BELLAMYBUDIMAN

I stumbled upon this in the UPH alumni mailing list. Seriously, people, this is hilarious and the thread goes like this (bolded messages are posted by the seller, all messages have been stripped off of names and contacts):

Dear all,

Dijual ipod android BM, 3.500.000 nett. Jika bermasalah dalam 1×24 jam, barang diganti baru

emang ada ya ipod android?
bukannya ipod apple??

Sorry salah ketik.. Maksudnya ipad android, garansi 2 bulan dari toko

Not helping at all here… And it goes on:

Merk nya apa nih.
Spek WiFi aja atau juga udah incl. 3G HSDPA?

Hmm..itu setauku yang dr cina ya? Makany bisa android..

HP & Dell juga ngeluarin yg Ipad Android juga kok.

Hmm..kalo itu kan…
HP Slate (batal)
And Dell Streak….baru yang 5″

Tapi untuk android baru yang cina setau ogut ya..

Hehe..

Maap kalo salah

Ipad jg bukannya dr apple bro?
Bingung..

Namanya aja iPad , kalo ga dr apple asli ya palsunya dr china”, kalo dgr android brarti yg china krn iPad asli pake iOS, btw HP n Dell ga ngeluarin iPad CMIIW

BTW semua apple juga dari cina, mau asli ato palsu. hehehe.

Ipad android by apple

Speck sama saja, bs browse di internet,ini barang apple , hanya black market

Warna putih

Strike two!!! And it still goes on:

Dear all,

Ipad itu by apple with OS bukan Android.

Android itu by google, and saat ini di pakai ama perusahaan China buat ebook reader. Karena open source makanya di pakai oleh cina untuk produce saingan ipad.

Mengenai Android Ipad, saya jg terima tawaran dr supplier dr cina, mereka ksh harga di bawah 2.5 jt. Jadi wajar saja murah.

Android just an OS, dia bs di pakai di Mobile or device, asal kan interactive dengan konsep touch. Tp tidak se interactive konsep touch milik apple.

Waduh ini yg jualan coba kasi info yg lengkap donk, jgn sepotong2, kalo dr apple resmi coba kasi link productnya apple yg pake android??
Kalo apple2an ya fairnya mestinya dikasi tau donk. IMHO sih

Bukan gw yg jualan.. Spek sedang ditanyakan brother, orgnya belum dijawab, namanya black market kan ga teregister . Sama spt handphone , ad yg teregister , ad yg black market, tp merk nya sama. Contoh: blackberry

Anyway, kalau sudah ada gw info lg detail speknya.

mungkin iPadnya di jailbreak kali. Jadi bs dual os. Mungkin itu kali
maksudnya.. Just guessingg

Ipad saya juga uda di jailbreak tapi ga bs dual os…???

Kayanya harus hati2 deh kalau barang spt ini
Hrs jelas dulu
Ipad – apple
Apa android tablet?
Android tablet banyak jg c d pasaran tp fungsi tdk spt ipad

Anyway biar jelas aja si..
Peace peace..

All,

Klarifikasi, barangnya Android tablet

Boleh tanya, apakah mirip dengan yang ini?

http://www.androidtablets.net/forum/android-tablet-news/67-android-ipad.html

Sorry teman teman baru dapat data lengkapnya, ada 2 tipe yang dijual, 1. Android D9 . 2. Android D3. Android D9 harganya IDR 3.500.000 , sedangkan Android D3 harganya IDR 4.000.000. Barangnya masuk dari Singapore ke Batam. Black Market. Garansi 2 bulan, Garansi Toko, Kalo mengalami masalah dalam 1×24 jam, diganti dengan produk baru. Jika ingin liat gambarnya, please japri atau kontek 083890620222

Berikut spesifikasinya Android D9:

1. 8 inch Google Android OS, Ultra
Slim, 800×480 screen, E-Book reader, 720P MP4 Video Files Decoding Ability, a
powerful MP4

2. Built in WIFI, Surfing internet
conveniently

3. CPU: VIA 800MHz

4. Software: Google Android 1.6

5. Screen: 8 inch LCD, multi-touch
display with IPS technology, 800*480px

6. EBook: Built in iReader
software, support TXT, UMD, CHM, HTML, PDB etc. Enjoy the E-book format comics
freely!

7. Language: Czech, Danish, Dutch,
English, Spanish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian,
Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Chinese

8. Memory: 128M, 2GB internal
space, support TF card up to 16GB extended

9. Multimedia codes: Support MP3, MP4, AVI, Word, Excel, Mail, EBook,
video online

10. Network support: Ethernet
10/100M, WIFI: 802.11B/G

11.High-fidelity stereo speaker
output :

*3.5-mm stereo headphone jack

* Microphone

* Dock connector port

12. USB slot

13. YouTube: Support

14. Other functions: WIFI, Alarm, Calendar, Contacts, Documents to go,
Email, iReader, Maps, Browser, Voice recorder, Gravity Sensor

15. Size: 221*180*15mm

16. Net Weight: 593g

17. Color: White

18. Battery:
2100MAh

Package including:

1x iPad D9 Android

1x Charger

1x USB data cable

Package Size: 35cm x 25cm x 10cm
Android D3:

1. Processor : VIA-VT8505(
ARM926EJC,600Mhz)

2. OS : Android Version 1.7

3. Memory : 128MB

4. HDD : 1GB(2GB\4GB) NAND Flash ,Can use external
160GB Portable HDD &16GB SD Card

5. Wifi : Support 2.4GHZ 802.11b/g

6. Loudspeaker : 2*Built-in Speaker 8?/1W

7. Microphone : Built-in Microphone

8. Screen Size : 7″ TFT High Clear
DigitalScreen

9. Screen Resolution : 800 x 480

10. Push Button : Top side button- Power button
+Volume control keys

11. Push Button : Positive primary key

12. Touchscreen : Full mirror face, HIGH sensitive
touch screen operation, Built-in touch panel, support USB port

13. Input / Output card :

* Audio Equipment – 3.5mm Standard Headset jack

* DC-IN port – DC Charging Interface 9V 2A

* USB Interface – 1*MINI 5PIN USB PORT

* Storage deck – Standard TF expansion slots,
maximum capacity of 16GB external storage

14. Power Equipment :

* Battery -
Polymer lithium-ion battery 1500mAh/7.4V

* Adapter – DC 9V 2A

15. Fittings : Adapter, User’s manual

16. New stock comes with preloaded :

* Documents to go

* iReader

* Picture Capture

* MSN Droid

* App Store

17. Dimension : 13.5 x 20.3 x 1 cm

All I can say is… GOBLOOOOOOOGGGGGGGG! :D

PS: This could be one hell of a story for Nguping Teknologi.

For the last several weeks (or perhaps months), Lippo Village’s traffic has been like tomorrow’s the end of the world. The culprit? Well, of course, the construction of the circuit. Yes, that circuit, the one A1GP bailed out on some time ago because of Lippo Village’s incompetence in racetrack constructions (Yes, Lippo Village, the A1GP would need an entire complete track to be able to race there, not something that looks like a junkyard). If I’m not mistaken, a valid race track must be ready weeks before the actual venue. Supposedly the venue is a go, which will be held this Friday, 6th of February, today is 2 days before the venue, and the track is not even finished.

When I got home today, I was stuck for like 10 minutes just to circle around the boulevard and get in to the tollroad. Seeing the opposite traffic, I can’t see clearly, but I think it spanned for at least a couple of kilometers.

The way I see it, with the price of immense and almost uncontrollable traffic, they are probably trying to pace up the construction for the GT Car Championship that’s going to be held there this Friday. Yes, the GT Car Championship, there, with that kind of asphalt. To be honest, if you see the current track’s condition, I don’t think you would approve it even for the local Bajaj fun race. And when people push a construction like that, chances are something is going to go awol.

And that’s not the only thing. When I walked out after teaching my class today, and went on to go to the mall for lunch, I saw this:

And if you look closely, you’ll notice that this is probably someone else’s BMW photo they grabbed from the internet (or from a stock photo CD at the local pirated software shop) and mashed up with sponsor logos with no consideration of a real-world perspective at all. It’s like someone did this under five minutes. Look at how the sponsor stickers and distortion doesn’t even line up with the car’s lines nor shadows. And worst of all, the BMW logo on the car’s hood is mirrored. So now it’s called a WMB. And they call this “World Class Action”. How exciting… All I can say is meh.

With that humongous banner in mind, as a conclusion, the way I see it (for the second time), it’s as if they really have to get something going because A1GP bailed out on them. It’s like having a venue with no preparation. I’m not even sure if by the time the track is done, there will be enough time for health and safety inspections. Maybe, somewhere there, someone said, “Oh shit, the A1 left us! We got to have something going! Fast!” And behold the GT Car Championship. I just can’t imagine the traffic and the hell that’s about to break loose this Friday. If you can help it, you might want to try avoiding the premises this weekend.

And oh yeah, one more thing. You can’t actually cross the road and go straight to the mall anymore now. Since they are “constructing” the track, you are now required to take a right turn, and cross the 5-lane (or 6?) road and risk yourself on getting hit by those pesky angkots, and then walk up the small pathway that has turned into a pedestrian body-bumping centre, next to the police station.

A while ago I wrote about how the web-design industry in Indonesia is suffering because of our nation’s outdated curriculum. Today, I just found a very good article in A List Apart that further proves my point. Click here to read it. While this idea is highly possible to do in the US, I can’t imagine if it were that easy to apply here.

Update: Click here for another additional. This one contains possible curriculums that we can adapt.

Over the years, I’ve had my share on teaching and experiencing (as a student) what our curriculum on web design is like. And in this post, I am going to show you why I am deeply concerned on how the web industry is going in our country.

So first things first, I have been participating in the internet since 1995, that was when connection was scarce in the country, we had to rely on unreliable dial-up modems and ISPs at that time. Long story short, I’ve learned how to hand-code HTMLs by 1998, turned into an amateur web designer in 1999, started Neuro-Designs, and worked my way up as a professional web designer until now, in the world of web standards and Web 2.0. So, if you have doubts on what I have to say here, I have a hefty good reference of fellow web designers and developers to back me up, and frankly, perhaps you weren’t meant for the industry.

I believe it was back in 2005 that I had no other choice but to take the Web Design class in the campus, of course, to pass with my Visual Communication Design major. And seeing what I had to learn there, frankly, I was not impressed. Not to brag, but what’s covered in the curriculum, that’s exactly what I learned back in 1998, and in that class I was already practicing my CSS and table-less layout skills. Maybe because of this disappointment, I received a C for the subject. Yes, believe it or not, Bellamy, a web designer, received a C on the Web Design class. Believe it or not, that’s the grade I got. A few years afterwards, I got the chance to serve as a student’s assistant in the very same class. Years have passed, but the curriculum has not. I feel like I was teaching what I learned 10 years before. I was frustrated, and this is definitely not what web design is supposed to be. And if this continues on, then it is no surprise that Indonesian colleges can’t produce competent web designers, and this is exactly why major IT companies and design agencies in Indonesia doesn’t even have a clue what web design is now like, they’re just too stubborn and too ignorant to even evolve their own knowledge. They’re still stuck to what’s probably pre Web 1.0, while now is the era of Web 2.0, and Web 3.0 is just probably around the corner waiting to be unleashed.

Here’s what we were taught using the very same curriculum year after year: Build a website out of PhotoShop and Dreamweaver’s WYSIWG editor. Yes, no fundamental basics on interface designs, no rules explained on why websites have a set of its own typography treatment, why websites are not to be treated like brochures, and why good websites should be built on hand-coded HTMLs. None. No matter if it has a good structure or not, just make a working website, as simple as that. At this point, I can assure you that having someone build a website from scratch in iWeb could result in a better web-standards compliant website.

As a professional web designer, I’ve learned the hard way on what it takes to create a real deal web design from scratch. And professionals throughout the world agree that creating a fully-functioning website from a WYSIWG editor is probably just the same as catering a dog poop. Web designing is no easy task, it requires design knowledge (yes, we need to have a good sense on design rules, grids, typography, and every basic graphic design fundamentals), interface design knowledge, web typography, website structure design, and to top it all, although optional, we need to know how to hand code these websites using XHTML, CSS, and every other technological tidbits that keep evolving over the years. That’s why not everybody could be a web designer or developer, and that’s exactly why if you want to be a web designer, you need to start off on the right track and no excuses, you have to be computer-literate. And if all of these seemed overwhelming, then you’d probably better finding some other interest.

In my opinion, if we’re going to make the curriculum any better, you can’t fit everything in a single semester, and in a single subject. This is just physically and mentally impossible. In order to produce good web designers, you will need to do the subject in stages. Here’s what I have in mind:

Web Design 1: Introduction to web design, fundamentals of interface design, and website structures
I see no point of having people to create a fully functional website here. They must understand the basics, know what the essence of interface design, and learn how to cope with the limitations in designing for the web. Furthermore, students must also be taught on how to plan their websites, build a good structure while maintaining the fundamentals. The goal at the end of the subject is for the students to be able to produce good website design mockups, and that’s it.

Web Design 2: Template conversion, HTML, CSS, and table-less layout
This stage covers a more advanced degree to those who are interested in becoming a real deal web designer. And with the things taught in Web Design 1, hopefully they will understand why web design has its own limitations to serve the next step: Template conversion. Students must be able to grasp the essence on how HTML and CSS code works, and when they do, rest assured that this will aid them to be a faster and more competent web designer in the future with minimal hiccups in the design to prototype process. This stage also covers the importance of losing tables as a part of your layout. Just face it, everybody uses CSS for layouts now, table-based layouts are ancient.

Web Design 3: Website building
This stage is the highest degree on becoming a competent web designer. While in the end we would probably still need web developers to aid our work, being a web designer who could produce a working website prototype can surely help in what you do for a living. In this stage, students are expected to learn the basic fundamentals of how to put your website into a working prototype, whether online or offline. This also involves knowledge on how to set up your domain name, hosting space, and every other requirements to make sure that your website will definitely WORK, including how to port your website into a simple CMS such as WordPress.

On the internet, many professional designers have probably written an article on why being a web designer is not as easy as it looks. One of the good articles that I’ve found is this. And as you can see, as long as we’re still using the same curriculum over and over, sorry, it just won’t work. Web technology is evolving every single day, and what we’ve been using now is the same thing I used 10 years behind. And this is the reason why I never wanted to teach another web design class anymore. It’s frustrating to shell out students with a decade old set of knowledge. Can anyone confirm if this is also the case on other educational institutions as well?

Some good reads for inspiration:
A List Apart
CSSREMIX
For Web Designers
Jeffrey Zeldman
NETTUTS
PSDTUTS
Shaun Inman
Smashing Magazine
Web Designer Depot
Web Designer Wall

Yes, today was the graduation ceremony, I woke up at 4 AM, departed at 6 AM, got there at 7 AM, and spent 4 hours inside the Grand Chapel for the ceremony. Apart from looking like Harry Potter in Hogwarts with all the toga and stuff, I am so happy. Today is the day that I am no longer a college student! As well as the others, congratulations to all of you!