You don't need Excel 2003 to know that Gnumeric doesn't have all the Excel functions.
For example, the Pivot Table function is _still_ missing.
Yes, the ad sez that Gnumeric has _all_ the Excel functions, but it is a misleading ad. If the Pivot Table isn't there, then Gnumerica can't have _all_ the Excel functions, period.
The WPS Office Suite is produced by "Golden Mountain Software Company" (it's a direct translation from the Chinese characters) and the web site is located at http://www.wps.com.cn/
According to press release at http://www.wps.com.cn/newsview.php?id=174 The WPS 2003 Office Suite will be on sale starting August 30th, the WPS Office Suite 2003.
The WPS Office Suite will carry the price of 1298 Chinese Yuan, (about USD 160).
All previous users of any softwares produced by WPS are eligible to upgrade to the latest WPS Office Suite 2003 for Ten Chinese Yuan (a little less than USD 2.00).
Yep, less than USD 2.00 for a complete upgrade.
Dunno if that includes the postage and handling or not, tho.
As one who have fostered more than 150 open-source projects on Freshmeat - no I ain't the author for all of them, just find 'em and then list 'em on Freshmeat in the hope that the worldwide open-source community will somehow be enriched by the wider selection, I can tell you that unless your project is really, _really_ address a large segment of the public at large, the "flow" of enquirers will slow to a trickle - sometimes, even to 1 or 2 per day.
One thing that I've found, on my experience on fostering the large number of open-source projects on Freshmeat, is that the projects that release more often will get more attention from the visitors/users and those projects that didn't get much upgrades will slowly "die off".
On some of the projects that I fosters, there isn't any mail list activity at all. Either the software is so perfect that no one asks for new features or reports any bug, or nobody cares enough to post any question at all.
It's the real world out there - even Open-Source projects have to COMPETE for the attention of the users.
I've communicated with some of the projects' authors, and I can tell you that there are some those who really care about how others feel about their "babies" - and respond very quickly to requests/reports - but then there are those who think they are better than the users and never care to address any complaint/suggestion.
Well.... for the projects with responsive authors, their projects thrive. And for those who don't care about the users - their projects languishes.
And to your project - I've not visited it, so I have no idea what's it about - perhaps you can find the following ways useful to increase the participation of your users...
1. Make your project more useful to more users - perhaps by adding features that they request (which may mean making your project a bloatware, it's a trade-off).
2. Be proactive and not wait for the users to ask questions - get feedback from the users by asking them what they think of your software, and how it can better serve them, etc.
3. Advertise your project as wide as possible, use all the available means - UseNet, MailLists, WebForums.
4. Perhaps you may consider making "plugins" for your projects, and in this way you can "slim down" your core program, in the meantime you can tailor your project to the needs and wants of different users.
5. Put out updates, bugfixes and new feature announcements as often as you can. And remember to notify your users about the latest features.
6. Please be gentle to the users - I've seen some of the abusive authors berating users for no other reason except their own ego trip.
I am sure there are other nice tips available, and I welcome anyone to add to my comment here.
Just wonder if there are any good online sites that can help adults who aren't fortunate enough to have the opportunity to properly learn math, science, or whatnots that most think are _basic_skills_ ?
While your case may not be an isolated one, the fact that dirty hacks bring in money, while properly documented one doesn't speaks volume on the correct (or rather, the lack of) implementation of programming practices at the place you work.
No, I am not preaching stuffs like "Extreme Programming", but documentations is a must if we really want to tame the insanity of what we do - and programming itself is one of the quickest way to insanity.
I do know that documentation takes time, but if you put in an effort on document what you write, the time invested on documentation WILL pays off many, many times when it comes time to extend / alter or debug the code that we have done, be it 3 days or 3 years ago.
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Contrary to what have been advertised, there _are_ something that Excel does, that Gnumeric doesn't.
For example, Gnumeric still doesn't do Pivot Table.
While I do understand that Pivot Table isn't really a big deal to many, there are times that functions such as Pivot Table comes _very_ handy.
Please, Gnumeric Developers, please put the Pivot Table on top of your "todo list".
Malaysia being the world's #1 producer of PIRATED CDs, VCDs, and CD-ROMs, has more than enough talent and capacity to make ANY NUMBER of high quality CD, even in a short order.
The cost of making CDs in Malaysia is EXTRA-ORDINARILY LOW - amount to LESS THAN USD 0.25 per CD, with quantities of 500 or more.
No, I am NOT a CD pirate. I just know enough people who are in this line of "work" to know the cost.
Not only the cost is low, the CDs they produce are also of high quality - rejection rate of less than 0.5 %, and turn around time can be as short as 5 days.
And since it is NEVER ILLEGAL to make Linux CD-ROMs, legality wise there shouldn't be ANY PROBLEM.
So, next time if you wanna make CDs, or you have a rush job and still want to have high quality CDs made, give Malaysia a call.
QNX is a great operating system, but it's a much different market. It's not made for PCs, it's made for embedded, real time applications. You'll find QNX in routers, you'll find it in medical devices, and you'll find it in nuclear power plants.
What you won't find in QNX is USB support, drivers for a Sound Blaster 16, or Accelerated 3D drivers.
It's a great operating system, but comparing it to things like Windows, Mac OS, Linux, FreeBSD, or even Solaris and AIX are silly. QNX isn't designed to have any frills: it manages resources, incredibly well, and that's it. It doens't do complex scheduling, it doesn't do advanced 3d tricks, and it's not going to do much with the latest firewire hard drives. It will, however, guide a laser over someone's eye for Lasik and other such procedures a thousand times a year without a glitch.
I am afraid to say that all the above quote is really misguided.
I don't know if your misguiding attempt is genuinely intentional, but boy, you really have no idea what an OS really does, do you?
Give you a hint, OS, no matter if it's MS-Windoze, Mac OS, or AIX, or QNX, or even Linux, none of them does advanced 3D tricks. That's the job of USERSPACE SOFTWARES.
Before you argue with me, please tell us exactly which part of the Linux Kernel does "advance 3D tricks" ?
Actually, comparing Linux with QNX is NOT only NOT SILLY, it should be one of the criteria for those who want to be the Linux Kernel hackers - and let them prove their worth by making Linux as bulletproof as QNX, INside and OUTside of the field of embedded, real-time applications.
Until Linux can achive such a status, don't even think of having Linux run critical applications like you have mentioned - Nuclear Power Plant and such.
You are right to point out that most of those Islamic Terrorists are from middle income family.
I would say that the talk about "terrorism comes from poverty" is but a bunch of horse-manure.
In the country I am staying - Malaysia - what I see is that the government - which is made up of many Islamic extremists - is very hard at work brainwashing the Muslims here to believe in the notion that "sacrifice for Islam at all cost" is something that is holy in Islam.
In other words, Malaysia's government, through its intense brainwashing campaign, is breeding a whole new generation of potention Islamic Terrorists.
So there shouldn't be any surprise that the Bali bombing, along with bombings and all other acts carried out in the name of Islam / Allah in Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, are all related to the Muslims from Malaysia.
I have no idea why the US government still tolerate the Malaysian government for their official encouragement of Islamic terrorism.
If you live in Malaysia, like I am, everyday you will be bombarded with slogans like "We have to defeat our enemies, for they are coming to take away our land and kill our children, and we have to fight to make Islam the strongest religion in the world."
The above quote is loosely based on many similar quotes from the Prime Minister of Malaysia, Mahathir bin Mohammed.
For years, that guy have incite violence. For years, that guy kept on thinking that only through violence that he and his religion can control the world.
The Prime Minister of Malaysia is a nut. And he is a very dangerous nut.
Unfortunately, nobody is taking care of the problem. With the help of the nut, many more violences will happen, and many innocent lives will be sacrified, in the name of Holy War.
I sincerely hope that the international community will put a stop to this madness.
Don't even dream of having Muslim to explain anything to you.
All they care is to convert you into THEIR religion, and if they can't, then they will device ways to kill you.
That's the way of Islam.
That's the way of Muslim.
There shouldn't be any surprise of what Egypt has done. This thing has been repeated countless times across all the Muslim world.
Muslim countries such as Indonesia, Yemen, Pakistan, Malaysia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and others, share one thing in common - they are REPRESSIVE REGIMES and THEY TREAT ALL NON-MUSLIMS harshly.
I want to know what's your favorite tool to produce PNG files.
I also want to know if there's a comparison chart, comparison different tools that produce PNG files, see which one does the best color, and which one does the best in compactness, etc.
Now what we see is the trend for global companies to outsource their operation to wherever the cheapest place they can find.
So we have the outsourcing double-trouble.
But I bet this ain't gonna be the last one.
The final frontier for the outsourcing universe is that.... one day when the machine starts replacing human, and can do whatever thing so dirt cheap that no human can compete - then we will see ALL the outsourcing contracts go to the machines.
Maybe, but you have got to realize how badly they need the power.
If they so badly needed that power, then they SHOULD construct the dam PROPERLY.
The dam was constructed with not only shabby methods, but also with inferior-grade materials.
My friend works for an international construction firm that has consultation contract with the Chinese on that project, and he told me years ago that the dam would last 30 years.
I thought he was joking then, but now I know he wasn't.
The report of CRACKS, HUNDREDS of them, have appeared, and many of them are as wide as 1.3 METERS !
Now the Chinese are worried, but it's all too late!
The official press is putting up BOLD FACE EXCUSES telling the world that the cracks are of NON-CONSEQUENCIAL! They keep on repeating the PARTY-LINE that "THE DAM IS CONSTRUCTED TO WITHSTAND AN EARTHQUAKE IN THE MAGNITUDE OF 7" and the worse part of the whole LIE is that the theory of "withstanding earthquake" was NEVER tested in term of the dam construction. Plus, that assumption is based on a PROPER construction with NONE of the inferior materials that have been used.
For example, instead of using concrete that has been designed to withstand tremendous power, inferior concrete was used. Instead of using the concrete that can STRETCH and FLEX so that it won't break, much cheaper rigid and fragile concrete was used.
According to my friend, the former Chinese Premier, Zhu Yongi tried to intervene on the matter, when he learned of the dishonest practices, but he was VETOED by his CCP comrades in the politburo. Both Li Peng and Jiang Zemin prevented Zhu from taking any action, because both Li and Jiang were (and are) on the take.
So there was NO WONDER in Zhu's departing speech late last year, that he reminded the world to see him as an honest politician that did not tolerate any corruption. That remark was designed specifically to distance himself from the likes of Li Peng and Jiang Zemin, in case hyper-projects like the Three Gorges Dam breaks.
If the dam breaks, tens of millions of people will die, and they will die because of Jiang Zemin and.
I won't know how long the dam will hold, but if it breaks, much more than 10,000 people will die.
The figures might be in the TENS OF MILLIONS.
Before it starts to hold water, the dam is already CRACKED !
Cracks as wide as 1.3 meters already appeared in the dam. The cracks are due to SHABBY CONSTRUCTIONS, and the RAMPANT CORRUPTION on the part of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Instead of using FLEXIBLE CONCRETE MATERIALS, lower quality concrete that is SO RIGID it is FRAGILE, was used.
Lots of engineers had grumbled about the shabby construction, but NO ONE IN THE CCP WOULD LISTEN as long as their pockets are lined.
Chief of the culprit is the NOTORIOUSLY CORRUPTED LI PENG and his family, with Jiang Jemin comes very close.
I still remember Zhu Yongi tried to halt the construction due to the improper materials used, but he couldn't find any support amongst the CCP hierarchy.
Now China has sinked more than 28 BILLION in the projects, and what they have is a GIGANTIC WATER-BASED TIME BOMB.
America doesn't need to bomb China to bring it down. China has done that to itself.
A Nigerian diplomat was shot and killed once by someone who fell for the "Nigerian scam." It was very tragic, as the country had nothing to do with it.
Deny it all you want, Scam 419 IS Nigeria's second largest revenue source, the first being crude oil.
If you care to call the phone number provided in the various Scam 419 spam emails, you would find that those are REAL phone numbers, connected to REAL Nigerian governmental ministries.
No, I haven't fall for the scam, but several of my friends did.
While there are a lot of mirror sites that you can download W.A.S.T.E., please make sure that the file or filess you have downloaded is genuine, and not been corrupted.
The MD5 Checksums for the various W.A.S.T.E. files are:
e3609e352afba37683c47ce60f9086bb for the waste-setup.exe
554cfa7350333aa4e6eb3b6e24201d80 for the waste-source.zip 5645d0378b5bca6d2cf337686dca9a4d for the waste-source.tar.gz 115d1a2554db4490bdf97b9862df5 a24 for the waste.zip
A sourceforge project site has also been set up for the W.A.S.T.E. package. The project site is at http://sourceforge.net/projects/waste/. It may be empty for the moment, but something will be cooked up very soon.
Below is just a partial list of mirrors for the W.A.S.T.E. package that are currently in operation:
Slashdot Mirror
You don't need Excel 2003 to know that Gnumeric doesn't have all the Excel functions.
For example, the Pivot Table function is _still_ missing.
Yes, the ad sez that Gnumeric has _all_ the Excel functions, but it is a misleading ad. If the Pivot Table isn't there, then Gnumerica can't have _all_ the Excel functions, period.
Just wondering why Pivot Table isn't counted as one of the function of Excel ?
I mean, the ad sez that Gnumeric can now do _100%_ of Gnumeric functions, right ?
How about Pivot Table ?
Can Gnumeric do Pivot Table ?
If not, why not ?
I really hate to say this, but to me, 100% means 100%, and anything less than 100% shouldn't be called 100%.
Otherwise, it would be deemed as a practice of
deceptive advertising.
The ad sez that Gnumeric support _all_ Excel functions.
But where's that Pivot Table function that not only Excel had, but also Lotus Agenda ?
The WPS Office Suite is produced by "Golden Mountain Software Company" (it's a direct translation from the Chinese characters) and the web site is located at http://www.wps.com.cn/
According to press release at http://www.wps.com.cn/newsview.php?id=174 The WPS 2003 Office Suite will be on sale starting August 30th, the WPS Office Suite 2003.
The WPS Office Suite will carry the price of 1298 Chinese Yuan, (about USD 160).
All previous users of any softwares produced by WPS are eligible to upgrade to the latest WPS Office Suite 2003 for Ten Chinese Yuan (a little less than USD 2.00).
Yep, less than USD 2.00 for a complete upgrade.
Dunno if that includes the postage and handling or not, tho.
As one who have fostered more than 150 open-source projects on Freshmeat - no I ain't the author for all of them, just find 'em and then list 'em on Freshmeat in the hope that the worldwide open-source community will somehow be enriched by the wider selection, I can tell you that unless your project is really, _really_ address a large segment of the public at large, the "flow" of enquirers will slow to a trickle - sometimes, even to 1 or 2 per day.
One thing that I've found, on my experience on fostering the large number of open-source projects on Freshmeat, is that the projects that release more often will get more attention from the visitors/users and those projects that didn't get much upgrades will slowly "die off".
On some of the projects that I fosters, there isn't any mail list activity at all. Either the software is so perfect that no one asks for new features or reports any bug, or nobody cares enough to post any question at all.
It's the real world out there - even Open-Source projects have to COMPETE for the attention of the users.
I've communicated with some of the projects' authors, and I can tell you that there are some those who really care about how others feel about their "babies" - and respond very quickly to requests/reports - but then there are those who think they are better than the users and never care to address any complaint/suggestion.
Well
And to your project - I've not visited it, so I have no idea what's it about - perhaps you can find the following ways useful to increase the participation of your users
1. Make your project more useful to more users - perhaps by adding features that they request (which may mean making your project a bloatware, it's a trade-off).
2. Be proactive and not wait for the users to ask questions - get feedback from the users by asking them what they think of your software, and how it can better serve them, etc.
3. Advertise your project as wide as possible, use all the available means - UseNet, MailLists, WebForums.
4. Perhaps you may consider making "plugins" for your projects, and in this way you can "slim down" your core program, in the meantime you can tailor your project to the needs and wants of different users.
5. Put out updates, bugfixes and new feature announcements as often as you can. And remember to notify your users about the latest features.
6. Please be gentle to the users - I've seen some of the abusive authors berating users for no other reason except their own ego trip.
I am sure there are other nice tips available, and I welcome anyone to add to my comment here.
Thank you, and good luck !
Just wonder if there are any good online sites that can help adults who aren't fortunate enough to have the opportunity to properly learn math, science, or whatnots that most think are _basic_skills_ ?
Thank you !
If you have any suggestion and/or opinion to the AVS standard, please email yongqin.zeng@philips.com
Both English and Chinese emails are welcome.
While your case may not be an isolated one, the fact that dirty hacks bring in money, while properly documented one doesn't speaks volume on the correct (or rather, the lack of) implementation of programming practices at the place you work.
No, I am not preaching stuffs like "Extreme Programming", but documentations is a must if we really want to tame the insanity of what we do - and programming itself is one of the quickest way to insanity.
I do know that documentation takes time, but if you put in an effort on document what you write, the time invested on documentation WILL pays off many, many times when it comes time to extend / alter or debug the code that we have done, be it 3 days or 3 years ago.
Contrary to what have been advertised, there _are_ something that Excel does, that Gnumeric doesn't.
For example, Gnumeric still doesn't do Pivot Table.
While I do understand that Pivot Table isn't really a big deal to many, there are times that functions such as Pivot Table comes _very_ handy.
Please, Gnumeric Developers, please put the Pivot Table on top of your "todo list".
Thank you !
Something's brewing in Mr. Chen's house.
There's a note on the freezer door:
I heard that Florida is a fun place to visit.
Let's save up money and plan for a vacation
to Florida next summer.
Perhaps we can rent an RV and drive there !
- - - - -
Meanwhile, inside the Smith's household,
Mrs. Smith:
"I heard that the Chen's are gonna get
themselves an RV next week !"
"What should we do ?"
Mr. Smith:
"Let's make sure that the Chen's can't
get their RV."
"Maybe we'll burn down their house so they
won't have a place to park their RV."
Malaysia being the world's #1 producer of PIRATED CDs, VCDs, and CD-ROMs, has more than enough talent and capacity to make ANY NUMBER of high quality CD, even in a short order.
The cost of making CDs in Malaysia is EXTRA-ORDINARILY LOW - amount to LESS THAN USD 0.25 per CD, with quantities of 500 or more.
No, I am NOT a CD pirate. I just know enough people who are in this line of "work" to know the cost.
Not only the cost is low, the CDs they produce are also of high quality - rejection rate of less than 0.5 %, and turn around time can be as short as 5 days.
And since it is NEVER ILLEGAL to make Linux CD-ROMs, legality wise there shouldn't be ANY PROBLEM.
So, next time if you wanna make CDs, or you have a rush job and still want to have high quality CDs made, give Malaysia a call.
You won't be disappointed !
There are lots of math sites.
Which one, or ones, do you like ?
Any suggestion ?
Thanks !
To all,
The author of Ardour also produced a program call Quasidomo.
I am trying to locate the program, which is supposed to be housed at "www.quasidomo.org".
However, that "quasidomo.org" is for sale.
And I've tried to search the Net for places where I can download Quasidomo but have yet to find it.
If you know where that Quasidomo program is located now, would you mind telling me, please ?
Thank you !
What Senator Hatch is doing is akin to opening the Pandora Box.
If what he proposes becomes legal, then anyone can bomb anybody elses computer, cars, house, or even body-parts with or without any valid reason.
What type of world will that be ? Even MadMax wouldn't have to face with such a scenario.
I really have no idea why a lunatic like Orin Hatch can get elected to be a Senator Of The United States.
No, we are NOT missing anything !
In fact, I think you are missing a lot !
I am afraid to say that all the above quote is really misguided.
I don't know if your misguiding attempt is genuinely intentional, but boy, you really have no idea what an OS really does, do you?
Give you a hint, OS, no matter if it's MS-Windoze, Mac OS, or AIX, or QNX, or even Linux, none of them does advanced 3D tricks. That's the job of USERSPACE SOFTWARES.
Before you argue with me, please tell us exactly which part of the Linux Kernel does "advance 3D tricks" ?
Actually, comparing Linux with QNX is NOT only NOT SILLY, it should be one of the criteria for those who want to be the Linux Kernel hackers - and let them prove their worth by making Linux as bulletproof as QNX, INside and OUTside of the field of embedded, real-time applications.
Until Linux can achive such a status, don't even think of having Linux run critical applications like you have mentioned - Nuclear Power Plant and such.
Now, we have the article describing QNX as the quintessential "When Software Really, Really Has to Work" OS.
How about Linux ?
Can we say, without lying, that Linux can measure up to QNX on that front ?
If not, when can we expect Linux to gain that status ?
You are right to point out that most of those Islamic Terrorists are from middle income family.
I would say that the talk about "terrorism comes from poverty" is but a bunch of horse-manure.
In the country I am staying - Malaysia - what I see is that the government - which is made up of many Islamic extremists - is very hard at work brainwashing the Muslims here to believe in the notion that "sacrifice for Islam at all cost" is something that is holy in Islam.
In other words, Malaysia's government, through its intense brainwashing campaign, is breeding a whole new generation of potention Islamic Terrorists.
So there shouldn't be any surprise that the Bali bombing, along with bombings and all other acts carried out in the name of Islam / Allah in Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, are all related to the Muslims from Malaysia.
I have no idea why the US government still tolerate the Malaysian government for their official encouragement of Islamic terrorism.
If you live in Malaysia, like I am, everyday you will be bombarded with slogans like "We have to defeat our enemies, for they are coming to take away our land and kill our children, and we have to fight to make Islam the strongest religion in the world."
The above quote is loosely based on many similar quotes from the Prime Minister of Malaysia, Mahathir bin Mohammed.
For years, that guy have incite violence. For years, that guy kept on thinking that only through violence that he and his religion can control the world.
The Prime Minister of Malaysia is a nut. And he is a very dangerous nut.
Unfortunately, nobody is taking care of the problem. With the help of the nut, many more violences will happen, and many innocent lives will be sacrified, in the name of Holy War.
I sincerely hope that the international community will put a stop to this madness.
Don't even dream of having Muslim to explain anything to you.
All they care is to convert you into THEIR religion, and if they can't, then they will device ways to kill you.
That's the way of Islam.
That's the way of Muslim.
There shouldn't be any surprise of what Egypt has done. This thing has been repeated countless times across all the Muslim world.
Muslim countries such as Indonesia, Yemen, Pakistan, Malaysia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and others, share one thing in common - they are REPRESSIVE REGIMES and THEY TREAT ALL NON-MUSLIMS harshly.
I want to know what's your favorite tool to produce PNG files.
I also want to know if there's a comparison chart, comparison different tools that produce PNG files, see which one does the best color, and which one does the best in compactness, etc.
Any recommendation ?
Thank you.
Now what we see is the trend for global companies to outsource their operation to wherever the cheapest place they can find.
So we have the outsourcing double-trouble.
But I bet this ain't gonna be the last one.
The final frontier for the outsourcing universe is that
The report says that this new implementation can actually speed up the delivery of the content a whooping 6000 times FASTER !
If that's true, then what we are having today is actually 6000 times _slower_ that what could have been.
And in the p0rn saga, heheh
If they so badly needed that power, then they SHOULD construct the dam PROPERLY.
The dam was constructed with not only shabby methods, but also with inferior-grade materials.
My friend works for an international construction firm that has consultation contract with the Chinese on that project, and he told me years ago that the dam would last 30 years.
I thought he was joking then, but now I know he wasn't.
The report of CRACKS, HUNDREDS of them, have appeared, and many of them are as wide as 1.3 METERS !
Now the Chinese are worried, but it's all too late!
The official press is putting up BOLD FACE EXCUSES telling the world that the cracks are of NON-CONSEQUENCIAL! They keep on repeating the PARTY-LINE that "THE DAM IS CONSTRUCTED TO WITHSTAND AN EARTHQUAKE IN THE MAGNITUDE OF 7" and the worse part of the whole LIE is that the theory of "withstanding earthquake" was NEVER tested in term of the dam construction. Plus, that assumption is based on a PROPER construction with NONE of the inferior materials that have been used.
For example, instead of using concrete that has been designed to withstand tremendous power, inferior concrete was used. Instead of using the concrete that can STRETCH and FLEX so that it won't break, much cheaper rigid and fragile concrete was used.
According to my friend, the former Chinese Premier, Zhu Yongi tried to intervene on the matter, when he learned of the dishonest practices, but he was VETOED by his CCP comrades in the politburo. Both Li Peng and Jiang Zemin prevented Zhu from taking any action, because both Li and Jiang were (and are) on the take.
So there was NO WONDER in Zhu's departing speech late last year, that he reminded the world to see him as an honest politician that did not tolerate any corruption. That remark was designed specifically to distance himself from the likes of Li Peng and Jiang Zemin, in case hyper-projects like the Three Gorges Dam breaks.
If the dam breaks, tens of millions of people will die, and they will die because of Jiang Zemin and
I won't know how long the dam will hold, but if it breaks, much more than 10,000 people will die.
The figures might be in the TENS OF MILLIONS.
Before it starts to hold water, the dam is already CRACKED !
Cracks as wide as 1.3 meters already appeared in the dam. The cracks are due to SHABBY CONSTRUCTIONS, and the RAMPANT CORRUPTION on the part of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Instead of using FLEXIBLE CONCRETE MATERIALS, lower quality concrete that is SO RIGID it is FRAGILE, was used.
Lots of engineers had grumbled about the shabby construction, but NO ONE IN THE CCP WOULD LISTEN as long as their pockets are lined.
Chief of the culprit is the NOTORIOUSLY CORRUPTED LI PENG and his family, with Jiang Jemin comes very close.
I still remember Zhu Yongi tried to halt the construction due to the improper materials used, but he couldn't find any support amongst the CCP hierarchy.
Now China has sinked more than 28 BILLION in the projects, and what they have is a GIGANTIC WATER-BASED TIME BOMB.
America doesn't need to bomb China to bring it down. China has done that to itself.
Deny it all you want, Scam 419 IS Nigeria's second largest revenue source, the first being crude oil.
If you care to call the phone number provided in the various Scam 419 spam emails, you would find that those are REAL phone numbers, connected to REAL Nigerian governmental ministries.
No, I haven't fall for the scam, but several of my friends did.
The MD5 Checksums for the various W.A.S.T.E. files are:
The Technical Overview for the W.A.S.T.E. package has been coverted into HTML, courtesy of Mr. Lucas Gonze , and it is available at http://gonze.com/waste/WASTE_Design.html
A sourceforge project site has also been set up for the W.A.S.T.E. package. The project site is at http://sourceforge.net/projects/waste/ . It may be empty for the moment, but something will be cooked up very soon.
Below is just a partial list of mirrors for the W.A.S.T.E. package that are currently in operation: