etitors:
- AOL Instant Messenger
- Google Talk, Google
- Windows Live Messenger
- Yahoo! Messenger
- Skype, eBay
Users could buy QQ coin through cell phone, on-line banking, or convenience store.
The currency of QQ Coin:
1 QQ Coin = 1 RMB = 0.14 US
1 QQ Coin = 10000 Game Coin
Although there are numbers of free features in QQ, now I will introduce some non-free features. These non-free features are very popular in China, especially among teenage users.
QQ Family: Using the QQ coin to buy the virtual furniture for QQ family. The value of virtual furniture is from 0 coins to 29 coins. But now this service is combined with Q-Zone. That means the clients operate QQ family in their Q-Zone.
Q-Zone: It is similiar Blog. Each QQ client has their own Q-Zone.
QQ Show: QQ clients go to QQ online shop and buy items such as clothes, shoes, handbags to express their personal avatars.
QQ offer six diamond services to QQ users. QQ users should pay the price of 10 Yuan, which is about $1.3 USD per month to open each diamond service. All the diamond services are involved by QQ users’ own free will. There are six color of diamonds, so each color is stand for different services in QQ.
- Red, for the QQ show service. i.e.: The red diamond users could get discount of items on QQ shop.
- Yellow, for the Qzone service which is similar to a blog. i.e.: Have a 200M photo ablum.
- Blue, which is for QQ games. i.e.: The blue diamond users could have some rights to enter into the full QQ game room.
- Purple, which is shared between two tencent games, QQ r2beat, a korean music game, and QQ tang, an action game.
- Pink, for QQ pet, a small desktop game about rasing a pet. So far there are 3 generations of pets. Penguin, pig, and Bear (Beta testing).
- Green, for QQ music, which is a software for listening to music directly from the Tencent server. And download the music from QQ freely.
Tencent uses the effect of the QQ brand, and have set up many Q-Gen stores selling QQ branded merchandise such as bags, watches, clothing as well as toy penguins. Q-Gen is franchise stores, so companies or individuals that accord with the requirements could join and open the Q-Gen stores.
Tencent Messenger: Compete with Windows Live Messenger
Tencent want to compete with the competitors and expand their
global market. Tencent release Tencent Messenger, which is targeted to business people. It also provides, in limited form, features that are only available to premium members in normal QQ. The new design makes it easier to use. The author simplified everyday tasks and focused on designing a clean and elegant visual experience. The new style integrates perfectly with Windows XP and Vista.
Here are some key features of "Tencent Messenger":
TM2008 has been redesigned to improve the performance and use less system resources. No matter whether you start-up, sign-in, use contact management or just chat: it will be faster, easier and more reliable.·
Another improvement in TM2008 is the search feature. You can quickly search by nickname; display name, QQ ID or e-mail address and the matching contacts will be sorted intelligently. It’s easier than ever to find new friends and start chatting right away.·
For various kinds of off-line and unread messages, TM2008 introduces a new function called ‘Unread Message Box’. This new design reduces the number of message alerts you receive. However busy it is, you can easily handle the unread messages at your own pace.
TM2008 now launches its brand-new statuses of “Q Me”and “Mute”!“Q Me” tells your friends that you want to have a chat with them. “Mute” keeps you from being disturbed in case of necessary. Meanwhile, the message box can receive the unread messages automatically. You may also edit all statuses except “Invisible” and “Offline” to satisfy your customized requirements.
TM 2008 provides you with lots of personal image choices. Besides recommended images, QQ Show, you could also upload a picture as your personal image and edit it easily at your will.
Learning Chinese by Using QQ
If you want to do the business with Chinese people in the future or want to practice or learn Chinese, using QQ is the best way to improve your Chinese skills. Because using QQ gives you access to millions of language partners, chatting online by QQ is a great way to improve your Chinese and get to meet real Chinese people.This website provide Chinese version and English version QQ, you can register freely.
References:
External links:
(Chinese) Official Website (in Chinese)
(English) Welcome to QQ.co.za (in English)
(English) Learning Chinese Using QQ (in English)
(English) English preview for QQ (In English)
(English) Tencent's first offering in the US (in English)But then, as she says, she met him. I vaguely heard some while ago that Fisher had recently revealed her long ago affair with Harrison Ford–and here I stumbled right into the book that must have done it. A solid half of the book (albeit in the middle) is devoted to “Carrison,” 19 year old Carrie’s affair with the then-married, mid-thirties Harrison Ford during the filming of the first Star Wars. It was a remarkably unsentimental affair, probably some form of friends with benefits except they didn’t even appear especially friendly, and whole passages are devoted to how little he talked.
To give Fisher credit, she’s an engaging writer, with a wonderful sense of humor and a very entertaining voice that managed to make this interesting for a lot longer than it otherwise might have been. But it wasn’t enough, because the fact is–I don’t care about her affair with Harrison Ford. The whole thing is kind of squicky (for all she handles it delicately and with class), and I’d really rather draw a big blazing red line between the actors’ love lives and the characters’ love lives (because Han and Leia–love them and their relationship).
I guess you know you’re a geek when a celebrity starts in on her scandalous love life and your reaction is–yeah, but tell me about Star Wars!! Tell me more about Leia’s hair, and what was it like acting opposite Darth Vader, and how’d you pull off some of the stunts, and on and on. She gets into that stuff a little–a very little, and mostly talks about Harrison. And those journals? Yeah. Of the excerpts provided, it’s all adolescent relationship angst and poetry.
Once she finally gets past Carrison, they’ve already wrapped filming and she’s on to the aftermath. The immediate aftermath was interesting, but I couldn’t muster much sympathy when she got to the convention circuit, especially when she starts describing being a has-been celebrity watching the new blood. I mean–she was Princess Leia, that’s like being the Paul McCartney of the geek world. You’re never not a star. I can’t believe she was ever at a con where she wasn’t a (or the) headliner.
I saw her interviewed when the book was first published, when the revelation about the affair first came out. I was deeply touched by her obvious hurt – and she was young then (!). Also, I don’t think some of the women we see on screen as role models were treated well by their productions*. As far as I remember, when Star Wars became really big, Carrie was not feted like the guys were, and it is still the case that the new young thing is right behind the one who’s just made it – and that’s who production is looking for. That is also the case for ingenue men; but there are more realistic, worthwhile parts for older men then there are women (or people of colour) although thank goodness that is finally beginning to change.
*After seeing Katharine Ross’s interview on the Butch Cassidy DVD, I can’t even watch what used to be my favourite film any more.
I would try Postcards from the Edge, which is probably her most famous book (made into a movie starring Meryl Streep). Can’t say I’ve read it myself, but it probably captures her best as an author since it was very successful.Bartz is decent, but his abilities are fairly niche use. Amazing unit when the situation calls for him, otherwise sort of meh. Kind of like Minfilia.

Rain is also in the same boat, though for you he'll likely still be relevant for a while, as his Undermine skill will sustain you on (some) harder fights until you get good enough units where you can forget about breaking (on most content).

Exdeath is good. Top tier mage. Not highest tier, but definitely top tier. Maybe third best mage in the game? I'm not 100% sure on that, he may be fourth best as I don't utilize magic too often, which leads me to my next point...

Magic damage is very often inferior to physical damage in this game. There are absolutely exceptions (sometimes only magic damage works, for example),