Infinity G sedan : Stupid commercial which I have ever watched so far

When I watched CNN today, I felt uncomfortable to watch a commercial of Infinity G series. I would like CNN not to employ this non-moral commercial.

What do you think of this ? This is nothing but evil idea of retribution which we have seen in the world. I felt uncomfortable and doubted moral of peoples who made this and who approved this to be seen on TV. Honestly, I became disliking Infinity a little bit although I liked it. In my opinion, commercial should be made to encourage peoples who see it to buy its products. I believe that this commercial discourages peoples to buy it rather than encouraging to buy it. I'm very disappointed that Infinity can show appeal of its car only by doing this.

As many people know, Infinity G series is same category of BMW 3 series. Infinity thinks  BMW 3 series is rival of Infinity G series at least by watching Infinity's commercials so far, although we do not know that BMW thinks so. You can feel this when you watch Infinity's commercials because in their commercial Infinity shows G series and 3 series together and shows that G series is better than 3 series somehow by showing impression that driving G series gives you good opportunity every time. As far as I know, BMW never makes this kind of stupid commercials. They have own philosophy and never compare their car with other car and show their good points of products in terms of performance.

I would like Infinity to stop this kind of commercial and show their own philosophy of their products because this would give bad impression to peoples who are thinking to buy it. If I though which to buy G series or BMW 3 now, I would buy BMW 3.

I would like to know how peoples think of this.
I would appreciate your comment.

Smart something : reinvention of products and idea

I think that many people already noticed that many products which names start from a word of "smart" are coming out recently. For example, smart phone, smart TV, and smart phone appliance have already come out. These products are reinvention of existing products and idea which have been popular but have not changed so much so far. As far as smart something is concerned, reinvention comes together with implementation of internet to existing products by using ethernet or wireless technology, especially WiFi. With internet, smart devices allow us to connect peoples each other and connect peoples to internet world, and make our life better and more fun. 

Smart phone is obviously one of most successful smart products which we have seen ever because it can totally change the way of use of phone from a device by which people can connect each other to a device by which people can stay connected all the time by using internet. Needless to say, staying connected all the time is controversial issue with which people suffers from distracted moment all the time and people can not focus on their jobs. However, there are a lot of benefits. For example, it could help people contact each other by using smart phone when the large earthquake hit the Japan last year because phone system was down due to over capacity but internet system was still alive. 

Here is a question which many people might have in their mind, "What comes next ? ". 
Many peoples already have worked on them like smart grid, smart car, etc. In electrical and electric industries, smart grid has huge potential for next market because it can enhance power efficiency to which even government in many countries pay attention. Many companies can expect financial support from governments. Smart grid is a technology which combine internet netwrok and existing power system to make the system more efficient to reduce power. 
Honestly, nobody knows what comes next with high possibility, so let me list up as much as I can by putting just a word of "smart" to existing products and idea inside home.

• Smart mag gup
  This would analys ingredient of liquid and shows how much each ingredient is in, and send data to could data base, and you can check it out with your smart phone or PC.
• Smart refrigerator
  This already exists so far which analysis ingredient in it and show date of sell and tell you it's time to use before it's out of date.
• Smart dining table
  This would analys what you eat everyday in terms of heath care, and collect data everyday and suggest what you miss and what you should eat to keep yourself healthier.
• Smart chair
  This would measure your weight, body fat percentage, etc, and send data to could data base so that you can access it.
• Smart door
  This would have a camera, a microphone and a speaker connected with network, and it would be helpful for you to watch who comes and push a door bell and you can answer from anywhere. For example, if someone comes to your place and push a door bell when you are out of the place, it connect you with camera, and you can  answer it if you want.
• Smart toilet
  I'm sure that Japanese toilet advanced more than any countries' one.
  Smart toilet idea is clearly explained by Japanese, Morinosuke Kawaguchi at the TED Tokyo. He explained not only advanced toilet in Japan but also its history.

Regarding smart toilet, there is a video which is a presentation from him. He talks in Japanese, but there is English translation together. It's worth watching to be able to figure out how advanced it is.

If you can understand Japanese, you can enjoy the presentation more because his way of speaking is very humorous.

Apple map was warned by Australian police

Many people already knows that Apple has replaced preinstalled map in Iphone from Google based map to their own map last September. Regarding this change, there seems to be political decision inside Apple by considering to implement own services on their map because Google refused to provide requests from the Apple.

When they released new Iphone, many people complained about quality of the Apple's own map because the service is out of question. The map provide wrong places for users. 

It's not a minor bug but a major bug at many places. Providing correct places is the most important roles required for maps. Many people wondered how they could release their own map with many bugs. 

Last week, terrible incidents were eventually reported in Australia because of Apple map. Some people planed to go some town but it was wrongly located in a national park in the Apple map, and the map navigated them there and they got lost there finally. The problem was that it is a national park so there is no light at night, and there is no water supply, and temperature goes up and down largely, so they could die there.

The cases mentioned above are rather extreme cases, but similar things can happen anywhere because many people relied on Iphone instead of GPS so far because Google map provides very good quality servies. For example, when my friend visits the bay area for business trips from Japan, he used iphone for GPS navigation.

I hope that the Apple updates it to make it better services.

News

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2012/12/10/apple-maps-australia-error/1759991/

Mac Book Pro : CD, DVD eject

Today, I am going to tell you what I experienced when I tried to watch DVD in my new Mac book pro. 

Last month, my windows PC was broken. It might be due to hard disk issue. And I had wanted to use Mac for long time since I bought my IPod touch. It was sad that my PC was gone, but I thought that this was an opportunity, so I bough a Mac book pro.

A few days before, I tried to watch music videos by using DVD drive in my MAC. When I inserted the DVD, an installed DVD player came out automatically, and make me choose region of DVD player. However, I wanted to use a VLC player which can play any DVD player regardless of any region, so I closed the DVD player. After that, I opened the VLC and it could open the DVD. After I closed the VLC player, I noticed something wrong. When I tried to eject the DVD, my Mac did not recognized the DVD with "finder". I was wondering how I could eject the DVD. I opened the VLC player again, but it did not recognized it even though it could at the first time. 

What did I do ? Let me share what I did at the time in order to tell those who are facing a same situation.

Once you put your Mac into sleep mode or shut it down, your Mac can recognize it again after turing on your Mac.