not to mention I suspect that's a TERRIBLE translation. if they wrote "Choice shite" or "Choice wo shite" then that COULD be translated as "Choice, Do" but only if you were an idiot.... or maybe if you looked up each word seperately in a dictionary and didn't take grammar into account.
On the other hand, since most Japanese people don't really speak english that well they could probably use that english slogan and sell it just fine. If I string together a whole bunch of japanese words and make them sound cutsey and cool, I bet I could sell something to most americans regardless of whether or not the real meaning of the words was "Stuffs Stuffs buy it yay!" or not
Er hopefully thats only "if you get married AND have kids" not if you get married OR have kids... I don't think your spouse would particularly like the insinuation that all he/she ever watches is disney.
I'm not married and I don't have kids and I *still* don't have 90 minutes a day to watch a dvd, unless I start cutting all the other activities out of my life, or I get fired from my job or something.
Watching dvds shouldn't be a CHORE though, which is what it ends up being using that system. Its like, what do I have to do today? Walk the dog, feed the cats, evening call with India, watch my dvds so I can return them. Dvds are supposed to be entertainment, not part of your daily laundry list.
even non-luxury brands like The Gap are super popular there. So popular in fact that they have their own cheaper version of The Gap that sells cheap knock off styles. There's a big market for foreign goods there as long as there is some kind of IMAGE associated with it. Japaense people are very image conscious and I think that more than anything apple sells their image really well. I was in Japan when Apple was bombarding it with ipod ads. The entire harajuku train station and the whole yamanote line was a series of ipod ads and familiarity does breed good feelings = people buy it = all the cool kids have one = you have to get one too.
i always THOUGHT my first computer was an Apple IIc but it was NOT portable so obviously it wasn't. I was like 6 though (a lot of things aren't portable when you're six) and my dad got it at a garage sale or something. Maybe it was an Apple IIe? I remember playing with an educational apple a few years later in school and thinking "hey this is similar the computer I had when I was 6!"
My mom was very against video games (I wasn't allowed to watch TV either) but she allowed me to have the computer so I could practice my typing. BUT I had my little case full of floppy discs on the desk next to it, and so I could keep the copy of pac man that had snuck in there hidden from her. I played pac man for hours. A lot more than I practiced typing anyway.
I really did LOVE B5, my mom and my sister and I all used to watch it religiously together. But I'm not sure why this deserves a book review.... Either you want to read the scripts or you don't.
Isn't denial a sign of addiction? :p
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Some of you are AWFULLY defensive about all this. To me, when someone refers to an internet addiction, its not the amount of time spent on the internet, its the COMPULSION to be on the internet.
I'll give an example which neatly ties in a whine:
My boyfriend wakes up in the morning and heads straight for the computer. He literally cannot stop himself. Even if he oversleeps and is really late for work, he'll get up and check to see what messages he's gotten overnight, look at/., read certain webcomics, etc etc. Despite the fact that he could easily check those things AT work. He can't help himself. In recent months, since WoW came out, he replaced his old routine with the auction house. It doesn't matter what he has schedule for that day, or how late he is, he HAS to log on and check out his auctions/start new ones every single goddamn morning. To me, that is proof positive of an addiction. Its not something that a psychiatrist makes up. Its a NEED to be online. Its not even about the amount of time he spends online, its about the compulsion. He literally CAN'T go a day without internet. He HAS to check it in the morning, and the instant he gets home he's back on the computer. If i keep him out ofthe house or something all day, he starts to get upset and anxious as it gets later and later, at some point he'll cite exhaustion and say he wants to go home and go to bed. So home we go and bam, instantly on the internet.
So you can all stop telling me that there's no such thing as an internet addiction.
its not once or twice, its 3 or 4 times a week. If the other party is local, the response varies. If theyre in the office or the same complex, anywhere from instantaneous responses to a couple of hours. At a nearby office, it could be instantaneous or maybe a full day. But to india, it means 8 hours where you can't even TALK to them. at least if its local, you can inform people of your question or concern right away, and they can get to you asap. If you go around to hte other side of the world, there is an inevitable delay.
I don't mind the politeness, its campy when overdone but Americans could do with a little more of it. What I do mind is shoddy work and slow response time. my department has an India team, and although we like the people just fine, it really wears our team down. A lot of people have to stay up on calls to India in order to pass the ball, which means starting a call at 9:30 pm (first thing in the morning over there) and hoping it doesn't last more than an hour. Sometimes the meetings go til much later. It also means that if you're waiting on the india team for something, you have to wait until the next day to get answers. And vice versa of course, so if you send something over on monday, you won't get a response til tuesday, and then you'll send answers to any questions they have tuesday, and they won't get them til wed. Its not quite that loose but it does waste a lot of time because of the vastly different time tables, and I've heard people complain that the quality of work just isn't as good. Another problem is that there are TONS of coders, but few analysts in India, and the few analysts can ask for fairly massive salaries (the equivalent of 4000 US a month is what the ones we interviewed were asking for). Might as well hire someone stateside at those prices. Even if you have to pay more for hte developers, it would improve efficiency and keep your own team from running htemselves ragged with late night phone calls 3x a week.
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not to mention I suspect that's a TERRIBLE translation. if they wrote "Choice shite" or "Choice wo shite" then that COULD be translated as "Choice, Do" but only if you were an idiot .... or maybe if you looked up each word seperately in a dictionary and didn't take grammar into account.
On the other hand, since most Japanese people don't really speak english that well they could probably use that english slogan and sell it just fine. If I string together a whole bunch of japanese words and make them sound cutsey and cool, I bet I could sell something to most americans regardless of whether or not the real meaning of the words was "Stuffs Stuffs buy it yay!" or not
Er hopefully thats only "if you get married AND have kids" not if you get married OR have kids... I don't think your spouse would particularly like the insinuation that all he/she ever watches is disney. I'm not married and I don't have kids and I *still* don't have 90 minutes a day to watch a dvd, unless I start cutting all the other activities out of my life, or I get fired from my job or something.
Watching dvds shouldn't be a CHORE though, which is what it ends up being using that system. Its like, what do I have to do today? Walk the dog, feed the cats, evening call with India, watch my dvds so I can return them. Dvds are supposed to be entertainment, not part of your daily laundry list.
even non-luxury brands like The Gap are super popular there. So popular in fact that they have their own cheaper version of The Gap that sells cheap knock off styles. There's a big market for foreign goods there as long as there is some kind of IMAGE associated with it. Japaense people are very image conscious and I think that more than anything apple sells their image really well. I was in Japan when Apple was bombarding it with ipod ads. The entire harajuku train station and the whole yamanote line was a series of ipod ads and familiarity does breed good feelings = people buy it = all the cool kids have one = you have to get one too.
i always THOUGHT my first computer was an Apple IIc but it was NOT portable so obviously it wasn't. I was like 6 though (a lot of things aren't portable when you're six) and my dad got it at a garage sale or something. Maybe it was an Apple IIe? I remember playing with an educational apple a few years later in school and thinking "hey this is similar the computer I had when I was 6!" My mom was very against video games (I wasn't allowed to watch TV either) but she allowed me to have the computer so I could practice my typing. BUT I had my little case full of floppy discs on the desk next to it, and so I could keep the copy of pac man that had snuck in there hidden from her. I played pac man for hours. A lot more than I practiced typing anyway.
I really did LOVE B5, my mom and my sister and I all used to watch it religiously together. But I'm not sure why this deserves a book review.... Either you want to read the scripts or you don't.
Some of you are AWFULLY defensive about all this. To me, when someone refers to an internet addiction, its not the amount of time spent on the internet, its the COMPULSION to be on the internet. I'll give an example which neatly ties in a whine: My boyfriend wakes up in the morning and heads straight for the computer. He literally cannot stop himself. Even if he oversleeps and is really late for work, he'll get up and check to see what messages he's gotten overnight, look at /., read certain webcomics, etc etc. Despite the fact that he could easily check those things AT work. He can't help himself. In recent months, since WoW came out, he replaced his old routine with the auction house. It doesn't matter what he has schedule for that day, or how late he is, he HAS to log on and check out his auctions/start new ones every single goddamn morning. To me, that is proof positive of an addiction. Its not something that a psychiatrist makes up. Its a NEED to be online. Its not even about the amount of time he spends online, its about the compulsion. He literally CAN'T go a day without internet. He HAS to check it in the morning, and the instant he gets home he's back on the computer. If i keep him out ofthe house or something all day, he starts to get upset and anxious as it gets later and later, at some point he'll cite exhaustion and say he wants to go home and go to bed. So home we go and bam, instantly on the internet.
So you can all stop telling me that there's no such thing as an internet addiction.
This says everything I wanted to say much more succintly than I would have managed. Bravo.
its not once or twice, its 3 or 4 times a week. If the other party is local, the response varies. If theyre in the office or the same complex, anywhere from instantaneous responses to a couple of hours. At a nearby office, it could be instantaneous or maybe a full day. But to india, it means 8 hours where you can't even TALK to them. at least if its local, you can inform people of your question or concern right away, and they can get to you asap. If you go around to hte other side of the world, there is an inevitable delay.
I don't mind the politeness, its campy when overdone but Americans could do with a little more of it. What I do mind is shoddy work and slow response time. my department has an India team, and although we like the people just fine, it really wears our team down. A lot of people have to stay up on calls to India in order to pass the ball, which means starting a call at 9:30 pm (first thing in the morning over there) and hoping it doesn't last more than an hour. Sometimes the meetings go til much later. It also means that if you're waiting on the india team for something, you have to wait until the next day to get answers. And vice versa of course, so if you send something over on monday, you won't get a response til tuesday, and then you'll send answers to any questions they have tuesday, and they won't get them til wed. Its not quite that loose but it does waste a lot of time because of the vastly different time tables, and I've heard people complain that the quality of work just isn't as good. Another problem is that there are TONS of coders, but few analysts in India, and the few analysts can ask for fairly massive salaries (the equivalent of 4000 US a month is what the ones we interviewed were asking for). Might as well hire someone stateside at those prices. Even if you have to pay more for hte developers, it would improve efficiency and keep your own team from running htemselves ragged with late night phone calls 3x a week.