Actually, the inverse situation existed in Russia. Harry Potter was first translated by volunteers and published freely on the internet. Once the copyright holders got interested in the russian market, they made a translation and started publishing but the translation turned out to be so bad that the paper book was a big failure. Unfortunately, copyright holders did already shut down the (previously legal) harrypotter.ru that distributed a better translation. Nowadays, the only way to find a good translation is to look on the warez sites.
It was a basic 101-key keyboard, all black and very much like Das Keyboard visually (as I can see at the pictures) except that it is indeed a buckling-spring keyboard.
I suspect its price was over 100$ plus shipping to Europe, though.
Beware that buckling-spring keyboard sound a lot louder and if you work late in the night, your relatives may not appreciate your new keyboard.
Oh, BTW, I still use it and hope to keep it for quite some time. It is great for those who learned typing on a typing machine.
I have such a keyboard for a while already
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Subj, I had a similar keyboard a few years ago from http://www.pckeyboard.com/ They also sell models with a trackpoint, a trackball, 101 or 104 keys, and much more.
The Keytronic discussed here is not te same, they say in the description that their keyboard has membranes while the Das Keyboard and my own have steel springs.
As for the price and feature set it beats Canon Elan 7(E) and Nikon 75. And you will find it for less than 200. However be prepared to spend at least 1000$ for the lenses if you want to get good pictures.
It's a shame that nobody mentioned IDA yet -- an interactive decompiler that does not restore the source code but instead tries to work with the human to figure out what parts of machine code do and mean by splitting data and code and giving readable names to functions and variables to start with.
The filesystem has been stocking the filenames in utf-8 for ages. What you have to do is to make sure there is iocharset=utf-8 in the options of mount in the file/etc/fstab.
I guess http://www.speakfreely.org/ is something you are looking for. it lacks http tunelling and tcp-only connection options necessary for contemporaty microsoftish networks, though, which renders it unusable in many cases.
There are basicaly two TTS technologies on the market:
dyphone-based synthesis where the database contains one dyphone (end of first sound + start of next sound) for each psossible sound combination. This approach is used in Festival. Dyphone-based synthesis will hardly sound better that in Festival because dyphones have to be modified artificially to fit every variation of pitch, duration and any other parameter that is needed to produce a given phrase.
corpus-based synthesis takes a different approach where a large database of several hours of speech is recorded and manually labelled to mark the start and end of each sound. Such a database is used to extract the best and the longest sequence of dyphones during the production. This approach gives naturally sounding results for short sentences where intonation is not so important
Given that the cost of developing a database for corpus synthesis may be orders of magnitude higher than for dyphone synthesis, there are very few companies that make them. Two companies offer a demo on the internet: ATT and Scansoft (former L&H) and
..euh... I actually wanted to speak about modern Russia. The status quo there is that commercial use of copyrighted matherial is by default forbiden, but private and non-commercial use is not, at the condition that the copyright holder MAY always request the distributer to withdraw the copyrighted material and the distributer HAS to comply to the request or be charged in court.
This means that people are allowed to publish mp3s, books, video on the internet provided that they do not get any money from their publishing and that they have not been contacted by the copyright holder with the request to withdraw their copyrighted works
Sounds like the EU is getting to have the same idea of copyright.
There are basicaly two TTS technologies on the market:
dyphone-based synthesis where the database contains one dyphone (end of first sound + start of next sound) for each psossible sound combination. This approach is used in Festival. Dyphone-based synthesis will hardly sound better that in Festival because dyphones have to be modified artificially to fit every variation of pitch, duration and any other parameter that is needed to produce a given phrase.
corpus-based synthesis takes a different approach where a large database of several hours of speech is recorded and manually labelled to mark the start and end of each sound. Such a database is used to extract the best and the longest sequence of dyphones during the production. This approach gives naturally sounding results for short sentences where intonation is not so important
Given that the cost of developing a database for corpus synthesis may easily be 100 times higher than for dyphone synthesis, there are very few companies that make them.
Two companies offer a demo on the internet: ATT and
Scansoft (former L&H)
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Actually, the inverse situation existed in Russia. Harry Potter was first translated by volunteers and published freely on the internet. Once the copyright holders got interested in the russian market, they made a translation and started publishing but the translation turned out to be so bad that the paper book was a big failure. Unfortunately, copyright holders did already shut down the (previously legal) harrypotter.ru that distributed a better translation. Nowadays, the only way to find a good translation is to look on the warez sites.
My wife bought one from http://www.pckeyboard.com/ to offer me for my birthday a few years ago.
It was a basic 101-key keyboard, all black and very much like Das Keyboard visually (as I can see at the pictures) except that it is indeed a buckling-spring keyboard.
I suspect its price was over 100$ plus shipping to Europe, though.
Beware that buckling-spring keyboard sound a lot louder and if you work late in the night, your relatives may not appreciate your new keyboard.
Oh, BTW, I still use it and hope to keep it for quite some time. It is great for those who learned typing on a typing machine.
Subj, I had a similar keyboard a few years ago from http://www.pckeyboard.com/ They also sell models with a trackpoint, a trackball, 101 or 104 keys, and much more.
The Keytronic discussed here is not te same, they say in the description that their keyboard has membranes while the Das Keyboard and my own have steel springs.
Check here for old-style IBM-like models
Il-2 Sturmovik. It is not entirely in Java but it has a lot of Java inside and it is the most popular war plane simulation out there (forget MSCFS)
As for the price and feature set it beats Canon Elan 7(E) and Nikon 75. And you will find it for less than 200. However be prepared to spend at least 1000$ for the lenses if you want to get good pictures.
Don't know about the others, but I am stick to ctwm. The default is very minimalistic, and the customization options are endless.
He handles the load pretty well now, it is probably because he carefully prepared for the assault ;-)
Print to a file using a PostScript printer driver and convert the resulting PostScript file into PDF with GhostScript.
Try out photo.net -- this is the biggest english-speaking community in the field.
you are just jealous
PCkeyboard sells old-styled IBM keyboards in different mods. I personnally like the black one without any marking and a red trackpoint in the middle
I wonder why the parent was modded up as 'Funny' instead of 'Invofrmative'
Where can I download GNU/Hurd? Yes, I know it is not as usable as Linux, but at least I know that its copyright is entirely in the hands of FSF.
It's a shame that nobody mentioned IDA yet -- an interactive decompiler that does not restore the source code but instead tries to work with the human to figure out what parts of machine code do and mean by splitting data and code and giving readable names to functions and variables to start with.
The filesystem has been stocking the filenames in utf-8 for ages. What you have to do is to make sure there is iocharset=utf-8 in the options of mount in the file /etc/fstab.
In general, man mount helps a lot.
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I guess http://www.speakfreely.org/ is something you are looking for. it lacks http tunelling and tcp-only connection options necessary for contemporaty microsoftish networks, though, which renders it unusable in many cases.
Here is an english version of a recent article in Pravda (influential russian newspaper) that uncovers where Microsoft donations were going for years.
If you have a lot of money, try Tamino.
Don't know about the others, but I always keep a diskette of tomsrtbt in my pocket
..euh... I actually wanted to speak about modern Russia. The status quo there is that commercial use of copyrighted matherial is by default forbiden, but private and non-commercial use is not, at the condition that the copyright holder MAY always request the distributer to withdraw the copyrighted material and the distributer HAS to comply to the request or be charged in court.
This means that people are allowed to publish mp3s, books, video on the internet provided that they do not get any money from their publishing and that they have not been contacted by the copyright holder with the request to withdraw their copyrighted works
Sounds like the EU is getting to have the same idea of copyright.
Your software should be unique, irreplaceable and of a very good quality. It should also occupy a specific niche unreacheable for large corporations.
Example: Vuescan
- dyphone-based synthesis where the database contains one dyphone (end of first sound + start of next sound) for each psossible sound combination. This approach is used in Festival. Dyphone-based synthesis will hardly sound better that in Festival because dyphones have to be modified artificially to fit every variation of pitch, duration and any other parameter that is needed to produce a given phrase.
- corpus-based synthesis takes a different approach where a large database of several hours of speech is recorded and manually labelled to mark the start and end of each sound. Such a database is used to extract the best and the longest sequence of dyphones during the production. This approach gives naturally sounding results for short sentences where intonation is not so important
Given that the cost of developing a database for corpus synthesis may easily be 100 times higher than for dyphone synthesis, there are very few companies that make them. Two companies offer a demo on the internet: ATT and Scansoft (former L&H) and