终极观点

January 14th, 2010

政治自由,只是人类生活的一部分。是的,所有的人都希望有政治自由。不过,人还想要别墅,想要香车,想要超级模特美女,高档服饰,HDTV,iPhone等等等等。更不要说,生活在更为落后的第三世界国家的人,想要食物,洁净的饮用水等等基本的东西。

中国和很多第三世界国家一样,政治自由确实不足。虽然中国科学技术已经发展,但是还是和大量落后国家一样,需要高新技术,需要钱,需要经济发展。

西方世界,政客,常常吹嘘的是自己是人权卫士。人权是好东西。不过,为什么他们一般就仅仅吹嘘自己是人权卫士,是要把民主散播到世界各地,而不是宣传要技术支援第三世界国家,无偿提供技术,切实得帮助第三世界国家发展经济呢?因为前者只需要嘴皮上说说,几乎不花钱的,还可以帮忙拉点选票。西方政府也只能这样说,因为他们不掌控技术,他们没资格把私有企业的技术援助给发展中国家。政客掌权,还需要这些私有财团的支持才行呢。

事实上,非洲很多国家不仅没有得到民主和人权,更没有得到足够的金钱和技术支援。西方也不是没有给他们钱,但是他们更关注的是去援助了,这样面子有光,道德高尚,并不真的那么在乎援助是否真的帮助改变落后国家,是否真的能够让他们起步腾飞。中国之所以最近能够争取到一些非洲国家的支持,就是因为中国是真的在帮他们做实事,做基础建设。光给点钱给一些腐败的非州政府,难道这些钱还真的能帮助他们经济发展,真的能落到穷人手里?真的能到穷人手里的,估计也就红十字会之类的到一些人道主义灾难地区直接给点吃的和医疗。对改变现状一点用都没有。

所以,虽然比如美国好莱坞明星经常装作关注人类,关注人道主义,但是事实上西方国家远远没有做到他们应该做的。一些国家虽然获得了西方式民主,虽然我不认为这是坏事,但是他们也确实没有因此真的腾飞起来,当然有些国家是腾飞了,比如韩国,但是并不是主流的现象。

中国需要更民主更自由。不过像Google这样炒作,“撒娇”,还真的屁用没有。真的就和政客一样,只是为了给自己脸上贴金。如果Google在中国占有60+%的份额,我敢打赌,我们就绝对看不到最近这出戏了。

我要抄袭别人一个观点:

如果说Google中国把六四之类的都屏蔽掉是中国政府强加的censorship,那么在Google.com上搜索”tiananmen square“出来的头条,和大部分内容都是和六四相关的东西,又不是不是一种“逆向censorship”?

这个观点的关键是,话语权问题。为什么中国要censor?因为中国没有话语权。西方有话语权,西方基本不上又经常是和中国作对,而且确实是西方更多的控制着互联网。中国抢不到控制权,所以如果中国不控制互联网,不建造一个“局域网”,中国互联网上很多话语权就会被西方控制。我觉得说得有道理。

根据我前面所述,如果西方控制了中国互联网话语权,哪怕是20%,你觉得他们会用这个话语权来干嘛?当然是继续人权,民主了。虽然这些问题是中国发展中的重要问题,但是西方大概是不会真的去关注、帮助解决那些更为切实的中国问题,比如房价,贫富差距,教育费用,医疗费用,环境污染,粮食人口等问题。西方也不是没有关注过有些问题,但是总是会最后拉到民主自由上去谈。我也觉得,这也不是中国人需要的和想要的,中国的问题也不是这样可以解决的。好比西方要中国二氧化碳减排,但是他们就是不会在经济上和技术是帮助你减排的,就算要“帮”,也是高价卖技术或最终高科技产品,而不是技术转让,最终还是要赚你的钱,是他们,要在第四次科技革命中占领先机,保证领先。第三世界国家减排目标的完成过程中,西方也想大赚一把。

最后希望中国有更多话语权,这样中国就不用建局域网了。其实,很多被封的网站,个人感觉不封,也没什么大不了的。不封,还少一些骨头被人挑,政府不会因此垮台,还至少减少了群众对被控制的互联网的不满。不过,事实上国内矛盾还是挺激化的。大概只是为了消灭一些导火索,但是真的有效吗?最终还是要切实把矛盾的源头消灭,而不是建一堆“绿坝”。不管是蓝坝绿坝,还是红坝,都是可能决堤的。

Author: Jeremy Categories: 时政 Politics Tags: , , , ,

关于Google

January 14th, 2010

Mr. Schmidt made the argument he long has, according to these people, namely that it is moral to do business in China in an effort to try to open up the regime. Mr. Brin strenuously argued the other side, namely that the company had done enough trying and that it could no longer justify censoring its search results.

From WSJ via Daring Fireball.

In fact, if you dig deep enough, you may find stories about Brin how he is anti China and anti Chinese government. It is not surprising considering his “origin”.

However, I think Google has gone too far. And I would call Google a big fat liar because their chief legal officer said, years back when Google entered China, it is not for financial interest but to help making China more open. What? Who has a sane mind would actually believe that? Like I said, Google is just trying to gain moral high ground and making itself look good, just a PR strategy.

Essentially, as my previous blog has continued to show, that China has problem in freedom of speech, yes. But for US, it is also very problematic. Some Americans, as I’ve seen, are saying as long as Google filter child porn, it is ok if they don’t filter political content that Chinese government doesn’t like. But hey, you know, Child porn is filtered in the US based on US law. Who do you think Google is not to abide Chinese law to not to filter all the porn?

US has an effective control over speech. Just in a different form and way from China. Google may not block certain content in the US. But essentially it is not heaven and hell difference.

While I would be extremely happy if China stop censoring or blocking websites, I am not on the side of Google. Even less when Google is pretending to be the freedom defender. Remember, Schmidt did not even think privacy is that important on the internet because if you don’t want other people to know what you did, you better not do it. Google is totally far away from a saint company. No matter how hard you try to make you look like one.

审视Google

January 7th, 2010

I use Gmail and Google Reader most.
Seriously Gmail is so dated. I am sick of it but so tied to it. It does have more features than many other email system. But it is ugly, messy, and have absolutely no style and difficult on the eye.

Google doc is still mediocre. But I still use it. Because there is nothing better.

Of course, I almost forgot, Google search. It is probably still the best. But Google hasn’t really innovate in this area for a long time while Yahoo and Microsoft is doing some nice things. There are still many problems with search, I am still often not very satisfied with search results. But ok… Google is still the king.

Google map is ok. But the POI mistakes are just ruining it. Experienced a few times.

Google Video is a joke.

Google Voice is ok. I use it because of free SMS.

Google books… I don’t know. I don’t use it.

Google Translate… not easy to use. But I can use it if I bare with it.

Blogs… really? how many people still use Google’s blogs

Calendar.. is ok. But now I am back to MobileMe becuase it can push to my iPhone and sync with MobileMe cloud.

Photos… I basically only see Chinese people use Picasa web albums. And it is ugly. Flickr feels better.

Reader… probably the No.1 thing I like about Google right now.

Others… many failed products.

Google checkout: never took off.

Google desktop really still anyone use it on Windows 7?

iGoogle is probably the most ugly customized home page on earth. I would take Yahoo or netvibes instead of it.

Product search is ok. helps me find cheap stuff sometimes. But often the price other calculations are inaccruate and frustrating. And it seems it still doesn’t understand the different between British pounds and US dollars.

Google toobar… no thanks. I am not over 50 years old.

Trends… gimick products. Fun sometimes, overall quite useless.

Google code… I wish sourceforge is still the god. Google code.. the interface is just…

Orkut… what’s that?!

Sites… does anyone use this?

Talk… ok…I use it sometimes. But why can’t I send files? And I use it with Adium. Basically, it is not even feature rich compared to AIM or Yahoo Messenger.

Author: Jeremy Categories: IT Tags: , ,

2009年我最爱的音乐

December 26th, 2009

精选了一些YouTube大家可以立即品尝我的推荐。
我的list从美国到英国到加拿大到阿根廷到中国,感觉还比较国际。

Artist – Album – Genre – Release Year

1. Grizzly Bear – Yellow House – Neo-Folk/Alternative – May 2009
美国Gay四人乐队,Grizzly Bear,新民谣。这张评价很不错。进入很多排行榜前列。
Pick: Two Weeks,Southern Point,I Live With You.

Two Weeks的MV很不错。

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2. IAMX – Kingdom of Welcome Addiction – Alternative – May 2009
英国前Sneaker Pimps主唱单飞后project的第三张专辑。这张更带劲,更电子舞曲,更硬。
Pick: Kingdom Of Welcome Addiction,Tear Garden,Think of England。

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3. Beirut – March of the Zapotec & Realpeople – Alternative – 2009
美国才华型Zach到墨西哥拆封,用丧葬乐队搞出来的好东西,外接一些garage electronics。爱死The Shrew这首歌了。我要卡拉OK!!
Pick: The Shrew, The Concubine.

amazing video above.
Debut The Concubine LIVE

看了很想很想看他的Live.

也算是新民谣吧?

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4. Zero 7 – Yeah Ghost – Pop/Rock/Electronic – Sept. 2009
英国电子trip hop后续二人组。时常配有很不错的女声。例如来自澳大利亚的Sia。这张新专辑,和之前三张有很大的区别,以致很多前歌迷表示不喜欢。加入了一个新女声,颇有趣。
Pick: Swing (Sia), Mr McGee, Pop Art Blue, Medicine Man, Sleeper
Pop Art Blue LIVE:

listen to Swing:

Sleeper:

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5. Sufjan Stevens – The BQE (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) – Instrumental – 2009
美国songwriter Sufjan Stevens时隔多年再发专辑。不过居然是全instrumental的soundtrack。而且movie也是他拍的。还没有看movie究竟怎么样。不过搞得很艺术。他还是很擅长编很复杂的东西,很喜欢里面的brass之类的吹奏乐器。
Pick: Movement II: Sleeping Invader, Movement III: Linear Tableau With Intersecting Surprise, Movement VII (Finale): The Emperor Of Centrifuge.

The BQE trailer:

Movement II …Surprise

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6. 朱哲琴 – 七日谈 – New Age – Jan. 2008
中国最高质量音乐代表,朱哲琴+何训田,不用多说,多年之后朱哲琴复出的作品。据说之前何训田还担心她不愿意出来唱。朱哲琴已经移民加拿大了,不知道还能不能算中国?依旧是七首歌。七日谈。
Pick: 不翼而飛,夕陽西下, 路過地球

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7. SimCity 4 Rush Hour Soundtrack – Soundtrack
EA游戏,貌似很多soundtrack做得很好。这个就是典范。这张是Rush Hour Expansion Pack里添加的音乐。个人认为比原来的SimCity 4里面的稍好。里面的Jerry Martin, The HUmble Brothers, Andy Brick等人专门做soundtrack,很有点才华,能够给这个游戏配怎么符合题材,质量又高的音乐,我很佩服。这张里面不少算是现代交响乐+电子杂交。
Pick: Bumper to Bumper, Wheels of Progress, Metropolis.

Bumper to Bumper:

Wheels of Progress:

Metropolis:

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8. Tegan and Sara – Sainthood – Alternative/Rock - Oct. 2009
加拿大lesbian姐妹摇滚乐队第二张专辑。强大之处是常给人out of box的新鲜感,有些东西颇有试验感,而且比较悦耳。弱点是编曲时常老套,一首歌可能开始很好之后似乎感觉她们才华难以支撑?或者需要更好的制作人。这张也是进入若干排行榜。
Pick: Arrow, On Directing, Night Watch, Paperback Head.

On Directing在YouTube上好多Cover。
Arrow:

亚裔mm cover Paperback Head drum

推荐上面这个!

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9. Little Dragon – Little Dragon – Rock/R&B – Sept. 2007
瑞典籍日美混血主唱。另类R&B杂种音乐,常给人耳目一新的感觉。
Pick: Twice. Constant Surprises, The Last.
Twice:

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10. Junior Boys – Begone Dull Care – Electronic – April 2009
加拿大电子二人组。最近美国巡演也要结束了吧?其实也没跑几个地方。最新特别爱好这种合成电子,而且很fresh的感觉很好。Honorable mention里面的Grand National也有点这种类似的电子感。最近比较流行有些古老电子游戏的感觉。但是绝对不是那样粗糙的,而是很精致的。
Pick: Dull To Pause, Hazel, The Animator,

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Honorable Mention:

Tori Amos – Abnormally Attracted to Sins – Alternative

Clint Mansell – Moon (soundtrack from the Motion Picture) – Soundtrack
没看过这个电影,应该去看看。是David Bowie的儿子拍的。

Juana Molina – Some of her music…
阿根廷的音乐。节奏很有趣,其他地方很少听到。音乐不错,不好搞到,我也不全。2003年的Segundo,iTunes上都没有。但是第一首Martin Fierro很不错。

Nine Inch Nails – The Slip
说实话这是我第一张NIN的专辑。。。

Santogold – Santogold – Alternative
很少有黑人MM唱这种风格的音乐啊。水平还可以。Indie。

Grand National – Kicking The National Habit – Alternative

单曲 Honorable Mention

Bjork – Wanderlust (Ratatat Remix)
Ratatat很有趣。。

Peace Orchestra – Who am I? (Animatrix mix)
这个很老了。但是这个别人做到的video很不错

Author: Jeremy Categories: Music Tags: , ,

Who is this person?!

November 16th, 2009

Based on this Washington Post report:

Even the students who posed questions to Obama were pre-selected, and most appeared to be members of the Chinese Communist Party Youth League. Afterward, some of them, when contacted by a reporter, criticized Obama’s statements about Internet censorship, even while saying they were generally pleased having seen the U.S. president up close.

“I strongly disagree with what Obama said about the Internet firewall,” said Tao Weishuo, a 24-year old postgraduate student from Fudan University. “I think all Chinese people have Internet freedom — we can speak out freely on the Internet about current social affairs.” He said the question to him came from a Web site outside China.

Still, Tao said he was impressed. “I think he is kind and warm,” Tao said.

This report has been widely cited and retweeted among Chinese bloggers. Apparently they do not agree with this student. So who is this person?! Is he just ignorant, or is he saying that because he is asked to?

Of course, that doesn’t mean I believe Americans have the real Internet freedom or other kind of freedom. But generally America is still more free.

I am Determined.

November 8th, 2009

I am determined

Author: Jeremy Categories: 书写 Writting, 生活 Life Tags:

Saturday Morning

November 7th, 2009

A poem by me.
Saturday Morning

Saturday Morning (Traditional Chinese)

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Sufjan Steven’s The BQE is Probably the most Artistic Piece of His Work Yet

October 30th, 2009

Just started to listen to this album recently. And today there is this report from NPR.

Sufjan Stevens personally shot the movie too, as far as I understand. I haven’t seen the movie, just the trailer. It is definitely a very contemporary piece. This is kind of a work that comes out of such normal life: the traffic on a very old expressway. He is definitely very talented music writer. His work is becoming more and more “classical” and also, Osso redid his Enjoy your Rabbit album, which has 12 songs based on the Chinese zodiac. Osso is a quartet and the album Run Rabbit Run, is very interestingly classical style as well.

I used to give ratings of albums on my blog. But I guess at least this time I am not ready to rate this album.

Author: Jeremy Categories: Music Tags: ,

How to Boot Macbook5,2 into 64-bit kernel in Snow Leopard

October 29th, 2009

1. Download this boot.efi file. This file has been patched to allow basically all capable-but-restricted-by-Apple Macbooks to boot into 64-bit kernel in Snow Leopard. In my case, this enables my Macbook5,2 to do so.

2. From where you saved this file, in terminal, do this:
sudo cp /System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi ~/Desktop
(this step saves a copy of your original boot.efi to your desktop; unfortunately I lost mine!)

sudo rm /System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi
NOTE! I did not test this and this is irreversible. Please make sure you made a copy of this file. If you cannot delete it this way, do it in Finder.

sudo cp boot.efi /System/Library/CoreServices/
Copy the patched file to where it should be.

3. cd /System/Library/CoreServices/

4. sudo chown root:wheel boot.efi
This changes the ownership of this file.

5. sudo chflags uchg boot.efi
This locks the file.

6. sudo bless –folder /System/Library/CoreServices/ –file /System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi

7. One last thing is to add arch=x86_64 to file /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist to Kernels Flags section
For example:
Kernel Flags
arch=x86_64

You should be done by now. You may still need to hold “6″ and “4″ keys when booting. But it should work.

How to hack the boot.efi file comes from here. Basically Apple restricted all non-pro machines from doing so with this file. So that’s why we need to change it. What changed was:

From:
0×266E0:
38 47 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

to:
0×266E0:
38 47 01 00 00 00 00 00 04 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

Additional resources from here.

Author: Jeremy Categories: 普通 General Tags: , , ,

Now my Wordpress can automatically update

October 29th, 2009

It turns out I just need to add .htaccess file in the root folder of my wordpress. I guess this is a known issue for wordpress hosted by 1and1.

The .htaccess file should only need this line:

AddType x-mapp-php5 .php

That’s it.

Solution comes from here.

Author: Jeremy Categories: 普通 General Tags: , ,

中国的污染

October 18th, 2009

虽然其实很多人都多少知道。但是还是图片更加有力。

原文和其他图片链接

联通iPhone 3G的资费确实贵

September 30th, 2009

美国资费:
我和别人共享一个家庭计划。550分钟一个月,外加晚上9点以后到第二天6点以前无限,拨打AT&T用户无限,周末无限。不包含短信。上网无限流量,不过一般也只能用掉几百兆的流量。实际两个人用掉电话时间为约平均300-400分钟每月。每个人费用大约$60每月。折合人民币约¥400。机器为$180美元购买。折合¥1224。没打完的分钟数可以积累起来,一年有效期。

比较联通资费:
最接近我的资费的计划为:

¥1799购机 + 预存¥5200 (???!!!) =一次支付¥6999 = $1020
每月还款¥217,两年还款¥5208,等于预存话费。

接听免费。Good
包含1250分钟。完全打不完,不过还算比较多了。
数据流量:1.6GB。勉强,至少AT&T自称无限流量,外加AT&T Wi-Fi热点无限使用。
包含短信: 380条。不错,AT&T不送短信。
彩信:40条。贵,少!AT&T,5美元,200条短信,包含文本和彩信不区分。

预存2年话费,利息都不得了。居然不怎么优惠。
这个资费标准,综合起来,基本上和美国消费水准差不多。实在是。。。不适合中国人消费能力。

Author: Jeremy Categories: IT Tags: , ,

AAC Encoding in Snow Leopard or iTunes 9.x Dramatically Improved?

September 23rd, 2009

Figures show it all.
tori

NIN

faye

XLD is app on Mac OS X that uses CoreAudio to encode AAC. Basically that’s what iTunes was using.

My parameter for XLD was:
True VBR
Encoder quality: Max
Target quality: ~111
Resulted bitrate is around 256kbps, sometimes over 300kbps

Nero 1.3.3.0 was used for my older encodings
And I used Foobar2000 to encode and choose the best settings I could. And resulted in ~200kbps file.

What does this mean?
I know eventually for SQ we need listen test. But these graph suggest dramatic improvement of compression? Or not.
If it is indeed improvement, I probably have to ditch all my nero encoded files…And redo all the rip and such. Painful!

Author: Jeremy Categories: IT, Music, 苹果 Apple Tags: , , ,

美国的自由是商业的自由

September 22nd, 2009

美国的自由是商业的自由. 是经商的自由.

FCC要求互联网服务提供商不得歧视数据类型,所谓”网络中立”. 但是各大互联网服务提供商都很不满.因为他们不能不能更多的在未来向网络游戏,在线观看视频等需要低延迟的服务收取更高的费用.

福布斯更是宣称,政府的介入是互联网自由的终结. 其实这个政策只是让大众不因数据使用类别而受到歧视. 美国保守人士认为这是政府欺负这些亿万美元资产的”little man”. 虽然此举可能影响私营企业在互联网基础建设上的投资,但是世界上保护的是普通的公民. 显然福布斯之类的媒体就不是民众的喉舌. 而吓唬美国底层民众:我们即将失去自由,一直都是比较有效的宣传策略。奥巴马的医保改革,又何尝不是这样,下场可能还会更惨。

Author: Jeremy Categories: IT Tags: , ,

艾未未

September 18th, 2009

艾未未的新浪博客现在是封杀用户。

在百度搜索“艾未未”和“老妈蹄花”,因为当地法律,没有搜索结果。

不存在“艾未未吧”。

恩,艾未未到成都闹已经一个多月了。

艾未未是艾青的儿子。

Author: Jeremy Categories: 人权 Human Rights, 时政 Politics Tags:

Converting PDF for Kindle (DX) on Mac OS X

September 2nd, 2009

Just got my Kindle DX.

Kindle DX from Amazon, supposedly has “native” support for PDF, but the support is “experimental” at best. No zoom, no notes, no nothing. Basically you can only read PDF, in portrait or landscape mode. In landscape mode, the text kind of “zoom” a little, but when you scroll down, the pages often won’t align well with the screen. Then you have to rotate back and forth. This is really annoying.

People on PC/Windows have been using Mobipocket Creator to convert PDF for Kindle 1st gen and Kindle 2. Amazon will NOT convert PDF for free for Kindle DX; actually they won’t convert it even for a “fee” because they consider Kindle DX perfect for PDFs. But it is NOT.

The problem is Mobipocket Creator is Windows only. But luckily, after testing, I can run it under CrossOver for Mac. The version of CrossOver I am using is 8.0.1. I assume it will work on older version such as 7. How to do it? Simple. Create a bottle and install Internet Explorer 6. This is required for Mobipocket Creator to function. Then install Mobipocket Creator by “install unsupported software”. Be sure to install this into the same bottle as Internet Explorer 6. It only take a few seconds to install. Then you are done. Just drag that Mobipocket Creator.app into your Dock for faster launch. It should work as well as on Windows.

Here is a screenshot.

Mobipocket Creator

I will also write a short review about Kindle DX focusing on the following aspect later:
1) Chinese support
2) PDF support
3) Use it to read scientific papers

Author: Jeremy Categories: Gadget Tags: ,

中国的增值税VAT很高。赋税很重

August 22nd, 2009

中国政府的主要税收来源之一,即是消费增值税。大部分产品,比如农产品,食物,水电气等家居所需,报刊杂志等都是13%。有一些生产原材料是17%。出口产品则免税。虽然这个增值税比起欧洲很多国家来说低,但是也是相当的高,据说是东亚地区最高的。在中国提高个人所得税门槛之间,怪不得世界上有说法,说中国人是被征税最多的人之一。特别是,越穷的人,食品这些消费占收入比重越高,但是这个增值税对这些生活基本用品的税和其他产品是一视同仁的。

美国没有增值税VAT。所以,很多东西即是拿到中国卖不加价,就会已经比美国贵。美国虽然没有增值税,但是有消费税。但是很多州的食品免消费税,或者只有平均小于5%的样子。大部分州其他产品消费税,大约在5%-9%之间。消费税是每个州自己收的,不是联邦税,所以一般是不能跨州收税的,所以很多时候跨州网上购物,就可以“逃”掉这个税,虽然有时,法律是要求消费者在每年报税的时候报告网上购物金额的,但是基本上没有人报,而且大概也没有人有记录详细的网上消费清单。在实物店里面购买的时候,是商家立即代收的。

看看欧洲的增值税:

Belgium – 21 %
Bulgaria – 20 %
Cyprus– 15 %
Denmark – 25 %
Germany – 19 %
Estonia – 18 %
Finland – 25 %
France – 19,6%
Greece – 18 %
Great Britain – 17,5%
Italy – 20 %
Ireland – 21 %
Latvia – 18 %
Lithuania– 18 %
Luxemburg– 15 %
Malta – 15 %
Hungary – 25 %
The Netherlands – 19 %
Austria – 20 %
Poland– 22 %
Portugal – 19 %
Romania – 19 %
Sweden – 25 %
Slovak Republic – 20 %
Slovenia – 20 % (8,5%)
Spain – 16 %
Czech Republic– 22 %

但是,欧洲的福利可是比中国好很多,毕竟很多人认为欧洲比中国社会主义得多。比如免费医疗,大学免费等等。美国虽然没有增值税,但是医疗费用很高,私立大学学费和公立大学外州学费平均约4万美元一年。这里有篇短文,简要探讨为何法国有增值税,美国没有。有没有道理,我其实也不太懂。但是只是说,和世界上主要国家比起来,中国赋税确实很重。

Author: Jeremy Categories: 时政 Politics Tags: ,

QQ邮箱做得不错

August 9th, 2009

速度很快。大概是优化得不错的AJAX。Safari支持目前看起来没有看到问题。

另外界面也很简洁。支持皮肤。很多皮肤设计得比Gmail的主题看起来舒服很多。比如这个iSkin还颇有苹果的风格。整个布局和MobileMe的电邮也比较类似。Gmail现在看起来确实太烦琐了。Yahoo Mail就更糟糕。

QQ邮箱的字体大小也很合适。要是国内所有的软件,门户网站,都可以做得如此清爽,那该多好呢?现在国内的软件全是Ad Supported。广告多得吓人。还闪个不停。消耗无数系统资源,照瞎无数双眼睛。

Author: Jeremy Categories: IT Tags: , , ,

Safari Windows版(中文)字体解决方案

August 9th, 2009

Safari 4 for Windows已经默认完全采用Windows的字体渲染机制。但是对于我,和其他习惯于Mac OS X字体渲染机制的人来说,就不够好看了。

为了达到和Mac OS X里面可以相比的效果,可以使用以下步骤:

1. 如果使用XP,安装微软雅黑字体。

2. 将下面的文件内容拷贝到纯文本编辑器,比如“记事本”:
/* 雅黑字体 (强制显示) */
* {
font-family: "Lucida Grande", "Microsoft YaHei", "微软雅黑", 宋体, !important;
}

文件保存为safari.css存放到计算机某个位置。

3. 在Safari的偏好设置里,选择“高级”,在“样式表”项目里,选择刚才保存的这个文件。

4. 安装Lucida Grande字体。下载。如果不喜欢这个字体,可以在上面这个css文件里,把Lucida Grande改为比如Tahoma,或者Arial等你更喜欢的英文字体。这个字体是我在网上找到的修正过的。

搞定!

另外,Safari 4 for Windows貌似还不能强制只开一个窗口。Mac版可以否忘记了。

效果图
Safari

Author: Jeremy Categories: IT, 苹果 Apple Tags:

比尔盖茨会赚钱

July 17th, 2009

Hurricane-calming technology? Bill Gates filed patent. http://usat.me/?35655622 如果这个技术有效,而他是真的慈善家,干嘛申请专利如果无利可图?大概是用来赚政府的钱的。

Author: Jeremy Categories: 美国特色 USAstyle Tags: ,