First off, Google does indeed support + and - searchs. By default everything is + but this can be changed when using an advanced search.
Google does not support wildcards to my dismay, or REALLY compelx boolean statements, but uh, hehe, I have not actualy HAD to use those after I switched over to using Google.
Wow, I remember when having parans four or five layers deep was rather common, LOL!
You can just type in a web site and Google will report to you what information it has on it.
For instance if I type in my sites address (which has been submited to Google, a week or so ago) of com2kid.netfirms.com I get an ever so nice
"Sorry, no information is available for the URL com2kid.netfirms.com/index.html"
Right below this though is a link that says
"Find web pages that contain the term "com2kid.netfirms.com".
If a page DOES exist in the directory that I can easily select to list sites that link to it (right off of the main page, VERY easy to do) and find pages that are simular to it (and for once this feature WORKS!)
http://www.google.com/search?q=related:slashdot. or g/
nifty.
Not a VERY good example, but it works wonders compared to what other search engines manage to turn up.
I can search by domain (VERY handy) or EXCLUDE domains (also very handy.:) )
If any kiddoes are near by I can turn on safe search and not have to worry about as much of the seedier side of the web turning up. This is especialy useful when searching with images.google.com
But there is one final proof that clutchs it all for me.
On Google a search for my online name turns up 121 results.
Us Neo-Geo fans will always know that Garou: Mark Of The Wolves beats the pudden out of any of those capcom games.:)
After you go MOTWs everything else just seems SOOO slow. (the SF franchise included, I can no longer play any SF game on the account of falling asleep in between moves. . . . . damn those games are SLOW. I mean unresponsive type slow too.)
Notice, I specified phones that sell for $60 or more, of course free give aways are loss leaders, though those phones are typicaly featureless models that likely only cost a few dollars to produce in the first place.
The bug has been discovered announced and soon (already?) fixed. Because the system is wide open and everybody knows how it works there are no problems reguarding not knowing exactly what is going on. Any fixs that are released will be actual fixs and not just fluff or cheezy workarounds that will soon be broken again.
"and I know exactly zero people who have been employed at the same place for 2 years or more, and everyone I know who is getting close to two years is under constant pressure of imminent layoffs. "
There IS something to be said for union labor jobs. . . . Steady work and often times a good retirement package.
Yah you get dirty, yah you get messy, and yah some of the health risks suck, but they can pay well depending on the job, or at least pay decent, and you know that you are going to have a job to go to the next day and that your paycheck is always going to come on time.
WHY THE HOLY FUCKING HELL are we still even CONSIDERING using nukes?
Neutron bombs are SOOOO much sweeter.
Hell I said long ago that we should have lobbed a few in ol' ben'ies cave complexs.
Problem would've been solved rather quickly.
But noooo.
Aaaanyways.
Why use that old tech when Neutron bombs just rock so much more? Ok so SOME Nukes would be required, they do destory buildings and all, but hell, Neutron bombs are MUCH scarier, if just for the sake that you can use as many as you need without worry about all of that icky fallout!
Washington state residents have voted TWICE in a row now to cut taxs seriously.
Ah oh yes one of our major bridges is now about ready to fall down and people are scrambling trying to find funding for it, enviromental production is being cut to shreads, education is being to shreads, and all in all the state as a whole is assfucked.
All because the majority of Fucktards out there thoguht that voting themselves lower taxs would "force politicians to cut back on government waste".
Bullshit the politicians just took the easiest route and cut back on funding for critical needs rather then actualy do anything more efficently.
If you want to change ANYTHING you HAVE TOO, and I repeat, YOU HAVE TO MICRO-MANAGE EVERYTHING THAT THE ROTTEN LITTLE BASTARDS(the politicians) DO.
Tell them that NO they CANNOT buy their copier paper from that supplier because that supplier is WAAAAY overcharging them and has been doing so for the last 20 some odd years.
Tell them that NO they CANNOT buy all of their number two pencils from Office Depot because a Pencil does not have to be name brand to write.
Be specific.
Oh, and forget about pro-choice, how about "manditory sterilization after the first kid."
Sounds good to me. School class sizes are WAAAAY to high.
Oh, and be more EFFICENT with Military R&D spending, we already spend royal ASSLOADS of money on Military R&D, it is just that a lot of that money is spent on 'pet projects' that were proven undoable quite a few years ago.
Of course some aeronautical company is making buttloads of money off of the continued research (or parts used in the research at least) of whatever project is being researched so thus the resarch dothst continue.
"Video game consoles are loss leaders for selling games"
NO THEY ARE NOT. DAMNIT
How many times does this have to be corrected?
VIDEO GAME CONSOLES ARE NOT SOLD AT A LOSS.
Yeesh
And now days with even the good razer blade bodies being made out of plastic, I doubt that the thin little plastic base you buy really costs $15 or so. *COUGH* mach 3 *COUGH*.
"Cell phones are loss leaders for selling service. "
Bull shit. Sometimes if you get locked into a long term contract, but the higher end cell phones often cost $200 or more (yeeuuuuck) and are DEFINTLY sold at a profit.
Even the $60 phones are likely sold at a profit, we are talking what here now, an antanna, DAC, mic, speaker, a few DSPs, an antanna, some smaaaal low resolution LCD screen, and some buttons.
Defintly making a profit.
Aaanyways.
Now HP selling their cheapo printers. . . . . . Those $85 printers and their $35 ink cartridges. . . . . ..
Hell I wouldn't doubt that HP isn't likely making a profit off of those too.
The trend these days is towards making EVERYTHING profitable.
Which is rather silly since SOME THINGS *COUGH* banner ads *COUGH* can never be profitable.
Wow imagine how much different this world would be if companies demanded that they see a direct profit from super bowl ads, LOL!!! I am not talking about increased brand recognition in the future or an increase in sales a week later, I mean if they demanded a profit right after the ad was shown! LOL!!!
Believe it or not you learn things better when you write them down by hand.
No seriously.
Hey I am not kidding here!
There are formula's from math classes that I took years ago that I was forced to keep a steno book in that I can still remember but damned if I can remember stuff from last year in classes that I didn't need to take notes in.
and typed notes are not the same, sorry, heh. Whatever it is about getting your entire arm into it. . . . it just works.
(that and quite frankly I find taking notes on a computer to be an absolute pain in the ass, you cannot freely connect ideas like you can on paper. Ven diagrams and such, or ANY non-linear notes at all. . . . no little squiggly arrows going from here to there or anything. ^_^ )
Umm. . . . . excel can do graphs? As in function graphs? Freaky. I always thought you had to buy Matlab to get that type of thing done on a computer (or use a TI* emulator.:) )
Anybody else here (well, obviously, likely quite a few people) ever browse around foreign (to me at least.:P ) language sites?
The culture that exists there-in is defiantly quite different.
Japanese sites are even MORE self referencing then American sites. This trend has taken off onto American sites though in the form of Cliques, which themselves tend to lie outside of the sites that many of us/.'ers typically frequent.
Seriously though, in Japan it seems that sites actually have others ask permission to link to them! (As an aside, whenever that topic is brought up here on/. people tend to get all freaked out about it. ^_^ )
This obviously creates a VERY different social structure that heavily alters the dissemination of information, not to mention the way that sites are linked together.
Here in the states (or any other culture that has pretty much a free linking policy) it is common to say "oh yah, and for more info go to this site over here and also this site here has some good information and and and . . . . "
Anybody who reads www.dansdata.com knows how he (uh, Dan obviously.:) ) likes to sprinkle relevant to kind of relevant links throughout his articles and reviews. Almost all of the links are VERY interesting and much can be learned from them (he does link to e2.com quite a bit though.:P ) but that many of the links are to further outside resources on the same topic.
(such as a LED light review having links to the Online LED museum)
In a culture where linking is no so free, I would think that there would be more of a trend towards keeping a lot of the information in-house so to speak, and thus at the very least the bias's that the search engine uses to judge relevance of links would have to be altered a bit.
Links would have to be given a higher individual weight, since their would be a larger chance of them being on topic.
Simple, until a year or so ago I did not even know that such a thing existed. (well, unless you count/. , which I do not).
Blogs themselves exist in a sort of quasi-weird community that many users never stumble on to, they are very self referencing to one another and tend to link within them selves a lot.
Heck look at Keenspace (which many people use as a sort of weird graphical Blog. . . . ), comics on there always link from one keenspace comic to another, and those other comics then typicaly link back to the origin comic and....
"I fail to see the relevance for nerds here. Definitely not stuff that matters. Okay, perhaps he's saying that is the naked thruth or lies covered in horsedunk, all it all it just doesn't change squat. We all now P2P mp3 exchange is here to stay, and that's about it. That's NOT nerd news. "
Ugh, last two paragraphs make it obvious this is a troll but. . ..
aaanyways.
This IS stuff that matters because when some idiot brings up this little 'experiment' as proof of how bad p2p programs are we(Nerds) can bring forth the evidence to debunk this experiment.
Had we(nerds) not bee alerted this this debunking then some droid might have gotten a point against us in a debate.
You are forgetting to calculate in production costs and such.
Casting has to be done with Dubs (not neccisarily GOOD casting but. . . . )
Studio time has to be used, you need a director and and a soundman and someone to remix the audio tracks and so forth.
It costs money.
Subs are something that can be done quickly (a matter of months for an entire series) and cheaply (you need a team of translaters for doing a Dub anyways, you just tell them not to naturalize it as much for speech. Somebody to do the timing and overlay the subtitles would also help.)
So while Dubs take more resources to do, Subtitles are quicker and cheaper, especialy now thanks to digital editing techniques which make doing all of the timing and overlay work damn nearly childplay.
For DVDs, you have a very limited market anyways. I have seen Dub vs Sub serveys that highly favored Subs, especialy if the price was lowered.
Of course this is all coming from me, I who refuse to pay $20 for a DVD because well hell that is a rip off.:) I would pay $20 for an Anime DVD of course, but that is because I am willing to accept shipping fees.
(Yes I realize how few Anime DVDs are sold and that prices have to be artificaly risen in order to make up for guarnteed already low sales rates, but. . . . shoot... Anime DVDs cost a lot of money!:( )
Then again I also refuse to buy music CDs for $20 because I *still* remember the promises that Music CDs would/DROP/ the price of buying music.
I still see ads on TV selling CDs for higher prices that cassette tapes. What in the world is up with that? I am not paying $2 extra for something that cost LESS for the company to make!
Bah. Damn friggin con artists.:P
Still though, back on the topic of Anime DVDs, if the DVDs were subtitled only then the overall production cost could go down by a lot. Hopefuly the DVDs could be sold at or around the $20 mark.
Actualy FILLING the DVD up would help also. . . . Grrr. I do NOT appreciate it when a DVD is only 3/4ths or hell even 1/2 full! (and those DVDs that have a mere one thirty minute episode per disc on them... eeeevil)
Site loads fine in a recent build of Mozilla, just their customized, ah, what the heck are they calling those things now? (they change buzzwords every year it seems) do not work with none IE browsers.
Which actualy isn't THAT bad of a sin. Their main site (microsoft.com) works perfectly with Mozilla (ok so you can't collapse the right and side bars, so sad.;P ) ) but the site links to is for developers, and well heck is somebody is developing on Windows at least you know that they have IE installed.:):):) (well, unless they are creating their app on a *nix box or such, but heck, they have to have windows installed someplace to test out their product.:)
In general yes, but Abit and Asus are not only middle line as far as quality goes, they are still running off of the steam of past glories.
(woh, did I mix enough metaphors for ya?:) )
Soyo has come out with some rather good boards, and some rather bad boards. Asus and Abit also have come out with some rather craptacular boards.
Hell who knows it may just be one faulty little part that once it is found everybody will be going "Duh!" and slapping their hand against their forehead.
Disabling ACPI does suck though.:)
Especially since anybody who is going to go into the BIOS setup screen and change that sort of settings (which requires reinstalling Windows, at least on 2000 it does, so it is NOT something that you just go ahead and do without a thought for it) aaah screw it.
Basically Win2k (and I am extrapolating for XP here, since it is awfully simular... ) required two separate kernels, one for ACPI, one without ACPI.
I am sure that MS was just getting friggin annoyed with having to support two kernels, not to mention run support for two completely different ways of doing the IRQ thang (WTF is up with backwards support and IRQs? Current x86 OSs support the old way of IRQs to work with current motherboards, current motherboards support it to work with current OSs, WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON HERE FOLKS???? YEESH! Catch(22+(1/0)) --- for you TI calc people out there. ) ).
*NOTE* I read someplace that it is a different Kernel, other places just mention a HAL, either way it must be a pain in the ass to support and I can understand Microsoft not wanting to have to support both ways of doing things, after all, this is the twenty first century, IRQ conflicts should not be a problem. I agree that at times how Microsoft Windows tends to, uh, arrange your IRQs is rather bad, but that piss poor sound quality you hear may very well be a SB:Live, which sucks, horribly.
Turn off Plug and Play OS in your BIOS, as is recommended, if installing Windows2k+. Your PCI slots are most likely already setup to separate a few of them by IRQ, use that if Windows will allow you too. If necessary install devices one by one (recommended in any scenario), yes it is a pain, but it is about the only way of having so many friggin devices installed in a computer at once.
Hell I ran out of IRQs WITH IRQ sharing, I have so many devices that do not like to share IRQs at all. (Dual Head Video Card, TV Tuner, Sound Card, SCSI Card, woh, there goes 4 IRQs already!!!... needless to say Standby mode is not an option. Hehe.:) )
Ironically enough, Windows 2000 does not even need EXPLORER, not to mention Iexplorer, to run.
The ONLY thing that the HTML engine is really needed for is those lameo customized folders which nobody uses (but for which Microsoft insists on shoving files for all around your HD. . ..) and HTML help files, which are actually LESS useful to the user then their old.hlp format ones. (in the very least, starting them up if the program has 'issues' can be a serious pain. Ironic when you need your application to work in order to start the trouble shooter for how to get your application to work. . . . reminds me of the old AOL "please logon to our members area for help logging on" message. . . . )
HTML help files are a tad wee bit more convenient for the developer though. (big whoop, I don't give a care. ^_^ )
Hmm, I have an application sitting on my desktop right now that replaces explorer.exe with itself, as MANY look and feel replacement applications do.
(I do not run it because it requires registration for full functionality and quite frankly I refuse to spend my money on look and feel types of applications, a total waste they are I say. )
Hmm, if Win2K had a decent CLI (doesn't of course) that could be booted to directly (their recovery console IS powerful, but it lacks some. . . . basic functionality. heh.;) ) I would nuke iexplore.exe right now just to see what would happen. Not like it would be anything TOO bad.
Oddly enough sometimes when browsing the net explorer.exe is only used, other times iexplorer.exe is used. Hmm. . . ..
Bizarre to say the least. Well I know the cause of that, well, mostly. If Iexplore.exe freezes nuking that will take out all browsing windows opened under it but leave the ones opened under explorer.exe alone. Ah, how lovely. LOL.
I could likely just replace the shell=explorer.exe with shell= whatever my star office executable is, and run things just fine. Well that actually depends, I wonder if Staroffice copies the windows taskbar or if it is a completely independent taskbar. If it copies the taskbar then it should be possible to make it independent of the real taskbar existing. Then again I have no idea about that. -_-
But hell, taskbar aside, everything else SHOULD work. Well except that now Openoffice has removed the Integrated Desktop (I can understand why, better complete platform independence and all, but it was still a nice feature that had serious potential had it been developed further.:) ) so I would need to use Staroffice5.x (hey, just guess what I have installed!:) )
Not going to try it though, Staroffice's integrated desktop feature is too unpolished, feels like going back to windows95 or such. (yes 98 was different then 95, trust me on this one, it was. You had to have used the OS way more then it is healthy for you to use it to notice the difference though, but just like a case with nice rounded corners and strict adherence to ATX specs, there was a difference in the overall feel. You may still get cut, but at least you didn't lose a limb.:) )
100ft long RF cable TV cord running into the room )yess 100 foot, a lot of door jams to work around, and yes the picture quality sucks).
Incorrectly installed florescent lights.
two nice big case fans one of which has had a fin knocked off of it and now runs nice and loud.
a 36inch gateway destination monitor and one of those cheesy ev700 monitors.
(the Destination attracts moths from OUTSIDE the house, into my room, and they land on the screen and can't get back off of it! It also has grabbed papers up from the desk in front of it. . . . can we say static field?:) )
My land line telephone has audible noise over it. That both parties in a conversation can here.
Don't forget the printer, 3.1 sound system (no place to put the 4th speaker), wireless keyboard and mouse, 11inch graphics tablet (w00t!) with one of those nifty wireless pens (works by radio waves as I recall. . . . hmm, though it has been awhile since i researched it, something about the tablet sending out minor radio waves to the pen to provide just enough power for the pen to give the tablet notice of its location.)
A TV tuner card (uh, the 100ft cable run is for something.:) )
And oh yes, the RF cabling runs the parameter of the room and is of the cheap radio shack variety, I am sure that it is acting as a nice antenna for the entire room. In all fairness though the telephone had plenty of problems before the cable was ran though.
Ahh, I almost forgot the Cat5 running through a hole nearby, the power extension cord draped though the same hole as the CAT5 (was flipping the breaker to often, had to switch some items to another line) and the cable modem that is running. Lovely eh?
(Cat5 cable is of the maximum length of course, and the power cord is of a similar length as well.)
You want Hmm, what else now. . . . printer of course. Not a significant source of RF emissions though. ^_^ And the Destination monitor is currently off right now (power prices you know, thus using the EV700, higher refresh rate anyways, nice to have 800x600 at above 60hz.:) ), but the phone still has noticeable static over it.
I am SOOO going to die of cancer.
Aaaanyways. I doubt that this guy has 'real' RF emission problems.
Oh, and Dr. Kevorkian, if you ever need any patients with pace makers to have a sudden and mysterious heart failure, just send'em on over my way.:)
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First off, Google does indeed support + and - searchs. By default everything is + but this can be changed when using an advanced search.
Google does not support wildcards to my dismay, or REALLY compelx boolean statements, but uh, hehe, I have not actualy HAD to use those after I switched over to using Google.
Wow, I remember when having parans four or five layers deep was rather common, LOL!
You can just type in a web site and Google will report to you what information it has on it.
For instance if I type in my sites address (which has been submited to Google, a week or so ago) of com2kid.netfirms.com I get an ever so nice
"Sorry, no information is available for the URL com2kid.netfirms.com/index.html"
Right below this though is a link that says
"Find web pages that contain the term "com2kid.netfirms.com".
If a page DOES exist in the directory that I can easily select to list sites that link to it (right off of the main page, VERY easy to do) and find pages that are simular to it (and for once this feature WORKS!)
http://www.google.com/search?q=related:slashdot
nifty.
Not a VERY good example, but it works wonders compared to what other search engines manage to turn up.
I can search by domain (VERY handy) or EXCLUDE domains (also very handy.
If any kiddoes are near by I can turn on safe search and not have to worry about as much of the seedier side of the web turning up. This is especialy useful when searching with images.google.com
But there is one final proof that clutchs it all for me.
On Google a search for my online name turns up 121 results.
On Altavista it turns up 11 results
Yah, but if your site is linked to by a lot of different domains I do believe that www.google.com automaticaly indexs it.
:)
AFAIK, or at least have guessed at based upon results.
Lesson? Get a lot of people to link to you.
No, one BBS door game was in beta for 6 or 7 years. . . . .
:( )
It DID eventualy go Final though.
(but by then most BBSs had already died. . . .
Us Neo-Geo fans will always know that Garou: Mark Of The Wolves beats the pudden out of any of those capcom games. :)
After you go MOTWs everything else just seems SOOO slow. (the SF franchise included, I can no longer play any SF game on the account of falling asleep in between moves. . . . . damn those games are SLOW. I mean unresponsive type slow too.)
"know I just ran into my first "noisy" CD this past weekend (I can't play it in my cdrom drive)."
May I suggest supporting independent artists who will not screw you over like the RIAA will?
(cheaper CDs often times to boot! yaah!)
Notice, I specified phones that sell for $60 or more, of course free give aways are loss leaders, though those phones are typicaly featureless models that likely only cost a few dollars to produce in the first place.
It IS more secure.
The bug has been discovered announced and soon (already?) fixed. Because the system is wide open and everybody knows how it works there are no problems reguarding not knowing exactly what is going on. Any fixs that are released will be actual fixs and not just fluff or cheezy workarounds that will soon be broken again.
"and I know exactly zero people who have been employed at the same place for 2 years or more, and everyone I know who is getting close to two years is under constant pressure of imminent layoffs. "
There IS something to be said for union labor jobs. . . . Steady work and often times a good retirement package.
Yah you get dirty, yah you get messy, and yah some of the health risks suck, but they can pay well depending on the job, or at least pay decent, and you know that you are going to have a job to go to the next day and that your paycheck is always going to come on time.
Pray tell.
WHY THE HOLY FUCKING HELL are we still even CONSIDERING using nukes?
Neutron bombs are SOOOO much sweeter.
Hell I said long ago that we should have lobbed a few in ol' ben'ies cave complexs.
Problem would've been solved rather quickly.
But noooo.
Aaaanyways.
Why use that old tech when Neutron bombs just rock so much more? Ok so SOME Nukes would be required, they do destory buildings and all, but hell, Neutron bombs are MUCH scarier, if just for the sake that you can use as many as you need without worry about all of that icky fallout!
Wouldn't work, rememember people are stupid.
Washington state residents have voted TWICE in a row now to cut taxs seriously.
Ah oh yes one of our major bridges is now about ready to fall down and people are scrambling trying to find funding for it, enviromental production is being cut to shreads, education is being to shreads, and all in all the state as a whole is assfucked.
All because the majority of Fucktards out there thoguht that voting themselves lower taxs would "force politicians to cut back on government waste".
Bullshit the politicians just took the easiest route and cut back on funding for critical needs rather then actualy do anything more efficently.
If you want to change ANYTHING you HAVE TOO, and I repeat, YOU HAVE TO MICRO-MANAGE EVERYTHING THAT THE ROTTEN LITTLE BASTARDS(the politicians) DO.
Tell them that NO they CANNOT buy their copier paper from that supplier because that supplier is WAAAAY overcharging them and has been doing so for the last 20 some odd years.
Tell them that NO they CANNOT buy all of their number two pencils from Office Depot because a Pencil does not have to be name brand to write.
Be specific.
Oh, and forget about pro-choice, how about "manditory sterilization after the first kid."
Sounds good to me. School class sizes are WAAAAY to high.
Oh, and be more EFFICENT with Military R&D spending, we already spend royal ASSLOADS of money on Military R&D, it is just that a lot of that money is spent on 'pet projects' that were proven undoable quite a few years ago.
Of course some aeronautical company is making buttloads of money off of the continued research (or parts used in the research at least) of whatever project is being researched so thus the resarch dothst continue.
Suckly really really sucky.
"Video game consoles are loss leaders for selling games"
.
NO THEY ARE NOT. DAMNIT
How many times does this have to be corrected?
VIDEO GAME CONSOLES ARE NOT SOLD AT A LOSS.
Yeesh
And now days with even the good razer blade bodies being made out of plastic, I doubt that the thin little plastic base you buy really costs $15 or so. *COUGH* mach 3 *COUGH*.
"Cell phones are loss leaders for selling service. "
Bull shit. Sometimes if you get locked into a long term contract, but the higher end cell phones often cost $200 or more (yeeuuuuck) and are DEFINTLY sold at a profit.
Even the $60 phones are likely sold at a profit, we are talking what here now, an antanna, DAC, mic, speaker, a few DSPs, an antanna, some smaaaal low resolution LCD screen, and some buttons.
Defintly making a profit.
Aaanyways.
Now HP selling their cheapo printers. . . . . . Those $85 printers and their $35 ink cartridges. . . . . .
Hell I wouldn't doubt that HP isn't likely making a profit off of those too.
The trend these days is towards making EVERYTHING profitable.
Which is rather silly since SOME THINGS *COUGH* banner ads *COUGH* can never be profitable.
Wow imagine how much different this world would be if companies demanded that they see a direct profit from super bowl ads, LOL!!! I am not talking about increased brand recognition in the future or an increase in sales a week later, I mean if they demanded a profit right after the ad was shown! LOL!!!
The foolishness of bean counter on the web.
I say we shoot'em all.
Believe it or not you learn things better when you write them down by hand.
:) )
No seriously.
Hey I am not kidding here!
There are formula's from math classes that I took years ago that I was forced to keep a steno book in that I can still remember but damned if I can remember stuff from last year in classes that I didn't need to take notes in.
and typed notes are not the same, sorry, heh. Whatever it is about getting your entire arm into it. . . . it just works.
(that and quite frankly I find taking notes on a computer to be an absolute pain in the ass, you cannot freely connect ideas like you can on paper. Ven diagrams and such, or ANY non-linear notes at all. . . . no little squiggly arrows going from here to there or anything. ^_^ )
Umm. . . . . excel can do graphs? As in function graphs? Freaky. I always thought you had to buy Matlab to get that type of thing done on a computer (or use a TI* emulator.
Anybody else here (well, obviously, likely quite a few people) ever browse around foreign (to me at least. :P ) language sites?
/.'ers typically frequent.
/. people tend to get all freaked out about it. ^_^ )
:) ) likes to sprinkle relevant to kind of relevant links throughout his articles and reviews. Almost all of the links are VERY interesting and much can be learned from them (he does link to e2.com quite a bit though. :P ) but that many of the links are to further outside resources on the same topic.
The culture that exists there-in is defiantly quite different.
Japanese sites are even MORE self referencing then American sites. This trend has taken off onto American sites though in the form of Cliques, which themselves tend to lie outside of the sites that many of us
Seriously though, in Japan it seems that sites actually have others ask permission to link to them! (As an aside, whenever that topic is brought up here on
This obviously creates a VERY different social structure that heavily alters the dissemination of information, not to mention the way that sites are linked together.
Here in the states (or any other culture that has pretty much a free linking policy) it is common to say "oh yah, and for more info go to this site over here and also this site here has some good information and and and . . . . "
Anybody who reads www.dansdata.com knows how he (uh, Dan obviously.
(such as a LED light review having links to the Online LED museum)
In a culture where linking is no so free, I would think that there would be more of a trend towards keeping a lot of the information in-house so to speak, and thus at the very least the bias's that the search engine uses to judge relevance of links would have to be altered a bit.
Links would have to be given a higher individual weight, since their would be a larger chance of them being on topic.
Blogs are VERY specific.
/. , which I do not).
....
How?
Simple, until a year or so ago I did not even know that such a thing existed. (well, unless you count
Blogs themselves exist in a sort of quasi-weird community that many users never stumble on to, they are very self referencing to one another and tend to link within them selves a lot.
Heck look at Keenspace (which many people use as a sort of weird graphical Blog. . . . ), comics on there always link from one keenspace comic to another, and those other comics then typicaly link back to the origin comic and
WOH, new idea, hold on, annyways. Toodles.
"I fail to see the relevance for nerds here. Definitely not stuff that matters. Okay, perhaps he's saying that is the naked thruth or lies covered in horsedunk, all it all it just doesn't change squat. We all now P2P mp3 exchange is here to stay, and that's about it. That's NOT nerd news. "
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Ugh, last two paragraphs make it obvious this is a troll but. . .
aaanyways.
This IS stuff that matters because when some idiot brings up this little 'experiment' as proof of how bad p2p programs are we(Nerds) can bring forth the evidence to debunk this experiment.
Had we(nerds) not bee alerted this this debunking then some droid might have gotten a point against us in a debate.
Bah, if you have an account on a nice privet FTP, 300KBp/s per download 2 downloads at once. . . .
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VERY doable. I am surprised that three people were required.
Hmm, so showtime then has the original uncut version and other channels show the 'refined' versions?
You are forgetting to calculate in production costs and such.
:) I would pay $20 for an Anime DVD of course, but that is because I am willing to accept shipping fees.
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/DROP/ the price of buying music.
:P
Casting has to be done with Dubs (not neccisarily GOOD casting but. . . . )
Studio time has to be used, you need a director and and a soundman and someone to remix the audio tracks and so forth.
It costs money.
Subs are something that can be done quickly (a matter of months for an entire series) and cheaply (you need a team of translaters for doing a Dub anyways, you just tell them not to naturalize it as much for speech. Somebody to do the timing and overlay the subtitles would also help.)
So while Dubs take more resources to do, Subtitles are quicker and cheaper, especialy now thanks to digital editing techniques which make doing all of the timing and overlay work damn nearly childplay.
For DVDs, you have a very limited market anyways. I have seen Dub vs Sub serveys that highly favored Subs, especialy if the price was lowered.
Of course this is all coming from me, I who refuse to pay $20 for a DVD because well hell that is a rip off.
(Yes I realize how few Anime DVDs are sold and that prices have to be artificaly risen in order to make up for guarnteed already low sales rates, but. . . . shoot... Anime DVDs cost a lot of money!
Then again I also refuse to buy music CDs for $20 because I *still* remember the promises that Music CDs would
I still see ads on TV selling CDs for higher prices that cassette tapes. What in the world is up with that? I am not paying $2 extra for something that cost LESS for the company to make!
Bah. Damn friggin con artists.
Still though, back on the topic of Anime DVDs, if the DVDs were subtitled only then the overall production cost could go down by a lot. Hopefuly the DVDs could be sold at or around the $20 mark.
Actualy FILLING the DVD up would help also. . . . Grrr. I do NOT appreciate it when a DVD is only 3/4ths or hell even 1/2 full! (and those DVDs that have a mere one thirty minute episode per disc on them... eeeevil)
I used action anime and subs to improve the reading skills of my 9 year old semi-subliterate nephew.
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Worked like a charm
DVDs, subs and dubs. . .
Sub only becoming the accepted norm would cut down on prices and release delay by A TON though.
Thus the entire point of my post. :)
(what the hell is APM anyways? LOL. Never heard of it until ACPI came up! LOL)
Site loads fine in a recent build of Mozilla, just their customized, ah, what the heck are they calling those things now? (they change buzzwords every year it seems) do not work with none IE browsers.
;P ) ) but the site links to is for developers, and well heck is somebody is developing on Windows at least you know that they have IE installed. :) :) :) (well, unless they are creating their app on a *nix box or such, but heck, they have to have windows installed someplace to test out their product. :)
Which actualy isn't THAT bad of a sin. Their main site (microsoft.com) works perfectly with Mozilla (ok so you can't collapse the right and side bars, so sad.
In general yes, but Abit and Asus are not only middle line as far as quality goes, they are still running off of the steam of past glories.
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... needless to say Standby mode is not an option. Hehe. :) )
(woh, did I mix enough metaphors for ya?
Soyo has come out with some rather good boards, and some rather bad boards. Asus and Abit also have come out with some rather craptacular boards.
Hell who knows it may just be one faulty little part that once it is found everybody will be going "Duh!" and slapping their hand against their forehead.
Disabling ACPI does suck though.
Especially since anybody who is going to go into the BIOS setup screen and change that sort of settings (which requires reinstalling Windows, at least on 2000 it does, so it is NOT something that you just go ahead and do without a thought for it) aaah screw it.
Basically Win2k (and I am extrapolating for XP here, since it is awfully simular... ) required two separate kernels, one for ACPI, one without ACPI.
I am sure that MS was just getting friggin annoyed with having to support two kernels, not to mention run support for two completely different ways of doing the IRQ thang (WTF is up with backwards support and IRQs? Current x86 OSs support the old way of IRQs to work with current motherboards, current motherboards support it to work with current OSs, WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON HERE FOLKS???? YEESH! Catch(22+(1/0)) --- for you TI calc people out there. ) ).
*NOTE* I read someplace that it is a different Kernel, other places just mention a HAL, either way it must be a pain in the ass to support and I can understand Microsoft not wanting to have to support both ways of doing things, after all, this is the twenty first century, IRQ conflicts should not be a problem. I agree that at times how Microsoft Windows tends to, uh, arrange your IRQs is rather bad, but that piss poor sound quality you hear may very well be a SB:Live, which sucks, horribly.
Turn off Plug and Play OS in your BIOS, as is recommended, if installing Windows2k+. Your PCI slots are most likely already setup to separate a few of them by IRQ, use that if Windows will allow you too. If necessary install devices one by one (recommended in any scenario), yes it is a pain, but it is about the only way of having so many friggin devices installed in a computer at once.
Hell I ran out of IRQs WITH IRQ sharing, I have so many devices that do not like to share IRQs at all. (Dual Head Video Card, TV Tuner, Sound Card, SCSI Card, woh, there goes 4 IRQs already!!!
Ironically enough, Windows 2000 does not even need EXPLORER, not to mention Iexplorer, to run.
.) and HTML help files, which are actually LESS useful to the user then their old .hlp format ones. (in the very least, starting them up if the program has 'issues' can be a serious pain. Ironic when you need your application to work in order to start the trouble shooter for how to get your application to work. . . . reminds me of the old AOL "please logon to our members area for help logging on" message. . . . )
;) ) I would nuke iexplore.exe right now just to see what would happen. Not like it would be anything TOO bad.
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:) ) so I would need to use Staroffice5.x (hey, just guess what I have installed! :) )
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The ONLY thing that the HTML engine is really needed for is those lameo customized folders which nobody uses (but for which Microsoft insists on shoving files for all around your HD. . .
HTML help files are a tad wee bit more convenient for the developer though. (big whoop, I don't give a care. ^_^ )
Hmm, I have an application sitting on my desktop right now that replaces explorer.exe with itself, as MANY look and feel replacement applications do.
(I do not run it because it requires registration for full functionality and quite frankly I refuse to spend my money on look and feel types of applications, a total waste they are I say. )
Hmm, if Win2K had a decent CLI (doesn't of course) that could be booted to directly (their recovery console IS powerful, but it lacks some. . . . basic functionality. heh.
Oddly enough sometimes when browsing the net explorer.exe is only used, other times iexplorer.exe is used. Hmm. . . .
Bizarre to say the least. Well I know the cause of that, well, mostly. If Iexplore.exe freezes nuking that will take out all browsing windows opened under it but leave the ones opened under explorer.exe alone. Ah, how lovely. LOL.
I could likely just replace the shell=explorer.exe with shell= whatever my star office executable is, and run things just fine. Well that actually depends, I wonder if Staroffice copies the windows taskbar or if it is a completely independent taskbar. If it copies the taskbar then it should be possible to make it independent of the real taskbar existing. Then again I have no idea about that. -_-
But hell, taskbar aside, everything else SHOULD work. Well except that now Openoffice has removed the Integrated Desktop (I can understand why, better complete platform independence and all, but it was still a nice feature that had serious potential had it been developed further.
Not going to try it though, Staroffice's integrated desktop feature is too unpolished, feels like going back to windows95 or such. (yes 98 was different then 95, trust me on this one, it was. You had to have used the OS way more then it is healthy for you to use it to notice the difference though, but just like a case with nice rounded corners and strict adherence to ATX specs, there was a difference in the overall feel. You may still get cut, but at least you didn't lose a limb.
Hah, nothing compared to the RFs in my room.
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:) ), but the phone still has noticeable static over it.
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Okay picture this is you will.
SCSI scanner for starters.
100ft long RF cable TV cord running into the room )yess 100 foot, a lot of door jams to work around, and yes the picture quality sucks).
Incorrectly installed florescent lights.
two nice big case fans one of which has had a fin knocked off of it and now runs nice and loud.
a 36inch gateway destination monitor and one of those cheesy ev700 monitors.
(the Destination attracts moths from OUTSIDE the house, into my room, and they land on the screen and can't get back off of it! It also has grabbed papers up from the desk in front of it. . . . can we say static field?
My land line telephone has audible noise over it. That both parties in a conversation can here.
Don't forget the printer, 3.1 sound system (no place to put the 4th speaker), wireless keyboard and mouse, 11inch graphics tablet (w00t!) with one of those nifty wireless pens (works by radio waves as I recall. . . . hmm, though it has been awhile since i researched it, something about the tablet sending out minor radio waves to the pen to provide just enough power for the pen to give the tablet notice of its location.)
A TV tuner card (uh, the 100ft cable run is for something.
And oh yes, the RF cabling runs the parameter of the room and is of the cheap radio shack variety, I am sure that it is acting as a nice antenna for the entire room. In all fairness though the telephone had plenty of problems before the cable was ran though.
Ahh, I almost forgot the Cat5 running through a hole nearby, the power extension cord draped though the same hole as the CAT5 (was flipping the breaker to often, had to switch some items to another line) and the cable modem that is running. Lovely eh?
(Cat5 cable is of the maximum length of course, and the power cord is of a similar length as well.)
You want Hmm, what else now. . . . printer of course. Not a significant source of RF emissions though. ^_^ And the Destination monitor is currently off right now (power prices you know, thus using the EV700, higher refresh rate anyways, nice to have 800x600 at above 60hz.
I am SOOO going to die of cancer.
Aaaanyways. I doubt that this guy has 'real' RF emission problems.
Oh, and Dr. Kevorkian, if you ever need any patients with pace makers to have a sudden and mysterious heart failure, just send'em on over my way.
Ah, oh well I guess being able to cut and paste that message into a spellchecker would not have done me much good. :)