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Okay, so I'd be using it for: Netflix, (other streaming stuff like channel 4 on demand), steam, torrents, xbox live, 3ds network. Which would be best for that? EDIT: I've spoke with peeps on the Wechat group, Vypr has been recommended! Thanks for all the help guys as always! 
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Jan 9, 2014 17:04
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Facepalm Ranger posted:Okay, so I'd be using it for: Xbox live is gonna suck no matter what you get, fyi. Anything that's not streaming you wont need a vpn for. Look for one with British servers if you want channel 4.
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Jan 9, 2014 17:20
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Facepalm Ranger posted:Okay, so I'd be using it for: If you havent already paid, i have 2 months or so left on astrill and won't be using it since I'm going back to the us today
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Jan 9, 2014 20:02
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Again, I want to stress learn how to use pptv/pps/youkou and search for titles in Chinese - things usually have different names but if you set Google to Chinese and search the English name the Chinese name will pop up in the sidebar. It's free, everything you would want to watch on iplayer/hulu/netflix is online, usually faster than those services get things up. I am a lifelong torrent user and have basically stopped because almost everything I want to see is available streaming on one of these 3 platforms.
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Jan 10, 2014 02:57
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Just use kuaibo (快播)
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bad day posted:Again, I want to stress learn how to use pptv/pps/youkou and search for titles in Chinese - things usually have different names but if you set Google to Chinese and search the English name the Chinese name will pop up in the sidebar. It's free, everything you would want to watch on iplayer/hulu/netflix is online, usually faster than those services get things up. I am a lifelong torrent user and have basically stopped because almost everything I want to see is available streaming on one of these 3 platforms. Do they have HD poo poo yet? I was in China last year but didn't stream anything, when I last lived there in 2009, if you pressed HD on Youku it switched from 240p to 320p
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Jan 10, 2014 04:30
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The goon-run HostVPN is solid for me when I connect to their server in Japan. It's pretty reliable. I get nearly all 4Mbits of my crappy DSL downstream bandwidth.
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Jan 10, 2014 07:16
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I use Astrill and can not say anything bad about it. I have the 'family' setup thing so I have it on my PC, phone and tablet simultaneously if I want. Switching servers on the fly (although this will cancel all http downloads so you will need to restart/resume) and it functions perfectly for YouTube, Netflix, Facebook, whatever I throw at it. It also includes a 'Smart Mode' which apparently was designed for China to access local stuff directly, and blocked stuff via VPN.
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Jan 10, 2014 09:32
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I've used Astrill for 2 or 3 years and it works fine?
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Jan 10, 2014 09:50
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Yes - yes, you have.
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MeramJert posted:I've used Astrill for 2 or 3 years and it works fine? Same
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Since there doesn't appear to be a separate Hong Kong thread - I found some cheap flights (well, ~$500 but I think that's as cheap as they get) during the New Year season. I'm not 100% sure yet I'll be able to make it, but in general a) The New Year is a huge thing that would be interesting to experience for the first time, right? b) What's the cheapest accommodation I could hope to find now? c) Would a week be enough to experience the city without rushing from one thing to another all the time? Obviously more is better but I also don't want to blow all vacation in the first month.
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Jan 10, 2014 14:54
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Can someone explain to me the etiquette of buying gifts for people? I'm apparently not supposed to buy something heartfelt and unique and this confuses the crap out of me.
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Jan 10, 2014 15:05
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As far as I can make out you just give people cigarettes, alcohol or fruit.
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Ceciltron posted:Can someone explain to me the etiquette of buying gifts for people? I'm apparently not supposed to buy something heartfelt and unique and this confuses the crap out of me. By doing so, you would create an obligation. Unless it's family, nobody wants to owe you a favour.
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mobby_6kl posted:Since there doesn't appear to be a separate Hong Kong thread - I found some cheap flights (well, ~$500 but I think that's as cheap as they get) during the New Year season. I'm not 100% sure yet I'll be able to make it, but in general There isn't a separate thread. a) I don't know, this'll be my first CNY here too! b) Good question. I'd offer you to stay here, but we don't even have a sofa yet. We've only had our own mattress less than a week! You could, of course, always stay at Chungking Mansions for that ~real backpacker experience~. Or many hourly hotels in all districts offer nightly rates for under HK$200. That's really not something I'd be comfortable with doing, but I'm sure the fear of them not doing laundry is down to my paranoia. I haven't been here long. Other goons who've lived in HK longer would be better placed to advise you, as would those from the thread have been to HK before as visitors. I'm in that middle ground of newly arrived but living here, sorry. c) I'd say probably. It's not a huge place and if you get off your arse and just do things then there's not a lot of travel time from place to place. If you do get flights, make sure you let us know when you're going to arrive. I was amazed by the welcoming nature of the goons that live here, and I'd certainly take the chance to pay it forward. simplefish fucked around with this message at 15:44 on Jan 10, 2014 |
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Jan 10, 2014 15:38
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New Year in China is a lot like Christmas in America: if you have a family to stay with it's nice, but if you're an outsider there is absolutely nothing to do. I think it's been covered pretty well by now in the thread.
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Jan 10, 2014 16:18
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To be fair there's stuff like Christmas parades in major US cities. HK is a major city. I'm hoping for a procession or parade to watch, like there was for Mid-Autumn Festival. There was a dragon made of incense for that, and I was thinking that CNY would be a bigger event.
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Jan 10, 2014 16:27
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I remember Hong Kong being fairly boring for CNY. I'm just happy I'm spending the entire holiday in America this year. Thank god for corporate finance exams.. ..no, wait.
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GuestBob posted:By doing so, you would create an obligation. Unless it's family, nobody wants to owe you a favour. Or people can be acting polite and do the obligated "oh no you shouldn't have dance" Ceciltron posted:Can someone explain to me the etiquette of buying gifts for people? I'm apparently not supposed to buy something heartfelt and unique and this confuses the crap out of me. Sometimes people just love booze and cigarettes 
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caberham posted:Who are you giving it to? It doesn't have to be expensive but it's the thoughtfulness that counts. However do keep in mind what the receiver likes. Most of this is going to be for my girlfriend's family. We'll be bouncing between their homes for new years so there's basically: 1. Ultra old people, her grandparents, who effectively raised her. They're nice and have been kind to me. 2. Her Dad, who is nice and wants to meet me. The only bad things I have heard is that he is more friendly than fatherly. Which is a bad thing? 3. Her Mom, who is a total bitch and demanded she break up with me the moment she heard about me. This woman also regularly beat her until she was old enough to fight her off. Hooray for a traumatic childhood divorce I guess?
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caberham posted:Or people can be acting polite and do the obligated "oh no you shouldn't have dance" You can put more thought into booze and cigarettes than "anything within X price range."
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caberham posted:Sometimes people just love booze and cigarettes Me me me! 
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mobby_6kl posted:Since there doesn't appear to be a separate Hong Kong thread - I found some cheap flights (well, ~$500 but I think that's as cheap as they get) during the New Year season. I'm not 100% sure yet I'll be able to make it, but in general http://www.tripadvisor.com.au/Hotel_Review-g294217-d1625600-Reviews-Lee_Garden_Guest_House-Hong_Kong.html When I was in HK they had two or three police visits to Chungking Mansions in a week. If you don't mind the Indians trying to sell you suits, drugs and children / semi feral drunk Anglos / mainlanders than that's probably one of the cheapest place in HK. I've stayed at the above, they clean the sheets everyday, have working hot and cold water, clean bathrooms, and the rooms are sound proofed. I've slept in ratholes, as I get older I realised that saving the $10-20 wasn't worth the broken sleep or conditions. From there you can walk to the ferrys to HK island, walk to the museums, walk to bars / restaurants and you're central to everything.
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Is CNY any better in HK than it is on the mainland? Because UGH
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Anyone know if you can access the Chinese Kindle store from outside China? It's not giving any options to download stuff here.
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I'm going to Japan during first week of February so I can't host but get in touch with some other hk goons they are cool. Hk has a fun parade and a big fireworks show going on, not sure the dates check online. But will hk be fun compared to china? I can't say, nowadays stores are not closed forever, and stay open longer. Quite a few locals would be out of town, and replaced with more mianlanders doing new year's shopping. I know Shenzhen is super quiet though. Well not as quiet as before because there are people actually have family there unlike 20 years ago. For the Chinese kindle store i need to check.
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caberham posted:Hk has a fun parade and a big fireworks show going on, not sure the dates check online. But will hk be fun compared to china? my students posted:Hong Kong is part of China!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Jan 11, 2014 18:33
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It's supposed to be a different system 
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gwrtheyrn posted:If you havent already paid, i have 2 months or so left on astrill and won't be using it since I'm going back to the us today That'd be great! Is it hard to do that?
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Facepalm Ranger posted:That'd be great! Is it hard to do that? Let me see if I can get you my account without having all of my credit card info still attached to it. Do you have pms or an email I can send to? Or heck, I could just send it via wechat Edit: CC info isn't attached to the account, so give me some contact info and we can set this up
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I'll let my phone tell about my Nanjing layover: Service Error, Loading failed, No connection, Why is everything duck blood
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A follow up to my earlier boss question: I'm probably meeting with my boss monday (and the other english teacher she has is coming along to participate -our idea) and I'm pretty much going to ask for about 2000 kuai in overtime. So my question is: It it going to be cheaper for her to replace both of us (100% of her full-time laowai staff) or just pay us our overtime and be done with it?
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Ceciltron posted:...replace both of us... What? Does your employer run their own recruitment pipe? If not then it'll be Y5000 per white face to a recruiter. I still don't get what the issue is. Are you doing over 20 hours per week or teaching at times which are not stipulated in your contract (evenings/weekends/whatevs). If you teach over the hours then you get overtime, if you don't teach over the hours then you don't. Stick to that point and don't budge.
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I think he wants overtime because of the time displacement due to the New Year holiday (i.e. Saturday and Sunday are now Monday and Tuesday) thus he wants overtime pay for those extra two days. I would say just let it slide, once you get to the point where you're telling your employer that your contract says such-and-such your relationship has deteriorated significantly, and getting up in arms about it is going to piss off all your Chinese coworkers for whom this is a normal thing nobody likes but everyone puts up with because everybody has to do it. If it's, like, every week you are teaching over your hours just kindly explain you either want more money or are just not going to do it. But if this is still about the holiday, this is normal, nobody is trying to screw you here.
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bad day posted:...time displacement... Unless he's teaching outside his contract (and his contract includes the official weekend work days stipulated by the government) then he can't get any overtime pay because, well, it isn't overtime. So yeah, if that's the case then he should totally let it slide because he's in the wrong.
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For some reason, you never have to make up Tuesdays, though. It's always Mondays and Wednesday-Fridays.
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2000 yuan is fiddlesticks, go ahead and ask.
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Ceciltron posted:A follow up to my earlier boss question: Hahaha unless she can find a couple of international student rubes she can scam it's about a million times cheaper to pay you that money. You do have a real RP, right? If you're an illegal F/X visa holder then it's not really that much cheaper but still a lot more troublesome.
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