I was paying around 100RMB (10 Euros) a month for use of a landline and a 1MB connection, which during offpeak hours was more like a 2MB pipe. This was only 1 year ago. Anyhow, a bit of advice to anyone going over, Secure VPN or just set up a TOR Proxy on a machine in the US.
I had an engineer stuck in Germany for three days due to this stupidity. He got his fill of beer, good hotel rooms and sightseeing done, so in his mind it was a decent holiday.
The insane thing was that this issue happened before a few weeks earlier, there was an investigation however it did not discover then faulty NIC then either.
I currently speak the following
Irish -- Well I am Irish
English -- Blame the English for invading
French -- Used to teach this one
Spanish -- Blame the chica's
Chinese -- Went to China, landed in a team of 20 engineers who did not speak English
Nepalese -- Currently learning this to impress my girlfriends parents
If you've watched Firefly, learn Chinese. Their accents are complete asscrap though...
Tudou.com is on my list to be shutdown by the Chinese government. More so to do with the popularity amongst the average Chinese Chin, lack of regulations with content submitted than to do with lack of enforced copyright standards.
I went out to China in 2005 with very little Chinese and went straight into a Business Analyst role. Mainly pimping my wares for a Chinese software company I found that if you were willing to work hard, learn the language and get the job done then the world is your oyster. I'm 26 now, I think that it would have taken an extra 5+ years to get to my current level if I hadn't gone over to the middle kingdom. It's very much a sink or swim environment over there, if you can't hack it then there are always smart Chinese guys willing to do the job.
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I was paying around 100RMB (10 Euros) a month for use of a landline and a 1MB connection, which during offpeak hours was more like a 2MB pipe. This was only 1 year ago. Anyhow, a bit of advice to anyone going over, Secure VPN or just set up a TOR Proxy on a machine in the US.
I had an engineer stuck in Germany for three days due to this stupidity. He got his fill of beer, good hotel rooms and sightseeing done, so in his mind it was a decent holiday. The insane thing was that this issue happened before a few weeks earlier, there was an investigation however it did not discover then faulty NIC then either.
I currently speak the following Irish -- Well I am Irish English -- Blame the English for invading French -- Used to teach this one Spanish -- Blame the chica's Chinese -- Went to China, landed in a team of 20 engineers who did not speak English Nepalese -- Currently learning this to impress my girlfriends parents If you've watched Firefly, learn Chinese. Their accents are complete asscrap though...
Tudou.com is on my list to be shutdown by the Chinese government. More so to do with the popularity amongst the average Chinese Chin, lack of regulations with content submitted than to do with lack of enforced copyright standards.
I went out to China in 2005 with very little Chinese and went straight into a Business Analyst role. Mainly pimping my wares for a Chinese software company I found that if you were willing to work hard, learn the language and get the job done then the world is your oyster. I'm 26 now, I think that it would have taken an extra 5+ years to get to my current level if I hadn't gone over to the middle kingdom. It's very much a sink or swim environment over there, if you can't hack it then there are always smart Chinese guys willing to do the job.