If you've got an Engineering qualification (I think a pure IT degree counts) getting in is a piece of piss - and I found Italy to be more homogenous when I lived there.
I thought he lived in Switzerland now, for tax reasons?
Then again, he's a man with bad taste enough to tell his wife he was asking for a divorce by fax.
Thatcher REALLY pushed IT training in the early 80s (one of the very few things she did) - the difference in the level of IT knowledge in the UK and Japan - for instance - is amazing. We have a huge number of programmers, though that's going to drop off over the next few years it seems.
When we had the Japanese census earlier this year, there was a reasonable amount of advertising to remind foreigners to fill one in. In the end, I never got a form - it's apparently pretty common that the poll-takers don't bother handing them out in the areas they are responsible for.
At the time of the last UK census, I was at university. They practically ordered everyone in halls to fill in the census they received, even if they weren't actually there that day (was this only my uni? who knows...) - so that census was automatically inaccurate. Well, the UK census was a bit of a clusterfuck really, huge parts of the population ignored it, and the (American-sourced) automatic reading technology couldn't automatically read the forms.
Well, a quick answer is that "the" is definitive, and there's far more than one university in the UK.
As for myself, I'd say (to give where I went in full) "When I was at Strathclyde University", or "When I was at the University of Strathclyde" - so "when I was at Uni" could be taken as a short form of the first expression, not the second.
OK - we speak English, you speak American. Stop fucking using our name for your language.
("British English" implies that there's no difference in the language spoken by say, a Glaswegian and a Londoner. I can categorically assure you this is not true.)
Would it help to find out his birth name was "Krishna Bhanji"?
There are a LOT of ethnic Indians in the UK - and not in the H1B sense either, fully settled-down families.
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Tokyo Game Show isn't really an industry event, like E3 was. Also, it's been refocusing on mobile phone games and "the family" for the past few years.
Admittedly the laws changed recently, but it used to be that it was totally OK to bring porn into the UK - as long as you could prove it was for your own use. Perhaps you just looked like the kind of guy who uses a LOT of porn?
From my understanding, the big problem is that the Japanese branches were being mis-advised by their American staff at the American branches. "Oh no, American gamers would never like that" coming from 50-somethings who had probably never played a game before.
It also took them a long time to realise that Americans and Europeans play different games - the earliest example I can think of of a game coming out in Europe and not America is "Vib Ribbon" (I'm ignoring Terranigma as that was refused a license in the US because it was felt the SNES was dead)
The EA Sports games that top the sales charts in Europe aren't the same that top the charts in the US - and plenty of Japanese games have done well in Europe. We Love Katamari is maybe the obvious exception of a game that failed, but things like Space Channel 5 or Shenmue (I'm reaching back a bit I'll admit) did far better in Europe than in any other territory.
The Resident Evil games do well as well, and the Devil May Cry games. Or are you trying to claim that Madden is bigger in Europe? Music games even - Music games have been fairly sucessful in Europe for a long time, too.
If you're going to quote sales, make sure you use the UK charts, as that's where more than 1/2 the games in Europe are sold. NFL topping the charts in, say, Finland means fuck-all in the scheme of things.
Incidentally - having read just read the article - the first analyst is a total tool.
The problems MS are having in Japan have nothing to do with racism, and everything to do with the fact that the Japanese don't play the games that MS have been releasing over there. The launch line-up for the 360 was fucking depressing, for instance.
They made the same mistake in Europe with the original XBox, which was made worse by the fact the price was way too high, and never really recovered from that.
The AC was pointing out that Europe - which MS does need, and indeed was expecting to win with the XBox - probably prefers Japanese games over American games, and THAT'S why MS needs Japanese developers.
Actually, though, I'm curious as to why the AC claimed European game development was weak - the UK is pretty damn important as far as games dev goes - Number 3 after the US and Japan (Don't forget that GTA is a British game from a British studio. A lot of the PS3 footage has been British (or European) too - Heavenly Sword for instance)
Most of those "freedoms" were set up by Chris Patton, at the end of British rule, chiefly to piss off the communists. It's not like the mainlanders WANTED "one country, two systems", it was something they had to take up to avoid killing off the goose that laid the golden eggs.
It's a bit more complicated than that - the journalist worked for a paper that had - almost up until the moment war was declared - BEEN a big supporter of the Nazis. If he had called, say, a reporter from the Guardian a "Nazi" that'd be more difficult to explain away.
It's a model that's pretty big in Korea right now, and has been for some time - I'm still surprised that MS haven't managed to get something like Pangya on XBox Live Marketplace yet.
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If you've got an Engineering qualification (I think a pure IT degree counts) getting in is a piece of piss - and I found Italy to be more homogenous when I lived there.
I thought he lived in Switzerland now, for tax reasons? Then again, he's a man with bad taste enough to tell his wife he was asking for a divorce by fax.
Thatcher REALLY pushed IT training in the early 80s (one of the very few things she did) - the difference in the level of IT knowledge in the UK and Japan - for instance - is amazing. We have a huge number of programmers, though that's going to drop off over the next few years it seems.
Spoken like someone who has never been to a pub in London...
When we had the Japanese census earlier this year, there was a reasonable amount of advertising to remind foreigners to fill one in. In the end, I never got a form - it's apparently pretty common that the poll-takers don't bother handing them out in the areas they are responsible for.
At the time of the last UK census, I was at university. They practically ordered everyone in halls to fill in the census they received, even if they weren't actually there that day (was this only my uni? who knows...) - so that census was automatically inaccurate. Well, the UK census was a bit of a clusterfuck really, huge parts of the population ignored it, and the (American-sourced) automatic reading technology couldn't automatically read the forms.
Well, a quick answer is that "the" is definitive, and there's far more than one university in the UK. As for myself, I'd say (to give where I went in full) "When I was at Strathclyde University", or "When I was at the University of Strathclyde" - so "when I was at Uni" could be taken as a short form of the first expression, not the second.
OK - we speak English, you speak American. Stop fucking using our name for your language. ("British English" implies that there's no difference in the language spoken by say, a Glaswegian and a Londoner. I can categorically assure you this is not true.)
Would it help to find out his birth name was "Krishna Bhanji"? There are a LOT of ethnic Indians in the UK - and not in the H1B sense either, fully settled-down families.
Tokyo Game Show isn't really an industry event, like E3 was. Also, it's been refocusing on mobile phone games and "the family" for the past few years.
Prey, at least, creates fucking HUGE save-games. If you've completed the game, you'll have ~500MB of autosave games alone in the save-game directory.
Admittedly the laws changed recently, but it used to be that it was totally OK to bring porn into the UK - as long as you could prove it was for your own use. Perhaps you just looked like the kind of guy who uses a LOT of porn?
Given how rare guns are in the UK, you'd assume a criminal with one would be out there commiting properly profitable crimes.
From my understanding, the big problem is that the Japanese branches were being mis-advised by their American staff at the American branches. "Oh no, American gamers would never like that" coming from 50-somethings who had probably never played a game before. It also took them a long time to realise that Americans and Europeans play different games - the earliest example I can think of of a game coming out in Europe and not America is "Vib Ribbon" (I'm ignoring Terranigma as that was refused a license in the US because it was felt the SNES was dead)
The EA Sports games that top the sales charts in Europe aren't the same that top the charts in the US - and plenty of Japanese games have done well in Europe. We Love Katamari is maybe the obvious exception of a game that failed, but things like Space Channel 5 or Shenmue (I'm reaching back a bit I'll admit) did far better in Europe than in any other territory. The Resident Evil games do well as well, and the Devil May Cry games. Or are you trying to claim that Madden is bigger in Europe? Music games even - Music games have been fairly sucessful in Europe for a long time, too. If you're going to quote sales, make sure you use the UK charts, as that's where more than 1/2 the games in Europe are sold. NFL topping the charts in, say, Finland means fuck-all in the scheme of things.
Incidentally - having read just read the article - the first analyst is a total tool. The problems MS are having in Japan have nothing to do with racism, and everything to do with the fact that the Japanese don't play the games that MS have been releasing over there. The launch line-up for the 360 was fucking depressing, for instance. They made the same mistake in Europe with the original XBox, which was made worse by the fact the price was way too high, and never really recovered from that.
The AC was pointing out that Europe - which MS does need, and indeed was expecting to win with the XBox - probably prefers Japanese games over American games, and THAT'S why MS needs Japanese developers. Actually, though, I'm curious as to why the AC claimed European game development was weak - the UK is pretty damn important as far as games dev goes - Number 3 after the US and Japan (Don't forget that GTA is a British game from a British studio. A lot of the PS3 footage has been British (or European) too - Heavenly Sword for instance)
Really? I come to /. for the dupes.
Surely "Optiplex" should be O******* ?
Most of those "freedoms" were set up by Chris Patton, at the end of British rule, chiefly to piss off the communists. It's not like the mainlanders WANTED "one country, two systems", it was something they had to take up to avoid killing off the goose that laid the golden eggs.
Most of those are unfilmable - Hyperion certainly is. It'd require a TV series - perhaps several seasons worth of TV series - to work.
Yes, but long-term suspension was ALSO science fiction in the 1930s.
It's a bit more complicated than that - the journalist worked for a paper that had - almost up until the moment war was declared - BEEN a big supporter of the Nazis. If he had called, say, a reporter from the Guardian a "Nazi" that'd be more difficult to explain away.
A lot of (most of?) the recent Sonic games were made in the US (Sonic Adventure 2 certainly was) - don't blame the Japanese.
It's a model that's pretty big in Korea right now, and has been for some time - I'm still surprised that MS haven't managed to get something like Pangya on XBox Live Marketplace yet.