Well, at least they don't have that now- I know that when I go to such a computer market (I live in Shanghai- there are a quite a few) that I never get searched. Crime sucks in China, though- I thought I had simply lost a cellphone on a taxi 3 months ago. I got suspicious when I gave them the plate number and the driver ID number (printed on the reciept) and the driver said that there was nothing on that taxi. Just last week I went to the cellphone market and someone was selling it in the "secondhand" stand. When I approached, the owner wouldn't even let me look at it. I'm not sure the police can do anything about it either- I didn't report it stolen because I had thought that it was a simple loss.
Well, I'd suppose it'd be helpful to those who have trouble doing everything on their own (elderly people) that can let the house coordinate things like cooking (auto-adjusting kitchen appliance settings based on RFID in a recipe card), cleaning (something like the Roomba that can tell when the owner is out and cleans up then), and washing (RFID tags in clothes so that people with poor eyesight don't have to figure out what the little tag says about washing instructions). Also, it would help for people who have memory trouble (the fridge can remind the owner that it's out of a certain item, or the TV can tell the owner when the backlight is going out). Probably most younger people (and even a lot of elderly people) but it would be helpful to those who have trouble but don't want to live in a nursing home (I know I don't- I still want to have my own home when I grow old for people to visit).
never ending surplus of 'late night hairdessers' which dont deal with hair, they have blue or red lights in them. you see countless amounts of women sitting on the sofa as people (men) walk past 'window shopping'
So that's what they're for! There are at least 50 on my street. Some of them actually get business during the day, though- haircut for 8RMB is kind of hard to pass up if you can't afford the high-class places.
This is South Korea. Sooner or later, that.0001% will become 50% or even higher (I'm sure there are a couple of Luddites in South Korea somewhere in the countryside, so I won't say 100%).
That would work wonders for school productivity, I'm sure, but the comments on such a Youtube video should be controlled. None of that "look at that idiot he farted lol" stuff.
I see then. for example, if you buy a Symbian phone in Japan the Series 60 they use is locked so that only carrier-approved applications can be installed on the phone. Is that what you mean?
tools are available that allow the change of IMEI
So it IS possible... I was confused when I once bought a phone and it had a different IMEI on the box, the software, and the phone itself. That was a Japanese import with no warranty, so I can't exactly complain, though.
What model? If you can, look online and you can find unlock cables- one end gos into the cellphone, one end goes into the computer, and software (should come with the cable) can find the lock and break it. Alternatively, try a shop that imports cellphones. You'll find them somewhat more willing if you don't want to get your own unlock cable.
What do you mean? I thought only Japan applied software locks to their phones like that. I've never seen a non-Japanese phone that required DRM for music loaded into the phone, so if taken your way, this really does nothing. Now I've thought that unlocking was legal in the US, so I don't know why it needed to be mentioned specifically either.
YES! I imagine soon there will be services selling Japanese Wii point cards to those with imported consoles like there are sites selling Japanese iTunes cards.
Well, not for me it didn't work without screwing around (My Sony VAIO apparently uses PS/2 for internal keyboard/mouse connections which the Mac OS didn't like) but for the director of technology at my school (he uses an Acer tablet laptop) it worked just fine without any screwing around. Also, I live in China so I'm not worrying about "legal" right now (yes I know about all the horrors of the government, but I'm a US citizen, and even then I haven't seen anything bad happen to those around me for being critical of the government). Also, I can wait on updates until they have been patched to support the PC system (certainly not by Apple, I mean unofficially).
"Appliances"? In what way is an Apple computer an appliance? It's a computer, plain and simple. Unless you mean the iPod, nothing Apple sells could possibly be an appliance, until I see an iToaster.
If you're on this board, you're likely smart enough to read the directions to install OS X on a PC (who cares about legality- you most likely also use P2P file-sharing).
If I use the Japanese Wii in the US does it still connect to Japanese services or does it detect that it's in the US and use US services (I remember virtual console having different line-ups in the US and Japan)? I'm wondering because I just KNOW that Japan will get funky games that the US won't and I'll want to play those games, but I also want the Japanese virtual console lineup because the US lineup isn't so good).
Sorry- I just remembered one detail. Apparently, the director of technology at my school had some "guanxi" (connections/contacts/knows the right people) at China Telecom which helped him get access to a less restricted line. I'm guessing that money had to be exchanged or something (it's a school- I know wikipedia is an unreliable source for information, but Google is sporadically blocked, and the school apparently couldn't stand for that).
If you can, try getting a fiber line. My school also uses China Telecom for internet access, but they have a fiber line, and wikipedia worked even before the announcement that it was open for everyone. I've even heard of some people getting a leased line from off the mainland, though that may be too expensive.
Yes, because Tiananmen square some 18 years ago totally defines China in current times. Try living in Shanghai instead- it's easy to get around government controls on the internet if you ask the right people.
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Well, at least they don't have that now- I know that when I go to such a computer market (I live in Shanghai- there are a quite a few) that I never get searched. Crime sucks in China, though- I thought I had simply lost a cellphone on a taxi 3 months ago. I got suspicious when I gave them the plate number and the driver ID number (printed on the reciept) and the driver said that there was nothing on that taxi. Just last week I went to the cellphone market and someone was selling it in the "secondhand" stand. When I approached, the owner wouldn't even let me look at it. I'm not sure the police can do anything about it either- I didn't report it stolen because I had thought that it was a simple loss.
Well, I'd suppose it'd be helpful to those who have trouble doing everything on their own (elderly people) that can let the house coordinate things like cooking (auto-adjusting kitchen appliance settings based on RFID in a recipe card), cleaning (something like the Roomba that can tell when the owner is out and cleans up then), and washing (RFID tags in clothes so that people with poor eyesight don't have to figure out what the little tag says about washing instructions). Also, it would help for people who have memory trouble (the fridge can remind the owner that it's out of a certain item, or the TV can tell the owner when the backlight is going out). Probably most younger people (and even a lot of elderly people) but it would be helpful to those who have trouble but don't want to live in a nursing home (I know I don't- I still want to have my own home when I grow old for people to visit).
Well, HK is part of the mainland only in name. Why else would HK citizens need additional documentation to travel to the mainland from HK?
never ending surplus of 'late night hairdessers' which dont deal with hair, they have blue or red lights in them. you see countless amounts of women sitting on the sofa as people (men) walk past 'window shopping'
So that's what they're for! There are at least 50 on my street. Some of them actually get business during the day, though- haircut for 8RMB is kind of hard to pass up if you can't afford the high-class places.
Well, Japanese people eat kimchi too.
This is South Korea. Sooner or later, that .0001% will become 50% or even higher (I'm sure there are a couple of Luddites in South Korea somewhere in the countryside, so I won't say 100%).
That would work wonders for school productivity, I'm sure, but the comments on such a Youtube video should be controlled. None of that "look at that idiot he farted lol" stuff.
I see then. for example, if you buy a Symbian phone in Japan the Series 60 they use is locked so that only carrier-approved applications can be installed on the phone. Is that what you mean?
tools are available that allow the change of IMEI
So it IS possible... I was confused when I once bought a phone and it had a different IMEI on the box, the software, and the phone itself. That was a Japanese import with no warranty, so I can't exactly complain, though.
What model? If you can, look online and you can find unlock cables- one end gos into the cellphone, one end goes into the computer, and software (should come with the cable) can find the lock and break it. Alternatively, try a shop that imports cellphones. You'll find them somewhat more willing if you don't want to get your own unlock cable.
What do you mean? I thought only Japan applied software locks to their phones like that. I've never seen a non-Japanese phone that required DRM for music loaded into the phone, so if taken your way, this really does nothing. Now I've thought that unlocking was legal in the US, so I don't know why it needed to be mentioned specifically either.
YES! I imagine soon there will be services selling Japanese Wii point cards to those with imported consoles like there are sites selling Japanese iTunes cards.
Well, not for me it didn't work without screwing around (My Sony VAIO apparently uses PS/2 for internal keyboard/mouse connections which the Mac OS didn't like) but for the director of technology at my school (he uses an Acer tablet laptop) it worked just fine without any screwing around. Also, I live in China so I'm not worrying about "legal" right now (yes I know about all the horrors of the government, but I'm a US citizen, and even then I haven't seen anything bad happen to those around me for being critical of the government). Also, I can wait on updates until they have been patched to support the PC system (certainly not by Apple, I mean unofficially).
That's why I don't use it- it only works for the web browser.
"Appliances"? In what way is an Apple computer an appliance? It's a computer, plain and simple. Unless you mean the iPod, nothing Apple sells could possibly be an appliance, until I see an iToaster.
Indeed. The short version is you're as "locked-in" with Apple as you are with Microsoft.
Can't you install OS X on a normal PC? I certainly can.
If you're on this board, you're likely smart enough to read the directions to install OS X on a PC (who cares about legality- you most likely also use P2P file-sharing).
If I use the Japanese Wii in the US does it still connect to Japanese services or does it detect that it's in the US and use US services (I remember virtual console having different line-ups in the US and Japan)? I'm wondering because I just KNOW that Japan will get funky games that the US won't and I'll want to play those games, but I also want the Japanese virtual console lineup because the US lineup isn't so good).
I've already seen systems where Chinese characters can be directly used in the address bar. That was a browser add-on that only worked in IE, though.
And I thought the mainland was bad- Taiwan sounds AWFUL.
Sorry- I just remembered one detail. Apparently, the director of technology at my school had some "guanxi" (connections/contacts/knows the right people) at China Telecom which helped him get access to a less restricted line. I'm guessing that money had to be exchanged or something (it's a school- I know wikipedia is an unreliable source for information, but Google is sporadically blocked, and the school apparently couldn't stand for that).
If you can, try getting a fiber line. My school also uses China Telecom for internet access, but they have a fiber line, and wikipedia worked even before the announcement that it was open for everyone. I've even heard of some people getting a leased line from off the mainland, though that may be too expensive.
Yes, because Tiananmen square some 18 years ago totally defines China in current times. Try living in Shanghai instead- it's easy to get around government controls on the internet if you ask the right people.
Exactly- that's how I use Wikipedia, so I had no idea it had opened to non-proxy users since I had always been using a proxy.
Damn, I wouldn't have given mine away if I knew it could do all that! Too late for regrets, though.