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The day of extremities

December 1, 2010
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Today i wake up at the first alarm of my phone, then went back to bed as usual until the last one… And i found it strange that it was the next. Nevermind, i had breakfast, and headed for school. Of course i was late, but only by roughly ten minutes—or so i thought. As i arrived, in a few minutes the teacher ended the class, and i was totally dumbfounded. For a few seconds, then i looked at my watch and i realised that i wasn’t late by ten minutes but by an hour. Turns out i forgot to reset my alarm from the 9 am weekend setting…

But at least i slept well in class.

Then i came home and came another raging thirty minutes. The rice cooker didn’t turn itself off (lately this happens more often than convenient) so the bottom of the rice was burned, while the top wasn’t even cooked properly. In the meanwhile i turned the power on the stove too high so the topping got burnt too. Not to mention when i picked the rice cooker off the fridge to get the rice out, it slipped out of my hand covering half of my kitchen floor with rice.

Then english classes that i spent sleeping and having fun with puddi on /b/.

I went to buy coffee, then headed for the karaoke at the station, where i spent half an hour practicing the Slipknot songs (except Three Nil that they didn’t have). Even though the performance’s not going to happen…

Infringed

November 20, 2010
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Today when i got back from school an email was waiting for me from Youtube, stating that the little more then one minute long hungarian subbed scene from Star Driver i uploaded the other day is an infringement to Sony Music’s copyrights. I seriously wonder in what way.

Right, i’m no lawyer here, so i have no problems accepting that my upload of that video was a copyright infringement. Nevertheless i find it crazy that in one day all Star Driver fan videos were wiped from Youtube. First of all, it’s pointless. Even if they remove it from there, there are countless other sites that the great Sony won’t think of to check for their so protected content.

Do these people realise at all what insane potential the internet has for their media? Do they seriously think that without these “copyright infringing materials” anyone would ever hear about their anime outside Japan? Oh come on. The people who want to watch such videos on Youtube are the ones who will watch the series once it’s on tv and buy dvds and other merchandise, watch the related movies-ovas-whatever and spend the big money.

Éhség

November 1, 2010
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Megértem a Shiki vámpírjait, megértem Gluttony-t (FMA) és megértem a shonen-mangák folyton éhes tipikus főszereplőit. Meg a Samurai Champloo szereplőgárdáját.

Valaki megmagyarázhatná, hogy ha olyan degeszre eszem magam, hogy fél órán át ha akarnék se tudnék lehajolni, úgy tele van a hasam, akkor hogy lehetek egy óra múlva olyan éhes, mintha egy falatot se ettem volna? Hogy?

Már nem mintha sok kéne hozzá, hogy beteljen a gyomrom, két szendvicsből vagy akár két narancsból is jól tudok lakni, de egy nap ha a gyomrom szerint ennék, legalább hatszor-hétszer kajálnék. Akkor meg, attól tartok, hiába mondhatom büszkén, hogy vagy egy közös pontom Stockinggal (éspedig hogy akármennyit eszek, nem tudok egy-két kilónál többet hízni-fogyni), annyit nem bírnék kigömbölyödés nélkül.

Ennek eredményeképpen szinte folyamatosan éhes vagyok. De sebaj. Gáznak tartom morogni egy pókos képre, de még gázabb lenne, ha az éhségemet nem tudnám megfékezni. Nem vagyok én Kirishiki.

Cenzúrázzuk a netet!

October 24, 2010
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A kínai Arany Pajzs projekt hivatalos célja, hogy a kínai népet megvédje az internet és az imperialista média káros hatásaitól. Gyakorlatilag ez cenzúrát jelent. Pedig milyen szépen is hangzik! Megvédeni a gyerekeket, hogy véletlenül se találjanak lovaspornót a neten, elkapni a neten szervezkedő terroristákat, még mielőtt tényleg bajt tudnának okozni…

Nemrég olvastam a Little Brothert, úgyhogy egy kicsit megijesztett, amikor Szalai főpapnő bejelenti, hogy korlátozni akarják az internetet. Óvatosan fogalmazva azt válaszolnám erre, hogy korlátozd anyádat, de ennél talán sikerül kulturáltabbat is kihoznom magamból.

Azt mondja, hogy “az internetet mindenhol szabályozzák”? Lehet. De nem arról van szó, hogy az internetszolgáltatókkal letiltatják a Kurucz.infót, mert az csúnyát mondott Viktor atyánkra, hanem a generált forgalom szerint próbálják megakadályozni a ddos és hasonló támadásokat. Elvileg. Bár a Little Brother óta a “nyugati példát” se feltétlen érzem halálbiztosnak…

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Breathless

October 18, 2010
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When it came to subbing the latest Xros Wars episode, i was surprised no one was in the irc channel when i got there the usual hour or so after the episode aired to ask for the raw video and subtitles to translate… No one said a word while i was there for hours… Then i went to sleep. Next morning i got a notice from iMon that the WPP joint is over and we’re working by ourselves from now on. I’ve also seen the since deleted posts the WPP people left at the forums… As much as i knew them (not at all, it seems) i didn’t think they’d write such stuff without being seriously pissed off. That and knowing iMon’s habit to get a bit too 4chan-ish in arguments made me think he overreacted something and kicked them. Sorry about that, i really am.

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A helyesírásról, megint

October 2, 2010
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Ezt nem értem. Próbálkozok, de még nem megy. Ezek szerint csak nekem természetes, hogy úgy-ahogy próbálok helyesen fogalmazni és írni (lehetőség szerint ebben a sorrendben). Nem arról beszélek, hogy valaki véletlenül elgépel egy szót vagy pillanatnyi elmezavarban pontos j-vel írja a lyukat (pedig a lyukat nem írni kell, hanem). Az se érdekel, ha valahonnan kihagyják a vesszőket vagy a kötőjeleket – ez velem is gyakran előfordul. Még valahol azt is megértem, hogy valami furcsán értelmezett menőségből a szövegben minden “v” betűt “w”-vel írnak egyesek. Ez egy stílus, inkább látványelem, mint helyesírás.

De hogy olyan helyre raknak vesszőt, ahol abszolút semmi keresnivalója, vagy az elvált igekötőt a segédigével egybeírják (lásd megakarom találni), azt már nem értem. Vagy hogy teljesen értelmetlenül raknak egymás után (gondolom) nagyon értelmesnek érzett szavakat, biztos azért, hogy “komolynak” tűnjön az írásuk. Csak épp az értelme vész el, de persze, nyugodtan.

De igazság szerint mindez még valahol megbocsátható, vagy ha az nem is, de kevésbé büntetendő, ha valaki a saját blogján vagy egy csevegőcsatornán nem tud írni, mint ha direkt publikálásra szánt anyagot olvasva jön az arctenyér-kényszer, olyan a minőség.

Valaki magyarázza meg.

Holy crap

September 29, 2010
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I guess i should just move to China. Not much of a difference anyway, living under a communist regime and playing a game on Battle.net. This is so… scary. Especially after reading Little Brother (Cory Doctorow’s)…

StarCraft 2 + Blizzard rant

September 29, 2010
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Blizzard pissed me off. Badly. It’s one thing that battle.net redirects me to the korean website, even though my account is south-east asian–apparently all japanese are considered to be able to speak korean too. But whatever, i got used to typing sea.battle.net instead of just battle.net.

Actually it was all fine when i got the game (StarCraft 2 we’re talking about here). I completed the campaign, wrote a blogpost about it and since then played against harder and harder AI’s. Not against humans for the sole reason that the people i would want to play with are in another region. And StarCraft 2 is geo-locked, just like World of Warcraft. Meaning you can’t play with people from other regions, and even if you got access to another region, your achievements and scores will be stored only for the region you got them in. Even better is that although SEA apparently got merged into the north american region, technically the two are still separate, just now i can have a NA character too. Great.

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Community software my ass.

July 25, 2010
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One of the “great advantages” of linux is its supposed community support and that it’s developed by the users and anyone can take part and… Okay, stop there. You can take part in development if you are a crazy programmer and are able to find all the newsgroups and mailing lists and bug report places where some of the actual development is going on. Community support is probably there, just i don’t seem to be able to find it.

I don’t know if linux development is still separated from the web and takes place in other parts of the internet, but whatever the case, usual searches, however i try to refine my queries, don’t really bring the results i look for. And if finally i get bored with googling for hours just to find something that seems at least related to the problem i’m having, but yet provides no help, and i go to ubuntuforums.com and post my supposedly idiotic etc questions, no one gives a fuck to respond. Community support is a really nice concept, but if the whole community is only asking questions and no answers, it’s no point. Also, on that very forum website, apparently necroposting (posting in old topics) is not possible. So even if i found a workaround around a problem googling for which led me to that topic, i can’t post any helpful response there. How clever. On anime fan forums where they are boasting with pride about the number of topics and stuff, banning necroposting is acceptable even if i don’t agree with it. But seriously, on a support forum?

Also it’s funny that i’m every now and then facing problems that looking at forum posts were problems five years ago as well. Here you go, fantastic development of linux! Not able to fix reported bugs in five years? And while it’s really nice if the system natively recognizes the media control buttons of my laptop and i can control my mail led just by echoing 1 into /sys/class/leds/asus ::mail/brightness, not being able to use my wireless, my infrared and my webcam’s permanently flipped upside down, and i have no way to fix it, now that ruins the picture.

問題ない

July 18, 2010
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輸入関税によって被る消費者全体の損失は、生産者全体が得る利益を上回るものだが、当該製品の消費者の数は生産者のそれを圧倒的に上回るため、個々の消費者が被る損失は微々たるものになるのに対して、個々の生産者が被る利益はその比較にならないほど大きなものとなる。そのため、輸入関税に反対する政治圧力より輸入関税政策を求める政治的圧力が強くなってしまう。

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あのさ、俺はこんな長くて複雑な文を論文に書いてしまったときいつも先生にわかりにくいといわれていた。ま、資料はずっとこんな感じだから、多分論文もこうなるのも大丈夫だろう。だが、確かにちょっとわかりにくいだけど…