Chinese arn't exporting themselves? look at all the Chinese immigrants and china towns in NA... keep in mind that a large percent of the chinese population are still in poverty and can't afford to leave the country. most people in China would die to go to North America, but America and Canada only allows so many immigrants each year and they only pick the ones that qualify. (unless you are talking about refugees, that would be a different story). plus most countries in Europe doesn't even allow permenant citizenship to Chinese. even if the Chinese want to get out but they can't.
the reason learning Chinese is a "fad" right now is because of the business oppertunities there. 20 year ago the people who learned japanese had the oppertunity to profit big from the growing econemy there. the same applies for China, the business oppertunities you get if you can speak chinese is huge. a few friends of mine who can speak fluid Chinese were transfered by their company to China with a high pay. there is more sense learning chinese presently because it's econemy is growing there.
does this mean that Nintendo, Sony, or any other anti-M$ people can just go and buy 100 xbox 360 without any games to worsen the sales?
i also find it sad that the xbox 360 did not come out with a killer game that makes everyone want to have it (like halo) it would suite their business model.
umm... wrong topic?
as for the article, im glad Darwania is using steam. i dont really like steam since they never bothered helping me when my cdkey got stolen, but still, Darwania is a game that deserves a bit more than what it got. steam would help it's sales and popularity.
for a second there i thought CS ment Counter Strike... i need a life...
anyways playing games definitly made me and a few buddies of mine take interest in computer programing, but once you start you realize its not as fun as you thought it would be and hard work is required, then alot of people back out. so computer science kind of gives the illusion of a easy and profitable occupation but is actualy really hard.
omg read the part about half life 2 just gave me goosepumps..
uh.. remember back when you were trapped in the forgotten city full of zombies jumping roof to roof pumping up and slashing at you... then the guy setting himself on fire to kill all the zombies... god..
IMO, games are alot scarrier if it provide you with breaks. for games like Doom 3 and FEAR, i found it very scary the first hour of game time, then it just became like "o yea, im going to turn this corner, and 10 [insert scary monster name] is going to pop out and there is going to be freaky music etc etc. so it wasn't scary anymore because i was expecting something to pop out around every corner.
wow.. having born and lived in China i know what this means for google.. profit..
you have to understand that it's not impossible for people to get books or other literature restricted by the goverment. before the internet, the CCP would put restriction on a book (a banned book in other words) and the next day there will be millions of people wanting to read that book, regardless of if it's good or not.
when CCP put restrictions on the internet, there was no way around that for a normal person.
another thing i have to mention is that the Chinese search engine is http://baidu.com/ everyone in China uses it like us using google. google is not popular there compared to BaiDu.
so with this uncensor, there will be millions of chinese flowing to google in order to read uncensored information on the internet. and since google is not a Chinese businese (unlike BaiDu) the CCP can't do anything about it. so google's influence in China will finaly increase...
all i can do is applaud google's business tactics... wow.../offtopic/rant
as far as the "evil communists" goes, it's not all evil. the person over threw the Qing Dynasty, and made China democracy country, Sun yat-sen, was the leader of china when he wanted to have 2 kinds of goverment parties. one is democracy and one is communism. he believed that people should have freedom but not complete freedom because that would cause alot of problems. thats how the communist party came into power, before that they were a tiny little political party that had no power.
when Sun yat-sun died he gave the position of president to Shiang Kai-shek (as you can see China wasn't completly democracy back then, probably because a voting would have caused too much trouble in a already poor country and some people doesn't even know who was their leader and stuff) and Shiang kai-shek hated the Communitst. he ordered secret assasination of communist party members which furthur worsen the relationship of the 2 parties. so the communist party members basicly said "why are we waiting to be assasinated? why dont we just rebel?" so thats how they started the war and then the japanese started attacking china and the rest is history. so as you can see, the communist struggle to power was hard and when they were finaly in power, there were still lots of pro-democracy people around and letting the democracy party people having a taste of their own medicine, they started torturing the democracy party people and murdered lots of innocent people, because they came to power because the KMT gave them power, they learned the lesson of the KMT and never gave any other part in China significant power, just to establish themselves as the official goverment in the people's eyes. Shiang Kai-shek escaped to Taiwan and established his own democracy goverment there (and i should metion that he purged all of his old KMT party members form mainland) , and later died and the presidency to his son (not as democracy as he say he is:P ).
if Shiang Kai-shek didn't decide to assasinate the communist party members we might actualy see an example of a democracy goverment AND a communist goverment co-exist and govern on country together. where the people have freedom, but not too much that it endangers the country's existance./end rant
one thing that worries me is that they are releasing Ghost, on the XBOX, NEXT YEAR! that time is when the next-gen consoles are hyped the most, no one is going to pay attention to a non-next-gen game unless they know what they are looking for. i heard a back a month ago that Blizz was hire next-gen graphic designers and there was rumour about Ghost being released on XBOX 360, that would have made more sense and would put Ghost up on the par next year with all the new next-gen titles. but then Blizzard can also design the game so well that people would actualy buy it and play it on their XBOX 360 with the back-wards compatible feature... but thats not likely because everyone will probably get hyped up about the new games with awsome graphics and stuff...
but then again, im a PC gamer... so i'd probably have to go to a friend's house to play it >.> i wanted to cry when they said Ghost was strickly for Consoles O N L Y >.
'Any robot could rebel, from a toaster to a Terminator, and so it is crucial to learn the strengths and weaknesses of every robot enemy.'
should be "from paper clips to a Terminator" my microsoft word paper clip has already taken over every piece of writing i wrote in word >.>
constant maintence would be needed to maintain a good database for this translator, or else the 70s slangs would be coming out of the other guys mouth.
it would be much easier to LEARN a language at a young age, then you dont have to worry about "are they understanding what im saying right now?" when you use one of those high-tech translators:D
when i moved into my new house i thought it was haunted >.
whenever i go upstairs and turn in a 90 degree angle into the bed room, i can see in the corner of my eyes a shadow going up the stairs. it's so freaky and i can see it all the time.
after a while nothing happend and i think it is just a optical illusion than a ghost because it only happens at the stair case when i turn a certain way. but the experience was frightening the first time.
that was my one and only (fortunately) "ghost" encounter.
i laughed at the last part of the article, so many people hate M$ lol...
i wonder how much help the students recieved... i mean.. it's rocket science and some countries hasn't even done it yet.. now a bunch of russian students made their own? wow!
i was a gm for a WoW server at the begining of this year, and i was able to teleport to every inch of the map. everything you see in the game trailer was already in the game by then. the warp gate, the weird area with trees and red rays (and one of those sand timers, but you dont see that in the trailer) this makes me think that most of the content was already there since the game release... blizz you greedy bastard:P lol
the more they want to prevent us from playing the game the more we want to play it, it's human nature. like Seifeld said once "if woman covered their heads (instead of breasts) we would be going down the street to pick up the latest edition of Heads" it's human nature to want what we can't get.
Arnold Schwarzenegger was in some of the most violent movies... god knows how many kids watched those when they were underage. now hes trying to stop kids from playing violent games? how about making them stop watching those more graphical and violent movies he produced?
I still can't believe that EA is still so popular... just look at B&W2, they gave the CE of the game a tiger pet, only unlockable if you bought the CE version, then EA goes and puts the unlocker on their site...
as for the article, why is he complaining when (i assume) EA is paying him? if the game sells well he probably gets more money, using his name to advertise the game is only going to make the game more popular therefor more profit for both he and EA..
yes i beat the game, my creature was at the max height.
i knew that i could edit it somewhere, thanks for pointing out that link, but we shouldn't have to do this. i feel like i was cheated by Lionhead because i never saw any epic battles like the ones on the cover of the game box.
i honestly hope that this wouldn't happen.
if everyone (or the majority of us) lived for a 1000 years or more, then Earth will be too crowded to be lived on. more people means more arguements, which would mostly likely lead to war. and the value of life would decrease since there are so many people (just look at china right now, imediate death penalty for drug dealers and smugglers)
I wouldn't want to live in a world like that.
what always struck me as odd was that there arn't many good games released in July and August. in the last summer, around august there were no big game releases. the nearest one was Fable The Lost Chapters which was in september.
spamming game ads to the consumers around Christmas will only tighten the competition, releaseing at a time of the year where there are no other games released gives the consumer a less viriaty of games to choose from which gives you a higher chance of being bought by the consumers:D... PROFIT!
one thing bad about the game, is that the creatures arn't as big as advertised. sure in screenshots you see the HUGE creature basing armies and walls, but thats when you zoom in COMPLETELY. the creature looks so small when you are actualy playing the game.
and why would i make army when my creature can kill 10 platoons with the help of a few maricles?
i think it's all a matter of comprehension.
like that story about Sun Tzu when he visited his 80 year-old master, the mast showed Sun Tzu his mouth, which had no teeth left, but had a working tongue. Sun Tzu understood and left, while his students were wondering what the lesson was about.
some people can learn from video games, doesn't matter if it's history or co-operation skills. but some people just play the game and does not relate it to real life.
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Chinese arn't exporting themselves? look at all the Chinese immigrants and china towns in NA... keep in mind that a large percent of the chinese population are still in poverty and can't afford to leave the country. most people in China would die to go to North America, but America and Canada only allows so many immigrants each year and they only pick the ones that qualify. (unless you are talking about refugees, that would be a different story). plus most countries in Europe doesn't even allow permenant citizenship to Chinese. even if the Chinese want to get out but they can't. the reason learning Chinese is a "fad" right now is because of the business oppertunities there. 20 year ago the people who learned japanese had the oppertunity to profit big from the growing econemy there. the same applies for China, the business oppertunities you get if you can speak chinese is huge. a few friends of mine who can speak fluid Chinese were transfered by their company to China with a high pay. there is more sense learning chinese presently because it's econemy is growing there.
does this mean that Nintendo, Sony, or any other anti-M$ people can just go and buy 100 xbox 360 without any games to worsen the sales? i also find it sad that the xbox 360 did not come out with a killer game that makes everyone want to have it (like halo) it would suite their business model.
umm... wrong topic? as for the article, im glad Darwania is using steam. i dont really like steam since they never bothered helping me when my cdkey got stolen, but still, Darwania is a game that deserves a bit more than what it got. steam would help it's sales and popularity.
by the time this computer is finaly made, we would all have our fingerprints as the password.
for a second there i thought CS ment Counter Strike... i need a life... anyways playing games definitly made me and a few buddies of mine take interest in computer programing, but once you start you realize its not as fun as you thought it would be and hard work is required, then alot of people back out. so computer science kind of gives the illusion of a easy and profitable occupation but is actualy really hard.
omg read the part about half life 2 just gave me goosepumps.. uh.. remember back when you were trapped in the forgotten city full of zombies jumping roof to roof pumping up and slashing at you... then the guy setting himself on fire to kill all the zombies... god.. IMO, games are alot scarrier if it provide you with breaks. for games like Doom 3 and FEAR, i found it very scary the first hour of game time, then it just became like "o yea, im going to turn this corner, and 10 [insert scary monster name] is going to pop out and there is going to be freaky music etc etc. so it wasn't scary anymore because i was expecting something to pop out around every corner.
wow.. having born and lived in China i know what this means for google.. profit.. you have to understand that it's not impossible for people to get books or other literature restricted by the goverment. before the internet, the CCP would put restriction on a book (a banned book in other words) and the next day there will be millions of people wanting to read that book, regardless of if it's good or not. when CCP put restrictions on the internet, there was no way around that for a normal person. another thing i have to mention is that the Chinese search engine is http://baidu.com/ everyone in China uses it like us using google. google is not popular there compared to BaiDu. so with this uncensor, there will be millions of chinese flowing to google in order to read uncensored information on the internet. and since google is not a Chinese businese (unlike BaiDu) the CCP can't do anything about it. so google's influence in China will finaly increase... all i can do is applaud google's business tactics... wow... /offtopic/rant
as far as the "evil communists" goes, it's not all evil. the person over threw the Qing Dynasty, and made China democracy country, Sun yat-sen, was the leader of china when he wanted to have 2 kinds of goverment parties. one is democracy and one is communism. he believed that people should have freedom but not complete freedom because that would cause alot of problems. thats how the communist party came into power, before that they were a tiny little political party that had no power.
when Sun yat-sun died he gave the position of president to Shiang Kai-shek (as you can see China wasn't completly democracy back then, probably because a voting would have caused too much trouble in a already poor country and some people doesn't even know who was their leader and stuff) and Shiang kai-shek hated the Communitst. he ordered secret assasination of communist party members which furthur worsen the relationship of the 2 parties. so the communist party members basicly said "why are we waiting to be assasinated? why dont we just rebel?" so thats how they started the war and then the japanese started attacking china and the rest is history. so as you can see, the communist struggle to power was hard and when they were finaly in power, there were still lots of pro-democracy people around and letting the democracy party people having a taste of their own medicine, they started torturing the democracy party people and murdered lots of innocent people, because they came to power because the KMT gave them power, they learned the lesson of the KMT and never gave any other part in China significant power, just to establish themselves as the official goverment in the people's eyes. Shiang Kai-shek escaped to Taiwan and established his own democracy goverment there (and i should metion that he purged all of his old KMT party members form mainland) , and later died and the presidency to his son (not as democracy as he say he is :P ).
if Shiang Kai-shek didn't decide to assasinate the communist party members we might actualy see an example of a democracy goverment AND a communist goverment co-exist and govern on country together. where the people have freedom, but not too much that it endangers the country's existance. /end rant
one thing that worries me is that they are releasing Ghost, on the XBOX, NEXT YEAR! that time is when the next-gen consoles are hyped the most, no one is going to pay attention to a non-next-gen game unless they know what they are looking for. i heard a back a month ago that Blizz was hire next-gen graphic designers and there was rumour about Ghost being released on XBOX 360, that would have made more sense and would put Ghost up on the par next year with all the new next-gen titles. but then Blizzard can also design the game so well that people would actualy buy it and play it on their XBOX 360 with the back-wards compatible feature... but thats not likely because everyone will probably get hyped up about the new games with awsome graphics and stuff... but then again, im a PC gamer... so i'd probably have to go to a friend's house to play it >.> i wanted to cry when they said Ghost was strickly for Consoles O N L Y >.
'Any robot could rebel, from a toaster to a Terminator, and so it is crucial to learn the strengths and weaknesses of every robot enemy.' should be "from paper clips to a Terminator" my microsoft word paper clip has already taken over every piece of writing i wrote in word >.>
constant maintence would be needed to maintain a good database for this translator, or else the 70s slangs would be coming out of the other guys mouth. it would be much easier to LEARN a language at a young age, then you dont have to worry about "are they understanding what im saying right now?" when you use one of those high-tech translators :D
when i moved into my new house i thought it was haunted >. whenever i go upstairs and turn in a 90 degree angle into the bed room, i can see in the corner of my eyes a shadow going up the stairs. it's so freaky and i can see it all the time. after a while nothing happend and i think it is just a optical illusion than a ghost because it only happens at the stair case when i turn a certain way. but the experience was frightening the first time. that was my one and only (fortunately) "ghost" encounter. i laughed at the last part of the article, so many people hate M$ lol...
i wonder how much help the students recieved... i mean.. it's rocket science and some countries hasn't even done it yet.. now a bunch of russian students made their own? wow!
i was a gm for a WoW server at the begining of this year, and i was able to teleport to every inch of the map. everything you see in the game trailer was already in the game by then. the warp gate, the weird area with trees and red rays (and one of those sand timers, but you dont see that in the trailer) this makes me think that most of the content was already there since the game release... blizz you greedy bastard :P lol
the more they want to prevent us from playing the game the more we want to play it, it's human nature. like Seifeld said once "if woman covered their heads (instead of breasts) we would be going down the street to pick up the latest edition of Heads" it's human nature to want what we can't get.
why dont they improve the microsoft support search engine so i actualy get results for what i want?
does that mean my X-Wing is going to be ready soon?
Arnold Schwarzenegger was in some of the most violent movies... god knows how many kids watched those when they were underage. now hes trying to stop kids from playing violent games? how about making them stop watching those more graphical and violent movies he produced?
I still can't believe that EA is still so popular... just look at B&W2, they gave the CE of the game a tiger pet, only unlockable if you bought the CE version, then EA goes and puts the unlocker on their site... as for the article, why is he complaining when (i assume) EA is paying him? if the game sells well he probably gets more money, using his name to advertise the game is only going to make the game more popular therefor more profit for both he and EA..
yes i beat the game, my creature was at the max height. i knew that i could edit it somewhere, thanks for pointing out that link, but we shouldn't have to do this. i feel like i was cheated by Lionhead because i never saw any epic battles like the ones on the cover of the game box.
i honestly hope that this wouldn't happen. if everyone (or the majority of us) lived for a 1000 years or more, then Earth will be too crowded to be lived on. more people means more arguements, which would mostly likely lead to war. and the value of life would decrease since there are so many people (just look at china right now, imediate death penalty for drug dealers and smugglers) I wouldn't want to live in a world like that.
what always struck me as odd was that there arn't many good games released in July and August. in the last summer, around august there were no big game releases. the nearest one was Fable The Lost Chapters which was in september. spamming game ads to the consumers around Christmas will only tighten the competition, releaseing at a time of the year where there are no other games released gives the consumer a less viriaty of games to choose from which gives you a higher chance of being bought by the consumers :D ... PROFIT!
one thing bad about the game, is that the creatures arn't as big as advertised. sure in screenshots you see the HUGE creature basing armies and walls, but thats when you zoom in COMPLETELY. the creature looks so small when you are actualy playing the game. and why would i make army when my creature can kill 10 platoons with the help of a few maricles?
i think it's all a matter of comprehension. like that story about Sun Tzu when he visited his 80 year-old master, the mast showed Sun Tzu his mouth, which had no teeth left, but had a working tongue. Sun Tzu understood and left, while his students were wondering what the lesson was about. some people can learn from video games, doesn't matter if it's history or co-operation skills. but some people just play the game and does not relate it to real life.