含蓄的张扬

看到王建硕的中国互联网不缺乏创新一文，实在不敢苟同，故写此博文。

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？

The new Macbook Pro has been released not long ago. There are a few problems I have noticed and listed in the following:

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!