Chinavet

Deja vu yet again. Google "Thaksin water grid" for a wealth of information and history. I am not hopeful.

justsumhelp, on 2011-08-07 12:34:26, said:

I have the AIS S2.

I don't have WIFI access and I'm having a baaad connection day (aircard). Been hours trying to download the manual. Enough technology for this Sunday! Nearly beer o'clock.

lomatopo, on 2011-08-05 15:09:18, said:

Thanks for the replies. Day 3 of being an S2 owner. I am fairly impressed with the phone but becoming very unimpressed with Samsung. I expected much better for a relatively high dollar purchase. Moving the thread mid-conversation did not help. Looks like we are bounced back here again.

To register the product using the phone, it first returns a massive T&C page in Thai. I do not want to hit 'accept' because I suspect the following registration pages will also be in Thai? Can anyone confirm this?

My decision to go with Android was on the expectation of a good easy UI for management on my PC (i.e. Kies). Trying to download from the two links provided failed with a 1.3mb and a 62.4kb download. Same same from international Samsung sites.

Can anyone tell me if, and how, they have registered their S2 by phone or PC satisfactorily, in English. Also has anyone successfully downloaded and set up Kies for PC in English?

I did not get a CD or mini-CD in the box.

Starting to think Itunes was the way to go.

There does not seem to be an English language option for the Thai Samsung site. I am trying to set up a Samsung account, register my S2 and download Kies. Any clues on how to proceed?

I started following this forum late 2008 after selling up in China and returning to Thailand with funds to invest. Thanks to the main contributors for your efforts, insights, opinions and informative links, but mostly for being entertaining.

I am certainly no financial guru, but macro economics interest me. I have lived the last 31 years in many international corporate positions and had successes and failures with my own businesses, but I'm a newbie investor with a bent for risk.

By late 2009 I had read enough to form an opinion and invested relatively heavily with a gold account at HSBC Hong Kong. My purchases were all under US$1000/oz and I was not confident. I was, and still am, way overweight gold, I have maintained this position.

Most of the factors that led me to buy still apply and have probably increased, but so has the price of gold. Collectively, those factors encourage me to believe there is still substantial potential in being long on gold and so far, I have held my nerve. I have no hard policy of being long or short, I just have to believe I can recognize a serious change of direction in the world economy that will cause the gold price to decline substantially, long term.

That's not easy in a world as financially volatile and fickle as we have today. So many things don't make sense or seem contradictory on a day to day basis. The world's financial community (including the writers/bloggers/columists/presenters) goes to work everyday to make something happen. The story of the day usually creates an over-reaction, often contrary to clear medium and long term trends. They scare old buggers like me sometimes.

The actual 'gold debate' I find is mostly fluff, from both extreme positions. I don't care if very knowledgeable people write volumes on... just a piece of metal/no interest....etc etc etc....gold will have value and a real place in the worldwide financial system long after we are gone. And good luck to the coins, food and gun hoarding crowd when armaggedon arrives. I find all that kind of discussion irrelevant and a distraction from the direction and possibilities of gold versus fiat currencies, in my lifetime (20+ years would be good). But I am confident the gold mining industry won't simply pack up and go away anytime soon, because the metal does not earn interest.

So, on that note, I would find much more value in this forum with less discussion on recent and old history and more on financial and political scenarios that can/will impact gold price in the coming years. Specifically, we have a 10 year chart and know the drivers. We can see events that caused price dips. But I for one would be very appreciative of credible scenarios that signal and end to the upward trend or create a dramatic real long term bust.

e.g. The countries that face possible default...which ones hold (substantial) gold? Is there a scenario for a massive selloff? How would that go down?

No relevant, but I grew up in a desert gold mining town. My father spent 37 years a few kilometers underground, digging the stuff up.