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Cameron posted:So I guess the NMA people really hate China: What a factually incorrect music video! All that tech stuff is made in the mainland, in Taiwanese owned and run factories where they exploit poor migrant workers and uneducated youth!
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Spanish Matlock posted:Yeah, the HTC One S (which I have) is a pretty decent phone. Unfortunatley HTC is not a pretty decent company. I've got another year and two months or so on my FarEastTone contract, and then I'll probably be switching to a galaxy of whatever kind is neat. HTC is just on a coke fueled business destroying binge. They come out with like six new phones a month, each with its own gimmick. Also HTC's custom Android skin is pretty much the worst one ever. With an HTC phone you're pretty much forced in to installing a custom rom cause lord HTCSense or whatever they're calling it now sucks. I'm fairly certain they must have spent time designing the worst skin ever with the crap that's on the One.
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You don't got to date anyone, bro. Take it easy.
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Pandemonium posted:is just terrible advice. I have limited opportunities to meet new people as it is. I am not about to turn myself into a shut-in because of how others act. Haha cause not actively looking for someone to date means you're obviously a shut-in, because that's the sole reason you'd ever leave your house, right?
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Pandemonium posted:You really are too much. Again: I work at home. I don't have co-workers. I have a small group of friends I do stuff with, mostly on the weekends. I have very little opportunity to just bump into girls. So I try to be a bit active and invite girls for coffee or walking in the park or whatever. And for a lot of girls I am their first foreigner "date", which inevitably means I have to listen to them describe what they thought I'd be like. gently caress me, right? All I'm saying is that you do not have to be looking for a date with every Taiwanese girl you see and in fact can do things to occupy your time, better yourself and have fun that are not dates with girls or related to finding girls to date. I don't know what culture you grew up in but you don't have to be dating or looking for someone to date literally 24 hours of every day as far as I know. People in this thread have given a lot of options. Working at home is a pretty lovely excuse for not having hobbies. I've spent time working at home both in Asia and elsewhere, and in the past have spent months in a dark room in a Chinese university's library finishing my thesis and still managed to have friends, go out, do things, meet people, have hobbies and not make posts on an internet forum about how some Turkish dude is the reason I can't find a girlfriend.
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TetsuoTW posted:
His policies right after 1949 weren`t the best either, like how he basically wanted to tell the non-Han Taiwanese "get Chinese or get out!".
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Pandemonium posted:Okay, I get it. You are somewhere in between my generation and my parents'. 40s-ish I'm guessing? Okay, I get it. You don't make generalizations but anyone who disagrees with you must be in their 40's because people your age fake e: whoops there was another page!!!!! I like Sapporo or Kirin.
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url posted:Japanese place next to my apartment has Asahi on tap. Dang Taiwan is expensive. 711 sells 500ML cans of Asahi for 12rmb, which is like 60NTD according to this app on my computer. e: im dumb thats a bar, of course it's pricer than 711
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I had a Superman once. Superman was a right dick though and nobody liked him. Thankfully his parents got frustrated he wasn't learning anything (because he would just writhe on the floor saying "pig" any time we weren't doing a game or some other activity) and pulled him out after only a few weeks. The second or third week he didn't show up one of my students asked me "Superman is GAME OVER?" and I nodded yes. He relayed this to the rest of the class and all those seven year olds started dancing :3 A coworker had a fat kid named Hunk. He was the coolest loving kid ever, too.
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url posted:Same here in 7/11 for the shorty silver Asahi. I forget which is the legit one the silver or the gold cans. It's be great if she was a Miao as well.
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TetsuoTW posted:I'm all in favor of making sure everyone knows that Taiwan is the superior China right down to being able to get its pandas to gently caress. Living in Chengdu I can attest our panda porn is the best quality stuff insofar as getting pandas to get it on. 
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duckfarts posted:Speaking of panda dick, is the Taipei Zoo any good? I've been here for a long time but still haven't gone. I wouldn't be expecting a world class animal sanctuary, but I'm hoping it's not dirty/awful/awkward because I do want to check it out sometime. When I went there the pandas were getting checkups or something  Red pandas were there though, and they're the superior panda. It's a decent zoo as I remember. Also seeing as it's on the MRT essentially it's very easy to get to which is a big plus. Probably worth going to once.
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I've lived in loving rural Guizhou, bub. Let's have a "whose neighbors are more blindly influenced by the media and interact less with foreigners" fight. Bet I'll win.  I was there right after Michael Jackson died and our neighbors kept giving us condolences and poo poo like we were personally connected to the dude fake e: Videos of Taiwanese kids loving on roofs pops up on mainland Chinese boards all the time. It's some weird trend where they keep filming themselves loving on roofs and the mainlanders go nuts and torrent them like crazy, while making thousands of posts about how morally deficient Taiwanese youths are for making them.
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If you don't care too much about a wide library of apps, Windows Phones are actually really good and usually pretty cheap. Most of the must-have apps are there. I'd have a windows phone if I could 
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I think most Android users won't really notice much of a change, to be honest. The only app I use on a regular basis that isn't a weird app I use for work and doesn't have a Windows version is Pleco, I think? People coming from an iPhone will probably notice it a great deal more since the difference between the iOS store and Google Play isn't that dissimilar from that between GP and Windows in some ways. If you've never had a smartphone and don't have your eyes on any particular apps, I'd totally go windows. If you wanna play games, though, nothing comes close to iOS at the moment.
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Arakan posted:So just a random question I was curious about..do any of you guys do SAT/AP prep in Taipei? Some of my friends make stupid money doing this in Beijing and I was wondering what the market was like in Taiwan. I knew a lot of Taiwanese kids at my university, so I'd venture a guess there must be a market somewhere. They get crazy money for that in the mainland cause anyone who considers sending their kids overseas for university is already rich as hell, and I'm pretty sure it's roughly the same in Taiwan. It might not be as big as in the mainland, but if you look you might find it. It might be better to just put up ads somewhere and see what bites.
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USDA Choice posted:Guanghua Don't be excited it'll be a copy of the Chinese version of Newegg and not the North American one. IE toasters, microwaves, humidifiers... and computer parts roughly the same price or more expensive as any computer market you can go to. That said if you need a toaster, microwave or humidifier Chinese newegg is pretty good.
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hitension posted:I'm pretty sure Taiwan is its own humidifier You need one to counteract the AC you have running 24/7, of course. But yeah newegg kinda sucks over here. My old roommate bought one of those terrible Keurig coffee things off of it though and when it was all hosed up out of the box they immediately sent a new one, so at least their good service and speedy shipping has carried over.
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hitension posted:This is a looong shot but does anyone here have any ideas about the market on the other end of the spectrum, for experienced professionals? LinkedIn is your best bet for Ailumao fucked around with this message at 13:30 on Aug 8, 2013 |
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Whoa helldump 2013 here in the Taiwan thread. For starters I'm not in Taiwan, though I did study there for a good long while back in twenty-aught-eight. I'm in another province of China  I posted to give a possible answer to hitension as I'm in a similar field, have similar-ish education (and way the gently caress less experience) as her person in question, and have seen marketing and management related jobs pop up on linkedin from time to time in Taipei and Gaoxiong. It was probably a bad post anyway cause she probably checked linkedin pretty much first. I did ESL for years. Because I live in China, most of my friends are ESL teachers. I know ESL teachers who give like 5 (or more!) shits and really work to get everything they can out of every class while legitimately caring about their students' success. It was meant to be tongue in cheek and a joke, "private English instruction in Asia vs real people job" is something I've heard since I was deep in ESL myself. Sorry for offending ya and anyone else I might have. Actually I'm gonna go back to watching Dota 2 streams before work. Is Dota even a little popular in Taiwan? I'm pretty curious, because the whole Sinosphere seems hugely in to it outside of Taiwan. There are Chinese teams, Singaporean teams, Malaysian teams made up pretty much entirely of Chinese-Malaysians, HK teams... but I've never seen a Taiwanese player or team. I have seem Taiwanese LoL players and teams though, now that I think about it.
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Wow. I was fooling with the idea of looking for work in Taiwan since I like it there and the fact I can speak Chinese might be marketable and it's not the mainland, but if the cost of living is higher and wages are lower I guess not  Guess I'll have to stay in no-free-internet land to pay off my debt.
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duckfarts posted:Nope; standard work weeks are actually 44 hoursish, meaning that a lot of companies have Saturdays every other week or a half day on Saturdays. Otherwise, it's sort of averaged out Monday through Friday and no weekends(also common). Eh, the pay vs cost of living seems overall worse than most tier 2 mainland cities. Just converting the numbers, ESL teachers at a buxiban like EF or Web make about the same or a little more than the salary you mentioned while working less than 40hr weeks, and most non-ESL professional work for foreigners pays a bit more than that to start. Rent is much cheaper here as well, it seems. Also 40 hour workweeks are the norm, I've never seen that 44hr weekend stuff here in the mainland. What are taxes like in Taiwan? They're pretty high here, about 25%+ for most people.
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Unfortunately you can't pay off student loans with quality of life I studied in Taiwan way back when and I really liked the place. I have a number of friends who teach there and I like Taibei a lot outside of it being an inhospitable hellhole of humidity and heat during the summer. It just strikes me odd that the average pay (I did some of my own looking around) is about the same or, in most cases, worse in Taipei than in a tier 2 mainland city with rent thats roughly double to triple the amount. I certainly do not want to live in China (and maybe even Taiwan) forever, but at the moment even after taxmath it just seems more lucrative for me to stay here. But then again I live in weird hipster China where ethnic Tibetans openly show me pictures of the Dalai Lama on their iPhones and tell me how awesome he is, pinkberry-style frozen yogurt is taking off, there are gay bars everywhere, Chinese rockabilly bands and amateur rappers make fun of the government, and a two floor apartment within the second ring 5 minutes from the subway or BRT costs 1600rmb/month... so it could be worse. I could be in Shanghai or Beijing! Ugh I'm turning in to the Chengdu version of PPL 
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TetsuoTW posted:Is it this one? Ugh white people ruining my asian immersion.
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One of the greatest disappointments of my life was walking around a 40C, humid as gently caress day and hearing an ice cream truck jingle in the distance... then seeing the garbage truck come up.
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POCKET CHOMP posted:I know some people in here use iPhones, and some people in here use Pleco. If there's any overlap, and you're planning to upgrade to iOS 7, go into Pleco first and write down your Registration ID if you've bought any add-ons. Something is super messed up and after the update you won't be able to restore purchases in Pleco if you're running iOS 7. It'll identify you as unregistered user and even the add-ons you already have installed will stop working, even a complete reinstall of the app won't fix it. But if you've got that registration ID, just plunk it down into the settings and all will be well. The Kindle app has the same issue.
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I'm a really bad white dude I guess cause finding girls specifically from the foreign place I am for a week that are open to screw and also speak my language is never a priority to me e: people are telling me i'm being ridiculous so I guess I am! Ailumao fucked around with this message at 12:25 on Oct 2, 2013 |
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caberham posted:That's because you prefer dudes That's true.
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Are there no gay clubs outside of Taipei? I actually no nothing about non-Taipei Taiwan so this is a serious question. Here (Admittedly one of the most gay-friendly cities in East Asia as a whole) the culture is pretty much centered on the 80 bazillion clubs we have which range from typical crazy loud Asian night club to chill whiskey sipping bars for the
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hitension posted:T = butch That's a weird cross-strait difference. In the mainland playing League of Legends and reading comics/manga is pretty much normal behavior for any woman between the ages of 18 and 35!
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If you have a european/american/not-Taiwanese card available you just need to use the steam web page instead of the actual steam client to buy things and it'll work fine.
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Atlas Hugged posted:You sure about that? I just tried opened up a browser and went to store.steampowered.com and searched for "rome" and got the exact same results I do in the client. I can get trailers of Rome II just fine, but no options to buy it. I'm in the mainland which I assumed was even more restrictive than Taiwan (DOTA2 is a hot commodity!!!) would be as far as region locking, so it could be a regional difference there. Without a VPN I can buy things fine on the website then go to my client and download them, with a VPN I can purchase in-client fine. I apologize for the misinformation.
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So in the short 5 months since Google beat the Taiwanese government in court and was allowed to sell apps without a 7 day return period, they've become the #5 generator of revenue on Google Play. How much LINE and Puzzles & Dragons get played there? Are there any other apps you see as really popular? Is Apple totally uncool there? I'm really curious because Taiwan is super small and it's spending a lot more than much larger territories like Russia and most European countries... and Taiwan barely registers on iOS charts where the revenue as a whole is a lot more.
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In Japan LINE makes hundreds of thousands (USD) a day, I know LINE is more popular in Taiwan than Weixin so I was curious. I'm really wanting to know what people in Taiwan are doing to outspend every European country except Germany when they have like a third to a half the population of most of these countries. I guess it could have a lot to do with the fact Taiwan is [url="http://www.techinasia.com/2g-nearing-death-taiwan-continues-rapid-3g-growth/"]one of the most 3G/4G connected places on the planet.
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caberham posted:Taiwan doesn't have LTE? If you could pay money to change other people's icons on LINE or Weixin people would totally do this.
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LINE is doing pretty well in Taiwan and Japan and a bit of SE Asia. Taiwan's residual love of all things Japanese/Hate of all things mainland is always interesting for me  No one knows what Tencent is going at not monetizing Weixin for so long despite having like 110% of mainlanders and a lot of SEAsians using it. Apparently WeChat is starting to take off in the US because it which is the most  thing of all.I've had friends in the last couple months who live in the US and have no real connection to China tell me they're switching from WhatsApp to WeChat and it's freaking me out. WhatsApp costs money to use even to basically chat, which is why it's steadily losing ground in everywhere and changing it's whole model around. It was popular in Japan and Korea for a hot minute as well.
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I know that people in Xiamen send balloons over to Taiwan filled with weird propaganda so that wouldn't surprise me.
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hitension posted:Man, why the massive hardon for pinyin? The way I see it is that HYPY is only readable to people who actually have studied HYPY anyway. Nobody can read those Zs,Qs, and Xs. I mean "Xie" and "Hsieh" are probably both going to be pronounced equally wrong by an English speaker who doesn't know Chinese... It's almost like Hanyu Pinyin wasn't designed with English learners of Chinese in mind and was designed to be used in a purely Chinese context for pronouncing Chinese.... For nose: http://www.chinasmack.com/2010/stories/loyalty-to-the-party-balloon-lands-in-taiwan.html Yeah it's Chinasmack but it was the first thing I that came up on Google. I'd heard about this from my very first Chinese professor (Taiwanese). She said they come over pretty commonly where she lived over there. Also Taiwan sends poo poo back. Seems to have been going on since the split. VVVVVVVVVVVVV Had anyone stuck with gwoyeu romatzyh the TONES WOULD BE IN THE WORDS~~ Ailumao fucked around with this message at 15:13 on Nov 16, 2013 |
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