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发帖数: 278 | 1 Thus spoke St. Alia-of-the-Knife: "The Reverend Mother must
combine the seductive wiles of a courtesan with the
untouchable majesty of a virgin goddess, holding these
attributes in tension so long as the powers of her youth
endure. For when youth and beauty have gone, she will find
that the place-between, once occupied by tension, has become
a wellspring of cunning and resourcefulness."
-from "Muad'Dib, Family Commentaries" by the Princess Irulan
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发帖数: 278 | 2 YUEH (yu'e), Wellington (weling-tun), Stdrd 10,082-10,191;
medical doctor of the Suk School (grd Stdrd 10,112); md:
Wanna Marcus, B.G. (Stdrd 10,092-10,186?); chiefly noted as
betrayer of Duke Leto Atreides. (Cf: Bibliography, Appendix
VII [Imperial Conditioning] and Betrayal, The.)
-from "Dictionary of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan
Although he heard Dr. Yueh enter the training room,
noting the stiff deliberation of the man's pace, Paul
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发帖数: 278 | 3 It is said that the Duke Leto blinded himself to the perils
of Arrakis, that he walked heedlessly into the pit. Would it
not be more likely to suggest he had lived so long in the
presence of extreme danger he misjudged a change in its
intensity? Or is it possible he deliberately sacrificed
himself that his son might find a better life? All evidence
indicates the Duke was a man not easily hoodwinked.
-from "Muad'Dib: Family Commentaries" by the Princess Irulan
The Duke Leto Atreides leaned ag |
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发帖数: 278 | 4 On that first day when Muad'Dib rode through the streets of
Arrakeen with his family, some of the people along the way
recalled the legends and the prophecy and they ventured to
shout: "Mahdi!" But their shout was more a question than a
statement, for as yet they could only hope he was the one
foretold as the Lisan al-Gaib, the Voice from the Outer
World. Their attention was focused, too, on the mother,
because they had heard she was a Bene Gesserit and it was
obvious to them that she was like t |
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发帖数: 278 | 5 "There is no escape--we pay for the violence of our
ancestors. "
-from "The Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess
Irulan
Jessica heard the disturbance in the great hall, turned
on the light beside her bed. The clock there had not been
properly adjusted to local time, and she had to subtract
twenty-one minutes to determine that it was about 2 A.M.
The disturbance was loud and incoherent.
Is this the Harkonnen attack? she wondered.
She slipped out of bed, checked the scree |
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发帖数: 278 | 6 There should be a science of discontent. People need hard
times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
-from "Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan
Jessica awoke in the dark, feeling premonition in the
stillness around her. She could not understand why her mind
and body felt so sluggish. Skin raspings of fear ran along
her nerves. She thought of sitting up and turning on a
light, but something stayed the decision. Her mouth felt . .
. strange.
Lump-lump-lump-lump!
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发帖数: 278 | 7 There is a legend that the instant the Duke Leto Atreides
died a meteor streaked across the skies above his ancestral
palace on Caladan.
-the Princess Irulan: "Introduction to A Child's History of
Muad'Dib"
The Baron Vladimir Harkonnen stood at a viewport of the
grounded lighter he was using as a command post. Out the
port he saw the flame-lighted night of Arrakeen. His
attention focused on the distant Shield Wall where his
secret weapon was doing its work.
Explosive artillery.
The g |
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发帖数: 278 | 8 O Seas of Caladan,
O people of Duke Leto--
Citadel of Leto fallen,
Fallen forever . . .
-from "Songs of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan
Paul felt that all his past, every experience before
this night, had become sand curling in an hourglass. He sat
near his mother hugging his knees within a small fabric and
plastic hutment--a stilltent--that had come, like the Fremen
clothing they now wore, from the pack left in the 'thopter.
There was no doubt in Paul's mind who had put the
Fremkit the |
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发帖数: 278 | 9 Book Two
MUAD'DIB
= = = = = =
When my father, the Padishah Emperor, heard of Duke Leto's
death and the manner of it, he went into such a rage as we
had never before seen. He blamed my mother and the compact
forced on him to place a Bene Gesserit on the throne. He
blamed the Guild and the evil old Baron. He blamed everyone
in sight, not excepting even me, for he said I was a witch
like all the others. And when I sought to comfort him,
saying it was done according to an older law of
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发帖数: 278 | 10 What do you despise? By this are you truly known.
-from "Manual of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan
"They are dead, Baron," said Iakin Nefud, the guard
captain. "Both the woman and the boy are certainly dead."
The Baron Vladimir Harkonnen sat up in the sleep
suspensors of his private quarters. Beyond these quarters
and enclosing him like a multishelled egg stretched the
space frigate he had grounded on Arrakis. Here in his
quarters, though, the ship's harsh metal was disguised with
drape |
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发帖数: 278 | 11 At the age of fifteen, he had already learned silence.
-from "A Child's History of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan
As Paul fought the 'thopter's controls, he grew aware
that he was sorting out the interwoven storm forces, his
more than Mentat awareness computing on the basis of
fractional minutiae. He felt dust fronts, billowings,
mixings of turbulence, an occasional vortex.
The cabin interior was an angry box lighted by the green
radiance of instrument dials. The tan flow of dust outsi |
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发帖数: 278 | 12 We came from Caladan--a paradise world for our form of fife.
There existed no need on Caladan to build a physical
paradise or a paradise of the mind--we could see the
actuality all around us. And the price we paid was the price
men have always paid for achieving a paradise in this
life--we went soft, we lost our edge.
-from "Muad'Dib: Conversations" by the Princess Irulan
"So you're the great Gurney Halleck," the man said.
Halleck stood staring across the round cavern office at
the smugg |
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发帖数: 278 | 13 The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called
"spannungsbogen"--which is the self-imposed delay between
desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that
thing.
-from "The Wisdom of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan
They approached Cave of the Ridges at dawnbreak, moving
through a split in the basin wall so narrow they had to turn
sideways to negotiate it. Jessica saw Stilgar detach guards
in the thin dawnlight, saw them for a moment as they began
their scrambling cli |
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发帖数: 278 | 14 God created Arrakis to train the faithful.
-from "The Wisdom of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan
In the stillness of the cavern, Jessica heard the scrape
of sand on rock as people moved, the distant bird calls that
Stilgar had said were the signals of his watchmen.
The great plastic hood-seals had been removed from the
cave's opening. She could see the march of evening shadows
across the lip of rock in front of her and the open basin
beyond. She sensed the daylight leaving them, sensed i |
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发帖数: 278 | 15 The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to
shield us from the terrors of the future.
-from "Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan
On his seventeenth birthday, Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen
killed his one hundredth slave-gladiator in the family
games. Visiting observers from the Imperial Court--a Count
and Lady Fenring--were on the Harkonnen homeworld of Giedi
Prime for the event, invited to sit that afternoon with the
immediate family in the golden box above the triang |
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发帖数: 278 | 16 The hands move, the lips move --
Ideas gush from his words,
And his eyes devour!
He is an island of Selfdom.
-description from "A Manual of Muad'Dib" by the Princess
Irulan
Phosphortubes in the faraway upper reaches of the cavern
cast a dim light onto the thronged interior, hinting at the
great size of this rock-enclosed space . . . larger, Jessica
saw, than even the Gathering Hall of her Bene Gesserit
school. She estimated there were more than five thousand
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发帖数: 278 | 17 Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a
logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is
always one step beyond logic.
-from "The Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan
I've sat across from many rulers of Great Houses, but
never seen a more gross and dangerous pig than this one,
Thufir Hawat told himself.
"You may speak plainly with me, Hawat," the Baron
rumbled. He leaned back in his suspensor chair, the eyes in
their folds of fat boring into Hawat.
T |
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发帖数: 278 | 18 "Control the coinage and the courts -- let the rabble have
the rest." Thus the Padishah Emperor advises you. And he
tells you: "If you want profits, you must rule." There is
truth in these words, but I ask myself: "Who are the rabble
and who are the ruled?"
-Muad'Dib's Secret Message to the Landsraad from "Arrakis
Awakening" by the Princess Irulan
A thought came unbidden to Jessica's mind: Paul will be
undergoing his sandrider test at any moment now. They try to
conceal this fact from me, bu |
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发帖数: 278 | 19 You cannot avoid the interplay of politics within an
orthodox religion. This power struggle permeates the
training, educating and disciplining of the orthodox
community. Because of this pressure, the leaders of such a
community inevitably must face that ultimate internal
question: to succumb to complete opportunism as the price of
maintaining their rule, or risk sacrificing themselves for
the sake of the orthodox ethic.
-from "Muad'Dib: The Religious Issues" by the Princess
Irulan
Paul waite |
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发帖数: 278 | 20 When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never
become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are
always a little less than an individual.
-from "Muad'Dib: The Ninety-Nine Wonders of the Universe" by
Princess Irulan
The smuggler's spice factory with its parent carrier and
ring of drone ornithopters came over a lifting of dunes like
a swarm of insects following its queen. Ahead of the swarm
lay one of the low rock ridges that lifted from the desert
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发帖数: 278 | 21 How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his
inner self is telling him.
-"The Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan
The crowd in the cavern assembly chamber radiated that
pack feeling Jessica had sensed the day Paul killed Jamis.
There was murmuring nervousness in the voices. Little
cliques gathered like knots among the robes.
Jessica tucked a message cylinder beneath her robe as
she emerged to the ledge from Paul's private quarters. She
felt rested after t |
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发帖数: 278 | 22 And it came to pass in the third year of the Desert War that
Paul-Muad'Dib lay alone in the Cave of Birds beneath the
kiswa hangings of an inner cell. And he lay as one dead,
caught up in the revelation of the Water of Life, his being
translated beyond the boundaries of time by the poison that
gives life. Thus was the prophecy made true that the Lisan
al-Gaib might be both dead and alive.
-"Collected Legends of Arrakis" by the Princess Irulan
Chani came up out of the Habbanya basin in the pr |
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发帖数: 278 | 23 And Muad'Dib stood before them, and he said: "Though we deem
the captive dead, yet does she live. For her seed is my seed
and her voice is my voice. And she sees unto the farthest
reaches of possibility. Yea, unto the vale of the unknowable
does she see because of me."
-from "Arrakis Awakening" by the Princess Irulan
The Baron Vladimir Harkonnen stood with eyes downcast in
the Imperial audience chamber, the oval selamlik within the
Padishah Emperor's hutment. With covert glances, the Baron
h |
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发帖数: 278 | 24 Appendix II: The Religion of Dune
Before the coming of Muad'Dib, the Fremen of Arrakis
practiced a religion whose roots in the Maometh Saari are
there for any scholar to see. Many have traced the extensive
borrowings from other religions. The most common example is
the Hymn to Water, a direct copy from the Orange Catholic
Liturgical Manual, calling for rain clouds which Arrakis had
never seen. But there are more profound points of accord
between the Kitab al-Ibar of the Fremen and the teachi |
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发帖数: 278 | 25 Terminology of the Imperium
In studying the Imperium, Arrakis, and the whole culture
which produced Muad'Dib, many unfamiliar terms occur. To
increase understanding is a laudable goal, hence the
definitions and explanations given below.
ABA: loose robe worn by Fremen women; usually black.
ACH: left turn: a worm-steersman's call.
ADAB: the demanding memory that comes upon you of itself.
AKARSO: a plant native to Sikun (of 70 Ophiuchi A)
characterized by almost oblong leaves. Its green and white
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发帖数: 278 | 26 Dune Messiah
Frank Herbert
Copyright 1969
Excerpts from the Death Cell Interview with Bronso of IX
Q: What led you to take your particular approach to a
history of Muad'dib?
A: Why should I answer your questions?
Q: Because I will preserve your words.
A: Ahhh! The ultimate appeal to a historian!
Q: Will you cooperate then?
A: Why not? But you'll never understand what inspired my
Analysis of History. Never. You Priests have too much at
stake to . . .
Q: Try me.
A: Try you? Well, Again . . . why n |
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发帖数: 278 | 27 Such a rich store of myths enfolds Paul Muad'dib, the Mentat
Emperor, and his sister, Alia, it is difficult to see the
real persons behind these veils. But there were, after all,
a man born Paul Atreides and a woman born Alia. Their flesh
was subject to space and time. And even though their
oracular powers placed them beyond the usual limits of time
and space, they came from human stock. They experienced real
events which left real traces upon a real universe. To
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发帖数: 278 | 28 Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of
their creation. It is when they have become established that
aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.
-Words of Muad'dib by Princess Irulan.
It was going to be a bad session, this meeting of the
Imperial Council, Alia realized. She sensed contention
gathering force, storing up energy -- the way Irulan refused
to look at Chani, Stilgar's nervous shuffling of papers, the
scowls Paul directed at Korba the Qizara.
She seated hersel |
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发帖数: 278 | 29 "Once more the drama begins."
-The Emperor Paul Muad'dib on his ascension to the Lion
Throne
Alia peered down from her spy window into the great
reception hall to watch the advance of the Guild entourage.
The sharply silver light of noon poured through
clerestory windows onto a floor worked in green, blue and
eggshell tiles to simulate a bayou with water plants and,
here and there, a splash of exotic color to indicate bird or
animal.
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发帖数: 278 | 30 "You do not beg the sun for mercy."
-Maud'dib's Travail from The Stilgar Commentary
One moment of incompetence can be fatal, the Reverend
Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam reminded herself.
She hobbled along, apparently unconcerned, within a ring
of Fremen guards. One of those behind her, she knew, was a
deaf-mute immune to any wiles of Voice. No doubt he'd been
charged to kill her at the slightest provocation.
Why had Paul summoned her? she wondered. Was he about to
pass sentence? She remem |
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发帖数: 278 | 31 Production growth and income growth must not get out of step
in my Empire. That is the substance of my command. There are
to be no balance-of-payment difficulties between the
different spheres of influence. And the reason for this is
simply because I command it. I want to emphasize my
authority in this area. I am the supreme energy-eater of
this domain, and will remain so, alive or dead. My
Government is the economy.
-Order in Council The Emperor Paul Muad'dib
"I will leave you here," the ol |
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发帖数: 278 | 32 He has gone from Alia,
The womb of heaven!
Holy, holy, holy!
Fire-sand leagues
Confront our Lord.
He can see
Without eyes!
A demon upon him!
Holy, holy, holy
Equation:
He solved for
Martyrdom!
-The Moon Falls Down Songs of Muad'dib
After seven days of radiating fevered activity, the Keep
took on an unnatural quiet. On this morning, there were
people about, but they spoke in whispers, heads close
together, and they walked softly. Some scurried with an
oddly furtive gait. The sight of a guard |
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发帖数: 278 | 33 The sequential nature of actual events is not illuminated
with lengthy precision by the powers of prescience except
under the most extraordinary circumstances. The oracle
grasps incidents cut out of the historic chain. Eternity
moves. It inflicts itself upon the oracle and the supplicant
alike. Let Muad'dib's subjects doubt his majesty and his
oracular visions. Let them deny his powers. Let them never
doubt Eternity.
-The Dune Gospels
Hayt watched Alia emerge from her temple and cross the
pl |
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发帖数: 278 | 34 There exists a limit to the force even the most powerful may
apply without destroying themselves. Judging this limit is
the true artistry of government. Misuse of power is the
fatal sin. The law cannot be a tool of vengeance, never a
hostage, nor a fortification against the martyrs it has
created. You cannot threaten any individual and escape the
consequences.
-Muad'dib on Law, The Stilgar Commentary
Chani stared out at the morning desert framed in the
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发帖数: 278 | 35 There was a man so wise,
He jumped into
A sandy place
And burnt out both his eyes!
And when he knew his eyes were gone,
He offered no complaint.
He summoned up a vision
And made himself a saint.
-Children's Verse from History of Muad'dib
Paul stood in darkness outside the sietch. Oracular
vision told him it was night, that moonlight silhouetted the
shrine atop Chin Rock high on his left. This was a
memory-saturated place, his first sietch, where he and Chani
. . .
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发帖数: 278 | 36 We say of Muad'dib that he has gone on a journey into that
land where we walk without footprints.
-Preamble to the Qizarate Creed
There was a dike of water against the sand, an outer
limit for the plantings of the sietch holding. A rock bridge
came next and then the open desert beneath Idaho's feet. The
promontory of Sietch Tabr dominated the night sky behind
him. The light of both moons frosted its high rim. An
orchard had been brought right down to the water.
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发帖数: 278 | 37 Epilogue
No bitter stench of funeral-still for Muad'dib.
No knell nor solemn rite to free the mind
From avaricious shadows.
He is the fool saint,
The golden stranger living forever
On the edge of reason.
Let your guard fall and he is there!
His crimson peace and sovereign pallor
Strike into our universe on prophetic webs
To the verge, of a quiet glance -- there!
Out of bristling star-jungles:
Mysterious, lethal, an oracle without eyes,
Catspaw of prophecy, whose voice never dies!
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发帖数: 278 | 38 Children of Dune
Frank Herbert
Copyright 1976
Muad'Dib's teachings have become the playground of
scholastics, of the superstitious and the corrupt. He taught
a balanced way of life, a philosophy with which a human can
meet problems arising from an ever-changing universe. He
said humankind is still evolving, in a process which will
never end. He said this evolution moves on changing
principles which are known only to eternity. How can
corrupted reasoning play with such an essence?
-Words of the M |
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发帖数: 278 | 39 melange (me'-lange also ma,lanj) n-s, origin uncertain
(thought to derive from ancient Terran Franzh): a. mixture
of spices; b. spice of Arrakis (Dune) with geriatric
properties first noted by Yanshuph Ashkoko, royal chemist in
reign of Shakkad the Wise; Arrakeen melange, found only in
deepest desert sands of Arrakis, linked to prophetic visions
of Paul Muad'Dib (Atreides), first Fremen Mahdi; also
employed by Spacing Guild Navigators and the Bene Gesserit.
-Dictionary Royal fifth edition
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发帖数: 278 | 40 Atrocity is recognized as such by victim and perpetrator
alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove.
Atrocity has no excuses, no mitigating argument. Atrocity
never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms
the future for more atrocity. It is self-perpetuating upon
itself -- a barbarous form of incest. Whoever commits
atrocity also commits those future atrocities thus bred.
-The Apocrypha of Muad'Dib
Shortly after noon, when most of the pilgrims had
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发帖数: 278 | 41 Peace demands solutions, but we never reach living
solutions; we only work toward them. A fixed solution is, by
definition, a dead solution. The trouble with peace is that
it tends to punish mistakes instead of rewarding brilliance.
-The Words of My Father: an account of Muad'Dib
reconstructed by Harq al-Ada
"She's training him? She's training Farad'n?"
Alia glared at Duncan Idaho with a deliberate mix of
anger and incredulity. The Guild heighliner had swung into
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发帖数: 278 | 42 The future of prescience cannot always be locked into the
rules of the past. The threads of existence tangle according
to many unknown laws. Prescient future insists on its own
rules. It will not conform to the ordering of the Zensunni
nor to the ordering of science. Prescience builds a relative
integrity. It demands the work of this instant, always
warning that you cannot weave every thread into the fabric
of the past.
-Kalima: The Words of Muad'Dib, The Shuloch Commentary
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发帖数: 278 | 43 Church and State, scientific reason and faith, the
individual and his community, even progress and tradition --
all of these can be reconciled in the teachings of Muad'Dib.
He taught us that there exist no intransigent opposites
except in the beliefs of men. Anyone can rip aside the veil
of Time. You can discover the future in the past or in your
own imagination. Doing this, you win back your consciousness
in your inner being. You know then that the universe is a
coherent whole and you are indiv |
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发帖数: 41 | 44 Correction: checked the original book, it is Muad'dib, not Muadi'b. Sorry for
the wrong spelling.
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发帖数: 2416 | 45
You didn't know that? Those were what Muah'Dib, er, I mean, Genghis Khan,
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发帖数: 44466 | 46 我也反对优化。真正速度敏感的东西应该抽出来单独搞。
比方说写图形程序，用脚本语言建立DIB调用GDI函数，速度比Java裸数组快了不少，和
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发帖数: 19398 | 47 #!/usr/bin/env pike
// legal.pike - Count the number of legal go boards.
// Copyright 2005 by Gunnar Farneb?ck
// [email protected]
/* */
//
// You are free to do whatever you want with this code.
//
//
// This program computes the number of legal go board configurations
// for a rectangular board of a given size. It is efficient enough to
// handle boards up to 8x8 within minutes and up to 11x11 in less than
// 24 hours (on a fast computer). For rectangular boa... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3066 | 49 no, this is no QC job.
I think this is an IC ATE test engineer, usually responsible for doing ATE
side control software development, DIB PCB design/layout, IC test pattern
debug, IC characterization etc. Got couple of friends doing this, earns
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发帖数: 19398 | 50 第一次进入 Hispanic 社区小学普及围棋（图）
今天进入一个Hispanic 社区的小学普及围棋。
课堂的照片都在老师那里，我只是在校园外面拍摄了几张街景——
消防水龙头已经破损（真没在其他社区见过），街道两边似乎也没有扫雪。
于是有人自己扫完雪之后，摆几个桶或者是椅子占位。
（如果你会说 “I have dibs on this spot”，人就会以为你来自芝加哥的冬天了。）
围棋数学的魅力依然，孩子们照旧很喜欢围棋，
还没下课就开始问明天能不能再来。
不过真正让我感到担忧的，是这个Hispanic社区孩子们的数学能力。
我使用的是专门设计的初学者小围棋棋盘
下完棋要数自己的地盘，而加减法一般都在50以内。
今天遇到的一个情况，一块地盘是19，另外一块地盘是3，
需要知道总地盘是多少。
3年级4年级的孩子，还要从 19 开始扳手指头往后数，才知道是多少。
每个学生的桌子上都贴了一个数字表，从1写到了100。
其中一些学生就靠数这个表完成简单的加减法。
第一次进入Hispanic社区普及围棋。
深深感到这些美国孩子的数学能力太弱了。
围棋数学，更加任重而道远。 |
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