Cyberport is a MASSIVE waste of government money and worse still was just a large luxury building contract HANDED OVER to everyone's favourite Hong Kong cartel.
Anyone from Hong Kong reading this report is currently laughing their ass off at the idea that this is somehow indicative of Hong Kong 'racing ahead'. Cyberport was nothing more or less than a gigantic gift to Li Ka Shing's estate (via his son the ever popular Richard Li).
I bet you guys think our partially state-owned Disney land is a good idea too. Seriously, if you like this stuff you can have Chief Executive Tung Che Hwa. Please, take him!
I wouldn't classify "The Streets" as a pop act;)
It was recorded by some bloke in his flat in birmingham with about £1500 to his name on some entry level digital sequencing applications. It's a 'garage' act which for the uninitiated means 'really really bad rap music'.
Actually Video Conferencing using iChat has been around for a long while (I make use of it every day talking to relatives around the globe who although may not be the most technoliterate are easily capable of using iChat). The big difference in Tiger is that you can Video Multiconference - ie have a multi user video conference.
The GUI displays it as a sort of black marble table affair with beautiful reflections and an elegance which is breathtaking - not to mention the fact that using the H.264 codec they can render massive resolution video feeds from 3 other users and the feed from your own iSight/DVcam.
We all know Kennedy shot himself in order to repair the time discrepancies the remainder of the Red Dwarf crew instigated by Lister's time-traveling Curry Run.
... but not before offering several entirely unsuitable search returns in the form of potential marriage partners.
Re:Anyone know what happened to blue - pink - red?
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Red was basically anything too advanced for pink.
The only thing that was really physical that you could call red was 'Raptor', a future Mac OS that was being developed to run on any hardware on the planet. Not to be confused with "Star Trek" which was an attempted port of Mac OS to x86 architecture (which did quite well given the circumstances).
I think they were going to merge the two and just use some of the Star Trek codebase to keep working on Raptor but the dino bit the dust sometime in the 90's. Probably some whining about 'exorbitant costs' and the company 'bleeding red ink everywhere' - pfft! Weaklings!
Hey I agree but simply note that Google might be taking a different view as to how they ought to be used.
The iconic photos of war attrocities past, although poignant have largely lost their barb with time. In today's world the Abu Graib photos are dynamite propaganda footage in the same way that the photos taken of Concentration camps would have been during WWII.
I doubt Google has any problem with the photos being preserved merely with their application in today's environment.
Ok for my own part I think the fact that other US search engines still allow access to the images should cross any conspiratorial actions on behalf of the US government of the list of likely explanations and relegate it to 'possible'.
What I think is likely to have happened is that Google has taken action akin to what many Bloggers had to do after they started hosting Daniel Pearl's execution video. We found that our massive traffic spikes were almost entirely from islamic extremists in various Middle Eastern states getting their jollies from snuff pr0n.
It was not for us to censor the news but many decided they wouldn't play any part in the dissemination of snuff videos to militants so they stopped hosting the video.
The photos from Abu Graib are a stain on America's honour and I am thankful that the barbarous sub-humans who carried out the acts are dealt with by the full rigours of the US justice system.
However those who show continue to show a gruesome interest in the photos 10 months on from the 2 days in which the horrible events took place are more than likely intending to use them for propagnda purposes to present a highly skewed image of American activities overseas. Why they should be provided succor by us is beyond me.
I think it's likely that Google took a look at their service listings and saw where the most requests were coming from and took a decision based on conscience as to the further likely use of those images. Whether they made the right decision is up to you but I'm just presenting a possible stream of reasoning for their actions.
Monkey Island is still good for a laugh but
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... if you want an FPS which will make you laugh check out Giants: Citizen Kabuto. Absolutely hilarious plot as a bunch of Cockney Aliens end up on a planet with a magic using race of merfolk and a 300 foot tall beast.
The cutscenes are brilliant but the comedy is left out of the action with the exception of the various cockney aliens chiming in with progress reports and saying things like "Oooh my leg!".
And as for comedy being annoying upon repetition. I could play Monkey Island till Guybrush Threepwood actuall becomes a mighty pirate.
Come on people! Bob, Float, Drift? What's NOT to love about that series!?
And they've only talked about snacks and food.
Sounds like a D&D Session to me!
Plus they're English. The only thing to dissuade me from verifying its authenticity is the fact that there appears to be a female player:)
Ok.. Having written that it's now 6 minutes in and they're still talking about snacks. All my doubts have been allayed
Hong Kong had a massive Cellphone penetration when they were still bricks. Late 80's, Early 90's Hong Kongers either had a cellphone or were busy making fun of someone who did.
2) Informative Stop Lights
Ok we've only had these a few years in Hong Kong. For Prior art see Los Angeles 3rd Street Promenade.
3) Transit Debit Cards
Boo yah, we've had these for years now, ours are called "Octopus" and they're far more than just transit debit cards. You can buy your groceries, a Starbucks latte, pay for your taxi fares, buy from 7-11 and Circle-k with them and that's just the tip of the iceberg. In fact just about anywhere where there's a transaction for less than $400 HK Dollars you'll find an Octopus Card reader.
4) Adult Playgrounds
Ok we don't have these. I don't consider it a substantial loss as compared to a right to vote or freedom of speech.
5) Anti-Theft Slipcovers
See. I prefer "being able to go to a restaurant without substantial fear that your wallet or purse will be stolen" as a solution.
6) Daily Banking
Just about the only time anything in Hong Kong is closed is over Chinese New Year.
7) Wireless Service Bells
Call me old fashioned but these seem rather impersonal and tacky. I wouldn't want to go to a restaurant where I pushed a button to call a waiter - it's just a step up from slotting in your coin at the automat.
8) Parking Data
Got it, we can pay for all our carparks using our Octopus cards too.
9) Computer seating maps
Got them and we can choose our seats when we book online for the theatre and cinema.
10) Cheap Hemming
Ok, first of all that has about as much to do with Technology as the PRC has to do with the term "electoral mandate". Second of all Hong Kong has for years been the domain of cheap tailors, cobblers and just about any other trade you can carry out from a small store or a market stall.
I don't care if I can get it done in a department store or not. Have you been in a Chinese department store? It's like Triple Blue Cross Closing down sales in there every day!
In conclusion:
1) Hong Kong rules all and if Canada can't compete with China then it doth verily suck.
2) Life in china is great if you're an elite party member or a successful entrepreneur. For everyone else it's pretty appalling. No number of slip on umbrella covers (also something that Hong Kong has had for years) is going to make up for a meagre salary, a total lack of electoral power and the prospect of a forced labour camp as payment for dissent. Try finding most of the things on that list in Nanking.
Oh yeah and that Maglev train HAHAHAH! I'm glad you guys in Canada don't have it, it's an ATROCIOUS waste of public money that is hardly used and will never break into profit.
Well, Apple's already moved into the 'home broadcast' sector with the Airport express streaming music via 802.11 protocols, so it wouldn't seem too far a stretch for them to start streaming video or DVDs around your house, perhaps onto a vPod.
However the amount of battery consumption for such a beast would be epic.
The thing that I'M concerned about is if they pull a similar move that Apple did with mac.com accounts. "Oh yah they'll be free forever", then two years later, once everyone is hooked on free @mac.com email addresses, they turn around and say they're going to charge $99 dollars per year. Excuse me? I dont think so. My mac.com email was my main email for nearly two years and as soon as they pulled that shit, I cancelled my account, bought my own domain, and now have free email for life. Apple was hoping that users would pay because they had been using that email address as their main email and wouldnt want to switch. Well it didnt work on me and yo should have read the mac message boards when this happened. People were pissed!
I have my own domain and could easily set up a mailserver using it as a forwarder but I chose to keep my @mac.com email address because of the service provided by.mac.
The thing is that @mac.com email was a part of iTools. Whilst it may have been economical for Apple to keep their email service running it certainly wasn't possible for them to offer their full iTools range for free. As a result they bundled the whole thing together for.mac and added a whole lot of other features.
The fact was that @mac.com email addresses were an integral part of Apple's entire Internet Strategy (your iDisk login for instance was your @mac.com email address because that was your iTools username) and as such they didn't want to have one without the other.
Apple wasn't going to start spamming their users with billions of ads ala Hotmail and they wanted to maintain a high quality premium service. The only way they saw fit to achieve this was through having a paid service with better benefits for members.
Apple also provided free use for people who hadn't subscribed to.Mac for a good few months, and the initial joining fee was only US$49. What's more you could order an @mac.com email address for only $10 without the rest of the package if you went through someone who had an account, I maintained all my family's email addresses in that way.
I find it hard to chastise Apple for making a sensible business decision by turning iTools into something that actually made money as opposed to simply axing it - which would have left all @mac.com email users out in the cold.
A.Mac subscription comes with a free copy of Virex (McAfee) along with all the other free apps.
Personally I'm just going to download the Virex update when it becomes available, but since I've now gotten used to installing countless Security updates via OS X's Software Update app without hearing a whisper about any vulnerabilities I'm guessing Apple's ahead of the game.
Personally I like the fact that we now have a trojan - proves at least that we're not defended entirely by obscurity as some might suggest:)
I personally loved the whole of the elite StormTrooper assault squad episodes. Although they clearly don't stick to the Film's standard trooper proceedure.
For instance, in all of the 10 minutes they were on screen not one of the squad chose to walk into a bulkhead or knock themselves unconcious on a low ceiling - that lack of attention to detail let the series down terribly.;)
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w00000! I don't really think anything more needs to be said. Gimme!
Cyberport is a MASSIVE waste of government money and worse still was just a large luxury building contract HANDED OVER to everyone's favourite Hong Kong cartel.
Anyone from Hong Kong reading this report is currently laughing their ass off at the idea that this is somehow indicative of Hong Kong 'racing ahead'. Cyberport was nothing more or less than a gigantic gift to Li Ka Shing's estate (via his son the ever popular Richard Li).
I bet you guys think our partially state-owned Disney land is a good idea too. Seriously, if you like this stuff you can have Chief Executive Tung Che Hwa. Please, take him!
I wouldn't classify "The Streets" as a pop act ;)
It was recorded by some bloke in his flat in birmingham with about £1500 to his name on some entry level digital sequencing applications. It's a 'garage' act which for the uninitiated means 'really really bad rap music'.
erm, Quicktime not play fullscreen?
Command-F : Fullscreen
That's also accessible via the 'Movie' menubar
You can also choose "present on screen" from the same menu.
Actually Video Conferencing using iChat has been around for a long while (I make use of it every day talking to relatives around the globe who although may not be the most technoliterate are easily capable of using iChat). The big difference in Tiger is that you can Video Multiconference - ie have a multi user video conference.
The GUI displays it as a sort of black marble table affair with beautiful reflections and an elegance which is breathtaking - not to mention the fact that using the H.264 codec they can render massive resolution video feeds from 3 other users and the feed from your own iSight/DVcam.
Check it out
We all know Kennedy shot himself in order to repair the time discrepancies the remainder of the Red Dwarf crew instigated by Lister's time-traveling Curry Run.
... but not before offering several entirely unsuitable search returns in the form of potential marriage partners.
Red was basically anything too advanced for pink.
The only thing that was really physical that you could call red was 'Raptor', a future Mac OS that was being developed to run on any hardware on the planet. Not to be confused with "Star Trek" which was an attempted port of Mac OS to x86 architecture (which did quite well given the circumstances).
I think they were going to merge the two and just use some of the Star Trek codebase to keep working on Raptor but the dino bit the dust sometime in the 90's. Probably some whining about 'exorbitant costs' and the company 'bleeding red ink everywhere' - pfft! Weaklings!
Gah, that first reply wasn't there when I wrote my feeble script - parent post is redundant. To the winner go the spoils and geek kudos ;)
Your prediction has been startlingly vindicated! I just wrote a GUI wrapper for you.
You can get "wc for the rest of us" here:
http://www.whatcomestopass.com/wcfortherestofus.si t
Just open it, select a file and it'll run a shell script for "wc -w" and show you the results.
Gotta love Applescript!
If you read the post bandwidth isn't the issue here.
Hey I agree but simply note that Google might be taking a different view as to how they ought to be used. The iconic photos of war attrocities past, although poignant have largely lost their barb with time. In today's world the Abu Graib photos are dynamite propaganda footage in the same way that the photos taken of Concentration camps would have been during WWII. I doubt Google has any problem with the photos being preserved merely with their application in today's environment.
Ok for my own part I think the fact that other US search engines still allow access to the images should cross any conspiratorial actions on behalf of the US government of the list of likely explanations and relegate it to 'possible'.
What I think is likely to have happened is that Google has taken action akin to what many Bloggers had to do after they started hosting Daniel Pearl's execution video. We found that our massive traffic spikes were almost entirely from islamic extremists in various Middle Eastern states getting their jollies from snuff pr0n.
It was not for us to censor the news but many decided they wouldn't play any part in the dissemination of snuff videos to militants so they stopped hosting the video.
The photos from Abu Graib are a stain on America's honour and I am thankful that the barbarous sub-humans who carried out the acts are dealt with by the full rigours of the US justice system.
However those who show continue to show a gruesome interest in the photos 10 months on from the 2 days in which the horrible events took place are more than likely intending to use them for propagnda purposes to present a highly skewed image of American activities overseas. Why they should be provided succor by us is beyond me.
I think it's likely that Google took a look at their service listings and saw where the most requests were coming from and took a decision based on conscience as to the further likely use of those images. Whether they made the right decision is up to you but I'm just presenting a possible stream of reasoning for their actions.
... if you want an FPS which will make you laugh check out Giants: Citizen Kabuto. Absolutely hilarious plot as a bunch of Cockney Aliens end up on a planet with a magic using race of merfolk and a 300 foot tall beast.
The cutscenes are brilliant but the comedy is left out of the action with the exception of the various cockney aliens chiming in with progress reports and saying things like "Oooh my leg!".
And as for comedy being annoying upon repetition. I could play Monkey Island till Guybrush Threepwood actuall becomes a mighty pirate.
Come on people! Bob, Float, Drift? What's NOT to love about that series!?
And they've only talked about snacks and food. Sounds like a D&D Session to me! Plus they're English. The only thing to dissuade me from verifying its authenticity is the fact that there appears to be a female player :)
Ok.. Having written that it's now 6 minutes in and they're still talking about snacks. All my doubts have been allayed
Come on guys!
1) Cellphones
Hong Kong had a massive Cellphone penetration when they were still bricks. Late 80's, Early 90's Hong Kongers either had a cellphone or were busy making fun of someone who did.
2) Informative Stop Lights
Ok we've only had these a few years in Hong Kong. For Prior art see Los Angeles 3rd Street Promenade.
3) Transit Debit Cards
Boo yah, we've had these for years now, ours are called "Octopus" and they're far more than just transit debit cards. You can buy your groceries, a Starbucks latte, pay for your taxi fares, buy from 7-11 and Circle-k with them and that's just the tip of the iceberg. In fact just about anywhere where there's a transaction for less than $400 HK Dollars you'll find an Octopus Card reader.
4) Adult Playgrounds
Ok we don't have these. I don't consider it a substantial loss as compared to a right to vote or freedom of speech.
5) Anti-Theft Slipcovers
See. I prefer "being able to go to a restaurant without substantial fear that your wallet or purse will be stolen" as a solution.
6) Daily Banking
Just about the only time anything in Hong Kong is closed is over Chinese New Year.
7) Wireless Service Bells
Call me old fashioned but these seem rather impersonal and tacky. I wouldn't want to go to a restaurant where I pushed a button to call a waiter - it's just a step up from slotting in your coin at the automat.
8) Parking Data
Got it, we can pay for all our carparks using our Octopus cards too.
9) Computer seating maps
Got them and we can choose our seats when we book online for the theatre and cinema.
10) Cheap Hemming
Ok, first of all that has about as much to do with Technology as the PRC has to do with the term "electoral mandate". Second of all Hong Kong has for years been the domain of cheap tailors, cobblers and just about any other trade you can carry out from a small store or a market stall.
I don't care if I can get it done in a department store or not. Have you been in a Chinese department store? It's like Triple Blue Cross Closing down sales in there every day!
In conclusion:
1) Hong Kong rules all and if Canada can't compete with China then it doth verily suck.
2) Life in china is great if you're an elite party member or a successful entrepreneur. For everyone else it's pretty appalling. No number of slip on umbrella covers (also something that Hong Kong has had for years) is going to make up for a meagre salary, a total lack of electoral power and the prospect of a forced labour camp as payment for dissent. Try finding most of the things on that list in Nanking.
Oh yeah and that Maglev train HAHAHAH! I'm glad you guys in Canada don't have it, it's an ATROCIOUS waste of public money that is hardly used and will never break into profit.
Well, Apple's already moved into the 'home broadcast' sector with the Airport express streaming music via 802.11 protocols, so it wouldn't seem too far a stretch for them to start streaming video or DVDs around your house, perhaps onto a vPod.
However the amount of battery consumption for such a beast would be epic.
Or would that 'rocket flair' justify the latin being replaced by "Just Do It".
I have my own domain and could easily set up a mailserver using it as a forwarder but I chose to keep my @mac.com email address because of the service provided by .mac.
The thing is that @mac.com email was a part of iTools. Whilst it may have been economical for Apple to keep their email service running it certainly wasn't possible for them to offer their full iTools range for free. As a result they bundled the whole thing together for .mac and added a whole lot of other features.
The fact was that @mac.com email addresses were an integral part of Apple's entire Internet Strategy (your iDisk login for instance was your @mac.com email address because that was your iTools username) and as such they didn't want to have one without the other.
Apple wasn't going to start spamming their users with billions of ads ala Hotmail and they wanted to maintain a high quality premium service. The only way they saw fit to achieve this was through having a paid service with better benefits for members.
Apple also provided free use for people who hadn't subscribed to .Mac for a good few months, and the initial joining fee was only US$49. What's more you could order an @mac.com email address for only $10 without the rest of the package if you went through someone who had an account, I maintained all my family's email addresses in that way.
I find it hard to chastise Apple for making a sensible business decision by turning iTools into something that actually made money as opposed to simply axing it - which would have left all @mac.com email users out in the cold.
A .Mac subscription comes with a free copy of Virex (McAfee) along with all the other free apps.
Personally I'm just going to download the Virex update when it becomes available, but since I've now gotten used to installing countless Security updates via OS X's Software Update app without hearing a whisper about any vulnerabilities I'm guessing Apple's ahead of the game.
Personally I like the fact that we now have a trojan - proves at least that we're not defended entirely by obscurity as some might suggest :)
I personally loved the whole of the elite StormTrooper assault squad episodes. Although they clearly don't stick to the Film's standard trooper proceedure. For instance, in all of the 10 minutes they were on screen not one of the squad chose to walk into a bulkhead or knock themselves unconcious on a low ceiling - that lack of attention to detail let the series down terribly. ;)
'I want to make sure (a user) can't get through ... an online experience without hitting a Microsoft ad.'
That's gotta be a mood killer for people surfing pr0n.