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Yes it's illegal. The problem is what exactly is considered "CP". Since Japan has some exceptions for content like pre-1999 JI material (which the UN conveniently lumps together with child abuse CP), articles like this pop up all the time, as if Japan is a safe-haven for child molesters and the...

lol r u srs The pic isn't real in case you didn't read the thread; it's been altered.

Re: separate sections for non-English discussions (eg: Japanese). AO is an English site for Japanese interests, and I think it should stay that way. An occasional Japanese discussion is fine, but if you want to talk in Japanese, there are better places to do that. I'm not sure many Japanese...

Wow, I totally missed out on an enthralling discission, allow me to join. :prance: I'd like to put forth that society does not attempt to define "what is acceptable and what isn't" (eg: "right and wrong"), but only what is economical (working together for food, shelter, etc). Right and wrong...

^ You might try the "PDF Download" extension. When you click on a pdf link, it will pop up asking if you want to download it as a file, view it in an online pdf-to-html converter, or simply open it up in the browser. Personally, FF3 has been running quite well for me. The only slowdowns I get...

+1 for Nakama. I used it in high school and liked it, but in my experience it requires a bit more time commitment to be able to get through the lessons/exercises thoroughly. The only downfall IMO is that it doesn't have the best organization in terms of consistency, so I think it's best...

Nothing happens in April, but April is when DST used to occur. So it stands to reason that by April, any time changes that cause Share to disconnect should be resolved.

Never had that happen to me, it's probably a security measure and unfortunately it sounds like there's nothing you can do about it. Again, Share's time zone checks have been messed up because of how Congress changed the DST dates in 2007. The best thing you can do is make sure you have all the...

A few that I've come across: KanjiConverer - http://nihongo.j-talk.com/parser/ Converts kanji into furigana components (eg: 漢字→かんじ/ka-n-ji) to aid in reading for those with limited or no knowledge of kanji. Also supports other related conversions. Basic conversions are pretty good, but I...

Google was one of the worst for automated Japanese-English translations. However, as is typical for Google, they are quickly discovering how to correct their service without having to invest in a lot of complicated algorithms. If you use translate.google.com to translate an entire webpage...

Typically Daylight Savings time changes occur on a fixed day. But lately Congress (or some other political body) has approved changing the day from the standard leap-forward/fall-back days. Windows XP/Vista has received updates/patches that fix the new DST calendars so that they automatically...

Damage to your graphics card? No, rotation is just a software thing so you can't harm it physically (unless you're yanking on the video cable every time you rotate). But remember that there might be some side effects, such as VLC or MPC not being able to play videos correctly in portrait mode...

Very nice. I actually got this VESA arm for my LCD last year when I found it on sale: The excitement of being able to rotate the screen and adjust the angle wears off after a little while, but I've gotten so used to it that I can't imagine myself going back.

Japanese: ようこそ.

Not all download managers work the same, so depending on how they request files from the server, MegaUpload (and other filehosts) can block or cut the file transfer. jDownloader is an excellent download manager built specifically for filehosts like MegaUpload, RapidShare, etc. It's java-based...

The thumbnails are cached, not generated every time, although they can only be retrieved through the attachment.php script. However it's possible vBulletin clears out its cache every now and then, or only keeps the most-accessed thumbnails cached (in order to save hdd/memory), so there could be...

The best thing you can do is just click that little "!" button at the top of a post.

Yeah, for scripted sites, CSS in database should be better. As long as the CSS itself isn't needlessly complex or excessive, it should only amount to one or two MySQL queries, and moreover can be cached in memory since it's static. Much more efficient to do it that way than to waste the...

In Share, click on Add trigger. Paste or type in the user's ID. At the bottom, there is an option to "Delete matching query triggers". Uncheck that option, then add the trigger as normal. Normally when you add a trigger, as soon as Share finds a matching file, it will delete the trigger and...

新基準モザイクで甦る = basically a "Digitally remastered" video. In other words, the studio has the original uncensored video and releases a second version of it with smaller mosaic, most likely because over time other studios have been making their mosaics smaller too. Getting uncensored content is a...

It's not that people prefer upscaled material, but more and more people want 720p videos now, especially 1280x720p ripped from TV shows (HDTV) or 1280x544 or 1920x800 ripped from movies (Blu-ray/HD-DVD). As a result, some people are upscaling old DVD content from 720x480 to 1280x720 (with...

The white cat is actually Giko cat, the unofficial mascot of 2ch. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2channel_Shift_JIS_art#Giko_Cat It's really just an emoticon, basically like how the onion-man is AO's emoticon, although there are deep-running memes associated with each 2ch mascot. The folder is...

^ Check your Log tab and see if there are any errors reported. While it isn't uncommon to get connection and search errors from time to time, you should not be getting as many as you are. Although it has been mentioned throughout this thread, here is a recap of common troubleshooting...

Use OneCacheDelete plugin (attached below). Install the plugin like normal; you may need to restart Share for it to load. Then browse through your files by making queries (you can show only local files by toggling Remote in the Queries tab). Right click the files you want to delete, and...

As Fuurin said, the ISO will still remain in your cache, and CacheDumpExEro will not affect its download status. You can actually mount an incomplete ISO, but the video data inside (VOB) will of course be incomplete or "damaged". Depending on where the missing blocks are, you will probably have...

Are you sure Share isn't already converting another file? It can only convert one file at a time. Please also ensure you have enough disk space where your download folder is located. If you're still having trouble, you can close and restart Share. Or use a separate convert plugin like...

That depends greatly on your ISP, the type of connection (cable, dsl, ftth), and your router's specifications. In general, it is not the raw upload speed but the number of connections that will affect your download speed. For instance, uploading to an FTP at full speed should not greatly affect...

Unfortunately your solution is not a perfect solution. There is no effective way to track files based solely on filesize: it is possible for two completely different files to have the same file size, and it is possible the exact same file to be packaged in two different ways (eg: one ZIP, one...

Well, sure, but a lot of words can be traced back to their Greek (or Latin) origins. That doesn't mean it's always useful to do so, since the exact usage and rhetoric of various words changes as they're adapted through different languages. Besides, the Japanese usage of akume is still from the...

Seeding clients automatically issue a "choke" (x) flag to peers connected in the swarm. This has two purposes: 1) Make the swarm more efficient. If the seed only uploads to you, then all other peers must download from you, and if your upload capacity is very low, then the whole torrent slows...

Acmé: french (slang?) for "orgasm". The more you know.

It's just a general description for a JAV series called Akume Jitensha ga Iku, or "Go, Orgasm Bicycle!" There are 3 videos in the series: http://www.dmm.co.jp/mono/dvd/-/detail/=/cid=1sdms103/ http://www.dmm.co.jp/mono/dvd/-/detail/=/cid=1sdms209/...

tl;dr? Then just check the bold and skip to the end. And what I was saying is that you don't need to have a career in theater in order to sustain a fandom of Broadway. Though you may not have intended it this way, by saying that someone who moves to America for Broadway "had damn well...

Well sure, but I never said OP or anyone else should move to Japan just for anime, as if they would spend their entire time, 24/7/365 completely fixated on anime. And afaik no one else ever implied that. But yes, there are a lot of realistic challanges that make moving to Japan exclusively for...

Not my problem, really. I'm happy to contribute, but I recognize that my thoughts are merely my own opinions anyway, so I feel no impetus to impose my viewpoints on others, and I feel no loss if the opportunity to share them is taken away. But if I am to try to make a contribution, I will say...

That's the easiest solution: join the rest of us who tried to provide something useful to the thread but now just ignore it. Some people just have a tendancy to believe their own opinions are the only ones that are right (and that everyone else is wrong, even if they agree); and unfortunately to...

Once extracted, you can put the folder wherever you like. The important thing is to go into Share, click on Settings > Plugins, and adding the CacheDumpExEro.dll file. Since only the .dll file matters, you can put it in whatever folder you want. CacheDumpExEro is not necessary: by default...

You can put the plugin wherever you like. The plugins are enabled by manually adding individual plugin files -- they are not automatically detected. If it's more convenient for you, you can place them all within a "plugins" folder inside the Share folder. CacheDumpEx has been superceded by...

A rather stark way of putting it, but overall yeah. There are both pros and cons to being a foreigner in Japan, and ultimately it's those differences that make spending time in Japan challenging and therefore rewarding (if you can handle the challenges). Plus, if you were able to fit in...

Noticed you edited your post, so I'm not sure if you still need help using keydb/sharedb, but here's a translation: keydb.jpn.ch sharedb.info On keydb.jpn.ch, if you search using "Copy/past list" mode, or on sharedb.info, you will get codes like this: [Share Plugin] [PDK10]...

You need to make sure your Windows time is updated and correct. It is possible that daylight savings time is affecting the time check, or that you live in a special time zone that Share does not recognize. If that is the case, you may try manually setting your Windows clock forward or backward 1...

Nope. Bill Gates was one of the first to get his operating system onto Japanese computers; the rest is history (eg: most Japanese have been and still are Windows users). But these days you can run a copy of Windows inside OS X (using a program like Parallels or VMWare), which in turn will let...

.cn is China .ch is Switzerland The site appears to just be the old keydb.info site (which was taken down) rehosted on a new domain.

Just to add one other thought. If you're serious about making a commitment to Japan, you should be able to pass JLPT 4 after 1 year of Japanese (from a decent college program), and JLPT 3 after another 1-2 years. If you aren't focused or resourceful enough to make that happen, you may need to...

Well, GIMP has made a lot of progress since then, so you might want to give it another try. Still not as good as PS (imo, it just doesn't feel quite as "professional"), but it should be a big step up from Paint, and a lot less of a resource hog than PS. But I can't really give you solid advice...

Switching keyboards is fine, but it's still regular MS input, which will still send 0x5C to the program, and if the program is using the default Japanese codepage, will still use ¥ instead of \. As for alternatives to MS Paint, I haven't personally tested any out (I use Photoshop, but I guess...

There are a lot of people who collect U15, but there are so many more people who download music and tv shows (obviously because it's much more mainstream), and of course good old porn.

An update: I haven't been able to find the file using this trigger: [DVDISO][IV] 多田瑞穂 - M16 みずほ16才 (2008.08.22) ENTO-004.ISO たまにわGJQ221P0x1 4,233,322,496 bc4aca9c157adb1d6166f577399ee1dc2d1a7c4f And as a segue to trigger-troubleshooting, one trick is to create two separate triggers. - One using...

If your want to keep your non-unicode apps in Japanese codepage, that's just a limitation you have to deal with. In all ANSI codepages, keycode 0x5C = \, but under Japanese codepage, 0x5C = ¥ (a relic of old JIS/pre-unicode standards). Unicode of course supports both, with U+005C = 0x5C (older...

By default you can set Windows regional settings to Japanese (Start > Settings > Control Panel > Regional Settings > Advanced > Non-Unicode) so that non-Unicode Japanese programs can display their interface correctly. If you need to override the locale for specific apps, you can use AppLocale...