Pure capitalism requires no social programs. This is because having a social program goes against the "invisible hand of self interest." In a purely capitalist enconomy it's argued that each person will do what is in their best interests, without restriction by the government, and as such each person will be as well off as they can be.
This fails though, as many people don't save enough money to be able to live effectively once they are unable to work; same also for when they get sick, many people are unable to afford medical expenses on their own, without at least having saved up for them in the first place. People don't do that sort of thing.
Pure capitalism also requires that anyone anywhere can just up and make a business and sell goods. You can't do this in the USA, you can though, in Japan. For instance, in the USA you can't (legally) just walk off a plane as a foreigner and start selling T-shirts at a mall. In Japan, you can.
As for the majority of US spending, after taxes, we also have various bills, let's look at something which is covered under socialist governments: health care (Oooo, there's a biggy). In a socialist government you don't have to put extra money into healthcare, because in general, you're already putting money into these programs in your taxes.
Also, as an interesting asside, Germany automatically withdraws your religious donations for you, for either the Evangelical or Catholic church. This can't be done in the US, because of established doctrine by the government and interpreted into the constitution that no government money will be spent on ANYTHING having to do with religion, (also the reason why the US census doesn't ask you what religion you are.)
So, let's add this stuff up, a.) taxes (of which your company matches your social security payments if they're withdrawing your taxes for you, so if we didn't have this social program, your paycheck would have to be even larger in order to cover that half of your taxes, which leads to an "opportunistic" loss of income) b.) health care.
I don't know about you, but if I were to bundle everything together that I would otherwise already have as a result of taxes in a socialist government; I'd expect the values to converge, rather than diverge. Unless, due to ridiculous pricings in the United States such as say, in perscription drugs, the values were to grow even larger than that given by a socialist state.
The US has numerous social programs, and they all pretty much started at around FDR in order to repair the nation after the Great Depression, which by the way, is exactly what the invisible hand of capitalism leads you to. Everyone trying to make a quick buck at the cost of sanity.
Obligatory bigoted and arrogant American opinion stating that the US is "teh best", and indeed "r0x0rs" despite anyone else's opinions outside of the US.
Well, the "gl_" cvars can be explained by being short for "graphics library", which I suppose it would be even if it was just short for the GL in OpenGL.
But the other information is very interested, and I'm eating my words. Though the libraries that it links to would still be nice. Thanks for your patience, and proof. It's much more appreciated than "STFU n00b, its totally teh OpenGL, umbs!"
Well, statistically, the better choice would be to give the average and the standard of deviation.
Giving the median would be a bad idea, as in your example, the median is 0. But we know darn well that we shouldn't report that sort of information, it's perhaps even more misleading and alarming than 17 per company.
Reporting that the average is 17, but that the standard deviation is 537.033803405335 (an extremely highly high value) would work in the sense that it would be accurate, but wouldn't work in the case that most people wouldn't know or understand what the hell that meant.
Damned statistics. Microsoft has a whole legal department. I'm certain that other major tech companies have the same. Once you average that over the whole, you get 9 lawyers per company.
The point here isn't that the average is higher than one would expect, it's that the standard of deviation is so wide that the statistical information applied for the average is useless except as a "market gauge".
It appears that, in short, the issue didn't become a problem until the web.
Same goes with Apple Records vs Apple Computer. Apple Records didn't have reason to enforce their trademark against a company in computers, but when Apple Computers started allowing their computers to play music (a.k.a. added speakers) Apple Records sued for trademark violation. The agreement was that Apple Computers would stay out of the Music business and Apple Records wouldn't go into the computer field, and both would retain their trademark.
In this case, the wrestling foundation had wwf.com, while the wildlife foundation had wwf.org. People could easily and mistakenly enter the wrong TLD when attempting to surf to the other's webpage. Relevant quote:
Although the conservation group changed its name to the Worldwide Fund for Nature 15 years ago, in the United States it is still known by the original World Wildlife Fund. In 1994, it entered into an agreement with the wrestling federation over the use of the trademark initials. Since then, however, both have expanded their presence on the Internet, where they have almost identical web site addresses.
As a result of the court ruling, however, the wrestling enterprise will be allowed to retain limited use of its initials in the United States only. It will be required to relinquish its prized web site address.
See? Again, they had an agreement, and they contested it in the very first place (important, as this establishes enforcement of the trademark) but then later they decided that the previous agreement wasn't working. Since they did "use" the trademark from the beginning, they never "lost" it.
They take it to the courts and the courts decide that the internet makes the WWF ambiguous to the WWF, and that the one with the oldest trademark registration gets to use the initials.
It's pretty simple, but the whole thing hinges on the fact that the Wildlife Foundation initially attempted to enforce their trademark also. All you have to do is give a sort of "passing acknowlegment" that they're violating your trademark, and make a deal on how they are allow to go ahead and use it, then if they ever do violate your trademark for real, you still have it. If they never did anything to begin with, then well, they're screwed.
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My assertion was that "on Windows" it uses DirectX. Yes, this has nothing to do with the Linux system requirements.
I'm already willing to accept that I'm possibly wrong, I'd just like to see some proof somewhere with respectability, from someone of authority that Doom3 is using OpenGL only on Windows, and there is no Direct3D code path.
Trademark isn't the same thing as patent law at all. Because Trademark really *is* use it or lose it.
That's why McDonalds sues everyone who uses a "McSomething", because to protect their brandname, and trademarks, they have to.
If you can show that a company knew about your possible use of their trademark and did nothing against it in a reasonable amount of time, then they lost out, and you can use it.
At this point, if you made Google at Timbuktu, and Google didn't do anything about it, then later you grow big enough to cause Google concern, they've already lost out, because the damage to your business Google at Timbuktu of losing what is now your brandname also, would be unfair, just because Google decided to wait to do something about it.
WTF? I'm not talking about Christian law dictating that we can't curse, that's not anywhere in the Bible.
What I'm talking about is the Christian culture that has developed in America. The same culture that just previously demonized rock-and-roll, and skateboarding and any number of things. It seems like generally, however kids are kids, that becomes demonized in the US.
I'm not talking anti-Christian bullshit, because I understand that a Christian can chose not to give a shit about cursing (I'm a Christian, and I don't give a shit about cursing, and I've tried giving people a fucking clue about that by my language in this whole thread.)
But you cannot deny two things: The American Culture is primarily driven by Christians, and The American Culture does not like the use of curse words, because of self-righteous behaviour of people who are generally *gasp* Christian.
Just because someone says something that you perceive as negative against Christianity doesn't mean that it's anti-Christian bullshit... maybe it's just fair and accurate criticism.
You know who people thought was posting anti-Christian bullshit? Martin Luther, the catalyst of the whole protestant movement. Why? because he had the fucking balls to criticize what was being done by The Church.
I'll agree that there are many people out there who are latching onto diversity and cultural relativism in order to attack Christianity, but I'm not one of them, dipshit. I'm fairly criticizing the Christian culture of America.... remind me to not get so personally offended when someone criticizes my faith, I don't want to come across as some zealotrous idiot.
Look, I'm saying that there are no stronger curse words in Japanese, that "chikushou" is just about as harsh as it gets. In English, to me, that means "fucking christ".
I've been arguing this whole time that the Japanese don't give a shit about using curse words, thus it's not offensive to them, yet when you get to the American culture, curse words *are* a big deal. (at least in most subcultures, and in the general culture advanced by our broadcasting standards)
So, when I'm saying that "chikushou" means literally "fucking christ", I'm saying that because they're both at the top of their list of "harshness", but to the Japanese that list doesn't get into very harsh, while in English it does.
I've been trying to get away from using "chikushou" because there's just not a literal translation for it. "kuso" *does* on the other hand have a literal translation of "shit". Just the Japanese don't find "kuso" as harsh as English speakers find "shit".
I frankly don't care that fansubbers and dubbers translate these words to "darn" and "shoot", and other "christian curse words", that keeps the phrases in their same cultural context in English as they had in the original Japanese.
But that doesn't change the fact that if you're watching the Japanese, they're using these full on curse words, and you need to be culturally aware enough that it just doesn't mean to them what it means to us.
This whole discussion is over Omar not drinking alcohol and eating pork-derivatives, and people insisting that we keep these features of Homer in Omar, even though it would be greatly offensive to that culture. Just like when you take Japanese, they don't give a fuck about using curse words, but when you start using them in English, it makes them sound overly offensive, when that's not what what's intended.
The whole idea is that you can't keep everything the same way when exporting entertainment to another culture, because there may be things that the original culture didn't find to be that big of a deal (Homer's alcoholism, and pork eating, and Anime's cursing and nudity), but the target culture will find offensive if you leave it in there "literally".
I'm aware of the whole social context nature of Japanese, I do speak it.
"asoko" is a euphemism for vagina, vagina is "o-meko" or just "meko", which oddly is oddly a compound word of woman + girl/child. The "o-" is the honorific prefix placed before words that are traditionally seen as "unclean" or "bad", such as money, "o-kane", or just "kane", but you hardly hear anyone call it that, because it's a socially ingrained habit to use the "o-" prefix on a number of words... kind of a "superstitious" (very poor word to describe it) notion behind using it.
"asoko" doesn't just mean "over there" either, because it means "there, which is neither close to me, nor to you", and thus better as "yonder". "soko" is "there, near you the listener". But I'll agree that in most cases "asoko" can accurately be translated into English with "over there", or just "there", since English no longer makes any distinction behind the meaning portrayed in "asoko" vs. "soko".
Look, Japanese does have curse words, and "naughty" words, but they're much more tolerant about the whole deal. Hell, there's no reason why "shit" should have any more offensiveness than "poop", except that we're running a euphemism treadmill here making "shit" worse every moment, and "poop" closer and closer to the where "shit" is now.
If there are not "strong" curse words in Japanese, it's only because they don't give a shit as much as we do about curse words. It doesn't change the fact that the strongest word that they have for shit is "kuso".
Well, I didn't make this story up. It actually did happen... just in Quebec, not Ontario. I admit being a dumbass for mixing up the two, but this story did actually happen to some poor guy who moved to Quebec.
Yeah, you're right... *sigh* Leave it to my itch to make fun of the French, and even the French-speakers that even the French make fun of. I go and jump the gun, and miss my target. *sigh* well, thanks for setting me straight, at least I can have the dignity of posting a correction.
Correction: Ontario doesn't suck, as the parent has just reminded me, the actual name of the province that sucks is Quebec.
Another poster mentioned that this is Quebec... My bad, I blame the US educational system for not teaching me anything about the different Canadian provinces.
There actually was a guy in Quebec who's son got screwed and forced to go to a French school, because his Dad studied French before. They classified him a francophone, and in Quebec the laws enforce French propogation. I'm certain one could find something with Google about it.
There's no reason to think that DirectX wouldn't update except on Service Packs if it's integrated to teh GFX framework.
Microsoft can service any binary that they've released. So why would they not update DirectX outside of Service Packs? Especially if there were a security flaw?
Well, they said in the article that he wasn't going to be a positive role model. But there's not being a positive role model, and doing a whole bunch of shit that your culture just finds absurdly offensive.
Yeah, I hate to see the show "neutered" and all those jokes cut out, but if you think that something so offensive could give any sort of a positive light on America, I'm sure you'd have a problem with people not watching the show.
Not because it's boring and uninteresting, but because it was just too offensive. I'd suppose one would have to find a middle ground.
You didn't read the post where I brought up "chikushou" I said in the beginning that it didn't mean "fucking christ." I was saying that there is generally no more offensive word in Japanese than "chikushou", and gave a relative example of "fucking christ".
I'm not a moron on this topic, I understand this issue, I've watched Anime, I've studied Japanese, and I currently read it reasonably well, and I understand the social overtones around "chikushou" and "kuso".
"kuso" literally means "shit". Just because American audiences don't hold the same social non-offendedness to "shit" that the Japanese hold towards "kuso" does not change lieral translations.
My comment is, and always have been, that everyone tones down features of another culture's films and movies that they find offensive in order to make it appeal to their audiences.
Japanese anime has a lot of cursing in it, and it's accepted in their culture, it's not a shock value. It has a lot of nudity, this is accepted in their culture, and it's not a shock value. It's just what people do.
Here, using strong curse words in a sitcom or heaven forbid a cartoon is seen as shock value. (Granted, the only people who do do this are doing it for shock value. See: South Park.) Strong cursing is not socially acceptable here, and we tone it down to match the same social context that the person is speaking in. Ranma is known for using "temee" which is a form of you that's generally so rude that it can be accurately translated as calling someone "asshole". It expresses a strong emotion in the Japanese speaking Ranma, because he uses it when socially appropriate, and Ranma comes off as more of a brutish offensive guy.
In the English dubbed versions, he's still brutish and offensive, about so much to American audiences as he is in Japanese to Japanese audiences, but if he were dubbed to English without this culturally adjustment, then he would be too offensive for parents to allow their kids to watch it (generally).
Look, you're failing to understand that I agree that social translations have to occur, and that the Japanese "kuso" does not have the same harsh bite in Japanese as does "shit" in English. But it doesn't change the fact that the literal translation is "shit" in English.
I've never said that this is wrong, or that it damaged the "authenticity" of the series. I'm saying that cultural conversion happens even when the US is importing culture from other countries, because everyone does it.
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"100% DirectX 9.0c compatible 64MB"
What does this refer to if not a video card?
Quake 4 runs in Direct3D on Windows by default, same as Quake3, same as RTCW. For that matter, same as Doom3. Why would Quake 4 be any different, huh?
Are you guys idiots in thinking that: hey, he's wrong, id doesn't just pump out code, they write portable games that's what they do!
No, id pumps out fast code paths to make their games the fastest. They work heavily with nVidia, ATi, Microsoft for DirectX *and* Direct3D, and OpenGL reference sources. They make every code path the fastest code path that they can.
Blizzard also has DirectX code path in WoW, and Warcraft3, that's because there's no getting around the fact that in Windows, the most efficient fastest, and feature-rich 3D library to build towards is DirectX.
If you all don't believe me, then go ahead and live in your fantasy world, because you're idiots.
What? Like forcing people to attend French-speaking schools if their parents took a French course in High School, because that makes them count as a francophone?
Some how, I don't see anyone resolving the whole Ontario being idiots thing.
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English version of Windows 2000/XP Pentium 4 2.0 GHz or Athlon XP 2000+ Processor 512MB RAM 8x speed CD-ROM drive and latest drivers 2.8GB uncompressed hard-drive space, plus 400MB for Windows swap file 100% DirectX 9.0c compatible 16-bit sound card and latest drivers 100% Windows 2000/XP compatible mouse, keyboard and latest drivers DirectX 9.0c included 3D Hardware Accelerator Card required 100% DirectX 9.0c compatible 64MB Hardware Accelerated video card and the latest drivers [snip] Internet (TCP/IP) and LAN (TCP/IP) Supported Internet play requires broadband connection and latest drivers LAN play requires network interfaces card and latest drivers
If Quake 4 doesn't use DirectX, why would it COME with DirectX? Why would it REQUIRE a DirectX compatible video card?
Quake 4 for Windows can run with OpenGL drivers, and it can run with DirectX drivers, but it's DirectX by default.
Ah yes. I do imagine some law is involved there, too. But Omar being a non-alcoholic guy, and not eating pork, is one of those things that I don't think is a legal requirement. It's just entirely too offensive to the people there.
But I take your point. There's a lot of content that would be moderated for legal reasons. But then to some degree, there's content here that gets moderated due to legal reasons also.
The issue here is that literally translated they mean "fucking christ" and "shit".
Socially, in English both of these are very offensive. But in Japanese "chikushou" and "kuso" aren't that offensive.
No, they're not particular offensive in Japan, but it doesn't change their literal translations. Which is my point. People are complaining that Homer isn't drinking beer anymore, and what's wrong with that? Well, in Arabic countries alcohol is a Sin, and very offensive.
Same line here as "kuso" vs. "shit". Non-offensive, vs offensive. So they tone it down so that it fits the same social level, thus "kuso" becomes "crap".
If Omar were to drink alcohol and his drunken exploits were shown in Arabia, it would be just as offensive as translating all of the "kuso"s with "shit"s, and all of the "chikushou"s as "fucking christ"s. People wouldn't like it because it's excessively offensive.
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Pure capitalism requires no social programs. This is because having a social program goes against the "invisible hand of self interest." In a purely capitalist enconomy it's argued that each person will do what is in their best interests, without restriction by the government, and as such each person will be as well off as they can be.
This fails though, as many people don't save enough money to be able to live effectively once they are unable to work; same also for when they get sick, many people are unable to afford medical expenses on their own, without at least having saved up for them in the first place. People don't do that sort of thing.
Pure capitalism also requires that anyone anywhere can just up and make a business and sell goods. You can't do this in the USA, you can though, in Japan. For instance, in the USA you can't (legally) just walk off a plane as a foreigner and start selling T-shirts at a mall. In Japan, you can.
As for the majority of US spending, after taxes, we also have various bills, let's look at something which is covered under socialist governments: health care (Oooo, there's a biggy). In a socialist government you don't have to put extra money into healthcare, because in general, you're already putting money into these programs in your taxes.
Also, as an interesting asside, Germany automatically withdraws your religious donations for you, for either the Evangelical or Catholic church. This can't be done in the US, because of established doctrine by the government and interpreted into the constitution that no government money will be spent on ANYTHING having to do with religion, (also the reason why the US census doesn't ask you what religion you are.)
So, let's add this stuff up, a.) taxes (of which your company matches your social security payments if they're withdrawing your taxes for you, so if we didn't have this social program, your paycheck would have to be even larger in order to cover that half of your taxes, which leads to an "opportunistic" loss of income) b.) health care.
I don't know about you, but if I were to bundle everything together that I would otherwise already have as a result of taxes in a socialist government; I'd expect the values to converge, rather than diverge. Unless, due to ridiculous pricings in the United States such as say, in perscription drugs, the values were to grow even larger than that given by a socialist state.
The US has numerous social programs, and they all pretty much started at around FDR in order to repair the nation after the Great Depression, which by the way, is exactly what the invisible hand of capitalism leads you to. Everyone trying to make a quick buck at the cost of sanity.
Obligatory bigoted and arrogant American opinion stating that the US is "teh best", and indeed "r0x0rs" despite anyone else's opinions outside of the US.
Well, the "gl_" cvars can be explained by being short for "graphics library", which I suppose it would be even if it was just short for the GL in OpenGL.
But the other information is very interested, and I'm eating my words. Though the libraries that it links to would still be nice. Thanks for your patience, and proof. It's much more appreciated than "STFU n00b, its totally teh OpenGL, umbs!"
Meh, I'm a computer scientist, my cut-and-paste skills are a little faster than my thought processes. :)
Good call though.
Well, statistically, the better choice would be to give the average and the standard of deviation.
Giving the median would be a bad idea, as in your example, the median is 0. But we know darn well that we shouldn't report that sort of information, it's perhaps even more misleading and alarming than 17 per company.
Reporting that the average is 17, but that the standard deviation is 537.033803405335 (an extremely highly high value) would work in the sense that it would be accurate, but wouldn't work in the case that most people wouldn't know or understand what the hell that meant.
Damned statistics. Microsoft has a whole legal department. I'm certain that other major tech companies have the same. Once you average that over the whole, you get 9 lawyers per company.
The point here isn't that the average is higher than one would expect, it's that the standard of deviation is so wide that the statistical information applied for the average is useless except as a "market gauge".
It appears that, in short, the issue didn't become a problem until the web.
Same goes with Apple Records vs Apple Computer. Apple Records didn't have reason to enforce their trademark against a company in computers, but when Apple Computers started allowing their computers to play music (a.k.a. added speakers) Apple Records sued for trademark violation. The agreement was that Apple Computers would stay out of the Music business and Apple Records wouldn't go into the computer field, and both would retain their trademark.
In this case, the wrestling foundation had wwf.com, while the wildlife foundation had wwf.org. People could easily and mistakenly enter the wrong TLD when attempting to surf to the other's webpage. Relevant quote:
See? Again, they had an agreement, and they contested it in the very first place (important, as this establishes enforcement of the trademark) but then later they decided that the previous agreement wasn't working. Since they did "use" the trademark from the beginning, they never "lost" it.
They take it to the courts and the courts decide that the internet makes the WWF ambiguous to the WWF, and that the one with the oldest trademark registration gets to use the initials.
It's pretty simple, but the whole thing hinges on the fact that the Wildlife Foundation initially attempted to enforce their trademark also. All you have to do is give a sort of "passing acknowlegment" that they're violating your trademark, and make a deal on how they are allow to go ahead and use it, then if they ever do violate your trademark for real, you still have it. If they never did anything to begin with, then well, they're screwed.
My assertion was that "on Windows" it uses DirectX. Yes, this has nothing to do with the Linux system requirements.
I'm already willing to accept that I'm possibly wrong, I'd just like to see some proof somewhere with respectability, from someone of authority that Doom3 is using OpenGL only on Windows, and there is no Direct3D code path.
Fine, I'm an anti-Christian bullshit artist.
You're right.
I accept that I'm talking about Christians in a derogatory light, sorry about that.
In the future, I'll make sure that I say, "we're not pandering to our American values".
I'm sure that will make everyone feel hunky-dory, until some person accusses me of "anti-American bullshitting".
Trademark isn't the same thing as patent law at all. Because Trademark really *is* use it or lose it.
That's why McDonalds sues everyone who uses a "McSomething", because to protect their brandname, and trademarks, they have to.
If you can show that a company knew about your possible use of their trademark and did nothing against it in a reasonable amount of time, then they lost out, and you can use it.
At this point, if you made Google at Timbuktu, and Google didn't do anything about it, then later you grow big enough to cause Google concern, they've already lost out, because the damage to your business Google at Timbuktu of losing what is now your brandname also, would be unfair, just because Google decided to wait to do something about it.
WTF? I'm not talking about Christian law dictating that we can't curse, that's not anywhere in the Bible.
... remind me to not get so personally offended when someone criticizes my faith, I don't want to come across as some zealotrous idiot.
What I'm talking about is the Christian culture that has developed in America. The same culture that just previously demonized rock-and-roll, and skateboarding and any number of things. It seems like generally, however kids are kids, that becomes demonized in the US.
I'm not talking anti-Christian bullshit, because I understand that a Christian can chose not to give a shit about cursing (I'm a Christian, and I don't give a shit about cursing, and I've tried giving people a fucking clue about that by my language in this whole thread.)
But you cannot deny two things: The American Culture is primarily driven by Christians, and The American Culture does not like the use of curse words, because of self-righteous behaviour of people who are generally *gasp* Christian.
Just because someone says something that you perceive as negative against Christianity doesn't mean that it's anti-Christian bullshit... maybe it's just fair and accurate criticism.
You know who people thought was posting anti-Christian bullshit? Martin Luther, the catalyst of the whole protestant movement. Why? because he had the fucking balls to criticize what was being done by The Church.
I'll agree that there are many people out there who are latching onto diversity and cultural relativism in order to attack Christianity, but I'm not one of them, dipshit. I'm fairly criticizing the Christian culture of America.
Look, I'm saying that there are no stronger curse words in Japanese, that "chikushou" is just about as harsh as it gets. In English, to me, that means "fucking christ".
I've been arguing this whole time that the Japanese don't give a shit about using curse words, thus it's not offensive to them, yet when you get to the American culture, curse words *are* a big deal. (at least in most subcultures, and in the general culture advanced by our broadcasting standards)
So, when I'm saying that "chikushou" means literally "fucking christ", I'm saying that because they're both at the top of their list of "harshness", but to the Japanese that list doesn't get into very harsh, while in English it does.
I've been trying to get away from using "chikushou" because there's just not a literal translation for it. "kuso" *does* on the other hand have a literal translation of "shit". Just the Japanese don't find "kuso" as harsh as English speakers find "shit".
I frankly don't care that fansubbers and dubbers translate these words to "darn" and "shoot", and other "christian curse words", that keeps the phrases in their same cultural context in English as they had in the original Japanese.
But that doesn't change the fact that if you're watching the Japanese, they're using these full on curse words, and you need to be culturally aware enough that it just doesn't mean to them what it means to us.
This whole discussion is over Omar not drinking alcohol and eating pork-derivatives, and people insisting that we keep these features of Homer in Omar, even though it would be greatly offensive to that culture. Just like when you take Japanese, they don't give a fuck about using curse words, but when you start using them in English, it makes them sound overly offensive, when that's not what what's intended.
The whole idea is that you can't keep everything the same way when exporting entertainment to another culture, because there may be things that the original culture didn't find to be that big of a deal (Homer's alcoholism, and pork eating, and Anime's cursing and nudity), but the target culture will find offensive if you leave it in there "literally".
Is anyone willing to provide me proof?
I mean, not just random spoutings of "blah blah blah, it's OpenGL only, because I heard it is."
Obviously, my "It's DirectX because I heard it is." is wrong. So where's the evidence that I'm wrong?
I'm aware of the whole social context nature of Japanese, I do speak it.
"asoko" is a euphemism for vagina, vagina is "o-meko" or just "meko", which oddly is oddly a compound word of woman + girl/child. The "o-" is the honorific prefix placed before words that are traditionally seen as "unclean" or "bad", such as money, "o-kane", or just "kane", but you hardly hear anyone call it that, because it's a socially ingrained habit to use the "o-" prefix on a number of words... kind of a "superstitious" (very poor word to describe it) notion behind using it.
"asoko" doesn't just mean "over there" either, because it means "there, which is neither close to me, nor to you", and thus better as "yonder". "soko" is "there, near you the listener". But I'll agree that in most cases "asoko" can accurately be translated into English with "over there", or just "there", since English no longer makes any distinction behind the meaning portrayed in "asoko" vs. "soko".
Look, Japanese does have curse words, and "naughty" words, but they're much more tolerant about the whole deal. Hell, there's no reason why "shit" should have any more offensiveness than "poop", except that we're running a euphemism treadmill here making "shit" worse every moment, and "poop" closer and closer to the where "shit" is now.
If there are not "strong" curse words in Japanese, it's only because they don't give a shit as much as we do about curse words. It doesn't change the fact that the strongest word that they have for shit is "kuso".
Well, I didn't make this story up. It actually did happen... just in Quebec, not Ontario. I admit being a dumbass for mixing up the two, but this story did actually happen to some poor guy who moved to Quebec.
D'oh!
Yeah, you're right... *sigh* Leave it to my itch to make fun of the French, and even the French-speakers that even the French make fun of. I go and jump the gun, and miss my target. *sigh* well, thanks for setting me straight, at least I can have the dignity of posting a correction.
Correction: Ontario doesn't suck, as the parent has just reminded me, the actual name of the province that sucks is Quebec.
Another poster mentioned that this is Quebec... My bad, I blame the US educational system for not teaching me anything about the different Canadian provinces.
There actually was a guy in Quebec who's son got screwed and forced to go to a French school, because his Dad studied French before. They classified him a francophone, and in Quebec the laws enforce French propogation. I'm certain one could find something with Google about it.
There's no reason to think that DirectX wouldn't update except on Service Packs if it's integrated to teh GFX framework.
Microsoft can service any binary that they've released. So why would they not update DirectX outside of Service Packs? Especially if there were a security flaw?
Well, they said in the article that he wasn't going to be a positive role model. But there's not being a positive role model, and doing a whole bunch of shit that your culture just finds absurdly offensive.
Yeah, I hate to see the show "neutered" and all those jokes cut out, but if you think that something so offensive could give any sort of a positive light on America, I'm sure you'd have a problem with people not watching the show.
Not because it's boring and uninteresting, but because it was just too offensive. I'd suppose one would have to find a middle ground.
You didn't read the post where I brought up "chikushou" I said in the beginning that it didn't mean "fucking christ." I was saying that there is generally no more offensive word in Japanese than "chikushou", and gave a relative example of "fucking christ".
I'm not a moron on this topic, I understand this issue, I've watched Anime, I've studied Japanese, and I currently read it reasonably well, and I understand the social overtones around "chikushou" and "kuso".
"kuso" literally means "shit". Just because American audiences don't hold the same social non-offendedness to "shit" that the Japanese hold towards "kuso" does not change lieral translations.
My comment is, and always have been, that everyone tones down features of another culture's films and movies that they find offensive in order to make it appeal to their audiences.
Japanese anime has a lot of cursing in it, and it's accepted in their culture, it's not a shock value. It has a lot of nudity, this is accepted in their culture, and it's not a shock value. It's just what people do.
Here, using strong curse words in a sitcom or heaven forbid a cartoon is seen as shock value. (Granted, the only people who do do this are doing it for shock value. See: South Park.) Strong cursing is not socially acceptable here, and we tone it down to match the same social context that the person is speaking in. Ranma is known for using "temee" which is a form of you that's generally so rude that it can be accurately translated as calling someone "asshole". It expresses a strong emotion in the Japanese speaking Ranma, because he uses it when socially appropriate, and Ranma comes off as more of a brutish offensive guy.
In the English dubbed versions, he's still brutish and offensive, about so much to American audiences as he is in Japanese to Japanese audiences, but if he were dubbed to English without this culturally adjustment, then he would be too offensive for parents to allow their kids to watch it (generally).
Look, you're failing to understand that I agree that social translations have to occur, and that the Japanese "kuso" does not have the same harsh bite in Japanese as does "shit" in English. But it doesn't change the fact that the literal translation is "shit" in English.
I've never said that this is wrong, or that it damaged the "authenticity" of the series. I'm saying that cultural conversion happens even when the US is importing culture from other countries, because everyone does it.
read the bolded text in my post:
"100% DirectX 9.0c compatible 64MB"
What does this refer to if not a video card?
Quake 4 runs in Direct3D on Windows by default, same as Quake3, same as RTCW. For that matter, same as Doom3. Why would Quake 4 be any different, huh?
Are you guys idiots in thinking that: hey, he's wrong, id doesn't just pump out code, they write portable games that's what they do!
No, id pumps out fast code paths to make their games the fastest. They work heavily with nVidia, ATi, Microsoft for DirectX *and* Direct3D, and OpenGL reference sources. They make every code path the fastest code path that they can.
Blizzard also has DirectX code path in WoW, and Warcraft3, that's because there's no getting around the fact that in Windows, the most efficient fastest, and feature-rich 3D library to build towards is DirectX.
If you all don't believe me, then go ahead and live in your fantasy world, because you're idiots.
What? Like forcing people to attend French-speaking schools if their parents took a French course in High School, because that makes them count as a francophone?
Some how, I don't see anyone resolving the whole Ontario being idiots thing.
http://www.planetquake.com/quake4/info.shtml
English version of Windows 2000/XP
Pentium 4 2.0 GHz or Athlon XP 2000+ Processor
512MB RAM
8x speed CD-ROM drive and latest drivers
2.8GB uncompressed hard-drive space, plus 400MB for Windows swap file
100% DirectX 9.0c compatible 16-bit sound card and latest drivers
100% Windows 2000/XP compatible mouse, keyboard and latest drivers
DirectX 9.0c included
3D Hardware Accelerator Card required
100% DirectX 9.0c compatible 64MB
Hardware Accelerated video card and the latest drivers
[snip]
Internet (TCP/IP) and LAN (TCP/IP) Supported
Internet play requires broadband connection and latest drivers
LAN play requires network interfaces card and latest drivers
If Quake 4 doesn't use DirectX, why would it COME with DirectX? Why would it REQUIRE a DirectX compatible video card?
Quake 4 for Windows can run with OpenGL drivers, and it can run with DirectX drivers, but it's DirectX by default.
Ah yes. I do imagine some law is involved there, too. But Omar being a non-alcoholic guy, and not eating pork, is one of those things that I don't think is a legal requirement. It's just entirely too offensive to the people there.
But I take your point. There's a lot of content that would be moderated for legal reasons. But then to some degree, there's content here that gets moderated due to legal reasons also.
Ok, I'll clarify for you.
The issue here is that literally translated they mean "fucking christ" and "shit".
Socially, in English both of these are very offensive. But in Japanese "chikushou" and "kuso" aren't that offensive.
No, they're not particular offensive in Japan, but it doesn't change their literal translations. Which is my point. People are complaining that Homer isn't drinking beer anymore, and what's wrong with that? Well, in Arabic countries alcohol is a Sin, and very offensive.
Same line here as "kuso" vs. "shit". Non-offensive, vs offensive. So they tone it down so that it fits the same social level, thus "kuso" becomes "crap".
If Omar were to drink alcohol and his drunken exploits were shown in Arabia, it would be just as offensive as translating all of the "kuso"s with "shit"s, and all of the "chikushou"s as "fucking christ"s. People wouldn't like it because it's excessively offensive.