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Plan B From Outer Space:
1. Google the translator's name + manga/doujinshi title.
2. ???
3. Profit!

About the layout:
It's nice, since it focuses on the *core* feature of the site, hentai manga & doujinshi, no complaints on that front.

However the current setup makes it harder to browse community news and there's no longer a link to check older updates & news bulletins.

With wide-screen monitors becoming the norm, IMHO it'd be better to switch to a two-column setup, 2/3 - releases & 1/3 - news, as news bulletins are rarer and rarely actually need the same screen-space as releases. Hmm... Maybe the featured posts & news items should be merged into one entity.

Put these into a full-width division, and you have ready-made layout to post 100-width (or "full page"), advertisements for major partners or community events.

About the server migration:
Excellent job! Downtime has been short, almost everything everything seems to be working... if I didn't know any better, I'd think there's a professional *plan* behind all of this.

(Hope search gets fixed before we have another influx of clueless users flooding the forums).

Nope they dont't... differ that much that is.

A GPU just has a different instruction set, focused on floating point operations so it achieves higher FLOPS. Another good comparision could be ARM RISC processors that have a reduced instruction set, but tend to achieve higher MIPS at the same core speed.

(FLOPS = Floating Point Operation Per Seconds, MIPS is for integer operations meaning Million Instructions Per Seconds).

They're different architectures and are designed for different things, however they all operate on the same principles, so it's more like comparing a sportscar, a station wagon and sedan rather than apples and oranges.

Today, the issue of CPU instruction sets rarely ever props up (for the average programmer), since modern compilers tend to take care of *all* of that and it's just a matter of which SDK you use when writing the software.

Register width, bus-size... neither are as revolutionary as the transistor or integrated circuit had been. They make different things possible and increasing these limits doesn't automatically translate to "better" everyday applications.

Don't post links to shitty streaming sites that are ripping off the fansubbers work, have the decency to link the original:

Pisu Hame - Ep 1:
http://subdesu-h.net/?p=4008

Pisu Hame - Ep 2:
http://subdesu-h.net/?p=4532

Shares also entitle the holder, to get dividends, that is as big a portion of the company's profit as his % of the company's shares he has. Dividends are only periodically paid out and usually only after a portion of the profit has been re-invested to keep the company going. (Like R&D, etc.)

You guys don't have a fucking clue, how much space RAW footage can take up.

What you're looking for is a compression method that doesn't discard too much data, preferably a 4:2:2 color space one(instead 4:2:0 sub sampled).

This thread makes some recommendations:
http://www.larryjordan.biz/picking-right-format-archiving-video/

Otherwise, you're looking for lots and lots of storage space... with the advent of HD video, DVD is too damn small unless you compress to MPEG-4 (Divx, Xvid, x264 or h264) which are *not* suited for editing and can lead to nasty problems if you add more filters later on.

You have two options: more hard drives or tape. Yes *tape*. It's still the cheapest option to store Peta-bytes of data. Unfortunately, modern tape drives are not cheap... however older ones often are! Tape drives are *linear* access, which means they're *very* slow when seeking a file. For archival though, that's not an issue and they have rather good sequential read/write speeds for storing/retrieving data.

Try Opera Mobile instead Mini. I've successfully read FAKKU on that version of the browser before, it's worth a shot.

Keep in mind, that a lot of China is still pretty much living under Feudal relations and countryside officials are often corrupt to the core. This atrocity was committed by such officials, acting on their own, pretty much blackmailing the family to "pay up or else..."

Movement in the country is restricted, because people trying to escape the tyranny of the local officials would migrate to the big cities en-mass, which would lead to a collapse of countryside agriculture and the city infrastructure collapsing under the sudden load.

The country has so harsh criminal sentences, because they're trying to keep these bastards (...and the new rich entrepreneurs, although the two are often one and the same) in check... often to little avail.

I'm of two minds about the whole regime:

On one hand they facilitate this exploitation and they stifle classical freedoms (of speech, press, assembly, etc.) that I as a liberal value highly.

On the other hand, they're trying to ease the country's transition to capitalism and we've seen in both Poland, Russia and countless other countries what "unrestricted neo-liberal shock therapy" lead to (Russia life expectancy and GDP halved, while similar robber baron criminals, called shiloviki rose to power).

Oh that explains it. You probably used Opera *Mobile* before. FAKKU doesn't support WAP browsers (as it doesn't have a mobile version), so Opera *Mini* won't be able to render the site.

He already said he's using Opera.

http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/AMD-FX-8150-vs-Core-i5-2500K-and-Core-i7-2600K-CPU-Review/1402/18
...except the i5 is a *lot* cheaper than the Bulldozer.
As I said, Intel is better bang for your buck once you're in the high mid-range (i5 instead i3).

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-fx-pentium-apu-benchmark,3120-10.html

AMD Or Intel: Which Offers Better Gaming Performance?

As such, we're almost-shockingly left without an AMD CPU to recommend at any price point.

In one sentence: AMD really dropped the ball.

They still hold the budget end of the market, but I hope they get their act together or Intel's going to dominate the market.

I've been an Intel user for a long time, but I don't want them to be a monopoly. Competition is good for end users and I want AMD back in the saddle. (My laptop is AMD)... however right now, unless you're on a budget, there's no reason to go with AMD.

Japan has a gazillion comic conventions, there are even calendar sites like Doujin.com to track all the events:

Doujin.com original site
Doujin.com Google Translate

Frankly, what you say is not true. There's a reason we speak of budget, mid-tier and high-end components. For budget and low-mid tier, AMD is indeed a better bang for your buck... however if you spend more money, AMD falls behind and *Intel* becomes a better bang for your buck in terms of performance.

What this means is that if you want a better CPU, at one point buying a more expensive AMD CPU is a waste of money, since at upper mid-to-high range, Intel CPUs will outperform them for the equivalent budget.

You're wrong - 256 bits does not equal 256 bytes. 8 bits = 1 byte, so the CPU could process 32 bytes on every tick... except it doesn't! Double register width doesn't translate to double processing speed!

That's not how CPUs work. Even for the most basic instruction you can give - add two numbers together - you gotta do a number of steps, like load the variables into registers, add them together, then move the result to a specific memory address... So from the get go, you normally don't complete an instruction on every tick.

Also, just because you have this greater bit-depth (and therefore floating point precision), it *doesn't* directly translate to faster operation. A CPU is not like a internal combustion engine that you crams "bits" into and it just "burns" them, it's pipelines and parallelization that do what you imagine 64 or 128/256 bit does: it makes the CPU do more things in parallel, hence it appears "faster".

Granted, this bigger bit-precision *does* make certain mathematical operations possible that *can* lead to faster program execution... except the program has to be written from the start to take advantage of this. The architecture on its own won't accomplish that.

All in all, you remind me of the deluded fools from the "console wars" (1980'-1990') who touted the marketing slogans of the time (16 bit vs 8! 24 bit vs 16!) of the time without *any* understanding of what those terms implied.

Updated the information, some minor tweaks to layout.

Removed from the stickies, as the information is pretty outdated. I don't have time for an update at the moment.

If we suggested a lobotomy because it's a hip thing, would you get it?

Are you really this clueless? PCI hasn't been used for graphics cards (that are any good for gaming) for more than a decade now, AGP fell out of favor almost five years ago.

Doing a *little* research on your own can spare you a lot of grief. Google is your friend:

http://compreviews.about.com/cs/pchardwarebasics/a/aaWhatToBuy.htm

Frankly, it's none of your fault.

As for the "damage", companies rise and fall and we shouldn't be hard on people for making honest mistakes...

What earns my ire for Lorrie is how she handled Gygax's own startup (sued out of existence) and the fact that she made the company bend backwards to comply with the demands of religious moral guardians and shrills like Patricia Pulling.

If you want to know more about that, I suggest reading the Pulling Report by Michael A. Stackpole:
http://www.rpgstudies.net/stackpole/pulling_report.html

The gist: Pulling claimed that her son committed suicide because D&D and went on a crusade to "prove" D&D was spreading satanism and destructive behavior. This neatly tied into the satanic ritual abuse hysteria of the time.

TSR, then industry leader, did *nothing* to protect the hobby and its fans. It fell to FASA, Chaosium and other 2nd (and 3rd) line publishers to do so.

Instead they started a policy (still plaguing D&D up to now), that game material should be "morally unambiguous", that is PCs can only be "good & lawful" characters battling evil (never mind how xenophobic & fascist the whole setup is to anyone who doesn't take it at face value) with players punished (by the GM if he follows the rules) for transgression. All mention of demons, devils, etc. were also removed from any further game material.

READ... then post.
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HDMI transmits a fucking digital signal. As long as it just works the cable properties won't make any difference. Digital signal doesn't degrade like analog does. Either the signal gets through or it doesn't.