Something a lot of people here don't know is that the PS2 has already been on sale in China *ever since it's introduction in Japan*. They've just been illegally imported instead of brought in by Sony. The really ridiculous part is that they're selling right now for less than that price Sony is listing. Can't remember off hand exactly how much but I seem to remember a price of around $200 US. As for games? So friggin what if Sony only "releases" a few games? They *already* have the full catalog available through the pirates! There's even lots of games that have been hacked up by Chinese to use (mostly) Chinese characters instead of English or Japanese.
I think Nintendo's got it much better in China since there are no pirated versions of their games available. They simply don't exist. But Sony? How are they gonna make money when the pirated games cost less than $1 US and the imported systems cost less than they're selling them for!?!
It's going to take a very impressive effort to get something like this out of the country without being noticed.
Uhm... It's a helicopter. It flies. Without a pilot. Pretty much completely automatically. It's not likely to be transported through the red "I have something to declare" lane at customs.
Try foobar2000. It's a music player but it has a built in 'mass tagger' that has an option to guess the tag info from the filename. There are many other taggers and players that have this functionality as well. Do a quick search on google. Even if you're a big lazy turd there's no good excuse not to have ID3 tags in your MP3 files.
I've never understood people's obsession with getting their PCs quieter. My PC has maybe 6/7 fans in it all going at the same time, and it honestly doesn't bother me. If it was silent, other noise would piss me off. For example, human voices actually piss me off a lot more. I find it very hard to concentrate in multi-user environments like libraries. And these people are saying that a small whirring is unbearable?? They need to adapt to life.
Yes. It seems you have done a commendable job of this yourself. Damn those humans!
Sorry to warp your meaning... it was just screaming out at me there.
Created: 10/8/2001 2:13:42 AM Modified: 10/25/2002 11:07:05 AM
So not only did some people not know where the "any" key was, they felt the first explanation was too complicated!! Hopefully this Oct 25, 2002 answer will last another year or so before it needs to be dumbed down some more...
He [Larry Niven] also came up with the idea of people running wires directly to the pleasure centers of their brains and thus achieving perpetual electric happiness (like a drug addiction)
I believe Michael Crichton wrote Terminal Man before Niven wrote about this.. But maybe my timeline is off.
I've seen a few copies of LoTR 2 here in China. Sort of. All the DVD/VCD copies I've seen here so far have been labelled quite well. Pretty box art and everything. But when you put in the disc it turns out to be a completely different movie. Not sure which movie it was as I didn't watch long enough to be sure, but it's some old fantasy flick from the 70's. AFAIK they don't have a real copy of LoTR 2 yet in China.
As far as modern clicky keyboards go, I can heartily recommend the Focus FK-2001 keyboards. Good, solid, super clicky. Even comes with a dust cover for the keyboard.
Not quite as big-ass as the old IBM keyboards, but quite nice.
You missed the point entirely. It's not that they don't like US citizens, but that they don't like US companies if there is a Japanese company in the same market. Hell, my Japanese friends didn't even like Japanese companies who had too many of their products manufactured outside of Japan.
The Japanese in general think much more highly of Japanese companies than foreign companies. If you didn't see this during your time in Japan you must be quite oblivious to your surroundings...
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Does anyone know what standard China and/or other SE Asian countries use for their digital satellite transmissions?
Yes, but only if you call it firewire. You don't have to pay Apple anything as long as you call it IEEE 1394. My motherboard that came with fire... err IEEE 1394 was very careful not to say the f word anywhere in it's documentation. It's all IEEE 1394. Microsoft does the same thing. They don't call the port a firewire port, they call it a IEEE 1394 port.
Actually, I wouldn't bet on the PCI Radeon having DVI output. I bought another mini computer (much better looking than the shuttle box, I think -- an MSI 6215) and am using a PCI Radeon AIW. They dumbed it down a bit from the AGP version. For one it's just got SDR ram instead of DDR. And they also took out the DVI.
(* I'll accept China's claim to be the Democratic People's Republic of China until I have it explained to me exactly why a system that uses a cabal of political appointees to choose a president is any better.)
I think you're confusing China with North Korea. China doesn't pretend to be democratic. It's simply the People's Republic of China, and Taiwan calls itself the Republic of China. But North Korea calls itself the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
Let's see... I can't speak for India or Africa cause I haven't been there, but I have travelled quite a bit in Vietnam, China, and Thailand. I studied abroad in China for a year.
Small cities in Vietnam -- ie NOT Saigon and Hanoi. There are Mekong Delta tours from Saigon that will take you to really great minority areas along the Mekong. And travel anywhere on the train.. My god, the trains... ugh.. I took the train from the Chinese border to Hanoi. The trains go through some real remote places.
China outside any of the major metropolitan areas. For maximum "different-ness" go to minority areas. But for it to really work well in China you have to be able to speak the language, or be with someone who can speak the language. Anywhere you can go on a real tour with an english speaking tourguide isn't going to show you much. If that's out of the question, southwestern China (Yunnan specifically) has quite a few spots that are real backpacker friendly. Plenty of books about backpacking in that area.
Also, Thailand. Bangkok is a fricking super metropolis, but even there if you go on the outskirts, there's some pretty interesting stuff, like hundreds of people living in the crack between the riverbank and the paved road.. And I saw some wonderful things in northern Thailand, like Chiang Mai (I'd recommend the Banana Guesthouse to anybody thinking of going there). Even on tours with an English speaking tourguide (backpacking tour). They took us hiking all over the national park up there, and we slept in minority villages that have pretty much remained unchanged for many many generations.
If you just get out into the world and travel you can find some remarkable things.
If all it takes for you is to see people in funny clothes, lots of wood, and poor building codes, try travelling to some of the poorer areas in Asia, Africa, or India some time.
In contrast to what you are saying, this is from three different exposures (probably in addition to any slight angle differences as well).
From the site:
"A single, narrow glass plate about 3 inches wide by 9 inches long was placed vertically into the camera by Prokudin-Gorskii . He then photographed the same scene three times in a fairly rapid sequence using a red filter, a green filter and a blue filter."
Before saying other people are wrong, try reading the site.
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They are now working on "Robots" for early 1995 release.
Wow. They're slow. Like Duke-Nukem-Forever-slow. No wonder they have problems being profitable.
took me an hour to yank the AC3 audio out and encode it back into an mp3 format... ah, what I will do to keep my home video backups accessable...
Yah I just hate that too... Sometimes I think my home AC3 encoder is just too much of a hassle.
Something a lot of people here don't know is that the PS2 has already been on sale in China *ever since it's introduction in Japan*. They've just been illegally imported instead of brought in by Sony. The really ridiculous part is that they're selling right now for less than that price Sony is listing. Can't remember off hand exactly how much but I seem to remember a price of around $200 US. As for games? So friggin what if Sony only "releases" a few games? They *already* have the full catalog available through the pirates! There's even lots of games that have been hacked up by Chinese to use (mostly) Chinese characters instead of English or Japanese.
I think Nintendo's got it much better in China since there are no pirated versions of their games available. They simply don't exist. But Sony? How are they gonna make money when the pirated games cost less than $1 US and the imported systems cost less than they're selling them for!?!
It's going to take a very impressive effort to get something like this out of the country without being noticed.
Uhm... It's a helicopter. It flies. Without a pilot. Pretty much completely automatically. It's not likely to be transported through the red "I have something to declare" lane at customs.
Try foobar2000. It's a music player but it has a built in 'mass tagger' that has an option to guess the tag info from the filename. There are many other taggers and players that have this functionality as well. Do a quick search on google. Even if you're a big lazy turd there's no good excuse not to have ID3 tags in your MP3 files.
I've never understood people's obsession with getting their PCs quieter. My PC has maybe 6/7 fans in it all going at the same time, and it honestly doesn't bother me. If it was silent, other noise would piss me off. For example, human voices actually piss me off a lot more. I find it very hard to concentrate in multi-user environments like libraries. And these people are saying that a small whirring is unbearable?? They need to adapt to life.
Yes. It seems you have done a commendable job of this yourself. Damn those humans!
Sorry to warp your meaning... it was just screaming out at me there.
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Created: 10/8/2001 2:13:42 AM
Modified: 10/25/2002 11:07:05 AM
So not only did some people not know where the "any" key was, they felt the first explanation was too complicated!! Hopefully this Oct 25, 2002 answer will last another year or so before it needs to be dumbed down some more...
He [Larry Niven] also came up with the idea of people running wires directly to the pleasure centers of their brains and thus achieving perpetual electric happiness (like a drug addiction)
I believe Michael Crichton wrote Terminal Man before Niven wrote about this.. But maybe my timeline is off.
Pacific Northwest microbrews. Yummy!
Sorry if you're stuck somewhere without any good local breweries... Then you're just outta luck.
The Spruce Goose was wood/plastic?
The *Spruce* Goose is called the *SPRUCE* Goose precisely because the body was mostly wood.
I've seen a few copies of LoTR 2 here in China. Sort of. All the DVD/VCD copies I've seen here so far have been labelled quite well. Pretty box art and everything. But when you put in the disc it turns out to be a completely different movie. Not sure which movie it was as I didn't watch long enough to be sure, but it's some old fantasy flick from the 70's. AFAIK they don't have a real copy of LoTR 2 yet in China.
As far as modern clicky keyboards go, I can heartily recommend the Focus FK-2001 keyboards. Good, solid, super clicky. Even comes with a dust cover for the keyboard.
Not quite as big-ass as the old IBM keyboards, but quite nice.
You missed the point entirely. It's not that they don't like US citizens, but that they don't like US companies if there is a Japanese company in the same market. Hell, my Japanese friends didn't even like Japanese companies who had too many of their products manufactured outside of Japan.
The Japanese in general think much more highly of Japanese companies than foreign companies. If you didn't see this during your time in Japan you must be quite oblivious to your surroundings...
Does anyone know what standard China and/or other SE Asian countries use for their digital satellite transmissions?
Disk megabyte = 1,000,000 bytes
REAL Megabyte = 1,048,576 bytes
Difference = 48,576 bytes, or about 15 floppies worth of space per Mb
Wow, I've never seen floppies that are 3238 bytes! Either that or you have found a new form of mathematics, perhaps?
Apple charges a licensing royalty per port
Yes, but only if you call it firewire. You don't have to pay Apple anything as long as you call it IEEE 1394. My motherboard that came with fire... err IEEE 1394 was very careful not to say the f word anywhere in it's documentation. It's all IEEE 1394. Microsoft does the same thing. They don't call the port a firewire port, they call it a IEEE 1394 port.
I mean why would anybody live in cities like those when other places still exist and are within reasonable distance?
Uhm... Have you been to LA or NY recently?
Actually, I wouldn't bet on the PCI Radeon having DVI output. I bought another mini computer (much better looking than the shuttle box, I think -- an MSI 6215) and am using a PCI Radeon AIW. They dumbed it down a bit from the AGP version. For one it's just got SDR ram instead of DDR. And they also took out the DVI.
(* I'll accept China's claim to be the Democratic People's Republic of China until I have it explained to me exactly why a system that uses a cabal of political appointees to choose a president is any better.)
I think you're confusing China with North Korea. China doesn't pretend to be democratic. It's simply the People's Republic of China, and Taiwan calls itself the Republic of China. But North Korea calls itself the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
Oh come on... The Wizard is a classic!
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Hmm.. If China doesn't have DVD hardware and software, how did my Chinese brand (Konka) DVD player get produced?
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They could get VERY complex and you could role play as deep as you wanted.
Here's some links I could find. I think these two are the only ones left.
Dune MUD
Dune III MUSH
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Let's see... I can't speak for India or Africa cause I haven't been there, but I have travelled quite a bit in Vietnam, China, and Thailand. I studied abroad in China for a year.
Small cities in Vietnam -- ie NOT Saigon and Hanoi. There are Mekong Delta tours from Saigon that will take you to really great minority areas along the Mekong. And travel anywhere on the train.. My god, the trains... ugh.. I took the train from the Chinese border to Hanoi. The trains go through some real remote places.
China outside any of the major metropolitan areas. For maximum "different-ness" go to minority areas. But for it to really work well in China you have to be able to speak the language, or be with someone who can speak the language. Anywhere you can go on a real tour with an english speaking tourguide isn't going to show you much. If that's out of the question, southwestern China (Yunnan specifically) has quite a few spots that are real backpacker friendly. Plenty of books about backpacking in that area.
Also, Thailand. Bangkok is a fricking super metropolis, but even there if you go on the outskirts, there's some pretty interesting stuff, like hundreds of people living in the crack between the riverbank and the paved road.. And I saw some wonderful things in northern Thailand, like Chiang Mai (I'd recommend the Banana Guesthouse to anybody thinking of going there). Even on tours with an English speaking tourguide (backpacking tour). They took us hiking all over the national park up there, and we slept in minority villages that have pretty much remained unchanged for many many generations.
If you just get out into the world and travel you can find some remarkable things.
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If all it takes for you is to see people in funny clothes, lots of wood, and poor building codes, try travelling to some of the poorer areas in Asia, Africa, or India some time.
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In contrast to what you are saying, this is from three different exposures (probably in addition to any slight angle differences as well).
From the site:
"A single, narrow glass plate about 3 inches wide by 9 inches long was placed vertically into the camera by Prokudin-Gorskii . He then photographed the same scene three times in a fairly rapid sequence using a red filter, a green filter and a blue filter."
Before saying other people are wrong, try reading the site.
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