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Censorship China

Wordpress.com is unblocked! Wikipedia is free (albeit a teeeeenie bit censored for individual items like the two “T” words…), Technorati is out of the closet!

It is almost like being back home–Well, on dial-up during a storm with a Commodore 64….But I digress….

Now if we can only get Typepad, Blogspot and a few others out of cyber-purgatory….

原文在这里

偶恍然大悟,莫非解禁竟然是借了奥运会的光…

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E3过后,微软GFW(Game For Windows)部门全球总裁Kevin Unangst接受了采访。在这个采访中,他透露了目前只有Vista能享受的GFW Live,将对XP提供支持。
当然这个消息其实早就得到了证实,因为在前一天晚上微软的发布会上,Cliff Blezinski称《战争机器》这款支持GFW Live的游戏将同样对XP提供支持。
根据我们得到的消息,XP版GFW Live将在今年发布。看来,虽然微软很重视Vista的普及,但是面对着庞大的XP用户,他们也不得不妥协。不过,不要得寸进尺的想让DirectX10也支持XP,那不可能。

转载的目的……都能看出来吧……

原文在这里

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  “宥時候卜知道腦子哩菑想什麽……”,“莓兲想埝祢巳宬s”1.种漝惯”……这些字并不是乱码,相反,类似文字已经在一些网络游戏和网上个人博客中呈现蔓延趋势.
日前某著名网上论坛对此类现象发起“论战”,一些网友痛斥“看不懂,没文化,糟蹋传统汉字”,并将此类字体贬为“脑残体”、“火星文字”.
  “火星文字”成网络“流行”

记者调查发现,在QQ空间、论坛以及“X舞团”等网络游戏内均有不少玩家大量使用非正规汉字符号作为个人签名、简介以及聊天字体.

据了解,此类文字大多由汉字中的生僻字、异体字、繁体字以及符号组成.这些字体可通过特殊从智能ABC和微软输入法设置中找到.由于大多数字体不常见,网友只能通过文字的偏旁或字型猜测其对照读音,因此有网友将此类文字戏称为“火星文字”,也有人斥之为“脑残体”.

17岁的高三女生KUYA平时也常在自己的QQ签名上使用非正规汉字作为签名,她向记者表示,由于这些字体平时不常见,一般人看不懂,用输入法一般也很 难打出来,所以使用这些文字让人感觉自己很有个性.“我偶尔用着好玩,身边有很多同学上网打字全都使用这类字.”一些网友还推出“火星文字输入攻略”指导 网友如何打出这类“有个性”的字.一些网友专门收集此类文字的话语进行破解游戏.

网友将此类字体冠名为“脑残体”,呼吁在网上抵制这类非正规汉字,还网络文字环境正统,这个倡议获得了不少网友的赞同.

但也有网友愤起反驳,认为这种字体“仅仅是一种娱乐形式”,不会影响到中国文字的发展.网友“我不是一点魅力都没有”认为:“年轻的一代流行起来的东西,成年人看了不舒服,这不就是”叛逆”么?”

  语言学家建议使用通用文字
社会语言学与媒体语言研究室副主任郭龙生指出,上海已对网络语言的使用提出相应的规范要求.根据规定,国家机关公文、教科书等不得使用不符合现代汉语词汇和语法规范的网络语汇.

郭龙生指出,作为语言文字工作者,不提倡网友使用异体字和自造字.“这类异体字或自造字既不存在输入上的便利,别人也看不懂.很大程度上只是个人的自娱 自乐,或者是特立独行、标新立异等某种特殊的情感需要,在传播与交流过程中缺乏积极意义.”郭龙生表示,目前对于网上的语言文字传播缺乏切实有效的把关控 制,即使对此类异体字或自造字采取禁止令也未必能达到预期的效果.因此还是提倡引导网友规范使用国家的通用语言文字.

  火星文:

一般来说,火星文并没有严谨的定义,运用上也不局限于网络用语(事实上,火星文早已被年轻族群大量运用到日常生活中),通常只要让人无法立即判定、理解的文句皆可泛称为火星文.

  火星文的部分用法:

例一:酱很好啊!——“酱”表示“这样”的合音.

例二:我好难过啊>.<——一个哭脸.“>”跟“<”分别是右、左眼,“.”是嘴吧,“”代表喷出的泪水.

例三:这年头谁不用辜狗写作业?—— “辜狗”是Google的中文音译.

例四:1切斗4幻j,↓b倒挖d!——一切都是幻觉,吓不倒我的!

  “火星文”的由来

火星一词成为流行用语,主要是源自周星驰的电影名作少林足球中,男主角对仗义为少林队担任守门员的赵薇说的一段话:“地球是很危险的!你还是赶快返回火星吧!”

在流行用语中,这句话使用的时机是,当看不懂别人所说的话时,就戏谑性地告诉对方“你还是回到火星去吧”,用以嘲讽对方是个火星人.

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几乎所有人都知道,我们国家比美国强,但到底怎么个强法,强在什么地方,很多人都不甚了了。为此引起了不少误解,产生了不少分歧,造成了不满,失去 了和谐。为了不耽误大家的时间,我这儿就开门见山,把情况给大家具体总结一下,当然,由于本人学识和时间有限,免不了挂一漏万,不足之处还请大家多多指 教。

一、我们的党,这个是我们领先美国的先决条件。《章程》指出:党是中国工人阶级的先锋队,同时是中国人民和中华民族的先锋队,是中国特色社会主义事 业的领导核心,代表中国先进生产力的发展要求,代表中国先进文化的前进方向,代表中国最广大人民的根本利益。党的最高理想和最终目标是实现共产主义。这段 话如果没有使您激动得热血沸腾,那我只能说您没心肝。美国的那一驴一象,听着名字就不正经。如果这样您还愿意拿驴象跟党比较,那我只能说您也不正经。

二、我们的核心,这个是我们领先美国的精神支柱。解放以来,我们有了好几代的核心,虽然风格不尽相同,但都是我们的指路明灯。他们个个高瞻远瞩,说 出话来基本是都是最高指示,重要指导,最不济也是个”指出”,相比之下,美国总统拼错字,讲错话,到处丢人,世人嘲笑;他们个个风格高尚,绝对没有负面消 息,报纸上满是世界各国及本国人民对他们的溢美之辞,再看看美国总统,不但在世界各地广受批评,就是本国人民也常常对他们指手画脚,极不尊敬。从领导人的 对比来看,我们想不比美国强都难。

三、我们的制度,这个是我们领先美国的基石。美国人有政府、有法院、有议会。一下子就把能够一手决定的事情分成了3块。劲都不往一块使,事情当然办 不好。而我们民主集中制,只要领导觉得好那就是好,办起事情来往往是多快好省,效率高。美国人有时候决定一件事情往往需要花好多年,而且出来后还会饱受批 评。而我们往往只需要几天,领导提议,大家一致通过,一般都是好评如潮。你说我们怎么能不比美国强。

四、我们的公仆,这个是我们领先美国的保证。我们的公仆一般都是比较稳定的,这就使得他们能以国家的主人翁自居。以国为家,从来不拿自己当外人。所 以常常家国不分,夜以继日战斗在工作岗位。而且因为都是国家的人,公仆内部非常团结。反观美国,官员们从来都不会有主人翁的责任感,官员之前互相监督,都 怕别人拿的好处比自己多,还要给自己代表的人争取利益,不然自己随时都可能下台。这样的精神状态怎么能治理好国家,如果这样他们还能比我们强那真是没有天 理了。

五、我们的人民群众,这个是我们领先美国的基础。主义、思想、代表、和谐社会、八荣八耻,美国人估计光听就头大,而我们都能倒背如流。就凭我们这么高的觉悟,领先美国五倍应该基本不成问题。

到这里,还会有人误认为美国比我们强吗?

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时代周报是我最喜欢的报纸,因为站在左还是右不是它最重要的目的,我最看重的是它的人文关怀,而且长篇文章读起来虽然很累但是不会枯燥死。

这周报纸的封面文章吸引我,题为:人需要什么才会幸福?

有时候图片的力量大于文字,图为2个家庭,左边的是来自非洲穷国马里的一家大大小小,他们面前是一家人一周需要的食品,右图是来自德国的4口之家,面前是这家人一周消耗的食品。

布莱希特写了一首毫无文采的诗:

我认识很多人, 他们身上带着一张纸条
上面写着他们的需要
有人看了这纸条,说,需求太多了
可是写这张纸条的人却认为这是最起码的了
还有人骄傲地拿出他的纸条
那上面写的东西很少

据伦敦政治经济学院London school of economics 的调查结果,世界上最幸福的人来自世界上最穷的国家孟加拉。

原文在这里

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以前看《读者》的时候——那时候还叫《读者文摘》——看过这么一篇小短文:说国外某城市修建公园绿地的时候,最开始的时候他们修好了一条路,然后立了禁止 踩踏草坪的牌子,却屡有人不遵守。于是他们改变了思路,先铺好一大片草坪,不禁止行人在上面行走,然后根据行人走出来的痕迹修了一条草坪小路。皆大欢喜。 按照《读者》的惯例,这故事里哪一国哪一市哪一个公园的草坪已经不可考,或许是编的也未可知,但是里面说的道理还是很有趣的,归纳起来就是一句话:“与人民对抗就是死路一条。”

忘了在哪张报纸上提到过一个有趣的现象:和有地下通道的马路相比,有过街天桥的马路的地方强行穿越机动车道的行人多出数倍。

这是一个心理现象,尽管地下通道和过街天桥的长度基本相等,所作的功也大体相同,但在普通人看来,“先下后上”可要比“先上后下”省力气,他们从来只看第一步。事实上穿越机动车道的潜在风险和翻阅栏杆所耗费的卡路里远比过街天桥要大——但是他们不在乎。

用热力学的角度来看,这是个反熵的现象。这个现象归纳起来也是一句话:“人民群众其实是不怕麻烦的。”

众所周知,高碑店是北京的政治、文化、经济中心,扼守北京和通县之间的交通要道,易守难攻。我每天的行程是骑自行车从高碑店到四惠东地铁站,然后在站口等候班车的到来,日复一日,风雨无阻。

四惠东地铁站的结构不算复杂,你从底层的地铁下车以后,拾级而上,就会看到一南一北两个出口。大部分人都选择靠近京通快速的土桥出口——当然这只是一个方向标示,并不代表这个出口出去就是土桥,就好像另外一个出口挂的牌子是苹果园出口,苹果园却在一号线的另外一端。

走出土桥方向出口以后,正对着的就是京通快速辅路以及一个过街天桥。但是在出口和天桥之间被一条极长的东西向铁栅栏挡住了。行人必须从两侧的楼梯下去,然后再走大约三十到四十米的路程绕过铁栅栏,再走回来到辅路旁的人行道。

没有人知道为什么要把铁栅栏修的那么长。很多人都是搭乘地铁到四惠东,出了站以后不得不从铁栅栏的两侧不辞辛苦地绕出来,然后再走回到地铁出口正对着的京通辅路旁边,等候班车或者公共汽车。他们与辅路人行道只有一栏之隔,却徒叹奈何。

也没有人知道为什么过街天桥为什么不修一条通道直达地铁二层,天桥北端和地铁二层大厅之间间距连五米都不到,而且没有任何其他妨碍修建的东西。但事实上它 就是没有。有多少次,我都看到群众爬上天桥,来到天桥北端尽头,冲着咫尺之外的地铁大厅怅然若失,然后低着头走下天桥,绕过铁栅栏,再上楼梯。即使是宗泽 再生也搬来四惠东住,恐怕也要悲愤地大呼三声“过桥”,然后愤死吧。

这一切痛苦的根源就在于那一条横亘在方便与人民群众之间的铁栅栏。它是四惠东的巴士底狱!是高碑店的古拉格群岛!是盘踞在京通快速上的冬宫!是朝阳区的柏林墙!

人民群众愤怒了。

不知从何时开始,铁栅栏总是被人无情地突破,而且突破的位置总是在最方便行走的位置。没人知道究竟是谁折断了铁栅,他们是真正的无名英雄。

我一直很难想象这得需要多么大的耐心与勇气。铁栅栏用的是空心铁杆,虽然很脆弱,但毕竟是铁制。而那些无名英雄总是在不为人知的时候巧妙地把它们弄断,在栅栏之间造成一个宽阔的缺口。

有了这个缺口,从地铁出来的行人们可以很轻松地一步跨越樊篱,来到辅路人行道等车,或者上天桥。于是每天早上,笑容重新回到每个人的脸上,阳光灿烂,缺口的过往行人传流不息。

这是一种多么惊人的力量。

可是,反动势力不甘心看着自己灭亡,他们总是逆潮流而动。缺口刚出现的时候,他们会派技工来,专门挑选阳光明媚的早晨,在大家怒目之下公然开始焊接,用新的栅栏封锁通道。

刚铁可以被烧融,人心却不会。

每次他们焊接完不出三天,就会有新的铁杆被折断,还是没人知道是谁干的,只知道这些英雄持之以恒,固拗地与反动势力作着不屈不挠的斗争。

当反动势力发现这种重新焊接的办法成本太高,见效太少以后,他们想出了新的办法。

那天早上,我记得是一个寒冷的冬季清晨。我踱着步子走到四惠东地铁站前,惊讶地发现他们把一个铁栏门横倒过来,紧贴着铁栅栏,刚好把通道堵死。

铁门很重,不纠集四、五个人是不可能抬走的。而铁门上的横栏杆和铁栅栏的竖杆恰好构成一个坚固的经纬网,抗击强度增强了数倍。

我很惆怅,意识到敌人的反扑已经达到一个新的高度,他们有人、有资源,而那些无名英雄有的只是双手。

可是我错了。魔高一尺,道总会高出一丈。

在一个星期以后,我看到这个铁门倒在了地上,人们踏着铁门的尸体从重新开放的通道走来走去。因为踩踏的人太多,水滴石穿,一个多月以后,这个铁门就已经成了残花败柳,用之不得。反动势力只好又派人来,把它灰溜溜地抬走。

反动势力又出了一个新招数,他们公然违反了日内瓦条约,使用生化武器来阻挠人民。

三个大垃圾桶搁到了通道旁边,里面装满了腐烂的垃圾和黑色的垃圾袋,周围还散落着零星的饭盒与食物残渣,散发着奇怪的酸腐气味。通道则简单地用一条木杆和破旧纱窗挡住。

他们的用意很简单,我不拦着你了,我要你知难而退,自己不走!

这一招何其毒也。

可是他们错了,正如本文开头所说,人民群众是不怕麻烦的,他们永远坚韧。

于是每天早上,穿越通道的人仍旧穿流不息。唯一与以前不同的是,大家每次走过的时候,都象征性地用手帕、报纸、笔记本电脑或者煎饼果子掩住鼻子,皱起眉头,以表达对这种挑衅的不屑一顾。

现在的铁栅栏百孔千疮,到处都是修补的痕迹,就如同垃圾桶一样散发着逆潮流而动的腐烂气息。

在铁栅栏和人行道之间其实还有一个花坛,里面种满了花草。通道走的人多了,花坛的这一侧出现了数条花圃间的小路。每一条小路都代表了曾经有一个通道的存在,以及通道背后的那一群无名英雄。

好吧,其实我想说的是:他们宁愿跟行人死斗了两年多的时间,耗费大量资源在柏林墙的修补上,却不肯只花上两个工人一天的工时,在铁栅栏上作一个正式的出口,一劳永逸。

所以结论是,有关部门其实也是不怕麻烦的。

原文在这里

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起因

今年3月初,以NGO版加速显卡驱动闻名的NGO小组推出了一款万用SLI补丁,可以允许 Intel、ATi、ULi等芯片组也能使用SLI。显然,nVIDIA不会允许这种做法。近日,nVIDIA向NGOHQ.com发去律师信,称他们违 反了数字千年版权法案(DMCA)。

 

nVIDIA称“SLI”是他们在美国和世界多个国家注册的商标,而NGO提供的SLI补丁侵犯了他们的商标权,容易引起消费者的误会。

NGOHQ.com迅速作出回应,提出了两点理由:一、SLI补丁来自华擎,并且早已移除;二、NGOHQ.com注册于以色列,而nVIDIA并未在以色列注册SLI商标,甚至没有在以色列设立办公室。

回应

写得真痛快,说他们服务器在以色列,美国管不着,反暴力版权法的檄文啊,原文如下:

This is an official response to NVIDIA’s Unauthorized Distribution of NVIDIA Drivers on NGOHQ.com letter. Our servers are based in Israel. If you’re unaware, Israel is not a state in the United States. Israel is a small country in the Middle East. Therefore, the United States Copyright law and Section 106 do not apply here. This specific law applies only inside the United States borders.

Drivers for GPUs and MCPs are being offered freely by NVIDIA Corporation and millions of web-sites around the globe. If Guru3D, DriverHeaven, Techconnect Magazine, Laptopvideo2Go, Softpedia, DriverZone, FileForum and many other sites are allowed to distribute ForceWare and nForce drivers, then we don’t see any reason to remove it.

Our local law (Huk Zhoyot Yuzrim, 1911) permits us to distribute copyright software as long it’s intended for private/educational purposes and no-commercialism is involved. The software available in NGOHQ.com is being offered to the public free of charges. We are not charging money for the files or bandwidth, and no commercialism is involved with the distribution. The software available here is intended for home users and their private use. Therefore, the site fully complies with the local law (Huk Zhoyot Yuzrim, 1911).

We are offering drivers and free software; we are not distributing licensed software. Since no law is being violated, NGOHQ.com is fully complaint with the local law. You have no base for you accusations and you can’t threaten us with your own laws. Also, there is no DMCA law in our country. How come million sites are hosting your drivers, and we are the only one to receive legal threats?

Our modified software does not include code-level modification, only installation script modifications (INF) which is Windows script file. The installation script is not a part of the driver itself and NVIDIA Corporation cannot claim copyright ownership on these kinds of files. NGOHQ.com is providing notifications to the users and letting them know that the software is not being supported by NVIDIA Corporation. The user acknowledges that he’s/she is using the software at their own risk. You have no rights to claim ownership on installation scripts.

NGOHQ.com is fully legal and follows its state laws and Huk Zhoyot Yuzrim, 1911. NVIDIA’s drivers are being distributed on millions of web-sites on the internet. This attempt to force NGOHQ.com removal of this software is nothing but an attempt to continue the abuse toward NGOHQ.com. From our investigations, it seems that NVIDIA Corporation hasn’t sent this legal threat to anyone except NGOHQ.com.

From million of sites, NGOHQ.com is the only site who received legal threats. The real motive behind NVIDIA’s action is surely not the protection of their consumers, but to abuse NGOHQ.com due to unknown reasons.

We are modifying ‘driver .INF file’ because you’re using your software illegally as a tool to promote your new products. You’re removing INF file support for older product generations to promote your new products illegally, and using your drivers as tool for psychological warfare on your customers. Your actions are violating the United States Antitrust laws & Huk Hahegbliim Haiskiim Haisraeli and consumer rights. You’re also making false advertisements by claiming your software is Unified Driver Architecture, while it’s not.

NVIDIA is required to ensure that their products are working, and the software is bug-free. Instead of working on your drivers, you’re ignoring issues, requests and customer’s rights by dropping support and playing software tricks with them. The consumers are suffering in both desktop/mobile platforms because of your abusive tactics.

Without these ‘modified drivers’, your customers would file class actions against you. Your users are downloading drivers from our site because you fail to satisfy them, and you ignore them (Unfriendly control panel, Known 7800 GS issues and more)

This is not the first time that NVIDIA is trying to abuse this site. About a year ago, they sent another legal threat and requested to remove a patch that was made by Asrock. A few months ago one of their PR agents contacted their OEM partners and asked them not to provide samples, cooperation and support to NGOHQ.com, in-order to drive it out of business and to abuse this site, illegally. While NVIDIA is providing review samples and cooperation to other related sites to promote them, all we get is abuse, abuse, abuse and more abuse, and that’s after we provide support for their customers for free and from good will.

There is a very limited amount of websites who offer the same services for free. We don’t ask for anything in return but respect. Instead of providing us support, review samples, information and briefings, NVIDIA is sending us legal threats and abuse. Not only you’re not helping us, but you’re abusing us, yes! your own support site.

There is very a limited amount of sites like NGOHQ.com, and instead of supporting them, like you do with normal hardware sites, you’re abusing them, treating them without any respect and sending them ridiculous legal threats.

NVIDIA is working closely with our competitors. They are allowing them to host this kind of files, they are providing them betas to host, they are providing them review samples to promote their sites. Maybe NVIDIA is unaware to the US Antitrust laws, but we have all rights to provide competition in this area.

If NVIDIA is trying to take us out to promote their friends/our competitors, then NVIDIA is violating the US Antitrust Laws by preventing us from providing competition. We are allowed to offer competition if they like it or not. NVIDIA must respect open market, even if its website business. We have all rights to offer competition to the other sites, and we have all rights to offer ForceWare mirrors as well, like our competitors.

NGOHQ.com is providing unofficial support for its readers for free. If its software, tools, guides, reviews, information, drivers and news. NGOHQ.com is acting as an unofficial NVIDIA and ATI/AMD supporter on voluntary basis. We are providing help and support for you customers for FREE. We are providing workarounds and information for your customers as good will. We are not charging them for any fees and we don’t ask anything for return.

Our site and downloads section are very popular among your customers. These free downloads are consuming a massive amount of bandwidth and we have to pay for this bandwidth from our own pockets (18000-25000GB per month). We are also providing free bandwidth by mirroring these drivers, without quotes or any unpleasant content. We never received any kind of appreciation from NVIDIA about our hard work, these free services we are offering.

NGOHQ.com hasn’t violated any local law, the only ones who did violate, is NVIDIA with their continued abuse, harassment and attempts to drive NGOHQ.com out of business illegally. We will not remove the software; it is fully legally with our local law, while NVIDIA is violating the United States Antitrust Laws & Huk Hahegbliim Haiskiim Haisraeli by preventing us from running. If NVIDIA will continue abusing, harassing and illegally forcing their OEMs not to work with us, we will have no choice but to take legal actions against NVIDIA for Antitrust and Discrimination Violations.

We will also make sure to fill a complaint in the US DOJ regarding your abuse and possible antitrust violations. We will also tell them about the following:

* Possible use of illegal blackmail tactics against the press.
* Possible use of illegal The Way It’s Meant To Be Played program to gain unfair advantage and abuse the open market.
* Possible use of illegal false advertisement.
* Possible use of illegal viral marketing campaigns.
* Possible use of software support being used as tool to promote sales illegally.
* Possible Antitrust Violations against the state, consumers, press and your competitors.

NGOHQ.com reserves the right to offer competition and to offer support for FREE. Your claims are baseless and pointless. NGOHQ.com has the tools and rights to protect and defend itself, and even to attack if necessary. We’re not scared of you; we can fight back, so do not underestimate us.

We prefer to deny access to US rather then removing free software from our site. If Guru3D, Driver Heaven, Techconnect Magazine, Laptopvideo2Go, Softpedia, DriverZone and FileForum are hosting these files, we will continue doing so, and if NVIDIA tries to prevent us from offering competition, we will be forced to fill a Discrimination and Antitrust lawsuit against them, and use their own laws against them. We would like to finish this response with the following quote:

“Feel free to distribute and endorse Catalyst software. Just please let your users know that if they use modified drivers we aren’t able to support them properly. Keep up the good work in the community.” -AMD/ATI