As an anime fan since the late 80s, I had been aware of doujinshi, but it was not until my trips to Tokyo that I truly began to comprehend it. What I observed was:
1) Doujinshi is not allways "copycat". There are some small fan-run books that are called doujinshi (and sold at Comic Market) that are totally original.
2) A lot of it is about porn. And about seeing your favorite anime character violated, often by tenticles. Yes, there are some original "fanfic" type stories...but there is also a lot of Sailor Moon meets Urotsukudoji. I couldn't believe the things they were doing to poor [I am a dumbass]!
3) The Japanese are a lot more liberal about their hand-drawn porn than we are. The yaoi (boy-boy) stuff is right there with the girl-girl stuff. Women in Japan appear to be as open about liking boy-boy as men are about girl-girl. Porn is just porn.
4) Doujinshi is where folks seem to start. First you make a doujinshi of a magical girls series you like. Then you make your own magical girl. Then you decide if you really want to be a [I am a dumbass] and start trying to make a name for yourself. If you get lucky you might get in one of the anthologies - the collections put out weekly or monthly the size of small phonebooks.
Shopping for this stuff in Japan is quite fun. My best friend came with me on one of my business trips, and I came back to the hotel after the first day and he'd already scored. In fact he got me a doujinshi of my favorite [I am a dumbass] getting violated several ways.
We don't give a fuck if you think someone's going to be offended by a word. There is not one person here who would type "Nigger" without knowing that it is possible for some dick-weed to maybe take offence, YOU ARE NOT HELPING. So SHUT THE FUCK UP.
What the hell is the point of a secret volcano island if you dont use the heat from the volcano as your power source? I mean, that is the whole fucking point! Geothermal power is much more reliable, and it works at night.
"How many fucking GR books have you read." uh, 4, I think [Ones which talk about concepts, not which write out equations]. Does that make me good or something? Does how many books I've read have some meaning?
"False. Gravity's distortion of space does not define space, it defines the distortion of space. There is plenty of motion that has nothing to do with gravity. You could have photons traveling through empty space - motion without gravity.
Yes, motion which does not involve gravity, but what points are they travelling between? What immitted them? Just because something is so trivial that you dont need to bother factoring it in to get an understanding of most situations, doesnt mean that it has absolutely no effect. If the points they were imitted from are of very high mass, space is distorted so that they are farther apart [space has been stetched, 4 dimensionally. Most writings on the subject only mention the bending of space, ignoring that all points in the universe still line up], reduce that mass and the distortion lessens, making them closer together. Eliminate it completely and, no more distance between them[This is of course talking as if they're the only two masses in the universe, and so is hard to explain the same way as distortion is normally explained- showing the bending of a grid which is already there.] Like it or not, You're stuck in a bigass cluster of galaxies, surrounded eternally by gravity. You say I could have photons travelling through empty space, I say you dont get to have completely empty space. Entirely self-contained space with no mass not only doesnt exist, but of course has no reason to, either.
False. Without gravity you have Lorentz space time. Quantum Mechanics works without any gravity at all!
quantum mechanics has that wonderful advantage of only working on scales to which normal physics don't apply. Small as photons are, I dont think they had to factor in too much quantum-scale reasoning to figure out the effects of Jupiter on them.
False, Lorentz space time is the _solution_ to Einstein's field equation when there is zero stress-energy and therefore no gravity. When there is no gravity, you end up with Special Relativity. If you didn't, then GR would be suspect of being incorrect. GR Suspect of being incorrect? Unheard of! But seriously, A lack of detailed understanding of Lorentz space time prevents me from giving a meaningful responce to that. I just thought that "..then GR would be suspect of being incorrect." was a pretty funny retort to anything. As I understand it though, [Net fields == 0] != [no fields].
I'm never posting on this website again. Well that's nice, but want to finish this conversation first? I think that's the point of discussion- the free exchange of ignorance, some of which gets lost in the transfer.
Yes, relative speed between the objects also effects time, I'm not saying gravity is the only effect going on, but know that Lorentz Space-Time is a/simplification/, The lack of gravity isnt saying "Gravity has no effect here" it's saying "Gravity would needlessly complicate this equation". What is important to note is that just as a complete lack of motion would negate the need to define time, a complete lack of gravity would negate the need- as far as the universe is concerned, to define space. Gravity's distortion of space is what defines it. What does this have to do with anything? Without a definition of space, there is no way to define motion- motion isnt occuring. This means that suddenly Lorentz Space-Time doesnt work either.
Maybe the reason there's so many posts about this that need your "correction" is that, well, they are right?
well what they've done here is basically the same thing done to prove that the speed of light isnt infinite- they measure the apparent change in position of an object as the light being emitted from it passed through a gravitational field. The difference here is they did it in many different places at once, so they could determine not where the quasar appeared (as in the measuring of c) but when this change took place. The article doesnnt go into enough detail, so I have no idea how this experiment actually managed to prove anything other than that distance exists- whether gravity is instantaneous or not doesnt change the fact that these places all accross the world were measuring entirely seperate light rays, each of which should have been effected at a different moment if only because they were being pulled by the field at different times. I think the only way this could have proven anything is if gravity was slower than light (which is what they actually measured). Maybe someone else has more details?
Gravity distorts time. Hell, if you took gravity out of the equation instants would run together and all things which define time would go away- gravity causes time. [Okay, obvious problems with using the word "cause" here, but suffices to say that without gravity, you don't get time, got it?] As you approach the speed of light, time is also distorted. At exactlty the speed of light, time for you is essentially brought to a halt. What we're really looking at in these cases isnt the speed of light/gravity, because those are "instantaneous" [in quotes because of all this talk of what defines time]. What we're really looking at here is the speed of the universe- the maximum divisibility of time. So "Gravity moves at the speed of light", no shit. Anybody coulda told you that forever ago.
I dont have a physics degree, I just say things. Unintelligent ranting follows.
What's great about HOWTOs is that they arent as thick as a book. Expand one to book-form and you've got yourself a worthless fucking book. "No, what's great about HOWTOs is that they tell you HOW TO DO IT, it doesnt matter how long they are." ^-- Shut up.
I on the other hand would point out merely that some of the posts seem Anti-Linux, not Pro-Windows, but more importantly that this leaves all of 2 pro-windows posts that you managed to find out of millions of messages.
Most of what I see is Anti-WindowsBashing, basically the moderators saying: "Shut the fuck up, god kills 500 fluffy kittens every time you use a dollar-sign somewhere besides currency notation"
My favorite part is when the 'fixing my laptop' guy is talking, he's running SETI@Home in the background. That's the sort of attention to detail in commercials I love.
Quite simply, keep all your text in a seperate file which can be compiled completely seperately from the rest of your project. The goes for Dialogs, Menus, and Labels. This primarily makes it easier to allow users to switch from one language to another. There really isnt that much that can be done other than that. What do you want us to say? Break your descriptions into simple enough language that some automatic translator can spit something out? I dont think so. Your best bet is to just keep all your text in one place, [aside from debugging messages or other things that the user is never supposed to see] so you won't have to go looking around for[and potentially miss] it when the time comes. Don't you hate it when the whole program is translated except for the one error message that it keeps giving you?:) Of course documentation is a different story. Nothing you can do there except keep everything very well documented so that there will be less confusion in translation. If it's a complete idea instead of a quick phrase thrown out, it's more likely to be translated correctly.
Offering a difference of opinion isnt moronic. Trying to counter a difference of opinion is. You are hereby labeled a moron for trying so desperately to read that you have been labeled one. (Aren't I nice?)
As for it being a book, I'm sorry but I was under the impression that digital information coming through my computer screen was not the same as it being printed. 'cause it's NOT. All that labor going towards formatting something for media it isnt going to be displayed on is worthless, okay? It's nice and all that he spent so long trying to make it workable as a book, but then he decided to distribute it in Non-book form. "Oh no! If I convert these newspaper quotes to plain text for viewing on a scrolling sign, all the collums will be lost!" So your point about him having spent so long laying out their media in a certain format, and then being too idiotic or lazy or whateverthefuck to just give the fuck up and realize that people reading this online arent going to see this as being a book, well, you get the drift?
And it's not a troll post, it's just blatantly off-topic while giving an honest opinion not to offend people but to cause those who are thinking of using PDF on the web to go "Oh, gee, that/IS/ one of the stupidest things a human is capable of doing!" and then put it into something better.
The existence of a PDF reader does not negate my dislike for reading PDF files. I'm sitting here reading on a web browser, which for some inexplicable reason is done a hundred times better than any PDF reader I've ever used. Is there a PDF plugin for a linux based browser? I dont mean sticking a seperate viewer inside the browser, I mean using the browser to render the page I have never seen a good PDF viewer, okay? That's why "Grrrrr, pdf!", I really dont know why such a thing has become so standard for use on the internet. If it's on a web page, why not link instead to (OMFG!!!) a web page!? I'm not all for Free Software, and thinking adobe is evil or some shit. I have something probably unheard of by most people here- Legally purchased copies of adobe products.
My problem with PDF is that the required use of a seperate viewer, which as I have stated is consistently crappy, makes me opt instead for Not Reading it. Now for people who would here say "Well then dont read it, nobody's forcing you to!", you are what we humans call the most fucking moronic kind of idiot it is possible to concieve of. You, I suppose, would rather never eat toast than have to sit in a fire while holding a peice of bread. Well, see there's this other option where you use a toaster. I want toast, and I dont want to use any of the horrible PDF viewers availible (Yes, the official adobe one is shitty too) I have always seen them as slow, needlessly difficult to scroll through, and in general no where near as good for reading as say, a web browser. Why might this be? BECAUSE PDF IS FOR PRINTING, YOU JACKHOLES. Sure, it can be and often is used for other things, but in every instance that other thing turns out very crappy. And if you're of a differing opinion, any comment you post in responce is wrong. This is because I have here stated my opinion, and personal experience. So trying to combat this with your opinion or personal experience is.. see above for comment about you being a moron.
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As an anime fan since the late 80s, I had been aware of doujinshi, but it was not until my trips to Tokyo that I truly began to comprehend it. What I observed was:
1) Doujinshi is not allways "copycat". There are some small
fan-run books that are called doujinshi (and sold at Comic Market) that are totally original.
2) A lot of it is about porn. And about seeing your favorite anime character violated, often by tenticles. Yes, there are some original "fanfic" type stories...but there is also a lot of Sailor Moon meets Urotsukudoji. I couldn't believe the things they were doing to poor [I am a dumbass]!
3) The Japanese are a lot more liberal about their hand-drawn porn than we are. The yaoi (boy-boy) stuff is right there with the girl-girl stuff. Women in Japan appear to be as open about liking boy-boy as men are about girl-girl. Porn is just porn.
4) Doujinshi is where folks seem to start. First you make a doujinshi of a magical girls series you like. Then you make your own magical girl. Then you decide if you really want to be a [I am a dumbass] and start trying to make a name for yourself. If you get lucky you might get in one of the anthologies - the collections put out weekly or monthly the size of small phonebooks.
Shopping for this stuff in Japan is quite fun. My best friend came with me on one of my business trips, and I came back to the hotel after the first day and he'd already scored. In fact he got me a doujinshi of my favorite [I am a dumbass] getting violated several ways.
If [I am a dumbass] for porn.
has nothing to do with anime. It is about how copywrite law tends to be applied to fan-fiction.
is the only way I can get to sleep at night.
We don't give a fuck if you think someone's going to be offended by a word. There is not one person here who would type "Nigger" without knowing that it is possible for some dick-weed to maybe take offence, YOU ARE NOT HELPING. So SHUT THE FUCK UP.
What the hell is the point of a secret volcano island if you dont use the heat from the volcano as your power source? I mean, that is the whole fucking point! Geothermal power is much more reliable, and it works at night.
3 miles to the gallon would mean larger gas tanks, not smaller. Bitch.
God DAMNIT!
"How many fucking GR books have you read."
uh, 4, I think [Ones which talk about concepts, not which write out equations]. Does that make me good or something? Does how many books I've read have some meaning?
"False. Gravity's distortion of space does not define space, it defines the distortion of space. There is plenty of motion that has nothing to do with gravity. You could have photons traveling through empty space - motion without gravity.
Yes, motion which does not involve gravity, but what points are they travelling between? What immitted them? Just because something is so trivial that you dont need to bother factoring it in to get an understanding of most situations, doesnt mean that it has absolutely no effect. If the points they were imitted from are of very high mass, space is distorted so that they are farther apart [space has been stetched, 4 dimensionally. Most writings on the subject only mention the bending of space, ignoring that all points in the universe still line up], reduce that mass and the distortion lessens, making them closer together. Eliminate it completely and, no more distance between them[This is of course talking as if they're the only two masses in the universe, and so is hard to explain the same way as distortion is normally explained- showing the bending of a grid which is already there.]
Like it or not, You're stuck in a bigass cluster of galaxies, surrounded eternally by gravity. You say I could have photons travelling through empty space, I say you dont get to have completely empty space. Entirely self-contained space with no mass not only doesnt exist, but of course has no reason to, either.
False. Without gravity you have Lorentz space time. Quantum Mechanics works without any gravity at all!
quantum mechanics has that wonderful advantage of only working on scales to which normal physics don't apply. Small as photons are, I dont think they had to factor in too much quantum-scale reasoning to figure out the effects of Jupiter on them.
False, Lorentz space time is the _solution_ to Einstein's field equation when there is zero stress-energy and therefore no gravity. When there is no gravity, you end up with Special Relativity. If you didn't, then GR would be suspect of being incorrect.
GR Suspect of being incorrect? Unheard of! But seriously, A lack of detailed understanding of Lorentz space time prevents me from giving a meaningful responce to that. I just thought that "..then GR would be suspect of being incorrect." was a pretty funny retort to anything. As I understand it though, [Net fields == 0] != [no fields].
I'm never posting on this website again.
Well that's nice, but want to finish this conversation first? I think that's the point of discussion- the free exchange of ignorance, some of which gets lost in the transfer.
Yes, relative speed between the objects also effects time, I'm not saying gravity is the only effect going on, but know that Lorentz Space-Time is a /simplification/, The lack of gravity isnt saying "Gravity has no effect here" it's saying "Gravity would needlessly complicate this equation".
What is important to note is that just as a complete lack of motion would negate the need to define time, a complete lack of gravity would negate the need- as far as the universe is concerned, to define space. Gravity's distortion of space is what defines it. What does this have to do with anything? Without a definition of space, there is no way to define motion- motion isnt occuring. This means that suddenly Lorentz Space-Time doesnt work either.
Maybe the reason there's so many posts about this that need your "correction" is that, well, they are right?
well what they've done here is basically the same thing done to prove that the speed of light isnt infinite- they measure the apparent change in position of an object as the light being emitted from it passed through a gravitational field. The difference here is they did it in many different places at once, so they could determine not where the quasar appeared (as in the measuring of c) but when this change took place.
The article doesnnt go into enough detail, so I have no idea how this experiment actually managed to prove anything other than that distance exists- whether gravity is instantaneous or not doesnt change the fact that these places all accross the world were measuring entirely seperate light rays, each of which should have been effected at a different moment if only because they were being pulled by the field at different times. I think the only way this could have proven anything is if gravity was slower than light (which is what they actually measured). Maybe someone else has more details?
Gravity distorts time. Hell, if you took gravity out of the equation instants would run together and all things which define time would go away- gravity causes time. [Okay, obvious problems with using the word "cause" here, but suffices to say that without gravity, you don't get time, got it?]
As you approach the speed of light, time is also distorted. At exactlty the speed of light, time for you is essentially brought to a halt.
What we're really looking at in these cases isnt the speed of light/gravity, because those are "instantaneous" [in quotes because of all this talk of what defines time]. What we're really looking at here is the speed of the universe- the maximum divisibility of time.
So "Gravity moves at the speed of light", no shit. Anybody coulda told you that forever ago.
I dont have a physics degree, I just say things. Unintelligent ranting follows.
Actually, I don't know. Why dont you spell it out for me, If I'm assumed to know what anyway?
What's great about HOWTOs is that they arent as thick as a book. Expand one to book-form and you've got yourself a worthless fucking book.
"No, what's great about HOWTOs is that they tell you HOW TO DO IT, it doesnt matter how long they are."
^-- Shut up.
I on the other hand would point out merely that some of the posts seem Anti-Linux, not Pro-Windows, but more importantly that this leaves all of 2 pro-windows posts that you managed to find out of millions of messages.
Most of what I see is Anti-WindowsBashing, basically the moderators saying: "Shut the fuck up, god kills 500 fluffy kittens every time you use a dollar-sign somewhere besides currency notation"
My favorite part is when the 'fixing my laptop' guy is talking, he's running SETI@Home in the background. That's the sort of attention to detail in commercials I love.
Quite simply, keep all your text in a seperate file which can be compiled completely seperately from the rest of your project. The goes for Dialogs, Menus, and Labels. This primarily makes it easier to allow users to switch from one language to another. :)
There really isnt that much that can be done other than that. What do you want us to say? Break your descriptions into simple enough language that some automatic translator can spit something out? I dont think so. Your best bet is to just keep all your text in one place, [aside from debugging messages or other things that the user is never supposed to see] so you won't have to go looking around for[and potentially miss] it when the time comes. Don't you hate it when the whole program is translated except for the one error message that it keeps giving you?
Of course documentation is a different story. Nothing you can do there except keep everything very well documented so that there will be less confusion in translation. If it's a complete idea instead of a quick phrase thrown out, it's more likely to be translated correctly.
Have you every tried some of those advanced moves? I always said that kind of stuff shouldnt be done by humans.
That's FUNNY, not INFORMATIVE you morons. Mod parent down, then mod back up!
That's really what was missing from that show "Lois and Clark".
Not ONCE In a phone booth!
I mean they went at it on the ceiling, in outer space, on clouds above the city, but not ONCE In a phone booth!
I think I've just been insulted.. I'm not sure.
Offering a difference of opinion isnt moronic. Trying to counter a difference of opinion is. You are hereby labeled a moron for trying so desperately to read that you have been labeled one. (Aren't I nice?)
/IS/ one of the stupidest things a human is capable of doing!" and then put it into something better.
As for it being a book, I'm sorry but I was under the impression that digital information coming through my computer screen was not the same as it being printed.
'cause it's NOT.
All that labor going towards formatting something for media it isnt going to be displayed on is worthless, okay? It's nice and all that he spent so long trying to make it workable as a book, but then he decided to distribute it in Non-book form. "Oh no! If I convert these newspaper quotes to plain text for viewing on a scrolling sign, all the collums will be lost!"
So your point about him having spent so long laying out their media in a certain format, and then being too idiotic or lazy or whateverthefuck to just give the fuck up and realize that people reading this online arent going to see this as being a book, well, you get the drift?
And it's not a troll post, it's just blatantly off-topic while giving an honest opinion not to offend people but to cause those who are thinking of using PDF on the web to go "Oh, gee, that
I probably had more.
You idiot, everyone knows who the bitch in that relationship is. The man is forced to wear Bright Red and Green underwear all the time!
See 1 up and to the right. [two people asked the same question, I dont want to give two unique replies]
The existence of a PDF reader does not negate my dislike for reading PDF files. I'm sitting here reading on a web browser, which for some inexplicable reason is done a hundred times better than any PDF reader I've ever used. Is there a PDF plugin for a linux based browser? I dont mean sticking a seperate viewer inside the browser, I mean using the browser to render the page
I have never seen a good PDF viewer, okay? That's why "Grrrrr, pdf!", I really dont know why such a thing has become so standard for use on the internet. If it's on a web page, why not link instead to (OMFG!!!) a web page!?
I'm not all for Free Software, and thinking adobe is evil or some shit. I have something probably unheard of by most people here- Legally purchased copies of adobe products.
My problem with PDF is that the required use of a seperate viewer, which as I have stated is consistently crappy, makes me opt instead for Not Reading it.
Now for people who would here say "Well then dont read it, nobody's forcing you to!", you are what we humans call the most fucking moronic kind of idiot it is possible to concieve of. You, I suppose, would rather never eat toast than have to sit in a fire while holding a peice of bread. Well, see there's this other option where you use a toaster.
I want toast, and I dont want to use any of the horrible PDF viewers availible (Yes, the official adobe one is shitty too)
I have always seen them as slow, needlessly difficult to scroll through, and in general no where near as good for reading as say, a web browser. Why might this be? BECAUSE PDF IS FOR PRINTING, YOU JACKHOLES. Sure, it can be and often is used for other things, but in every instance that other thing turns out very crappy.
And if you're of a differing opinion, any comment you post in responce is wrong. This is because I have here stated my opinion, and personal experience. So trying to combat this with your opinion or personal experience is.. see above for comment about you being a moron.