February 13, 2004

Flash Player 7 updater... is messed up.. -updated-

This is the first time I've seen the automatic flash updater, and to be honest I was quite surprised. Unfortunately it looks like there is a bug in the pop up window buttons, here is an image.


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Update:
After taking the time to actually read the tiny font of what each button is (which is the 3 squished lines in the middle), I realized *after* I pressed the button (to get rid of the window that pops up in the middle of the screen), I had pressed the wrong button.
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Posted by Graeme at February 13, 2004 05:38 PM
　



Comments

Hi Graeme,

You speak Japanese, don't you? If so, you would know that the fourth paragraph in this dialog tells you which button does which.

This problem occurs on Win98 and Win2K. I admit that it's not a great solution, but I also think that the way you represent the issue here to a non-Japanese-speaking audience is misleading.

Vera.

Posted by: Vera at February 14, 2004 03:27 AM

Yes I do speak Japanese and after I posted this I actually read what it said. I don't understand how I was misleading in anyway though. What if I could speak Japanese but only read hiragana, and katakana not Kanji? Would that make my post any more "misleading"? I pressed the button before I read it all because it's a pain when I have other things to do and the button text is not visible. This just goes to show how another fine product made it through the fine tooth comb of MM quality assurance. ;)

Posted by: Graeme at February 14, 2004 11:53 AM

Going a bit off topic but to be able to read Japanese the most basic alphabet alone is 96 characters (hiragana and katakana). You can get around Japan with just that under your hat, but to make things even easier for yourself it's best to also be able to read Kanji. All in all there are about 10,000 characters, but only 3,000 are really used a lot in the real world. If you wanted to read a newspaper without a problem you would need to know that many, but most people nowadays in Japan max out at around 2,500 or so because computers help us out so much with writing that it's easy to forget exactly how they look.

In the easiest test in Japan for foreigners you would need to know the basic alphabet and 100 Kanji characters. The hardest test would require 2000.

The above flash player message would require you to have the literacy equivalent of a 4th grade student, in other words you would need to be *above* 10 years old to read *exactly* what it says.

A little off topic but a few interesting facts about the Japanese language. :) I hope this helps put my post back into perspective.

Posted by: Graeme at February 14, 2004 12:50 PM

At least the Ministry of Education was kind enough to start simplifying the language in the 1940's. Up until even WWII, some dictionaries still listed the 50,000 "recognized" kanji...


When we went to register my sons name with the government, we were unable to use the kanji we had selected, because it was not included in the list of "modern" kanji that are deemed acceptable for use in names...

Posted by: Kris at February 14, 2004 10:38 PM