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Information I found on Sun Tzu in a game manual which involves Japanese combaton a large scale around 1530 during the Sengoku period of Japanese history with theobjective of being titled Shogun by destroying or taking over other clans in Japan.Sun Tzu was a contemporary of the great philosopher Confucius, and lived around 500 B.C. in the kingdom of Qi, which is roughly the modern Shandong province in Eastern China. During his life, China was being torn apart by a series of wars as lesser states fought for dominance. None of these states recognised the central authority of the Zhou Imperial dynasty any more. As you'll see later, this is a similar state of affairs to the Sengoku period in Japan.Sun Tzu was therefore quite familiar with warfare in all its forms. He is supposed to have written his book for Hel, the King of Wu during 514-496 B.C. He ruled part of the lower Yangtze Valley and was locked in constant warfare with the rival kingdom of Yue. Other than that, little is known about Sun Tzu's life. Biographies from as little as 300 years after he was alive don't include much more definite information than that, other than repeating the tale of how Sun Tzu convinced his king that he knew how to train soldiers. The story goes that Sun Tzu claimed he could train anyone to obey military orders, and so the King challenged him to turn the court concubines into soldiers. Naturally, the women were far from being any kind of soldiers (much less good ones) and disobeyed all of Sun Tzu's orders. He explained his instructions carefully and patiently and tried again, with equally disastrous results. Having done all that he could as a commander, he ordered that the leading concubines should be put to death, as once orders have been clearly explained it is the duty of the soldiers to obey! The King wasn't very happy about the idea his two favourite concubines being executed, and told Sun Tzu that he really did believe he could train troops using his methods. Sun Tzu replied that once a general is directing his troops, he should reject further interference from his sovereign. It's the ruler's job to find the best general, and then let him get on with winning a war. The women were put to death!All at once the rest of the concubines suddenly discovered that they could, oddly enough, obey any orders to the letter. And although he was rather put out by the death of his favourite courtesans, the King of Wu recognised that Sun Tzu knew what he was talking about.What is known for certain about Sun Tzu comes from his key work on the theory and practice of warfare, The Art of War. He was obviously a clever man, a clear thinker and someone with practical military experience. Sun Tzu took his accumulated knowledge of how to fight wars and applied careful thought to the problems that he had found. The product of all his thought was the earliest book in the whole world on what might be termed the philosophy and practice of warfare.His book, however, is more than just a "how to win" strategy and tactics handbook on Chinese warfare. Although a study of warfare, The Art of War applies to situations on every level from the interpersonal to the international. Its aims are invincibility, victory without battle and unassailable strength through understanding every aspect of conflict. This is a remarkable set of claims for any book. What is even more remarkable is that The Art of War achieves all it sets out to do! It lays out strategy in such a clear and wise fashion that at times it almost seems too straightforward and obvious almost too simple to be right.

I was wondering if any of you are familar with Sun Tzu and his famous book which is probably one of the oldest military manuals in the world The Art Of War which was suppost to be written for King Wu during a chinese conflict between states?

No it doesnt offend me but it is profanity or represents it accepted or not. no?

Holy cow.So how experienced are you in VB?Do you have any work you can show me you have done in VB?

Just curious..Are there any other programmers experiencedin Visual Basic other than me or just C\C++ programmers?

http://www.gameplanet.co.nz/mag.dyn/News/5830.html It appears that Half-Life 2 is following the footsteps of its father I am not really disapointed anyway because this will give me more time to figure out how I can get it on its release date insted of getting the game 6 yrs later like HL1 then become a total n00b getting crushed by experts and dealing with 17,000 updates and hearing that HL3 is come out a year later. lol.

thorn please don't use any form of profanity.

My mother has North Personal Firewall in her computer.I need to put in mine as well.

argh. I remember being on this one forum where people flamed other people for being"n00bs on the forums". WHAT DOES IT TAKE SKILL TO PRESS THE SUBMIT BUTTON!?

Dudes this thing is so like so cool!I can search right away and.. and..it has a popup blocker.. and and..has stopped 87 popups in the last 4 days..

I reformatted my entire system and I had partitioned it into 3 drives. I first install 98 on C:\ and XP on E:\ XP will automatically setup the system to dual boot. Microsoft gives the order in which to install the OS so that you can dual boot with as many of the Windows\DOS OS versions as you want. Go here for more info on dual booting: http://windows.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fsupport.microsoft.com%2Fdefault.aspx%3Fscid%3Dkb%3Ben-us%3BQ217210

I have XP but I setup my system to dual boot with 98.

One way of knowing is that if you caught it you probably will have a file in your Windows\System32 directory called msblast.exe Do a search in your windows directory. And also goto http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.blaster.worm.html The ports that Blaster and LoveSan (the anti-blaster thats suppost to be a good virus) are here. I have setup my firewall to block these ports inbound and outbound.

Fortunatly I didn't get it.Hey didn't The Armory server get hit by it?

http://www.wxii12.com/news/2442276/detail.html I heard it on the news this after noon from my local news station. The FBI and Secret Service were notified of him after somebody saw him testing the virus and called the authorities. Symantec has estimated the number of more than 500,000 computers to be damaged or infected worldwide.

Thank you TA. After waiting for a year I finally recieved theletter from TA saying that I am in as a trial member! Thank you!!!!!!!!

Hey, could anybody tell me why when I use OpenGL why like when it loads the console or game why does the menu not go away? I have to press esc then resume the game. http://www.backwoods-interactive.com/OpenGLProb.jpg I am running on a GeForce 2 440 MX 64 Meg DDR with the latest drivers under Windows XP Home Edition. Thanks for any help.

I know why this is. hlamp probably hooks into HL and therefore VAC or HLGaurd detecting a hook will block you from playing. OGC hook is a common hack in CS that hooks into HL's memory space. Hook cheats arecommon and are seriously enforced. Most anti-cheat software probably thinks that HLAMP is a cheat.