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Printers, like typewriters, film cameras, CRT monitors, will become history. Its decline will be very long. Printer manufacturers nowadays make all-in-one printers doing printing, scanning, faxing and copying. Fax will disappear before printers. The use of printing and copying will diminish. With the use of…

Rural dwellers are born less privileged than urban dwellers in China. This would be unacceptable in almost all other countries, but Chinese people including the second-class citizens in the countryside do not seem to be bothered by this discrimination. Migrant workers from the countryside do…

Mo Yan, a CCP member awarded the 2012 Nobel Literature Prize, handwrote a part of Mao’s Yan'an Talks on Literature and Art that encaged the Chinese literature and art in a narrow space for decades. The following is the translation of that part: “The problem…

Massive losses of lives put the three monsters of the last century to the top of the evil list – Hitler, Stalin and Mao. Mao stands out as the most evil. He was a 1. ruthless butcher, 2. pathetic liar, 3. shameless cheater, 4. despicable…

Two routers are needed sometimes. One common scenario is that a router’s internet connection (the WAN part) is out of service, so another router’s internet connection needs to be borrowed temporarily while maintaining the LAN of the original router. If there are any port forwardings,…

Succinct This is a simul-post of an Amazon review. A Korean War veteran of Marine Corps recommended this book to me. This book of 128 pages can be regarded as an extended Wikipedia article. It has more details than an article on a similar topic,…

Hillary Clinton: Knows all the nuts and bolts of the government. The best person for continuity, not for any significant change. She stood firm with a person who cheated on her and other women, probably not out of forgiving, but more for preserving her political…

It is very straightforward, but not for portable devices such as Windows Phone. For portable devices, one has to implement a message inspector to add Digest authentication.

Romney’s defeat is similar to that of Kerry in 2004. Due to the fiasco of the Iraq War, many people believed that President Bush was bound to be driven out of the White House. To make sure this would happen. the Democrats chose their candidate…

This is a copy of a Chinese post. A recent survey by two Chinese government controlled institutions shows that the expenditure on food and drink for entertainment by government agencies totals ¥896.3 billion (US$ 141 billion). For comparison, the recent USA GSA scandal of lavish spending…

I finally seriously watched a (recorded) presidential debate - the one in New Hampshire on Sunday 2012-01-08 hosted by NBC though I used fast forward key frequently. Even though it was a serious event for electing someone in charge of trillions of dollars of our…

Windows 11 Upgrade

RIAs used to depend on browser plugins such as Flash and Silverlight. Since plugins are being abandoned (Chrome has stopped supporting them, even Microsoft's new browser Edge does not support its own plugin - Silverlight), old RIAs need to migrate to a new model -…

Windows Phone Dev Center is the place to start. Adding a new feature: Nokia has been working very hard to help Windows Phone app developers who should all join its DVLUP. Microsoft Advertising SDK for Windows Phone can be quite problematic. A good alternative is…

A flavor can be regarded as version of app that has its unique UI and functions. Creating a new flavor can involve many steps: If Microsoft Application Insights is used for app analytics:

The development environment for Windows Phone 8 app is better than that for Windows Phone 7 app though the seemingly abandoning Silverlight is still very puzzling. Use VS 2012 Install Windows Phone 8 SDK. Read artilce How to upgrade an app project to Windows Phone…

Follow the instruction to add Support Libraries with resouces. If the Eclipse is on a drive different from that of Android SDK, it is critical to check "Copy to workspace" when importing the existing Android project. Follow the instructions to modify Activity classes and the…

Microsoft has made utilizing themes in Silverlight applications much easier than it used to be. The initial good post by Mike Snows on how to use themes is no longer a good way. The best way is: Preparation: When a theme is need, just drag and…

This is a simul-post of a review on Amazon.com. Excellent book, but not for beginners I just want to write a very brief review to echo the views of many other reviewers of all editions of this book. A great strength of WCF is that…

This is a simul-post of a review on Amazon.com What makes the author's books stand out is his unorthodox ideas and methods. This book is no exception. There are volumes of literature on the Great Cultural Revolution (GCR). There are online libraries devoted to GCR.