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    Thread: Anki iPhone app dropping soon - who's buying?
Post: Anki iPhone app dropping soon - who's buying?

This is ridiculous. Quote:While I am very appreciative of all the work Mr. Elmes has done on his great product, I agree that he is gravely misunderstanding the terms of GPL and is violating it. GPL ...
abdwef Learning resources 401 86,781 2010-05-22, 6:23 pm
    Thread: Anki iPhone app dropping soon - who's buying?
Post: Anki iPhone app dropping soon - who's buying?

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abdwef Learning resources 401 86,781 2010-05-22, 12:52 pm
    Thread: Anki iPhone app dropping soon - who's buying?
Post: Anki iPhone app dropping soon - who's buying?

ninetimes Wrote:Just popping in to say that I'll be picking it up early on as well. Dropping the whole 'but you can get it free for <blah>' mess in this thread is a little uncool -- the fact th...
abdwef Learning resources 401 86,781 2010-05-21, 8:31 pm
    Thread: Anki iPhone app dropping soon - who's buying?
Post: Anki iPhone app dropping soon - who's buying?

resolve Wrote:I think it's wonderful that Anki on the Android is a viable option now, and it doesn't surprise me that an open source version of Anki sprang up, as Android is much more conducive to ope...
abdwef Learning resources 401 86,781 2010-05-21, 8:22 pm
    Thread: Anki iPhone app dropping soon - who's buying?
Post: Anki iPhone app dropping soon - who's buying?

Quote:The iPhone app is not open source because I need money to eat. Having quit my regular job to work on Anki, I am living incredibly tight at the moment (and it would simply not be possible without...
abdwef Learning resources 401 86,781 2010-05-21, 8:17 pm
    Thread: Anki iPhone app dropping soon - who's buying?
Post: Anki iPhone app dropping soon - who's buying?

Blahah Wrote:Damien owns the intellectual property rights for the concept and logic of the program Please don't use confusing terms like "intellectual property", since that groups together unrelated c...
abdwef Learning resources 401 86,781 2010-05-20, 8:35 am
    Thread: Anki iPhone app dropping soon - who's buying?
Post: Anki iPhone app dropping soon - who's buying?

How can this version of Anki be non-free without violating the GPL?
abdwef Learning resources 401 86,781 2010-05-19, 10:12 pm
    Thread: There's this girl... (advice needed for asking out a Korean girl)
Post: There's this girl... (advice needed for asking out...

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abdwef Off topic 28 11,397 2010-04-03, 11:16 am
    Thread: Anki hygiene
Post: Anki hygiene

I hate to tell you this, but I think it could be using Dropbox that's causing the problem. http://groups.google.com/group/ankisrs/b...0bab0de583
abdwef Learning resources 9 5,125 2010-03-30, 5:11 pm
    Thread: Learning Japanese while taking a heavy uni. degree
Post: Learning Japanese while taking a heavy uni. degree

Hello, I've run into some trouble. I'm in first-year of a joint math-CS major, which involves the most difficult courses at this university. Last semester, I put my uni. courses first. As a result,...
abdwef General discussion 32 6,579 2010-02-20, 4:58 pm
    Thread: What is/was your area of study?
Post: What is/was your area of study?

Mathematical Analysis and Computer Science Theoretical Foundations. Jarvik7 Wrote:I don't think there are an unusually large number of compsci students studying Japanese. There are just a lot of comp...
abdwef Off topic 98 16,837 2009-08-28, 9:51 pm
    Thread: Don't sit the JLPT
Post: Don't sit the JLPT

brianobush Wrote:Tobberoth Wrote:"Who needs a computer science degree, I've owned a computer since I was a kid, I know my way around computers. A degree would do nothing for me." So correct. I have wo...
abdwef General discussion 121 20,854 2009-08-14, 4:56 pm
    Thread: Quality of Japanese translations of Western books, games, films
Post: Quality of Japanese translations of Western books,...

Hi guys, A while back, people were discussing Western novels being translated into Japanese. They were wondering about the quality of these translations, or if they were the Japanese equivalent of b...
abdwef Learning resources 2 871 2009-05-20, 10:13 am
    Thread: Anki being claimed as another company's product?
Post: Anki being claimed as another company's product?

The Anki site http://ichi2.net/anki/index.html appears to be down. I found out when my syncing stopped working. However, a new website has showed up in its place: http://www.anki.com/ Are the two p...
abdwef Learning resources 8 1,579 2009-05-13, 3:48 pm
    Thread: Anki donation Run
Post: Anki donation Run

Done. I'd been meaning to donate. Thanks for getting this thread going!
abdwef Learning resources 21 4,508 2009-03-27, 6:12 pm
    Thread: What's the *cheapest* mobile device that you guys use for Anki?
Post: What's the *cheapest* mobile device that you guys ...

Quote:asus eee 701 netbook? Maybe not mobile enough... Yeah, not really mobile enough to use while walking. ;-) Quote:So to clarify, what you really want is a mobile device that can run Anki without ...
abdwef Learning resources 8 3,847 2009-02-18, 3:10 pm
    Thread: What's the *cheapest* mobile device that you guys use for Anki?
Post: What's the *cheapest* mobile device that you guys ...

Hi everyone, I'm looking to get a device small enough that I can use my Anki RTK decks while standing upright (i.e. while walking or when standing on the subway). Currently, I'm leaning towards the i...
abdwef Learning resources 8 3,847 2009-02-18, 12:44 pm
    Thread: Japanese politics
Post: Japanese politics

For those of us who can't yet read Japanese news articles, let's use this topic to discuss Japanese politics. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=2...efer=japan It seems that Taro Aso's approval ...
abdwef Off topic 5 1,983 2008-12-22, 11:34 am
    Thread: Tokyo fishmarket closed for foreigners
Post: Tokyo fishmarket closed for foreigners

plumage Wrote:How does this all work in countries with required military service by all males? Many of these are European countries, and since military training must train people to be killers, wouldn...
abdwef Off topic 104 14,387 2008-12-22, 10:26 am
    Thread: Er...my text-to-speech software is not reading kanji correctly...
Post: Er...my text-to-speech software is not reading kan...

Thanks, 有難う was indeed pronounced "arigatou". I also discovered that there's an option to manually edit pronunciation of words. But it's weird...I told her to pronounce 有り難う as ありがとう, and the proble...
abdwef General discussion 10 1,737 2008-11-14, 4:02 pm
    Thread: Er...my text-to-speech software is not reading kanji correctly...
Post: Er...my text-to-speech software is not reading kan...

I'm using khatzumoto's Sentence Starter Pack 1, found here. I'm using the TTS voice Misaki16 (Japanese female). It's the only Japanese voice I could find. When I ask her to read the sentence 教えてくれて...
abdwef General discussion 10 1,737 2008-11-14, 3:28 pm
    Thread: how to begin speaking japanese?
Post: how to begin speaking japanese?

kazelee Wrote:mentat_kgs Wrote:I'm with Tobberoth on this one. You should [shall?] have no hope whatsoever of speaking what you dont understand well. I wouldn't say that much. I use words I don't unde...
abdwef General discussion 71 8,472 2008-11-12, 4:24 pm
    Thread: Firefox extension to stop procrastinating
Post: Firefox extension to stop procrastinating

Awesome! I just added about ten political sites. I spend way too much time following politicians' lives instead of my own. :o
abdwef Off topic 17 6,977 2008-11-02, 6:26 pm
    Thread: Anyone using an SRS to learn the world map?
Post: Anyone using an SRS to learn the world map?

I've been using Anki to learn the map of the world. I use the name of the country (e.g. "Mexico") for the question, and a blank map of the country for the answer. I found it way too time-consuming t...
abdwef Off topic 15 4,446 2008-10-22, 3:21 pm
    Thread: learning two languages at once
Post: learning two languages at once

I took Latin and German in 1st year Uni. Now, I wasn't as serious about languages then as I am now, but I didn't find myself easily confused. It's worth pointing out that German isn't similar to Lat...
abdwef General discussion 60 11,646 2008-09-08, 11:37 am
    Thread: Is it OK to use a book translated into Japanese to study?
Post: Is it OK to use a book translated into Japanese to...

Reading books translated into Japanese is an excellent idea. Especially high-profile works that can't afford any problems in translation. Think about it--the Harry Potter books need to be easy to un...
abdwef Learning resources 23 5,502 2008-09-03, 10:48 pm
    Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread.
Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"...

I just completed RTK 1! Hooray! ;-) Many thanks to the creators of this site, and the fantastic community here. Here I go, on to RTK 3...
abdwef Remembering the Kanji 1,845 424,368 2008-07-06, 5:44 am
    Thread: Small Victories
Post: Small Victories

I've been doing Pimsleur alongside RTK. I always get a warm feeling when a kanji corresponds with a word I only know orally, from Pimsleur. Apparently, I recently learned the character for "moshi" i...
abdwef Off topic 7 1,969 2008-05-04, 10:54 pm
    Thread: 500 frames and counting! ROOOOARRRR!!!
Post: 500 frames and counting! ROOOOARRRR!!!

Congrats on reaching 500--I felt the same way. I motivate myself by concentrating on reaching the nearest hundred. I'm about to hit 900. From there, 1000. :D
abdwef Remembering the Kanji 526 166,986 2008-04-26, 1:15 am
    Thread: Homonym keywords (post, draft, etc.)
Post: Homonym keywords (post, draft, etc.)

There's more than one meaning for homonym keywords like "post" (mail / job) or "draft" (preliminary document / US military conscription). Although I can research the correct meaning, it's often easie...
abdwef Remembering the Kanji 5 3,453 2008-04-26, 1:09 am