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31 Dec 2004
Only in Japan Photos
These are pictures Bill considers very Japan. You don't usually see these
stuff in other countries. This looks fun, makes me want to go to Japan,
glad that I will actually be studying in Japan in Spring 2005.
These scary-looking Hannibal Lector masks are actually to
make a woman's face smaller.
The Doguya-suji shopping arcade in Osaka sells cooking
equipment, and that oh-so-edible-looking food you see in restaurant windows.
'Hashioki' chopstick stands.
A nandeya or 'Why shop". These guys answer questions
like "How can I find true happiness?", "What is the secret to a successful
relationship?", or "Why is Japan's national debt so high?" for just a few
hundred yen!
Uguisu no fun, or nightingale droppings have been used as a
skin cream and whitener in Japan for hundreds of years
Sex business information center in Shinsaibashi, Osaka
Baby naming shop
Monkey Cycle is a mobile bicycle repair service. It costs 400 yen for a flat
tire plus 100 yen if they have to come to you
Doll Photographer
Posters advertising bizarre, sex-related computer games in Osaka's
electronics district
After they tow a car, the police always leave a message and map for the
driver about where to pick up their car.
As far as I(the author, quirky) can see the only efficient part of the
Japanese police force is their car towing division. This car was taken in
just three or four minutes.
Little Chapel Christmas love hotel in Osaka's Umeda district
   
200 yen (like US$2) cell-phones
Instant ramen truck
Bicycle Parking meters
 
the beautiful
Otagi Nenbutsu-ji
in Arashiyama, Kyoto.
 
This is Osaka's cheapest noodle shop, Bikkuri Ramen.
A bowl of noodles or gyoza starts at just 180 yen(like US$1.8). They are
springing up all over Osaka.
This most puzzling poster can be found on telephone poles
all over Osaka. The top part is an official looking warning, telling people
not to put up advertisements. The bottom is a Buddhist sutra. It is
obviously not put up by the city of Osaka because there is no contact
information. Does anyone out there have any idea what the connection between
the Buddhist sutra and not putting up posters is? (The interesting thing is
all the characters are the same as the chinese Buddhist sutra.)
A tiny fire truck in Osaka
Price list for blessings at a temple:
Safety for your family: 10,000 yen Safe birth: 7000 yen Passing an examination: 5000 yen Driving safety: 7000 yen 
Anata no imouto ga kyounen umaremashita. Anata no bun mo
taisetsu ni sodatete ikimasu. Kazoku o mimamotte ne. Papa to Mama yori.
Your younger sister was born last year. We are going to raise you well too. Please protect our family. From mama and papa. 
Cool trees at Nakayama-dera in Osaka
Miko (Shrine Maiden) at Sumiyoshi Taisho, Osaka.
Japan's famous "Aoi Tento" (Blue Tents, the structures that
many Japanese homeless live in) are usually a real eyesore, but this
homeless man in Osaka has done his best to beautify the place where he
lives.
I(the author)'ve heard and read a lot about Japan's famous
"examination hell", but I never quite realized the significance of the term
until one day, while taking out the trash I came across these seven bags
filled with textbooks that some student had used while preparing for an
entrance examination. I wonder if he or she passed.
ANIME OTAKU – A sub-species of otaku
(geek), the anime otaku devotes his life to cartoons and especially
cartoon women. These nerdy men can be seen in their thousands in Akihabara
or Den Den Town, searching for X-rated computer games or videos. Many are
said to prefer animated females to the real thing because they do not have
the flaws and imperfections that flesh and blood women have.
A young girl into "costume play".
Graveyard/Basketball Court in Ikutama Temple, Osaka
Playground at a school in Osaka
Street Light in Amerika-Mura, February 11th, 2003
10 Dec 2004
Yang Yuanqing, Executive Director, Legend Holdings, China (int'l edition) 10 Dec 2004
'BitTorrent' Gives Hollywood a Headache
By ALEX VEIGA, AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES - Bram Cohen didn't set out to upset Hollywood movie studios. But his innovative online file-sharing software, BitTorrent, has grown into a piracy problem the film industry is struggling to handle.
As its name suggests, the software lets computer users share large chunks of data. But unlike other popular file-sharing programs, the more people swap data on BitTorrent, the quicker it flows — and that includes such large files as feature films and computer games.
Because of its speed and effectiveness, BitTorrent steadily gained in popularity after the recording industry began cracking down last year on users of Kazaa, Morpheus, Grokster and other established file-sharing software.
The program now accounts for as much as half of all online file-sharing activity, says Andrew Parker, chief technology officer of Britain-based CacheLogic, which monitors such traffic.
"BitTorrent is more of a threat because it is probably the latest and best technological tool for transferring large files like movies," said John Malcolm, senior vice president of anti-piracy operations for the Motion Picture Association of America. "It is unusual, perhaps unique, in that the moment you start downloading you are also uploading," he added. "It's what makes it so efficient."
Cohen created BitTorrent in 2001 as a hobby after the dot-com crash left him unemployed. He says the aim was to enable computer users to easily distribute content online — not specifically copyrighted content.
"It seems pretty clear that a lot of people are actively interested in engaging in wanton piracy," said Cohen, 29, of Bellevue, Wash. "As far as I'm concerned, they're just pushing around bits, and what bits it is they're pushing around is not really a concern of mine. There's not much I can do about it."
BitTorrent has proven to be resistant to some of the countermeasures the entertainment industry has taken to sabotage file-sharing, including a process known as file-spoofing in which incomplete or decoy versions of songs or other material are uploaded to discourage piracy.
"Spoofing is very difficult on BitTorrent, if at all possible," said Mark Ishikawa, chief executive of online tracking firm BayTSP Inc. "There's no defense for this one."
Programs such as Kazaa and Morpheus allow users to link their PCs to computer networks and then query a search engine for the file or title they're seeking. The software then churns out a list of other computers sharing the file.
The process is simple and straightforward, which makes it relatively easy to corrupt with spoofed files.
With BitTorrent, however, users don't find whole files. The program seeks out torrent files, also known as seed files, that are hosted by a number of Web sites.
The files on the Web sites are not songs or movies but serve as markers that point the way to other users sharing a given file. BitTorrent then assembles complete files from multiple chunks of data obtained from everyone who is sharing the file.
Attempts to upload bogus files to corrupt the process fail because the BitTorrent program follows a blueprint of the original file when piecing it together.
"It's very difficult for an interdiction company to get in the middle of that system," said Ishikawa, whose company combs file-sharing networks on behalf of Hollywood studios and alerts clients when their movies turn up on the Internet.
Some of the BitTorrent host sites, like SuprNova.org, generate a daily list of new seed files added by users. The site recently had listings for movies such as "Van Helsing" and "Wimbledon (news - web sites)," which is not scheduled for release on DVD for another three weeks.
Some sites offer digitized broadcasts of "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart," computer games like "Star Trek: Klingon Academy" and "Half Life 2," e-books on the physics behind an atomic bomb, even footage of kidnap victims in the Middle East.
"A bunch of the different beheadings are online," Ishikawa said. Downhill Battle, a Worcester, Mass.-based independent music group that has developed its own BitTorrent-based software called Blog Torrent, says the technology is much more than a tool for swapping copyright movies and software (a blog is a Web journal). "What we're excited about as far as BitTorrent goes is the possibility for people to blog video and blog their own home movies (and) independent films and have a way to distribute them online without having to have a big budget for Web-hosting," said Nicholas Reville, one of the group's directors. "Bandwidth has been a big barrier," he said. "BitTorrent solved that." While some of the BitTorrent sites that host seed files have been forced to shut down, many others escape scrutiny because they're only hosting marker files, not copyrighted material. Malcolm of the MPAA says his organization is not focusing any more or less on BitTorrent than other file-sharing system. He declined to say whether the trade group intends to sue Cohen and wouldn't name any BitTorrent users who may have been included in the entertainment industry's latest wave of lawsuits. "Anyone who uses BitTorrent and is under the illusion that they are anonymous are sorely mistaken," Malcolm said. "There is no reason why those lawsuits wouldn't include BitTorrent" users. So far, Cohen said, he has not become a target of the entertainment industry, which has aggressively pursued litigation against other file-sharing software distributors, with mixed success. On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court (news - web sites) agreed to hear an appeal by movie studios and music labels of a ruling that found Grokster Ltd. and StreamCast Networks Inc., the firm behind the Morpheus software, to not be responsible for their customers' online swapping of copyright songs and movies. For his part, Cohen said he has received just one legal warning, over a computer game that was being distributed using BitTorrent. "Someone else was doing something with BitTorrent that I had no knowledge of," Cohen said. "It's not being done on any machines I have any control over ... what do you want me to do?"
http://hk.news.yahoo.com/041128/12/174e2.html 譚宗定：科學園非地產項目 4 Nov 2004 比爾蓋茲的十項人生建議
比爾蓋茲在某個大學畢業典禮上的演講中，
對畢業生提出十項極為睿智的人生建議與畢業同學共勉之： 1.人生是不公平的，習慣接受吧。
2.這個世界並不在乎你的自尊，
3.你不會一離開學校就有百萬年薪、
4.如果你覺得你的老闆很兇，等你做了老闆就知道， 5.在速食店打工並不可恥，你的祖父母對煎漢堡有不同的看法：機會。 6.如果你一事無成，不是你父母的錯，所以不要對自己犯的錯發牢騷， 從錯誤中去學習。
7.在你出生前，你的父母並不像現在這般無趣，
8.在學校裡可能有贏家輸家，在人生中卻還言之過早。 9.人生沒有寒暑假,人生不是學期制，沒有哪個雇主有興趣幫你尋找自我， 請用自己的時間來做這件事吧。 10.電視上演的並非真實人生。現實生活中每人都要離開咖啡館去工作
24 Oct 2004 出生率低人口老化 港擬輸入尖子兒童 24 Oct 2004
由杜蕾斯安全套進行的「全球性調查報告2004」，共覆蓋四十一個國家，並訪問了超過三十五萬人。發言人莫慧婷表示，在去年同類的調查中，港人性行為平均的次數達一百零三次，今年則大幅回落至七十九次，可能與經濟復甦有關，港人工作時間較以往長，用於性行為的時間亦因此減少。
調查顯示，近四成港人認為，最理想的性行為次數是每周三至四次，亦有三成六受訪者認為，每周有兩次性行為最理想，不過，港人的實際性行為次數，僅為每周一點五次。 74％用性玩意搭夠 調查亦發現，港人毫不浪漫，只會用十四點二分鐘與性伴侶調情，比全球平均的十九點七分鐘短，同樣排在倒數第二位。此外，有三成三的受訪港人在每次的性行為中獲得高潮，貼近全球的三成五。 雖然港人性行為次數偏低、調情時間亦較少，但仍有百分之七十四受訪者願意使用性玩意及情趣用品，以提高性趣和性生活質素。而當中超過三成半的受訪者與性伴侶欣賞情慾電影或圖片，增加性趣。近兩成四的人士曾使用情趣安全套，其次是使用潤滑劑，有一成六，以及震盪器，有一成三。 莫慧婷表示，上述結果反映港人傾向提高性行為質素，以彌補次數上的不足。 另外，調查發現，有三成的本港男性，在他們的眼中，女性的胸部是最為性感，其次是眼睛和腳部，分別是一成四和一成一。至於在女性的眼中，有兩成一的受訪者認為男性的眼睛就最為性感，其次是結實的身材和胸肌，分別是一成六和一成一。
22 Oct 2004 台灣經濟到底靠誰在撐--真相還原 工作的人口成為六百萬人。 所以，真正有生產力的工作人口只有99萬人； 只有我一個人在工作。 22 Oct 2004 日本漢字大惡補 | |||||||||||||||
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