Cincinnati is planning the same thing, and having a neighbor that already has it running will probably push this city into finishing up. Wish they had it today, cause its beautiful outside!
Why is it that every other place realizes that, although April 1st lasts an entire 24 hour day, April Fools pretty much ends around lunch because everyone is on the lookout and anything slightly odd is considered a joke.
Really, its cool and all, but now its just boring. It'd be nice to see regular stories now, but I know slashdot hasn't changed in the past...
I guess its time to either ignore the frontpage for the day or just go back to reading peoples journals, cause we all know that nothign but crap will appear on the front page until at least midnight....
Wow... this, then the GTA multiplayer (which was a dupe from 2003), and the whole debacle last night where he actually yelled in his comment line. Maybe he should just hand over his editing privleges for the day. He's mentioned he's sick in his JE... maybe thats affecting his judgement?
OK, fine. People can be shitty parents if they want to. But don't sell the game directly to the kid, and make sure these parents know what they're buying, so they can't say "I had no idea!" later.
I have a feeling (as in, not a fact, just my opinion) that this may be just like cigarettes. "You can call them 'Tumors' and people would be lined up to buy them" (--Denis Leary). Parents would still buy the games and simply say "well, its just a game, I don't see any harm in it..."
The parents that buy these games for the kids usually are too ignorant to really know what is going on in the game...
Frankly, too many parents are totally IGNORANT of what their kids are watching, playing and listening to. So parents should be more informed, who disagrees with this?
This is not the government's duty. They aren't here to parent the parents. If the parents are too busy to deal with their kids, or too ignorant to deal with their kids, guess who's fault it is? And now guess who needs to change? The answer to neither of those is the US Government.
Umm, if the "REAL" problem is that mom and dad are too busy with their jobs, then this has NOTHING to do with the politicians and everything to do with the parents. If they couldn't afford to live without kids, they shouldn't have kids. If they don't want to give up their lifestyle for kids, they were selfish in having kids.
Bottom line, if the parents aren't having enough time with their kids, its not the US Governments fault, nor is it their duty to fix it.
How terribly difficult would it be to add a url checker. I can understand a dupe when its an article written differently by two publications, but a simple URL checker can state "this url was used in store XYZ [with link]," so the editor can determine if its a dupe story or just a url used in two different stories...
Ingredients
8 oz / 225 g dark semisweet chocolate (40-45% cocoa)
5 oz / 2/3 cup / 140 g butter
7½ oz / 1 cup / 210 g sugar
4 eggs
4 heaped tablespoons / almost ½ cup / 1 dl all-purpose flour
4 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking soda or baking powder
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
4 tablespoons / ¼ cup sour cream
Ingredients for frosting
2/3 cup / 1.6 dl heavy cream or whipping cream
9 oz / 260 g semisweet dark chocolate (40-45% cocoa)
Method
1. Preheat oven to 180 deg C / 350 deg F / Gas mark 4.
2. Line a 9 inch / 23 cm cake tin (circular) with greaseproof or other non-stick paper and grease the tin.
3. Break the chocolate into small pieces and melt it with butter over hot water.
4. Beat the eggs with sugar, mix with flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and vanilla extract.
5. Slowly fold in the melted butter and chocolate and the sour cream.
6. Bake at 350 degrees for 50 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in centre comes out clean.
7. Cool the cake. Remove the crusted surface on the top of the cake, and cut in half, horizontally.
Frosting
1. Heat 2/3 cup (1.6 dl) of heavy cream or whipping cream in a sauce pan.
2. Remove from heat, add 9 oz (260 g) of finely chopped dark semisweet chocolate, stir until smooth, and let it cool until in thickens.
3. To test that it will thicken sufficiently, transfer a tbs of the frosting into a chilled cup and place in the fridge for 15 minutes. If it is too thin, add some more melted chocolate. It it is too thick, add a few tablespoons of cream, stir until smooth, and test it again.
4. This cake should have room temperature when served to have soft frosting.
This popped up on my TiVo while watching "Good Eats." I'm sitting there, find out how to use water to slow down and control the tempature of custard when all of a sudden I get a popup for feminine product.
Really, what does that have anything to do with an egg based custard? I mean, you can add fruit and other neat things to the bottom of the custard for some variations, but feminine products had no business anywhere around there. Almost lost my appe[tt]ite!
The whole plugin environment works a lot like cooking a large meal. Add in extra ingredients, or substituting one ingredient for another can create a whole new experience. You could even use the same 'plugins' for different 'bases' if you provided the functionality correctly... like having pork (Java) as the basis for your sauce or chicken (.Net).
But, it can be a tremendously dangerous[tt] if not done correctly, so you could almost make the analogy of baking instead of cooking. Only specific elements can be used or you could ruin the whole dish... could you relate bloated software that hardly runs with something like a ruined custard or creme brulee??
Honestly, this is why we need a manned mission to Mars. All these countless robots and satellites wouldn't be necessary if we just sent several men with testing equipment to stay there for a few months. Imagine how much more can be accomplished! Combine all the cost of all the landers and satellites to Mars and compare it to a manned mission. I'm willing to bet the cost will be very similar and more can be done in a shorter amount of time.[tt]
I, honestly, found it dull, boring, and slow (not laggy slow, but just a slow game). Not only that, but you rarely can find an active server with more than 10 people on it.
Compared with other bf1942 mods (Desert Combat), this one is just flat out dull.
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actually the perk system was taken out of the GURPS system. So it, in itself, is an imitation.
You put down money for a NEW house. Studs still in the walls? Where wiring up speakers and such is a piece of cake. Putting in a full sound system in every room (you can do it yourself for free) is pretty simple and easy to do...
But you'd rather drop a big clunky P3 in the room with a wireless card.... why? I see no advantage in it. Wire up speakers in every room. All wires go to computer room. Wires then attached to a single machine that manipulates everything.
But, being a computer geek and having a buncha P3 boxes lying about is what makes you happy, knock yourself out.
Seriously... what a horrible idea. It was great as an online subscription game. Free game, $10 a month to play (much cheaper if you buy quarterly or yearly). But to charge people another $20? I don't think they'll recover the cost to produce/box/ship the game. They should simply sell it as a CD in a CD case for like $5 as they do with some demo discs for those with slow broadband connections.
Plus the PC game market is falling prey to the console market with its teenage-type games, and the only people look for is graphics.
I've seen far too many 'really good' games die off because they thought they'd play well sitting next to the latest fad game (ie - grand theft auto).
I think he's complaining more that the color scheme used requires mucho black and brown. And when you add a color, like red, its the darkest red imaginable.
IANAL, far from, actually, but shouldn't it be the other way around? Shouldn't SCO be releasing code to an independent party to determine if its copyright has been breeched? Or will they keep requesting more code and fish around for something they can 'try to claim' is a copyright violation?
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Cincinnati is planning the same thing, and having a neighbor that already has it running will probably push this city into finishing up. Wish they had it today, cause its beautiful outside!
And here I thought that slashdot posting a story about how its cracking down on dupes would have been the best april fools joke of all....
Why is it that every other place realizes that, although April 1st lasts an entire 24 hour day, April Fools pretty much ends around lunch because everyone is on the lookout and anything slightly odd is considered a joke.
Really, its cool and all, but now its just boring. It'd be nice to see regular stories now, but I know slashdot hasn't changed in the past...
I guess its time to either ignore the frontpage for the day or just go back to reading peoples journals, cause we all know that nothign but crap will appear on the front page until at least midnight....
Wow... this, then the GTA multiplayer (which was a dupe from 2003), and the whole debacle last night where he actually yelled in his comment line. Maybe he should just hand over his editing privleges for the day. He's mentioned he's sick in his JE... maybe thats affecting his judgement?
OK, fine. People can be shitty parents if they want to. But don't sell the game directly to the kid, and make sure these parents know what they're buying, so they can't say "I had no idea!" later.
I have a feeling (as in, not a fact, just my opinion) that this may be just like cigarettes. "You can call them 'Tumors' and people would be lined up to buy them" (--Denis Leary). Parents would still buy the games and simply say "well, its just a game, I don't see any harm in it..."
The parents that buy these games for the kids usually are too ignorant to really know what is going on in the game...
Frankly, too many parents are totally IGNORANT of what their kids are watching, playing and listening to. So parents should be more informed, who disagrees with this?
This is not the government's duty. They aren't here to parent the parents. If the parents are too busy to deal with their kids, or too ignorant to deal with their kids, guess who's fault it is? And now guess who needs to change? The answer to neither of those is the US Government.
Umm, if the "REAL" problem is that mom and dad are too busy with their jobs, then this has NOTHING to do with the politicians and everything to do with the parents. If they couldn't afford to live without kids, they shouldn't have kids. If they don't want to give up their lifestyle for kids, they were selfish in having kids.
Bottom line, if the parents aren't having enough time with their kids, its not the US Governments fault, nor is it their duty to fix it.
I know of some books that suggest similar things! Kids could read it then do it! Ban all forms of seeing while we are at it!!
If your kid has a problem defining fantasy vs reality, video games are the least of his concern...
To actually add content to my content:
How terribly difficult would it be to add a url checker. I can understand a dupe when its an article written differently by two publications, but a simple URL checker can state "this url was used in store XYZ [with link]," so the editor can determine if its a dupe story or just a url used in two different stories...
No fears, he's issued an update:
Update For for the dupe. Not going well. Appreciate all the hate mail. Really encourages improvement.
Nice. Someone should go to customer service 101 and grow up a little. Yelling at the people who (indirectly) line your wallet. Not a good idea....
Would you approve of a hike of your monthly fee, then?
You can't have your cake and eat it, too. Unless its a death by chocolate cake with a good, hand made, buttercream ganache.
Recipe:
This recipe was developed by H. Gjerde for CacaoWeb.
[Copyright[tt] © CacaoWeb.net]
Ingredients
8 oz / 225 g dark semisweet chocolate (40-45% cocoa)
5 oz / 2/3 cup / 140 g butter
7½ oz / 1 cup / 210 g sugar
4 eggs
4 heaped tablespoons / almost ½ cup / 1 dl all-purpose flour
4 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking soda or baking powder
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
4 tablespoons / ¼ cup sour cream
Ingredients for frosting
2/3 cup / 1.6 dl heavy cream or whipping cream
9 oz / 260 g semisweet dark chocolate (40-45% cocoa)
Method
1. Preheat oven to 180 deg C / 350 deg F / Gas mark 4.
2. Line a 9 inch / 23 cm cake tin (circular) with greaseproof or other non-stick paper and grease the tin.
3. Break the chocolate into small pieces and melt it with butter over hot water.
4. Beat the eggs with sugar, mix with flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and vanilla extract.
5. Slowly fold in the melted butter and chocolate and the sour cream.
6. Bake at 350 degrees for 50 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in centre comes out clean.
7. Cool the cake. Remove the crusted surface on the top of the cake, and cut in half, horizontally.
Frosting
1. Heat 2/3 cup (1.6 dl) of heavy cream or whipping cream in a sauce pan.
2. Remove from heat, add 9 oz (260 g) of finely chopped dark semisweet chocolate, stir until smooth, and let it cool until in thickens.
3. To test that it will thicken sufficiently, transfer a tbs of the frosting into a chilled cup and place in the fridge for 15 minutes. If it is too thin, add some more melted chocolate. It it is too thick, add a few tablespoons of cream, stir until smooth, and test it again.
4. This cake should have room temperature when served to have soft frosting.
This popped up on my TiVo while watching "Good Eats." I'm sitting there, find out how to use water to slow down and control the tempature of custard when all of a sudden I get a popup for feminine product.
Really, what does that have anything to do with an egg based custard? I mean, you can add fruit and other neat things to the bottom of the custard for some variations, but feminine products had no business anywhere around there. Almost lost my appe[tt]ite!
The whole plugin environment works a lot like cooking a large meal. Add in extra ingredients, or substituting one ingredient for another can create a whole new experience. You could even use the same 'plugins' for different 'bases' if you provided the functionality correctly... like having pork (Java) as the basis for your sauce or chicken (.Net).
But, it can be a tremendously dangerous[tt] if not done correctly, so you could almost make the analogy of baking instead of cooking. Only specific elements can be used or you could ruin the whole dish... could you relate bloated software that hardly runs with something like a ruined custard or creme brulee??
Really isn't that great. Too much time, lots of movable parts. I prefer the HL2 Rube Goldbergs (see gary's mod forum for more details).
Honestly, this is why we need a manned mission to Mars. All these countless robots and satellites wouldn't be necessary if we just sent several men with testing equipment to stay there for a few months. Imagine how much more can be accomplished! Combine all the cost of all the landers and satellites to Mars and compare it to a manned mission. I'm willing to bet the cost will be very similar and more can be done in a shorter amount of time.[tt]
I, honestly, found it dull, boring, and slow (not laggy slow, but just a slow game). Not only that, but you rarely can find an active server with more than 10 people on it.
Compared with other bf1942 mods (Desert Combat), this one is just flat out dull.
actually the perk system was taken out of the GURPS system. So it, in itself, is an imitation.
You put down money for a NEW house. Studs still in the walls? Where wiring up speakers and such is a piece of cake. Putting in a full sound system in every room (you can do it yourself for free) is pretty simple and easy to do...
But you'd rather drop a big clunky P3 in the room with a wireless card.... why? I see no advantage in it. Wire up speakers in every room. All wires go to computer room. Wires then attached to a single machine that manipulates everything.
But, being a computer geek and having a buncha P3 boxes lying about is what makes you happy, knock yourself out.
Seriously... what a horrible idea. It was great as an online subscription game. Free game, $10 a month to play (much cheaper if you buy quarterly or yearly). But to charge people another $20? I don't think they'll recover the cost to produce/box/ship the game. They should simply sell it as a CD in a CD case for like $5 as they do with some demo discs for those with slow broadband connections.
Plus the PC game market is falling prey to the console market with its teenage-type games, and the only people look for is graphics.
I've seen far too many 'really good' games die off because they thought they'd play well sitting next to the latest fad game (ie - grand theft auto).
so you might say the i was a casualty? Heh, thanks.
Thanks for the new sig. Superb!!
So what's Can-Span (see title of slashdot article)?
I think he's complaining more that the color scheme used requires mucho black and brown. And when you add a color, like red, its the darkest red imaginable.
touche. Thanks for clearing that up (as I said... IINAL) :-)
IANAL, far from, actually, but shouldn't it be the other way around? Shouldn't SCO be releasing code to an independent party to determine if its copyright has been breeched? Or will they keep requesting more code and fish around for something they can 'try to claim' is a copyright violation?