09-05-2009, 01:49 PM | #61 |
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I think not, besides i dont think they would go to those extends to see if is a gift or not (i think they would only charge the custom taxes and thats all in the worst of the cases)
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09-05-2009, 04:50 PM | #62 |
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I got mine Wednesday, I paid for 2 day shipping. I love it!
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09-05-2009, 06:40 PM | #63 | |
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Yet, if they don't even have taken the care to have the English firmware proofed by a decent English speaker (not even asking for a native speaker here, mind you), I feel gloomy about the prospects of a bug-free firmware. Last edited by Faenad; 09-05-2009 at 06:46 PM. |
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09-05-2009, 09:14 PM | #64 |
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I imagine that ones & zeros are the same in Chinese as in English.
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09-05-2009, 11:02 PM | #65 |
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09-06-2009, 03:00 AM | #66 | |
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I run a mail-order business myself, and you'd be amazed at the number of people who "try it on" and ask us to declare an item as a "gift" on the customs form. The answer is always "no". Last edited by HarryT; 09-06-2009 at 03:02 AM. |
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09-06-2009, 01:14 PM | #67 |
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What if that relative lives in the same house with me (spouse)?
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09-06-2009, 01:32 PM | #68 | |
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09-06-2009, 10:24 PM | #69 | |
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My guess is that it's just an automated Google translation from Chinese, and if Astak later wrote the manual without saying themselves "hey, the English sucks, let's correct it and send a simple excel file with the original sentences and the corresponding corrected sentences to the OEM so they can fix it", then they are either very lazy, or don't care, or perhaps the manual is an automated Google translation too. Frankly, as the amount of words used in the various menu and options of a specialized device such as an ereader is quite low, it's would probably take less than 30mins to correct everything for a native speaker, and less than 2H to create a corrected firmware and check every menus back at the OEM factory. |
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09-07-2009, 03:59 PM | #70 | |
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09-07-2009, 04:37 PM | #71 | |
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At least the Google language tools are somewhat decent, indeed things could have been worse. And it may ends up as a nice conversation piece to explain why you started Chinese classes |
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