Sand storm, extreme weather? couldn’t be worst(so far)

March 22nd, 2010

In past ten years, China’s economic is a hot dish in the world, everyone want to do business with Chinese people, international corp. wants to open factory in China, and people in China getting richer and richer. All It just happened in past ten years or so, when people in China, and the government in China getting richer and powerful, they simple playing things and policy on they own rule; by time to time they are avoiding the international rule and always defend as “third world country” and “own country policy, foreign can’t involve”.

When china getting richer and richer, more factory was builded, more car and energy was consumed, and more national resource was used. That is an alarm of the earth, that is the biggest thread ever of earth’s life. Think about it, over 1.2 billion people country, even only 1% people getting rich, 60% people live in city,  and 90% people don’t what pollution is, it will just make the things get worst.

In 22 March 2010, Hong Kong is experiencing the highest air pollution index since recorded(so far), it hit 400, according to US’s guideline, when the index hit higher than 300 it will status as Hazardous and what that mean is life threading.  I was born in Hong Kong, and I live in Hong Kong about 21 years, since I came back from Ottawa Canada, I suffering runny nose and allergy, some of the reason is because of the quality of air. Also in last year, some travel magazine and some countries’ travel guide to status Hong Kong suffering air pollution, and warned citizen try to avoid to go to Hong Kong, that is serious problem, and Hong Kong government doesn’t know how to fix it.

Most pollution is come from mainland China, not only in the Guangdong province, the pollution is also come from more far north province. The reason is when the weather in winter and spring, the pollution from far north will fly throw all the way to Hong Kong by the wind from north pole. Hong Kong can’t do anything about it, because that is nature, but we can do it on the root, which mean we should control it on the human fact. Unfortunately people in China are lack of pollution education and they only have money on their mind, so the pollution is getting worse and worse. China government also hide the fact at the same time, so no one knows the fact in China. That is a dilemma of Hong Kong, UN and the environment association.

So please thing about it, people in Hong Kong, that is a typical example of Chinese government how to treat citizen and the small, far south city, the fact is  you won’t get any good things from them, and you only get some bad result from them and we can’t avoid it. People in Hong Kong  please just rethink and stand up to against what Hong Kong should stand for.

The war of phones

March 1st, 2010

In year 2009, iPhone and Apple did shake the cell phone market, Apple changed the rule of consumer cellular phone market and wake several new and old rivals up. Some people say apple is worthless and the phone sucks( compare to new google phone) but in fact when you think deeply, they did a lot of things and give in a lot.

The very important thing about the product sucess is marketing and the market of the product. Apple did very good job on iPod, as well as iPhone itself. When you talk to people, a lot of people like to get an iPhone is because of the easy to use, the situation just like game console nitendo’s wii; It gets in every market. Thats what apple does and it did make the image of iPhone is fun, easy n hip, after all it is a straight of apple Inc. itself(from Macintosh 1984 to now)

Beyond the target market, functionalitiy is playing the big part of it. When you see the iPhone, you only see several icons on the screen and one button on the front; one on the top and two on the side. Also it has the most important silent switch on the side as well, that’s why the product to get with, eye candy and less button. And the product comes out a fun, hip and easy.

That’s the other example of good marketing product, which is blackberry; Few days ago, when I talked to the lady and she claimed that she wants a blackberry but she stuck with her new Nokia E72. well that E72 looks pretty much the same as blackberry, also have bottom 40 plastic keyboard, and fake trackpad. So I asked her why she wants blackberry, and she replied that because of blackberry messenger and she added everyone in office are using blackberry with blackberry messenger, she wants to get into the cloud, and yes that is the reason of some blackberry rookie to get their first blackberry. Blackberry use the other approach to marketing their product and i think it calls professional image, a newpaper survey claimed 80% of first and business class passengers are using blackberry, only less than 10% used iPhone. That’s the reason of blackberry target on that market, professional and “it just work”, it is an oppsite side of the iPhone, cus when you ask those guy, they will say “I don’t need a fancy things in my phone, I just need what I need”. In fact, Blackberry did fail one time, they tried to enter iphone’s market(blackberry storm) but they fail so they go back to their position and unveiled bold next generation. Because the “bottom 40″ plastic keyboard is one major factor of the device itself  looks professional, it just like a keyboard is a icon of the “work hard” people. Lucky Blackberry did learn that failure and back on their track.

What about android? I think it is hard to succes, because of the position of the market is blur and the target seems wrong as well, especially they have too many cone products on the market, and they are lack of position and target market at the beginning too. In fact Android want to get some of iphone’s market, such as easy, hip and fun, but the problem is they have to many vendor, HTC, samsung, Sony… etc, it is hard to create a image if hip and fun in different vendor, the customer only tend to choose the cell phone by outlook and the price, not by the OS itself, also the OS is too “customize”, once the solid OS is too “customize”, user is hard to learn the OS in the first place, and what that mean is the limitation of  ”customize” is good for the product and the user. A very good example of Android phone screen unlock and  view apps UI flow, they let vendor and user customize it, which is good things but it make the first time user have a difficult time to learn it, that is the downside of the android. Also because of different vendor, they can’t do things like blackberry does in professional field.

The future of cellular phone battle will become two separate way one is to high end and the other is to the rest. In the high end field, Apple and blackberry will remain their good hand in battle, and windows and google will have to counter them, but they have a lot of things to do, from their innovation to the marketing plan, and the key to success is do something different to blackberry and iPhone, not just follow their step.

Some fact about the iPad

January 29th, 2010

It can hold up to 6 icons on the barFirst, the bottom bar can hold up the six icons.

It does support traditional chinese It does support traditional chinese. It doesn't have phone functionIt doesn’t have phone function, even if you buy a 3G version.

The CPU is made by Apple itself, it called A4,and it is ARM base.

Micro SIM

The iPad requires micro sim, which means the one you have in your cell won’t fit into the slot.

Anyway, I think the device is pretty good, even though it still have a lot of missing function. I think I m going to get one(because I used to wanna get amazon’s kindle), but I still have to wait til june…. gosh, it is kinda long.

Be health, be think different… Steve

January 28th, 2010

I was stay up all night just because of Apple event; Yes I know I m such applefan boy, anyway , everytime they have such event I will stay up all night long, looking at the screen of the text and picture update, and get excited or disappointed on the text lately, don’t ask me why but it is my habit I guess.

Last like Apple unveiled iPad, well it is kinda predicted and I guess the product is “ok”, just fit what people need if they need it. Of course somepeople will say it just a big size of the iPod touch etc, but I think it is kinda different to that. Anyway, I think I will buy one in June, yes is June…… I m not living in NA anymore, so I have to wait dammit.

Beside the product, I m more concert about Steve Jobs health, after I saw the pictures, I m kinda relief, yes, he still thin, but looks gaining weight and looks health on his face. Steve, be health and keep thinking differently.

Something in command.

January 26th, 2010

Today when I chatted with my friend, I suddently think we are in the same boot even thought we are not in the same place. Becaue we are tripped in this enormous cities.

You know when I was in Ottawa, at least some of my friend have something in command… Like music, thought and hobby… We chatted a lot, bullshit a lot in a same way. But when I back to Hong kong, most of the friends are totally nothing in command, maybe because I don’t want to share how to earn money, what’s the stock look like sort of thing, I want to share sth more meaningful.

Well I think it might called curtural different.

Apple Event in 26(27) January 2009 – updated

January 22nd, 2010

Apple Event, iPad

I guess I had too many chinese and political topic in recent posts, it is all because of the political issues in Hong Kong, I think I should stand up and say my words. Anyway, back to some interesting things… geek’s gadget. It seems has a lot of rumors about tablet device from Apple, for my opinion I love to see one and I “might” get one instantly; Thats because I love to see how Apple make the thing workable and differently;

In this couple year, a lot of company unveiled different kind of tablet, netbook, and portable media play, seems none of its success, it just the era before iPod unveiled in 2002. When more of the products don’t success, means the companies still searching the way to make a selling point of the products. Thats why iPod is success, they found a very solid selling point, easy to use, easy to transfer.  So I hope the latest creation has similar idea and find the very solid selling point.

That is a mock of of iSlate or iPad… or whatever the name is.

lets see what Apple can do in 26 Jan 09, oh btw my iPhone app is on track now, just finishing fixing some xml backend file and now is on track. cool.

羅耕的信報社評。港官好學不學,學足中共弄虛作假。

January 22nd, 2010

造假資料、作假諮詢、弄假民意、過假立會,以為這樣掩耳盜鈴、自欺欺人就可以瞞天過海,侮辱百姓智商。沉默的永遠是大多數,加上中國人素來奴性甚重,若非大是大非,一般忍過便算。中共與港官正是看中此點,溫水不斷煮蛙,底線不斷褪下。 衝撞過後,乞人曾班子齊發聲明,要整治「敗類」云云,擺明以石擊卵。綜觀曾治多年,幾乎每次大禍都是由把口闖,由六四論、代表論以至近日的言論,「禍從口出」實至名歸。乞人曾口口聲聲以民為本,但與中共的什麼為人民服務一樣,是徹頭徹尾的掛羊賣狗。如今,整個特區政府在中共的淫威之下,已徹徹底底地站在群眾對立面。 沒錯,近年示威人數確在減少。不過,在中共聯同特區重手落藥的「刺激方案」下,數字其實早具「上升潛力」;而在民怨沸騰的基本因素推動下,數字快將「見底回升」。千人示威可以出動警察人盯人來「噴人」;萬人遊行又可如何?出動解放軍全數拉人?假使十萬人僅只圍堵靜坐,那又如何?不如再學中共,出動坦克統統輾過,好不好? 十萬人來圍堵靜坐,有無可能?香港百萬人上街都試過。別以為在中共號召下舖天誚a大賣廣告就可營造民意假象;這只會再次侮辱百姓智商而已,群眾眼睛是雪亮的。造假是中共的拿手好戲,但請謹記林肯講過:”You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.” 大國崛起令中共沾沾自喜,以為壓倒一切就是治國真諦。世人即管放長雙眼,看你橫行霸道到幾時。 多行不義,必遭天譴。 lawgang@gmail.com

知識份子還是求知?

January 21st, 2010

常常和人爭論的事不外乎是政治和信仰,兩件事正正是世上最易起爭執的話題。我未曾有一次勝出或失敗,因為往往都是沒有結論,或是轉話題。或許多年前我哥哥說過我的語言太自我的說法是正確的。

我常說的是,不要廢話,只說知道的,也不要道聽徒說,尋根究底,思考,分析你聽到,看到的。只有思考和獨立的思維才不會成應聲蟲。剛剛的這個星期,我真的看到人的醜陋,社會的打擊和壓制,一班“成年人”將事實扭曲,傳媒的推波助瀾“令一班他們口中將來的社會棟樑一再打擊,那是可恥,正所謂,君子有所為,有所不為;那班”成年人“真的連小人都不如,還滿口人義道德,真的令人討厭。最不幸的是很多閱讀者,電視觀眾在不經思考的情況下接收和應同那班無恥的人說教。

政治的現實就是這樣,要說服是很難的;所以那班被中傷的”八十後“,不要氣餒,沒了行動,那有真相,還有求知和知識是一種令你得到正確分析的人種方法。

為一些新一代悲哀。#stopxrl Update

January 18th, 2010

一月十六日的黃昏,我閱讀著twitter,閱著香港立法會的投票的不斷更新,我的心如石一樣的沉重;當知道通過後,我的心真的如被刀割一般的痛,良心何在?公義何在?金錢和所謂的“可能”利益真的那樣重要嗎?最可悲的是有一些年青人還跟我說,起廣深港鐵路(高鐵)是正確,反對那班是不理智,有友人寫下一些論點去支持高鐵,所以我特此回覆一下我的觀點。

開初高鐵對於我來說,真的不是太關心,也不去發表任何的意見,因為我真的不太了解。當我開始花一些時間去做一點research,我開始去思考誰是對與錯,思考是很重要的,特別是在香港這個社會裡。當然我最後的結論是反對吧,主要的原因是我找不到叫我去支持的理據。

再一次說邊緣化的問題, 有人說不興建高鐵會令香港邊緣化問題惡化,我想反問從那裡看出邊緣化的問題?從那裡得知不興建高鐵會令香港邊緣化問題惡化?第一邊緣化問題是出自政府的政策,只為金融,地產發展;旅遊又 殺掉一個又一個的景點和只懂打做成一個又一個的商場;政府的政策是將自己的優勢殺掉,而又將不善長的發展(那紅酒,中藥和數碼,到現在的運動),更加地他們不懂如何發展,那就是我所說六大產業的空口講白話。所謂人們所說的邊緣化,那是無形的東西,不是用一個有型的東西去解決或深化。

香港是一個小的地方,而廣州,深圳都不算大;和周邊城市一起發展,不是互相競爭,而是互保不足,但中國大陸的城市和政策往往是相反。我前文早已題過;但香港政府無知地簽下一個又一個的不平等條約,那就是回到文章開端的邊緣化的遠因。

另外我所說反對興建是因為做價貴和不經濟是重點,何況現在有很多方法來往中國大陸,一條鐵路真的可以令所有人去轉乘它嗎?政府現在說一天28班,言下之意是每一小時兩班;而現在港鐵去邊境每一小時有多小班?大概6班,還有直通車,過境巴士等等,如果去廣州的話還有船。在我自己的經驗,當我上廣州的時候,我不會乘坐那些直通車,永遠都是到了深圳才乘坐那些“和諧號”到廣州的。我反而想知道當通車後,有多小人會改變他們的習慣?要改變一個人的習慣,要想想改變的機會成本,如金錢的付出,和方便與否等等,若成本往往比較高,或沒有絕對的優勢,人往往不大想去改變自己習慣性。

香港的優勢有很多,如現在的金融,運輸,法治,自由,比較上懂得知識產權等;那就是香港的優勢;簡單地說若你要求內地人創新,那是很難的,他們是聰明但不懂創新;還好,香港還有一些人懂。

還有,請一些支持高鐵的人看清一些真實的政治現實,讀一讀中共歷史,再想一想為何香港政府那麼的著急。國內的確是興建國內交通網絡,而那是很新,很快的,但你們有沒有想過國內有多小人能支付它呢,請不要只看好的一面,壞的也要知道,你們知否在中國生活在貧窮線下有多小人嗎?你知否因它,普通的人民要付比以前高昂的車資回家過年嗎?再而,請打開一些書本關於西藏和新疆原住民 (National Geographic Dec 2009 issue);地方發展了,地方避過了“邊緣化”,但人民就不能。地方生活富庶了,但富庶的卻不是原居民,地方官員和外來者用著“為西部大開發,令人民生活富庶“;但諷刺的是,富庶的不是原居民,而是從東北面來的大國企。想想今天香港的景像是不是跟昨日新疆的差不多?當然香港應該不會落到像新疆的如此田地。

關於環保方面,興建高鐵能保護環境?開玩笑吧?我說多一次高鐵是比普通鐵路不環保;要快的鐵路,首先要消耗比較快的馬達,引擎;那是小學物理學的基本知識。當運行時,車身的震動,快速的代價就是令零件的life-cycle 減低,就這兩個基本理論,已經不是太環保;在興建高鐵時,它會經過樹林,米埔等地,那是小問題嗎?請不要說興建完才去保救,自然生態不是那麼的如加減數的簡單,那邊減了,之後加回便可。所以不要認為減小二氧化碳就叫環保,環保是一個很大的要目,二氧化碳只是其中一環,還有生態,水源,那些更加息息相關。

最後,不要說香港跟週邊城市條件差不多,每一個應有它的特色,而香港直到今天還有它本身的特色,只是政府政策令香港的特色慢慢消失擺了。

早如皇后碼頭,現在高鐵,之後的鐘樓,中環街市,我想問有多小步人民能後退?真的為了金錢就可以沒殺歷史?看看今天的皇后碼頭,以前的水警總部,添馬艦,將來請你們看看中環街市,尖沙咀鐘樓,而支持的你們請看看西九龍,米埔,菜園村;那時,香港不再是今天的香港,昨天的歷史被好大喜功的人們殺掉;那時我想我只會看到金玉其外,敗絮其中的石壁。記住,明天的果,是你們今天令他們放任而種下的根。

Grammar mistake and typo edit.

是能耐的測試嗎?#stopxrl

January 18th, 2010

今天上班在twitter,閱到曾特首對反高鐵的回應,平日小說粗口的我都不斷的用粗口臭罵。香港政府你無得救。

還有當天高官落荒而逃的情景

正所謂,人生不做虧心事,何怕半夜鬼敲門。官wor!