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Cyberdevil
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Doomroar

I just want to heard the fast-forward version XD.

Interesting i just got to make a blog until recently and it was mostly so i could start using the reader from blogger, and stop getting all those bookmarks haha.
Yeah looking back now a bunch of pages were on Geocities, and they had such obnoxious and distracting backgrounds, well maybe back there they were appropriate... as for Myspace, meh, i don't even use FB so who gives? XD.

It makes more sense if we put it on a graphic, however i do agree that it feels like trick (but a bunch of things in math feels like that anyway XD).

Cyberdevil

Maybe they'll have a recorded version for sale in a few hundred years. :) Btw, speaking of sound: http://www.ponomusic.com/

How many feeds do you saved... if you care to reveal? Yeah, obnoxious was their trademark. :D Maybe Yahoo! felt people were getting the wrong impression of them as a company, an unprofessional image.. though it was all good fun. I remember not liking MySpace that much just because people had so incredibly flashy designs there, but I think the big difference from Geocities was that it was dynamic content, the flashy animations and images looped for each post, spanned large galleries, friend lists, etc... they weren't all manually assorted with interesting patterns or placements. Or maybe they just provided better gifs... IDK, but Geocities were a full-feature host and MySpace were more of a social community, and I've generally never liked those much. I like FB less than I used to dislike MS though! They're a menace to society!

?That last thing aimed at S3C?

Doomroar

Porno music!? oh... pono... yeah that seems promising but i wonder how it would really sound i mean, even if they put a sample online they can argue that it is not the same since it is not on a pono player...

From Geocities? i can't remember probably 0, i didn't used them that much, but on my feed as of now i have some 210 blogs i follow, of those about 30 or so update monthly, the rest are either inactive or update every now and them when the planets align, weekly updates are from 5 or 6 blogs. And i am kinda glad it is like that because really could you imagine if at least the half updated every month? that would be madness!
About Geocities backgrounds, i remember a lot who gave me plain headaches, for real XD.
Indeed those social pages are a condemnation to this world!

Yeah i forgot to put the @ and then his name.

Cyberdevil

lol. Yeah that is a bit of a problem, it seems without the Pono player you won't get the same sound, so you can't really know what it sounds like until you listen to the sound of it through it. Apparently even regular file formats sound better on it... I hope shops buy in demos though so people can try 'em out without buying! If it is as good as they say it is then we're in for an audial revolution! :D

Ah no, I meant feeds saved to Blogger... I don't think Geocties had feeds anyway, the sites weren't very dynamic. ;an that's a lot of blogs! Good thing indeed. Sounds like mine's one of the more active ones in the list.

Couldn't agree more!

Aight.

S3C

yahoo is a multi-billion dollar corporation, so they don't have financial trouble overall. Maybe they weren't making any/enough profit off geocities although it could be a nice demo for those who were looking to pay for yahoo web-hosting. I think with the advent of Facebook, Linkedin, Google, Tumblr, and other forms of social media and blogging websites there's no reason to build a website from the ground-up on geocities unless you're really serious about in which case one would buy a domain name.

Geocities actually still exists in japan, though.

myspace and facebook are different beasts. myspace has the customizable profiles (which is both a bad and good thing) but more importantly, a way better integration of media. Most people stream/embed content now anyway, but for a while there was a no effective way to do that on facebook. You could upload .gifs and music on myspace. it's the userbase that makes up a social media website, so maybe the complete emigration of users from myspace to facebook would have been inevitable. I'm still surprised the site is generating 20$ million revenue and they completely rehauled their site last summer...why. literally no one goes there.

nope, a graphic would just make it more confusing...the limit of any divergent series is going to be infinity by definition. however, somehow when you "reach" infinity, the solution is somehow a negative fraction XD.

if you graphed the recursive formula and smoothed out the stepwise solution using complex analysis, the y intercept of the smoothed line would equal -1/12. that's really interesting right there, but obviously to fully grasp the video and understand the sum you need to understand some of the rigorous mathematics behind it...which isn't something that can be explained in 10 minutes..

Cyberdevil (Updated )

Hmm, I was thinking it might've been similar to how Hotmail fell after the other services back when their popularity peaked, they were the number one email provider and barely had the server resources to keep up with the growth, resulting in pretty strict account regulations for all the users (which opened up to competition and eventually made them loose their monopoly). Geocities never really had any limitations... that I remember, and you could have as many sites as you wanted... but apparently the lot of the sites barely took up a TB, assuming the ArchiveTeam did get a somewhat complete backup before they went down. That doesn't seem like such an intense load on servers at all, it's baffling..

Ground-up may be something people avoid now, but Geocities had a pretty fun website builder; the service was all but unpopular when they closed it. It looks like it might've been an attempt to drive in extra cash since they tried to get people to upgrade to their paid webhosting plans while shutting down. It might've turned to a disadvantage though as other hosts tried the same thing, and Yahoos hosting has never been particularly cheap... or good. Either way I think it was a pretty bad move, would've been both in their best interest to keep the place running (even if it wasn't profitable they could've used it to get new customers, like you say), and they did sell merch and upgrades so there was bound to have been some potential income, unlike YT who sells nothing but ads and continues to cost more and more for Google to mantain. But it's a real benefit for them when they negotiate deals.

Oh holy shit yeah! Japan suddenly rose a few metaphorical units in my sense of their greatness. They're a role model for the world!! Great to know.

True; the lack of customazibility is a big defect on FB, you can't even hide all blocks from the main profile view. I stumble upon artist profiles on myspace every once in a while, both new and old, it seems to have a niche in the music community, but you'd think sites like bandcamp and soundcloud would've taken over by now. But since they were big there's still a lot of content there, they have all the potential to build upon that old popularity and bring users back... if they evolve the right way. That's not bad money at all! :D

Hmmhmm

Doomroar

I will look forward to it, it really looks promising with all those artist backing up the project, they also say that they will make re-releases adapted to pono, so i wonder if we would have to buy the same songs we already own twice...

It is? damn man, i have bad news... it is not showing on my feed... and i am sure i tell it to trace it using http://cyberd.org/feed

http://www.geocities.jp/jun_brick/yamato_m.html
However there's not enough flashing and moving backgrounds XD.

But to explain divergent series while needing more than 10 min, is not really all that impossible to grasp.

Cyberdevil (Updated )

Probably. Looking at the prices it seems to be a lot about profit... and I'm wondering how they'd be able to master in any additional quality into the already existent file-formats... still, hopes are high! It's gonna be pretty cool! Maybe!

Huh strange, do category specific feeds work? Like http://cyberd.org/blog/feed

Haha yeah, it's almost so stylishly design you wouldn't know it was Geocities. :D Something about that sidebar feels nostalgic though...

Thanks for the comment btw, responded. If I really want to get discussions started I'm thinking I need to add some way to quote comments and get notified if you get quoted, something like @NG...

Doomroar

Who knows, it must be something, yeah.

Well i wouldn't know until the next update, i cant see the old stuff, and the stuff each time i add it to the feed, but i don't know if it will keep appearing, but i will try of course.

Yeah, but i have actually seems that sidebar in various not that old sites recently...

I figured i would get a mail, if i get a respond, since it ask for one.

Cyberdevil (Updated )

Something! Yeah! :D

Aight, if nothing pops up before the week's over we'll know for sure! Or if it does then... even better!!

Background texture, green links and all? :O

A logical assumption! Right now there are no notifications though (not even for me, though I think that'd be easier to configure). I don't really know why email is required, but I assume it has something to do with security. Oh wait, it's probably to link certain names to gravatar (global avatar) accounts... but since I'm not using avatars right now that's a bit pointless right now... definitely going to give the comment system a revamp soon, along with plenty of other areas of the site. A lot of places are implementing external comment systems too, like Disqus or LiveFire, that'd be an easy way of keeping people connected but I'd rather store comments locally and have total control, don't like relying on other sites for such stuff. I guess Blogger has a notificiation feature btw? Responded btw.

Doomroar

:P

Well actually something popped up, a bunch of updates from the 19th to 23rd of this month... also i can't find the page when we were talking about Outkast but it doesn't matter.

Yeah all that old feel! brig red, pink and yellow links that burn the eyes! XD.

Oh man Disqus is actually quite helpful go for it man!
Oh... oh well, or not it is your site haha, as long as i get my avatar i am fine with it.
Yeah blogger has those, and a Gadget system plus HTML edit, so i guess that in theory you could transform it whoever you feel like, the notifications are send to your linked e-mail.

Cyberdevil (Updated )

Woot woot. Looks like they're just a bit late then, come to think of it that might have something to do with my index-time meta data, interesting to know how stuff like that's being used. You mean the http://cyberd.org/days-of-our-lives.html ?

Haha, blue and red, pink and yellow and green and orange... they just had the best combinations back then! :D

Hmm, was about to start explaining all the downsides of it... good thing I started reading the next sentence first. :D So the avatar's an important part of the comment form? I haven't paid much attention to it myself but it's true it gives a sense of personality, probably take it for granted on a lot of other sites... we'll see, going to go browse about for the optimal comment mods and plugs after I type this.

A smooth system!

S3C

@Doomroar- but it's not that simple. the numberphile guy presents a bunch of mathematical concepts that the laymen just has to accept...for example 1-1+1-1+1-1+... = 1/2, which he attributed to just being an average between 0 and 1. when to prove that, calculating the formula is much more rigorous and complicated:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytic_continuation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_zeta_function

and that's just 1 out of 3 steps towards the answer :P

Cyberdevil

Something just flew over my head here.

zombievegeta

yeah

Cyberdevil

okidoki

Doomroar

@S3C i agree the video could be more detailed and at least have links to the concepts it uses.

Cyberdevil

Mhmhm

S3C

mine too XD

Cyberdevil

Haha, you speak like you know like a pro though! :)

Doomroar

Yeah that one indeed! i wonder why i was unable to find it...

Retina melting combinations! haha.

XD, you can always tell the downsides of it regardless.
Well, it not only allows you a sense of personality, but it also facilitates browsing between comments, instead of seeking a name out, you search for the avatar, for example the moment S3C changed his avatar to Batou (is that Batou right? from GITS?) i got a little lost trying to find his comment, but now that i am accustomed it is all back to normal.

All those things flying over our heads!

Cyberdevil (Updated )

All Project 2014 posts are excluded from the main page so I thought they would've been excluded from the feed too (as they're not all that good)... looks like some of them did show up though in that image you posted... unless that image you posted was actually the link to my own feed hmm.... but if it was excluded then you couldn't have found it anyway...

Acidic eye candy! Word.

Yupp that's Batou. Tis true,m that's the way I browse the comments too. I think I differentiate through length of username too, so with usernames of same length the avatar is the deciding element. Though on the forums level play in too, it's like a secondary avatar, it's easy to differentiate between people like TimFelp and TomFulp... staff/higher levels are all gold. Or maybe I do go by partly by name too hmm... I know I don't go by sig though.

UFOs!

RedBling

so fucking stupid

Cyberdevil

What is? O_o

Doomroar

But then... how did i found it!? DUN DUN DUN!!!

Best kind of candy!

I definitivelly check avatar and level first then i check the name.

Abducting people and doing kinky alien experiments! I wonder why...

Cyberdevil

It's a mystery! I_I

Skull candy!

Wonder if that's the way everyone does it hmm. No name-length identifier though?

I don't know! I wish I did! I want to unravel the truths of the universe within my lifetime but it's a futile task!! The great depression sets in!

Doomroar

Gasp!

Is skull candy, melting face candy!?

No i am not at that level of using name-length as an identifier, that is for pros and guys with their ultimate skills unlocked XD.

Ah don't worry Mr Cyber D. Evil, one day them aliens will give you lots of experimental love to cure that depression... hopefully not using anal probes... mmh, but the other option usually involves a cow, damn you know, it is for the best if the aliens never get to you.

Cyberdevil

Shudder!

It's an earphoamz brand actually.

Haha, some day you too will master this skill! :)

If aliens abduct me I'll probably just cow errr in fear. Indeed.

S3C

i've taken lots of math classes but most creative math and proofs and elaborate theorems is just abstract nonsense to me

Cyberdevil

Ah, is math something you can apply to your job? Something you like to practice? That was that one subject I started getting more and more bored with during them last school years, eventually I almost started failing the classes... but I think it was due to pretty square teachers. They knew how it all worked but not really how to explain it or apply that knowledge in creative ways. Btw, have you played: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/628959

S3C

Math can be applied anywhere, as it's the foundation of everything...however it certainly isn't something that I would intrinsically do at my job

sure, it can be fun to practice. introductory algebra and statistics are dry as hell, geometry, calculus and linear algebra are more interesting areas, and when using math within a science field like chemistry, computer science, physics (obviously), biology, or even music is more fun than just plain math. Although, exploring math when related to a field gave me a better appreciation for just standalone mathematical concepts.

most students know of the trite, uninspiring math teachers all to well. Looking back, my high school teachers were pretty good, but my first two college math teachers where bad without a doubt (one barely spoke english, the other was hank hill). I think another part of my initial lack of success was attributed to a self-fulfilling prophecy, where I genuinely believed that I was destined to bad at math, and gave into the ridiculous notion that talent exists and some people just are meant to certain things, and no amount of practicing can change that. So I pretty much failed remedial algebra, but I did better in higher level classes years later with a renewed interest and different mindset, and now I could get qualified to be a high school math teacher, if I wanted.

haven't played that game.

Cyberdevil

Oh yeah, I know it applies everywhere, probably misphrased that a bit! If you do apply was what I meant; got it.

Mhm...

I had a great math teacher in sixth grade.. I think it was. Learned so much in that one year I didn't learn anything new in 7th or 8th... part of the downfall I suppose. :) Indeed, it's easy to think; it's true too some are more gifted than others in certain areas, I think everyone have their own fortes, but hard work surpasses talent in all areas! Man remedial algebra sounds like alien knowledge, but I guess I did learn that at some point...

Sounds like: not interested? :P

Doomroar

Panics!

But does it float?

Someday... maybe tomorrow?

But is crouching the most wise thing to do in front of anal assaulting aliens?

I fear every time that i read articles of Neuroscience that want to propose on how some people may be mathematically gifted from birth, then another one comes and refutes them, then another one comes and affirms it, and so and so, it is a roller coaster filled with scares.

Cyberdevil

Like a wiimote.

Maybe. Maybe the day after tomorrow! Maybe the yesterday of the future!

Hmm, you've got a point there.... then what do?! How can I fight their alien technology? Is there hope?

But why the fear?

S3C

it probably sounds like alien language because "remedial algebra" is not an actual course- the word "remedial" in education refers to a class that should have been taken or mastered at an earlier grade. In this case I was referring to algebra II, which is generally taken in 11th grade here. I took it that year (and narrowly passed) but I didn't get a good enough mark in the math entrance exam to start in pre-calculus or discrete calculus or calculus I when I first entered university.

graphing inequalities, parabolic, hyperbolic, power, exponential, and logarithmic functions ring a bell with you? how about imaginary numbers, the quadratic formula, polynomials, and synthetic division? remember learning about any of that at one point?

@Doomroar- people have unique brains, and unique inclinations to do certain things better than others. But as Einstein says- genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration. Another quote from him- "I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious". There are no genes in the body that have been confirmed for people being good at certain things- so you cannot figure it out if your good at something until you put serious effort in. And it's hard to put in serious effort if you're not curious about something.

Cyberdevil (Updated )

Aha. I don't think I ever read calculus though, judging by some thread someone posted on basic mathematical knowledge at the BBS some time back I'm thinking there's a lot of mathematical mastery that's common other countries, which I was never taught. Ah well, the basics are all I need!

Ehh nooope, doesn't ring a bell... I did study my final years in Swedish, so it could be only the translation that's foreign, but looking at equations I can't say if I ever partook in that knowledge. That algebra II?

Word. Einstein was an inspiring person.

Doomroar

Who owns one of those anyways? surely someone? SSB is always good.

Captain, the ship is sinking!

Do what they do in the movies (i don't know what they do in the movies).

@S3C Yeah but what these articles seemed to point at, is into the specialization of certain areas based on specified education according to what the data may say about you, and what you excel at, the fear comes from me finding it incredibly discriminatory, even if personalized education may have advantages.

Cyberdevil

I have a buddy who owns TWO. :O Actually never played SSB. I hear it's good.

But I want to avoid the alien probe man. Wait... what type of movies are we talking about here?

Doomroar

You have a buddy who owns 2 and yet you never played SSB? man go download the emulator for N64 and play the first SSB, is is awesome.

The kind of movies when they don't get to use the probe? XD.

Cyberdevil

Is it worth playing with just one player though? I thought it was a party type of game. The one game we have played a ton of on Wii is Mario Kart.

There are movies like that? :L

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