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From: yding+@pitt.edu (Yijun Ding)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: Re: Two puzzles
Date: 22 Dec 92 15:35:56 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

In article <1992Dec22.094119.17293@dxcern.cern.ch> sijin@dxcern.cern.ch (Sijin Qian) writes:
>(2) Draw a straight line between 2 intersections of the 2 circles.

The author said that you are not allowed to draw straight line.  I have
an approximate solution:

Draw two circles with a radius larger than half of distance but smaller
than the distance of the two points.  The two intersections are two new
points with the same center but smaller distance.  Repeat this
process. 

-- 
//Yijun Ding, Pittsburgh //Go your way, be happy.
From: kezhao@sdphu1.ucsd.edu (Kezhao Zhang)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: test,please ignore
Date: 4 Jan 93 03:52:52 GMT
Organization: Physics Department, UCSD
NNTP-Posting-Host: sdphu1.ucsd.edu

this is a test,please ignore.
From: rding@plains.NoDak.edu (Richard Ding)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: Re: Zhixin Shi
Date: 2 Jan 93 06:58:34 GMT
Article-I.D.: ns1.C07spM.I1v
Distribution: usa
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network

Hi there:
  There is a new location which you can try.
  FTP address is " ifcss.org ", the directory might be "/cnd/HXWZ". 
  This location which was run by IFCSS have almost all releases of HXWZ.
  Good luck and Happy New Year.
                                     Richard 
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china,soc.culture.taiwan
From: jch@netcom.com (Jack Hwang)
Subject: Re: Complains about media from TIers <was: World Journal>
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 09:03:41 GMT

In article <2B367D00.10894@news.service.uci.edu> tao@balboa.eng.uci.edu (Eric Yihching Tao) writes:
>In article <ljcai7INNoh6@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> stlin@stevelin.Eng.Sun.COM (Steven Lin) writes:
>>
><lines deleted>
>>Recently, the TIers in Taiwan accused that the United Daily and World Journal
>>as a message passer of People's Daily. No matter what the accusation was, is
>>there any basis to say so?  Isn't that funny to say so?  Or TIers just try
>>to blacken everything that does not work in the same line as TIers want to be?
>
>I heard a lot of complains from TIers that all the media was biased. Besides
>arguing that no media can be *completely neutral*, I have to raised the 
>following points for you guys to ponder (or to flame :))
>
>1. Why do most people from Taiwan and came to US subscribe World Daily instead 
>of any other newspaper, the Pacific Times ( the TI newspaper) is read by almost 
>none except TIers, why?
>

Ten years(?) ago, the best selling overseas Chinese newspaper was not World
Journal.  It was China Times Overseas.  However, since it was a much more
open newspaper and it touches several sensitive topics, it got suppressed
by KMT.  United News's boss, Wang Ti-Wu, attacked it in KMT Central Standing
Committe with several other rightists' supports and finally compelled its
boss, Yu (another Committe member), to shut it down.  The General Editor
then was Kao, Tsin4-Chung2 and he was later transferred to China Times as
the editor of Humanity.

Why I subscribe WJ?  I want to read Huan-Ju-Lo2-Ju3 and my wife want to
read the family section.


>2. When Taiwan lift the newspaper regulation, how come most of the TIer or even
>the DPP's newpaper were bankrupted so fast that I don't even have chance to 
>read them?


Oh, not again!  Just look at how many budget they wasted on CND and Youth Daily
then you know why others have to go bankruptcy!

>the last but not the least, why most (I think all, but not absolutely sure)
>Chinese TV station use manderin when the majority of the chinese immegrants are
>from Taiwan who according to TIer's expection will hate to speak or listen 
>manderin?


You mean TV here?  Well, money talks!  Talk to Jen Pei-Pei how did she fail
on her TV station.

Jack>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
From: lix@crsa.bu.edu (Xiaowen Li)
Subject: Biography of Mongolian Heros
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 15:57:07 GMT

Thank becker@shell.portal.com (CELIA TONY BECKER) for telling the following
stories:

>A very good source is _The_Empire_of_the_Steppes:_A_History_of_Central_Asia
<by the French historian Rene Grousset.  If it's not in your library it might
<still be for sale by the History Book Club.  Pages 198-199 refer to the 
<Chinese emperor about 1161 A.D., appealing to the Tatars for help in
<Chinese disputes with the Mongols, and using the Tatars against the Mongols.

1161 A.D. is ShaoXin 31 year of the first emperor of South Song dynasty.
This Chinese emperor was famous for his no-interest to land norther than
Huai River. So a problem would naturally be what dispute he could have
with the Mongols.

In a Chinese historian JinYong's book, <<Biography of Mongolian Heros>>,
it is not the Chinese emperor, but a Zhao King of another nomadic tribe
did the above. The French historian may call any non-Mogolian tribe chief
as Chinese emperor, is that true? Nonetheless, Chinese may still take the
blame, since the wife of Zhao King was a Han Chinese, Ms. Bao, a famous
beauty.

But on the other hand, some other Han Chinese, notably, Guo Jing, were
helping the great Ghengis and even falled into love with Ghengis' daughter,
the princess HuaZheng.
From: yang@titan.ucc.umass.edu (HUAYONG YANG)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: Re: Yan Xin and Qi Gong, Is It Science?
Date: 3 Jan 93 20:20:26 GMT
Article-I.D.: nic.1i7hqaINN899
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
NNTP-Posting-Host: titan.ucc.umass.edu


I agree to Xiao-Lin's opinion on Yan Xin (btw, he is not 'Yan Xing').
So at least two mathematicians don't blindly believe him fortunately.:-)
This thread reminds me of another Qi Gong legend Wang xxx Xiang, who was
arrested for cheating (?).

Huayong
From: stlin@stevelin.Eng.Sun.COM (Steven Lin)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: Re: We Taiwanese have won this general election..
Date: 24 Dec 1992 01:43:41 GMT
Organization: Sun
NNTP-Posting-Host: stevelin

In article <SOSC1069.92Dec23154811@wc19.yorku.ca> sosc1069@wc19.yorku.ca (Ming He) writes:
>### "RP" == Robert Pan <IO11043@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> writes:
>RP> In article <23DEC92.11381544@twncu865.ncu.edu.tw>, u333057@twncu865.ncu.edu.tw

>>    We Taiwanese have told all over the world that we could have good real
>>democracy on our own.We have the newest congress,& we'll chose our own
>>president by our own.
>>
>>    When will you Chinese chose your own government by your own?
>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>Note here.  He is a TIer.  He said YOU CHINESE instead of YOU
>MAINLANDERS.  He does not think he is Chinese.  But he use Chinese
>I'm always wondering why TIers don't think them Chinese.
>
Did I explain clearly in using "TAIWANESE" word early?

It is a shame for those people who completely forget their roots. They just want
to build a kingdom (kindergartner), so some one can be a king. If there comes a
day that TIers win the support from common people, Taiwan will go through a 
process of class strugle, anti-right, anti-XXXXXX, culture revolution as that
happened in the past 40 years on mainland.

Unfortunately, many mainlanders holding the attitude against people from Taiwan.
Long time under CCP teaching, it seems everyone from Taiwan stands for TIers.
While Chinese people on Taiwan have done substantial help in various crisis on
mainland in recent past, mainlanders still have nothing change in minds in 
treating "BROTHERS", instead Chinese from Taiwan are treated as enemy or foreigners
in mainlander deep mind. The posioned minds seem will never change, unless the
real crisis they encounter (such as TAM to wake up some, but large remain the same).

While the GNP is less than 400 USD, many have claimed that China is the third
economy power. When many people on mainland are unable to earn sufficient money
to support a family, some claim his family do have capability to buy a Benz.
This is really confusing the world. May be China has to wake Mao Ze-dong, so
that the Mao sprit will wake up all Chinese young generation.

There is no single nation in the world with 400 USD GNP can be called a strong
nation. There is no single nation in the world that its own people are still
suffering from jobless, homeless can be called an economy power. 



Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
From: ccgary@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au (Gary Young)
Subject: Airline Companies names and addresses
Summary: Further information on names & addresses of airlines companies
Keywords: Names & addresses of airline companies & flying schools
Organization: Prentice Centre, University of Queensland
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 23:17:00 GMT

I'am very interested to obtain name & addresses of aviation airline companies
and flying schools in your country.
I would like to correspond to them to offer trainees and students the           opportunity to learn to fly professionally in Australia as well as
obtain a tertitary education in aviation science.
This can be obtained from the Air Training Centre, Brisbane,in Queensland.

For further information contact Gary Young.

Thanking you

Gary Young
Prentice Centre                                      Education Officer
The University of Queensland                         Tel: +61 7 365 4359
Queensland, 4072                                     Fax: +61 7 365 4477
Australia                                    Email: ccgary@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au
_____________________________________________________________________________
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
From: gbc@brahms.udel.edu (Baochun Ge)
Subject: Re: [Sad News] Obituary:Mr. Feng Zuo Peng Passed Away
Organization: University of Delaware
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 17:44:47 GMT

Shouldn't you restrict such message at least to austrilia?

Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
From: jturley@netcom.com (James Turley)
Subject: Re: Joan Chen naked GIFs
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 00:35:48 GMT

Whats a matter guys...you thought I was *offering* the GIFs or just
are insulted that I'm requesting naked GIFs of Chinese girls here.

What gives?
Chill out.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: Singapore
From: <BXD102@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 14:46:16 EST
Organization: Penn State University

Hi there.  A friend of mine (dentist) is interested in working in Singapore.

Anyone has information or idea about whom he should contact ?


 Thanx in advance.


Dan
From: jfeng@vax.cns.muskingum.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: Re: educational association?
Date: 22 Dec 92 19:12:46 GMT
Organization: Muskingum College

In article <1992Dec20.211611.4175@vax.cns.muskingum.edu>, jfeng@vax.cns.muskingum.edu writes:
> 
> I have heard that there is some sort of educational association organized by
> Chinese students and scholars of education in the USA.  I am very much
> interested to get contact with the organization.  If anyone out there has
> information in that regard, please let me know.  I would greatly appreciate
> your help.  Merry Xmas!
   
  Jay Feng
  Tel: (614) 826-4008
  e-mail: jfeng@vax.cns.muskingum.edu  
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
From: uphhswh@Msu.oscs.montana.edu
Subject: Re: Two puzzles
Reply-To: uphhswh@Msu.oscs.montana.edu
Organization: Montana State University
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 07:03:31 GMT

In article <9211217249.AA72498@ccmail.uoregon.edu>, Tuya@ccmail.uoregon.edu (Tuya) writes:
>          If you can answer the first one in 10 senconds you are in
>          good shape.  If you can answer the second one in 1 hour you
>          are in better shape.
>
>          1.  John starts to walk at
>              5 miles/hour from point A to point B which are 10 miles
>              apart.  The problem is his dog, which runs twice as fast
>              as he does, starts with him and go back and forth in
>              between him and point B during his walk.  Now the
>              question is:  By the time John reaches point B, how many
>              miles has his dog run?
>
>          2.  A guy is told to draw one note from a box containing
>              two.  One note is supposed to write "live" and the other
>              "die."  But someone told him that his enemy has put down
>              "die" on both of these notes.  When he hears this, he
>              said: "I am saved!"  Why?

1. walk time is same for both man & dog, speed is twice, so 20 miles.
2. he draw one note then swallow it. since the remaining note is die, he lives.

P.S. if you cannot do both in 10 seconds each, you need to add more motor oil
to your thinking engine.
W.Huang
From: haiying@cs.mcgill.ca (Haiying ZHANG)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: Re: Vectorized Chinese Font Lib
Keywords: Chinese Font Vector
Date: 3 Jan 93 22:29:26 GMT
Organization: SOCS - McGill University, Montreal, Canada

In article <1334@blue.cis.pitt.edu> yding+@pitt.edu (Yijun Ding) writes:
>As far as I know, there is no vector Chinese fonts available.  Back in
>
>to create all Chinese characters coded with strokes.  Each stroke is
>represented by (x1, y1), (x2, y2) ...  The initial font style is
>something like the font when you ke4 gang1 ban3 (write on the steel).  I
>think (guess), a program can be used to generate different fonts (kai,
>hei, fangsong) etc.  The generated fonts would not be as pretty as
>hand-made.  But Chinese editor would be able to generate many fonts and
>truely scale them to any size.  This is a too big job for one person.
>Any one (programmer or non-programmer) interested in this job?
>

   I am surprised by your ingenuity. But before we get into any further
discussion on vectorizing Chinese, I want to ask some simple questions.
Pardon my ignorance towards vectorized fonts, is there any fonts of the
kind available for any language or symbol for that matter? As you
mentioned above, vector can only represent skeleton. To beautify the
skeleton, turning it into some usable font, might not be a trivial task.
Has anybody accomplished this for any set of symbols or alphabet? How
good is the result comparing with the traditional 'hand made' font? To
achieve scalability, is it neccessary to resort to vectorization? I
imagine that all the commercial fonts available are scaled by simply
resize the stored master matrix with a touch of some smoothing
algorithem at the best. 

   With your effort in vectorizing some 2,700 odd word, could you tell
us about the average storage requirement for a vectorized character in
comparison with the traditional method? 


				Haiying
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
From: smj@sdf.lonestar.org (Stephen M. Jones)
Subject: Re: Joan Chen naked GIFs
Organization: Super Dimension Fortress - Public Access Unix - Dallas, Tx.. 
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 14:21:52 GMT

In article <1992Dec31.081643.15666@netcom.com> jturley@netcom.com (James Turley) writes:
>Anyone have any GIFs of Joan Chen or Gong Li?

bastard...

-- 
Stephen M. Jones (214)436-4622  
smj@sdf.lonestar.org <Cs&E>            sdf.sysadmin 
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From: zhang@csgrad.cs.vt.edu (Yaoen Zhang)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: Help: Chinese Word Processor on X-window
Date: 24 Dec 92 03:44:24 GMT
Organization: VPI&SU Computer Science Department, Blacksburg, VA

I know there is an unix program "xhzed" which is on OpenLook
windows. Has anybody converted it to Motif or Athena windows?
 
There is another one called Cxterm.  Has anyone get that thing
working on a DECstation?  

Out of the two "xhzed" and "cxterm", which is better?

Thanks

Yaoen Zhang
From: dliu@ark.njit.edu (Dong Liu)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: new version grab-cnd.el for GNU Emacs
Date: 25 Dec 92 06:53:45 GMT
Organization: Electrical and Computer Engineering, NJIT
X-News-Reader: GNUS 3.14.1 for GNU Emacs 18.59.5

Seasons greeting to all Emacs fans!

Since CND has been moved to ifcss.org and the directory structure has
been slightly modified, so here is my new version of grab-cnd.

grab-cnd now also checks the compressed file name (*.Z).

BTW, hope they won't change the file name and directory structure too
often :=\.

----------cut here--------------------------
;;;grab-cnd.el
(defun grab-cnd ()
  (interactive)
  (require 'ange-ftp)
  (let* ((now (current-time-string))
	 (year (substring now -2))
	 (month (cdr (assoc (substring now 4 7)
		       '(("Jan" . 1) ("Feb" . 2) ("Mar" . 3)
			    ("Apr" . 4) ("May" . 5) ("Jun" . 6)
			    ("Jul" . 7) ("Aug" . 8) ("Sep" . 9)
			    ("Oct" . 10) ("Nov" .11) ("Dec" .12)))))
	 (today (string-to-int (substring now 8 10)))
	 (which (completing-read "Which CND: (default global) "
				'(("global" 1) ("us" 2) ("ep" 3)
				  ("" 4))
				nil t nil))
	 (found nil) cnd)
    (if (or (string= which "")
	    (string= which "global"))
	(setq which "g"))
    (while (not found)
      (setq cnd (format "/anonymous@ifcss.org:cnd/cnd-%s/cnd-%s.%s-%02d-%02d" 
			which which year month today))
      (or (setq found (file-exists-p cnd))
	  (setq cnd (concat cnd ".Z")
		found (file-exists-p cnd))
	  (if (= (setq today (1- today)) 0)
	      (setq month (1- month) today 31))))
    ;; use view-file if you don't have vm.
    (vm-visit-folder cnd)))
--
Dong Liu  <dliu@ace.njit.edu>
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102
From: stlin@stevelin.Eng.Sun.COM (Steven Lin)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: Be realistic (Re: Newwer China)
Date: 30 Dec 1992 23:30:41 GMT
Organization: Sun
NNTP-Posting-Host: stevelin

In article <C03GM9.82G@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu> bihkyan@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Yang Yuanxin) writes:
>In article <9212301920.AA21214@gandalf.gso.uri.edu_> (Jean-Francois Cayula) writes:
>
>     American have a treaty with Taiwan, and F-16 is out of date, but

Be realistic, folks! The other story that showed how the US shifted the
diplomatic relationship to PRC while the US had treaty with ROC. The US
broke the treaty purely based on what the American interest. It was so
unfriendly treatment that ROC president was waked up in the midnight
because the US wanted to cut the diplomatic relationship.

> how about the French, it recognize the PRC as the only Government of
> China including Taiwan province, but it sells  most advanced weapons
> to one of it's province, what's more, the weapons' only target is
> the reat of the PRC. 
>
Be realistic, Taiwan is not a province under PRC, the P'ROC has no control
to Taiwan. As long as ROC has money to buy, what CCP can do about?
The F-16 is out of date. But it is not too much out of date to CCP.
The flight was designed 30 some years ago, but the equipment on the
F-16 has been up-to-date many times (yes, many times) since then.

ROC remains active, and more active in recent years. It is a sign the 
tyrant dylnasty is over and soon will be fading away from the history!
The Qin Shi Huang showed his example, the one killed millions of Chinese
people will not be long in the world! The killers have to go to hell!

>    Just think about it! Do you still thing the French is doing anything
> right? it's really a shame. what kind of people would do anything only
> for money? (I did see a lot of this kind of people in certral Paris,I 
> was really surprised) 
>
The people who should feel shame are those supporting CCP to hell. While
the CCP keep killing people year by year, many of netters have relatives
been killed by the CCP, some day it will be your turn if it is not today.
Some day, the CCP supporters will have to go to labor camp to be the slaves
of Chinese killer. Your gands experienced that, and so will you guys if
you people can not wake up! Shame! Why the Hong Kong people want to go
away from CCP control? Doesn't it give you guys something to think?
From: zhao@schaefer.math.wisc.edu (Kang Zhao)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: Re: Everyone should change his major to Qi Gong major
Keywords: Qi Gong
Date: 3 Jan 93 19:16:58 GMT
Reply-To: zhao@schaefer.UUCP (Kang Zhao)
Organization: Univ. of Wisconsin Dept. of Mathematics

In article <1i7bdpINN9rp@crcnis1.unl.edu> tchen@hoss.unl.edu (tianan chen) writes:
>     Frankly, I am really confused about Qi Gong. If Qi Gong masters can do 
>     everything they want to do, why all of us, stupid guy, are still busy
>     with something else. We should change our major to Qi Gong major. Ops,
>     I forget something. May be it's too late for us to learn Qi Gong. I 
>     heard that one should go to a very remote mountain, find a very strange
>     master, start practice Qi Gong at his very young age. So, how about next
>     generation? People should send all their children to The Qi Gong University
>     of Remote Mountain at China. Then, hundreds or thousands of "A" students
>     would become new Qi Gong master and control the nature.
>
>     My former advisor at China is a professor and a director of a institute. He
>     practice Qi Gong for years. He strongly believe some day he could see the 
>     atoms and molecules in a flask by his naked eyes and control the chemical  
>     reactions inside. This make me don't know whether to laugh or to cry, Ku(1)
>     Xiao(4) Bu De.
>     
>     C
>     I really hope someone can tell me the truth of Qi Gong.
>     .ek
>

I cannot tell you the truth but I can tell you a story. One of my officemate
found a job in the past summer after he practiced Qi Gong for about 6 months,
although he failed finding job in 90 and 91. When he began practicing Qi
Gong, I asked him why he spent his time on QI Gong not on his research. He
answered that Qi Gong can let you achieve anything you want. At that time,
the most he needed was a job. My reaction was a laugh. But a few months later,
he got what he wanted. Amazing? I have to claim that not everyone can succeed
practicing Qi Gone. So I never believe it and never try to.  
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
From: lzheng@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (lian zheng)
Subject: Re: Yan Xing and Qi Gong, Is It Science?
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 04:11:34 GMT


I attended Yan Xing's Qi-Gong Lecture. I felt nothing but very boring. 
I recognized many familiar faces from my school, I did not see any 
of them had any reaction. 
Maybe only people who had practiced Qi-Gong could feel it? 
I guess people have exagerated what Yan Xing can do.

Good Luck In 1993 for every one!
Lian Zheng,
From: shawn@neumann.une.edu.au (Shawn He)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: [Sad News] Obituary:Mr. Feng Zuo Peng Passed Away
Date: 1 Jan 93 06:35:35 GMT



                       OBITUARY

Mr. Feng(2) Zuo(4)peng(2), who was an associate lecturer in computing 
science at the university of New England-Armidale, Australia,
passed away around 1am Dec.31, 1992 in  
a car accident somewhere about 100km from Melbourne.

We are deeply grieved.

Any donation, please send to Mr.Dai Honghua, Dept. of Computer
Science, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Swanston Street,
Melbourne, VIC 3001, Auatralia
or
Ms. Cai Hai-ou, 2/87 Markham Street, Armidale, NSW 2350,Australia.

May our friend, Feng Zuopeng, rest in peace!

From Chinese Student and Scholar Association-Armidale

ps. Any enquiries, please ask
dai@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au, or czhang1@metz.une.edu.au, or
xhe@metz.une.edu.au, or phone
Dai on 61-3-3876223; Zhang on 61-67-711357; He on 61-67-712612;
Cai on 61-67-721456
Thanks.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
From: lunch time
Subject: Re: Two puzzles
Organization: sopusa
	Not really.
	If one understands the miles as the distance between the dog to A, the
	No, one can only say that he believed that he would not lose in this
	Just for the sake of arguing.
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 02:32:05 GMT
From: jturley@netcom.com (James Turley)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: Joan Chen naked GIFs
Date: 31 Dec 92 08:16:43 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

Anyone have any GIFs of Joan Chen or Gong Li?
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china