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Arriving on DVD April 20th is Michael Lander's Peacock, which features the star studded cast: Cillian Murphy, Ellen Page, Susan Sarandon, Keith Carradine, Bill Pullman and Josh Lucas. In the thriller John Skillpa, a quiet bank clerk living in tiny Peacock, Nebraska, prefers to live an invisible life. Then, in a moment, everything changes. A train caboose runs off its tracks and crashes into John's backyard and destroys more than the weathered planks of his wood fence. When neighbors descend on the scene, they discover John's other personality, Emma, for the first time and mistakenly believe her to be John's wife. This launches John into the glare of the spotlight and eventually shatters the delicate balance of his sanity.

China’s hukou system, adopted in 1958 to control population movement, has long been criticized for tying the population to their place of origin. With the mass migration of rural workers to China’s cities and coastal regions, the system is under the spotlight as it means that these migrants suffer discrimination vis-a-vis urban residents in public services such as education, housing, healthcare and other social protection. The debate reaches a new height following a joint appeal to abandon the system by thirteen Chinese newspapers to the National People’s Congress earlier this month.

Could reforming the hukou system bring better lives to migrant workers? Wang Xiaodao, who calls himself a ‘second generation migrant worker’, airs in his blog the grievances and doubts which are representative of this special group in China. Compared with the first generation, this second generation migrant workers face fewer opportunities. Competition is fierce in many occupations. After working for more than seven years in the cities, he has many doubts. Perhaps some doubts could be answered by a hukou reform:

我ä¸æ˜Žç™½ï¼Œåœ¨ä¸Šæµ·ï¼Œä¸Žä¸Šæµ·äººåœ¨åŒä¸€å@¶äº‹ä¸šå•ä½å¹²åŒæ ·çš„å·¥ç§ï¼Œä¸ºä»€ä¹ˆä»–æ¯æœˆå°±æ¯”我多五六百å—？ç»ç†è¯´ä»–是上海人，有ç¦åˆ©ä¿éšœå’Œå„ç§è¡¥è´´ï¼Œæˆ‘ä¸æ˜Žç™½ä¸ºä»€ä¹ˆä»–有，我就没有？我们ä¸éƒ½æ˜¯ä¸­å›½äººå—？难é“中国城市是分等级的，中国人也是分等级的?

I don’t understand why, in Shanghai, I receive 500 to 600 yuan a month less compared with other workers, who are doing the same kind of job in the same unit. The manager said because he is Shanghaiist, he can enjoy various social benefits and subsidies. I don’t understand why he can have it, but I cannot. Aren’t we both Chinese? Is it true that Chinese cities are hierarchical, and Chinese people are hierarchical too?

我ä¸æ˜Žç™½ï¼Œæˆ‘堂哥在城市打工å几年了，侄å­çŽ°åœ¨åœ¨åŸŽå¸‚读书，为什么我侄å­è¦ç¼´æ¯”城里孩å­è¿˜é«˜çš„学费？为什么城里人å´ä¸è@©ä»–们的孩å­ä¸Žæˆ‘侄å­åŒæ¡Œï¼Ÿä¸ºä»€ä¹ˆæˆ‘侄å­åœ¨å­¦æ ¡ä¼šå—到孤立和排挤？

I don’t understand why, with my cousin having worked in the cities for over ten years, his son still needs to pay higher school fees than urban children. Why do urban residents not allow their children to share the same table with my nephew? Why is my nephew being isolated and discriminated?

But the above are only parts of the problem. Many more difficulties, such as lack of reasonable safeguards of rights and interests of workers, and unaffordable housing, cannot be solved merely by reforming the hukou system:

我ä¸æ˜Žç™½ï¼Œæˆ‘们民工用血汗，甚至用生命在城市建è@¾äº†é‚£ä¹ˆå¤šé«˜æ¥¼å¤§åŽ¦ï¼Œå¯å»ºä¸€è¾ˆå­æˆ¿å­ï¼Œå´ä¹°ä¸åˆ°å“ªæ€•ä¸€é—´åŽ•æ‰€ï¼Ÿè¿™è·Ÿç§ä¸€è¾ˆå­åœ°å´æ²¡ç²@食åƒå¼‚曲åŒå·¥

I don’t understand why, having spent their lifetime constructing many skyscrapers, migrant workers couldn’t even buy a toilet. This is the same as farmers who spend their lifetime growing crops but could not even feed themselves.

我ä¸æ˜Žç™½ï¼Œä¸ºä»€ä¹ˆå—方那么多工厂，就是找ä¸åˆ°ä¸€å@¶å…«å°æ—¶å·¥ä½œåˆ¶çš„呢？最低工资标准，æ„æ€åº”该是工资ä¸ä½ŽäºŽé‚£ä¸ªæ ‡å‡†å§ï¼Ÿä¸ºä»€ä¹ˆæˆ‘们的底薪就等于最低工资标准？为什么辛辛苦苦一天工作å四五个å°æ—¶ï¼Œä¸€å¹´ä¸‹æ¥åªå¤Ÿä¹°å‡ åŒ…化肥？是工资低了，物价高了，还是我们生活太奢侈了？

I don’t understand why, with so many factories in southern China, I could not even find a single one with an eight-hour work day. Minimum wage means that the salary would be above a certain standard, right? But why are our salaries merely equal to that standard? Having toiled for over 14 hours a day, a few packs of fertilizers are all that we can afford at the end of the year. Is the wage too low and the price too high, or are we too luxurious?

我ä¸æ˜Žç™½ï¼Œä¸ºä»€ä¹ˆæˆ‘们干了活，å¯ä»¥ä¸ç»™æˆ‘们工钱，ä¸æ˜¯è¯´“一份耕耘，一份收获”么？为什么找相关部门解决总那么难，总把我们当çƒè¸¢ï¼Œå½“猴è€ï¼Ÿä¸ºä»€ä¹ˆä¼šå‡ºçŽ°è·³æ¥¼è@¨è–ªï¼Œå¼€èƒ¸éªŒè‚ºï¼Ÿ

I don’t understand why, having worked so hard, the managers dare to withhold our salaries. ‘You get what you give’, isn’t this what they say? Why are the relevant departments finding it so difficult to solve it, kicking us around like footballs? To fight for missing salaries and compensation, some go so far as to threaten to jump off from the building, and voluntarily ‘opening their breast’ through a surgical operation to prove that they’ve developed pneumoconiosis from their workplace.

How about going back to the countryside and be a farmer? He has though about it:

城市，已没有我们å@‰å@¶ä¹‹æ‰€ï¼Œè€Œå†œæ‘呢，我们怎么回去？åƒä¸€ä¸ªé€ƒå…µä¸€æ ·ï¼Ÿåˆæœ‰ä½•é¢ç›@è§æ±Ÿä¸œçˆ¶è€ï¼Ÿå›žåŽ»ä¹‹åŽï¼Œä¼šç§åœ°å—？愿æ„ç§åœ°å—？其å@žæˆ‘本人是赞æˆå›žå†œæ‘ç§åœ°çš„，毕竟我们国å@¶è¿˜å¾—需è¦äººæ¥ç§åœ°ï¼Œä½†æ€•çˆ¶æ¯ä»Žæ­¤åœ¨å†œæ‘抬ä¸èµ·å¤´æ¥ï¼Œè¢«å…¶ä»–æ‘民嘲笑，尽ç@¡å…¶ä»–æ‘æ°‘çš„å­©å­ä»¬ä¹Ÿåœ¨åŸŽå¸‚æµç¦»å¤±æ‰€ã€‚在他们看æ¥ï¼Œæˆ˜æ­»åœ¨åŸŽå¸‚，也比åšä¸€å逃兵好。

The cities have no place for us, how about the countryside? But how can we go back? Like a deserting soldier? Do we have the ‘face’ to see the villagers again? After returning, do we know how to farm? And are we willing to farm? Personally, I’m actually in support of returning and becoming a farmer. After all, the country needs someone to be farmers. But I’m afraid that my parents will be laughed at by other villagers, though their children are also suffering in cities. In their eyes, dying in cities is better than being a deserting soldier.

When wealth, houses, cars and a good life are distant dreams, he sees no future, only doubts, illusions and frustrations:

人å‘，其å@žå°±åƒç§å­ï¼Œæœ€é‡è¦çš„是看你被撒在什么地方，撒在城市，å†åŠ£è´¨çš„ç§å­ä¹Ÿèƒ½èŒå£@æˆé•¿ï¼Œæ’’在农æ‘，你å†ä¼˜è‰¯ä¹Ÿå¾—拼命挣扎æ‰æœ‰å‡ºå¤´ä¹‹æ—¥ã€‚

Human beings are like seeds. What matters is where you are dropped. Dropped in the cities, the worst quality can still grow and be strong; dropped in the countryside, you really need to struggle before you can be strong, even if you are of the best quality.

我们的明天，该何去何从？我ä¸çŸ¥é“。åªèƒ½åƒä¸€ä¸ªæ— æ ¹çš„æµ@è，éšæ³¢é€æµã€‚我曾ç»è¯´åªæœ‰çŒªæ‰æ˜¯æœ€å¹¸ç¦çš„动物 [...]真的，我真喜欢åšä¸€å¤´çŒªï¼Œæ²¡å¿ƒæ²¡è‚ºï¼Œæœ‰åƒæœ‰å–，也ä¸ä¼šåŽ»æƒ³åŠˆä»€ä¹ˆæŸ´å–‚什么马，呆在猪圈里，ä¸çŸ¥é“天高也ä¸çŸ¥é“地厚，就这样迷糊至死。

As for my future, where should I go? I don’t know. I can only be a piece of duckweed, floating along with the waves. I once said that pigs are the luckiest animals [...] I would really like to become a pig, without any worries and feelings, only eating and drinking. They just stay in the pigsty, not knowing the world around them, until they die.

现在基本上也ä¸æ€Žä¹ˆå­˜é’±äº†ï¼Œå› ä¸ºå­˜äº†ä¹Ÿæ²¡ç”¨ï¼Œæœ‰é’±å°±èŠ±æŽ‰ï¼Œä»Šæœæœ‰é…’今æœé†‰ï¼Œåšä¸€å¤©å’Œå°šæ’žä¸€å¤©é’Ÿï¼Œè¯´æˆ‘们消æžä¹Ÿå¥½ï¼Œè¯´æˆ‘们破ç½å­ç ´æ‘”也好，都无所谓。因为积æžå¥‹æ–—也åªä¼šæ›´åŠ å¤´ç ´è¡€æµï¼Œå› ä¸ºå°±ç@—是一åªå¥½ç½å­ï¼Œä¹Ÿå–ä¸å‡ºå¥½ä»·é’±ã€‚消æžï¼Œæ›´è@©æˆ‘释然，日å­ä¹Ÿè¿‡å¾—æ›´è½»æ¾ã€‚

Now I basically don’t think about saving, because saving is useless. I spend all I earn. You can say I am too negative. But striving for a better live will only lead to blood, sweat and toil, and no more. A good vase cannot be sold for a good price. This loss of hope makes me feel better and easier to pass the days ahead.

We take a sneak peek at Rise of the Godslayer, the next update for Age of Conan.

We've held no punches in sharing our thoughts on Palm's recent ad campaigns, but the one spot that was actually not heinous has seemingly served as the basis for one of Microsoft's first-ever WP7S commercials. Debuting here at the tail-end of MIX, the ad spotlights Anna -- a fictitious gal we've certainly heard of before -- using her new smartphone to share photos with her dear lover Miles. It also features Luca, a kid with an undying love for playing Xbox LIVE titles, who seems to be caught somewhere in between the world of nature and nurture. At any rate, it's worth your while to give the new Microsoft commercial and the Palm ad which it has oh-so-much in common with right after the break.

Oh, and Palm -- we guess "Windows Phone 7 Series was your idea," right?

[Thanks, Sean]

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Deep discounts are helping to push smartphones beyond early adopters and hardcore business users and into the hands of mainstream U.S. consumers, according to figures released this morning from The NPD Group. But those lower prices are stalling revenue growth, and demand for the sophisticated handsets may suffer once network operators do away with all-you-can-eat data plans.

Smartphones accounted for 31 percent of the overall U.S. handset market in the fourth quarter of 2009, up substantially from 23 percent during the same period a year ago. That growth can be directly attributed to the fact that prices for smartphones are often slashed within months (or even weeks) after they first come to market. But those price cuts are also why year-over-year smartphone revenue growth in the U.S. was just 21 percent in the fourth quarter of 2009, down dramatically from 37 percent in the fourth quarter of 2008.

“Although we are seeing more expensive models among the best-selling handsets, carriers are now offering some popular smartphones for less than $100,” Ross Rubin, executive director of industry analysis for NPD, said in a prepared statement. “As the average price of these highly capable devices continues to fall, the price of data plans and ease of use will emerge as more significant factors to limiting consumer sales growth.”

While handset manufacturers will surely continue to make smartphones easier to use for non-techies, it’s that other factor — the price of data plans — that is a looming headache for smartphone makers. Both AT&T and Verizon Wireless have increasingly spoken of the need to scrap unlimited data offerings in favor of metered offerings that will see prices increase for those who consume the most data — which will result in at least some degree of backlash from users who’ve long been accustomed to paying a flat monthly fee for as much data as they (or their phones) can handle.

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