Quotes About Localization

The scaling theory of localization demonstrated that the disorder-induced M-I transition was a true phase transition with a well defined critical point.

Just because it tastes good in Hong Kong, it doesn't necessarily translate elsewhere.

Though most of my titles are translated into about 7 to 8 languages, I feel that translations, to some extent, can lose the flavour of the colloquial words used otherwise in the regional narrative.

I can't stand it when restaurants don't have a sense of place in a city. When I'm in London, I want to know I'm in London. When you're sitting in my joint, you know you're sitting in Seattle.

Norwich isn't the north or the south; there's a kind of otherness to it. It doesn't have an overwhelming sense of itself, like, say, Yorkshire or Cornwall does.

At Sussex University, I developed a system called WinLocX to help with the process of translating software into foreign languages.

Back in the early days of international, everybody wanted to customize the menu for every place.

The Runaway Five's obvious influence is The Blues Brothers. During localization, their black and white suits were made more colorful to avoid legal action from Universal Pictures or the film's producers. When I told my wife Aviva about this, she admitted she had never seen The Blues Brothers film. Having grown up on a steady diet of Saturday Night Live-spawned movies, I told her that her innocence here was blasphemous. That night, we marveled together at James Brown's hair.

To this uncertainty about the localization of psychic functions another difficulty is added. Psychic contents in general are nonspatial except in the particular realm of sensation. What bulk can we ascribe to thoughts? Are they small, large, long, thin, heavy, fluid, straight, circular, or what? If we wished to form a vivid picture of a non-spatial being of the fourth dimension, we should do well to take thought, as a being, for our model.

Localizing your comedy always multiplies its humor content because the audience members feel like they're sharing the stage with you.

our hearing is superior to that of dogs in this regard. We have a spatial acuity of less than 1 degree, whereas dogs can localize sounds only in a 4- to 8-degree range.

Why buy sanitary napkins from multinationals when we can make them at home and generate employment?

If we all went to Google right now, or went to Yelp right now, we'd all get the same results, and that seems really, really broken to me. Foursquare should understand the neighborhoods I've spent a lot of time in, and the restaurants that I went to once but never went back to.

The attention given to the side of the head which has received the injury, in connection with a specific reference to the side of the body nervously affected, is in itself evidence that in this case the ancient surgeon was already beginning observations on the localization of functions in the brain.

The old tale of Sleeping Beauty might end happily in French or English, but he was in Russia, and only a fool would want to live through the Russian version of any fairy tale.

Translation work involves knowing not just the structure of the language to be translated, but the cultural framework that surrounds it.

English arrived, they bastardized the name to Key West.

All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.

We want our men and women to be closely attuned to the cultures in which they operate and to speak the local language.

God relates to space as we do to our body. He occupies and overflows it but cannot be localized in it. Every point in it is accessible to his consciousness and will, and his manifest presence can be focused in any location as he sees fit. In the incarnation he focused his reality in a special way in the body of Jesus. This

First and foremost, localization is a customer strategy, it's not a cost arbitrage or whatever.

Others think their American ways will work in other countries. That's not always accurate and can be disrespectful to the local culture.

Companies in Europe should stop trying to do the U.S. version of a European idea.

My work had two objectives: the presentation of every type of folktale, the existence of which is documented in Italian dialects; and the representation of all regions of Italy.