Ubersoft.net: Technology Is Not Your Friend

Substandard Standardization

31 March 2008 - 7:08am — Christopher Wright

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Comic Transcript

JIM WASHINGTON: In tonight's main story, it appears that Ubersoft's attempt to get their "Ubersoft Marketing Language" approved as an ISO standard will finally meet with success. UML is expected to be approved, having gained the more than 23 majority of votes needed.

JIM WASHINGTON: This success does not come without controversy: reports of voting irregularities, including one instance where 19 people voted against, 5 voted for, and the administrative oversight for that group tallied the voted as "approved," have been making the rounds on many technology blogs covering the entire process.

JIM WASHINGTON: Reports that Ubersoft-designed voting machines were used in the tallying of said votes are so far unsubstantiated.

TICKERTAPE: Nothing much happening today, but they pay me per letter so I'm goign to keep typing anyway :: Ignore the tickertape, I'm just trying to make rent

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Comments

Ever the nitpicker....

31 March 2008 - 9:25am — rhl2000

"language" or "langauge"?

Maybe it's part of Ubersoft's new "standard"?

Yeah, that's the ticket... ;-)

I really wish Inkscape had

31 March 2008 - 9:32am — Christopher Wright

I really wish Inkscape had an integrated spell-checker for things like that...

anchors & newsfolks

31 March 2008 - 11:30am — sewicked (not verified)

TV newscasters mispronounce things all the time. You just spelled his pronunciation kind of, um, phonetically.

Phonetically?

1 April 2008 - 11:46am — rhl2000

Is that like those who say "nukular"? ;-)

Although I can think of a couple of more appropriate (and quite derogatory) terms to qualify such pronunciation...

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