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Issue 49 - Red Blindness
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Original Comment by: Sideath
http://www.addictedgeek.com
As a Chinese-origin student living in the United Kingdom (I came to the UK when I was 4 fourteen years ago and have been living here ever since), I do regularly visit my extended family back in China around every two years. I must admit that sadly, Thomas Wilburn's 电玩世间 article was very true - I have kept up my Chinese Mandarin thanks to my parents, and every time I return to China, I can't help but buy fifty videogame CDs at 5 yen ($1) a pop. However, last time I went, I saw that they were selling double sided DVDs instead of CDs at 10 yen. I bought one, took one home, and to my amazement, I saw that there were over 10 full PC games on one of these DVDs, compressed to a tiny file size each - and these were not games like Gish on N - these were UT2005, Quake IV, Rise of Legends and the like. When HDDVD or BluRay start becoming popular - how many games will the pirates be able to fit on a disc this time?
http://www.addictedgeek.com
As a Chinese-origin student living in the United Kingdom (I came to the UK when I was 4 fourteen years ago and have been living here ever since), I do regularly visit my extended family back in China around every two years. I must admit that sadly, Thomas Wilburn's 电玩世间 article was very true - I have kept up my Chinese Mandarin thanks to my parents, and every time I return to China, I can't help but buy fifty videogame CDs at 5 yen ($1) a pop. However, last time I went, I saw that they were selling double sided DVDs instead of CDs at 10 yen. I bought one, took one home, and to my amazement, I saw that there were over 10 full PC games on one of these DVDs, compressed to a tiny file size each - and these were not games like Gish on N - these were UT2005, Quake IV, Rise of Legends and the like. When HDDVD or BluRay start becoming popular - how many games will the pirates be able to fit on a disc this time?
Original Comment by: Jack
http://www.ge.com
The engineering gap between US and China isn't as severe as is mentioned here. Check out this story on how the China numbers have been debunked:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/19/AR2006051901760.html
http://www.ge.com
The engineering gap between US and China isn't as severe as is mentioned here. Check out this story on how the China numbers have been debunked:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/19/AR2006051901760.html