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IBM vs Dell Laptop This isn't a question of good vs bad, but worse vs worst. Modern electronics manufacturing is not about quality, but statistical failure rates and warrantly/customer service. I buy many computers for my business, and my criteria are raw perfermance and my perceived customer service of the manufacturer. It is certain that some parts will fail in your computer in 1, 2, or 3 years time. (In fact, the makers are pretty sure when any given part in your computer will fail). Every computer will fail eventually, and much sooner than most think. The question is once a part does fail, will the manufacturer quickly fix it for you without hassle. i like dell because they have a very efficient operation, and I can be sure that any problems will be quickly resolved. The cost of days wasted waiting for a computer to be repaired is an unacceptable cost, and would keep me away from buying from smaller manufacturers. I know in china that people still hold very much to the thought that "better" brands have better parts that will last longer, and some marginally might, but for the most part this is really an obsolete idea. Maybe this idea sticks in china because a computer purchase, relatively speaking, is a larger percentage of one's income than in the west and the want to protect their investment. Another reason might be that the customer service culture has not take hold yet in china. However, from the manufacturer's view, there is not enough profit to be gained from putting in "better" internal parts nobody can see, as compared to using the lowest priced but acceptable part and competing on price (and customer service for the business users). The purchaser would better be served buying from a maker with a good customer service reputation and spending a little more on extended or enhanced warranties. For example, I paid $50 more for "accidental coverage" for the laptop I'm typing on, and for me, it makes complete sense. As a business traveler, I can easily imagine dropping it or spilling coffee on it, and Dell will have it fixed or replaced in a day or two. This wonderful peace of mind is a great value for a mere $50, and allows me to continue my business with minimal interruption. Compare this to a small time manufacturer or one with bad service that might take two weeks to fix a problem, at which time my business may have been severely impacted. |
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Why People Don't Use Voice Mail in China Jianshuo, You are right, I agree with your analysis about the voice mail. I registered the voice mail feature for my mobile account. And there are so many times, people called me but don't leave any voice in the box if I missed the call for some reason. Almost a whole year, I got only two voice mail, one is from real estate agent and another is from my girlfriend who was convinced by me to use voice mail. - Jack |
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I am Going to Guilin 桂林市内只要呆一天就行了，将旅游的大多时间计划在阳朔吧。阳朔离桂林市内几个小时的路程 我相信你会非常喜欢阳朔的，有点像丽江。 |
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Who is Chris Devonshire Ellis - Part II @ Ryan . Yes that is blackmail. Any of these emails can be published without a problem. If you want to expose the man as a thug with a bow tie this is it. I read he threatened to have visa canceled and stuff like that. I hope he was not too confused to write that to JianShuo as well :-) I think the #cde strategy to bully his way out of this is not going to work. If he continues on this path of blackmail and threats he might be the one without a visa. The solution for him is quite simple: No lies then also no need to blackmail people because the animosity on the web seems to center around his lies. His responses only caused more problems for him. Strange man. |
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Who is Chris Devonshire Ellis - Part II Amen to that! Well said JianShuo. Imaginary friends online, imaginary officials. Which minister would ever consider a request to bully a Chinese blogger who does nothing wrong? I do not know any person stupid enough to take such a request to a minister, not even a bureau head. Especially if it comes from some arrogant British guy. I am sure that after his "interviews" no official wants to be seen within a mile from him anyway. Made trouble at the highest levels of government....not good. He just seems to behave like a street rat. I think your policy of "friendly requests will be taken into consideration, bullies will be thrown out' is very good. And you can always do as in the restaurant during your bad lunch, call 110 and maybe there will be a policeman in his office within 3 minutes too. If I read your posts I see that your are a very friendly and happy person. Other people think so too, that's why your blog is so popular and that is why you do not need imaginary friends. This blog has a lot of positive and interesting items on it often enough to bring a smile to peoples faces and brighten up their day. Thank you! |
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HP Pavilion a610cl - My New Home PC I Know For I Have Pc Like This Pc Want To Boom Is Really Monster |
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How to Go to Hong Kong via Shen Zhen Hey Jianshuo, I'm trying to make a similar trip by going from Beijing to HK via Shenzhen. But so far I can only find flights from Beijing to Shenzhen for 1400 one way. How did you find such a cheap flight? Thanks |
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Yifan has Hukou Today 籍贯 is weird. What if they build a complete new city (like Shenzhen) then everyone "origination" is from different places and people's Hukou will not say Shenzhen for ever! |
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Shanghainese Girl Marrying Foreigners I think foreign men can satisfy chinese girls better. that's one of the most important reasons. |
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Muzimei's Sex Blog Brought Trouble Nice blog, thanks for all comments,which are helpful for me. I'll payment more attention on here's comments. JACK - www.chinabboss.com |
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Did I Change in the Last Four Years? At least you are busier & blog is becoming shorter :-) |
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Rumors after Rumors Take it easy. As you said, the Internet industry in China is exactly like entertainment industry. :-) |
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I am an ENFP yes, MBTI is great & i can guess your type. :-) |
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Shanghai to Hangzhou by Taxi seems my guess is somewhat accurate :-) |
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MSN Messenger Virus Jitux.A Hi, I am using Yahoo Messenger, and my Yahoo messenger ID affected by some virus.Whenever I logged in , an automated message is popping up to all the people in my messenger list, also, by default ststus is stting in the MyStatus option when the same link which is going to the people in the messenger list, how to aviod this, also let me know the Virus name.Waiting for ur Reply. Regards, Jack |
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Rent an Apartment in Shanghai HI: are the first time to visit shanghai? not yet get an appartment to stay? do you want to get an hotel with a cheap price and in a good place?don't worry!! i am jack, i am specilly doing some service for expat who come to shanghai. like find appartment, order hotel. and if you want to do some samll business , i can be you guide here in shanghai. i offer this service just for 25USD for all the day. if you are the first time to come shanghai. weather you stay you stay in shanghai for a short time or long time, i always can find an appartment for you stay. and make you i can find a good appartment with reasonable price. any intrest, just inform me via e-mail:jackz@163.com, if you are in shanghai, you can call me via: 1367.189.7173 thanks jack |
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China's Low-Cost Spring Airlines Hi there Its a great blog u hav there. I am doing a research on Starbucks in China and your articles on it is pretty interesting. It's a good perspective from someone who is actually in Shanghai. The rest of your blog is simply awesome. A fren of mine is actually planning to work in Shanghai and I recommended your blog. it helps heaps. Keep it up mate... and great pictures. Jack |
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Happy Children's Day Happy Children's Day. For those who are young in heart |
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Discrimination Against Foreigners in Shanghai? China is "eating" everything and everyone. From history we know that everything what gets into this region becomes assimilated. Speaking of children, I agree no more. I have a mixed child and I speak my language to him. But in this environment, with all the attention he gets from anyone, everyone, everywhere, it becomes more difficult for him to be motivated to speak my language. Sometimes, I pretend that I don't understand what he answers to me in Chinese. If we rase him in Shanghai, he will only speak Chinese, maybe also Shanghainese, it's very hard to motivate him lern my language. Why? Everyone around speaks Mandarin.. |
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Keep Doing, and Its Meaning I strongly agree to the viewpoint on the attribution and return.Thanks for your article! |
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ifuleuiycfi - I Really Admire You, Spammers well, i do not think the guy does it manually. i guess the spam does in this way: 1. Crawl a HTML Page 2. Find |
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Lovely English-Speaking Jinjiang Taxi Driver JianShuo, you always amazed me with no surprise and you amazed me again with the insight to the trivial things. :-) The meeting is great and thanks for the organizing |
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IPEVO Skype Headset Hardware cool. If it is wireless, maybe by bluetooth, i guess it will be greater experience. |
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Where to Study Chinese, Beijing or Shanghai? Hey there - this blog has been a great find. Loads of really helpful information. I'm in a bit of a dilema. I've got gap year in which I want to live in a foreign country and learn a new language - the problem is I don't know which one. Part of me wants to learn Mandarin in Beijing/Shanghai because I'm interested in the culture, career-wise it will be good for me and I'm from that part of the world ethnically. I'm hesitant, however, because I fear that I'll spend 6 months out there and come home with only a basic grasp of the language. How true is this? Is Mandarin really as difficult as it seems? The other part of me wants to learn Spanish in Beunos Airies because it's an easier language and South America interests me as well. My only hesitation with this option is that Spanish will not be as useful to me in the long-run as Mandarin; although I can expect to gain a better command of it. If anyone has any advice for me, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Jack |
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Happy Birthday To Me Happy birthday, Jian Shuo. Wish you a more and more wonderful life :-) |
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MSN Messenger Virus Jitux.A as soon as i was writing the first post, a ad in text came upsaying that i shuld "check out all the cool msn stuff" man how sad. |
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MSN Messenger Virus Jitux.A i have a virus that shuts down my task manager and msn messenger windows. i cant even keep norton anit-virus up for long enuf to delite it. its fucking anoying.when the chat windows dissapear i close down msn messenger 7.5 and it asks me if i want to close down all of my chat windows. they must be open but not on my task bar. i need help. any 1 got ideas? cheers.... jak |
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I Watched Super Girl, Finally i watched Super Girl about a month ago. Its operation gives me many hints, especially the involvement of audiences. i think it also applies to internet. |
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Vacation Ends it is just because your Chinese blog is as good as your English one. :-) |
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Webcam+Windows Media+GPRS+SmartPhone=? iCatch (VI) PC Camera driver from: http://members.driverguide.com/driver/detail.php?driverid=293281 worked for me. Cheers, T |
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Donation in China I am not sure if you mean the common people or the rich guys. As i know, there are such donation in China. For example, some buildings in SJTU and FuDan are donated by someone. Maybe it is not popular as US. I believe donation is a good topic to discuss. For chinese, maybe need some concepts changes. Keep up the great work! |
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Chengdu Impression if let me choose, i will choose "ShenZhen" as the fourth city in China because of its economic position though i more like ChengDu & ChongQin. I love ChengDu because of good food, many travel places, the causal environment. It is a fanastic place! One of the best places suitable to live in CHina |
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I Got Wallop Invitation Please invite me Jack jackyangyu@gmail.com thanks lot! |
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Inside Pudong Airport Maglev Train My trip was great! Even a non-speaker of mandarin, I made it from the far end of a bus line to Subway # 1, transferred to #2 at Peoples Square and found the Maglev terminal without problems. Ride was very smooth, no problems with sightseeing out the windows either. No sound or vibration that would compare with even the Shinkansen. But the bus rattled, the brakes squealed and it took awhile. The subways were jammed tight wuth people in midafternoon. Would be a problem to take much luggage that way. Went by taxi later when we left with luggage, a nice trip for us but not for folks merging onto the highway-at one point backed up behind an accident. Note the picture of the switch (turnout) connecting the two roadways. It looks like they have bendable sections to accomplish this! |
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Happy Birthday to Me Happy Birthday! 没想到还这么小，真是年轻有为，前途不可限量啊 |
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Bigger Font is a Failure I think this is not a big problem for you if you have time. Just let visitor choose their preference and use cookie to save it. Then show the font for visitor's perference. btw, i like the original size |
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Google: IPO First, then Dance If you notice the news about google, you may know how busy Google is. Google News (in test), Google Browser (possible), Google IM (possible), plus the blogger.com, okbut, gmail, Google toolbar, etc It seems with the great branding and reputation, possible with the requirement from shareholders, Google are investing so many areas besides search. I like Google, whatever it does, hope it can be as great as its search. |
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On Credibility Creative Common & GNU are the two common ways for the author to delcare copyright. Ever read CC, it has some types, and is suitable for articles. GNU is more suibalbe for software. Maybe you can consider CC later. |
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How to Go to Hong Kong via Shen Zhen Cool. Ever been SZ for many times but no time to go to HK yet. Next time will try it if possible. ps, good OneNote user. I like the map you wrote |
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250MB from MSN Hotmail I have a question about hotmail. why cannot I delete the mail in hotmail box? The button of "delete" is out of work. Could u help me? |
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Starbucks in a Day - Beijing Version I didn't visit a Starbuck before. How much is it? and the enviroment? |
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Starbucks in a Day - Beijing Version I didn't visit a Starbuck before. How much is it? what about the enviroment? |
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Flight to Shanghai: A Journey in the Plague Year II Very interesting post! |