Steve's Keynote (Jan. 2008)

I am late for work today, because of Steve's keynote. Terrible!! but it's worthed to watch, although at some point it's kinda annoying the way audiences kept on praising at every single ends of Steve's sentence.

A quick summary to Steve's keynote (you can see the whole video by your self here or a summary here):

1. iPhone/iPod touch got new apps like map - still not GPS, sending SMS to more than 1 person at a time feature (WOW!!!), webclips, customise the home screen, languages and lyrics.
2. Great innovation for iTunes: rent a movie. Coming out internationally at the end of the year. 30 days after you downloaded it and 24 hours after you watched it. Rent price is dear. Hoping it will get cheaper.
3. Apple TV is improved. One of mac product i must have.
4. Here comes the blast: MacBook Air "World's thinnest notebook". This is insane. It's only 0,16 inch (0,41 cm) and 3lb (1,3 kg). The biggest disaster in this product which is at the same time also the most incredible feature is no CD/DVD player. The reasons Steve mentioned in the video are of course Apple oriented solutions, but one thing interested me: Installation. With MacBook Air, you can install apps wirelessly. Slide an installation CD into your PC/Mac CD driver, MacBook Air will find the driver and installation can start. Holy Moly!!!

The question i had in my head as i saw it: do i want it? The presentation was so commercial. Made you want to buy it immediately. Lucky i am not loaded, made me think twice getting 3 to 4 digit price products. So, yes i'd love to as much as i'd love to have iPhone and iPod touch, but only when i had extra money.

Here's my apple wish list sorted to priorities - this wish list is not based on sleeky style only, but also to appreciate the great apple innovative ideas:

1. iMac
2. Time capsule
3. Keyboard and mighty mouse
   
4. Apple TV
5. iPod touch/iPhone
6. MacBook Air

Hey, i am taking charity ;-) As a low budget student, it's far from being come true. Oh btw., i am in Germany, so you might want to check out the German apple website ;-)

Screw social network websites

Yeah screw them. Look on how many of them i am registered: Friendster, Studivz, Xing/OpenBC, Facebook, Multiply, Linkedin, Pownce, Myspace, Tagged, Twitter, Unihelp and of course last but not least Blogger. Crazy hah!

Should not complain tho, but it's so time consuming and addicting. I feel like stalker sumtime. You know getting information of others secretly. It's not healthy, you know.

Anyway, as it's well known already, one should not give out too much information about himself on the internet. After the huge breakdown in the Facebook code and privacy concern in Studivz as well as in Friendster, you really need to think twice about publishing yourself.

An interesting article in wikipedia mentioned that social network websites can be used as investigation medium and could even be used against you in court. After all who would think to get sued because of the internet. Most of them think they are innocent, aren't they.

It's all a matter of good behavior and wise decision - on my opinion.

A classic dilemma of a currupted country

I am working on a "high tech" controlling system for transportation system in Indonesia, yet the government doesn't seem like interested to invest as much as the research required. The main reason is extra cost on maintenance and/or operation. To increase the ticket fare is not solution in this case, seeing that most of people who uses the public transportation is common people with little food and home. So here we go, facing a dilemma. On one side, implementing the system guarantees the safety on traveling, but on the other side, who cares about safety when stomach cries for food?

One way to rise the economy of a country is to use more technologies, but to do that, they need a healthy community. It's not too difficult to get a family healthy, but the question is how to get hunderd of thousand of families healthy. Thus each of family tries with their own "power" to get a better life by do rights and (some/most of them) wrongs. If only the ticket fare was paid each time a passenger uses the service, and if only half of the money of the paid ticket didn't serve private needs of individual, i think it would already solve more than half of the problem.

Will Indonesia be able to take the step?

Playboy slaps Indonesian's government on face

Following my previous entry on friendster.com about pornography in Indonesia how Indonesian's government tries to rule nudity by preventing womanfolk from wearing a certain outfit and would actually punish them by put them in jail or put charge of an imposible amount of money, i would like to introduce Playboy Indonesia.

Good news is, i don't think the rules are going to be implemented extreemly like they wanted to. Not sure how far they would go, but this issue is still under consideration. I argued strongly in my high school mailing list and as a result, those who in favour of this bullshit were the "boys" (boys will be boys). They say the rule is for women sake, but to me it's more like to protect men from getting excited by women.

The original idea came from a "playboy" religious singer, who by accident sitting in the parliament. Yes, he's a religious singger with alot of stories him cheating his wife. Roma Irama saw this Inul girl dancing hotly on a stage and got excited. The next day, Inul got exposed and phornography regulation launched.

Well here's another thing. Playboy magazine just opened up in Indonesia. What a perfect timing? I personaly 100% approve it, for the sake of rebel against pornography as Criminal Code. 2 Indonesian's models posing for Playboy have been arrested und the magazine is facing trial. This is what happen when government tries to educate morality, when they them self isn't educated. The following article: Legislators & Police Back Playboy Indonesia’s Asinine Critics is a good reading material. Written in a non-bias way. Not like mine.