Comments on: Evolution of robots

By: JakeVA

JakeVA — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:26:17 +0000

The translations above are generally correct, but not perfect.

“Die Auslese war hart” – the selection was hard
“Doch jetzt ist sie da” – but it is now here
“die stärkste Technik aller Zeiten” – the best technology of all time
“gnadenlos günstig” – mercilessly affordable
“Saturn, wir hassen teuer” – Saturn, we hate expensive

The grammar is fine. This is how germans talk.

Furthermore, “Geiz ist geil” means greed is awesome. “geil” also means, more colloquially, sexy.

By: Stan9FOS

Stan9FOS — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:46:37 +0000

Sexy robot girl speaking german = Who cares WHAT she’s saying, I GOTS to get me one of THESE!

By: Grump

Grump — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:10:59 +0000

In Discworld, luggage eats you!

By: Crux Australis

Crux Australis — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:00:54 +0000

Haben wir BABloggees wer Deutsches sprechen?

Why did you say you want to eat my luggage?

By: Jonas E

Jonas E — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:25:03 +0000

Perhaps they have misspelled the slogan. They might have meant “Wir hassen Tiere”. “We hate animals!”

By: LL

LL — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:24:23 +0000

Now this will be an evidence against the robot creationists…

By: Devonian

Devonian — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:25:55 +0000

And here we see the prehistory of Cybertron…

By: Tim Bennett

Tim Bennett — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:18:45 +0000

If they’re deliberately using bad grammar, I’d say a better translation is “Saturn is epic win!”

By: loosely_coupled

loosely_coupled — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:09:01 +0000

@Chuck

HAHAHAH… Oh man that made me laugh.. “weeee haaatez expennnnsssssive” in that shrill creepy Gollum voice!

By: JJonahJansen

JJonahJansen — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:37:10 +0000

@Valis

You’ve got the author wrong; Great Sky River was written by Gregory Benford.
You are right about the quality tho’ – great reading. I’ll assume you’ve read the other five books in the series. If not; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic_Center_Saga

By: Levi

Levi — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:18:05 +0000

Ich wünschte, ich hätte eine Roboterfrau. Mein Computer ist doch nicht sexy.

By: Elmar_M

Elmar_M — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:08:08 +0000

Yeah, we have Saturn here as well. I dont like their slogans either. “Geiz ist geil” was a horrible one at that. This new one is only a small improvement over that if any at all.
Saturn is for some reason still better than Media Markt, which has less annoying commercials, but crappier service. The weird part of that is, that both belong to the same group.
The commercial sure was cool though. I love animation and this wone was pretty neat!

By: jf

jf — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:03:43 +0000

@ blindw@cher:
The woman at the end is Verónica Hugo.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:49:49 +0000

Hah- apparently the apex of robot/steampunk evolution is everything will be come a hot cyborg woman.

By: Chris CII

Chris CII — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:15:40 +0000

Saturn is a german electronics stores chain, but with stores all over Europe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_(store)

By: Thomas Siefert

Thomas Siefert — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:13:05 +0000

“Wir hassen teuer”, we must have said that a thousand times over on our New Year trip to Vienna, the pound has really taken a pounding recently.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:07:15 +0000

Chuck: thank you for that, now I hear it too. But it beats the German version

By: Valis

Valis — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:55:33 +0000

Hmm… Anyone ever read Greg Bear’s “Great Sky River”? One of the best SF novels regarding machine’s evolution…

By: kuhnigget

kuhnigget — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:53:00 +0000

@ Shane:

In the Pixar film, Monsters, Inc., the name of the restaurant is “Harryhausen’s”.

Ray’s movies inspired several generations of animators and special effects artists. His film, Earth vs. The Flying Saucers, was one of the first to capitalize on the flying saucer craze, and ironically, became the visual inspiration for countless “sightings” that followed.

By: AndreasB

AndreasB — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:45:10 +0000

PanterD2S: Media Markt hasn’t been a competitor to Saturn since 1990 when Media Markt bought Saturn. Now they are both owned by MediaSaturn Holding.

As for the ad, I haven’t seen it full length on TV. I saw the full version only in a cinema as one of the pre-film commercials. And for those wondering, a cyber woman of some sort has been part of the Saturn commercials and the brand for many years now.

By: Shane

Shane — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:45:10 +0000

I saw the Corpse Bride the other day for the first time. Awesome stop motion animation. There is a nice easter egg in it… Vincent plays a “Harryhausen” piano.

By: kuhnigget

kuhnigget — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:34:15 +0000

As good as CGI animation is getting, I’ll still take good old fashioned stop motion. May the Great God Nesuahyrrah bless you all.

By: Frank

Frank — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:10:32 +0000

Does anyone actually believe in the NOSTRADAUS 2012 documentary played last night in the History Channel???

By: JoeSmithCA

JoeSmithCA — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:10:21 +0000

Oh no that’s an equivelent of Fry’s Electronics in Germany? Egads, next they’ll be drinking French beer.

Cool comercial though

By: CafeenMan

CafeenMan — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:51:55 +0000

Wharaloadobutterybuttocks!

Robots don’t evolve any more than anything else does. God made robots as they are from powdered iron and they’ve been that way for 6,000 years.