2010年7月8日 星期四

Cartoons: Russian Spies

 
 

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via The English Blog by Jeffrey Hill on 6/30/10

Several of today's UK national dailies feature cartoons relating to the Russian spy scandal in the US (see earlier post). My favourite is this one by Peter Brookes from The Times.

American Gothic

The cartoon is almost an exact copy of the famous American Gothic painting by Grant Wood, which has been parodied countless times. In Brookes's version, the man bears a striking resemblance to Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Farmer Putin tells his wife, "I don't know how much longer we can stay under cover!" Brilliant!

VOCABULARY
If you are under cover, you are hiding your true identity. The expression is often used in relation to secret agents or spies. • All of the accused were allegedly deep under cover, purporting to lead normal family lives in the U.S. northeast while also gathering and transmitting intelligence about U.S. foreign relations back to Moscow.

MORE CARTOONS
Dave Brown, The Independent
Steve Bell, The Guardian
Paul Thomas, Daily Express


 
 

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2010年7月2日 星期五

MICMACS 2009 - TRAILER


很像Amelie的風格，充滿狂野與有趣的想像。
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Intel撤掉WiMAX實驗室 台灣產官學淚流滿面（淚）

 
 

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via Engadget 中文版 by J Chiang on 7/1/10

[作者：龔獨陞]



今天一早看到最嚇人的產業新聞，莫過於Intel撤掉WiMAX實驗室這件事情，也許很多科科不把這當一回事，但這件事將會深深影響整個台灣資通訊產業，甚至改變台灣與Intel多年來的互動關係。

台灣電子資通訊產業會有今天的榮景，實際上Intel也是功不可沒，以至於台灣的產業幾乎都是跟著Intel的策略一同前進（一同送死的也不少...瞧那精美的MID與UWB），當時Intel為了搶佔行動運算市場，又不想跟那些傳統電信公司一同共享資源，選擇WiMAX作為整個Intel的無線技術發展方針。想當然爾，在電信標準一直缺席的台灣也追隨Intel，成立M-Taiwan計畫，並宣佈以WiMAX為第四代通訊標準的發展方針。

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2010年7月1日 星期四

Good jokes-Less

 
 

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via Really Funny Jokes by Mitesh Asher on 6/17/10

A guy walks into a bar and approaches the barman, 'Can I have a pint of Less, please?' I'm sorry sir, 'the barman replies,

looking slightly puzzled, 'I've not come across that one before. Is it a spirit?'

'I've no idea, 'replies the guy, 'The thing is, I went to see my doctor last week and he told me that I should drink less.'

 
 

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Hilarious jokes-Dangerous criminal

 
 

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via Really Funny Jokes by Mitesh Asher on 6/15/10

A dangerous criminal had escaped, so the police issued the usual photographs: left profile, front view, and right profile. A few days later they received the following telegram from an Irish detective:

"Have captured the fellow on the left, and the fellow in the middle, and at the rate I'm going it won't be long before I get the fellow on the right as well".

 
 

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Short funny jokes-Bear and bunny

 
 

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via Really Funny Jokes by Mitesh Asher on 6/15/10

A bear and a bunny are sitting in a forest taking a shit. The bear leans over to the bunny and says "Do you ever have the problem of shit sticking to your fur"?
The bunny says "No".
So the bear grabs the bunny and wipes his ass.

 
 

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2010年6月30日 星期三

給自己的研究能力態度和訓練打個分數吧!

 
 

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做好研究必須避免的21件事:(轉錄自林盈達教授)

I.   Capacity (能力):

    1. Lack of scalability (無法迅速有效地處理大量的件事)
    2. Busy but little throughput (很忙但沒進度)
    3. Crash under heavy load (同時做三件事就掛了)
    4. ON-OFF throughput pattern (間歇性施功)
    5. Brainless and muscleless (不會思考又沒行動力)
    6. Blurred receiver and transmitter (聽不到也講不清重點)
    7. Weak in analysis, organization, or creativity (缺乏分析力組織力創造力)


II.  Attitudes (態度):

    8. Little self-motivation (低度自我期許)
    9. A vacation hen (不專心孵蛋的母雞)
    10. Irregular life style (不規則生活型態)
    11. Messy desktop (混亂的文件與桌面)
    12. A slow coach (慢郎中)
    13. No ideas, no comments, no nothing (腦子一片空白)
    14. Unhealthy personality (不太健康快樂正向的人格)
    15. Too many personal affairs (太多雜事)


III. Disciplines (訓練):

    16. Lack of intensive interaction (缺乏互動腦力激盪)
    17. Pointless discussion (沒有抓住重點的無效討論)
    18. Random walk, no roadmap (做事沒規劃)
    19. Memoryless work planning (做了新的忘了原有的規劃)
    20. Ignorance of details (輕忽細節)
    21. Lack of professionalism (欠缺專業或嚴謹態度)


 
 

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寫文章的三大重點

 
 

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最近在指導學生寫論文，提供下列三項要點參考:

1. 問題的重要性

2. 方法的優越性

3. 結果的影響度及未來性


 
 

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2010年6月29日 星期二

To read

  1. Torabi M, Haccoun D, Ajib W. Performance Analysis of Scheduling Schemes for Rate-Adaptive MIMO OSFBC-OFDM Systems. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. 2010;59(5):2363-2379.
  2. Salem M, Adinoyi A, Yanikomeroglu H, Falconer D. Opportunities and Challenges in OFDMA-Based Cellular Relay Networks: A Radio Resource Management Perspective. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. 2010;59(5):2496-2510.
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2010年6月28日 星期一

Gap filler technology for seamless communication on train

A further challenge consist in the selection of an appropriate technology for the GF, able to provide a sufficient robustness respect to the impairments introduced by the propagation environment.
• a transparent architecture, where the GF provides the in-tunnel coverage by just replicating the signal present on the satellite segment in a different frequency band;
• a semi-transparent architecture, where the GF just suites the signal waveform to the in-tunnel channel conditions (i.e. layers above the physical one are left unchanged);
• a non-transparent architecture, where the GF modifies not only the waveform of the signal, but also provides further functionalities (e.g. traffic filtering, QoS scheduling, etc.) up to the IP level.

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[1] Liva G, Riera Diaz N, Scalise S, et al. "Gap Filler Architectures for Seamless DVB-S2/RCS Provision in the Railway Environment," VTC Spring 2008 - IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference. 2008:2996-3000.
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