| Posted by BuZZard on 01/12/07 06:50 
"Onideus Mad Hatter" <usenet@backwater-productions.net> wrote in messagenews:6u8eq21l8mutmtghv9au6ctihi7jmftvd4@4ax.com...
 > I've noticed over the past year that every time I run a search for
 > something...I start rackin up blog hit after blog hit after blog hit.
 > What's wrong with it?  Well, let's say you've got some kind of a
 > coding question and you're looking for information on how to figure it
 > out.  So you run a search on keywords related to the problem you're
 > having...but then all you get is spazzy lil tweenage blog snits
 > yammering the fuck on about buzz words and techno babble with no real
 > in depth analysis or explanations.
 >
 > Like recently I was having a problem with the getPixel function in
 > Flash...so I ran a search in Google hoping to find someone who had a
 > similar problem or hoping for someone who had done some in depth study
 > of the function who had example code and experiments done on
 > it...instead I wound up with about 6,000 wannabe techno-junkies
 > rambling the fuck on about TEH AWESOMEST NEWEST FEATURES OF FLASH!
 > Never mind the fact that none of them seemed to have ANY clue at all
 > as to what any of those nifty "new" functions were, they were just
 > real excited to have slurped onto the Flash bandwagon and started
 > quote whoring for techie brownie points.
 
 Clue:  learn to use google to your advantage.
 It's all in the way you search newbie.
 http://www.oreilly.com/pub/ht/2
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