“技术不被商业接受，就没有价值”

这是百度CEO李彦宏最近的经典语录。
李彦宏应该算是中国精英中的一位了。我们也可以从中看出，无论是政府还是精英，他们对技术的态度。
我本身是搞技术的，也有很多搞技术的朋友。在中国的基本上都持李彦宏相似的观点。如果中国继续按照这样的思路走下去，在技术上，几十年内是不可能追上西方发达国家的。
以美国为例，有很大一批科学家正在从事现在看起来没什么商业价值的研究，他们的研究结果可能在几十年以后才会有用。可无论是政府还是民间基金会都对这些研究予以支持。说起来，这就是价值观的不同。目前中国无论是商业，制造业还是科学技术都比较短视。其结果可能在不远的将来就会显现。

中国精英的最大的不足是缺乏将自己的独立性，常常将自己定为于政府的附庸--编造或创造各种各样的理论为政府的政策辩护。实在让人失望。

"菲尔普斯"层出不穷 美国新生代让世界震撼

看到这样的标题，可能很多中国人的第一个念头是: 这些运动员多半是吃禁药了。

美国游泳能常胜不衰，一定令中国体育官员们羡慕不已，特想能搞到点秘密。其实美国游泳没什么秘密。唯一难学的是，他们的游泳实在是太普及了。女儿小时候代她到YMCA去学游泳，曾看到一次很小范围的高中生对抗赛前的训练课。我的感觉就是震惊--训练有素，水平很高。我当时就想，以美国这样的游泳后备人才，在世界上称霸上十几年应该没问题。如果中国依旧采取目前的体系，短时间大概没什么希望赶上美国。

美国人在青少年时期培养的是对体育的热爱。象这种没有职业生涯的体育运动，靠的是热爱和大学的训练。当然各国都有自己的传统的项目。象乒乓球，羽毛球这样的项目，美国人五十年怕也赶不上中国。

中国的体育领导人似乎是没搞明白，美国的职业体育是属于娱乐业的。只是他们把这种娱乐水平搞得很高。当欧洲人把美国NBA的球星打败时，似乎对他们来说不是什么了不得的大事。CBA走NBA的路不是什么错误，只是要搞清楚一些基本的概念。

心理不正常的美国人

报载，在美国心理不正常(mental disorders/psychological disorders)导致的因病缺席是跟在背痛和脖子痛之后的第3位。
在美国，每年因为心理不正常而影响工作，学习和其他日常活动为13亿天。其中
忧郁: 3亿8千7百万
社交恐惧: 2亿1千4百万
伤后压力: 1亿1千3百万
一般焦虑: 1亿1千万
两极情绪无序(Bipolar disorder): 1亿3百万


这里还有些有趣有关打鼾的数据
3千7百万经常性地打鼾
15-20%比较严重的打鼾者在打鼾时会短暂地停止呼吸，这被称为sleep apnea
Sleep apnea减少深度睡眠并且极大地增加心脏病的危险
那些喷嗓子的药的唯一的好处是减少打鼾的音量

Randy的最后一堂课

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch/
建议英文不够好的，可以一边看一边读。该网址两者都提供了。

已经很久很久没有听这样的演讲了。睿智，风趣，感人。

我一直认为，大学(甚至中学)不仅仅是学习知识的地方，更重要的是思考人生和学习人生哲学的好地方。而一个足以让青年学子钦佩，可以成为青年学子榜样的人，对一个世界观没有完全成熟的年青人来说，就太重要了。这正是好学校不缺乏的。

到了这个年龄，见到的死亡越来越多，也常常不由自主想想死亡。发现我的修行差得远。


转贴一些问答

Question: With your passion for life and positive attitude, have you thought about the idea that the math may be wrong? -- Vicky, Oakland Park, Fla.

Randy Pausch: Oh, I certainly am not opposed to a miracle. I would love for my doctors to be saying to me, boy, this -- we can't explain this at all, right. I'd love that and certainly I've considered that, and I never give up hope. But having, having hope for something that you think is really, really unlikely to happen is not inconsistent with confronting the reality and doing the things you need to do with what is presumably a very small amount of time left. And I don't view those as being contradictory at all.

Q: If you could have chosen years ago to have known the knowledge that you would get this disease with its predicted outcome, would you have elected to be told? -- Sandy, Farmingham, Mich.

R.P.: As an academic, I'm always inclined to say that, you know, information is better than not having it. Answering this question in real time, I'm not quite sure -- the question that really begs is, if you roll the clock back far enough and I knew I was gonna die, I'd be really questioning, you know, would I have had children if I'd known that they were going to be at their current ages and I was gonna die.

I think that would be a responsible question that any thinking person would stare hard in the mirror.

The thing that's related to this that I will absolutely say is that, you know, would you rather get hit by a bus or get, you know, a couple of months' notice? I don't like the physical pain part of this that comes at the tail end, but there's no doubt in my mind, speaking only for myself, that having a couple of months' notice is infinitely better than getting hit by the proverbial bus.

And that's because it allows you time to sort of lessen the impact on others who are going to suffer consequences and do everything you can to make their lives easier. And I saw my father, who also died of cancer do that for my mother and use his remaining time very, very effectively and I knew she was very grateful for that.

Q: If you could study any new subject you haven't pursued yet, what would it be? -- Jack, Galveston, Texas

R.P.: Oh man! You didn't tell me the questions were gonna be this hard! One of my great regrets is that I never forced myself, and I won't say I never had the time or made the time -- I never forced myself to really learn a musical instrument. And so, particularly now that I have children, I would have really liked to have forced myself to do that so that I could put music into their lives. So I think that that would be, you know, if that's a fair answer to the question, the topic would be, you know, playing music.

Some Comments

dear randy&family.god bless each of you at this difficult time like so many other people, i too lost the love of my life to pancreatic cancer my bff( my mother).shes been gone 14 months now.and the pain is still so fresh..it was a life changing expierence for our family.she was diagonsed in april. i couldnt stop the .tears streaming down my face as the dr. told us the news.im the oldest of 5 children all grown now(with the youngest being 30)..i followed the dr. out of the room i choked on my words as i asked how long she had left,he said months.i realized he couldnt even say 6 months.we left the drs, office to stop for lunch as we sat at the rest.i forced myself to order lunch .i didnt feel like eating i felt like throwing up..my mom said to us I CAN BE BRAVE IF YOU KIDS CAN BE STRONG.i never cried in front of her afterwards, i was just there for her ,supporting her.taking her to chemo,sitting with her holding her hand.she was indeed the bravest person ive ever known..she passed away on sept 10 2006.on this day i prayed to god to take her.she had been on oxogen 24-7 .28 pills a day and shots in the belly for blood clots 12 days.before she died she said iim done with all treatment ,before she began the transition period as i sat by her bed i told her i loved her and i was REALLY gonna miss her and she said and oh how i love you honey and im really gonna miss you too.i said goodbye..to be honest the day she died i felt better than i had in 5 months ,she was no longer suffering..in the weeks and months that followed i realized that part of me too had died;i was closer to my mom than anyone in the world..since her death at times i feel so blessed for having her as long as i did.other times i felt.ripped off,i wasnt ready to lose her..my mother believed in god and that he had other plans for her.i apologized to god for i felt he must of been on vacation all the times i prayed. god bless you and your.family at this time.i know what your going thru..

Posted by: midnite167 Nov-12