a cyberport hotel parable (Score 1)

The negative comments about cyberport are spot on. HK is a plutocracy and cyberport was gift to richard li... hong kong now reaps the "rewards" of RL's wise leadership in this development.

Anyhow, I stayed at the Le Meridien Cyberport and found it to be a good analogue of the rest of the complex. Note that I also have worked with companies that have offices there, including MS, and have been courted to place offices out there. I would never ever even consider it.

The rooms at the Le Meridian all have mini pc's in them with high speed internet access (running on windows, y'all, and I found them easy to dump a keylogger on...). 150 tv channels piped in through a tv tuner card in the pcs and displayed on a plasma screen. none of them in widescreen format so they are all distorted (oh, and no movie channels... unless you count about 10 bollywood channels). big option on the pc's promote the dvd player capabilities of the pcs, but there is no dvd rental at cyberport nor does the hotel rent or offer. My room looked out over the ocean and also the garbage of cyberports eternally unfinished construction.

i know this all sounds whiny, which it certainly is, but it's truly representative of cyberport in general. Idea and reality separated by the gulf of incompetent execution... lots of rhetoric like "high speed" and "cyber" plastered over mediocre implementations.