Blatently copying and giving away stuf that does not belong to you is wrong and illegal, if you do that, you should go to jail. If you demand people pay attention to the GPL copyright, you must also demand people pay attention to somebody elses copyright.
The eBookman, Developer tools are GNU tool set - whole nine yards; MMC expansion, 8MBYTE ram for $129, and 16MB with back light is $229. Does MP3s too. First appeared in DDJ magazine about a month ago.
If you are looking for a shirt pocket travel translator thing, Franklin Electronic Publishers rules this market place.
http://www.franklin.com, Before I go to far let me tell you I work for Franklin . I'm the guy responsible for the software in the entire pocket translator product line, I wrote it. Not the dictionaries, I've done a number of them but so have many others.
No, I'm not the linguist who does the language stuff - they won't let me do that, they know better then that, I just do the prodcut software, simulation tools, compilers, assemblers and stuff like that.
There are two classes of products, the shirt pocket '106' series. We also make quite a number of larger full DICTIONARY products.
The translator product lines sell here in the states for $14.95 to $29.95 depending on the number of languages, and the store you purchase them in, and the feature set included.
The rip-off shops in NYC charge 200 to 300% over MSRP - check out our web site.
They all include FONETIK spell korekshun, no other pocket translator series has the depth of features the franklins have, nor the word grouping we have.
For instance, try these things in any product: mikerowscope, noledge, phish, kawfee, backtearia, nive, see who can actually find the word you are looking for.
Yes, we do have some competitors, they are Seiko-Epson, and Hachette and to some degree Langenshite (German outfit). Somebody mentioned LINO - they don't make anything - they just sell stuff that is done by a Taiwan out fit.
The TWE106 has Eng/Ger/Frn/Spn/Itl, the TEE-106 (only available in europe) has English, German, Hungarian, Polish and Czech. The TEP-100 (Don't know if they are still around) has English-Portuguese. Some of the other products DLE/FLE/NLE-100 or -106 include Dutch, and/or Swedish. These small credit card sized guys include a small databank (50 to 100 names & phone numbers depending on size). And a simple calculator.
The TRE-400 has 7 languages and a few more features.
In heavily inflected languages, the inflections work the way you want, and would expect. English example: if you type "GO" the product knows how to find the word "WENT" also.
The dictionaries typically include inflection screens showing word usage in simple sentences like: I run, You Run, I have Run, I ran, etc, in most cases, this is in both languages.
Our translators - unlike the other junk ones that are out there know that a "BOOT" is the trunk of a car in [UK], and stop and ask do you want BOOT (AUTO) [UK] or BOOT (SHOE) [US] don't translate it only as a shoe or a trunk. They also know that TRUNK in (US) can mean (AUTO) or TRUNK (LARGE SUITCASE).
Most of the German products (all translators, most dictionaries) understand compound words, ie: German, an airplane Boarding Card is boardkarte or something like that.
The full dictionary type products are available in quite a number of languages, ie: Bi-Lingual Dictionaries and a few mono-linguals included
Languages include: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Sweedish, Catalan, Polish, Czech, Arabic, Hebrew, just to name a few. The primary european languages are available in the US, the others - well you have to get them from the local countries. See http://www.franklin.com/international
We also have some of the best indexable text compression on the planet - that's how we can do this work.
The little tiny pocket $15 to $30 translators are run by a 1MHZ 6502 with 2 or 3K bytes of ram and about 512K bytes of rom, and a little 2032 coin cell battery.
The larger units run on a custom 24 bit RISC cpu that we developed in house, we have GCC & GDB ported for this custom RISC cpu.
One thing to keep in mind when you are looking for these types of products, Franklin is the only company in the world who Designs and Develops the products *IN*HOUSE* in all aspects, ie: Hardware, Software, Compression, circuit boards you name it. Everybody else farms the work out, it shows in the product quality that you purchase.
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Blatently copying and giving away stuf that does not belong to you is wrong and illegal, if you do that, you should go to jail. If you demand people pay attention to the GPL copyright, you must also demand people pay attention to somebody elses copyright.
The eBookman, Developer tools are GNU tool set - whole nine yards; MMC expansion, 8MBYTE ram for $129, and 16MB with back light is $229. Does MP3s too. First appeared in DDJ magazine about a month ago.
http://www.franklin.com, Before I go to far let me tell you I work for Franklin . I'm the guy responsible for the software in the entire pocket translator product line, I wrote it. Not the dictionaries, I've done a number of them but so have many others.
No, I'm not the linguist who does the language stuff - they won't let me do that, they know better then that, I just do the prodcut software, simulation tools, compilers, assemblers and stuff like that.
There are two classes of products, the shirt pocket '106' series. We also make quite a number of larger full DICTIONARY products.
The translator product lines sell here in the states for $14.95 to $29.95 depending on the number of languages, and the store you purchase them in, and the feature set included.
The rip-off shops in NYC charge 200 to 300% over MSRP - check out our web site.
They all include FONETIK spell korekshun, no other pocket translator series has the depth of features the franklins have, nor the word grouping we have.
For instance, try these things in any product: mikerowscope, noledge, phish, kawfee, backtearia, nive, see who can actually find the word you are looking for.
Yes, we do have some competitors, they are Seiko-Epson, and Hachette and to some degree Langenshite (German outfit). Somebody mentioned LINO - they don't make anything - they just sell stuff that is done by a Taiwan out fit.
The TWE106 has Eng/Ger/Frn/Spn/Itl, the TEE-106 (only available in europe) has English, German, Hungarian, Polish and Czech. The TEP-100 (Don't know if they are still around) has English-Portuguese. Some of the other products DLE/FLE/NLE-100 or -106 include Dutch, and/or Swedish. These small credit card sized guys include a small databank (50 to 100 names & phone numbers depending on size). And a simple calculator.
The TRE-400 has 7 languages and a few more features.
In heavily inflected languages, the inflections work the way you want, and would expect. English example: if you type "GO" the product knows how to find the word "WENT" also.
The dictionaries typically include inflection screens showing word usage in simple sentences like: I run, You Run, I have Run, I ran, etc, in most cases, this is in both languages.
Our translators - unlike the other junk ones that are out there know that a "BOOT" is the trunk of a car in [UK], and stop and ask do you want BOOT (AUTO) [UK] or BOOT (SHOE) [US] don't translate it only as a shoe or a trunk. They also know that TRUNK in (US) can mean (AUTO) or TRUNK (LARGE SUITCASE).
Most of the German products (all translators, most dictionaries) understand compound words, ie: German, an airplane Boarding Card is boardkarte or something like that.
The full dictionary type products are available in quite a number of languages, ie: Bi-Lingual Dictionaries and a few mono-linguals included
Languages include: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Sweedish, Catalan, Polish, Czech, Arabic, Hebrew, just to name a few. The primary european languages are available in the US, the others - well you have to get them from the local countries. See http://www.franklin.com/international
We also have some of the best indexable text compression on the planet - that's how we can do this work.
The little tiny pocket $15 to $30 translators are run by a 1MHZ 6502 with 2 or 3K bytes of ram and about 512K bytes of rom, and a little 2032 coin cell battery.
The larger units run on a custom 24 bit RISC cpu that we developed in house, we have GCC & GDB ported for this custom RISC cpu.
One thing to keep in mind when you are looking for these types of products, Franklin is the only company in the world who Designs and Develops the products *IN*HOUSE* in all aspects, ie: Hardware, Software, Compression, circuit boards you name it. Everybody else farms the work out, it shows in the product quality that you purchase.