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Difference Between Quanqiutong and Shenzhouxing It should be noted that ShenZhouXing doesn't contain a word of China in it, "ZhongGuo" (Middle Kingdom/Country) is China in Mandarin. ShenZhouXing can be roughly interpreted as a divinity (Shen) that roams (Xing) through many counties/area (Zhou), ShenZhouXing seems to focused on its roaming around China capability. |
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Difference Between Quanqiutong and Shenzhouxing I bought two ShenZhouXing G.S.M. S.I.M. cards in BeiJing airport late at night for my long treks across China, one cost 280 Yuan, while the other cost 380 Yuan, both come with a complementary 100 Yuan charge couchers. The cards are a bit quite more expensive than the price that Jian Shuo Wang quoted for the cards sold in ShangHai (around over 80 Yuan more expensive), but considering that I might not have the chance to encounter these type of cards again and I'm traveling with a tour (which can be quite restrictive, I can't even go on the MagLev while in Shanghai), I rather paid expensive than to be communicationless from day one. Besides, things tend to be always more expensive at the airport, and they probably got a limited amount of it at the airport, just hope the sales girl got a nice commision on every card she sold. The 380 Yuan one was priced 100 Yuan more expensive because it got a much easier number to memorized, while the 280 Yuan has a pretty regular number, though considering how many 4 it gots, I think some would be quite suprised that I'm still alive. As for S.M.S. into China. Well... I have no problem with it at all... using my own country S.I.M. card set into roaming mode using China Mobile. I forgot though if ShenZhouXing was capable of the same. Personally, I think that they limit the amount of outgoing International S.M.S. probably due the fact if it's that easy, the network could be jammed from the flood of all of those messages. Trust me, if a network is jammed, you have more luck sending messages through regular mails. It should be noted that many prepaid phone in many countries don't provide S.M.S. service while doing international roaming, and China is as big as some countries combine into one. Really, a country as big as China with a huge popupation with a huge population of mobile phones, imagine all the mobile phones call the network at the same time, it could bring down the entire network. As for network coverage in small cities. I have good coverage of ShenZhouXing in both SuZhou and GuiLin. The same goes for the Great Wall area and the Ming Tomb area (definetly not inside the tomb though). I don't consider Hangzhou as a small city, at least, not if one don't consider Las Vegas as as small city. And yes, I got good coverage on HangZhou too. Personally, if the reputation of China Mobile is true, you pretty much got a good coverage all around China. If you're affraid of being stuck in the middle of nowhere with no coverage, just get Byru (www.byru.net). Besides, a satellite phone could be quite handy if someone decided to bring down the whole phone system by calling all of the phone numbers. As for foreign based e-mail. Why? Even if you use it, the network you using would be still Chinese network anyway, unless you use something like Byru, though that would have been little extreme, and besides, communications around the world are always monitored by 'them', even the communication system in China is owned by 'them', how do you think that China got so 'wired' that quick? As for P.I.N., User Password, and so on for ShenZhouXing. It's inside your package, it's a proof of identity that you own the card and incase your lost it, you can get a new one with the same phone number. A brief info about ShenZhouXing can be found here: http://www.shmc.com.cn/English/fivegreat/shenzhou.htm http://www.shmc.com.cn/English/fivegreat/15_IPTelephony.htm http://www.ebds.com.cn/en/sim%20card/prepaid.jsp Or at your manual. For more, I suggest talking either to customer service or someone who is an expert (like a phone store manager and so on). |
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Shanghai is Experiencing Energy Crisis People will find ways to managed themself quite fine, there's no need for any law or any that sort. Unfortunately, people are become more and more restricted in doing things due to laws, and in the end, they end up making more mistakes thanks due the laws, that officially said that they were created to stop people into becoming criminals, but in reality, actually making more criminals out of people. Enviromental laws are probably the most anti-human laws, what's good the enviroment would be if there aren't people around? But then again, maybe that's the originial plan, to get rid of people. Each person's need and habit is different, that we must understand. When someone done things that we find it offensive, we report it to that person directly, there's no need to go to some kind of authority first, of course unless the authority is the one responsible (for example, a parent is responsible for his/her child). But even then, things might not have to go so far to the authority. To report someone unnecessary is to become a snitch, is this the way we want our society to become? A society of snitchers? No, a society instead should consist a bunch of selfish people. Yes, that's right, selfish people. Contrary to what the brainwashing, selfish people aren't bad people, they don't do negative things to the people surrounding them (provided that they done things purely based on themself, and not based on what their education system told them). Being selfish means minding your own business primary. Buddha is quite a selfish person you know. If each person mind their own business, they will realize that somehow for their own benefit, they need to help others because humans are social creatures and need a society to exist. Even if they don't realize it, by taking care of themself, they will indirectly caused their own good benefit to be passed on to others. Like if you don't waste water, you will indirectly providing water for others, even if you don't care much about what the other person need. In the end, each person will indirectly help others because he/she is actually serving his/her own need. Wouldn't it better if we all become more self serving and not community serving, no, to be more precise, serving the needs of a few, because even self serving is community serving due the reasons mentioned above. What we want is NOT to serve the needs of a few, we want to serve our own need. If you brainwashed someone to serve the needs of others, they will rebel and things messed up. But that's probably also part of the intended programming, to make people mess up. The whole California laws in regarding energy laws, sounded a lot more like something that would come up from a 'communist' country. Is the U.S.A. a communist country? |
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Shanghai Taxi Driver's Life Tougher Very true, while the metro system and other mass transportation system might gives a lot of potential customers for taxis. However, it means that the travel distance is shorter, this means more work, but less pay per customer. Humans aren't just made to deal that way. Unless of course, it's a regular shuttle thing, where you just shift people back and forth in the same area. It might be better to reserve taxi for spot to spot travel and long distances. And tip them well, they have done a good service of giving you a personal mode of transportation. |
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Benz Taxi Accepts Credit Card Credit card is often associated with prestige, the same goes for the Benz. ;) Though one do wonder on why they didn't charged extra (for both the credit card feature and the Benz feature), was it just P.R. like it was once said here before, or is there something else behind it (like monitoring the profile of each person travel habit, it's easily done if you use a mobile phone as a locator device and a credit card to give the identification)? |
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U.S. Paused All Visa Application in China Well... Chances are a denied visa access and tough visa regulation is probably more intended to make people upset rather than a counter attack or anything like that. Remember the people who are controllling both the U.S.A. and the P.R.C. are actually the same group of people, only it's played like they are controlled by different people (who just acted as puppets, politicians are nothing more puppets working for the same group of people). If you're upset due to visa regulation, 'they' won. On the other hand, requesting money to enter a country is not that unusual, countries lives from taxes, and they do want to see if you got the enough money to liven things up in the country you're visititing. Of course, if you're just looking for a job outside the country, it's better to let your foreign employer do all your immigration papers. As for the world getting smaller this day. Well... It's more correct to say the world is getting more cramped these days, back then, you don't immigration papers or anything like that, you just need to pay respect (and perharps also some royalties) to the locals authority and make sure that your or your people isn't in a conflict with the local authority. How it was done in the past: - Report to the local authority or their representative once your arrived and sort all of the necessary requirements (a brief on the local custom, giving gifts, and so on). Much like what you would if you would to visit another's person house. How it was done today: - You know the red tapes, so I would just spare you the details. |
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PVG: Closer Look at MagLev Actually, with the amount of air resistance the train have to overcome at high speed, they really should have enclosed the whole track and vaccumed the whole track (not necessary have to be a total vaccum, just enough to reduce the air resistance quite enough). Drastic measure, yes. But... If they already willing to building an 30 km long linear electronic motor, enclosing the track and vaccumed it don't look so drastic at all. Besides, that way no living thing will be able to cross the track, much alone survive there (if it needed to breath air). Many of the newer maglev concept designs featured a vaccum track, since that high speed trains don't do too well at overcoming air resistance (even I.C.E., T.G.V. and its derivative, and the Shinkansen suffered from this). As for bird strike. That's why airport has a 'no bird' policy. That way no bird will hit an airplane (includin even get sucked into its engines) and vice versa. It should be noted that an airplane take off speed is around 270 km/hour, much lower than the Transrapid's top speed. An airplane made a loud sound when it take off. As for the maglev bird strike. Well... Now the bird knows on what happened to a fly when it try to cross a busy highway with many cars running at high speed. |
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PVG: One Million Passengers for MagLev The train is an experimental train, you don't advertise experimental stuff regulary. |
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Pudong Airport Maglev in Depth What the heck Bin Laden (the C.I.A. agent) got to do with the Shanghai maglev train not running at night time? Did the C.I.A. want to do something to the train at nightime? Or did the C.I.A. or their superior instruct the operator of the train on not to run the train at nightime? I personally think the fact the train didn't run at night, probably due the fact maybe they didn't want the train to be stuck in the middle nowhere at night should something goes wrong, and also to reduce the wear tear on the train. Remember, this is still is an experimental train, despite it's doing an official service. But then again, even the monorails at the originial Disneyland is experimental (it's build at around 4/5 scale, unlike its Tokyo's cousin that was build at around 1/1 scale). |