Green - a new line of crap

Over the past couple years, greeny things  are what is trending regardless of where you are. I, for one, am not agree with that at all. Let me explain why I think so.

• We can only achieve greener technology by replacing our old things. How does that make the world better? Replacing new car with hybrid technology. It means our Earth is a trash bin for something still useful, doesn't it? Replacing new light bulb with better and more efficient fluorescent bulb. Well this is good once if you look over trash you threw just like car situation. Don't get me wrong, but I like so-called better stuffs; however, it doesn't mean we need to rush replacing old things while they are good. Timing is everything.
• All green regulation/standard are made by those who had done wrong. All bad stuffs like CFC are cheap and efficient. That's why it was chosen and later found out that it was bad for the Earth. And we've told to avoid using it by choosing something comparable and surely more expensive. I'm sure big countries should be much more responsibility than small 3rd world one by supporting them, not forcing them to pay more while they have less.
• We all are part of nature after all. If you believe in God, then you should believe that God makes us smart for a reason. We can build from shelters to protect us to weapons kill us all. And that's just a part of God's plan. We are just a part of evolving nature whether it's toward the way you like or not. And if you don't believe in God, then you should understand that anything comes with price. You live life more comfortable these days and you don't thing there is a catch at all?

I'm not using CFC, DDT or that sort of things, but I feel disgusting to whom they brag about how green they have done. What a pile of BS.

Last Long Relationship

Nothing lasts forever.

That's the fact and there is no exception. In relationship, same thing applied. We, as human, are bound to make mistake regardless of how big/small it is. To make a relationship last the longest, we all need forgiveness. I've learned that no sin is ever too big to forgive, none. Yes, the idea of forgiveness will make you more vulnerable; however, you will be more happy as a person.

Boy: I have this problem about always letting work come first, and I...
Girl: And I'll get used to it.


This couple was incredibly outstanding.

Climate Change and ME

Do I think climate change can be avoided?

> hell, no.

Do I think carbon dioxide we've produced is the cause of CC?

> hell, no. It might be one of trillion factors and that means it can be neglected.

Do I think we should care about green thing?

> hell, yes, but only if we don't have to *invest* more to get a bit greener.

All in all, it's just a cycle of Nature. If what we do are bad, then Dinosaurs must have pollutedly farted much worse than we all do now to make Mother Nature wiped them all off the Earth.

Are we speeding this cycle of Nature by thinking like I do?

> Probably, no one knows for sure. For the worst, this cycle might be shortened for a year or even 100. Who cares? We all can live not that long anyway. Focus on the present! Do what make us happy.

Clearly, I don't give a shit about it. For those who do, don't do Facebooking, don't Google, don't watch anything in HD, don't own any of smartphone, don't drive a car. This way you can save a lot of energy and still live like normal people.............. I'm sure of it.

Love defines us, doesn't it?

Well, most people tend to think of love as a very big thing in life. Some might not so. But as always you will see love as a factor of a miracle which happens every now and then, esp. in the movie.

"It's only in a mysterious equation of love which any logical reason can be found." -- John Nash

People tend to let love sail you through the ocean and hope for the best. They let love define what they feel, what they would do, and everything. No wrong or right here. However, I've been struggling to think of a definition of love until recently.

I am just a regular kind of guy which don't accept a failure much. Most guys tend to not accept that he was dumped by a girl. But this time although I don't like to admit that one girl broke my heart completely, she did break mine thoroughly and unfortunately I still think of her, think of everything we've done together, think of everything she would remind me every morning and night. I just cannot get rid of those. Does this suck? Totally. But is this a bad thing? I don't know. Maybe this is love I like to find a definition for all my life. Is it too late? Probably. Funny enough; she was breaking my heart by using the phrase I always told her, "Change is always a good thing." What could I say? Good for her; she left all bad sides with me. All I could hope now is I will be able to dump her from my brain and my heart like she did that to me. But so far, I am happy to have __an imaginary part of her__ inside me always.


"Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real." — Iris Murdoch

Love surely is very complicated and too plain simple at the same time. Love is unique to every single one and there is no such thing described the word love as good as love itself. That's why love will never ever show us the way to anything. We are the one defining what our love is, not the other way around.

What are we living for?

This is the question I have heard recently many many times. It’s such a simple question, yet very difficult to answer. At some point of your life, y’all have to make a decision, one way or the other.  Which one suit you better? or which one will straight your life to what you want ultimately. No one knows… until you find out on your own.

Broadly, we all are one kind of animals. Some religions might not so agree with me, but unfortunately scientifically it’s the truth. [If you can show me God or prove that we all are sharing the same gene since we all have Adams & Eve as grand-grand-grand…….. parents. I will accept that we are the special living thing, not one of animals.]   Thinking of us as animal, it’s easy to answer that we are living for saving & expanding our species--mankind. But our lives can do so much more things than that.  That’s why it’s so complicated.

By the fact that human has what others [animal] don’t (have much), brain, we probably use our brain too much [or too much less?] we all think of how to become successful people. Again ‘success’ is also a subjective word since success for one person might be only very first step of how to achieve the goal of another, or it might be the thing some would like to avoid.

It starts getting more and more confusing when talking about thought since there is no clear line to distinguish all this thing. Let’s get thing clearer and simpler. When we were young, we all have dream of being something we were not [yet to be, at least]. Super hero? Teacher? Cop? Soldier? prince/princess? or whatever you named it. That’s one thing we were living for, pursuing our dream, but again our dream keeps changing by the time or things surrounding us. Our dream mostly started from imaginary and came back down to be more realistic once we grew up. We basically have plenty of dreams in common, such as family. We all like to have healthy family and/or kids. Watching our kids grow up, but when all little kids become big boys/girls. They will have their own lives, like you have. Don’t get lost here, don’t assume that kids’ dreams are yours. You might accomplish raising your kids, but it’s only you again, what do you do for the rest of your life?

Up to this, now you know that this question is not about others, no one can answer that, but yourself, only you. It’s truly individual. The real question would be what exactly are ‘you’ living for? cut all the crap we all have to do. Sit back, relax, and ask what do you want for ‘your’ life? That likely will be what you are living for. Go get it! The faster you reach your dream, more time to go get your next dream. Well, eventually, we are living for pursuing our many many dreams, ain’t we?

What MTA NYC only think of is

Living on high expectation is hard; it gets even harder when that expectation is from people in the big city like NYC. MTA state of New York could be the very first and the most complex system on the planet earth, serving millions of people in the dream land, but one thing they couldn't have done is making it up to par. With tons of excuses: low budget? how old whole system is? inflation? What the heck they name.

Just take a look to what they did so far: increasing fare and try to increase more along with decreasing level of service. That's only what they can do I guess. NYers would have the same opinion about the fare--ridiculously high comparing to what we get--$2/ride (+1 xfer to another service [only!?] within 2hr) Even though how far it takes you, it's only $2. However, reversibly 1 stop costs you $2 too, what an expensive.

Believe it or not!!? MTA doesn't think so:-

Well, they think this is real cheap already!!! But if you stop and think for a second of how it came up with $1.17/ride.

$81/30days * ride/$1.17 = 2.3 ride/day

By MTA assumption, riders need to take subway or bus 2.3 times a day everyday in a month. They probably think of everyone as MTA officer I guess. In fact, if they assume only 2 ride/day and only 25 day/month, fare will end up with $1.62/ride. It should be enough for showing honesty since it could save about 40% off of regular fare already. Nonetheless, they choose to show how stupid and greedy they are and that could mean what they think of is taking money from NYers, not serving them.

I dOn't eVen mention how "good" their service is..... Hurr.. What a shame in big apple.

Just a reference: NYers pay around 69% of all costs while people in cities around pay around only 40% of all costs; the rest is taken care by City or else. Part of sale tax in NYC [0.375 of 8.375%], moreover, is for MTA!!

Olympics Medals Table--Are they the same??

One more on Olympics; I just got that things we see might not be the same, depending on different views really.

Today:- Olympics Medal Table in the US!!

 

US reporter: we are on top of the table since we have 79 medals in total

from http://www.nbcolympics.com/

from http://content.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/beijing/medals.aspx

Yes, above is from the US! Probably Gold is not that important for them much.

However, what the world sees is: -

from http://en.beijing2008.cn/

from http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/olympics/default.stm

from http://mthai.com

from http://jjoo.marca.com/2008/portada.html

Seem like the WORLD has the same idea, huh??

Stop whining like a kid, the US athlete reporters.

I guess all the US thought Beijing Olympics was overwhelming since Michael Phelps did incredible efforts getting 8 gold medals for the US and their gymnastic teams has shown the great performance.

What is wrong here is He Kexin and Nastia Liukin got an identical score for uneven bar. However, He, Chinese, got the GOLD medal while Luikin, US, got only the silver one. If you are in the US, you'll know all reporters tried to use all sarcastic words to question this, even title as "WAS SHE--Luikin--ROBBED?"

At first, I was surprise as well since I have no clue what the heck "difficulty" & "execution" are and why on earth they have changed easy to understand system like ?/10. But we all want complication stuffs, aren't we? For example, TOEFL is Test of English as a Foreign Language--exclusively for the US since anywhere else could use something else. Starting from paper-based TOEFL is 550 in total, not thing complex here since it's from all part accumulation. Right is +, Wrong is nothing. Then it's computer-based which was for easier to calculate, but now it's internet-based TOEFL--nothing is related INTERNET here--the score calculation also sucks. Right could be ++, +. Wrong could be 0, -. They all depend on the order. Got it? You guys, US, like complexity--accept it.

Come back to our topic, the change of all this gymnastic score system makes it so confused, but understandable. It's just the sum of 2 parts, but I have no clue what is the maximum score anymore! If anyone know, please share. In order to compare the score:

1. more overall score ("difficulty" + "execution"") win
2. Less deductions win
3. ..... [I don't know anymore. If you know, please share]

It's just like football league point--the world's word--if you have more points, you win. If it's lucky that you have the same points, then goal different will be the judge or something else next to be able to decide who will win really. That's it!!

And He Kexin just got less deduction! It's fair already, no question about that.

Why you guys is still questioning judges and scoring system? You knew all that but pretending that's not fair. It's just unprofessional at all!!

Just ask yourself if Nastia Liukin won. I bet the story will be like WHOOOOOOOOA what an INCREDIBLE performance!!!!!

So, stop whining--keep working harder, your day will come. (I'm not sure if it's going to be soon though since in Olympics I see no way to win China indeed)

So pissed, today

I don't know why I have to be so pissed while I'm not related to this directly at all. I will tell you a story:-

Okay started at Y bought something from a popular online store. But the problem is Y hadn't checked carefully whether Y use his credit card or somebody else (in case his account has many credit cards of many people since Y are good enough to look for cheap and good stuff for others--but they have to pay on their own. Y doesn't earn even a buck from this--and never cheat). Unfortunately, the bill address & cardholder name are belongs to Y but the credit card number was not. Frankly, it just worked like there wouldn't be any problem.

Y hadn't realized that he did something wrong until C was asking if Y used C's credit card or not. Immediately Y looked at the receipt/invoice and found that credit card number was belong to C, Y gave C a cash covered everything Y spent and, surely, an apology for his fault.

Nonetheless, the day after that. C told this story to everybody around seemed like Y was so bad using C's credit without permission and said something like C would be absolutely okay if and only if Y just asked, but, in fact, Y didn't.

-_-' nothing to say for Y--he was trying to explain everything that he made a mistake and a weird issue about using his security code & his name & his billing address in order to verify that order, surely it's not C's info at all, and that had been approved.

C did NOT even listen to any of this, just kept saying, "IT'S UP ON MY CREDIT CARD" and still said that Y is suck!

You know? If someone made a mistake unintentionally and regret what he/she did and payback what he/she has to, isn't that enough? What do you really want people??? This is not happening to me, but it's very close. I don't know really if this is that much wrong. It's true that Y's the one to blame in this situation, but why doesn't C think of blaming the online store & bank that let this thing happened as well? Y did everything he could to alleviate this issue and this ultimately doesn't hurt C at all physically or financially, perhaps little emotionally. In contrast, Y's mind was destroyed completely.

A friendship might be so little enough in C's point of view, so C could ruin C-Y relationship entirely. No matter how hard it has been up to now.

Maybe I'm too close to Y, so I was very pissed for Y. I really want to know If you were Y, what will you do in this situation? and If you were C, would you do something like this? Life is too short to think, do, face bad stuffs. If things are not so big, why bother? solve it; there'll always be a way. We still have lives to live and do many things we want.

HALF FULL, people!, half full is all you (& everyone) want..

Web design's perspective has been changed again

Since there are many popular small devices like Asus Eee PC, Nokia Internet Tablet, iPhone, and iPod Touch, the website is not for only computer anymore. Website normally is created to view in a full-capability browser only, so when you use PDA kind of thing opening the web, you will find awkward to see all the contents. However, all browser-based devices above completely changed the view. With the limit of screen estate--800 maximum-pixel-width & less than 480 pixel-height, most websites are not that comfortable to look at. You may argue that iPod touch or iPhone has that kind of ability; but all I can say is if you have an option between Macbook and iPhone and your task is finding one topic or reading a topic in NY times, what would you choose? I bet no one will choose iPhone, not because it's not great, but its screen is too small to skim and scan over the content. You may have to have a lot of touches just to finish the job while you just look at the Macbook and you get it.

Before we used to think from the low resolution to higher solution, that is what web designers have to think of to create a page based on that screen size. Nowadays, you'll rarely see the web page that suits well for the 800*600 screen; they have turned to be 1024 minimum-pixel-width for awhile since newer monitors tend to be wide screen and higher resolution, then if you still keep the same limit--800 pixel-width, surfer will find that the web page is too narrow. Nonetheless if you set the width too big, surfer will have to scroll horizontally which is not quite comfortable. 1024 pixel-width seems to be okay for most surfers, but while the landscape has been changed by tons of UMPC, sub-notebook, or internet-based device. Should web designers change their perspective? By catching the width and resizing the layout dynamically or just let it be by the old trend--increasing the size of screen anyway. I don't know if user really cares about this; somehow this is just what web designer should realize. And it's time to update our web sites again! ha ha ha

When in Rome, do as the Romans do

When in Rome, do as the Romans do, that's what exactly right. No matter how you are. It's the same as how we raise our kids; if you want your kids to be good, stay in a good place; avoid to be in a bad place because kids have to be in there and no one wants to be alienated, then they tend to grow up as same as others around. Come to what I want to complain today, walking through the red light, jaywalking or whatever pedestrians do is common thing in New York City if you had lived there you know what I am talking about. The thing is I came from Alabama where everyone, actually most, follow the rule strictly. When I first came here, Mann! What the heck people did!, why shouldn't they wait for the light? I was only a few that was at the edge of sidewalk at first but started to cross the street at the end of the crowd. Nonetheless, society have changed me to be as same as everyone. Then I cross the road by looking around; if it's safe, I'll go.

For New Yorker, have you ever heard of issuing a ticket for jaywalking? I hadn't until today, 4/12/07. Yes, it was me whom police semi-politely gave a ticket and a nice word at the end, 'have a good day'. The story started at when I and my girlfriend went to authentic Thai Restaurant, Swaddee, at Union Turnpike by subway. We did what we always do, get off the train and go up to street level. The thing is the south side exit we always go was closed by god sake's reason. So we had to use the north exit on the other side of Queens Blvd. That was the incident happened. It's at Queens Blvd crossing with 78th ST. Usually, at the junction, there always are crosswalks on both side, so no one has to walk cross the street in order to cross the Boulevard. Not only this junction doesn't have, but also has a sign not to cross on one side. Fortunately, no one cares the sign, neither do I. They just cross naturally; look around and walk if it's safe or walking sign on. Today it's just almost the same circumstance but not at the end. When I reached the opposite side of the street. There is one big guy came to us and asked for the ID. I gave him one. So does my friend. I asked him why? "Jaywalking, you crossed where you shouldn't; there are a lot of accidents here." and he got on the car which parked at the second lane of the road (isn't that block the traffic?) I walk to the small group of people which faces the same situation as me. They all said what on earth does the cops do? It doesn't make any sense at all. Will we get a ticket? Surely, answer is yes.

The thing is we were wrong. I accepted that; but in this case, there is something that I felt it was unfair for folks whom NYPD gave a ticket. Just so you know, when I crossed the street, there is a group before and after me, all the time.Only unlucky people were given a ticket and unfortunately they were others but white. Dude, is that what we called 'racism'? I thought it was gone from the US since the Civil War, at least it should not be in the case of what state officers do. I didn't make this up; the group followed me is mixed between white and black. How lucky the white is, only the lady who is African American was caught in order not to obey the not crossing sign. Soon as she was asked for ID, she asked the police back, "hey, what's about this?" The cop didn't respond anything but walk back to the car and get on it as nothing happened. How can we find another reason for this but race? If you have one, let me know. I was very frustrated like everyone in an unlucky group; what we can do more but complain and accept. NYPD didn't listen to anyone at all, when we want to ask something, it's just like I was his employee; some we got answer and some doesn't. It's just not supposed to be like this. When they finished writing the ticket, they called me to get it. My girlfriend asked what about the rest that did the same thing but they didn't have to pay $$ and time at all. What they said make me feel o_O (this is what the civilized country does, it's just the same as us, the Third World) they said that I could do only one at a time, you see? Oh-O I really want to ask them back that what the heck are 2 of them do because I saw on both my and my girlfriend tickets has the same handwriting. However, I said, "okay, I let you work with that people, bye"

"Have a good day" is the last that they said to the unlucky people.

How can I have good day on the unlucky day? By the way, I have to go to court on June 16, 2007 (2 months+ from now.) This is another thing I don't understand at all. Why is their process really suck? Just pay a small fine. They have to try let people forget to earn more money by late fee or let people calm down from very frustrating scene they have faced; I really want to know that, and I will ask whoever they are in the court again what is wrong if I'm Asian not White.

All in all, I don't blame New York makes me like this, while, in fact, it does, but the truth is I choose to be the same as others by myself and I believe you would go the same path. I know what I do, only when I am in Rome, I have to do as Romans do. And in the case of those NYPDs who are suck, it's possible that they have lived in really bad atmosphere before or they are just jealous of other races that are given almost the same thing as they are in the world of equality, so this is the only way to alleviate what in their minds. When these folks passed away, the world would be a lot better than it is today. I really hope it comes soon, then our next-generation will not have any bad thing to follow anymore.

How ridicurous some NYPD are!!!!!!!!!!

Today I got a ticket from NYPD because of jaywalking on Queens Blvd (Union Turnpike). It sounds normal, but it's not. Many people crossed the street on the same line as me, but only some people got the tickets especially Black, Asian, and South American. Is it equal? Do they have prejudice?

About 4:30PM, my boyfriend and I went to Thai restaurant on Queens Blvd. by taking E train. When we left the train, we saw the exit that we always use were closed. So we had to go to the other side and crossed the street. We saw many people crossed the street at that side. Then we were following them. A policeman came to us and asked for our IDcard, and we gave them immediately. I asked him what was happening, and he said I crossed the street on the prohibit way. And, I accepted that it's my fault. I believe in laws and I graduated from laws school in my hometown, Thailand. Therefore, I think that's fine for me. I respect the laws, and also I expect officers who run the laws to use them equally.

Just about 5 minutes left, we saw a large group of people crossed the street like we did, but 3 policemen ignored them. What is that? And there were a lot of people crossed that street after that, but the cops didn't give them any tickets. The thing is groups which including any white people didn't get the ticket. Is it racial discrimination? Is it acceptable in this country? Is it fair?

Every people who got the tickets tried to ask the cops about this, but they escaped by closing all the car's windows and staying in there. In addition, when one of the policemen got out of the car in order to give a black woman ticket written already, there were about 4-6 people crossed the street on the same line. The woman asked him whether he saw them and why he didn't give them the tickets as her. The policeman said nothing and went back to stay in the car. My boyfriend and I ask another cop when he gave us the tickets how about people who were crossing the street (in the same line) at that time. He said he wrote our tickets, so he couldn't do another job at the same time. However, 2 policemen just sat in the car to see many people crossed the street like the way we did, and the reason they gave us the tickets.

"...All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights......"

"...Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty......."
(from http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html)

Are all these words just ideal?

I plan to get into laws school here, the US, in order to study about International Human Rights Law. I have chosen this country because there are a lot of tries to promote and to make the world be concerned about human rights, yet this situation makes me disappoint. I'm pretty sure that there are a lot of good policeman here. Don't let a bad part of your organization makes all of you be dirty!!

Different Idea, Different Solution

I don't know if you are in the same world as me because I'm always looking for any technology-related, especially semiconductor-related, any device, and software. Nowadays, I am exciting about implement those new technologies into real device like The Sony Reader which uses e-Ink screen to be closer to real paper, it's really close; you'd got to see by yourself. However, I found another group has tried to make a paper more than just a paper, reusable paper. I found two kinds of them;

1. e-blue which is erasable ink.
Basically, it's like an ordinary ink that uses with your printer, but the special thing is it can be re-color to be transparent! All you need is an ink and an erasing machine. I have no idea if it released but I will find out.
>> here is a full news from newscientist.com

2. plastic paper
This method differs to previous one. The point is they made a new kind of paper which can change its color back and forth for hundreds of times. This paper made of the same type of plastic that uses for bottles of fizzy drinks; it can change its color by heat (actually by CO2 emission). This kind of paper is used in real world now, Japan.
>> full news from bbc.co.uk

Very interesting to me. Both ways are pretty good. Even they are still too expensive to use in every household, I am sure it won't be too long; we will have opportunity to use at affordable price. As I mentioned at first, I am one of folks who are looking for anything replacing a paper (In fact, I still prefer to read in physical paper), but another group are trying to invent something new to make a paper better in a way I never think of! Wow that's why we are different, isn't it?

WiFi card: PCI vs USB -- who win?

Before writing this post, maybe I thought as same as others, or the most people. But now my thought was changed totally due to my experience. It might be the result of the product I chose only. I didn't have a chance to test with another model so far though.

The thing is I have to find a solution to make a computer, pretty old one with Celeron 500MHz, 128MB RAM PC100, BX Chipset (Ohhh, legendary chipset about 10 years ago!!) You know finding the wifi card that supports Win98se is pretty hard and it's even hard to find all of drivers for another device. Because so far we have Windows XP which's so smart and automatically finds most of driver. Maybe new technoguy does even know how hard, how long it takes to find and install those devices. First I tried to setup Win98SE and WinME; however, they didn't seem work properly due to incomplete windows setup set I had or whatever I have no idea too. (After I left my home, I didn't have any kind of things to fix a computer.) Then I decided to install windows XP which it's too heavy for this computer for sure but it worked even it had a slow process.

Ok, get it to our topic. I bought NETGEAR WG311 v3 at RadioShack $39.99 (after $20 inst. rebate) I thought It's expensive enough to be good but I was so wrong.

from my little research: suggestions are the same way >> Go for PCI!!
http://forumz.tomshardware.com/hardware/PCI-USB-Wifi-ftopict174476.html
http://forumz.tomshardware.com/hardware/USB-card-PCI-card-ftopict117577.html

As far as my knowledge, I'm pretty sure that PCI device is much better than USB device in several reasons, such as CPU Load, Bandwidth, BUS, Power. This time I faced a total different story from what I knew before.

NETGEAR WG311 works properly but it saw only 1 hotspot which is 1 foot far from it.
My laptop, fujitsu S2110, found 5 hotspots around my room. (Surprise, huh?)
my zodiac with SanDisk 256 MB SD+Wifi found 2 hotspots.
The last thing is nobrand USB Wifi, tested on the same PC as NETGEAR WG311, found 3 hotspots..

The result of Netgear NIC didn't change at all when I changed a stock antenna to a new one which has 4.5dBi gain which's better than stock about 2.2dBi gain. I think I try enough with this NIC. I'd better return this *disappointed* product and find a new USB Wifi which it's better for sure...

In brief I can't say that USB Wifi is better than PCI Wifi, but one thing I'm pretty sure of is DON'T GO FOR *NETGEAR WG311 v3* and if you choose USB Wifi, you have more chance of success. 555

At least I'm not alone: Comment in newegg.com

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Cons: bad xp SP2 compatibility. not sure if it is my AMD chip or SP2 because even the XP update from netgear woulnt help. BSOD's daily needed a restore to get them to stop. buy a linksys, havent had a single problem with them.

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Cons: This thing is piece of junk. It just sits there forever and scans for networks, and if it ever connects, it drops the signal within a few seconds. Buy a Lxxxxys instead of this garbage.

Beware of deliberate mistake!

Stay alert if you would like to stay in the US, ha ha it's not about terrorism but something that's closer than that; please check a transaction or bill in every single line. Because they, any company, will overcharge you in every way they can. Even though it's a stupid way. Last few days, I got 2 stupid electronic mistakes (they claimed). Firstly, it's from CitiBank. They charged me $30 for insufficient fund in my new account (I just opened it few weeks ago and never used it before) Second, it's Sprint mistake again (I hope it's the last one) They rejected my $100 rebate with a reason that is "We apologize for the misunderstanding, but your rebate is invalid because the product was not purchased within the dates specified by this promotion". How stupid they are? They gave me a rebate form. All I did is just filled out the application and sent to Sprint.

All this stupid things is solved by calling and making a quarrel for a while. Ohh, am I wrong if I think they make a deliberate mistake for people who don't care in every single detail? I don't know for sure; however, it seems to be that way. Becareful of your bill!!!

I don't like New York

I don't like New York

After a week living in New York. Someone dub it *land of freedom*. It's true indeed but too much, in my thinking. New York is such a city that incredibly amalgamates every races well, I mean it's not only stay together but live together. Many couples are black and white, some are yellow and white, so new generation seems to be brown mostly.

It did pretty good about racial harmony but not how good they live a life. Another side of huge city always has something're really worse. NY has too much based-level people, I mean worker, blue-collar or whatever you call. To be huge city, NY needs a lot of blue-collar to fulfil work that upper level afraid to do. According to my idea, social structure always be like triangle, higher it is, it needs wider base to stablilize. Such a big city like NY, its peak is too high, meanwhile base is too low as well. This is the problem that it can't avoid and seems that it won't care about this. Subway envirom ment, for example, is very very bad, including dirt, certainty and so on. How old is the trains? I can't answer this but all I know is they need improvment, a lot of improvement and subway station must be improve either. why I have to mention subway? because subway is a main transportation for most based level people here. If you can't improve how they live a life, don't try to improve others, it's always suck that this gruop of people always be treated bad, whether they have the hardest work and the least revenue.

Next problem is a basic problem, that is, manhattan is only one place that's civilization. Everything is in mahattan. If you can blink your eyes to see manhattan and queens or brooklyn in a row. you will think like me, "is that the same state?" "Am I stay in New York? (when you see others but manhattan)" It's not what we saw in a movie. Even where peter parker live, I think he live in nearby manhattan city. It looks better that real town that I saw. And if you have a chance to see rental room of foreigner in queens. Ohhh! its environment's sort of place to sleep only, in such an environment like that no one can think of a thing creatively. $400 room here you can find neither small room size like 2*3 sq. meters nor big but dirt and all without furnished and share-bathroom. On the contrary in other states, with this price, you can get a comfortable furnished room with your own bathroom for sure.

I don't mention to mahattan at all because it's much expensive to compare with where I used to live. If you stay in manhattan, maybe you can used the same amount of money that pay for room 1 month to live in Bangkok for 4 months, including good room and food for living. I have no idea how new yorker can live their life like this. As soon as I have a chance to go other place I'll leave. But now my life must go on stucking in Gotham-like city for a while. Wait and see maybe I will find some good sides in a place like this. I hope.

The Lake House (2006) from WB

From TV ad again, Surprisely, The Lake House is the new movie that will release June 16, 2006. Oh! very soon!! I can't wait to watch now. Anyway, at first, I don't know what this movie is either; however, the ad showed enough informations for me to realize that is mimic of il mare, one of my favorite, I means that il mare is very emotional romantic movie and sure, it's all about love.

It's pretty exciting to wait to watch old brand new movie esp, the one you really liked. Honestly, I don't expect The Lake House would be better than il mare, I don't think american could make romantic movie as good as asian do. Eventhough I'm asian, but il mare is korean, so I don't get that like a native so. I think it's fair enough for me to compare both of them. Will see how much Keenu Reeves and Sandra Bullock spell the scroll of love through the mail box.

Whether you get about love or not, what I'm pretty sure of is you will charm with fully romance through the film named "il Mare". Don't miss!

take back to the fully emotional film for a while..






ps. Anyway, one thing that I'm not to feel good about this is I can not watch this movie with the one I want to.

New MSN 8 beta

Windows Live Messenger or MSN version 8.0 released for a while. Someone said it's pretty cool interface, someone said it's so suck, darned slow.

Anyway, I won't talk about that. Because today, I received the alert from MSN to update a new BETA version. I have no choice, it's not gonna worse than this one. that's all I know. It took pretty long to finish downloading and installing progression, comparing w/G-Talk. (absolute difference, right?)

After completed all procedures, Main program is look so guady, flashy to me. I don't know why microsoft want to make it look like this. I prefered the way G-talk did, just simple, fast, adequate. Maybe I'm a minority.

One thing that I found it's more pragmatic, that is, merge a consecutive conversion together like most of chat-clients. It uses space more efficient than they did before. I hope microsoft might have started to change their perspective. That'll be the best news, if it's real.

Using Treo as palm plus phone or just a sophisticated phone and decoration

Yesterday, I went to Atlanta airport to pick someone. The interesting things in an airport is there are many treo users and risible story about how they used treo.

First, a guy with a treo on his belt. When I first saw him, treo still opened, keyboard light on and palm original headset is connected in his ear. I'm not sure what program was opening. Anyway, when he wanna make a phone call, he pick another phone in his pant pocket, that is, surprisely Nokia 5130 body-like, I'm not sure but it's grayscale screen, and make a phone call! -_-! What about treo he has? Unfortunately, it seem like his call has a problem, so he pick a treo and open phone program and use via touch screen only!! And make a phone call with an old phone again! What?!?

According to my own opinion, treo has a significant advantage in one-hand operation but, as you can see, he didn't even use that! Otherwise, I imply that he didn't have any 3rd party program in order not to turn keyboard light off in that circumstance, enough lumen to see anything clearly.

One question is "Is Treo not easy or comfortable enough for everyone to make a call as Nokia 5130?"

Second, pretty women's time. It's not ridiculous as the first one but it showed the same idea of how they used treo in a uncomfortable way. I think her age should be around 40. She always held treo w/leather case in her hand. When she used, first she did is picked up stylus, after that she tried to stare at treo screen, like a people who has not very well vision, and tap and tap on screen for a while, then she acts as calling someone. :-D that's all, she just tried to make a phone call! OH! What a one-hand operation? NO! None of them used that feature. Why? It should be a good question.

It's just a funny story while waiting for an arrival of my friends.