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The right to access Netflix is not easy
Thanks recently deployed personal V2Ray proxy service, I would spend more time to explore network service beyond China GFW. The direct change according to personal time recording was I watched more YouTube video, and to some extent YouTube was no more enough for me, I needed a better quality video content platform.
The default choice is Netflix. There is a high quality comprehensive Netflix account setup tutorial article posted on “Digital immigrant” website for Chinese netizen. I only record my personal experience in the following.
I have registered a Singapore area account. Domestic Visa credit card is ok for the purchase process and don’t need a Singapore Mobile number to identity verification. Accessing through a personal Hongkong proxy node, Netflix remind me error message every time, fortunately accessing throng a Japan proxy node is flawless. The monthly fee for 1080P streaming is SGD13.98(RMB 70), there is a 720P quality and mobile limited plan only cost SGD8.98 (RMB 45).
After the registered account and accessible network proxy, the next thing is I would watch video on my iPad. Netflix haven’t release their iOS APP on Chinese APP Store and I always regret for not have migrated my Apple ID to other region. Current App Store have brought me lots of inconvenient and now is the time for change.
I first confirmed iOS will keep downloaded Apps even after you switched to a new Apple ID.
You can get a new Apple ID by accessing appleid. apple.com. When I login the new ID on my iPad, the process is not smooth. Maybe I should blame the GFW, maybe the region policy of Apple Inc. After many times of trial and error, I finally login my iPad using the new Apple ID. Here is some tip: 1. Disable the location service. 2. Using global proxy as soon as the WIFI network connected. 3. No credit card needed, but you needed a US mobile number.
I purchased a virtual mobile number for the process, but there was no SMS verification sent me by Apple.
The content library and experience both up to my expectation. And there is high quality English subtitle existed for almost every title! I was so exciting, marked more than dozens of movies and TV series to my list.
I was never a Korea TV serials fans. To my surprise, the first TV serial I watch on Netflix is a Korea one. “Crash Landing on You”, my wife enjoy leading actors and their style. I like many satire scenes in the play and they attack both the money worship in South Korea and the bureaucracy in North Kore
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After Reading “Sapiens A brief history of humankind" Part 2
Part 1 of the article in my pervious italki Note.
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In the concept of time, Yuval had dragged me to the moment when no state, nation or party existed. We are Homo sapiens before we are any nation. Despite there were no recorded text even no writing language in our earlier time of Homo sapiens species. Yuval filled the story of that time vividly. Although there is no any film I know has portrayed the battle between Homo Sapiens and Home Neanderthal, the dramatic and the deep influence of the battle has embed in my mind. Although I live in a defined by internet & biology technology society, I start to wonder what the living in the forever unsettled forager society was, and what can we learn from these ancient of ancient of us.
In the concept of conception, the “imagined reality” concept gave me a strongly hit in my mind. I have heard a lot about the super importance of imagination since childhood. Even the song Image written by John Lennon is one of my favorable songs. Even though after reading the book I knew there are so many of things I hadn’t realized that are related to imagination. When we talk about abstract things, we always talk those things we read, watch, play through media. But we tend to forget those surround us; those enrich us also are things caused by the image of Homo sapiens. For example, the company we work for, these laws regulate the establishment of company we work for, fundament principle people believed so much so written law for. All of those are imagined reality. Although they are the reality in most aspect of our life, they are imagined! Knowing the point set me free.
There are a lot of topics inspired me thanks to the book. For example the attitude toward food & domesticated animal, the view of different ideologies of a historian. I wish I could write these topics after more reading & thinking.
8 mars 2018
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After Reading “Sapiens A brief history of humankind" Part 1
Yesterday I finished reading the book “Sapiens A brief history of humankind” by Israel writer Yuval Harari. The book is my first finished book in 2018. I love it.
It is a special kind of History book from the perspective of my reading experience. As a Chinese, we value history so much, mostly because there is a lot of history books written by ancient people in the language Chinese still exist and are familiar with modern people. For example “Zuo Zhuan”( Commentary of Zuo ) published by the 4th century BC & “ShiJi” (Records of the Grand Historian) by 1st century BC. These book with all of their follow-ups have given me a basic knowledge about History and the concept: histories are these stories about ancient people or organization which we called state, nation, party, society created by ancient or pre-modern people. We knew there is western history beginning with ancient Greece and Roma. There are Japanese history, British history, American history ...... And there are died history of Inca and Maya.
All of these mentioned history beginning with a legend or fact-based story that people recorded and told to their next generation. In my previous opinion when there was no story, there was no history. These descriptions of longly long years before any human recorded and told story just could be called knowledge that composed by archeology, geography, and zoology.
But Yuval Harari in this book gave me a total extension of what is history in his view. Let me quote his words at first:
“The immense diversity of imagined realities that Sapiens invented, and the resulting diversity of behavior patterns, are the main components of what we call ‘cultures.’ Once cultures appeared, they never ceased to change and develop, and these unstoppable alterations are what we call ‘history.’ ”
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Remaining material will be in my next italki Note.
8 mars 2018
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"The art of happiness" Reading Journal
Yesterday I continued to read the book “The Art of Happiness,” and I bought the Audible audiobook.I think this kind of writing is more suitable for listening than those non-faction pragmatic books I used to read.
The chapter I have read about “what is the nature of human being.” Is gentleness, compassion or selfishness, competing. The chapter also covers the evolution progress about the question in the western world. In the beginning years of the previous century, the thought “the selfishness and competing is the nature of human being” begin to thrive.But after several generations (eg: the Beat Generation) people start doubting the purpose of material centralized lifestyle. At meantime lots of research given us new evidence and new angels towards the nature of human being.
In this book Dalai Lama keep the point about human nature “All of us are born to gentleness and compassion, this is our nature, this kind of nature prior to our competing sense and selfishness what caused by learned intelligence”. Dalai’s viewpoint somehow aligned with the spirits of times in western world at least in few decades in last century.
I think these kind of common thought is a key factor to define “good society”. I’m speculated whether My country China or western world nowadays fewer people will agree with the idea selfishness is not our nature. Sadly.
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Shanghai
Last week I was in Shanghai. The big city I have been to some times. This time the purpose of my Shanghai trip is meeting.
The meeting i attended is Qcon, one of most famous software & internet technical meeting in IT industry , more then 100 topics was been presented in 4 day. Sound amazing, but you can't hear cutting edge technology in this kind of meeting. it is too big to cutting-edge.
Although there was no exciting news in my professional field, I have learned lots from other technical field. More accurately,I have learned lots about how to talk about other technical field ;-)
Due to bad weather and full day long meeting ,I have no outdoor activities during these days. The only thing that can balance the indoor depression is the last day musemu visit. The exhibition called "Shanshui Within" is exhibiting in Shanghai museum of contemporary art. My high light of the visit is works from artists Qiu Anxiong(邱黯雄) and Pan Xi(潘曦). Both the artists are inspiresed by the tradition of chinese monochromes painting but have created theirs own style and painting technic successfully.
After all,I became able to feel the serenity of mountain view in my little town after unable to see them one week in Shanghai.
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My old kindle fire pad revived
I have a Kindle Fire Android Pad , after switch to iPad pro half year ago , I almost stop use it .
Last day I found my favorite author Bill Porter have released a new book , but currently this book have no Chinese translation version. Lucky this book have a Kindle ebook version published on Amazon US site.
Because I have loged in Kindle on my iPad using Amazon China account , I can't read this book without log out my current account and switch to Amazon US account. Log in / Log out is very inconvenient you know. That time the old Kindle fire Pad coming to my brain. So I tried to reset it and log in US Amazon account . The book can be prefectly read . I'm very happy for that.
Even better is I found my old Kindle Pad have got some nice feature after switched to Amazon US account. The most exciting is “Word Wise“ and “Audiobooks“ , which I think will be very helpful for English studying.
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what i thought this noon
I read a lot of information everyday , most of content don't have proper opportunity for share with my friend or co worker.
I want improve my English skill , i know writing practice is important but lackness in my current learning procedure. So, Writing in English may be a double win for my willing for share and English learning .
This is a list of category in my current personal interest:
* daily common News( China Daily ; CNN Student News )
* Buddhism ( Zen more explicit)
* non-fiction writing about China
* Software & Consume electronics News
I hope this place can be a start point for my English writing .
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