In Windows XP/2003 Source Kit after you open a razzle window you just need to execute 'alias' and navigate to the project window and build the specified project. with the build utility.
Alias
In Windows XP/2003 Source Kit after you open a razzle window you just need to execute 'alias' and navigate to the project window and build the specified project. with the build utility.
Colonial Order of the Crown
Colonial Order of the Crown® Established 1890
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We welcome the submission of content for our Website.
Eligibility for membership in this Society is based upon lineal descent from the Emperor Charlemagne.We encourage interest and welcome new members. If you are qualified, we encourage you to complete the lineage forms and submit them to the Society along with either a proposal from a member or your cv or resume. Please be sure to include your references and documentation, with copies, to establish your qualifications.
Normally candidates for membership are proposed for membership by other members. Considering that many outstanding candidates may not know a member but be committed to the purposes and mission of our Society and who share our interest in the origin of our constitutional liberty and in genealogy, we have adopted a procedure where a candidate could submit a cv or resume reflecting his or her interests and accomplishments. That information, along with the lineage information, will be considered by the Society.
Family members on same board is recipe for conflict of interest | Notes on Nonprofits
"I have been thinking about this question: “Is it a good idea to have related family members serve together on the same nonprofit board?”
I will state up-front I am not in favor of related family members serving on a board at the same time because it can create a conflict of interest, the appearance of a conflict of interest, and other pitfalls."
https://www.tallahassee.com/story/life/causes/2022/08/01/family-members-board-recipe-conflict-interest/10186907002/
Adaptation to Colonialism
"Adaptation to colonialism refers to the various strategies and changes
that indigenous populations undertook in response to the pressures and
influences of European colonization. This adaptation often involved
transforming social structures, economic practices, and cultural norms
to navigate the challenges posed by colonizers while attempting to
retain aspects of their identity and autonomy. The process was complex
and multifaceted, leading to both resistance and collaboration."
https://library.fiveable.me/key-terms/native-american-history/adaptation-to-colonialism
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Debate Bill Gates and Charlton Sheets
https://www.mcspotlight.org/debate/workers/messages/2521.html
Build your own SPARC workstation with QEMU and Solaris
"Back in the late 80s and through the 90s, Unix workstations were super powerful, super cool, and super expensive. If you were making 3D graphics or developing applications, you wanted a high-performance workstation and Sun made some of the best ones. But unless you worked for a huge company, university, or government, they were probably too expensive.
More than twenty years later, we have much more powerful and
affordable computers, so let's emulate the old systems and see what it
was like to run some of the coolest computers you could buy in the 90s".
https://learn.adafruit.com/build-your-own-sparc-with-qemu-and-solaris?view=all
Installing X-Windows and Motif
#pkg install xorg#pkg install open-motif#pkg install xlm #pkg install xdm #pkg installdrm-515-kmod
#kldload i915kms$ echo "mwm" > ~/.xinitrc
$ startx https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics The book uses Solaris UNIX 2.5 There are the mwm, fwm, twm fvwm95 for the Windows 95 look andfeel.. UNIX® Certified Products
"The Open Group UNIX standards offer the most stable, portable and
cost-effective applications development environment for a wide range of
platforms from mobile devices to mainframes. For end-user enterprises,
procuring certified UNIX systems ensures the highest level of
availability, scalability, and maintainability for those who want to
focus on their business with confidence in their IT.
UNIX certification is a trusted and open system industry standard,
ensuring that products conform to the most exacting criteria for
portability, compatibility, and global interoperability. This enables
buyers to specify UNIX conformance in procurement's, facilitates Boundary less Information Flow™, and enhances the perception of the UNIX
system as a consistently stable, flexible, and reliable operating
system."
Xinuos Sues IBM and Red Hat for Antitrust Violations and Copyright Infringement, Alleges IBM Has Been Misleading its Investors Since 2008
ST. THOMAS, U.S. Virgin Islands, March 31, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Xinuos, Inc., a software company headquartered in the U.S. Virgin Islands that provides commercial customers with server operating systems, today filed a copyright infringement and antitrust lawsuit against International Business Machines Corp. ("IBM") and Red Hat, Inc. ("Red Hat") in the United States District Court of the Virgin Islands, St. Thomas and St. John Division. Xinuos alleges that IBM and Red Hat, using wrongfully copied software code, have engaged in additional, illegal anti-competitive misconduct to corner the billion-dollar market for Unix and Linux server operating systems.
"While this case is about Xinuos and the theft of our intellectual property," said Sean Snyder, President and CEO of Xinuos. "It is also about market manipulation that has harmed consumers, competitors, the open-source community, and innovation itself."
According to the complaint, at their peak, Xinuos' operating systems were the most widely-used operating systems in the Unix/Linux server operating system market. Xinuos' UnixWare 7 and OpenServer 5 and 6 server operating systems were popular because they were stable, reliable, and easy to manage. Xinuos alleges that in or around this time, IBM's server operating systems were declining in popularity and new entrants to the market, such as Red Hat, were gaining market share and threatening IBM's server operating system business, its underlying business selling server hardware, as well as related software and services.
Xinuos' complaint alleges that IBM then took unlawful steps to improve its market position and safeguard its business from competition:
"First, IBM stole Xinuos' intellectual property and used that stolen property to build and sell a product to compete with Xinuos itself. Second, stolen property in IBM's hand, IBM and Red Hat illegally agreed to divide the relevant market and use their growing market powers to victimize consumers, innovative competitors, and innovation itself. Third, after IBM and Red Hat launched their conspiracy, IBM then acquired Red Hat to solidify and make permanent their scheme."
The complaint further alleges that IBM has been misleading its investors about its rights to use Xinuos' code for more than a decade:
"IBM has made demonstrably and materially misleading statements in securities filings about its ownership interest in the Code. In every annual report filed with the SEC since 2008, IBM has represented that a third-party owns all of the UNIX and UnixWare copyrights, and that this third-party has waived any infringement claim against IBM. These self-serving representations are demonstrably false and misleading to investors and potential asset purchasers."
The complaint also details IBM's and Red Hat's alleged conspiracy, summarizing it as follows:
"Thereafter, IBM and Red Hat…divided the market for enterprise clients to protect IBM's precious high-end server, software, and services business, they promoted each other's operating system products, and they granted each other special technical access and abilities that were not made generally available and from which Xinuos and others were specifically excluded. These bad acts continue to this day."
Xinuos alleges that the IBM and Red Hat conspiracy has harmed the open-source community and specifically Xinuos' OpenServer 10 product, which is based on FreeBSD, an open-source UNIX-based operating system and alternative to Red Hat's Linux-based open-source operating system, RHEL. "By dominating the Unix/Linux server operating system market, competing open-source operating systems, like our FreeBSD-based OpenServer 10, have been pushed out of the market," said Snyder. "This prevents developers and consumers from receiving the benefits that these products have to offer."
Xinuos asserts claims under the copyright infringement provisions of 17 U.S. Code §101, the Sherman Antitrust Act, the Clayton Antitrust Act, the Virgin Islands Antimonopoly Law, and Virgin Islands Unfair Competition and Unjust Enrichment common law. Xinuos has asked for both monetary damages and injunctive relief.
About Xinuos, Inc.
Xinuos provides commercial customers with operating systems that are reliable, dependable, and secure for mission-critical applications that demand rock-solid performance. The Xinuos general-purpose operating systems are on pace with hardware and software industry advances and are designed to power any size business that requires stability, reliability, and scalability. Learn more at www.xinuos.com.
Contact:
Simone Jackenthal
SJackenthal@tridentdmg.com
(202) 923-5296
SOURCE Xinuos
My So-Called Code Center Priemium
I have had my Symbols since 1997 and NT 4.0 and accumulating up to Windows 10. Until the Windows Installer Service just wasn't strong enough to install all the debug symbols that you would have to retrieve it from the symbol store at Microsoft. if you have all your debug symbols you can set up a private symbol server and work with debug help to retrieve the source files from the servers using the DIA SDK and the Debug Help API. Really it is up to the partners to make a dbghelp solution if they haven't already I might have a older one in my files. If I do I'll put it on my GitHub. Corporate has a supply chain. Microsoft needs to work on their Component Source relationship. I own Sparx Systems stock from Australia. I paid for my Code Jock Suite Pro 98.
https://github.com/sharedsourceinitiative/Debugging-Code-Center-Premium
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/dbghelp/
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/dbghelp/nf-dbghelp-symgetsourcefile
Using SymChk
The basic syntax for SymChk is as follows:
FileNames specifies one or more program files whose symbols are needed. If FileNames is a directory and the /r flag is used, this directory is explored recursively, and SymChk will try to find symbols for all program files in this directory tree. SymbolPath specifies where SymChk is to search for symbols.
There are many more command-line optinos. For a full listing, see SymChk Command-Line Options.
The symbol path specified can include any number of local directories, UNC directories, or symbol servers. Local directories and UNC directories are not searched recursively. Only the specified directory and a subdirectory based on the executable's extension are searched. For example, the query
will search g:\mysymbols and g:\mysymbols\sys.
You can specify a symbol server by using either of the following syntaxes as part of your symbol path:
srv*\\Server\Share
This is very similar to using a symbol server in the debugger's symbol path. For details on this, see Using Symbol Servers and Symbol Stores.
If a downstream store is specified, SymChk will make copies of all valid symbol files found by the symbol server and place them in the downstream store. Only symbol files that are complete matches are copied downstream.
SymChk always searches the downstream store before querying the symbol server. Therefore you should be careful about using a downstream store when someone else is maintaining the symbol store. If you run SymChk once and it finds symbol files, it will copy those to the downstream store. If you then run SymChk again after these files have been altered or deleted on the symbol store, SymChk will not notice this fact, since it will find what it is looking for on the downstream store and look no further.
Note SymChk always uses SymSrv (Symsrv.dll) as its symbol server DLL. On the other hand, the debuggers can choose a symbol server DLL other than SymSrv if one is available. (SymSrv is the symbol server included in the Debugging Tools for Windows package.)
Examples
Here are some examples. The following command searches for symbols for the program Myapp.exe:
SYMCHK: Myapp.exe FAILED - Myapp.pdb is missing
SYMCHK: FAILED files = 1
SYMCHK: PASSED + IGNORED files = 0
You can try again with a different symbol path:
SYMCHK: FAILED files = 0
SYMCHK: PASSED + IGNORED files = 1
The search was successful this time. If the verbose option is not used, SymChk will only list files for which it failed to find symbols. So in this example no files were listed. You can tell that the search succeeded because there is now one file listed in the "passed" category and none in the "failed" category.
A program file is ignored if it contains no executable code. Many resource files are of this type.
If you prefer to see the file names of all program files, you can use the /v option to generate verbose output:
SYMCHK: MyApp.exe PASSED
SYMCHK: FAILED files = 0
SYMCHK: PASSED + IGNORED files = 1
The following command searches for a huge number of Windows symbols in a symbol server. There are a great variety of possible error messages:
Taken from the MSDN Library
Mets fire Buck Showalter after disappointing season
NEW YORK -- For the fifth time in six years, the New York Mets are in the market for a manager.
Buck Showalter was fired Sunday after a disappointing season in which baseball's highest-spending team tumbled from contention by midsummer.
The 67-year-old Showalter said before the 2023 finale against Philadelphia that he will not return next year, and a few minutes later the Mets announced the club had decided on the change.
New York plans to introduce David Stearns as president of baseball operations on Monday, placing him above general manager Billy Eppler. Showalter's departure with a year remaining on his three-year contract clears the way for Stearns to pick the next manager.https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/38539509/buck-showalter-return-mets-manager-2024
IMDb Enhancement Content: User Reviews
An add-on to IMDb's Essential metadata package. Includes text of user-written reviews of movies, TV shows, and video games from IMDb's global audience of more than 200 million visitors. Content is in English.
The dataset contains the 'Most Helpful' user-written
reviews as voted by IMDb's users. Each title inlucludes up to 15
reviews, with a mix of review lengths.
Amazon Fires Producer Joel Silver From Films Starring Mark Wahlberg, Jake Gyllenhaal Over Verbal Abuse
"For the past few years, Joel Silver has kept a relatively low profile, his most recent credit on the little-seen “SuperFly” remake of 2018. Still, the hard-charging producer behind some of the biggest hits of the ’80s and ’90s was attempting to mount a comeback. And his prospects looked promising with a series of feature film and TV projects at Amazon that were based on Donald E. Westlake’s Parker noir crime novels.
Alas, the Silver comeback has hit a snag. Sources say Amazon has fired
the polarizing Hollywood figure from at least two films — one starring
Mark Wahlberg, the other Jake Gyllenhaal — for being verbally abusive to
two female executives. But sources close to Silver say Amazon is
retaliating against the producer after he pushed back on the studio’s
calls to use artificial intelligence to finish a movie during the
strike. Amid the chaos, Silver’s longtime friend Robert Downey Jr. has
quietly exited one of the projects."
Anne M. Mulcahy
"Mulcahy joined Xerox as a field sales representative in 1976 and rose through the ranks. From 1992 to 1995, Mulcahy was vice president for human resources, responsible for compensation, benefits, human resource strategy, labor relations, management development, and employee training. She became a chief staff officer in 1997 and corporate senior vice president in 1998. Prior to that, she served as vice president and staff officer for Customer Operations, covering South America and Central America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and China. [5] Though never intent on running Xerox, she was selected by the board of directors in 2001. Later in her tenure, she ordered a restructuring that cut annual expenses by $1.7 billion, cut the workforce by 25,000 jobs, and sold $2.3 billion in non-core assets to reduce Xerox's long-term debt.[6] [citation needed]
When she became CEO on Aug 1, 2001, the stock price was $8.25, and on Jan 1, 2002. when she became chairwoman. the stock price was $10.05. On May 21, 2009, the day she announced her retirement as CEO, the stock price was $6.82.[citation needed]
Mulcahy served on four other Boards of Directors besides Xerox. She also served on Catalyst, Citigroup, Fuji Xerox, and Target Corp. A letter sent to Citi shareholders on March 26, 2009, by the labor union, American Federation of State County & Municipal Employees (AFSCME), recommended shareholders vote against re-electing six of their directors"The real danger in Sinclair Broadcast’s ‘fake news’ scandal
"Over the last month, viewers in dozens of local media markets across the country began to hear impassioned warnings from their trusted local anchors about the danger mainstream media outlets and “false news” posed to democracy.
It was soon discovered that these weren’t genuine outpourings of principle or belief from the anchors, but scripted monologues mandated by their superiors, and repeated verbatim across the country. Sinclair Broadcast Group
, the single largest owner of local television stations in the United States, had sent down marching orders; these were must-runs.
Must-runs are nothing new for Sinclair station employees; they’ve been happening for ages: prepackaged stories designed to be aired over a specific period of time during local newscasts, and very often politically charged.
They’ve included mandatory daily terrorism stories, hit pieces on Hillary Clinton, and forceful denunciations of “fake news,” a term with which we are all by now deeply familiar. The past month’s word-for-word diatribes are simply the latest example of this, and notably, have finally caught public notice."
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/03/the-real-danger-in-sinclair-broadcasts-fake-news-scandal.html
https://www.prwatch.org/fakenews/tv-stations
Mac OS X Server 1.0
"Mac OS X Server 1.0 is an operating system developed by Apple, Inc. released on March 16, 1999.[1] It was the first version of Mac OS X Server.
It was Apple's first commercial product to be derived from "Rhapsody"—an eventual replacement for the classic Mac OS derived from NeXTSTEP's architecture (acquired in 1997 as part of Apple's purchase of NeXT) and BSD-like Mach kernel. It could run applications written using the "Yellow Box" API, and featured components such as NetBoot, the QuickTime Streaming Server, components carried over from NeXTSTEP, and the "Blue Box" environment (which allows a Mac OS 8.5 session to be launched as a separate process to run legacy Mac OS software).
Mac OS X Server 1.0 was a prelude to the first consumer-oriented version of the OS—Mac OS X 10.0—which was released in 2001. It did not include the eventual Aqua user interface (instead using NeXTSTEP's Workspace Manager shell mixed with aspects of Mac OS 8's "Platinum" user interface) or Carbon API"
EOL 2022
Virtual Box Teleporting
"When you want to run a virtual machine, you have several hypervisors to
choose from, including two of the most popular products: Oracle
VirtualBox and Microsoft Hyper-V. So how do you decide which one to
choose: VirtualBox or Hyper-V? Both solutions provide many features that
allow you to run and manage VMs. Read the VirtualBox vs Hyper-V
comparison to understand the differences between these two hypervisors
and select the one that better meets your needs"
https://www.nakivo.com/blog/hyper-v-virtualbox-one-choose-infrastructure/
SQL Injection
"SQL Injection attacks (or SQLi) alter SQL queries, injecting malicious code by exploiting application vulnerabilities.
Successful SQLi attacks allow attackers to modify database information, access sensitive data, execute admin tasks on the database, and recover files from the system. In some cases attackers can issue commands to the underlying database operating system.
The severe impact of these attacks makes it critical for developers to adopt practices that prevent SQL injection, such as parameterized queries, stored procedures, and rigorous input validation."
https://brightsec.com/blog/sql-injection-attack/
SQL Injection and DoSS Faternity in Azure
Microsoft handled 238 internal complaints of sexual harassment and discrimination in a “lacklustre” way, according to court documents published this week.
Between 2010 and 2016, women in technical jobs at the company lodged 108 complaints of sexual harassment, 119 complaints of gender discrimination, eight complaints of retaliation and three complaints of pregnancy discrimination.
The plaintiffs accuse the world’s largest software company of systematically denying pay rises or promotions to women and has an “exclusionary ‘boys’ club’ atmosphere” that is “rife with sexual harassment”.
At least three women reported sexual assault or rape by male co-workers, including a female intern who alleged rape by a male intern, reported the rape to the police as well as her supervisor and HR, and yet was forced to work alongside her accused rapist
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/13/microsoft-sexual-harassment-lawsuit-lacklustre-response
Monster Career Builder
CHICAGO, Sept. 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- We are excited to announce that with the completion of all customary regulatory approvals, the agreement to combine CareerBuilder and Monster is now finalized. As previously announced, the combination of CareerBuilder and Monster brings together two strong, trusted, complementary brands to create a job board with greater scale and reach. Together, both companies can more effectively capitalize on prevailing trends in the market to deliver enhanced growth.
Jeff Furman, CEO of the
combined company, said: "I could not be more excited to bring these two
celebrated brands together. We are able to leverage the best-in-class
solutions, capabilities, and expertise from both companies to better
serve both our candidates and employers and help them navigate the
evolving talent marketplace."
Moore’s Moral Philosophy
G.E. Moore’s Principia Ethica of 1903 is often considered a revolutionary work that set a new agenda for 20th-century ethics. This historical view is, however, somewhat overstated. In metaethics Moore’s non-naturalist realism was close to that defended by Henry Sidgwick and other late 19th-century philosophers such as Hastings Rashdall, Franz Brentano, and J.M.E. McTaggart; in normative ethics his ideal consequentialism likewise echoed views of Rashdall, Brentano, and McTaggart. But Principia Ethica presented its views with unusual force and vigor. In particular, it made much more of the alleged errors of metaethical naturalism than Sidgwick or Rashdall had, saying they vitiated most previous moral philosophy. For this reason, Moore’s work had a disproportionate influence on 20th-century moral philosophy and remains the best-known expression of a general metaethical view also shared by later writers such as H.A. Prichard, W.D. Ross, and C.D. Broad.
Go against Moore you are an enemy of the state. Or against society.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moore-moral/
My College UNIX-Like BSD
To install the MATE desktop environment and Slim so you can design your own Slim themes. Please no baby picture themes please. First "pkg delete" all of your old desktop environment packages and settings and then remove and unwanted dependencies with "pkg autoremove". The installation of a new desktop envirnoment is usually done after a clean install of FreeBSD. If some of the packages names change over time be sure to look them up on the freshports website.
Step 1:
#pkg install xf86-video-ati mate-desktop mate xorg
Step 2:
Add the following lines to /etc/rc.conf
moused_enable="YES"
dbus_enable="YES"
hald_enable="YES"
Step 3:
#pkg install slim
Step 4:
Add the following line to /etc/rc.conf
slim_enable="YES"
Step 5:
Create the following .xinitrc file in the user’s home directory and add the following line.
exec mate-session
Step 6:
You might have to configure slim by enabling the following line in your slim.conf file. Or if you are using bash enable it for bash.
login_cmd exec /bin/sh - ~/.xinitrc %session
Reboot
Quantum Physics and the Existence of God
"Interpretations of quantum physics presuppose the
reality of consciousness. But if a minimal realism about the external
world is true, then the consciousness presupposed by quantum reality
cannot be only that of the scientific observer, cannot be only ‘local’
but must be ‘global’. Global consciousness is argued to have all and
only the essential properties of God. Quantum reality depends on God’s
consciousness and the physical world depends on quantum reality.
Therefore, the physical world depends on God’s consciousness.
We know, from the recent empirical confirmations of Bell’s criticism of the Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen experiment (EPR)1,
that quantum reality does not depend on anything classical: there is no
macroscopic Newton–Einstein world more fundamental than the quantum
level. It follows that consciousness does not depend on, and is
irreducible to, anything physical. If the quantum depends on
consciousness, and consciousness were to depend on the physical, then
the quantum would depend on the physical (via consciousness). But that
is precisely ruled out by Bell’s criticism of the EPR experiment and by
subsequent practical work.2
It
has often been pointed out that, for reasons peculiar to it, the
popular Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics seems to
presuppose consciousness. Here, it is argued that no
interpretation escapes this presupposition. The reasons for this are
not always so closely tied to the unique character of the interpretation
in question. Nonetheless, interpreters of quantum mechanics are without
exception forced to fall back upon consciousness. The presupposition is
ontological, not just epistemological: consciousness is entailed by
quantum reality, not just by inquiry into quantum reality, by what would
make the theory true, not just by the consciousness of the
theoretician.3
It
follows that some salient tenets of modernity are false: consciousness
does not depend on and is not reducible to the physical world, in any
sense of ‘reducible’, so consciousness is not a product of evolution. We
should not be surprised by this result because, if consciousness were a
product of evolution, consciousness would be an emergent property of
the brain. But the brain, for all its anatomical complexity, is only
billions of atoms in empty space, and billions of atoms in empty space
are neither logically nor causally sufficient for consciousness.
Consciousness did not evolve.4
Some
important theses are entailed: the Thomist theses that God is his
existence, and God is actus purus, and the idealist thesis that the
physical world depends on consciousness. Being, Presence, and
Consciousness itself are, fundamentally understood, the persons of the
Holy Trinity.
This paper is a summary of an
unpublished book manuscript, and I do not pretend that there is not much
more to be said about the problems and their putative solutions"
Perficient Architects Microsoft Azure Cloud Modernization Solutions for Builders FirstSource
SAINT LOUIS (July 24, 2023) – Perficient, Inc. (Nasdaq: PRFT) (“Perficient”), the leading global digital consultancy transforming the world’s largest enterprises and biggest brands, today announced that it successfully partnered with Builders FirstSource (NYSE: BLDR), the largest U.S. supplier of structural building products and services to the professional market for residential and multi-family construction, to develop a new, cloud-native application for roof and floor truss manufacturing. The unified cloud platform implementation allows Builders FirstSource to better scale future operations and fully integrate new acquisitions across all operating plants.
As a Microsoft Azure partner, Perficient guided Builders FirstSource in developing a new, cloud-native system that would unify manufacturing execution system (MES) processes across the enterprise and their physical truss manufacturing locations. With a standard tool enforcing best practices, capturing job analytics, and automating integrations with raw material databases, Builders FirstSource has increased visibility into material availability and improved production and purchasing scheduling, resulting in a faster turnaround for their customers.
“We needed a more agile and unified manufacturing organization. Efficiency is key in this business, so the more efficient we can run across our factories, the more profitable our business can be,” said Mike McCranie, CIO, Builders FirstSource. “With an infinitely scalable cloud solution we can now move our other on-premises technologies in the manufacturing space to the cloud, thereby streamlining our processes.”
Perficient was recognized as a 2023 Microsoft U.S. Partner of the Year finalist for its cloud native app development work with Builders FirstSource from a set of more than 4,200 submitted nominations. The Microsoft U.S. Partner of the Year Awards recognize Microsoft partners that have developed and delivered outstanding Microsoft-based applications, services, and devices during the past year. The award recognizes Perficient for having a track record of building new cloud-native apps and providing outstanding solutions and services in Cloud Native App Development.
“We’re honored to be recognized by Microsoft as a 2023 U.S. Partner of the Year finalist,” said John Jenkins, vice president, Perficient. “Our Microsoft partnership and expertise enables us to build leading-edge, strategy-driven, cloud-native solutions that are transforming the manufacturing industry. Our commitment to Builders FirstSource and other clients makes Perficient a trusted partner to imagine and execute holistic visions for Microsoft Azure cloud services.”
Perficient is an award-winning Microsoft Solutions Partner with more than 20 years of experience delivering strategic solutions across the Microsoft Cloud. For more information about Perficient’s Microsoft expertise, follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.
About Perficient
Perficient is the leading global digital consultancy. We imagine,
create, engineer, and run digital transformation solutions that help our
clients exceed customers’ expectations, outpace competition, and grow
their business. With unparalleled strategy, creative, and technology
capabilities, we bring big thinking and innovative ideas, along with a
practical approach to help the world’s largest enterprises and biggest
brands succeed. Traded on the Nasdaq Global Select Market, Perficient is
a member of the Russell 2000 index and the S&P SmallCap 600 index.
For more information, visit www.perficient.com.
Safe Harbor Statement
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purely historical statements discuss future expectations or state other
forward-looking information related to financial results and business
outlook for 2023. Those statements are subject to known and unknown
risks, uncertainties, and other factors that could cause the actual
results to differ materially from those contemplated by the statements.
The forward-looking information is based on management’s current intent,
belief, expectations, estimates, and projections regarding our company
and our industry. You should be aware that those statements only reflect
our predictions. Actual events or results may differ substantially.
Important factors that could cause our actual results to be materially
different from the forward-looking statements include (but are not
limited to) those disclosed under the heading “Risk Factors” in our most
recently filed annual report on Form 10-K and other securities filings.
https://www.perficient.com/news-room/news-releases/2023/perficient-architects-microsoft-azure-cloud-modernization-solutions-for-builders-firstsource
Xceed's WPF Toolkit Plus
The control toolkit that beautifully fills in the gaps in WPF. Provides 103 controls, panels, and themes that are needed by every WPF developer in the course of building an application’s UI. There are 9 themes, ensuring the toolkit’s controls are styled to fit right in with the rest of your application’s controls. Equip yourself and your team with Toolkit Plus—and with the help of our technical support team—to improve the programming experience of WPF and to be able to produce software that is otherwise much more difficult and time-consuming to create.
Autobiographical
I'm a 46 year old Royal Society of the Arts Fellow, I'm Jonathan David Moore FRSA I'm a Moore, Chapman, Hathaway(Garthwaite), Turner, Little, Vaughn, Gates, McCulley, Turlington, Bright, Spencer, Roberts, Ryder, and Lyon and Irish Ashkenazim Levite Jewish. The Moore's are related to Bram Stoker. and Irish Ashkenazim Jewish. Microsoft System Integrator with valid contract from 2002-present. INTJ-T tested at the University of California, University of Virginia Computer Science Alumni. With 3.5 GPA Scholar Award. I was UVa's ACM Vice President in 2008-2010. I'm also Windows 7/2008 Internals Certified. Former Macromedia User Group trainer from 1999. WK3 was released on my birthday. I took Computer Science Courses at UVa-Wise including UNIX.
I was born in 1978. I grew up with Alpha, MIPS, VAX and x86 computer architecture. Star Wars and Star Trek. My first computer was a Tandy TRS-80 with Microsoft XENIX in 1984. AT&T System V at Sullins Academy in 1983. I later bought Apple Macintosh Pro's, Hewlett Packard and Dell PC's and servers running OpenVMS, Apple's System, Mac OS X and Windows. I've bought 4 MSDN enterprise subscriptions and have three Microsoft Bizspark grants.
I've worked for ID Software for Quake 1, 2 and 3 Arena. I was born with as lisp. I look forward to Windows Embedded in 2029. To bring back modular round trip engineering of Windows. Because I think Linux is and hacker operating system. Microsoft has a nice UNIX corporate Darwinism with Research UNIX version
7, XEINX, SCO Open Server, OpenVMS, and Decus. Or they used to prior to
Windows 10 and 11.
I'm looking forward to when Microsoft can be called a
Computer Science company not IT. I have two corporate contracts and
NDA's.from Redmond Washington Wa. In 2003 and 2007 respectively. With
letters of recommendation from President Obama, Bill Gates, Steve Balmer,
Galan Hunt, and Midori Lawler. And one entrepreneurial grant from the
National Endowment of the Arts. I'm looking forward to when Microsoft can be called a Computer Science company not IT.
I was raised on DecNet. I've done work with BSD in 2001 on the Common Desktop Environment for x86. I would like to teach the top down software design approach of Bell Labs Plan 9 to students. I have submitted my Bell Labs academic scholar application to Nokia Bell Labs awaiting approval in 2026.
My Microsoft Bizspark startup builds, FreeBSD, Windows NT 4.0, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 from a shared source 2003 system integrator contract in my email.
II have $14.2 million in value in my base account I just need to link the
deposit account to the base account at the bank. The value is in
perpetual software licensing and books. My 10-year portfolio forecast is
$2 million in cash in stock and bonds. I'm debt free. My mother gave my a NASDAQ application I have to this very day. Who was on the board of the YWCA.
Our licensed work is in the Computer History Museum for Macromedia. I own a Macromedia Patent Portfolio. I helped ship Macromedia Studio 8 and Windows Server 2003 and the Windows 11 Dev Drive. I also worked on official Windows 8/8.1 PowerPoint Storyboards. I'm also A Windows Compact Embedded Shared Source Initiative Licensee 2000-2023. My first girlfriend was Angie Howard. I'm a SEP friend.
Through DNA testing I discovered I was a direct decedent of William Shakespeare's wife Anne Hathaway. 3rd cousin.through the Bakers.and Jane Austen through the Quinn s and Sheldon's.. Charles Moore. Inventor of the Forth programming language
I was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder because I read Noam Chomsky as a teenager, in 1997, COCOMO II and computer architecture. I will argue to get my point across because I am a INTJ-T top 1% of the general population backed by the University of California Fullerton. So far social media is the Internets great schism.
I have a normal fMRI My background check is clean. One stalking charge that was expunged. Which was really Macromedia Philanthropy. I'm studying Social Rank Theory. I've been in adult case management in Virginia since 2001. I advocate for population law and more English architecture in America. My credit score is 740 and I'm inheriting my fathers home, I rent and will retire with home equity loans and the market. In Lowery Hills. My father is retired credit manager from Builders First Source. My family lives in NY, California and Virginia.
https://news.microsoft.com/2002/02/21/microsoft-announces-major-expansion-of-shared-source-initiativeproviding-source-code-to-systems-integrators/
Written and copyright by Jonathan Moore 2024.
SCO confirms Microsoft has licensed its Unix technology
In a deal that brings together companies that Linux backers consider bogeymen, The SCO Group Inc. announced today that it has signed a licensing agreement with Microsoft Corp. over SCO’s Unix operating system.
Through the deal, SCO has licensed Unix technology, including source code and patents, to Microsoft, said Chris Sontag, senior vice president and general manager of the company’s SCOsource, a division in charge of managing and protecting SCO’s Unix intellectual property.
The deal ensures that Microsoft is in compliance with SCO’s Unix intellectual property and will help Microsoft improve the Unix compatibility of its products, specifically Microsoft Windows Services for Unix, Sontag said.
News of the agreement first appeared earlier today on The Wall Street Journal‘s Web site (see story).
Windows Services for Unix, now in Version 3.0, consists of different components that bridge the gap between Windows- and Unix-based systems running in the same network, according to information on Microsoft’s Web site. The product’s services include file sharing, remote access and administration, password synchronization, common directory management, a common set of utilities and a shell, according to Microsoft’s Web site.
Microsoft didn’t immediately return calls seeking comment on the deal. But in an e-mail statement, Brad Smith, the company’s general counsel and senior vice president, said the agreement “is representative of Microsoft’s ongoing commitment to respecting intellectual property [IP] and the IT community’s healthy exchange of IP through licensing. This helps to ensure IP compliance across Microsoft solutions and supports our efforts around existing products like Services for UNIX that further UNIX interoperability.”
https://www.computerworld.com/article/1727355/sco-confirms-microsoft-has-licensed-its-unix-technology.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO_Group
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenServer
Microsoft Windows 2.0
Windows 2.0 is a major release of Microsoft Windows, a family of graphical operating systems for personal computers developed by Microsoft. It was released to manufacturing on December 9, 1987, as a successor to Windows 1.0.
The product includes two different variants: a base edition for 8086 real mode, and Windows/386, an enhanced edition for i386 protected mode. Windows 2.0 differs from its predecessor by allowing users to overlap and resize application windows, while the operating environment also introduced desktop icons, keyboard shortcuts, and support for 16-color VGA graphics. It also introduced Microsoft Word and Excel.
Noted as an improvement of its predecessor, Microsoft Windows gained more sales and popularity after the release of the operating environment, although it is also considered to be the incarnation that remained a work in progress. Due to the introduction of overlapping windows, Apple Inc. had filed a lawsuit against Microsoft in March 1988 after accusing them of violating copyrights Apple held; in the end, however, the judge ruled in favor of Microsoft. The operating environment was succeeded by Windows 2.1 in May 1988, while Microsoft ended its support on December 31, 2001
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_2.0
Next Computer's OpenStep
Workstations from Sun Microsystems were originally programmed at a relatively low-level making calls directly to the underlying Unix operating system and the SunView window system toolkit, and to libraries built atop those interfaces. This led to complex programming even for simple projects. An attempt to address this with an object oriented programming model was made in the mid-1980s with Sun's NeWS windowing system, but the combination of a complex application programming interface (API) and generally poor performance led to little real-world use and the system was eventually abandoned.
Sun then began looking for other options. Taligent was considered to be a competitor in the operating system and object markets, and Microsoft's Cairo was at least a consideration, even without any product releases from either. Taligent's theoretical newness was often compared to NeXT's older but mature and commercially established platform. Sun held exploratory meetings with Taligent before deciding upon building out its object application framework OpenStep in partnership with NeXT as a "preemptive move against Taligent and Cairo". Bud Tribble, a founding designer of the Macintosh and of NeXTStep, was now SunSoft's Vice President of Object Products to lead this decision. The 1993 partnership included a $10 million investment from Sun into NeXT. The deal was described as "the first unadulterated piece of good news in the NeXT community in the last four years".[2]
The basic concept was to take a cut-down version of the NeXTSTEP operating system's object layers and adapt them to run on Sun's Solaris operating system, more specifically, Solaris on SPARC-based hardware. Most of the OpenStep effort was to strip away those portions of NeXTSTEP that depended on Mach or NeXT-specific hardware being present. This resulted in a smaller system that consisted primarily of Display PostScript, the Objective-C runtime and compilers, and the majority of the NeXTSTEP Objective-C libraries. Not included was the basic operating system, or the lower-level display system.
Steve Jobs said "We are ahead today, but the race is far from over. ... [In 1996,] Cairo will be very close behind, and Taligent will be very far behind." Sun's CEO Scott McNealy said, "We have no insurance policy. We have made a firm one-company, one-architecture decision, not like Taligent getting a trophy spouse by signing up HP."[2]: 13
The first draft of the API was published by NeXT in mid 1994.
Later that year they released an OpenStep compliant version of NeXTSTEP
as OPENSTEP, supported on several of their platforms as well as Sun
SPARC systems. NeXT submitted the OpenStep specification to the
industry's object standards bodies.[2]
The official OpenStep API, published in September 1994, was the first
to split the API between Foundation and Application Kit and the first to
use the "NS" prefix.[3] Early versions of NeXTSTEP use an "NX" prefix and contain only the Application Kit, relying on standard Unix libc types for low-level data structures. OPENSTEP remained NeXT's primary operating system product until the company merged with Apple Computer in 1997. OPENSTEP was then combined with technologies from the existing classic Mac OS to produce Mac OS X. iPhone and iPad's iOS is also a descendant of OPENSTEP, but targeted at touch devices.
Sun originally adopted the OpenStep environment with the intent of complementing Sun's CORBA-compliant object system, Solaris NEO (formerly known as Project DOE), by providing an object-oriented user interface toolkit to complement the object-oriented CORBA plumbing.[2] The port involved integrating the OpenStep AppKit with the Display PostScript layer of the Sun X11 server, making the AppKit tolerant of multi-threaded code (as Project DOE was inherently heavily multi-threaded), implementing a Solaris daemon to simulate the behavior of Mach ports, extending the SunPro C++ compiler to support Objective-C using NeXT's ObjC runtime, writing an X11 window manager to implement the NeXTSTEP look and feel as much as possible, and integrating the NeXT development tools, such as Project Builder and Interface Builder, with the SunPro compiler. In order to provide a complete end-user environment, Sun also ported the NeXTSTEP-3.3 versions of several end-user applications, including Mail.app, Preview.app, Edit.app, Workspace Manager, and the Dock.
The OpenStep and CORBA parts of the products were later split, and NEO was released in late 1995 without the OpenStep environment. In March 1996, Sun announced Joe, a product to integrate NEO with Java. Sun shipped a beta release of the OpenStep environment for Solaris on July 22, 1996,[4] and made it freely available for download in August 1996 for non-commercial use, and for sale in September 1996. OpenStep/Solaris was shipped only for the SPARC architecture.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStep
The UNIX timeline isn't right XIENX was sold to SCO and later Xinuos and later OpenVMS and Windows.
Cultivation of self in East Asian philosophy of education
Welcome to the special issue that focuses on the theme of self-cultivation in the East Asian philosophy of education. The cultivation of the self is always an issue of ultimate concern in the East Asian educational tradition. Thousands of years ago, Confucius, Mencius, Xunzi, Laozi, Zhuangzi and many other ancient philosophers all pondered on the meaning of being a person—what kind of a human being one should be and how one should develop oneself to be such a person. Their legacy has produced a unique domain of Chinese or Confucian cultural heritage in East Asia. The question concerning the self could be unpacked from different aspects. First, the tradition of Chinese philosophy has emphasised the emulation of model characters, including junzi (benevolent or noble person) and shenren (the sage), as the goals of education. However, some interesting questions are involved. Confucian and Daoist philosophers both adopt the term shenren, but they may have different references. Does the divergence lead to different educational ideas and practices? Moreover, what is the difference between self-conception in Confucian and Daoist traditions, and between them and Buddhist thought? Do the conceptions of junzi and shenren still affect current education in Confucian cultural heritage societies? Are these concepts still taken as the points of destination of modern education? On the other hand, it may be the case that the meanings of the conceptions of junzi and shenren are modernised in some sense. In this regard, the question of what change could be made in the understanding of self-conception and education has to be explored. Probing even further, the archaic conceptions of junzi and shenren could already be abandoned in modern times. Thus, what kind of human being is taken to replace the archaic conceptions as the destination of humanistic education in the modern era that is facing the thrust of globalisation and internationalisation? Expressed in a more radical way, do the descendants of Confucius, in blood or in spirit, still need an ideal human being for their education?
Second, the area influenced by the tradition of Chinese philosophy is much larger than China in the political-geographical sense. Local and temporal characteristics may produce differences in the conception of self in various regions. In the sphere of pre-modern Chinese cultural heritage, the ideal Confucian person had different names. In ancient China, the Confucian literati were called shidaifu. In Tokugawa Japan (1600–1868), they were called jusha; and in Chosen Korea, they were yangban (Huang, Citation2010).The different conceptions of the Confucian literati from various areas imply both similarities and dissimilarities, which indicate the complicated processes of how the Confucian human person is cultivated in each area with local characteristics.
The perfectibility of the human being as the cultivation of the self has been thought to be the common core value of the multifaceted East Asian Confucian humanism for a thousand years (Huang, Citation2010). This special issue’s eight-article collection addresses a wide range of issues in relation to self-cultivation from the East Asian perspective with diverse, creative and critical views.
Chi-Ming Lam’s ‘Confucianism and Critical Rationalism: Friends or Foes’ lends a new lens for viewing Confucianism. Lam compares Confucianism with rationalism and explores their differences and compatibilities. In the beginning of the article, Lam raises a very interesting question about whether or not Confucianism can be critical. As Confucius characterises the hierarchical structure of a harmonious society, it seems to suggest that Confucianism tends to cultivate ‘a conformist rather than critical mind’. However, Lam argues that in Confucianism, criticality plays a key role in self-cultivation. Confucius, Mencius and Xunzi all agree that a junzi should be critical to himself and others regarding learning. This interpretation may contradict our current understanding of Confucianism in relation to the concept of harmony. Since Hu Jintao, the former president of China, launched the new slogan, ‘harmonious socialist society’ in 2005 (Choukroune & Garapon, Citation2007; Doutournier & Zhe, Citation2009), the concept of harmony has been politicised. It is used as a means to silence different opinions in the society because a harmonious society is assumed to reach agreement or consensus rather than conduct debates. Lam has a very stimulating view about harmony: ‘So far as the role of criticism in Confucianism is concerned, it is to foster harmony between people of diverse backgrounds in the local and international community’. ‘Harmony in diversity’ is interpreted as the ultimate goal of Confucianism. This view is based on Confucius’ words: ‘The gentleman agrees with others without being an echo [heerbutong 和而不同]’. Here, Lam adopts Lau’s (Citation1992) translation of 君子和而不同. Nevertheless, Legge’s (Citation1861) translation reminds me of a different connotation: ‘The superior man is affable, but not adulatory’. Lau’s translation focuses on the substantial content of the agreement or the disagreement. In contrast, Legge’s translation stresses the person’s attitude or manner. Different translations have varying implications. On this point, I think there is still much to explore about the ‘diverse harmony’. Lam concludes with three major differences between Confucianism and critical rationalism and thereby suggests a possible reconciliation. Lam’s article shows the potential of Confucianism in the modern age in the sense that the goal of the Confucian self-cultivation is to create a person who practises not only ethical virtues, especially ren (benevolence), but also critical thinking.
‘Is Filial Piety a Virtue? A Reading of the Xiao Jing (Classic of Filial Piety) from the Perspective of Ideology Critique’ authored by Hektor Yan starts with a very fascinating question: Is filial piety a virtue? Among all virtues, filial piety is held in the highest esteem in Chinese culture and tradition. In imperial China, filial piety was one of the most important virtues for the ruler to justify his power to govern. Even in modern times, political leaders in Chinese heritage cultures still claim the importance of the Confucian virtues (de). A ruler with de would gain the people’s trust and support and win the consent and loyalty of his subjects. Yan applies Gramsci’s (Citation1992) insight on hegemony to de in the Chinese moral-political context to reveal that filial piety can be powerfully effective. Filial piety is generally understood as children’s obedience and servitude to their parents. In imperial China, it was extended to the subjects’ obedience and servitude to their rulers—in a blind and rigid way; therefore, it is criticised. By adopting Yu’s (Citation2013) view, Yan argues that filial piety can be a virtue ‘that requires critical reasoning and it is believed to be pertinent to various social roles and other interpersonal exchanges’. However, Yan acknowledges that the emphasis on critical reasoning is not easy to accommodate with another element of filial piety, which is the tendency of naturalisation. The author issues a warning in his conclusion. When the virtue of filial piety is taken as something natural to human society in a hierarchical way, it can function to maintain the hegemony of rulers.
Weili Zhao and Caiping Sun’s paper entitled ‘“Keep off the Lawn; Grass Has a Life Too!”: Re-invoking a Daoist Ecological Sensibility for Moral Education in China’s Primary Schools’ provides the introduction of Daoist ecological moral education in the modern world. The authors argue that the concept of co-being contributes to the formation of a Daoist ecological sensibility in children’s moral education. Their argument can be divided into two parts: the theoretical discussion and the analysis of textbooks. At the theoretical level, the authors use the popular park sign ‘Keep off the Lawn; Grass Has a Life Too!’ to demonstrate an age-old Chinese ecological and philosophical belief that human beings live harmoniously and equally with other living creatures on earth. This is a Daoist belief in the unity of human beings and nature. Zhao and Sun also employ Heidegger’s (Citation1969, 1977, 1978) relational thinking and the concept of co-being to enrich the Daoist ecological view. As the authors explain, the Daoist–Heideggerian idea of co-being can lend a lens to examine educational theory and practice. China’s 2002 Curriculum Standards and textbooks are the main subject matters of analysis. The analysis reveals that the ethical position implied in the standards and the textbooks is actually egoistic and instrumental, not reciprocal, egalitarian and interpersonal. Many educational materials claim environmental friendliness. However, as the authors aptly point out, such nature-friendly vocabularies hidden in the post-2001 textbooks assume a hierarchical and dominant thinking that human beings are the masters and owners of the natural environment. Thus, children are taught to build a relationship with others in the way of hierarchical subject–object duality, which is against the Daoist–Heideggerian ecological sensibility. However, the ecological-unfriendliness of the post-2001 textbooks was under review and revision. China’s primary school textbooks published in 2016 are redesigned, and the concept of ecological co-being is highlighted. The authors’ study shows that the tone of instrumental and subject-object oppositional thinking is minimised in the newly published textbooks and replaced with the accent of co-being. Phrases such as ‘playing with the wind’ or ‘thanking our Nature for giving humans presents’ are found in the textbooks. The implication is no longer the human-master but the co-existence of the human being and nature. Overall, this article presents a promising future of moral education with regard to the Daoist ecological sensibility in China.
Michael Dufresne’s creative article, ‘The Illusion of Teaching and Learning: Zhuangzi, Wittgenstein and the Groundlessness of Language’ shows the insightful communication between Eastern and Western philosophies that presents a new way of understanding teaching and learning. The author argues that the process of learning and teaching is not about transmitting knowledge but about cultivating contextually appropriate habits with the inspirations of Zhuangzi (Graham, Citation1989) and Wittgenstein (Citation1997, 2001). His article begins with Zhuangzi’s anecdote about Wheelwright Pian. Next, Dufresne poses a thought-provoking question about the possibility that there is nothing to be taught or learned in pedagogical practices. Based on Zhuangzi’s view, it is not possible to teach something to those who have no ‘knack’ for it. Dufresne points out that ‘only those who have the right “stuff” can actually be taught’. What is the ‘knack’ or the ‘right stuff’? Zhuangzi offers no clear answer. Dufresne relates Zhuangzi’s ‘knack’ to ‘sudden understanding’ in Wittgenstein’s words. According to Wittgenstein, there is no standard way of teaching and learning. Therefore, there is no rule to be taught or learned. One person cannot learn by following and applying rules because rules are open to interpretation. Furthermore, interpretation relies on words, that is, language, which is foundationless and groundless. Rather, language depends on the convention and the context. According to Dufresne, neither Zhuangzi nor Wittgenstein believes the essence of language or truth. The meaning of words always increase and change in various contexts. Overall, Zhuangzi’s ‘knack’ or the ‘right stuff’, or Wittgenstein’s ‘sudden understanding’ comes from ordinary daily language use, which is related to habit formation. Dufresne thus suggests that, for educators, it is more practical to provide learners with concrete examples and to help them develop appropriate habits than to teach them general rules.
Seungho Moon’s distinctive article, ‘Donghak (Eastern Learning), Self-Other, and Social Transformation: Towards Diverse Curriculum Discourses on Equity and Justice’ discusses the meaning of self-cultivation against the background of Donghak and its implications for contemporary curriculum theory. Donghak was a Neo-Confucian movement founded by Choi Je-u (1824–1864) in 1860 in Korea. Donghak, literally meaning Eastern learning as a reaction to Western learning, calls for both reform and revival of Confucianism. The doctrine of Donghak as an academic movement integrates ideas concerning theology, philosophy and social activism. Moon outlines Donghak by explaining three concepts: Shi-chun-ju (‘everyone serves God within himself or herself’), Sushim-junggi (self-cultivation) and Gae-byeok (building of a new world). The three concepts are indeed interrelated in the sense that the practice of self-cultivation is the process of serving God to attain the goal of building a harmonious new world—Dong-gui-il-che (the cosmological community). Based on this concept, Moon argues that the teaching of Donghak sheds light on examining the current curriculum in three aspects: the self-other hierarchical binary, the purpose of learning, and the eco-centred curriculum. As Moon explains, in the context of Donghak, everyone as a servant of the God is an equal part of the harmonious cosmological community. Donghak thus advocates equalitarianism, elimination of the selfishness of all, and ecocentrism: ‘The relations among God-human-nature-cosmos are conceived of as relationships of equals without hierarchal strata’. The ontological analysis in this article concludes with the emphasis on co-living and ecological vision for the curricular development of the twenty-first century. Overall, this article presents an overview of Donghak. For those who are unfamiliar with the development of Neo-Confucianism in Eastern Asia in modern times, this article does a fair job of introducing Donghak. Readers may find a strong bond between Donghak and religion. It is interesting to learn that the leader of the third-generation disciples, Son Byeong-hui (1861–1922), changed the name Donghak to Cheondogyo, meaning ‘Religion of the Heavenly Way’, whose doctrine combines Confucianism, religious Daoism (or Daojia) and Korean shamanism. Cheondogyo is still actively practised in modern Korea.
Joseph Sta. Maria’s ‘Acting Without Regarding: Daoist Self-cultivation as Education for Non-dichotomous Thinking’ draws attention to the significance of the Daoist non-dichotomous thinking and the ‘soft’ values. It is insightful for the author to highlight the tension between the ‘soft’ and the ‘hard’ values, or between the ‘higher’ and the ‘lower’ ones. In the Daoist tradition, it seems quite natural to accept the ‘soft’ values and take ‘passive’ attitudes. However, the author aptly pays attention to the Daoist dichotomy of being and nothingness. On one hand, Laozi claims that ‘being and nothingness give birth to each other’ (有無相生); on the other hand, he states, ‘Everything in the world is generated as being and being is generated from nothingness’ (天下萬物生於有，有生於無). The ‘soft’ values—‘nothingness’ and ‘weakness’—are described as the origins of movement and creation. This distinction is a paradoxical dichotomy in Daoist doctrines. As Sta. Maria notes, Laozi and Zhuangzi both assert non-dichotomous thinking as the ideal way of thinking. Learning to think non-dichotomously is the Daoist cultivation. How then can a person learn to think non-dichotomously, on one hand, and accept the ‘soft’ values, on the other hand? The author suggests two ways to answer the question—directly and indirectly. Simply expressed, the ‘direct way’ means to live a simple and frugal life as a preparation for union with Dao. This point is in accordance with our ordinary knowledge of Daoism. In contrast, the ‘indirect way’ could be more interesting. As the author argues, one of the Daoist teachings is the preservation of life with the selflessness of Dao. Think about it more deeply. The preservation of the lives of others implies the flourishing of society. Following the social order and fulfilling social duties help the society thrive and preserve life. In my view, Sta. Maria successfully makes the point that the Daoist non-dichotomous thinking is more socially harmonious and Confucian oriented than it is generally understood.
Robert Shaw and Denghua Yuan’s article, ‘The Purpose of the MBA: The Opportunity for a Confucian MBA to Overcome Neoliberalism’ suggests the Confucian MBA model as an alternative to the mainstream ones—Western, globalised and neoliberal. According to the authors, three MBA models in current higher education include Model 1: analytic skills and knowledge courses, Model 2: soft skill courses and Model 3: leadership courses for senior managers. The authors differentiate Model 1 and Model 2 courses from Model 3 courses. The courses of the first two models aim to cultivate employees whereas the third one’s courses emphasise the development of autonomous leadership. More interestingly, the authors suggest that Model 3 can be divided into two subtypes: Model 3A and Model 3B. Model 3A is based on the Western tradition, and Model 3B follows the Confucian tradition. The Model 3A curricula embrace Western values and concepts, such as modernity, neoliberalism, freedom, individualism, market, capitalism and so on. In contrast, the Model 3B curricula are grounded on Confucian ideas; the most important one is the harmonious alliance among people, the community and society. The authors point out three characteristics of the Confucian MBA model: governmentality, the Chinese enlightenment and academic aspirations. It is worthwhile to think how these Western concepts can be actualised in the Chinese context if the two traditions differ from each other. However, this article manifests the widespread mentality of the Chinese academia that the Western system and measure can be absorbed and adopted in Chinese models. At the practical level, it is not very difficult for Chinese higher educational institutions and universities to appropriate Western inventions such as MBA programmes. At the philosophical level, I am curious about the availability of the appropriation. As the authors claim, if the Chinese model is based on Confucian metaphysics, which is entirely opposite to Western modernity, the sustainability of the appropriation should be called into question. Whether the Confucian metaphysics will be undermined or the appropriation will fall apart in the future, is a pending issue.
Devine Nesta and Qun Ding’s paper, ‘Agency and Social Capital in Chinese International Doctoral Students’ conversion to Christianity’, provides a fresh approach to Chinese students self understanding. The authors conducted in-depth interviews with nine overseas Chinese doctoral students to reveal the factors that influenced the interviewees’ religious conversion. As the study shows, the conversion to Christianity is a gradual process with contributing personal, contextual and social factors. The overseas Chinese students’ religious conversion simultaneously accepts a culture and a tradition that vastly differ from what they had in their homeland. The conversion is mostly related to the experience of being marginalised in the foreign country. They find a place in church where they can build dynamic interactions at individual, institutional and social levels and meet their own psychological and religious needs.
Ruyu Hung
National Chiayi University, Taiwan
ruyuhung@yahoo.co.uk
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00131857.2017.1376438
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