I was in China this summer, and, being big and blonde, was stared at constantly. You get used to it after a while - it's like living as a rock star.
The Internet cafes (wong ba) were always packed, but most of the people were playing games instead of surfing the web. The speed was generally ok, about the same as a 56k connection, but they ran all the connections through one machine (typically an old PC running Win95) which had the content filters on it. This machine would crash at least once or twice an hour, throwing everyone off-line until it could be rebooted.
It was a fun game to see which sites the would block. They blocked all the news sites, of course, but they also blocked university sites and other random sites (never slashdot, though).
They blocked the New York Times, of course. But, they apparently haven't figured out that the Times syndicates through Yahoo!, so we were able to get all the Times news through dailynews.yahoo.com.
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Google only pays out once you've passed $100 in income. If these guys are only making $10/year, they won't be seeing anything anytime soon.
I was in China this summer, and, being big and blonde, was stared at constantly. You get used to it after a while - it's like living as a rock star.
The Internet cafes (wong ba) were always packed, but most of the people were playing games instead of surfing the web. The speed was generally ok, about the same as a 56k connection, but they ran all the connections through one machine (typically an old PC running Win95) which had the content filters on it. This machine would crash at least once or twice an hour, throwing everyone off-line until it could be rebooted.
It was a fun game to see which sites the would block. They blocked all the news sites, of course, but they also blocked university sites and other random sites (never slashdot, though).
They blocked the New York Times, of course. But, they apparently haven't figured out that the Times syndicates through Yahoo!, so we were able to get all the Times news through dailynews.yahoo.com.