Morning Discussion
by Jeff "geedeck" Gondek, Sep 08, 2008 10:15pm PDTI greet the working proletariat in the toils of their day. We've got part 2 of our interview with Brad Wardell of Stardock up, focusing Demigods, Impulse and a yet unnamed game that I myself gaze longingly at, a possible successor to Master of Magic. And those rumors of Deus Ex 3 seem to be catalyzing into something more, at least magazine PC Zone seems to think so. And the Shack gets you attractive wall propaganda!
FileShack: Unity of Command, Skyjacker
Daily Filter: Planetside 2, Deadlight
Weekend PC digital deals: strategy-o-rama
38 Studios, Harry Potter Kinect - Shacknews Daily: May 25, 2012
Minecraft for Xbox 360 dev working on 'Adventure' update
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Inspired by this thread about data visualization- http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=17885744#itemanchor_17885744 - I took all the words from all the posts in Evening Reading and created a word cloud at http://wordle.net/
This is after I filtered out the top 1000 English words, and made a few tweaks to deal with URLs and suchlike. It was pretty boring before I did that. The word lists are in the same directory as the image above, if anyone else wants to work with the data.
Thanks to SqueegyTBS for his API. I've scraped Shack HTML before, and I was incredibly glad I could avoid it this time.
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My Western Digital 150GB Raptor just died on me... it was a first gen drive for that product line and out of warranty. What sucks is that was my "Games" drive! :(
Just lost all my saved games for anything that installs in the game's folder. And apparently now will have to use another Activation for Spore and I just installed it on Monday! Bleh
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I use Vista but not Aero. I'm using the Vista Basic theme.
Resolution is 1680x1050 (wide).
So, on Firefox, it's always so hard to see where the scroll bar "scroll thing" is.
Is there an addon to help highlight the scroll thing?
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I guess better going by his definition is stability and performance essentially. On that doesn't need to be restarted a lot and isn't slow at basic tasks. Only other piece of info I can give is he has owned a few Palm Treo phones in the past.
Thoughts? Suggestions?
So, i just got my CSA box of goodies this week. Lots of tasty stuff, fresh onions, cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, asian pears, arugula, etc. However, i also got Tomatillos.
What the hell do you do with these? Any shackers cook with Tomatillos on a regular basis? I've never used them, and i'm curious what people do with them. i'll look through my books for recipes, but i'm curious if any shackers have experience with them.
That's part of what i'm really enjoying about this CSA program. It's giving me a chance to use things i probably wouldn't buy normally. I've never really done much with summer squash, and i'm finding that it's one of my favorite things broiled. Patti Pan squash is just awesome sauteed or under a broiler. It's fun getting a box of random stuff every week, and having to find ways to cook them.
So....Tomatillos?
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Can anyone give me some help on this one?
I have a site - www.power.co.mz/powerweb - which loads OK on all 3 browsers (IE, FF, Op) except for one little detail on Firefox - A white horizontal line below the flash header.
Screenshot: http://www.shackpics.com/files/powerweb_whiteline_hs5apz4og07yi4v4hsb9.jpg
Why would this happen?
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It's either a severe 80's flashback or I've caught the gay. :)
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http://www.alanholland.net/blah/cs_firstview-24%20copy.jpg
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http://gmd.shackspace.com/D700-ISO1600-test.jpg
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The unpacking of an iPod has always been a nice experience. That still doesn't even sound right, but it is oh so right. I remember unpacking a client's 1st gen iPod years ago and having fun with that. Yes, fun taking something out of a box. The same thing with my 5.5g iPod, my iPod touches, and the iMacs I buy for my clients. One little white box, the computer, a cord. Very simple yet effective packaging. Anyone who has purchased an apple product knows exactly what I'm talking about. if you haven't, you are probably going O_o.
With a Dell I have CDs going everywhere, paper fold out charts, advertisements, a catalog, and all the cords are plastic wrapped and twisty tied up. Pretty much anything I've ever bought EVER just getting the shit out of the box is an ordeal.
This really is a meaningless thing except for that unpacking is the product making a first impression. I've noticed that on nicer $200+ motherboards, there is nicer packaging. The opening of the box presents the motherboard in full glory. Then you have companies like MS who package their 360 accessories like they don't want me to ever open them.
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I switched to a double edge razor at the beginning of the year because I didn't like the shave I was getting from a disposable but in the last month or so I have been getting "cuts" on my neck/chin after every shave. These "cuts" aren't from the blade sliding but are more like I've cut open a bump. Any idea how I can get rid of these because they are really annoying and I am tired of the styptic pencil every morning.
What am I doing wrong?
My morning routine consists of
1) Showering
2) Dry off except for my face/neck
3) Applying Truefitt & Hill Preshave Oil
4) Run water until it is hot and apply Truefitt & Hill Unscented Shaving Cream
5) Shave once with the grain
6) Re-lather
7) Shave once against the grain
8) Wash face with cold water
9) Apply styptic pencil to the "cuts"
10) Apply Truefitt & Hill Ultimate Comfort Aftershave Balm
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Get used to it Mac fanboys of the world. Your savior, your messiah, Mr. Fancy Pants is going to die. It's a shame, but we must start working on his replacement.
I was thinking that an eccentric artist would do. Somebody with an unbending attitude toward style and design, and screw it the engineers can figure out how to do it. The kind of guy with long hair who wears sunglasses all day, who dresses flashy in a conservative culture just to be a rebel. I want to turn the entire Apple campus into a 24/7 commercial for Santori Time. And the guy can't learn English, oh no, he'll yell everything in Chinese/Japanese and the engineers have to figure out what he wants.
After talking it over with my co-worker today, he proposed (and the picture sells it):
Hideo Kojima
http://static.flickr.com/43/83528920_33092eeb43.jpg
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I'm looking for some songs that are metal/trash/whatever is similar to that category. But, I don't really like the lyrics/grunting. I just want instrumentation.
I'm not that knowledgeable in this music genre, but I got hooked recently after hearing a bunch of VG remixes in the same style.
The remixes are in the reply if you're interested:
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I love heavy music but never really enjoyed them. (Odd? Blasphemy?) A co-worker just told me he's getting 8 tickets to their December show and one is for me so I figured I'd give them a run through and see if I can, at all, whet my appetite for them in the next couple of months.
I've got their entire discography, /where should I begin/?
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http://www.shackpics.com/files/largehadron_7s6xpmm4p6p8kuk65ug3.jpg
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suggestions?
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fuck I hate shitty UI decisions for the sake of changing the UI.
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DON'T DO IT!
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Good - I found a Wii Fit in detriot! WOOOOT Wife gave me the okay to use wedding money too! This isn't that shocking since she most likely is more excited then me! Thinking I was done I was looking at the computer games and picked up FEAR complete whatever edition for $20 WOOT again!
BAD - I can't believe I am paying $15 bucks for internet at a hotel. I am going on a cruise starting saturday and wasn't shocked they don't have free internet ... being a boat and all ... but wtf hotel (Westin in Southfield, MI)
Ugly - Michigan roads are complete utter shit. Does the DMV get a cut in alignments around here? Also I am happy to find an area in the country more depressed about their super bowl chances then DC. The morning news on Monday had about 10 minutes on college ball and a 15 second clip from the Lions game. Damn!
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Who all else is going to spend the night outside Frys or Best Buy?
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