Posted by BuZZard on 01/12/07 06:50

"Onideus Mad Hatter" <usenet@backwater-productions.net> wrote in message
news: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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