The latest campaign to impose KMT party control over Taiwan’s public broadcasting media follows the reassertion of KMT control last fall over state-owned but organizationally autonomous media including the Central News Agency and Radio Taiwan International.
claims an intention to input greater “balance” into the board’s membership.
But the record of the KMT legislative majority’s previous actions toward both PTS and the TBS network tells a different story.
illegally freezing half of the foundation’s budget for the past three years, the KMT-controlled Legislative Yuan similarly expanded PTS board of directors and supervisors by four seats last October and promptly appointed four KMT legislators to fill the seats, which were supposed to have been reserved for “impartial and upright social personages.”
The “recovery” of the China Television Service and the conquest and muzzling of the Taiwan Public Broadcasting Service will inevitably boost the “party loyalty” and self-censorship in these media and inevitably undermine the autonomy, vitality, quality and competitiveness of our public media.
Instead, as a “senior presidential official” recently declared with relation to the imminent “recovery” of the prestigeous Taiwan Democracy Foundation, the KMT camp instinctively treats public funds and resources as belonging to the “government” and not available for anyone who might “attack the government.”
Nero 9 is terrible. The whole thing is bloated beyond belief. Anyone whom has used it agrees that it has taken the Norton Antivirus path and does anything but what it was supposed to well.
On a few systems I tried the thing just kept crashing.
So I went online and looked for alternatives. CDBurnerXP was okay but didn’t really cut it.
So I googled around and then found two and a half choices:
ImgBurn, Nero Lite, Nero Micro.
Nero Lite and Micro come in about 30-20 megs respectively and are pirated alternative copies. They are of the older Nero 8 variety. Do I like them? I did.
However ImgBurn does everything a little faster than Nero does, and is comes in at just 1 megabyte. So far ImgBurn runs gorgeously on Windows 7 Beta, and I’m loving it.
This hit as really familiar and reminded me of Mr. WW from the Lion team guy. In the end he called the Non Payment notice “amoral” and claimed that since he didn’t feel the site came to him on time that it should be free. Nevermind that I bent over backwards for the guy and that he liked to call at 10pm and was mad that no one picked up for him. He would boast that money wasn’t an issue but then would beg for extremely paltry amounts.
This hit as really familiar and reminded me of Mr. WW from the Lion team guy. In the end he called the Non Payment notice “amoral” and claimed that since he didn’t feel the site came to him on time that it should be free. Nevermind that I bent over backwards for the guy and that he liked to call at 10pm and was mad that no one picked up for him. He would boast that money wasn’t an issue but then would beg for extremely paltry amounts.
So a pal from Taiwan gave me a lomo-alternative camera and so far I’ve been loving it. It’s this simple wide-angle camera that takes difficult-to-control photos, and somewhat randomizes the effects. So far I like it a little too much and have been hooked.
Although experiences will vary, my experience with Site5 ended negatively.
As you all know, Cpanel can give you a full backup, if done properly means you can transition to another Cpanel site without a hitch.
After noticing that the re-branded Cpanel of Site5 did NOT have a Full Backup (at least ours did not, although I hear someone else still has it) we ended up doing the “Home Backup” which various techs (I asked more than one and saved the conversation just in case) have said it was the same as a Full backup, it was just re-branded on their Cpanel.
Turns out it wasn’t and we ended up overshooting our transition away from their host. The end result was a few days of website downtime when registration and other important time-critical programs were running.
To make it up their techs gave us an actual Full backup from their backup servers since the subscription ended. One would think the transition went smoothly from there no? Not at all, the problem was that their backup was incomplete and missing databases, files, subdomains, redirection settings, and various email.
Thankfully I made a home backup earlier and was able to restore older parts of the site, but most redirections, databases, and so forth ended up missing from Site5’s “Full Backup” had to be restored manually. It is unknown to this day what else is missing.
I feel for their new management, they’ve got to fix a lot of things. Problem is after multiple assurances from their CEO, and seeing that still the old complaints persist, is not very encouraging. Site5 claims they did a shakeup and replaced a few people but evidently it is not enough.
As of today, I still cannot recommend Site5. Remember people, just because a site is pretty, and has cheap prices, does not mean it is any good.
I’ve lost 15 lbs in 6 weeks by changing my diet. I’m trying my best to avoid sodas (I prefer water anyway), eating more fruits and veggies. I haven’t exercised much though.
Backgrounder – run applications in the background by holding down the home button and waiting for the notice. Useful for IM applications
Cycorder – record video with your iPhone
Qik – stream video onto a website with your iPhone, live
Five Icon Dock – put 5 icons on the bottom
Tenuis Flow – Lets you have a 3D 5 icon dock
Flashlight – Unlike Appstore versions this one will automatically change the iPhone to maximum brightness. Very handy for getting the attention of Taxis or finding something in your bag
QuickGold – It’s like Silverlight for your iPhone
SB Settings – You can move common toggles directly to the springboard just flick down where the top bar is
Status Notifier – Email. SMS, MMS, IM, Calls, and Voicemail notification at your top bar
SweetTooth – Lets you listen to music or audio (in my case Ebooks) with your Bluetooth set
SweetTooth Skins – Makes your SweetTooth not look so ugly
WbApp – Lets you install theme previews
WbHD Weather Bundle – A collection of three versions of the HD weather background, excellent for weather info
WeatherIcon – Puts live weather information on the top of your weather icon
Winterboard – Lets you have themes for your iPhone
*Remember to hard-reboot your iPhone after the installation of any applications.
Sean OMG. The Japanese Nissan Cube looks like its from space. How come they have to "shittify" all the cars that end up in the USA?
Sean You all made fun of him when he was alive. Now you all pretend to care. All this because he died from eating a 9 year old wiener, or was it 12 year old nuts?
Sean Thinks Transformers: Rise of the Fallen sucked. Most of the human characters did nothing and were completely unlikeable, all of Optimus Prime's friends are never there when he needs them, the new Autobots are yawn inducing if not racist, the plot has more holes than a brillo pad, there are ultra-cliche plot devices, and the Deceptions are weak enemies.
Sean Just barely ran a red light and got photographed. Ugh.
Sean Text messages are NOT part of the data network. They ride on the same signals which your phone uses to ping towers about their location. That's why limit on the number of characters in a message is not arbitrary but fixed across all devices, towers, and companies throughout the world. It also means that those hundreds of millions of text messages a day cost the telecartels nothing since the control packets are FREE.
