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Taken today in Shanghai via camera phone, it looks like Apple is finally spending some money on marketing in China.
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What does it say next to the Shuffle? I can only make out 生活 (the two first characters), and the fourth one looks like it could be 机...
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Originally Posted by Ois�n
What does it say next to the Shuffle? I can only make out 生活 (the two first characters), and the fourth one looks like it could be 机...
Can't make it out (damn Scandinavian camera phones!) 
Will get a better shot next time one goes past and post it.
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honestly, im amazed that a camera phone took that quality pic. i personally hate camera phones, all i get is crappy pictures from friends all the time. what MP is that????
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Originally Posted by moonmonkey
Taken today in Shanghai via camera phone, it looks like Apple is finally spending some money on marketing in China.
Did the bus just rearend that car? 
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Originally Posted by greenamp
Did the bus just rearend that car?
No, they're always that close on each other's tails in China. With 10+ million cars in the city, you can't afford to lose two feet of space between every pair of cars, y'know.
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Originally Posted by moonmonkey
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Taken today in Shanghai via camera phone, it looks like Apple is finally spending some money on marketing in China.
Where was that taken? I can't make out the street sign, and the building on the left looks familiar but I can't quite place it.
I wanna go back to Shanghai. 
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Its a Nokia 6020 (best phone I have ever had)
The photo in JinLing Road (parallel with Yanan Road and HuaHi Road), the bus is about to turn right on the XiZang Road, behind me when I took the photo was the new Shanghai Grand Theatre.
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Does the bus have a shuffle mode?
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Originally Posted by TailsToo
Does the bus have a shuffle mode?
Maybe the bus randomly charges a different fare.
Remember, "Life is random". 
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Originally Posted by andretan
Maybe the bus randomly charges a different fare.
Remember, "Life is random".
More like the buses randomly swerve and slam on the brakes to avoid cars/pedestrians/old men walking around in their underwear/bicylists or accellerate wildly to squeeze through the space between adjacent lanes when the cars in those lanes thoughtless drift slightly appart.
I love China. 
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Originally Posted by nonhuman
More like the buses randomly swerve and slam on the brakes to avoid cars/pedestrians/old men walking around in their underwear/bicylists or accellerate wildly to squeeze through the space between adjacent lanes when the cars in those lanes thoughtless drift slightly appart.
I love China.
I think it's the same in Asian countries.
You pay so much (varies from $40k to 6-figure sums) for a car, and you end up so stressed from driving. It's nuts I tell you.
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Originally Posted by andretan
I think it's the same in Asian countries.
You pay so much (varies from $40k to 6-figure sums) for a car, and you end up so stressed from driving. It's nuts I tell you.
From what people who've lived in both Singapore and Mainland China tell me, you may count yourself lucky to be living in Singapore, traffic-wise. Granted, your cars are expensive as hell (unlike China), but your traffic is almost zen-like, compared to that of Beijing or Shanghai - not to mention most parts of the countryside, where people have never even heard of the existence of such things as traffic laws, much less of having any sort of desire to adhere to them in any way.
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Originally Posted by Ois�n
From what people who've lived in both Singapore and Mainland China tell me, you may count yourself lucky to be living in Singapore, traffic-wise. Granted, your cars are expensive as hell (unlike China), but your traffic is almost zen-like, compared to that of Beijing or Shanghai - not to mention most parts of the countryside, where people have never even heard of the existence of such things as traffic laws, much less of having any sort of desire to adhere to them in any way.
Yeah, driving through narrow curving mountain roads where one lane is often blocked off by rock slides at 70-ish mph with the big blue dump trucks (you know what I'm talking about) barreling down the other direction even faster in the dark with a Chinese guy at the wheel who you're pretty sure might be drunk... best damned time of my life.
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Originally Posted by andretan
I think it's the same in Asian countries.
You pay so much (varies from $40k to 6-figure sums) for a car, and you end up so stressed from driving. It's nuts I tell you.
From what I hear Thailand is the worst, but I haven't been there (yet).
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Originally Posted by nonhuman
From what I hear Thailand is the worst, but I haven't been there (yet).
only in Bangkok. However, now the new skytrain and subway systems help a lot.
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Originally Posted by Ois�n
From what people who've lived in both Singapore and Mainland China tell me, you may count yourself lucky to be living in Singapore, traffic-wise. Granted, your cars are expensive as hell (unlike China), but your traffic is almost zen-like, compared to that of Beijing or Shanghai - not to mention most parts of the countryside, where people have never even heard of the existence of such things as traffic laws, much less of having any sort of desire to adhere to them in any way.
IMHO, I'd have to admit that what you hear is partly true. 
But in reality, we don't get zen-like traffic.
We have pretty strict traffic laws here, but still, Big Brother doesn't watch us 24/7. We still have morons who drive at night without turning on their lights at all, or just turning on their fog-lamps, or when they do, they adjust their headlamps to high-beam and blind you from the back, and not forgetting the morons who do not use their signal lamps and simple stuff like that. 
For China, bicycles are still one of the main form of commuting. Try that in Singapore, and either you'd be perspiring like you're in a sauna, or attempting suicide (I'd dare say 70% of the buses and cabs will honk at you or try to cut you off.)
Originally Posted by nonhuman
From what I hear Thailand is the worst, but I haven't been there (yet).
Bangkok.
For Indonesia, I think it's Jakarta, and for Malaysia, it's Kuala Lumpur.
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*Note: The shuffle advertised on that bus is not true to size. You have been warned!
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Originally Posted by andretan
For China, bicycles are still one of the main form of commuting. Try that in Singapore, and either you'd be perspiring like you're in a sauna, or attempting suicide (I'd dare say 70% of the buses and cabs will honk at you or try to cut you off.)
Whoever said they don't do that in China? My former flatmate nearly got killed more times than he could count, just biking to school in that inferno called 北京早上高峰期. One phenomenon which you Singaporeans (according to another Beijing flatmate who lived in Singapore for two years) are spared is the concept of somehow managing to turn a narrow two-lane road into a five-lane avenue. Somehow, the Chinese seem incapable of fathoming that doing this, and especially trying to constantly move back and forth between these five crammed-in lanes to follow the fastest one, slows them down, rather than speeding them up. Silly hats...
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Apple should use Ziyi for shuffle ads in china.
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a solitary firefly flies at nite
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Originally Posted by nonhuman
From what I hear Thailand is the worst, but I haven't been there (yet).
You have obviously never been to New Delhi.
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Originally Posted by Oisín
From what people who've lived in both Singapore and Mainland China tell me, you may count yourself lucky to be living in Singapore, traffic-wise. Granted, your cars are expensive as hell (unlike China), but your traffic is almost zen-like, compared to that of Beijing or Shanghai - not to mention most parts of the countryside, where people have never even heard of the existence of such things as traffic laws, much less of having any sort of desire to adhere to them in any way.
Yeah, Singapore and Hong Kong are very civilized compared to China, they drive on the left too which is usually a sign of deep seated intelligence.
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Originally Posted by moonmonkey
You have obviously never been to New Delhi.
It's on my list.
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Dude, traffic is sooo scary in China. I was so freaked out when I was there. Traffic was kind of like controlled chaos.
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Originally Posted by MilkmanDan
Dude, traffic is sooo scary in China. I was so freaked out when I was there. Traffic was kind of like controlled chaos.
Controlled?
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Originally Posted by nonhuman
Controlled?
Hey, that's my line. Line stealer!
Anyway, I just thought of it: Of course Chinese traffic is controlled. Haven't you ever noticed those omnipotent traffic cops running around in every intersection with their red flags and whistles? Those people have everything under control...
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Originally Posted by Oisín
Hey, that's my line. Line stealer!
Anyway, I just thought of it: Of course Chinese traffic is controlled. Haven't you ever noticed those omnipotent traffic cops running around in every intersection with their red flags and whistles? Those people have everything under control...
Oh yeah. Forgot about them.
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Originally Posted by Oisín
Hey, that's my line. Line stealer!
Anyway, I just thought of it: Of course Chinese traffic is controlled. Haven't you ever noticed those omnipotent traffic cops running around in every intersection with their red flags and whistles? Those people have everything under control...
What's funny i those ladies and gentlemen are actually doing community service for traffic violations.
Nobody listens to them anyway...... their criminals.
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Originally Posted by moonmonkey
What's funny i those ladies and gentlemen are actually doing community service for traffic violations.
Nobody listens to them anyway...... their criminals.
I did not know that!!!
Wow, suddenly it all makes so much sense... Never again will I feel guilty for pretending not to hear and/or understand them, and thus ignoring them completely and crossing red light after red light in China! Hah!
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