First week of March, these are a few old and current topics that I got interested this past week. Parenting and getting a PWD is really important in the Philippines if you have a kid or family member with disability. Income and cost in the Philippines is unjustified, so it is best to get as much benifit as possible since we are paying a hell value of tax. Have you ever sold an old laptop? Ensure that all the files there are zerobit-formatted or else someone else might be picking up the leftovers. Philippine tax reforms, that statement says it all! Nintendo, Nintendo. It has been a wirlwind ride for Nintendo these past few years, lets see how the company transformed from a card making company to one of the top gaming console in the industry.
Parenting: How to get a your child with disability id, and its benifits
A PWD is someone who has restricted or different abilities due to a mental, physical, social, or sensory impairment. According to the National Council on Disability Affairs (NCDA), this is classified and identified on the PWD ID as: Physical/Orthopedic Disability, Visual Impairment, Hearing Impairment, Speech Impairment, Intellectual Disability, Psychosocial Disability (includes people with ADHD, bipolar disorder, long-term recurring depression, nervous breakdown, epilepsy, schizophrenia, and other long-term recurring mental or behavioral problems). To check the details on getting a pwd follow this link smartparenting, kids with special needs, how to get your child a pwd id and the benefits that come with it.
Technology: Reformatted hard drives
This is how easy it is for someone to retrieve private data you thought you'd wiped out from your old hard-drive. Channel News Asia bought 9 re-formatted drives at Sim Lim Square - it's disturbing what they recovered from them. Beware the skeletons in your reformatted hard drive.
Startup: Four noticable startup in Japan Feb-2017
Japan noticable startups Coiney, Wacul, Cureapp and Regain. For the full details check the Techinasia news: funded startups japan February 2017.
Philippines: Duterte's tax reform: More take-home pay, higher fuel and auto taxes
Change comes in different forms, the previous and the currently government have its own pitfalls, mistakes and risky decisions. Some even completely go beyond my morals and logic. I seldom repost political news, events or stance, except of visible policies since I believe policies are one of the key things that drives the future of the country. Tax reforms are life changing events for Filipinoes, they might no see it immediately but in the long term it will show whether this is a good or bad policy. Duterte's tax reform: More take-home pay, higher fuel and auto taxes by Rappler.
Crash Course: Nintendo and a New Standard for Video Games
So we ended the last episode at the North American Video Game Crash of 1983, and even though the video game market had collapsed in the United States, demand for video games remained strong in Europe and Asia. Nintendo of Japan, originally a playing card company, which had seen some success in arcades, saw this as an opportunity to (tentatively) introduce its own console to the U.S. - the Nintendo Entertainment System or NES. The NES saw a number of significant technological and gameplay improvements but it was Nintendo’s approach to game development that changed the industry. Nintendo’s defined a new set of standards for video game quality by requiring contracts with all 3rd party developers. Nintendo even used special technology within the console that forced developers to get approval, marketed as a Seal of Quality, for their games to work on the console. And this strategy worked. Nintendo reinvigorated the North American market and became synonymous with quality games. But it wouldn’t be the only new player in the U.S. for long.