No. Companies that distribute software built with modified code must give it back. Companies that use the code or even modifiy it and use it internally only need not give anything back.
That's one thing that is going to change with GPL v. 3.
If that's true, all the Linux servers in the company I'm working for are going to be replaced by BSD in a matter of days.
I happen to have a few phone catalogs here. I have just scanned a page on a DoCoMo catalog showing the screens (and font sizes) on the latest phone models.
The image is here. This is a 1Mbyte JPEG file, be warned.
As you can see, this is more than enough to read a book, specially if it's written in Japanese.
CDs have been around for almost 25 years, and all proposed next-gen drives (Blue-Ray and HD-DVD) will have CD and DVD compatibility.
Yes, the technology is likely to be supported, but what what will happen to the disks that you already have? Will they still be readable 5 years from now? 10 years? 20?
Let me tell you: they won't. And copying the data to new media (say, every year) sometimes it not an option.
I stopped using CD-Rs for storing my important data when some 2-3 year old not-so-cheap disks started became unreadable. Now I use CDs for the data that I wouldn't mind much if I lose (MP3s, videos), and magneto-optical disks for the important stuff that I want to keep for years.
I've been living in Tokyo for three years now, working for a software development company. Even though I'm a systems administrator, I've had to do localizations on occasion. Both ways: Japanese to English and English to Japanese.
If you were to do an English->Japanese localization you would be in deep trouble. But you say that the work is in the opposite direction. In that case it's not that hard, assuming that you can read some Japanese or that there's someone in the company who can help you with the translation.
Some of the problems you'll be facing:
- Get used to work on a Japanese Windows. Your English Windows will not be adequate for this. - Dates. They are written as YYYY+(kanji for year)+MM+(kanji for month)+DD+(kanji for day). - Input validation. You'll have to REMOVE lots of code that you won't need in the (more simple) English version. And in order to know what you have to remove, you'll have to understand it first. Learn about hankaku-zenkaku characters, katakana, hiragana and kanji, and how they're encoded in Shift-JIS.
You're obviously a troll, but I'll bite. Oh, and I DO own a PSP since the day it was released. Here we go:
1 Graphics [...]we have screen shots and movies we see overly-simple character models with fewer polygons than characters on the PS1[...]
One of the games I own is Ridge Racers. The graphics are comparable to Gran Turismo 3 on the PS2, as is the framerate.
2 Battery [...]If you are in the middle of a game and the battery runs out, just plop in another $45 battery[...]
If the battery starts running out, you'll know at least half an hour before, because the battery LED will start flashing.
[...]make sure to keep your spares charged and in a huge bag[...]
The PSP battery is quite small, so even if you're freak enough to want to carry more than the one on the console, it won't be a problem.
[...]make sure to save your game cause those rumors you heard about the game being suspended while you swap the battery were spread by Sony fanboys and arent true.
The suspend function works. I use it all the time because I use my PSP mostly on the train when commuting. And replacing the battery when the console is suspended works too. That said, I have been playing Ridge Racers for around 6 hours with one battery charge.
3 - Music playback [...]1 directory of music with no ID3 tag support[...]
The PSP supports directories and ID3 tags. I have a 512Mb MemoryStick with several directories of music on it. The PSP media browser displays the name of each directory, and inside of each directory it displays the title and artist of each song. You can also click to display more information on each song, that is taken from (guess where?) the ID3 tags.
[...]No album art cover[...]
Neither does the iPod, and I don't see you complaining.
4 - Wireless too [...]you have to manually turn on the wireless capabilities or your battery will loose juice[...]
The wireless switch is to lock/unlock the wireless functions. If you're not using wireless, it won't be sucking juice from your battery, regardless of the position of the wireless lock.
5 - Sleep mode [...]
This is only flamebait, doesn't deserve an answer.
6 - Movie playback. The PSP plays back MP4-formatted movies, right off the memory stick.[...] you need at least a couple pieces of software to make the movie conversion. One is Decrypter[...] and you will need 3GP Converter[...]
You'll need Decrypter only if you want to rip a DVD. Not only on the PSP, but also on any other case when you want to rip your movies to a hard disk. You'll need the MP4 converter if you don't have the movies in that format. Of course, there's the possibility of a firmware upgrade that includes other formats. Both my cell phone and camera save movies in mp3 format.
[...]you can only play 320x240 movies[...]
You're lying again. It can play movies at full screen.
7 - Strong third-party support. [...]
This is only flamebait, doesn't deserve an answer.
8 - The price is going to be right [...]make sure to grab a few added necessities[...]
You can download Irix 6.5.24 (I think) for free from the SupportFolio site (http://support.sgi.com). Just create an account and you'll have access to these updates. I have two O2 myself (an R12000 and an R5000) and the Irix 6.5 CDs, so I used the updates on that site to get to 6.5.24.
I had to go to the office this morning, so I went to Akihabara in the afternoon at around 17:00. It was sold out in Akiba City, so I kept walking. Several shops had the "PSP sold out" signs hanging on the doors. Then I arrived at Sofmap, and some guy from the store was shouting that they had stock. I asked one of the clerks if that was true. and yes, it was. Mostly canceled reservations, only Value Packs. Bought it, and came back home. Total walking time: 10 minutes.
I however would like to know that the votes were counted right. I like Bush being in office, but fair voting is more important than which politician holds the office.
Even though I hate Bush, I'm glad to know that there are people who think like you among his supporters.
1. Open computer cover 2. Verify that it's a 2.5" IDE drive 3. Go to shop, buy new 2.5" drive 4. Go back home, remove dead disk from computer 5. Plug new drive when the old one was 6. Close computer cover 7. Install OS
Honestly, there's nothing special to it. But there are two issues that you'll probably find:
a) Laptops are very crowded inside their covers. Write down where everything belongs as you take it apart. Take photos if possible, to make sure that you put it together in the same way later.
b) Laptop manufacturers don't like users messing with the hardware. Your laptop most likely has a cover underneath that you can remove by unscrewing a standard screw, and the hard disk is most likely inside it (that's the case with my Compaq Presario). However, it might happen that you have to use some special hexagonal key to reach the hard disk, as is the case on my wife's Sony laptop.
There will be an Earthquake in Japan sometime in the next ten years!
Well, there was an intensity 5 earthquake here in Tokyo yesterday night. I was doing some work at the computer at the time, when the ground started shaking slightly as if there was a very big truck passing by. A few seconds later the big tremor began. It was shaking for like 20-30 seconds before starting fading slowly. It even woke my wife up.
This site has real-time information about earthquakes in Japan as they take place (site is in Japanese). Clicking on the left arrow in the top right corner you can see information about past earthquakes (at the moment of writing this, there has been another slight tremor in northern Japan).
Be careful if you go to a Spanish-speaking country and start calling women "hembras". While technically you're correct, we use "hembra" in these cases:
- When talking about a female animal. - When refering to a woman in a (very) despective manner.
The correct way to tell people about your gender (or someone else's) would be to use "[hombre|varon]/mujer" (man/woman) or "masculino/femenino" (male/female [gender]).
And in order to make this post more "instructive":
"Perra" is slang for bitch, yes. But it is used mostly in latin american countries. In Spain it is not used often. Words commonly heard in Spain's Spanish to mean the same are: "puta", "zorra", "ramera", "guarra", etc, etc
Arx Fatalis has not been translated into Japanese. That's quite a problem for a game that requires a lot of interaction with NPCs (lots of talking and reading).
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No. Companies that distribute software built with modified code must give it back. Companies that use the code or even modifiy it and use it internally only need not give anything back.
That's one thing that is going to change with GPL v. 3.
If that's true, all the Linux servers in the company I'm working for are going to be replaced by BSD in a matter of days.
Ooops...
How could you buy it if you didn't know what song it was?
(Note to self: first coffee, then Slashdot)
So... now it costs as much to figure out what a song is as to buy it?
How could you buy it if you knew what song it was?
More like 320x240 with 262.000 colours. This is my current phone, which is old enough already (I bought it for just 1 yen in January).
More than enough to watch TV on the train on your way to the office, as I see many people doing every morning.
Well, at least in Spanish-speaking countries we always call it Luna.
Infertility is also a side-effect of, well, being dead because of cancer.
If you were given the choice between being alive but infertile or being dead, which one would you choose?
I happen to have a few phone catalogs here. I have just scanned a page on a DoCoMo catalog showing the screens (and font sizes) on the latest phone models.
The image is here. This is a 1Mbyte JPEG file, be warned.
As you can see, this is more than enough to read a book, specially if it's written in Japanese.
CDs have been around for almost 25 years, and all proposed next-gen drives (Blue-Ray and HD-DVD) will have CD and DVD compatibility.
Yes, the technology is likely to be supported, but what what will happen to the disks that you already have? Will they still be readable 5 years from now? 10 years? 20?
Let me tell you: they won't. And copying the data to new media (say, every year) sometimes it not an option.
I stopped using CD-Rs for storing my important data when some 2-3 year old not-so-cheap disks started became unreadable. Now I use CDs for the data that I wouldn't mind much if I lose (MP3s, videos), and magneto-optical disks for the important stuff that I want to keep for years.
I've been living in Tokyo for three years now, working for a software development company. Even though I'm a systems administrator, I've had to do localizations on occasion. Both ways: Japanese to English and English to Japanese.
If you were to do an English->Japanese localization you would be in deep trouble. But you say that the work is in the opposite direction. In that case it's not that hard, assuming that you can read some Japanese or that there's someone in the company who can help you with the translation.
Some of the problems you'll be facing:
- Get used to work on a Japanese Windows. Your English Windows will not be adequate for this.
- Dates. They are written as YYYY+(kanji for year)+MM+(kanji for month)+DD+(kanji for day).
- Input validation. You'll have to REMOVE lots of code that you won't need in the (more simple) English version. And in order to know what you have to remove, you'll have to understand it first. Learn about hankaku-zenkaku characters, katakana, hiragana and kanji, and how they're encoded in Shift-JIS.
Mail me if you need help/advice.
The first challenges are to design a light-weight, ultra-strength tether and a means of transmitting power wirelessly.
:)
This has "space elevator" all written over.
I'm still downloading it at 95KB/s...
Funny, they're using some of the phpBB icons for the menu on the top of their site:
a ges/folder_big.gif
The download icon:
http://www.daffodildb.com/images/download.gif
http://www.phpbb.com/images/b_downloads-over.gif
The forum icon:
http://www.daffodildb.com/images/forum.gif
http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/templates/subSilver/im
The buy icon (can't find this right now on phpBB's site, but I'm sure I've seen it there before):
http://www.daffodildb.com/images/buy.gif
[...]but RHEL is still missing a few things:
-Xen or virtualization solution like VMWare, Virtual Server, Solaris Zones
Excuse me? We're using VMware Workstation here, running on a Fedora Core 2 host.
Do your homework and read the specs. VMware has been running on Linux since ancient versions.
This shows us that hamsters are SO much more intelligent than monkeys... Mine were doing their own porn movies long before this...
You're obviously a troll, but I'll bite. Oh, and I DO own a PSP since the day it was released. Here we go:
1 Graphics [...]we have screen shots and movies we see overly-simple character models with fewer polygons than characters on the PS1[...]
One of the games I own is Ridge Racers. The graphics are comparable to Gran Turismo 3 on the PS2, as is the framerate.
2 Battery [...]If you are in the middle of a game and the battery runs out, just plop in another $45 battery[...]
If the battery starts running out, you'll know at least half an hour before, because the battery LED will start flashing.
[...]make sure to keep your spares charged and in a huge bag[...]
The PSP battery is quite small, so even if you're freak enough to want to carry more than the one on the console, it won't be a problem.
[...]make sure to save your game cause those rumors you heard about the game being suspended while you swap the battery were spread by Sony fanboys and arent true.
The suspend function works. I use it all the time because I use my PSP mostly on the train when commuting. And replacing the battery when the console is suspended works too. That said, I have been playing Ridge Racers for around 6 hours with one battery charge.
3 - Music playback [...]1 directory of music with no ID3 tag support[...]
The PSP supports directories and ID3 tags. I have a 512Mb MemoryStick with several directories of music on it. The PSP media browser displays the name of each directory, and inside of each directory it displays the title and artist of each song. You can also click to display more information on each song, that is taken from (guess where?) the ID3 tags.
[...]No album art cover[...]
Neither does the iPod, and I don't see you complaining.
4 - Wireless too [...]you have to manually turn on the wireless capabilities or your battery will loose juice[...]
The wireless switch is to lock/unlock the wireless functions. If you're not using wireless, it won't be sucking juice from your battery, regardless of the position of the wireless lock.
5 - Sleep mode [...]
This is only flamebait, doesn't deserve an answer.
6 - Movie playback. The PSP plays back MP4-formatted movies, right off the memory stick.[...] you need at least a couple pieces of software to make the movie conversion. One is Decrypter[...] and you will need 3GP Converter[...]
You'll need Decrypter only if you want to rip a DVD. Not only on the PSP, but also on any other case when you want to rip your movies to a hard disk. You'll need the MP4 converter if you don't have the movies in that format. Of course, there's the possibility of a firmware upgrade that includes other formats. Both my cell phone and camera save movies in mp3 format.
[...]you can only play 320x240 movies[...]
You're lying again. It can play movies at full screen.
7 - Strong third-party support. [...]
This is only flamebait, doesn't deserve an answer.
8 - The price is going to be right [...]make sure to grab a few added necessities[...]
Or get the Value Pack.
[...]Memory Card - $49[...]
$25, to be exact
[...]Extra Battery - $49[...]
The PSP already comes with a battery. I don't think you'll need an extra one, unless you're a freak.
9 - The screen is a marvel [...]the screen is bright and ghosts like a 1 st generation LCD monitor.[...]
This is not true.
[...]For something that is intended as a movie viewer[...]
It's not a movie viewer, it's a game console.
[...]we could have made a screen that didnt blur when there was motion or action on the screen[...]
The screen doesn't blur. Ridge Racers and Armored Core Formula F
You can download Irix 6.5.24 (I think) for free from the SupportFolio site (http://support.sgi.com). Just create an account and you'll have access to these updates. I have two O2 myself (an R12000 and an R5000) and the Irix 6.5 CDs, so I used the updates on that site to get to 6.5.24.
I had to go to the office this morning, so I went to Akihabara in the afternoon at around 17:00. It was sold out in Akiba City, so I kept walking. Several shops had the "PSP sold out" signs hanging on the doors. Then I arrived at Sofmap, and some guy from the store was shouting that they had stock. I asked one of the clerks if that was true. and yes, it was. Mostly canceled reservations, only Value Packs. Bought it, and came back home. Total walking time: 10 minutes.
:)
I guess I was lucky.
I however would like to know that the votes were counted right. I like Bush being in office, but fair voting is more important than which politician holds the office.
Even though I hate Bush, I'm glad to know that there are people who think like you among his supporters.
Routers article here
1. Open computer cover
2. Verify that it's a 2.5" IDE drive
3. Go to shop, buy new 2.5" drive
4. Go back home, remove dead disk from computer
5. Plug new drive when the old one was
6. Close computer cover
7. Install OS
Honestly, there's nothing special to it. But there are two issues that you'll probably find:
a) Laptops are very crowded inside their covers. Write down where everything belongs as you take it apart. Take photos if possible, to make sure that you put it together in the same way later.
b) Laptop manufacturers don't like users messing with the hardware. Your laptop most likely has a cover underneath that you can remove by unscrewing a standard screw, and the hard disk is most likely inside it (that's the case with my Compaq Presario). However, it might happen that you have to use some special hexagonal key to reach the hard disk, as is the case on my wife's Sony laptop.
There will be an Earthquake in Japan sometime in the next ten years!
Well, there was an intensity 5 earthquake here in Tokyo yesterday night. I was doing some work at the computer at the time, when the ground started shaking slightly as if there was a very big truck passing by. A few seconds later the big tremor began. It was shaking for like 20-30 seconds before starting fading slowly. It even woke my wife up.
This site has real-time information about earthquakes in Japan as they take place (site is in Japanese). Clicking on the left arrow in the top right corner you can see information about past earthquakes (at the moment of writing this, there has been another slight tremor in northern Japan).
Looks like at least six people were killed on yesterday's big one (site in Japanese too).
Last time I checked, TRON was the most used embedded OS. Am I missing something?
Why not connect this low power webserver to the hamster...
Because if the poor hamster has to be running to keep his webserver up, he cannot post on his blog.
I'm spanish.
Female is Hembra (and Hombre is man).
Be careful if you go to a Spanish-speaking country and start calling women "hembras". While technically you're correct, we use "hembra" in these cases:
- When talking about a female animal.
- When refering to a woman in a (very) despective manner.
The correct way to tell people about your gender (or someone else's) would be to use "[hombre|varon]/mujer" (man/woman) or "masculino/femenino" (male/female [gender]).
And in order to make this post more "instructive":
"Perra" is slang for bitch, yes. But it is used mostly in latin american countries. In Spain it is not used often. Words commonly heard in Spain's Spanish to mean the same are: "puta", "zorra", "ramera", "guarra", etc, etc
Arx Fatalis has not been translated into Japanese. That's quite a problem for a game that requires a lot of interaction with NPCs (lots of talking and reading).