What is the source for that, anyway? It's not mentioned in the linked article. Since Apple products are still on sale on Amazon Japan, people have speculated that retailers like Yodobashi did not like some new online sales agreement pushed down from Apple. What's amusing is that according to the linked article, you can still order from Yodobashi's website and simply pick up the items in person at the store.
I didn't find the DRM in CS3 all that annoying from a practical point of view, but the installer itself was really terrible. It used up a lot of resources and took forever to copy over files. Furthermore, if your installation botched in the middle (like it did with mine; got a blue screen halfway through), you have to delete everything and reinstall. If you don't, it'll happily continue installing a half-broken package. Even some of the Adobe devs complain about the installer...
The core of Photoshop CS5's content-aware fill is not the texture synthesis algorithm, which has been around for some time now, but the Patch-Match optimization for approximate nearest neighbors, which lets them do it orders of magnitude much more efficiently than previous techniques.
The behavior I've been seeing in all my time using Subversion (but I don't think I've used 1.6 yet) has been: 1) If you use svn:// or https:/// or http:/// it'll automatically store credentials on commit so that you don't have to type in your password again on the next commit 2) If you use svn+ssh:// it'll prompt you for your password every time you perform an action and sometimes multiple times if you're doing svn diff, etc.
I also tried digging around in my ~/.subversion/auth directory and found that: 1) svn:// (svn.simple) causes plaintext passwords to be stored 2) https:/// (svn.ssl.server)'s auth cache doesn't contain any plaintext passwords 3) svn+ssh:// creates no auth cache data 4) ~/.subversion is world readable but ~/.subversion/auth is only user-readable
Given that it also provides password based SSH access, and stores those passwords in plaintext, it's clear that it was written by and is maintained by people who simply _do not care_ about security.
Is this behavior new? I've been using svn+ssh for a few years now and I have to type in my password every time I run Subversion (sometimes multiple times depending on the action), regardless of whether I was on Windows, Mac or Linux. In all cases, Subversion launches the ssh client on the system and asks you to feed it your password.
In Japan, you have a ton of people making derivative works (doujin) and selling them at low volume at various events, the biggest of which being Comiket, which half a million people attend. A lot of times, these derivative works are with the approval of the original creators, who set out guidelines as to what they consider proper and improper derivative works. The biggest content creator I can think of is Nihon Falcom (Japanese video game maker), who recently offered fairly liberal access to their entire library of music.
The official website (http://www.fmworld.net/product/phone/f-04b/color.html?fmwfrom=f-04b_info) claims that the display part of the phone is only 9 millimeters thick, and the photos do not show the keypad part being much thicker than the display.
This phone apparently also has a pico projector built in.
For problems such as variable placement of variables, there's two ways I've seen it done, at least in Japanese Windows games. One is for a smart parser in the game engine, which turns your example into something like:
print "Hello, $charactername1, how are you doing today?"
Another choice is to separately issue text display commands and insert a special text display command in the middle:
print "Hello, "
printcharactername 1
print ", how are you doing today?"
This can be reduced to the previous problem by having a smart script compiler handle wildcards instead of the game engine. In either case, while this is interesting, I don't think the general audience for which the original article was written would be interested in that much detail.
As for your points on currency, dates and times, Atlus USA as far as I know does primarily JP->US localization. For "nonfictional" dates, times and currencies, there's a pretty straightforward conversion, depending on what the editor decides to do (leave in Japanese style or convert to American style). For "fictional" dates, times and currencies, I don't think it's that big of a problem, since those are just directly carried through. This is either trivial or too detailed for the typical reader of the article to enjoy, in my opinion.
Overall, I think the article presented a very good bird's eye view of the process, and I think it would be interesting for a more detailed article for localization aficionados.
Square Enix probably doesn't need people who can hack 65816 machine code... Furthermore, how do you suppose that Square Enix would possibly release this game without a lot of effort in redoing all the work? I really don't think a SNES cartridge would sell all that well right now.
When I listened to this on NPR, they say that they get their hair from China, because hair is apparently traded there, instead of thrown away in the barber shop. I'm sure we can get a decent amount of hair from barbershops worldwide if it becomes useful.
You need temporal resolution on the order of one second or less in addition to spatial resolution for most brain imaging. Standard MRI scans essentially scan frequency space of the specimen, which takes some time. The article doesn't say what time resolution their new technique has.
I agree. Recently, I've started treating my computer as my swap space. Things I don't really need to keep at the top of my head, I "swap" out to a computer, and then page them back in as needed.
Speaking of Excel, I came across a bunch of clips the other day on NicoNico Douga where they used Excel to draw video. Here are some YouTube mirrors of those videos, since the original site is Japanese and registration-only: ToraDora! OP in Excel Higurashi Kai OP in Excel
They've already developed a lite version of their PDF renderer for their Digital Editions product, so they really should just distribute the renderer in that as a standalone product or something.
How can we be sure they were Greek hackers? What if they were agents of the TechnoCore "performing experiments on farcasters" while pretending to be Greek hackers? <_<
If it's just "shiretoko", then it might be the Shiretoko Peninsula located in the northeast section of Hokkaido. And hate to be nitpicky, but shiretoko, shireitoko, shirettoko and shiiretoko are not homonyms, as they have a different rhythm when pronounced, although they sound a bit similar. Shireitoko has a prolonged 'e' sound, shirettoko has a stop/pause after the 'e' sound, shiiretoko has a prolonged 'i' sound.
-- it's a marketable, easy to use technology that would be of huge benefit to typical consumers, yet chances are good it will never be commercialized.
I've noticed that a lot of SIGGRAPH papers will either only work for a small subset of inputs you would want to feed it or need a properly controlled environment to work and might need a lot of tweaking to get looking correctly. In my opinion, SIGGRAPH papers depend on demonstrating excellent best cases while mainstream consumer products require that the worst case be also acceptable.
Do you expect a baker to give bread to you for free when you criticize his breads for not being tasty enough?
No, but one would normally expect the baker to improve his recipes if the criticism was appropriate, and one certainly wouldn't expect the baker to reply with "well, give me a better recipe."
It depends on the parameters of the compressor used. If the compressor has a long attack time and no look-ahead, you'll get that the compressor doesn't have enough time to clamp down a sudden loud burst of sound.
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What is the source for that, anyway? It's not mentioned in the linked article. Since Apple products are still on sale on Amazon Japan, people have speculated that retailers like Yodobashi did not like some new online sales agreement pushed down from Apple. What's amusing is that according to the linked article, you can still order from Yodobashi's website and simply pick up the items in person at the store.
I didn't find the DRM in CS3 all that annoying from a practical point of view, but the installer itself was really terrible. It used up a lot of resources and took forever to copy over files. Furthermore, if your installation botched in the middle (like it did with mine; got a blue screen halfway through), you have to delete everything and reinstall. If you don't, it'll happily continue installing a half-broken package. Even some of the Adobe devs complain about the installer...
The core of Photoshop CS5's content-aware fill is not the texture synthesis algorithm, which has been around for some time now, but the Patch-Match optimization for approximate nearest neighbors, which lets them do it orders of magnitude much more efficiently than previous techniques.
This stands against the fact that Vivendi granted a non-commercial license to the team, subject to Vivendi's approval of the game after submission.
So, did they actually get this in writing, with a contract signed by both sides? Would such a contract survive an acquisition?
The behavior I've been seeing in all my time using Subversion (but I don't think I've used 1.6 yet) has been:
1) If you use svn:// or https:/// or http:/// it'll automatically store credentials on commit so that you don't have to type in your password again on the next commit
2) If you use svn+ssh:// it'll prompt you for your password every time you perform an action and sometimes multiple times if you're doing svn diff, etc.
I also tried digging around in my ~/.subversion/auth directory and found that:
1) svn:// (svn.simple) causes plaintext passwords to be stored
2) https:/// (svn.ssl.server)'s auth cache doesn't contain any plaintext passwords
3) svn+ssh:// creates no auth cache data
4) ~/.subversion is world readable but ~/.subversion/auth is only user-readable
Given that it also provides password based SSH access, and stores those passwords in plaintext, it's clear that it was written by and is maintained by people who simply _do not care_ about security.
Is this behavior new? I've been using svn+ssh for a few years now and I have to type in my password every time I run Subversion (sometimes multiple times depending on the action), regardless of whether I was on Windows, Mac or Linux. In all cases, Subversion launches the ssh client on the system and asks you to feed it your password.
Lasers may be girly but they are a whole lot sexier than railguns which is basically just a gun that shoots really fast bullets
Japan begs to differ, having created a female character who is the human manifestation of a railgun, with hoards of fanboys drooling over her...
Not quite at the level of rule #34, but here's what came to mind: It's sooo hard...
Use the Preview button!
There's an .app for that.
In Japan, you have a ton of people making derivative works (doujin) and selling them at low volume at various events, the biggest of which being Comiket, which half a million people attend. A lot of times, these derivative works are with the approval of the original creators, who set out guidelines as to what they consider proper and improper derivative works. The biggest content creator I can think of is Nihon Falcom (Japanese video game maker), who recently offered fairly liberal access to their entire library of music.
The official website (http://www.fmworld.net/product/phone/f-04b/color.html?fmwfrom=f-04b_info) claims that the display part of the phone is only 9 millimeters thick, and the photos do not show the keypad part being much thicker than the display. This phone apparently also has a pico projector built in.
For problems such as variable placement of variables, there's two ways I've seen it done, at least in Japanese Windows games. One is for a smart parser in the game engine, which turns your example into something like:
Another choice is to separately issue text display commands and insert a special text display command in the middle:
This can be reduced to the previous problem by having a smart script compiler handle wildcards instead of the game engine. In either case, while this is interesting, I don't think the general audience for which the original article was written would be interested in that much detail.
As for your points on currency, dates and times, Atlus USA as far as I know does primarily JP->US localization. For "nonfictional" dates, times and currencies, there's a pretty straightforward conversion, depending on what the editor decides to do (leave in Japanese style or convert to American style). For "fictional" dates, times and currencies, I don't think it's that big of a problem, since those are just directly carried through. This is either trivial or too detailed for the typical reader of the article to enjoy, in my opinion.
Overall, I think the article presented a very good bird's eye view of the process, and I think it would be interesting for a more detailed article for localization aficionados.
Square Enix probably doesn't need people who can hack 65816 machine code... Furthermore, how do you suppose that Square Enix would possibly release this game without a lot of effort in redoing all the work? I really don't think a SNES cartridge would sell all that well right now.
When I listened to this on NPR, they say that they get their hair from China, because hair is apparently traded there, instead of thrown away in the barber shop. I'm sure we can get a decent amount of hair from barbershops worldwide if it becomes useful.
You need temporal resolution on the order of one second or less in addition to spatial resolution for most brain imaging. Standard MRI scans essentially scan frequency space of the specimen, which takes some time. The article doesn't say what time resolution their new technique has.
I agree. Recently, I've started treating my computer as my swap space. Things I don't really need to keep at the top of my head, I "swap" out to a computer, and then page them back in as needed.
Speaking of Excel, I came across a bunch of clips the other day on NicoNico Douga where they used Excel to draw video. Here are some YouTube mirrors of those videos, since the original site is Japanese and registration-only:
ToraDora! OP in Excel
Higurashi Kai OP in Excel
They've already developed a lite version of their PDF renderer for their Digital Editions product, so they really should just distribute the renderer in that as a standalone product or something.
How can we be sure they were Greek hackers? What if they were agents of the TechnoCore "performing experiments on farcasters" while pretending to be Greek hackers? <_<
If it's just "shiretoko", then it might be the Shiretoko Peninsula located in the northeast section of Hokkaido. And hate to be nitpicky, but shiretoko, shireitoko, shirettoko and shiiretoko are not homonyms, as they have a different rhythm when pronounced, although they sound a bit similar. Shireitoko has a prolonged 'e' sound, shirettoko has a stop/pause after the 'e' sound, shiiretoko has a prolonged 'i' sound.
-- it's a marketable, easy to use technology that would be of huge benefit to typical consumers, yet chances are good it will never be commercialized.
I've noticed that a lot of SIGGRAPH papers will either only work for a small subset of inputs you would want to feed it or need a properly controlled environment to work and might need a lot of tweaking to get looking correctly. In my opinion, SIGGRAPH papers depend on demonstrating excellent best cases while mainstream consumer products require that the worst case be also acceptable.
Do you expect a baker to give bread to you for free when you criticize his breads for not being tasty enough?
No, but one would normally expect the baker to improve his recipes if the criticism was appropriate, and one certainly wouldn't expect the baker to reply with "well, give me a better recipe."
It depends on the parameters of the compressor used. If the compressor has a long attack time and no look-ahead, you'll get that the compressor doesn't have enough time to clamp down a sudden loud burst of sound.
Either that, or we find out that a couple of robots managed to activate a nuclear intensifier...
These pictures are the closest I could think of off the top of my head and it comes in your choice of black or white. Enjoy... <_<;