Face is truth. A long way to real truth.

Monday, October 24, 2005

Scientific and Tools

这个时代是一个科学和工具的时代。
我们需要去迎合这种思想,尽管有时候我们不知道真正的原因是什么,但是这个时代的世界观就是如此。
科学和工具都是严谨的东西,我们只知道他的外形轮廓,但是却懒于去发现它的细节的美。
这是一种发现真理的孜孜不倦的科学精神。

为什么会出现学院派的描述,我认为就是由于学院派更加注重概念、公式、公理等为科学构造的基本元素,而实际中我们却经常忽略了这些更精确的概念的内涵和外延,我们经常不知道所说所做的东西的范围和界限是什么,尽管我们在现实世界中能够无拘束的活动,但是这种感觉会随着岁月的流逝而让自己觉得更加的无知。

我们需要保持一种科学的精神来对待自己所做和所想,不放过任何模糊的东西,求证它,求解它。

Wednesday, October 12, 2005

How to understand Mobile?

How to understand Mobile?

As a new developer of Mobile System, I am puzzled with the complex functionality of this small device and its multi-field character.
Here I just want to write down my inferring process when such question come into mind that what mobile is.

As I am tracing the different subsystems of mobile and plenty of components, always I feel shame on my few background knowledge. For the functionality, I can easily remember following: basic ones such as voice call, small message, multimedia message, phonebook; supplement ones such as forwarding call, call bar, car support, push on talk, email, notebook, calendar, camera, photograph… Mobile is evolving from communicating tools to a consumer appliance. More and more traditional functionality are busy with joining this small box.

In my opinion, mobile has become a epitome of society advancing which concerned with communication, web, computer, culture, media, entertainment, life style, consumer habits … almost all sector of modern society. Stand under technology, mobile is the combination of communication and computer technology. From the media view, it seemed that mobile is just a resides of media, but we can see, as the browser, photograph, camera, TV, radio… become the standard parts of mobile, this small device has already changed our method of retrieving and using of information.

Such a lot of functionality throw me into a deep lair. So a suitable HW and SW framework as a mobile to support current heavy functionality and future features is quite difficult. How to simplify these complexity, how to divide subsystem, how to layer, and other unobvious obstacles are the greatest challenge.

The born feature of mobile device makes open and interconnect as its core implicit character. Here you should and must pay much attention to quantities of standard specification, such as 3GPP series, GSM series, XML, SMIL, POP3, SMTP, IMAP, POSIX, HTTP, HTTPS, WAP, GPRS, J2ME… Also we should remember such a great of abbreviations and terminations. Such a annoy thing, abbreviations shouldn’t be used.

What is the settlemet?