The Theory of Relative Searching

I've been sitting on this document for far too long, so I'm posting a beta-release version so as to obtain some feedback. As this is a beta, I would muchly appreciate it if no one were to distribute it beyond this board. The finished version (which will be released under a Creative Commons license, as will any future documents/utilities/patches I create) should be ready within two weeks.

The one thing I intend to add is a concrete example for the "relative searching for graphics" section. Every time I try to locate a suitable example, I fail. Actually, I could do it fairly easily with a large title screen, ala my document Title Screen Hacking Made Easy but I'd much rather do it with a simple, small (preferably textual) graphic. If anyone has any suggestions, I'd be glad to hear them. Otherwise, I'll probably kick into hacker mode, something I can sense coming back to me finally, and uncover something.

If anyone has any suggestions for/questions regarding this document, I'd also very much like to hear them. The entire point of the document is to educate people, so I want to make sure it's accomplishing that goal as fully as possible. Feel free to point out any spelling or grammar errors you might find. I'm pretty pedantic about such things, so I won't take offense to little nitpicks.

Also, if anyone is opposed to the idea of releasing non-pure-text documents in PDF format, I'm willing to listen to your reasons, but I've pretty much got my mind set on releasing all future documents in this manner.

Finally, if anyone knowledgeable in the Japanese language strays away from the language board, I'd appreciate a quick spot check of the few words in the Japanese section of the doc. As I pulled them directly from my Random House Japanese-English English-Japanese Dictionary ©1995, which has served me well for nearly 10 years now, I'm relatively confident that they are correct, but it never hurts to get a second opinion. (Unless that opinion is that your wound is infected and is obtained by poking the wound repeatedly with a stick, that would probably hurt.)

So.... yeah. Feedback is appreciated. Donuts are appreciated as well, though I'm planning on holding off on my invention of donutware (shareware paid for with donuts instead of cash) until Tag 3.0.

Sure! Instinct is ほんのう.

Good point. I believe your last sentence just triggered the words in my mind that will let me explain the point in a much more comprehensible manner. (But not this late at night, so I'll have to read them again when it's daylight.)


I'll certainly take that under consideration. I understand what you're getting at, but I'll have to find a good example before I could actually put it to use.

Good stuff. Should be required newbie material.