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Our in-house language translation group was "de-featured" (laid off), so when we needed language translations for our new product's UI updated we went with an outside company. It's been a very long time since I've dealt with an outside company. I screwed up and didn't submit a purchase requisition in advance, and just had them go ahead and do the work. They finished satisfactorily, and submitted an invoice that was less than their original estimate. All well and good so far.
Oh boy  did I screw the pooch.
At last count there have been over 20 emails between me, my boss, Purchasing, Accounts Payable, and the contact at the translation company, all in the last 5 hours. I'm going to be really pissed if we screw up the relationship with these folks, because they did a great job, quickly, and didn't create any kind of fuss over the format of the text to be translated that I gave them.
There have been a number of times in the past when I've gone to our local computer gear store or Best Buy and bought stuff on my own dime in order to get the job done. I can't do that this time, since $16K is a bit much to put on my MasterCard.
Software Zen: delete this;
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what kind of languages does your UI need to translate?
diligent hands rule....
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The current product shows the UI in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese Simplified, and Korean. The previous generation also had Polish and Russian.
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Gary R. Wheeler wrote: English
UI
Gary R. Wheeler wrote: French
le UI
Gary R. Wheeler wrote: Italian
UI 🤏
Gary R. Wheeler wrote: German
GEBRAUCHERSINTERFACE!!! 
Gary R. Wheeler wrote: Spanish
la UI
Gary R. Wheeler wrote: Japanese
unclear, you want it in kanji (��), katakana (��) or hiragana (��)?
Gary R. Wheeler wrote: Chinese Simplified
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Gary R. Wheeler wrote: Korean
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I'll add in Dutch as a bonus: UI
Please send address for $16K invoice 
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Don't you mean interface utilisateur, interfaccia utente, Benutzeroberfläche, interfaz de usuario, ユーザーインターフェース, 用户界面, or 사용자 인터페이스?
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That's literally what I said 
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Gary R. Wheeler wrote: At last count there have been over 20 emails between me, my boss, Purchasing, Accounts Payable, and the contact at the translation company, all in the last 5 hours.
All of which probably comes close to the 16K of the invoice.
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Close. We've certainly spent several hundred $ so far.
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Sadly, this does not appear to be a joke. It is amazing how people like this survive for so long. 
"When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others; same thing when you are stupid."
Ignorant - An individual without knowledge, but is willing to learn.
Stupid - An individual without knowledge and is incapable of learning.
Idiot - An individual without knowledge and allows social media to do the thinking for them.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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"We are processing your cookie preferences. This may take a few minutes". It almost did.
It's not just American SUV owners that are stupid, then...
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Must be the POS Suburban I once had, I'd drive it into a river too...
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Well? Was the radiator filled, or not?
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All that effort, and he forgot to open the cap!
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Just think: 8 or 10 more feet and we would have had a Darwin Award winner. So, so close.
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If you are gonna drink and drive, make sure you have a vehicle, and a good excuse.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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I put distilled water (or premix) in my radiator; else it would look like the inside of a cave using local tap water.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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@raddevus posted about a new book series available on Amazon Kindle Greg Bear sci-fi trilogy and I'm very grateful, but I realized that my favorite series, The Heechee Saga[^] is incomplete in the Kindle store. @Daniel-Pfeffer suggested a great site for finding them Baen's Bar[^], but not in the Kindle format, so I found an article that gives step by step instruction on how to put non-kindle ebooks on a Kindle Paper White or Oasis device. How to Put Free Ebooks on Your Amazon Kindle[^].
Just thought I would share.
[Edit] I also have a huge technical library that I have collected over the past year or so from Humble Bundle[^], so now I can put them on my Kindle.
"When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others; same thing when you are stupid."
Ignorant - An individual without knowledge, but is willing to learn.
Stupid - An individual without knowledge and is incapable of learning.
Idiot - An individual without knowledge and allows social media to do the thinking for them.
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I use calibre - E-book management for managing my 7000 books and loading them to kindles etc
Very nice software.
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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And I thought my Calibre library was large with only 800 books, all science fiction which I share with my kids via dropbox.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Plus 1 for Calibre!
It is a really good book database and will convert between more formats than you can shake a stick at!
One nice function is the possibility to add a macro to add "Series - Number" to the title of books when transferring to your e-reader so that you don't need to search to find which is the next Jack Reacher title to read.
If you get a badly formatted e-book you can do all sorts of format search/replace magic too.
So old that I did my first coding in octal via switches on a DEC PDP 8
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7000 books?  Do you own the 8 gig or the 32 gig? I curious of how much storage you need for that many books.
"When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others; same thing when you are stupid."
Ignorant - An individual without knowledge, but is willing to learn.
Stupid - An individual without knowledge and is incapable of learning.
Idiot - An individual without knowledge and allows social media to do the thinking for them.
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I have a second generation Kindle from years ago and have used that feature extensively. You can email files in quite a few different formats including self-authored Word documents.
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"mobi" is the original version of Kindle format. You shouldn't need to reencode anything to load ebooks from Baen on a Kindle.
Arguably they should reorder the names in the download link "Mobi/Palm/Kindle Format" puts the format first, but has issues with people not reading the entire thing before giving up. OTOH right below "Read Online" is "Email Kindle Ebook to me"; and if you dig into your amazon settings you can get an address that will let you email them directly to your device instead of having to USB them over.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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awesome! Thanks for the info! 
"When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others; same thing when you are stupid."
Ignorant - An individual without knowledge, but is willing to learn.
Stupid - An individual without knowledge and is incapable of learning.
Idiot - An individual without knowledge and allows social media to do the thinking for them.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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