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Jean-Francois Amadei  //  大家好!

My name is Jean-François Amadei, I'm a 24 years old guy living between Hong Kong and Taipei. I'm a former Technology Evangelist at Toro-Asia.com and Digital Media Strategist at Ogilvy Digital Influence HK. I'm currently working on a new Taipei based venture in the mobile application business.

Feb 4 / 1:32am

Difference among young adults in China who born after 1970, 80, and 90 (traduction française)

 

This is an excellent article that I found on the NCIKU's blog (NCIKU is an amazing website for all the people learning chinese but unfortunately they do not support traditional chinese characters, thus I prefer use Yellowbridge instead). I copy it here with french translation for my fellow frenchmen 

70後、80後、90後的離奇區別

Difference among young adults in China who born after 1970, 80, and 90:

La difference entre les jeunes adultes chinois né apres les années 70, 80 et 90 :

 

1、Work:

70後:工作狂基本上都是70後的。

70: Many of them are workaholics.

70: Il se tuent au travail

 

80後:而我們,拒絕加班!

80: Extra hours? No way!

80: Des heures sup' ? Même pas en rêve...

 

90後:拒絕上班!

90: We don’t even go to work!

90: Travailler ? Même pas en rêve...

 

 

2、Style:

70後:他們喜歡穿七匹狼或者猛龍牌子的衣服。

70: We like certain name brand.

70: On aime certaines marques

 

80後:我們喜歡G-Star之類的。

80: We like something as G-Star…

80: On aime les truc du style G-Star

 

90後:乞丐服,越花越好,越破越好..一個洞時尚,兩個洞潮流,三個洞個性...

90: Boho chic.

90: Boho Chic.

 

 

3、Entertainment

70後:他們唱k的時候只會亂吼──例如2002年的第一場雪,然後就拼命拉著你喝酒,不讓你唱。

70: Roaring Karaoke

70: Allons au Karaoke!

 

80後:Mic霸一般是我們。

80:We are king of karaoke.

80: Nous sommes les rois du Karaoke

 

90後:我們不止會唱,還會跳!

90: We are not only karaoke, but also dance ok.

90: Pas seulement le Karaoke, mais aussi Danse Ok

 

 

4、 Topic

70後:他們的話題除了工作就是股票。

70: We talk about job and stock market only.

70: On ne parle que de boulot et des marchés boursiers

 

80後:我們的話題更多,有英超、魔獸……

80: We talk about game online.

80: On ne parle que des jeux-videos online

 

90後:QQ等級,QQ秀...

90: We talk about QQ on QQ…

90: On parle de QQ sur QQ... (l'equivalent de MSN en Chine)

 

5、Accessories

70後:他們如果有筆記本,會喜歡到公眾場合用。

70: They want to show up with a notebook in public.

70: Ils veulent se montrer avec un ordinateur portable en public

 

80後:我們才不會背那麼重的東西在身上。

80: We don't want carry anything heavy, such as a notebook..

80: Nous ne voulons pas porter des choses lourdes, genre ordinateur portable

 

90後:只要蘋果筆記本,而且不止一台...

90: Apple notebook only, and more than one…

90: Seulement des Macbook, et plus d'un...

 

6、Drink

70後:他們喜歡喝紅酒,一般是長城紅酒。

70: They usually like red wine, such as Great Wall red wine.

70: Ils aiment le vin rouge, genre le vin "Grande Muraille de Chine" (disponible chez tous les magasins Tang Frère qui se respectent)

 

80後:我們要么不喝酒,要么就喝啤酒。

80: Many of us don't drink, or drink beer only.

80: On boit très peu, où seulement de la biere.

 

90後:韓國果汁,日本汽水...

90: Korean Juice, Japanese soda…

90: Jus coréens, soda japonais...

 

 

7、Social

70後:他們無論任何時候,看到有站著的領導,都會馬上給領導讓座。

70:Whenever they see boss stands, they will get a chair for boss.

70: Dés que le patron arrive, tous le monde se leves.

 

80後:我們崇尚上下級平等。

80: Every body should be equal.

80: Tous le monde doit être égaux

 

90後:天上地下,唯我獨尊!

90: I am the most important one!

90 : JE suis le plus important

 

 

8、Marriage

70後:他們娶老婆的時候想娶處女。

70: My wife has to be a virgin.

70: Ma femme doit être vierge

 

80後:我們覺得無所謂,只要相互感情好就可以了。

80: Virgin or not does not matter, only if I love her.

80: Vierge où pas c'est pas grave, tant que je l'aime.

 

90後:結婚需要感情嗎? ..需要結婚嗎? ..

90: Do we have to be in love to get marry? Do we even need marriage?

90: Doit-on vraiment être amoureux pour se marier ? Avons-nous vraiment besoin de mariage ?

 

 

9、World view

70後:他們覺得每個日本人、美國人、台灣人都想攻打中國。

70: They thought that China was hostile by Japan, America, and Taiwan.

70: Ils pensent que le Japon, les USA et Taiwan leurs est hostile.

 

80後:我們喜歡日本的連續劇、台灣的綜藝節目、美國的大片。

80: We like Japanese TV drama, Taiwan TV show, and American movie.

80: On adore les emissions de television venant du Japon et de Taiwan, sans oublier les films americains

 

90後:我要去日本,因為我是日系MM...

90: I am Japanese style …

90: Je vis à la mode Japanaise

 

 

10、View of war

70後:他們希望中國用核彈把上面三個國家(地區)都滅了。

70: China has to be powerful.

70: La Chine doit devenir une super puissance

 

80後:我們希望和平。

80: We love peace.

80: On veux la paix

 

90後:和我無關!打仗衣服會降價嗎?那就打唄~~

90: We don't care! if war would cut down the price of my favorite dress, go ahead!

90: On s'en tamponne, si la guerre peux faire baisser les prix de ma robe favorite, qu'on la fasse!

 

 

11、Moral

70後:他們對服務員態度惡劣,或者言語上調戲女服務員。

70: They treat waitress impolitely.

70: Ils traitent les serveurs de façon très malpolie

 

80後:我們只在點菜和結帳時會跟服務員說話。

80: Not even want to talk to waitress.

80: On adresse pas la parole aux serveurs

 

90後:從不和waitress說話,只會背後討論她的衣服很土...

90: Never talk to waitress, but gossip and tease them

90: En plus de ne pas leur adresser la paroles, on leurs casse les bonbons pendant qu'ils bossent...

 

 

12、Money

70後:我們有存款。

70: We have money in bank.

70: On a de l'argent dans notre compte en banque

 

80後:我們負債。

80: We have loan.

80: On a un credit sur le dos

 

90後:我們有老爸!

90: We have rich daddy!

90: On a un papa très riche

 

 

13、House

70後:他們會把房子買在番禺或者花都,然後每天早上花一個多小時乘車去上班。

70: We buy a house away from city, and spend an hour to work by bus.

70: On achète une maison loin de la ville et on passe notre vie dans les transports en commun.

 

80後:我們喜歡在公司附近租房子,每天騎車或走路去上班,就為了早上多睡一會。

80: Because we want to get up late in morning, we just rent a room close to work place, and ride a bike or walk to work.

80: Par ce qu'on aime faire la grasse matinée, on loue simplement une petite piece prêt du bureau et on y va à pied où en velo

 

90後:我們住哪裡都可以,只要BF喜歡...

90: I live wherever my boy friend lives…

90: J'habite chez mon petit ami

 

 

14、Friend

70後:他們結交有背景有地位的人。

70: We make friend with good background.

70: On se fait des amis de bonne famille

 

80後:我們結交志趣相投的人。

80: We make friend with somebody I like.

80: On se fait ami avec des gens que l'on aime, qui nous ressemblent.

 

90後:我們結交滿身文身的帥哥!

90: My friends are cool men with tattoo.

90: J'ai des amis très cool avec plein de tatouages!

 

 

15、Weekend

70後:他們週末約客戶去吃飯。

70: They spend the weekend by taking clients to dinner.

70: Ils passent leurs weekend a emmener leurs clients à dejeuner.

 

80後:我們週末約同學去踢球。

80: We play ball with friends on weekend.

80: On se fait un foot entre copains

 

90後:一個禮拜7天週末,想做什麼做什麼!

90: 7 days a week, everyday is weekend to us. We do whatever we want!

90: On est en weekend 7 jours par semaines, on fait ce que l'on veux !

 

 

16、Alcohol

70後:他們喝酒時喜歡跟別人乾杯

70: They always cheers and finish all alcohol.

70: Ils passent leur temp à trinquer et à finir toutes les bouteilles

 

80後:我們能喝多少喝多少,喝不下了,怎麼也不肯再喝

80: We drink as much as we can take.

80: On boit autant que possible

 

90後:我不是隨便喝酒的人,我隨便喝起酒來不是人~

90: We don't drink that often, but if we start to drink, we drink a lot…

90: On boit pas souvent mais quand on boit, on ne fait pas les choses à moitié!

 

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Dec 14 / 12:45am

Playing with Pixelmator's "Comic Effect"

I love Pixelmators for several reasons :
  • Cheap (40€)
  • Light
  • Made on a Mac, for Mac with all Mac technologies
  • GPU Powered
  • Suitable for super noobs (like me) as well as more advanced people (even though I guess that really pro will still prefer use Photoshop)
Last night I was playing with their "Comic Effect" (wrongly translated "Effet Comique" ("Funny Effect") in French) and I was impressed by the results on these pictures, taken for one of the Miss' presentation about brands effect.

                   
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Dec 13 / 12:58am

My Dragon Ball Collection is growing up

Even though Skritter.com is (IMO) the best tool to learn fast and efficiently Chinese characters (their system is just magical with something like 95% retention rate) it's not enough. Not enough because it's (for now) only a "one way" learning, that is from the pinyin/definition to the character, if you know how to write a character from pinyin doesn't mean you can read the character alone, you need to train for that too.

As I don't have time yet to go to school (February hopefully) I train myself to read and pronounce almost every character I see in the street, but that's not enough as well. Not enough because even though you can read "李記滷味", it won't help you much in your daily life. Therefore, I decide to start reading something that wouldn't be too hard to begin with, with a story I already like and know very well : Dragon Ball

I was a huge Dragon Ball fan when I was a kid (I still have 400 or so episodes archived in a BD-R somewhere) and I always wanted to read the comic version. It looks like silly, but it actually helps me quite a lot, even tough it's quite long (I need almost one week to fully finish one).

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Dec 11 / 1:54am

HKU's 181st Congregation Opening with Chinese Anthem

A friend of mine posted that video on Facebook but as it was under some privacy settings I post the video here as well.

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Dec 9 / 3:56am

The Hong Kong University's 181th Congregation

Monday night I jumped in a plane for a very short trip (less than 24h) to attend two events :

  • The Hong Kong University's 181th Congregation where thousand of graduands like me were awarded the grade of Bachelor/Master/Doctor. It was quite impressive for me given the size of the event, in France we simply don't have anything like this (For instance you can take a look at this picture showing my cousin (proud of you, man!) who is a Doctor in Law since Monday, it's much more...small :) ).
It was trully memorable (especially the moment where I had to wear that stupid unwearable gown! It's very difficult if you aren't helped by a friend) but short because right after the ceremony I had to run to the airport (1km far) to take my plane back to Taipei.

PS : Yes I wore my Bruce Lee tie!!!

                                               
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Dec 2 / 7:24pm

Back on the PC track



No one really forget their first love, the one who made you discover what this world really is, the one taught you everything. No one a forgot how we (almost) all shamelessly dump her when she got old for a new pretty very sexy from Cupertino who came with a lot of expensive accessories.

OSX is still undoubtedly the best OS available on the 2009 market, but the main difference is that now Microsoft Windows 7 doesn't "Sucks" anymore. It's not perfect, but it's good enough for me (and quite a lot of people) to consider buying a PC again. Why do I do that? Here are three main reasons:

  • I already have several powerful Mac at home and at work, one more (desktop) would be expensive and quite useless
  • I'm a former (well, it's still lie within...somewhere) video game junkie and OSX is not the best platform for that.
  • Taiwan is just the best place in the world for that kind of thing
Thus I'm starting to buy pieces after pieces, this week I got a free (Thanks Steve!) Radeon HD8570 (I haven't used an ATI cards since...my 9600XT!) and 2Gb of ram, next week I'll buy the motherboard...etc...etc
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Nov 27 / 9:14am

Tortue's Garage Vol.7

I've lately resumed my "4h a day searching for the latest and trendiest tunes on internet" old addiction (that I've stopped when I was too busy starting Chillr with Steve) and I though it was a good opportunity to resume the Tortue's Garage as well. As usual, you will find here what I like but it won't necessary be a new song.

Superfunk Feat. Ron Caroll - Lucky Star (David Vendetta Remix)

  
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Superfunk is a group of DJ's from my old good city of Marseille with Fafa Monteco, Stephane Mike B and 303 at the commands, they released their first album "Hold Up" in 2000 in collaboration with Ron Carroll on the track "Lucky Star". In line with the French Touch at the time, Superfunk released several HUGE hits like "The Young MC" or "Come Back".

Lucky Star is one of these song that suddenly makes me remember some good old memories (I was just starting/about to start the senior high in 2000), I was quite happy to find out that David Vendetta has lately released one the best remix ever of this song.

Naomi Yohani - Darling

Let's move from house music to R'N'B with Naomi Yohani, she's an up-and-coming singer/songwriter from Taipei (Taiwan) that sings in a variety of styles, ranging from urban R&B and hip-hop to pop and jazz. One of her song is already available on the iTunes store but her debut album will be available in 2010.

Darling by Naomi Yohani  
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Nov 25 / 12:15am

Let's make Taiwan cities listed in Foursquare!

If you follow this blog and/or my tweets means that you certainly possess plenty of geeks molecule deep in your skins and I'm pretty sure that you feel pissed off (well, that's ok if you aren't :D ) that most of majors Asian cities (Shanghai, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur...etc) are listed in Foursquare but not Taipei!

It's hardly understandable as Taipei is a real geek city (check the pics of the last Techcrunch Meetup, it was packed!) with a lot of people ready to use extensively the service. But maybe people at Foursquare aren't aware about that, thus I suggest you (if you live in Taipei or not, please help us!) to go to the "Will cities of Taiwan be added?" page on GetSatisfaction and vote for this question (and let a message if you will), if there are enough votes I guess that may help to speed up the adding process.

Thx!
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Nov 22 / 11:07pm

An ad that just works

We might be often annoyed by ads but let's face it we're addicted to them; the first thing I got rid of when I installed a no-ads plugin for Firefox (when I was a Firefox user a long ago) was the plugin itself, the websites became much less lively without all the garlands. Some people (rightly) think that advertising is art and that you need more than a genius touches to makes thing work (i.e make people interested to your product or your brand in here).

Obviously Sun Life Financial hired the right company. One sentence, few figures and all is clear to us, even for people (like me) who never heard about SLF before. Just excellent. 


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Nov 22 / 4:51am

The Matt Porter's Android Mythbuster

Android is plateform that I strongly support as a business and I believe in it (but I'm not a fan yet of the current UI's). Gameloft is not really agree with that and it's perfectly understandable as Google is playing the "I've done my part of the job, now it's your (the dev) turn" game and seems not having done enough to “entice customers to actually buy products” on the google's marketplace. The lack of a desktop store (à la iTunes, Do you think it can be made by a third party ?) is one of many example (even though most of the App on the iPhone are bought directly from the phone itself).

But what does core developers think about the platform (I work with dev all day long but I'm not one of them)? Few weeks ago, the Embedded Linux Conference Europe was held in the French city of Grenoble and one of the presentation was named "Android Mythbuster" 

This talk examines the myths and realities of the Android Operating System. Android has achieved an amazing level of anticipation and media coverage largely due to Google's backing. However, much of the technical and mainstream media coverage has led people to misunderstand the technology behind Android. In this session, we will explore the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), examine the AOSP developer community, and learn why Android is not "Linux". The discussion will cover the challenges involved in developing Android- based devices and porting Android to the MIPS architecture.

Matt Porter started contributing to Linux as an early Debian GNU/Linux developer. He has developed and maintained support for embedded systems in the mainline kernel including PowerPC VME/cPCI systems, PowerPC 4xx, and the RapidIO subsystem.
Matt led the Linux effort at Motorola Computer Group and later joined MontaVista Software as the founding member of the Arizona engineering center. He joined with other embedded Linux veterans to found Embedded Alley and now works on embedded Linux and Android product architecture.

And as Harald Welte says in his blog about Matt Porter and the presentation:

As you may know, Matt Porter was heavily involved in the MIPS and PPC ports of Android, so he and his team have seen the lowest levels of Android, more and deeper than even cellphone manufacturers ever have to look into it.

He continues: 

The presentation shows how Google has simply thrown 5-10 years of Linux userspace evolution into the trashcan and re-implemented it partially for no reason. Things like hard-coded device lists/permissions in object code rather than config files, the lack of support for hot-plugging devices (udev), the lack of kernel headers. A libc that throws away System V IPC that every unix/Linux software developer takes for granted. The lack of complete POSIX threads. I could continue this list, but hey, you should read those slides. now!

Indeed these slides are a must read but I still wonder (yeah I don't have all the answers, I'm in the business since few months only after all) how this particular architecture will affect Android both on the development and the users side.

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