Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.heimat.gr.jp!news.jone-system.com!mmcatv.co.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: "Ryan Ginstrom" Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: MS Office English Version in Tokyo Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 15:59:19 +0900 Lines: 36 Message-ID: <2nra1uF3i8rmU1@uni-berlin.de> References: <1giah3c.1y7slmay9jltsN@yahoobb219000172014.bbtec.net> <2nql8aF3ju4qU1@uni-berlin.de> <2nr85nF3ivgmU1@uni-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de fahZxgb0dHuXrxyCznkKWAojerCSrt8QiVgMbI5svwkaxdwGsy X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:16182 "Brett Robson" wrote in message news:cf9qmj$30g$1@nnrp.gol.com... > > > Ryan Ginstrom wrote: > > > > I think I have written here about what a bunch of shit-birds BlackIsle and > > Sega were about this with Baldur's Gate -- through an agreement with the > > Japanese retailer, BlackIsle added code to their English language version > > that shut down the game if a Japanese OS was detected > > When I first came to Japanese I brought 5 PC games and 3 computer > language programming environments (Borland Java, MS C++ and > Oracle). Of the 8 CDs only Oracle would run on Japanese windows. I use MSVC 6.0 on my Japanese OS with no problems -- maybe you had an earlier version? Sometimes English-language products will have trouble on Japanese OSs, especially with 9x. Usually because they are doing something wrong, like making assumptions about what a valid file path is, instead of letting the system handle it. Stupidity and bad programming I can forgive, having been guilty of both more times than I like to recall. But deliberately breaking a program to enable price gouging, without even telling the customers what is going on, is simply inexcusable. -- Regards, Ryan Ginstrom test_3@ginstrom.com