Most people have curiousity on their concerning issues, especially on unknown things. Sometimes they mystify the matters and consider them divine, and sometimes not: they try to clarify the fact with their scientific knowledges and logics. Unfortunately, there’s no absolute fact in this world actually. All of the principles and doctrines came from observation. The facts just prove that their observations would be repeated in some environment.

Unknown things are many, even more than known. And it’s truely meaningful to explore the mysterious world. But it’s also true that nobody can sure there is a clear answer of it. For example, the existence of soul and their interactions cannot be proved because it is not defined with scientific words. Experience may show us, but not prove it.

Sometimes, unknown is virtue. Incorrect imagination makes dullish fanatics with distorted and intricate manner. That kind of belief may yield macabre tales like myth, and specify religious or systematic rules with wasteful rituals. Am I talking about heresy? If there’s something righteous, yes. I don’t know what is righteous. Instead, I BELIEVE that something is right. That’s all. Even though I don’t know about details, truely I’m happy. That’s important.

Life is.. an intensive monologue..

The human life is full of ironies. Huge desire and futility with the achievement. Loneliness in stacks of people. Enoughness is scarce, shortage is abundant. That delineates the human mind, the feeling of connection between the opposite limits. Recurring circulation would be the bottom line.

The world is simple and somewhat mediocre. However it would be an intricated maze for who is anxious about. How mischievous the mind is! And what is the answer?

Trailblazers easily notice the bellwether of change.

That might be acceptable. But I’m saying about MIND. Nothing is easier or harder than controlling the mind. Wisemen may percept it and overwhelm it.

Emotion is insensible as it comes from inside. But the interference of outside environment is immense. It really affects the emotion, and eventually the mind. This is the only, enormous obstacle. Do not let you put to the nature. Truthfulness should be gushing from consciousness. I think it is the first principle to control the mind.

This is neigher the Oriental thought nor the religion. But a TRUTH.

Apple unveiled iPad which has fantastic features last week. Jobs convinced that it would make a great change in future computer technology. I fully got it because iPad is fresh, simple and even attractive. The product itself is great, but something is controversal. The strategy.

Apple tends to compete against himself. iPad, iPhone and iPod touch are in the similar segmentation. That is, functional duplication exists in those kinds. What if someone who buys iPhone recently gets the news of iPad? He will regret the purchase (or not) but he won’t pour extra money on iPad because he already has iPhone. That is what Apple is missing.

On the other hand, preemption of market is important. Revealing iPad may bring Apple the first-comer advantage. Consider that Apple is not a kind of company who overwhelms the market but a kind of pioneer. He always breaks through the way with his mighty brand name APPLE and his representative, Jobs.

I don’t know which is right to Apple. The thing making me sure is that iPad is now before the judge of market. Personally, I see iPad negatively but who knows? My opinion based on the principle: “Ten advantages cannot cover just one missing.” And I will continue to stare at.

At the head of this posting, I mentioned that meeting is to DECIDE something. However, lots of administrators do this to supervise or to manage something. Meaningless. And it causes a bad effect on efficiency though management is intended to increase efficiency.

Better meeting condition is that meeting agenda is apparent and is obviously determined before starting the meeting. Every members should know why they are in the place. And the manager should check before closing that the decision from discussion is shared enough and is agreed with all of them. It doesn’t have to be unanimous but detractors need to be persuaded with reasonable grounds.

Stubborn members may exist in the team. They rarely tend to be cooperative despite the full agreement except ‘em. Ignore their opinion if and only if their claim is considerably significant. That kind of members usually loose the tension of the meeting and decrease the inspiration by the decision.

I drew an idealistic form of meeting. It is a sort of communication and thus important. Without meaningless meeting, you can get an extremely effective result from the communication tool. What if no meeting is available in your company? Miserable. Please etch the point in mind that meeting is a double-edged sword.

It is notified and broadcast globally so that most people in the world can know the desperate circumstance. They who get the message would feel like me I think. Fortunately, so many volunteers are giving them a great help. They donate money for the recovery, go to the place and save people with their skills like a medical speciality.

I hope the nation be restored soon and reconstruct the system so as to give them who live there happiness. I feel a great respect on to the volunteers in the place and want to applaud them for they dedicate themselves to make smile again.

Absolute rule exists.

I suggest a simple proposition. Consider the one “There’s no absolute rule.” You may find some contradictionary part from the statement easily. If there’s truely no absolute rule, then the assumption is also not an absolute rule. An interesting crash. That is why the absolute rule exists because we all know that there’s no other option but existence and non-existence.

Then what is the absolute rule? In my opinion, entity itself is the truth and the absolute rule. In the other words, IDENTITY would be an appropriate word to describe the notion. Creatures, materials, substances, and the other things which exist in the universe are in the sort of entities. And, furthermore, I don’t deny that there is a relative rule also and I like to call it RELATION. Entities are connected each other in some way and we can say that they have a relation.

Two concepts co-exist in this world. And understanding the fact is very useful to get the hang of the life. There are so many philosophical theories craving the truth of the life but they could not say the relation between wisdom and reality. In modern times, clashes between science and religion happen because they don’t know how to attach one another. I think both  are very kinds of pedants. Non-harmony and non-reconciliation cause lots of arguments out there.

I offer that religion should focus on people’s identity meanwhile science concentrates on relation. Someone may say their roles are reversed (that means religion should manage the relation while science researches identity) but one of the important things to think is, science cannot explain the existence itself. That is my own perspective on the issue.

Again, in conclusion, absolute rule exists. And that’s why the religion is meaningful.

I’ve used a function which converts numeric value into string and I want to show you the method here. First, there is a function converting integer to string (character array allocated in heap area).

static char* ConvertIntToString(const int num) {
   // determine the sign and the number of chars
   int abs_n = abs(num);
   int sign = (num < 0) ? 1 : 0;
   int length = (num != 0) ? (int)log10((double)abs_n) + 1 : 1;

   // assign character array and initialize
   char* converted = new char[length + sign + 1];
   memset(converted, 0, (length + sign + 1) * sizeof(char));

   // copy string from characteristic integer
   int remainder = abs_n;
   for(int i = 0; i < length + sign; i++) {
    converted[length + sign - i - 1] = (remainder % 10) + ‘0′;
    remainder = (int)(remainder / 10);
   }
   if(sign > 0) converted[0] = ‘-’;
   return converted;
}

Moreover, a function converting double to string which is more complex than the previous thing is also available.

static char* ConvertDoubleToString(const double num, const int radix) {
   // divide double number into characteristic and mantissan
   double abs_n = abs(num);
   int sign = (num < 0) ? 1 : 0;
   int characteristic = (int)abs_n;
   double mantissan = abs_n – characteristic;

   // calculate each cipher for characteristic and mantissan
   int length_char = (characteristic != 0) ? (int)log10((double)characteristic) + 1 : 1;
   int length_mant = 0;
   double remainder_mant = mantissan;
   while(remainder_mant > 0) {
    int chars_mant = (int)(remainder_mant * 10);
    remainder_mant = (remainder_mant * 10) – chars_mant;
    length_mant++;
    if(length_mant >= radix) break;
   }
   if(length_mant == 0) length_mant = 1;

   // assign character array and initialize
   char* converted = new char[length_char + length_mant + sign + 2];
   memset(converted, 0, (length_char + length_mant + sign + 2) * sizeof(char));

   // copy string from characteristic integer
   int remainder_char = characteristic;
   for(int i = 0; i < length_char; i++) {
    converted[length_char + sign - i - 1] = (remainder_char % 10) + ‘0′;
    remainder_char = (int)(remainder_char / 10);
   }
   converted[length_char+sign] = ‘.’;

   // copy string from mantissan
   remainder_mant = mantissan;
   for(int i = 0; i < length_mant; i++) {
    int chars_mant = (int)(remainder_mant * 10);
    remainder_mant = (remainder_mant * 10) – chars_mant;
    converted[length_char + sign + i + 1] = chars_mant + ‘0′;
   }
   if(sign > 0) converted[0] = ‘-’;
   return converted;
}

I heard of functions which convert string type value to number, but never for the opposite conversion. I’m not sure that they’re optimized properly but it’s very useful for me at least. Hopefully, it would be a little help for your project. Cheers!

The bigger the market is, the more change occurs in there. Although it is still a significant factor of marketing theory, positioning is less meaningful than the past because the speed of growth in technology is too fast to predict the future market. PC, for instance, was an innovative product before and the software industry led it. And the next runner, laptop appeared and it took the market share of personal desktop. What was the next? Netbook. And then? So many convenient ideas come out to the ground like smart phones, smart books, and the tablet PC, one of the future expectations. With this trend, WWW is going to move to M(mobile) network.

As you know, the world changes fastly. And I think, this unpredictable circumstance affects the marketing methodology. Firstly, I want to focus on the STANDARDIZATION which will help the firm to enlarge the size. Standard is the one which other companies need to follow because customers might be familiar with it. And that will give loyalty on related products.

The second to see is OPENNESS. Personally, I see the downside of Apple who blocks any access to its product and tech. Fascinating product may get their fame but quarantined one may go shortly. The best is, fully enticing and open to the public. Why is people enthusiastic on the product like Nexus one, Google unveiled yesterday? It looks great and gets numerous potential from openness.

New big market needs new principles of marketing and new business strategies. In this world, myriads of ideas are up and down, stability is not the only virtue but also adaptiveness. Remember the definition of marketing itself: the process associated with promotion for sale goods or services.

The first is the hardest but the next is the harvest. Most people are fearful for the first tryout. But they would be surprised when they know they have a capacity to be skillful for many kind of works. They judge themselves easily that they cannot do the thing. Why not focus on the possibility?

Recently, I found a very interesting thing that anyone can get into the level above the normality when he or she continues to do something. Of course you may not achieve the highest level in the area you try to do, but I guess that Speciality is out of demand and Generality is needed to connect lots of specialists in the future time.

Actually this argument advocates myself. I like to learn about many things; computer science, business, maganement, finance, world politics, music, design, etc. Simply it seems such a dick to split the attention into many areas but I believe that it would work someday as communication issues arise in modern business world. Grouping different kinds of teams would make the company efficient and can deliver plenty of benefits.

And also, it nutures your ability of adaption to every circumstance even though the world changes fastly. And Generality is a kind of great capacity to be respectful hidden behind the global trend of uniting nations.

Be accustomed to do the first tryout. That would be an immeasurable value.

Android, Google’s mobile operating system, continues to arise. Yet the market share is quite low but its potential is immeasurable. Because of its openness as an open source project, it gives developers the chance to deal with such a wonderful gadget. One of the warrants for failure is its low gaining as the scale of market is still small and narrow. But future market depends on the latency to grow.

Then, why Android? Other competitors like iPhone, Symbian, Windows Mobile also have their own market share (even much bigger share than Android) The focus is on the possibility. Motivation moves everything. Easiness and compatibility are attracting developers to make something with plenty of widgets and tools, and that is the motivation. As though motivated market has grown fastly, Android will show a great change in this digital world by igniting the motions.