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  • Not a Nation of Tempe.

    Jakarta Globe reports:

    Thousands of tempeh and tofu producers in the Greater Jakarta area are threatening to halt production this week after the price of soybeans, the raw material for the products, skyrocketed in recent months.

    Ironic that a type of food 1 that practically forever has been taken for granted, is now one of the most expensive thing in the market, isn’t it.

    Yet it’s another proof that we’re living in a very different world than the one our founders lived; Soekarno used this food as an example of popular and easy to get “soft” food that he thinks should not be an embodiment of how the people lived. “We are not a nation of tempe”, he said.2 67 years later, his word turned out to be the truth, although not quite like what he had in mind.

    1. Wikipedia: Tempe ↩
    2. His original speech as followed: “Kami menggoyangkan langit, menggemparkan darat, dan menggelorakan samudera agar tidak jadi bangsa yang hidup hanya dari 2,5 sen sehari. Bangsa yang kerja keras, bukan bangsa tempe, bukan bangsa kuli. Bangsa yang rela menderita demi pembelian cita-cita.” ↩

  • Nexus 7 Display is Bad, You Guys

    Interesting if not pretentious post on Gizmodo:

    Looks like Google didn’t pay enough attention to the Steve Jobs memo that the key to a successful Tablet is an outstanding display. If high image and picture quality is important to you, then you might want to skip the Google Nexus 7 and wait for a Tablet with a better display, or wait and see if Google can correct the problem.

    How dare you Google, making a $199 tablet with worse display than a $500 one?

    In other news: BMW is more comfortable than a Honda. Surprise, surprise.

  • Apple Continues Being Apple.

    9to5mac:

    The Company sold 26.0 million iPhones in the quarter, representing 28 percent unit growth over the year-ago quarter. Apple sold 17.0 million iPads during the quarter, an 84 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter. The Company sold 4.0 million Macs during the quarter, a two percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter. Apple sold 6.8 million iPods, a 10 percent unit decline from the year-ago quarter.

    The iPod continues being the abandoned older son who got outshined by his younger brother. But this is amazing number.

    And you’d expect Wall Street got excited by these numbers right? Especially now there’s dividend available in the packaging?

    No. Apple share is down, down, down. This happened still even when everybody knew Apple share is embarassingly undervalued. Well, you’ll be nuts for asking Wall Street to use some of that thing called logic.

  • More Yahoo for Loeb

    Kara Swisher at All ThingsD:

    Hedge funder Dan Loeb of Third Point has bought another 2.5 million shares of Yahoo, for about $40 million this week, bringing his total to 73 million shares, according to a regulatory filing. Loeb

    So i guess no call to Stanford from Loeb verifying Mayer’s degree then.

  • Youtube Wants Your Real Names

    Betabeat:

    Now, the search giant is taking its distaste for anonymity to a whole new level, instituting a pop-up dialogue box urging YouTube users to employ their real names.

    I’m down with it if it can solve the problem of Youtube comments being a cesspool of racist douchebag who doesn’t understand the meaning of the word, “troll”.

  • Dead Trigger is now free: A Thought.

    So the news is that Dead Trigger, a popular Android & iOS zombie-shooter game is now free, at least on Android. The thought behind this was one word: piracy. The developer says on their official facebook page that even when they sold the game for $0.99, they found the piracy level in Android to be unbelievably high.

    My thought as an Android user? Well, he’s pretty much right. I can’t say much for android users in the United States, but Android is pretty popular choice around here. Especially around college student. And most of the people i knew who uses Android unfortunately have to pirate their game. Why? Simple reason. They don’t have credit card. Yes, unbeliavable especially if you live in the US, but it’s true. And for me more reason to believe that the real logic behind piracy is not because users simply doesn’t want to pay or the internet made us all used to the word “free”. No, not at all.

    The reason is the process of buying was just too hard. We’re human. And what do we do as human when we find things too hard? We find ways to make it easier.1

    via: The Verge

    1. Notice that i don’t really analyze over the fact that piracy level in iOS is assumingly not as high as Android, even though both uses credit card as the only way to pay. My quick answer to this is the fact that well, most people don’t have an iPhone here. Some people who have it usually are in the middle to high income segment. These segment usually already have a credit card, and they (assumingly) treat piracy with attitude that is complete opposite to the people i mention before. It’s just too much work for them. ↩

  • Linus Torvalds Review The Nexus 7

    Best line? Gotta be this:

    I really don’t understand the “pee in the snow” model of skinning android to look and act horrible just so that the different manufacturers can make their mark on it – I’m pretty sure the majority of people tend to prefer plain android

    Pee in the snow. Anyway it’s a must read.