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For those who appreciate the usefulness of shutter cable, controlling a digital camera via a smartphone is an exciting relatively new feature of digital cameras. This is done via WiFi. The common problem with this feature is the hassle of establishing connection between the camera…

The Task Force on Financial Integrity and Economic Development estimates conservatively that US$2.74 trillion flowed out of China illicitly from 2000 to 2009. Some people believe this number is too conservative, and believe the actual number may be an order of magnitude higher. A very high…

AAC is a part of MPEG-2 AND MPEG-4 specifications. Open source codec implementation can be found in FFmpeg, FAAC and opencore-amr. JAAD is a Java version of AAC decoder (decoding only). aacdecoder-android is a library for Android to play AAC streams or files (decoding only). Java AAC…

Rereading Niemöller’s famous saying “First they came…” makes me reflect on the current mindset of my fellow Chinese citizens. First they executed millions of landlords, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a landlord. Then they purged 550,000 rightists, and I didn’t speak out…

Gary Locke has proved to be the most effective ambassador to China by the fact that he is loved by millions of Chinese, and hated by the corrupted regime.

MultiselectList is handy if all you need is a simple list allowing multiple selections. What if you also want each item is clickable, or each item is a custom control. This may be able to be implemented by customizing MultiselectLit and MultiselectItem. However, the easiest…

It is not surprising that foreign territories protected by international laws within a country under a totalitarian government are the desirable destinies for people seeking protection of their lives. This is very much true for China. The day will come when Chinese people will be…

Microsoft has been promoting Azure for about 4 years. I believe its adoption is far from desirable. For me there are two reasons that make me hesitate to adopt Azure:

S corporations are corporations that elect to pass corporate income, losses, deductions and credit through to their shareholders for federal tax purposes. It is supposed to make tax filing easier. It does indeed. One should bear in mind the biggest catch of S-Corp - paying…

Unlike democratic societies that are inherently stable, China under the CCP's totalitarian regime is inherently unstable. To maintain its power, the CCP has to spend a tremendous amount of resource on stability maintenance. It is impossible to calculate the total cost of the stability accurately…

It is well known that China does not have freedom of speech. China ranks 174th out 179 countries in terms of free press. It is also well known that Chinese people do not have the freedom of association, of procession or of demonstration. If anyone…

Totalitarian regimes censor websites out of fear of the truth. They effectively imprison the people under their rules in the online world. The most notorious virtual prison is the Great Firewall (GP) in China. This website has finally accumulated enough truth to get on the "honor roll" of the…

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For reference, Ipswich's crime index is 75.

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Plan A 0:00 120 km 1:15 Bertera Nissan 2:00 90 km 3:00 Dunkin 3:30 110 km 4:30 Stewart's Shops 5:15 90 km 6:15 Mohawk Valley Welcome Center - Westbound 7:00 155 km 8:30 Holiday Inns and Suites Syracuse Airport 9:30 90 km 10:30 Romulus ​…

Professor Fang passed away on 2012-04-06. A shining star that inspired and guided a large number of my generation has fallen, but his spirit will live on forever. I entered the University of Science and Technology of China as my first choice with the determination…

Reinventing the wheel is usually undesirable. However, when it comes to creating application icons, it may be an option better than reusing what is out there. Application icons that are as tiny as 32x32 pixels are usually, and should be simple. Some platforms have special…

A while ago, I had a post titled "Webclient and HttpWebRequest - two "time-saving" classes can kill more time than they save". That is about Microsoft's platform (.Net). Apparently Android is no exception. Classes such as AndroidHttpClient, URLConnection together with HttpGet and HttpPost look so…

I have lived in the US for 20 years, I still keep learning various cultural aspects of this country. Since the country is so diverse, I have never been able to construct the image of "the typical American". It seems there are always two opposite…