Remove R Comic [home]-Konnichiwa nihongo

Konnichiwa nihongo by Gary Marks

2008-01-16

Remove R Comic (aka rm -r comic), by Gary Marks: Konnichiwa nihongo
Dialog:
Panel 1
Jackeroo: Hey, Jacob, I just got off the phone with a client, I've sold our web package in Japanese, you can get that done by tomorrow, right?
Jacob: Actually, you know we can't do that, right? Our pages and database can't handle double byte.
Jackeroo: So yeah... I'm glad to hear that tomorrow's fine. Let me know when it's done thanks.
Panel 2
Jacob: $!@#!!$!!!$!@ You want Japanese?! I'll give you @!$#@! Japanese! Google don't fail me now!
Panel 3
Screen: if (language.equals("HelloKitty")) { redirectSite("googletrans-jp",currenturl); } else { loadJsp(currenturl); }
/******************************
** redirects a site, passing in a url
** as a parameter
** @param whereto destination location
** @param wherefrom the url to pass in
*******************************/
public void redirectSite (String whereto,
String wherefrom) {
if (whereto.equals("googletrans-jp")){
sendRedirect("http://google.com/"+
"translate.c?hl=eng|ja&u="+
wherefrom);
} else if (whereto.equals("happyplace")){
Panel 4
Screen: public void inputIntoDb(String language,
String field, String input) {
if (language.equals("HelloKitty")) {
String translatedvalue=null;
translatedvalue=parseFromHtml(
"http://translate.google.com/"+
"translate.t?langpair=ja|en&" +
"text="+UrlEncoder.encode(input),
"result-box");
}
loadToBean(field,input);
}
Jacob: Here's hoping they like google translations, and that google never bans us... heh

My rant
Gary
For those of you who get this comic... I apologize and I sympathize.

One of these days, sales will consult development before promising things to the client. I'm certain many of you have faced this, a boss asks you questions about something that technically is a big issue, all because someone else sold something that can't possibly developed in a short period of time. Sometimes we're lucky and our managers stand up and stop it from spiraling out of control, other times they can't stop it. Those times the client complains, and we end up putting in long hours trying to get the impossible done.

Luckily for me, this comic is related to one of the requests that was shot down. Had it not been shut down, this might have been a solution. It might actually work, translate your site, then when they post a form, you use google to translate it into English. The translations might be off, but would probably work.

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