The going rate is 10rmb for a DVD5, and 20rmb for a DVD9. That's from DVD stores that (I presume) only sell illegal versions. A DVD5 can have a lower quality movie (artifacts/etc) and/or have the end chopped off, esp. if it's a long movie. DVD9s are actually pretty good quality. It's always a gamble if they'll play in your DVD player - though they'll pretty much always play on a computer.
If you shop on the street, then you can get lower prices (and newer titles), but they are just in paper/card/plastic envelopes and quality is very random - you take your chances. I'll get these if I'm looking for newly released stuff.
The DVDs *aren't* just copies either, they usually have several subtitle tracks. (Often, the subtitles will match the movie on the disk too.) I'd guess it takes some effort to add the subtitles (when they're for the correct movies). When you buy the DVDs from a store, they'll often tell you if the quality is good and/or the subtitles are accurate - without you even having to ask. What great service:D
I wouldn't have a clue as to where to get legal copies...nor how to tell if they are legal copies (apart from lack of spelling mistakes, perhaps).
> Do the leaders at google, yahoo, and cisco really understand the consequences of their choices other then beyond the next quarterly report?
I know this is a tech forum, but please don't forget companies like MacDonalds and KFC, which are really (negativelty) effecting the health of the population. Get rid of them first, since they can't possibly do any good to anyone.
I don't recall ever being taught anything at all about Chairman Mao, let alone Mao Zhedong. Actually, I don't recall ever being taught anything about China at all. I stopped studying history and geography when I was 14. In any case, my memory just isn't good enough to hold that much information, whether I choose to or not (can you 'choose' to forget something, I wonder)....and I still maintain that I am the norm.; ie, most people (in the west) wouldn't know who he was (even if you used the word 'Chairman')....and, no, it hasn't been much of a problem.
I suppose him specifically mentioning that his preference *is* standard could be taken to imply that the implementation isn't, which certainly isn't the case. Fair enough.
I'd like to see similar data for emissions. I was a motorcycle rider in Mountain View when I lived there, and I heard that motorcycles had more emissions than cars - esp. for short journeys. Something to do with them not (often) having catalytic converters?
"And because Nokia foolishly included a cut-down "RS-MMC" (Reduced Size MultiMediaCard) slot instead of an industry-standard SD card slot, you'll pay more for the needed add-on storage (only 64 megabytes of memory are available onboard) and have a harder time finding it in stores."
Where does he claim the RS-MMC card in non-standard? Not in the above statement. The only mention he makes of 'standard' is in relation to his suggested alternative 'SD card slot'.
Read it again. That's not what it says. He's complaining about the keyboard that Nokia left out. I assume that the keyboard must be still at Nokia somewhere - probably piling up with all the others they left out of other people's 770s - a 'keyboard mountain' perhaps.. Quite how the reviewer managed to get hold of one so that he can review it, I don't know. Maybe he went to Finland (or China, where they're probably made).
No, what he (probably) meant is, "The biggest flaw is the poor functionality of the software keyboard they included.", or "The biggest flaw is that they didn't include a hardware keyboard."...or something like that.
That's what I had in mind when I considered purchasing it. I could imagine wipping out the 770 when I was wanting to quickly look up something or whatever, but then taking out the keyboard too when I wanted to do something more involved.
In my defence, the student referred to him as "Mao Zedong" ie without the 'Chairman', which I might actually have recognised. However, I would only have reconised the name because I had just moved to China, not because of any 'education' I had received. I'm not sure where (or if) I would have heard of 'Chairman Mao' before coming here (certainly not from any education I received) but I expect it might have 'rung a bell' at least. It is certainly something I would have chosen to forget since it is completely irrelevant to my life before coming here, and not that much relevant after coming here, except to answer the question "who's that?" whenever I see his photo.
I am quite sure that the majority of people in the west have no idea who he is, even if they have heard of him; educated or not.
This reminds me of when I came to China and one of the students mentioned Chairman Mao - I responded, "Who's that?". My general knowledge isn't so great (bad memory) - (IIRC) I'd actually never heard of him - and that fact amazed said student. People here pretty much idolise him, and think that the rest of the world must have at least heard of him; when, in reality, many (most?) people in the west probably have never heard of him and are similarly ignorant of China. China just isn't that important; certainly not as important as people here think. (Of course, that is changing pretty quickly).
Same as these 'peeps' things and people in the US.
The only thing the word 'peeps' makes me think of is some catch phrase a UK TV comedian had...but I forget it exactly.
I like marshmallow though, and I'd never heard of smores before I went to the US, but I enjoyed them nevertheless:D
Note that (IMO) Cadbury Creame Eggs, like most chocolate made in the USA, taste significantly different than made in the UK (in Cadbury, I'd guess) - the US version is much sweeter; very sickly.
As a Linux user living in China, I'd've thought Chairman Hu would have had better judgment than to visit Mr Gates', the person who's single-handedly done more damage to the computer industry than anyone else.
Oh yes, it's Easter, a time when I am reminded that I should forgive....not so easy sometimes.
I really hope this (ie manufacturers shipping Linux) will happen, but I think it's just a dream.
In reality, Microsoft will do exactly what it did in the rest of the world and provide 'incentives' to manufacturers, but only if they don't ship any other OS on their computers, and stick labels on their computers and web sites to say how they so much recommend Microsoft Windows over everything else.
If this anti-piracy thing 'works', the end user will pay a bit more for a pre-installed OS on pre-built computers. The only people to be severely hurt (in the short term) are the people who build their own computers and *need* to have MS Windows - they might opt for some other OS if they are forced to pay the real price for MS Windows (as oppose to the 5rmb(USD1) 'value' price). In the long term, of course, everyone is hurt by this.
I have often wondered how to move China off MS Windows onto Linux. Almost everyone already uses it, but only businesses (the smaller ones probably use pirate copies) will have legit copies.
Mac OS X might benefit though (if they let it run on anything), since it already costs money and it now is 'cheaper' relative to MS Windows' real price.
boradband here in china is pretty cheap and broad too. I had a MAN (like a LAN) connection here for 99rmb (a little over USD10) per month and measured 8Mbps. "Had"? I moved, and now have to put up with a 512Kbps SDSL:(
Still, even with broad and cheap being available, IMO it isn't broad enough and the broader connections are not cheap. So, I agree with you.
" The Silicon Graphics SGC option is a video frame capture PCI-X card that allows a stream of digital computer resolution video (as compared to Standard Definition or High Definition Digital TV signals) to be read into the memory of a Silicon Graphics Prism system. The computer resolution video is delivered in a digital form to the card via a single link DVI-D connector. The card itself is seen as an OpenML 1.1 device, and can be programmed for use by applications, video ingest from external DVI sources, or it can be used directly by OpenGL Vizserver to support a Visual Area Networking (VAN) environment. Multiple cards may be configured in a single system to support multiple input streams in an SGI Reality Center or multiple remote VAN sessions. Note that the SGC card is required when OpenGL Vizserver is used with the hardware compositor. "
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Most illegal copies I've seen are actually in their original language and subtitled into many different languages (including Chinese).
The going rate is 10rmb for a DVD5, and 20rmb for a DVD9. That's from DVD stores that (I presume) only sell illegal versions. A DVD5 can have a lower quality movie (artifacts/etc) and/or have the end chopped off, esp. if it's a long movie. DVD9s are actually pretty good quality. It's always a gamble if they'll play in your DVD player - though they'll pretty much always play on a computer.
:D
If you shop on the street, then you can get lower prices (and newer titles), but they are just in paper/card/plastic envelopes and quality is very random - you take your chances. I'll get these if I'm looking for newly released stuff.
The DVDs *aren't* just copies either, they usually have several subtitle tracks. (Often, the subtitles will match the movie on the disk too.) I'd guess it takes some effort to add the subtitles (when they're for the correct movies). When you buy the DVDs from a store, they'll often tell you if the quality is good and/or the subtitles are accurate - without you even having to ask. What great service
I wouldn't have a clue as to where to get legal copies...nor how to tell if they are legal copies (apart from lack of spelling mistakes, perhaps).
It hasn't been released yet. There's still time for it's new release date to be put back to it's original one.
ok, so that's "zhong guo", which sounds kind of like 'jong gu-oar' might in English. That would make 'zhoogle' sound like 'joogle'.
Still not getting 'funny'....
Go on. Please explain it. I live in China. I should get it.
> Do the leaders at google, yahoo, and cisco really understand the consequences of their choices other then beyond the next quarterly report?
I know this is a tech forum, but please don't forget companies like MacDonalds and KFC, which are really (negativelty) effecting the health of the population. Get rid of them first, since they can't possibly do any good to anyone.
(IMO)
I'm 40.
...and I still maintain that I am the norm.; ie, most people (in the west) wouldn't know who he was (even if you used the word 'Chairman'). ...and, no, it hasn't been much of a problem.
I don't recall ever being taught anything at all about Chairman Mao, let alone Mao Zhedong. Actually, I don't recall ever being taught anything about China at all. I stopped studying history and geography when I was 14. In any case, my memory just isn't good enough to hold that much information, whether I choose to or not (can you 'choose' to forget something, I wonder).
I suppose him specifically mentioning that his preference *is* standard could be taken to imply that the implementation isn't, which certainly isn't the case. Fair enough.
I used to have a ZX6 (aka ZZR600) when I lived in CA (actually, I still have it, sitting there doing nothing, if anyone wants to buy it).
I know CA has strict emissions laws, even for bikes. "How does that compare with the Eurolaws?", I wonder.
Miles/gallon != emissions
I'd like to see similar data for emissions. I was a motorcycle rider in Mountain View when I lived there, and I heard that motorcycles had more emissions than cars - esp. for short journeys. Something to do with them not (often) having catalytic converters?
Anyone?
"And because Nokia foolishly included a cut-down "RS-MMC" (Reduced Size MultiMediaCard) slot instead of an industry-standard SD card slot, you'll pay more for the needed add-on storage (only 64 megabytes of memory are available onboard) and have a harder time finding it in stores."
Where does he claim the RS-MMC card in non-standard? Not in the above statement. The only mention he makes of 'standard' is in relation to his suggested alternative 'SD card slot'.
Read it again. That's not what it says. He's complaining about the keyboard that Nokia left out. I assume that the keyboard must be still at Nokia somewhere - probably piling up with all the others they left out of other people's 770s - a 'keyboard mountain' perhaps.. Quite how the reviewer managed to get hold of one so that he can review it, I don't know. Maybe he went to Finland (or China, where they're probably made).
...or something like that.
No, what he (probably) meant is, "The biggest flaw is the poor functionality of the software keyboard they included.", or "The biggest flaw is that they didn't include a hardware keyboard."
I wonder if this flexible bluetooth keyboard would work?
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http://flantta.en.alibaba.com/product/50068590/50
That's what I had in mind when I considered purchasing it. I could imagine wipping out the 770 when I was wanting to quickly look up something or whatever, but then taking out the keyboard too when I wanted to do something more involved.
In my defence, the student referred to him as "Mao Zedong" ie without the 'Chairman', which I might actually have recognised. However, I would only have reconised the name because I had just moved to China, not because of any 'education' I had received. I'm not sure where (or if) I would have heard of 'Chairman Mao' before coming here (certainly not from any education I received) but I expect it might have 'rung a bell' at least. It is certainly something I would have chosen to forget since it is completely irrelevant to my life before coming here, and not that much relevant after coming here, except to answer the question "who's that?" whenever I see his photo.
I am quite sure that the majority of people in the west have no idea who he is, even if they have heard of him; educated or not.
Actually, that's not the case at all.
Ha :) Perhaps not. Same principle though.
Wouldn't using GAIM instead work?
This reminds me of when I came to China and one of the students mentioned Chairman Mao - I responded, "Who's that?". My general knowledge isn't so great (bad memory) - (IIRC) I'd actually never heard of him - and that fact amazed said student. People here pretty much idolise him, and think that the rest of the world must have at least heard of him; when, in reality, many (most?) people in the west probably have never heard of him and are similarly ignorant of China. China just isn't that important; certainly not as important as people here think. (Of course, that is changing pretty quickly).
:D
Same as these 'peeps' things and people in the US.
The only thing the word 'peeps' makes me think of is some catch phrase a UK TV comedian had...but I forget it exactly.
I like marshmallow though, and I'd never heard of smores before I went to the US, but I enjoyed them nevertheless
Note that (IMO) Cadbury Creame Eggs, like most chocolate made in the USA, taste significantly different than made in the UK (in Cadbury, I'd guess) - the US version is much sweeter; very sickly.
I'm not sure I get your point...
Yeah, that's what I thought.
As a Linux user living in China, I'd've thought Chairman Hu would have had better judgment than to visit Mr Gates', the person who's single-handedly done more damage to the computer industry than anyone else.
Oh yes, it's Easter, a time when I am reminded that I should forgive....not so easy sometimes.
Hey, we don't all live in countries with such stupidly annoying tax systems...(anymore)
I really hope this (ie manufacturers shipping Linux) will happen, but I think it's just a dream.
In reality, Microsoft will do exactly what it did in the rest of the world and provide 'incentives' to manufacturers, but only if they don't ship any other OS on their computers, and stick labels on their computers and web sites to say how they so much recommend Microsoft Windows over everything else.
If this anti-piracy thing 'works', the end user will pay a bit more for a pre-installed OS on pre-built computers. The only people to be severely hurt (in the short term) are the people who build their own computers and *need* to have MS Windows - they might opt for some other OS if they are forced to pay the real price for MS Windows (as oppose to the 5rmb(USD1) 'value' price). In the long term, of course, everyone is hurt by this.
I have often wondered how to move China off MS Windows onto Linux. Almost everyone already uses it, but only businesses (the smaller ones probably use pirate copies) will have legit copies.
Mac OS X might benefit though (if they let it run on anything), since it already costs money and it now is 'cheaper' relative to MS Windows' real price.
boradband here in china is pretty cheap and broad too. I had a MAN (like a LAN) connection here for 99rmb (a little over USD10) per month and measured 8Mbps. "Had"? I moved, and now have to put up with a 512Kbps SDSL :(
Still, even with broad and cheap being available, IMO it isn't broad enough and the broader connections are not cheap. So, I agree with you.
http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/manuals/4000/007-4 663-002/pdf/007-4663-002.pdf
:(
"
The Silicon Graphics SGC option is a video frame capture PCI-X card that allows a stream
of digital computer resolution video (as compared to Standard Definition or High
Definition Digital TV signals) to be read into the memory of a Silicon Graphics Prism
system. The computer resolution video is delivered in a digital form to the card via a
single link DVI-D connector.
The card itself is seen as an OpenML 1.1 device, and can be programmed for use by
applications, video ingest from external DVI sources, or it can be used directly by
OpenGL Vizserver to support a Visual Area Networking (VAN) environment. Multiple
cards may be configured in a single system to support multiple input streams in an SGI
Reality Center or multiple remote VAN sessions. Note that the SGC card is required
when OpenGL Vizserver is used with the hardware compositor.
"
I guess you need an SGI computer though