that human being can enjoy the good times and overcome the bad times. In fact, we cannot expect we can make it immediately. Regarding to the dynamic sense of goodness, the whole world should be improved from time to time. Then, one day, we will be there.
Once we make up our mind about a better world. Then how can we make it? What are the conditions? What are the requirements on ourselves?
The persons who put effort to improve the world should outnumber the rest. We need education, mentoring, coaching and good examples. Reasoning is our critical tool to prove the definition and find out the feasible solution. We need all of us not just to focus on personal interest but also the global interest. We need enough knowledge to judge our values. We need to agree the global goal and put effort on it. We need courage to take action. We need to spread this idea and make others to spread this idea.
Very hard? Yes, it is very hard.
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Friday, October 26, 2007
Existence and Evidence
I came across a quote. It sounds like that. We cannot find the evidence of non-existence of a particle. We just did not find any evidence of it's existence.
The interesting point is how we can prove something does not exist. It cannot exist or it does exist but behave as nothing. Is it possible?
How can we determine what existence is? What makes something evidence? What is the condition? Martin Heidegger had studied "existence" thoroughly. In his book "Being and Time", he talked about the criteria and properties of being of everything. He tried to compare being and not-being in a conceptual way. It was incredible in 1927 because not many philosophers would think about it deeply.
Evidence is normally an observable event which has connection with our subject. When we expect such subject does not exist, nothing would interact with it. No connection can be made in our universe. Thus no evidence of non-existence can be provided. Therefore, we cannot find the evidence of non-existence of a particle.
The interesting point is how we can prove something does not exist. It cannot exist or it does exist but behave as nothing. Is it possible?
How can we determine what existence is? What makes something evidence? What is the condition? Martin Heidegger had studied "existence" thoroughly. In his book "Being and Time", he talked about the criteria and properties of being of everything. He tried to compare being and not-being in a conceptual way. It was incredible in 1927 because not many philosophers would think about it deeply.
Evidence is normally an observable event which has connection with our subject. When we expect such subject does not exist, nothing would interact with it. No connection can be made in our universe. Thus no evidence of non-existence can be provided. Therefore, we cannot find the evidence of non-existence of a particle.
Thursday, June 14, 2007
game prediction, future exchange
The simExchange - (noun) the free fantasy video game prediction market for forecasting the number of copies games will sell.
the exchange of future events not futures?
this corporate helps to measure the future value of ideas
the exchange of future events not futures?
this corporate helps to measure the future value of ideas
Wednesday, June 06, 2007
Definition of definition
A definition is a concise statement explaining the meaning of a term, word or phrase. The term to be defined is known as the definiendum (Latin: that which is to be defined). The form of words which defines it is known as the definiens (Latin: that which is doing the defining).
Given that a natural language such as English contains, at any given time, a finite number of words, any comprehensive list of definitions must either be circular or leave some terms undefined. If every term of every definiens must itself be defined, where should we stop?[10] A dictionary, for instance, in so far as it is a comprehensive list of lexical definitions, must resort to circularity.
Many philosophers have chosen instead to leave some terms undefined. The scholastic philosophers claimed that the highest genera (the so-called ten generalissima) cannot be defined, since we cannot assign any higher genus under which they may fall. Thus we cannot define being, unity and similar concepts. Locke supposes in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding that the names of simple concepts do not admit of any definition. More recently Bertrand Russell sought to develop a formal language based on logical atoms. Other philosophers, notably Wittgenstein, rejected the need for any undefined simples. Wittgenstein pointed out in his Philosophical Investigations that what counts as a "simple" in one circumstance might not do so in another. He rejected the very idea that every explanation of the meaning of a term needed itself to be explained: "As though an explanation hung in the air unless supported by another one", claiming instead that explanation of a term is only needed when we need to avoid misunderstanding.
Locke and Mill also argued that we cannot define individuals. We learn names by connecting an idea with a sound, so that speaker and hearer have the same idea when the same word is used. This is not possible when no one else is acquainted with the particular thing that has "fallen under our notice". Russell offered his theory of descriptions in part as a way of defining a proper name, the definition being given by a definite description that "picks out" exactly one individual. Saul Kripke pointed to difficulties with this approach, especially in relation to modality, in his book Naming and Necessity.
There is a presumption in the classic example of a definition that the definiens can be stated. Wittgenstein argued that for some terms this is not the case. The examples he used include game, number and family. In such cases, he argued, there is no fixed boundary that can be used to provide a definition. Rather, the items are grouped together because of a family resemblance. For terms such as these it is not possible to state a definition; rather, one simply comes to understand the use of the term.
(from Wikipedia)
Given that a natural language such as English contains, at any given time, a finite number of words, any comprehensive list of definitions must either be circular or leave some terms undefined. If every term of every definiens must itself be defined, where should we stop?[10] A dictionary, for instance, in so far as it is a comprehensive list of lexical definitions, must resort to circularity.
Many philosophers have chosen instead to leave some terms undefined. The scholastic philosophers claimed that the highest genera (the so-called ten generalissima) cannot be defined, since we cannot assign any higher genus under which they may fall. Thus we cannot define being, unity and similar concepts. Locke supposes in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding that the names of simple concepts do not admit of any definition. More recently Bertrand Russell sought to develop a formal language based on logical atoms. Other philosophers, notably Wittgenstein, rejected the need for any undefined simples. Wittgenstein pointed out in his Philosophical Investigations that what counts as a "simple" in one circumstance might not do so in another. He rejected the very idea that every explanation of the meaning of a term needed itself to be explained: "As though an explanation hung in the air unless supported by another one", claiming instead that explanation of a term is only needed when we need to avoid misunderstanding.
Locke and Mill also argued that we cannot define individuals. We learn names by connecting an idea with a sound, so that speaker and hearer have the same idea when the same word is used. This is not possible when no one else is acquainted with the particular thing that has "fallen under our notice". Russell offered his theory of descriptions in part as a way of defining a proper name, the definition being given by a definite description that "picks out" exactly one individual. Saul Kripke pointed to difficulties with this approach, especially in relation to modality, in his book Naming and Necessity.
There is a presumption in the classic example of a definition that the definiens can be stated. Wittgenstein argued that for some terms this is not the case. The examples he used include game, number and family. In such cases, he argued, there is no fixed boundary that can be used to provide a definition. Rather, the items are grouped together because of a family resemblance. For terms such as these it is not possible to state a definition; rather, one simply comes to understand the use of the term.
(from Wikipedia)
Saturday, May 19, 2007
ejb3
Saturday, March 17, 2007
long list of mobile games
Here is the long list of mobile games. You can search games for a specific model. Though it is in German, you still can go through all the screenshots.
mobilnew.a1.net/j2medc/frameset.htm
mobilnew.a1.net/j2medc/frameset.htm
Thursday, March 01, 2007
Comics and Animation Festival in Beijing
http://games.tom.com/2007-01-30/00G5/08056525.html
http://www.pcgames.com.cn/cartoon/news/guoneinews/0702/860631.html
http://fabu.beareyes.com.cn/2/lib/200702/13/20070213007.htm
http://www.cinic.org.cn/HTML/2006/hybxw/20072258196.html
http://www.mofcom.gov.cn/aarticle/a/200702/20070204379624.html
http://news.xinhuanet.com/fortune/2007-02/12/content_5732233.htm
http://news.qq.com/a/20070213/00
http://www.pcgames.com.cn/cartoon/news/guoneinews/0702/860631.html
http://fabu.beareyes.com.cn/2/lib/200702/13/20070213007.htm
http://www.cinic.org.cn/HTML/2006/hybxw/20072258196.html
http://www.mofcom.gov.cn/aarticle/a/200702/20070204379624.html
http://news.xinhuanet.com/fortune/2007-02/12/content_5732233.htm
http://news.qq.com/a/20070213/00
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Values of Games to Teenagers
Children love games. Teenagers love games. Video games, console games and online games give us the great experience on visual effects and interaction beyond our imagination. That's why the teenagers are fascinated by them. However, the human communication is lacked in those games. Sometimes, the illusion presented in these games may alter children concepts and values especially when they have not yet developed their own value system. The teenagers may see bloodshed in the uncensored games. They may get used to it. They may not take lives serious.
In fact, the healthy games should encourage human interaction and challenges. They should train up players' mind-body coordination, brain power, communication skills, etc. Thus players can be self-developed.
As what we can see, sport activities are encouraged in schools of United States. Basket ball, football, hockey, golf catch teenagers' eyes. The players can learn team spirit through the games. They understand that it does not matter to win or lose. Only friendship and personal development is what they gain.
In Hong Kong, sports is just sports. Game is game. Sports is for physical training. Game is for leisure only. The values of sports and games could not be quite understood. It requires much more effort for Hong Kong to cultivate the sports and gaming culture.
In fact, the healthy games should encourage human interaction and challenges. They should train up players' mind-body coordination, brain power, communication skills, etc. Thus players can be self-developed.
As what we can see, sport activities are encouraged in schools of United States. Basket ball, football, hockey, golf catch teenagers' eyes. The players can learn team spirit through the games. They understand that it does not matter to win or lose. Only friendship and personal development is what they gain.
In Hong Kong, sports is just sports. Game is game. Sports is for physical training. Game is for leisure only. The values of sports and games could not be quite understood. It requires much more effort for Hong Kong to cultivate the sports and gaming culture.
Tuesday, May 09, 2006
Tuesday, April 04, 2006
Saturday, February 11, 2006
game links
Mobile Entertainment Analyst
http://mobenta.com/
Massive Snowboarding
http://www.wgamer.com/gamedir/game-6025&q=
http://mobenta.com/
Massive Snowboarding
http://www.wgamer.com/gamedir/game-6025&q=
Saturday, December 03, 2005
What a good place to learn!
To Learn something from MIT!
http://mitworld.mit.edu/index.php
Video Notes
http://mitworld.mit.edu/index.php
Video Notes
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