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Writing Software for Worldwide Distribution Proves Difficult
lupa1420 writes "Insensitive computer programmers with little knowledge of geography have cost the giant Microsoft company hundreds of millions of dollars in lost business and led hapless company employees to be arrested by offended governments."
WRT the former issues, there are all sorts of things we do that is offensive. We put Australia on the bottom of the map. Why? We use a projection mechanism that distorts the sizes of geographic regions. Even the colors might be offensive to some one.
Stupid programming example are translating an english word into a profane word in the other language. Or catagorizing text by english usage rather than by funtion. What we have here are normal management decisions.
"She's a scientist and a lesbian. She's not going to let it slide." Orphan Black
Seattle is a 6-8 hour drive from the Pacific Ocean. It's about 150 miles from the coast.
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You must made TFA's point, congratulations
we worry about security patches and updates, while they worry about birthday references, map errors, and of course holy sacred bullsh*t
this is why i think we need to BOMB more people
i don't think it's the article so much that is lame. it's these stupid people who get offended over stupidest crap!
Actually that's about right. That 150 miles is as the crow files, not as the road drives. There's a 45 minute ferry ride plus wait time to factor in, and many of the roads are 30-40 miles per hour. No interstates between Seattle and the coast.
Well, using your own words: If you are going to fucking ty to sell your fucking crappy software to a fucking foreign country, you might want to fucking get to know your fucking custormers first and fucking sell them something they fucking want instead of flooding the market with fucking crap.
I just hate those fuckers people in some retarded countries going ballistic over obviously innocent errors. I don't fucking care whether there is a queen in Uruguay or whatever some retarded (that's redundant, I know) Muslims believe.
I am Russian and I don't explode every time I see Russia portrayed in movies or on TV as lotsa Siberia snow, old babushka going somewhere, some alcoholics with vodka. Not to mention fur hats on everyone and bears. So what? Those who make such mistakes just show their ignorance. Big fucking deal.
I say that those retards who didn't learn the most important lesson of all (nobody gives a fuck about your country or you, especially when making fighting games) should not be let into the global society.
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European news--"Is there any way we can blame this on the US?"
It's fun to generalize an entire nation's news media with no examples or logic or reasoning.
Not to mention violating UN resolutions.
And who really gives a shit about the UN, other than no-name nations who'd otherwise never get a say in anything, anywhere?
Fuck the UN.
Max
My god carries a hammer. Your god died nailed to a tree. Any questions?
"He went ballistic. It was an incredible insult to Islam." He asked for the game to be withdrawn but it was issued against his advice in the United States in the belief that it would not be noticed.
Moslems are simply too sensitive. They go fucking nuts over things that seem world-shatteringly important to them but don't mean anything to anyone else. As a consequence, Moslems have a world-wide reputation of being trigger-happy and prone to violence over trival and imaginary slights.
C'mon, guys, this is bad for Islam. Next time you feel gravely insulted by someone from outside the Islamic world who knows almost nothing about your religion or culture, take a deep breath, say a quick prayer, and give a reasonable, detailed and calm explanation as to why you feel the situation is inappropriate. Don't just whip out your sword or suicide bombers.
Deal with reality. In the modern technological world, religion isn't all that important and Islam is one of least important religions of them all. If you'all didn't have so much oil, no one would give a fuck about you or your religion. That's the truth.
For example,take the Palestinians (please!). Here's a 'country' of only five million people or so who have been on the evening news every fucking night for the past thirty years. What do they make that the world desperately needs? Why are they so fucking important? You could take all the Palestinians and put them in Los Angeles and it would be six months before anyone realized that they weren't Mexicans. You could put all the Palestinians in some place like Kinshasa, Lagos, Mumbai, or Sao Paulo and a few weeks later they would just be gone as if they never existed.
Even if they got their independence they would still be a dirt poor country with no ability to feed their own people or provide jobs. They're just a welfare country that lives on handouts from rich northern European countries. With hundreds of billions of dollars in oil revenue a year, what have the Gulf OPEC states ever done for Palestine? Nothing.
anyway, running out of time and gotta go. Please write and tell me how insensitive I am. I love it.