文章为国内抄袭山寨的互联网产业进行了开脱。观点：“技术商业模式都很方便拷贝，但是用户成熟度没有跟上” 还引用了“中国的互联网现状究竟相当于美国的哪一年？”一文加以说明。

首先，用户不知到自己需要什么，这类情况显而易见，IT业和传统产业相差甚远，作为创新不断的IT产业，应该是不断创新的科技告诉用户他们可以干什么，而并不是由用户来告诉开发者他们需要什么。在3G网络成熟的时候，用户可以想象手机上网能大到那样的速度么？在facebook成功之前，用户有想到sns是什么么？在twitter成功之前，用户知道什么是微博么？技术的发展创新的速度已经远远超越于人们的想象。所以所谓的用户对互联网创新的制约小而又小，不是没有，但却不能成为借口。难道说中国的网民都是傻x，只配用山寨。

其次，所谓抄袭也分抄的好与不好。完全照搬还要说自己是创新，这个和“当了xx，还xxx”有什么区别？如今的抄袭已经不是抄什么技术特点和商业模式，连域名，界面，甚至颜色都一起搬来这个好像也没有从用户的角度考虑多少吧？拿过来改一改，改的好了，就变成了借鉴。而直接照搬，还要标榜创新，那么大可不必。

文章中说“这就像小芳同学先拿到考卷，看到题目是1+1，就答了2；小明拿到考卷晚了，看到的也是1+1这道题，小明同样写了2。小明是后给出答案的，无论是自己想出来的，还是瞄了一眼小芳的，我们都说小明是抄袭的。这对小明同学不公平。” 但是问题其实是小芳写的是”1个美国人＋1个美国人＝2个美国人“，而小明写的是”1个中国人＋1个中国人 ＝ 2个美国人“ 这不是抄袭山寨又是什么？

最后文章也承认了中国市场比国外晚半拍。那么既然晚了，那就晚了，也就是没有创新了，又何来得不缺乏创新？

网络打手／推手

在我看来，网络打手或者推手其实是一种新型的marketing的战略。随着互联网的发展，大家上网的时间远远超过了看电视看报纸的时间，在网络上做marketing 应该是成本最低，但效果最好的一种市场手段了。（我不是学市场的，只是有这种感觉而已）。早在几年前就出现了用网络进行的炒做，最成功的当指立二拆四当年制造的中国版别针换别墅了。在当时看来，大家高呼上当受骗，而如今站看来我绝觉得这是一场多么成功的市场策划（不知用这个词对不对）。之所以用市场策划这个词是因为其实这次策划要抄的并不是艾晴晴，而正是立二本人。好像所有经典影片一样，最后的结果是那么的出乎意料。

如今这样的网络炒做团体应该已经不下少数。从网易那篇文章看来，比较成功的打手一般一夜之间就可以形成强大的舆论压力。比如 “姐妹们小心了，揭露新东方老师的真面目”。和某汽车品牌的“爬坡门”。

为什么国外这样的团体很少？

身在国外这么多年，奇怪的是。国外网络要比我国发达的多，却很少听到网络推手，或者说网络推手所造成的舆论影响力远远不及国内。为什么是这样呢？

BBS的流行

首先，这和我国的互联网环境有很大关系，大家摄取消息的频道多为各种论坛。我们倾向于相信论坛上的各种新闻，而对官方的报道半信半疑。原因为何相信我不说大家也都了解。消息的可靠程度应该是“论坛 < 博客 < 媒体 < 官方“ 而我国这个顺序正好是反过来的。而在论坛上发帖又是最容易的。在国外，论坛多为技术支持，解答疑问等，而我国论坛多为灌水，消遣，和发布小道消息。官方没有的，而其他渠道有的消息往往最可信。当郭德刚说道“咱们说点电视台不让播的”，台下人便一下兴奋起来。

引用的缺失

往往在我们写一篇文章的时候，都会引用一些其他材料来说服读者我引用的消息的可靠性。或者至少如果不可信，那这则消息是谁说的，能从哪里找到。国人也有引用的习惯，但是他只说是谁说的，但却不告诉你如何能找到。这个习惯其实从我们小学的时候就开始了，比如我们写作文的时候经常把自己总结的一句话当成是引用。比如“名人”说过，但我们从来不说这句话从哪里可以找到。很多论坛上的帖子也是这样，要么说我朋友如何如何，我听说如何如何，在哪里看到如何如何，但从来看不到原始消息链接。我曾经看到一个朋友（在此由于对隐私的保护，我就不给链接了:p）在他的博客里抄了一段说唱歌词，歌词本身写的很好，但听过的人却没有多少，很多人在他的博客膜拜，赞扬他多么多么有才，这文章写的都能当歌词了。他笑而不语，没有做任何评价，默默的占有了他人的果实。这种现象在我国几乎是司空见惯了，著名博客人王小峰的文章就经常被其他其他博客甚至于门户级网站新x和腾x网站直接转载也不著明出处。我们早已习惯把他人成果强加与自己，而编造一些虚无的东西来证明自己的观点。却没有人在意或追究。

总结

国外也有很多小道消息没有源，但是大家同时又会把这些小道消息标记为 “rumor”。Rumor这个词本来是不可靠的意思，而到了我国，这些消息却变的比官方更权威更可信。其实从这些我们可以看到很多深层的东西，为什么官方，和大的新闻媒体反而没有公信度？相信很多人心中早就有了答案。

I have removed firefox away from my dock, and start trying out the new Safari 5. Will it actually replace firefox? I see the light, but it will not happen in a long time. I have only used it for 10 minutes, so this is a very early review. Welcome to leave your thoughts in the comment.

Start with what I noticed immediately, tab management:

Now, we can finally configure (not using the command line) Safari 5 to open new pages in tabs instead of windows. Seriously, this should be enabled a lot earlier. What’s the point of having tabs while still using many windows? Remember how we use to do it in command lines? You don’t have to any more.

The Reader:

The reader function is pretty cool. I don’t really mind to read articles within the web pages, but the nice feature about reader function is how it prints the web article. You can use “Shift+Command+R” to start or stop the reader for particular website article.

The Search Engine:

Another feature is more built-in search options (Bing search). This doesn’t excite me much. How about let user decide what search engine they want? How about Google Scholar? How is this helpful to have 3 options but they all offer the same functionality? Think about it, it does not make sense. So give me other options for other search engines, or let me decide.

Safari Developer Program:

Among all these new features, this is very good news. Yes! Extensions! This is why leaving firefox is heart breaking. Let’s see how this works out. Really looking forward to it!

It seems that we have figured out a solution to this problem by manually download and install this official update. The question is, why this cannot be found by the system’s autoupdate, but have to be explicitly downloaded and installed.

UPDATE (01 June 2010): This update doesn’t work. More people have encountered the same issue, and currently there is no known solution

UPDATE (25 June 2010): This problem has been fixed by 10.6.4 update

Problem No1. Automatic graphic card switching.

The 15- and 17-inch MacBook Pro models come standard with two graphic cards — Intel HD (low performance and low energy consumption) and Nvidia Geforce 330m (more powerful but more energy consumption). Both computers support automatic graphics switching. Quote from apple official website "It’s a breakthrough technology from Apple that switches graphics processors on the fly to give you performance when you need it." and "MacBook Pro transfers the workload between the powerful discrete NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M graphics processor and integrated Intel HD Graphics so seamlessly, you won’t even notice." But when I start to notice which graphic card I'm using. I am surprised that I'm always using the Nvidia card (which is the high performance one) simply because I have skype (and some times 1Password) open. I don't see why skype is a graphic intensive application nor 1Password. Common apple, if you cannot implement such function correctly, at least give users the option. My guess: the graphic switching function is implemented depend on whether an application use some part of the API. If it does turn on the NV graphic card, otherwise use Intel. This is not smart, and not a smart judge if an application is graphic intensive.

Now gfxCardStatus v1.6.1 has a experimental function that force the graphics card switching, which is good news.

Here is a incomplete list of applications that triggers the Nvidia Graphic card:

Tweetie
HyperSpaces
Skype
iWeb
iMovie
GarageBand
Parallels 5 Desktop
Microsoft Office 2004
Microsoft Office AutoUpdate daemon
RapidWeaver
PathFinder
Mathematica
Warp
Droplr
1Password
Clips
NetNewsWire
Koolclip
AppZapper
uTorrent

You can find complete discussions of this issue from apple support forum and macrumors.

Problem No2. Auto Sleep

I have noticed that sometimes the auto sleep for display or computer is broken. The system does not sleep when it is supposed to be. E.g. I set the auto display and system display to 1 minute, after half an hour, the display or computer still wouldn't sleep. After a bit of experimenting we found that this may be caused by running a full screen mode application (e.g. Need For Speed, World of Warcraft).

Problem No3. Trackpad Scroll Momentum

The new macbook pro came with a new feature called momentum scrolling. I like this idea in iPhone, because we have limited screen. Glad Apple have the option to turn this off. However, everytime I restart the computer, the momentum scrolling function are back on. It just won't go away! Of course I can turn it off manually every time after restart, but it is really annoying. Please have it fixed apple!

Google published the blog entry “A new approach to China: an update”. Then google.cn are rerouted to Hong Kong domain. After google quits, Wikipedia founder praised Google over China decision and called on other major U.S. companies, including Microsoft and Facebook, to follow. Some domain name registrars stops registering .cn domain names, this comes after the Chinese government has demanded that the registrar provide photo identification, business identification and physically signed registrar for all .cn domains.

Some blog posts in China about Google left China had been either deleted or the site entirely blocked by the Great Fire Wall.

The reactions of Chinese government: China defends censorship, plays down Google harm on US ties.

The Chinese official press: Google breaks promise, totally wrong to stop censoring .

Opinion: Google’s China decision ignores conventional wisdom.

Mean while, a new so called “sacred creature” has been created in the Chinese internet 古鸽, which follows 草泥马.

Apple/Mac

If you’re a firefox user, but envy the elegant and clean interface of safari, you can use this GrApple, which is a firefox extension to make it more “Safari-look”.

If you really need the audio or video chat in MSN and you are using a Mac. Now Microsoft Messenger for Mac 8 beta adds A/V chats.

Personally, I don’t like Apple’s newly introduced iPad. At least there is no use for me. But when will Apple update the MacBook Pros? one MacRumors reader emailed Steve Jobs directly about concerns about how long he’s had to wait for the new MacBook Pro updates. Jobs responded with a short replay that simply said “Not to worry“.

Ubuntu and Open Source

Switched from Ubuntu to Mac some time ago. I still miss a lot of features Ubuntu offer. This looks promising: Hands-on: Ubuntu One music store will rock in Lucid Lynx.

Education

Harvard puts lectures, podcasts and more on iTunes U — I really love iTunes U. Not only Harvard, but many top Universities (e.g. Stanford University) have put their lectures online for FREE!

Other

A Real Boston Duck Tour — This is cute and funny.

Arena Patio Furniture — Would you like to seat on the Bird’s Nest Statium?

PHD Comics: The Box — PhD candidates may found this fun.

Something in China

“通海大地震亲历记” 1970 年云南省通海县发生7.8级大地震，史称“通海大地震”，这是新中国成立以来首次死亡人数超过万人的大地震。“通海大地震”隐匿了三十余年，“云南大旱灾”只隐匿了三个季度，我们的社会在进步么？From Twitter: “RT @王冉: 一个星期前，如果那位云南省委宣传部的明星伍部长利用自己的微博影响力帮助家乡更多的人喝上纯净水，而不是沉浸在与好莱坞合作成一个电影项目的喜悦里，我会更敬重他。//伍皓啊伍皓，你还真是和章子怡有一拼”。

郑渊洁：我从1995年起就不信任疫苗。我小时候好像也打过不少奇怪的疫苗，很庆幸活到了现在。小学的确是一个能捞钱的地方，老师和校方说什么，家长基本上都唯命是从。正像郑昀说得：“生养一个孩子不容易”。

Seattle is a quiet place, it rains a lot. At least rains a lot during the week I was there. Below is the hotel I live.

There are Microsoft buildings everywhere including this one:

Athenian Seafood, the place they shot “Sleepless in Seattle”:

Me in front of the poster:

We had dinner there

The famous space needle:

The complete set can be found here

Update (21/04/2009): I don’t believe that it took this long (5 months) to upload the photos. Well, all I can say is better very late than never ever…

My work station:

My ID:

Me:

There is also one site that is special for the 2009 Chinese New Year, looks quite good. It also shows the traffic information for annual “Chun Yun” (春运). Please follow this link (http://2009.cj.live.com/), if you’re interested

Below is a screen shot of the Chinese New Year themed Live search.

当夕阳斜下，大雁南飞，炊烟袅袅，宠物奔袭，清风拂面，似乎这一切让人觉得生机勃勃的景象都被蒙上死一般的灰色的时候。这个疯狂的世界让冬天变得更加麻木，让秋天变得死气沉沉，让夏天变的让人窒息，让春天变得毫无意义。这是一个不可理喻却又让人无可奈何的世界。

我们不想被某些东西支配，却又逃脱不了魔掌。我们去寻找开心，可笑容里总是伴着苦涩。当大笑声被寂静掩埋的时候，空虚便开始侵占一切。忙碌完了停下来的时候，很多东西都变得没有意义。这是一个不可理喻却又让人无可奈何的世界。

当只有逃避却无路可逃的时候，I find it kind of funny, I find it kind of sad…
当睡着了脑子还是清醒的时候，I find it kind of funny, I find it kind of sad…
当梦想死去的那一刻，I find it kind of funny, I find it kind of sad…

Mad world, mad world…

Mad World – Gary Jules