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[cory1492]

2) If Asia is far behind in technology... can you explain why all the best gaming systems were designed in Japan? (Yes, the X-Box suxks *can't break foreign market*). I've seen tons of technology coming from China and Japan. lol The Japanese are basically 5-6 years more advanced than North America. It's all started off with Edward Deming. Do a google search and you'll see what I'm talking about.

Just to put a dumb little factoid out there (again), Japan started introducing HDTV's which could only get on air signals, with only 1hr/day of programming back in the 80's. NA networks squabbled the certifications into the late 90's because they didn't want to agree to a standard until they could plan out some way of either making it cost less (aka: get the government to pay for it) to implement hdtv signals, or essentially charge on a monthly basis for them in a staggered planned obsolescence scheme (hence all the different resolutions, and different decoder boxes from the cable companies as stv providers). No, I think Japan is a bit more ahead of the curve when it comes to tech simply because they aren't dominated strictly by over-greedy forms of capitalism...

What all this actually has to do with the topic though is beyond me. I'm just glad I had the opportunity to be able to import an R4 and knowing what I already know, I also have to wonder what else there could be hiding in some Chinese/Japanese shop that I never dreamed was available already, just not here (NA).

 

[cubin']

Hrmm stop getting your panties in a twist guys.

Australia does its fair share of crippling english too..there's all sorts of g'day mate type stuff around.

 

[cubin']

2) If Asia is far behind in technology... can you explain why all the best gaming systems were designed in Japan? (Yes, the X-Box suxks *can't break foreign market*). I've seen tons of technology coming from China and Japan. lol The Japanese are basically 5-6 years more advanced than North America. It's all started off with Edward Deming. Do a google search and you'll see what I'm talking about.

Japan is not 5-6 years ahead

Just because the xbox can't break the japanese market doesn't mean it sucks

the japanese tend to like gimmick type things and final fantasy, whatever consoles have final fantasy or a gimmick they will buy up in great numbers. they are quite strange consumers and seem to be influenced heavily in what is the 'cool' or 'in' thing at the time.

Are you one of those people that thinks japan is the best place in the world? perhaps you should go live there? It's a great country but not nearly as good as most the anime fans think it is.

this is way off topic so I'll stop now

one more thing:

Guess which game was the top of the japanese charts last week? "1) Halo 3 (360) 59,000 copies"
zomg it must be good! the japanese like it!

 

[Alastair]

Hrmm stop getting your panties in a twist guys.

Australia does its fair share of crippling english too..there's all sorts of g'day mate type stuff around.

No it doesn't. The only crippling in Australia is idiots that get flooded with American entertainment media. Fucks that walk around saying "October 9" and "ass" (some animal, genius).

G'day is an acceptable abbreviation/contraction. It's not doing anything dirty and under the table like Americans do.
Shan't is an acceptable contraction using real words (like g'day) but ain't is a fucking joke. They should be thrown in "jail" with "cell" phones (gaol and mobile for anyone interested in a clean language).

 

[joemommasfat]

G'day is an acceptable abbreviation/contraction. It's not doing anything dirty and under the table like Americans do.
Shan't is an acceptable contraction using real words (like g'day) but ain't is a fucking joke. They should be thrown in "jail" with "cell" phones (gaol and mobile for anyone interested in a clean language).

yeah yeah yeah,

The message you're sending is that anything you say is "an acceptable abbreviation", but words Americans say like jail and cell indicate an unclean language.
You will not find "G'day" in any dictionary.

And if you want people to think you are trying to make an intelligent argument, lay off the cursing. It's for frustrated and angry people, or those unable to otherwise articulate their thoughts.

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I HATE people who dismiss anything slightly foreign to them as unacceptable

 

[GameGeezer]

2) If Asia is far behind in technology... can you explain why all the best gaming systems were designed in Japan? (Yes, the X-Box suxks *can't break foreign market*). I've seen tons of technology coming from China and Japan. lol The Japanese are basically 5-6 years more advanced than North America. It's all started off with Edward Deming. Do a google search and you'll see what I'm talking about.

Be careful when you are quoting. The man's name was Dr. W. Edwards Deming. He ended up becoming an expert on quality processes and was in charge of infrastructure improvements in post WWII Japan.


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Alastair, it's apparent from your stereotypical description of North American English that you don't know very much about the people in the United States. Due to the diversity of cultures there are many English dialects in the United States; some which would be to your liking and others that you probably could not understand at all. TV and the internet cannot teach you much about a culture because the cultures depicted via those mediums are limited to those who choose to participate in them and what they choose to depict.

Do some traveling and expand your horizons.

 

[cubin']

Well said gamegeezer

most australians I know think the americans are war mongering workaholics that are very stupid. Most yanks think us aussies have kangaroos in our backyards and ride them to school, and we all act like the croc hunter. I've been to many countries and they are hardly ever how the stereotype makes them out to be. America is pretty much the same as Australia

ok enough offtopic I need to get work done...


there's lots more evil things in the world than slight differences in language. if you have time to complain about that sort of thing you must have things pretty easy..no offense meant of course

 

[Alastair]

yeah yeah yeah,

The message you're sending is that anything you say is "an acceptable abbreviation", but words Americans say like jail and cell indicate an unclean language.
You will not find "G'day" in any dictionary.

And if you want people to think you are trying to make an intelligent argument, lay off the cursing. It's for frustrated and angry people, or those unable to otherwise articulate their thoughts.

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I HATE people who dismiss anything slightly foreign to them as unacceptable

Something being in the dictionary does not make it proper. I love the Oxford English Dictionary yet you'd be able to find all of your words with made-up spellings in there. Cursing? Fair enough. I'll put away the ritual books - for now.

I LOVE lots of foreign things, just not wrong things.

Alastair, it's apparent from your stereotypical description of North American English that you don't know very much about the people in the United States. Due to the diversity of cultures there are many English dialects in the United States; some which would be to your liking and others that you probably could not understand at all. TV and the internet cannot teach you much about a culture because the cultures depicted via those mediums are limited to those who choose to participate in them and what they choose to depict.

Do some traveling and expand your horizons.

I live on the western coast of the United States of America.

I've not set foot in the majority of even the states in the US, but I've found nothing about a dialect that's close to my liking in this country apart from some fellow permanent resident English speakers (English and Australians).

Edit: Actually, I've found that the Negroes are the ones int his country that speak English most closely to the correct way but their G droppin' in some places is wild. Something bizarre I didn't know about Americans until coming here: a good number of them add G's onto the ends of words with "ng" edings e.g. run-ing-g. I'm not lying'g about that either.

QUOTE(cubin' @ Oct 9 2007, 09:43 PM)Well said gamegeezer

most australians I know think the americans are war mongering workaholics that are very stupid. Most yanks think us aussies have kangaroos in our backyards and ride them to school, and we all act like the croc hunter. I've been to many countries and they are hardly ever how the stereotype makes them out to be. America is pretty much the same as Australia

ok enough offtopic I need to get work done...


there's lots more evil things in the world than slight differences in language. if you have time to complain about that sort of thing you must have things pretty easy..no offense meant of course

In my experience they're not war-mongerers (although the polys are another story) and they're definitely not workaholics - I'm glad I'm getting a degree here and not back home.

This country is NOT pretty much the same as Australia.
There certainly are greater evils than the defacation of language. One of my largest dislikes is the ritual mutilation of the majority of American new-borns. My time spent complaining is my choice and is fairly irrelevant to my opinions on language/the US.

Being from Australia it's highly unlikely that I'll be scraping by trying to find food every day or whatever misfortune I could ahve that'd make my argument more credible.

I hope you're stirring me up with the S in offence.

Sorry to drag a few people off-topic.

 

[Doggy124]

How can this topic change from "R4 update" to "Language battle" ???

 

[Lukeage]

2) If Asia is far behind in technology... can you explain why all the best gaming systems were designed in Japan? (Yes, the X-Box suxks *can't break foreign market*). I've seen tons of technology coming from China and Japan. lol The Japanese are basically 5-6 years more advanced than North America. It's all started off with Edward Deming. Do a google search and you'll see what I'm talking about.
Just to put a dumb little factoid out there (again), Japan started introducing HDTV's which could only get on air signals, with only 1hr/day of programming back in the 80's. NA networks squabbled the certifications into the late 90's because they didn't want to agree to a standard until they could plan out some way of either making it cost less (aka: get the government to pay for it) to implement hdtv signals, or essentially charge on a monthly basis for them in a staggered planned obsolescence scheme (hence all the different resolutions, and different decoder boxes from the cable companies as stv providers). No, I think Japan is a bit more ahead of the curve when it comes to tech simply because they aren't dominated strictly by over-greedy forms of capitalism...

What all this actually has to do with the topic though is beyond me. I'm just glad I had the opportunity to be able to import an R4 and knowing what I already know, I also have to wonder what else there could be hiding in some Chinese/Japanese shop that I never dreamed was available already, just not here (NA).

I know it is offtopic, but I'd like to point out that the first commercial HDTV was actually developed by NHK (one of Japans biggest broadcasters, possibly the biggest) in 1969. And if you really want to add insult to injury, the Russians had a military designed HDTV in the late 50s.

 

[Alastair]

How can this topic change from "R4 update" to "Language battle" ???

Argumentative people being unable to resist retorts. Guilty.

 

[silverspoon]

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[MrKuenning]

I've found that the Negroes are the ones int his country that speak English most closely to the correct way

I have lived on the US east coast, west coast, and currently in alaska. I have also lived in New Zealand, Australia, and Visited England.

I would agree that there are MANY diffrent sounds to English. I also agree that some I like and some I don't.


But how in the world can you claim that one english is right and the rest are wrong?

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[Jdbye]

Awesome, been waiting for Wii-DS connectivity for ages!
And if the SDHC support turns out to be true, that's great news, because I have to delete a game every time I add a new one, and I really don't have any bad games left on my MicroSD that I can just delete.

 

[Hiratai]

I've found that the Negroes are the ones int his country that speak English most closely to the correct way

I have lived on the US east coast, west coast, and currently in alaska. I have also lived in New Zealand, Australia, and Visited England.

I would agree that there are MANY diffrent sounds to English. I also agree that some I like and some I don't.


But how in the world can you claim that one english is right and the rest are wrong?

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By knowing the facts? We ALL know that British English is the original and superior English language.

 

[.::5pYd3r::.]

Hang on, isn't this topic about the new R4 kernel?

 

[shaunj66]

Alright guys shut up about languages now. Back on topic.

Any more off topic posts will find the poster getting a 24hr suspension, warning and their post(s) trashed.

 

[silverspoon]

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[Jeromel]

2) If Asia is far behind in technology... can you explain why all the best gaming systems were designed in Japan? (Yes, the X-Box suxks *can't break foreign market*). I've seen tons of technology coming from China and Japan. lol The Japanese are basically 5-6 years more advanced than North America. It's all started off with Edward Deming. Do a google search and you'll see what I'm talking about.

Be careful when you are quoting. The man's name was Dr. W. Edwards Deming. He ended up becoming an expert on quality processes and was in charge of infrastructure improvements in post WWII Japan.

Bingo, that was the turning point of Japan's placement in the industrial revolution, which includes their technology.

 

[Jeromel]

2)  If Asia is far behind in technology... can you explain why all the best gaming systems were designed in Japan?  (Yes, the X-Box suxks *can't break foreign market*).  I've seen tons of technology coming from China and Japan.  lol  The Japanese are basically 5-6 years more advanced than North America.  It's all started off with Edward Deming.  Do a google search and you'll see what I'm talking about.



Japan is not 5-6 years ahead

Just because the xbox can't break the japanese market doesn't mean it sucks

the japanese tend to like gimmick type things and final fantasy, whatever consoles have final fantasy or a gimmick they will buy up in great numbers. they are quite strange consumers and seem to be influenced heavily in what is the 'cool' or 'in' thing at the time.

Are you one of those people that thinks japan is the best place in the world? perhaps you should go live there? It's a great country but not nearly as good as most the anime fans think it is.

this is way off topic so I'll stop now

one more thing:

Guess which game was the top of the japanese charts last week? "1) Halo 3 (360) 59,000 copies"
zomg it must be good! the japanese like it!

LOL dude, you really haven't been there nor seen any of the things they have, have you? BTW, MS has been known to skew numbers too (mind you, not as badly and obvious as Sony). LOL