Comments for Taikongren's Advice http://taikongren.net Fri, 22 Apr 2011 09:14:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2-alpha Comment on My First Game Experience in China by Jesse Covner http://taikongren.net/blog/2011/04/20/my-first-game-experience-in-china/comment-page-1/#comment-283 Jesse Covner Fri, 22 Apr 2011 09:14:46 +0000 http://taikongren.net/?p=627#comment-283 Yeah! The old gang! Thank you for commenting. Freeman...you ever play 三国沙? That's a "party" game. Extremely popular. I hope to beat it with our new game for China. Yeah! The old gang!

Thank you for commenting.

Freeman…you ever play 三国沙? That’s a “party” game. Extremely popular. I hope to beat it with our new game for China.

]]> Comment on My First Game Experience in China by Lu Siming http://taikongren.net/blog/2011/04/20/my-first-game-experience-in-china/comment-page-1/#comment-282 Lu Siming Fri, 22 Apr 2011 07:16:26 +0000 http://taikongren.net/?p=627#comment-282 Interesting new start and congratulations! Can’t agree with your analysis any more. You may find more evidence from the most popular Chinese board game (sort of): Majiang. Gambling and uncertainty contributes more fun than purely intellectual competition. Interesting new start and congratulations!

Can’t agree with your analysis any more. You may find more evidence from the most popular Chinese board game (sort of): Majiang. Gambling and uncertainty contributes more fun than purely intellectual competition.

]]> Comment on My First Game Experience in China by John http://taikongren.net/blog/2011/04/20/my-first-game-experience-in-china/comment-page-1/#comment-281 John Thu, 21 Apr 2011 13:15:26 +0000 http://taikongren.net/?p=627#comment-281 I love that PK is a big thing. I also like that the term PK is used in everday Chinglish with zero understanding of "Player Killer" as a game term. I went through college with an infamous PKer friend on ultima online who was so famous for PK that after he killed Richard Garriot (Lord British) in game (a feat that was meant to be impossible) the El Lootre was established in UO lore as the PK bas***d of all time. In China my favorite PK game has to be "Night of the Mafia" or killer game here. The Cantonese have parlours for it and have created numerous variations and gladly murder their friends and accuse them of murder. Stealing property may not be very culturally appropriate but in these parts people love a good gangland killing... I love that PK is a big thing. I also like that the term PK is used in everday Chinglish with zero understanding of “Player Killer” as a game term. I went through college with an infamous PKer friend on ultima online who was so famous for PK that after he killed Richard Garriot (Lord British) in game (a feat that was meant to be impossible) the El Lootre was established in UO lore as the PK bas***d of all time.

In China my favorite PK game has to be “Night of the Mafia” or killer game here. The Cantonese have parlours for it and have created numerous variations and gladly murder their friends and accuse them of murder. Stealing property may not be very culturally appropriate but in these parts people love a good gangland killing…

]]> Comment on New Career / New Site by Jesse Covner http://taikongren.net/blog/2011/04/14/new-career-new-site/comment-page-1/#comment-280 Jesse Covner Mon, 18 Apr 2011 04:02:01 +0000 http://taikongren.net/?p=621#comment-280 Hi Dan, Thank you for your support. I'm a big fan of your site BTW. -Jesse Hi Dan,

Thank you for your support. I’m a big fan of your site BTW.
-Jesse

]]> Comment on New Career / New Site by Dan http://taikongren.net/blog/2011/04/14/new-career-new-site/comment-page-1/#comment-279 Dan Sun, 17 Apr 2011 18:28:59 +0000 http://taikongren.net/?p=621#comment-279 Good luck and congratulations for having the guts to do what you really want to do and what you think is best for you. Good luck and congratulations for having the guts to do what you really want to do and what you think is best for you.

]]> Comment on China smartphones and branding by Jesse Covner http://taikongren.net/blog/2010/07/29/more-on-smartphone-in-china/comment-page-1/#comment-278 Jesse Covner Mon, 02 Aug 2010 16:29:49 +0000 http://taikongren.net/?p=617#comment-278 Hi Brad, Thank you for your comments I'm pretty sure that Dopod sells Android phones in China... unless the Dopod version of the HTC Hero and dream runs on Windows Mobile...which I highly doubt. HTC has been selling under their own brand as well for quite a while, although they maybe have not promoted their own brand name until recently. They also still manufacture OEM, albiet their current OEM phones are carrier branded phones. The Google Nexus One is example of an OEM product. Please let me know if I'm actually talking BS. Regards, Jesse Hi Brad,

Thank you for your comments

I’m pretty sure that Dopod sells Android phones in China… unless the Dopod version of the HTC Hero and dream runs on Windows Mobile…which I highly doubt. HTC has been selling under their own brand as well for quite a while, although they maybe have not promoted their own brand name until recently. They also still manufacture OEM, albiet their current OEM phones are carrier branded phones. The Google Nexus One is example of an OEM product.

Please let me know if I’m actually talking BS.

Regards,
Jesse

]]> Comment on China smartphones and branding by brad greenspan http://taikongren.net/blog/2010/07/29/more-on-smartphone-in-china/comment-page-1/#comment-277 brad greenspan Mon, 02 Aug 2010 15:40:08 +0000 http://taikongren.net/?p=617#comment-277 there is no re-branding of Dopod. Dopod produces windows-based smartphone and is currently in a bit of limbo as Microsoft hasn't refresh its mobile os for a long time. HTC start off as OEM phone supplier and they bought over Dopod to get into the business of selling their own phones. When HTC launch its own line of Android phones, they decide to use the HTC brandname as they weren't producing OEM Android phones for anyone. there is no re-branding of Dopod. Dopod produces windows-based smartphone and is currently in a bit of limbo as Microsoft hasn’t refresh its mobile os for a long time.

HTC start off as OEM phone supplier and they bought over Dopod to get into the business of selling their own phones. When HTC launch its own line of Android phones, they decide to use the HTC brandname as they weren’t producing OEM Android phones for anyone.

]]> Comment on Taikongren, defender of stupid huge Taiwanese evil companies by Jesse Covner http://taikongren.net/blog/2010/07/22/taikongren-defender-of-stupid-huge-taiwanese-evil-companies/comment-page-1/#comment-275 Jesse Covner Fri, 23 Jul 2010 05:40:41 +0000 http://taikongren.net/?p=590#comment-275 Thank you for your comment. Michael? BTW, Chinese mostly think that its mafia doing, and I have similar suspicion. I remember reading that in the big Soviet factories, the KGB were employed to create fear in the workers, otherwise it would be next to impossible to control so many people making so little money. So the theory goes,... company makes deal with Labor Union (CCP) who makes deals with ruffian types to hire them as guards and keep the workers in line. I have never seen a security guard act rough or impolite to workers in Factories in Suzhou. But somehow, Foxconn guards get into fights. Thank you for your comment. Michael? BTW, Chinese mostly think that its mafia doing, and I have similar suspicion. I remember reading that in the big Soviet factories, the KGB were employed to create fear in the workers, otherwise it would be next to impossible to control so many people making so little money. So the theory goes,… company makes deal with Labor Union (CCP) who makes deals with ruffian types to hire them as guards and keep the workers in line.

I have never seen a security guard act rough or impolite to workers in Factories in Suzhou. But somehow, Foxconn guards get into fights.

]]> Comment on Taikongren, defender of stupid huge Taiwanese evil companies by anonymous please http://taikongren.net/blog/2010/07/22/taikongren-defender-of-stupid-huge-taiwanese-evil-companies/comment-page-1/#comment-274 anonymous please Fri, 23 Jul 2010 05:30:14 +0000 http://taikongren.net/?p=590#comment-274 I agree with you that (in my words) somebody who jumps of a building for stupid reasons like working for (or getting fired from) a really stupid company isn't quite right in the head, and thus the stupid company is not by default to blame. It is a similar argument for people doing drugs, they also have something wrong in their head that makes them self-destruct, although some blame should go to the drug-dealers (for making the poison available) and society and/or government for not looking after mentally ill (in the widest sense of the word). For the stupid company, they might do more than put a "don't kill yourself" clause in their contract. Fence on the roof? Barred windows? No hi-rise? Suicide watch? Gets silly quickly though... Besides, I've seen statistics that indicated that the number of head-jobs at said stupid company is not much different from the percentage of jumpers in the popularity at large. So maybe there's not a problem with this stupid company in particular but merely a problem in the population as a whole, of which this is just a 'normal' reflection. On the other hand though, the 'normal' way to kill oneself in China seems to be to do something dramatic, get on TV, and then jump or get killed by police, not in complete solitude accidentally fall off a building. So, what's the stupid company doing that causes their statistically representative group of nutcases end their lives in silent, unspectacular ways rather than to grab a meat cleaver and take out their boss or their co-workers? Lastly, however, it is not clear how many of these people jumped, accidentally fell, or got some help. Wasn't there at least one who accidentally stabbed himself twice before accidentally falling off a building? In my family there was a second cousin who also died under these vague circumstances. Young kid, perfectly happy, making decent money working in Guandong at a large real-estate company. Sent chirpy messages home mere days before being found flat as a pancake, with rumors of a fight with some baoan. But no proof, big company, so no investigation. Made a stink and got some compensation for the family, helped by the police not throwing them out, maybe because they knew it was fishy business despite not (being allowed to) doing an investigation.... I agree with you that (in my words) somebody who jumps of a building for stupid reasons like working for (or getting fired from) a really stupid company isn’t quite right in the head, and thus the stupid company is not by default to blame. It is a similar argument for people doing drugs, they also have something wrong in their head that makes them self-destruct, although some blame should go to the drug-dealers (for making the poison available) and society and/or government for not looking after mentally ill (in the widest sense of the word). For the stupid company, they might do more than put a “don’t kill yourself” clause in their contract. Fence on the roof? Barred windows? No hi-rise? Suicide watch? Gets silly quickly though…
Besides, I’ve seen statistics that indicated that the number of head-jobs at said stupid company is not much different from the percentage of jumpers in the popularity at large. So maybe there’s not a problem with this stupid company in particular but merely a problem in the population as a whole, of which this is just a ‘normal’ reflection. On the other hand though, the ‘normal’ way to kill oneself in China seems to be to do something dramatic, get on TV, and then jump or get killed by police, not in complete solitude accidentally fall off a building. So, what’s the stupid company doing that causes their statistically representative group of nutcases end their lives in silent, unspectacular ways rather than to grab a meat cleaver and take out their boss or their co-workers?
Lastly, however, it is not clear how many of these people jumped, accidentally fell, or got some help. Wasn’t there at least one who accidentally stabbed himself twice before accidentally falling off a building? In my family there was a second cousin who also died under these vague circumstances. Young kid, perfectly happy, making decent money working in Guandong at a large real-estate company. Sent chirpy messages home mere days before being found flat as a pancake, with rumors of a fight with some baoan. But no proof, big company, so no investigation. Made a stink and got some compensation for the family, helped by the police not throwing them out, maybe because they knew it was fishy business despite not (being allowed to) doing an investigation….

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