食鬼遊戲的主意一個

原文在這裏，這篇只是翻譯它的意思;
通常食鬼遊戲都是用家一直被幾隻鬼追箸，用家要一路逃跑，一路盡快吃盡分佈於迷宮每一處的豆豆，而其中有四粒是分佈在四角落的，它們的特殊用途是改變用家和鬼的角色，在有限時間內改寫遊戲規則，以前用家必須逃避鬼，規則是當他們相遇代表用家玩完，而現在則是相反﹐鬼必須逃避用家，要是鬼踫到了用家則鬼必須重新由迷宮中央再開始。
我的想法為了增加遊戲的刺激性，我們可以給用家自己改變遊戲進行的時序，加入健康程度來模擬現實，這些豆豆被分成二/三類，一類是增加用家的能量，當用家吃掉它們則可以愈走愈快，越過某臨界點時則改寫遊戲規則，現在鬼必須逃避用家，要是鬼踫到了用家則鬼必須重新由迷宮中央再開始;另一類是減低用家的能量，當用家吃掉它們則會愈走愈慢，越過某臨界點時，遊戲規則則會是用家必須逃避鬼才能生存。換句話說，即使是一模一樣的迷宮，但遊戲規則會因用家的策略和處境而變，一局當中其實是暗藏了許多局。而可以改變的健康指數則代表了人生在世是沒有絕對的優勢式劣勢，一切視乎局勢轉變及玩家如何運籌為握!
(更古怪的主意可以是玩家的健康不能太好或者太差，前者會自爆而死，後者會因衰弱而亡!)

Idea: No waiting for customer in Chinese restaurant

In Sunday of Hong Kong, Chinese restaurant are often crowded with customer waiting for their seat, since it is a cheap way to kill time. However, many of us aren't patient person and can't stand the wait in the seats outside the restaurant while they don't want to lose the seat. Is there a solution for this dilemma?

I thereby propose my conceptual innovation here:

It work as simple as a software program, every time when a customer arrive, his /her phone, name and number of seats s/he will occupied, the software would assigned a customer number and printed a hardcopy as evidence. As seats become available, the waitor operate this system would click a button to increase the customer number in the database, it would then alter the customer through SMS via VoIP software like Skype or Ekiga with a pre-recorded message, or through a recorded voice message to phone in the database. Since it take time for customer to arrive to the restaurant, the system could held the seat for half hour(or any amount of time set in the software). Thus now customer no longer need to wait in front of restaurant.

小主意:茶樓等位提示器

上茶樓吃一盅兩件是香港平民常見的娛樂,既便宜又可消耗時間,但是在周未或假日,茶樓往往大排長龍,想光顧的客人都要在茶樓門外苦侯不知幾多時間,我相信很少香港人會有閒情逸緻去「享受」等位的過程,就算是閒暇也想在茶樓內享受,而不是在門口等待。因此我提出的小主意/發明就是為了省顧客的時間而設。它會在客人可入座時利用短訊通知他/她,於是他/她便可以在附近閒逛或者休息,而不用呆坐直到可入座為止。
它的運作原理很簡單,一如平時,當客人要求位子時可向待應登記,他/她就會把客人的名字、手提電話及人數等輸入此裝置/系統(由人數去分大中小三種枱),並由系統自動生產一號碼,並印二張存底,一張給客人,一張留在茶樓。而每次當有新位子時,由待應按不同的製以增加大中小枱目前的輪侯號碼,系統/裝置每次均依存在資料庫的號碼順序尋找對應的客人名字及自動透過互聯網向客人的手機發一提示短訊,或者用skype之類軟件向此電話發一段早已預錄的訊息,提醒客人是時侯開始光顧。同時,茶樓/餐廳考慮到客人未必可即時抵達,便可保留此位子如半小時。如此一來,定可令食肆的顧客賓至如歸,客似雲來!

One World, One Dream: Take down the Great Firewall!

Hello brothers and sisters in hacking,

Since advent of computer, hacker has been playing a critical role in the advancement of humanity from Linux to Internet. However, the most repressive regime of People’s Republic of China has transform China into biggest prison of all time. People has no right of movement, no speech freedom and no freedom of thought. How does it enforce all this: The Great Firewall with corroboration of evil corporation like Microsoft and Google. It do much more than a mere censorship tool, it a powerful tool to manipulate the public opinion, it create a false impression that people of China would approve the act of government. It turn civilian into mob ready to attack anything China government doesn’t like at its order. What good does Internet brought to China when Great Firewall is there?

So, my wish is you wish is very simple: Let’s take down the last wall separating the most populous country from the rest of world. Return the Right of Information to the Chinese, and let Chinese join the rest of the world. Take down the wall of Babel!

One world, One dream: Break the electronic Great wall

My maze idea today

This idea applies to Pac-Man or any game using maze. Usually there is a power-up in the four corners of the maze so it could turn the role of Pac-Man to Ghost-eater. i.e. Originally it would have to avoid running in ghost for survival, now ghost would have to avoid it for survival. The task of the game is to eat all balls in the maze by passing through all the possible pathway in the maze.

My idea is that, instead of placing neutral ball along the pathway in the maze, there are positive power-up and negative power-down along the these balls. And each time they are distributed randomly with half and half. The idea of power-up is that when the Pac-Man running across a +(Yang) balls, it would increase its strength, therefore move faster, and when the strength is above certain threshold, it would be able to eliminate any ghost it encounter. On the other end, every time it running across - (Ying) balls, the strength of itself would decrease therefore it would move slower, and when the strength is below certain threshold, any ghost could eliminate it.

This illustrate the idea of dynamically changing advantage(Nobody has an absolute upper hand or lower hand for a fix period of time). So neither ghost or Pac-Man has an absolute advantage or disadvantage against each other. The advantage and disadvantage would change by the movement of Pac-Man. The goal of the game is either it visited four corners of the maze, to eat all the balls or eaten all the Ghost. It is like a new kind of game mixing the idea of chess and computer game.

(One complexity we can add into the game is either the Pac-Man can endure so much power-up that it will explode or adding the power-up above the maximum threshold doesn’t affect the status of Pac-Man at all. )