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Gordo San
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I posted the original here: http://www.leagueoflegends.com/board...d.php?t=166459
- ppl cant just leave because they cant play a certain hero
- saves time
- you cant prevent playing with ppl who have a high amount of leaves. (I was in a team with all the players who had 10+ leaves in the profiles, one of them had like 50 something, and they LEFT GAME, i was not shocked)
-already a time penalty
Ain't saying is a bad or a good idea, just asking for ppl's opinions on this topic, and any solutions to fix it.
My suggestion - Players who have 10-15% or highter of their games being leaves should not be allowed onto ranked games. They can still play regular games (in hopes to fix the amount of left games to games play ratio).
So if you think about it....
If a player has 100 games played, and leaves 20 of them. (20% of games are leaves)
So he/she would have to play 101 more games, to fix the ratio so he/she would get 201 games (assumming he/she did not leave any more games). Which would give that player a ratio of less than 10% of their games being leaves.
Same goes for players with very few games. If a player has only played 1 game and left that 1 game, then they would have to play 10 more games for a total of 11 games played, with 1 left. Which is less than 10%
This fixes:
1. Issues with playing with leavers (well reduces it at least)
2. Not enough ppl playing practice/normal games when they really should!
3. Banning seems a bit harsh, some ppl dont find it fair for legit reasons.
4. Leavers are forced to PLAY more games to fix their leaver status in order to play ranked games.
5. Crashes during champion screen. Since they don't count as losses but leaves, and theres no excuse for crashing 10 -15% or more of your games!
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I still sympathize with the people leaving champ select... I dont do it often but i do it when it's necessary, and believe it our not it is often necessary. And there are other reasons than just champ choosing, like ditching champ select for a friend. I like the ration idea though, great. But champ select leave = leave is just dumb. And another thing about the ratio, they should only SHOW leaves when it reaches the ratio, rather than 6 (i think 6 is minimum).
BTW: Account get banned a certain amount of leaves, do they really? How many? o.0
I wouldn't mind this system coupled with the current system. I'm not sure if it is good for character selection as too many noobs are used to queue dodging. I reckon apply it at 5% like HoN does for leavers that leave once the game begins. You have all game to return geez if you can't return by then, you either have a major rare event going on like a long power outage or internet outage, that won't happen enough to push you over the limit. I'd also suggest increasing the beginning time penalty for queue dodging up to 10 minutes to start with.
If you have a bad enough internet connection or crappy PC or whatever else, then that is your problem, and if it causes the other 9 players to waste their time, then you should be penalized regardless. Using excuses like I have to go to dinner, go to school, I'm going out etc for leaving should result in a penalty. Don't play the game when you know your going out or whatever in 20-30minutes when games can easily go for 1 hour or longer.
I don't think leaving while in queue should result in a penalty of longer than 5 minutes... It doesn't take long to find a game. People get penalties for leaving before the game begins but not for leaving while the game is in progress. Seems a bit weird to me. Dno, tell me what you guys think
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ROCHESTER -A Somersworth man who hoped to save money by removing his front seats instead lost control of his vehicle in the snow Saturday.
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While the Rodeo ended up on its roof, Guyer, who was not wearing a seatbelt, escaped injuries. He was out of the vehicle when emergency personnel arrived. Guyer told police he had removed the seats because he was planning to sell the Rodeo for scrap.
Guyer, who police said sat on an old car battery on the floor while driving the Rodeo, was issued a summons for driving a vehicle without proper seating. He is scheduled to appear in Rochester District Court Jan. 7.
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STILL cannot connect to visible wireless
I posted with this exact same problem in early 2009 - nothing of my hardware or config has changed since then, but I thought I'd ask again to see if any solutions have come up since.
So, I have an Acer TravelMate 5740G (all other system specs are fine so i'm only posting the networking relevant stuff) and it does not connect to wireless networks
- Acer Nplify 802.11bgn
from a broadcom 802.11n wireless adapter
apparently has the best driver (as advised by MS device manager)
this pc has been able to connect to a grand total of 2 wireless networks
1. at uni it connected on its own for 15 minutes, any time i've attempted to manually connect it says "could not connect to [network name]"
2. connected just fine to a 3g iphone 4 acting as a portable hotspot
at home, my wireless settings are as follows:
Open WEP PSK w/ 1 key index
everybody else in my family can connect to this wireless network
i can connect with my phone, my dad with his lappy, my friends with their lappies.
there are NO xp computers in the network
there are 3 Windows 7 desktops on the network
the internet works just fine with the rj45 cable
---> i'm 100% sure the issue is not with my home network config OR the router
at uni, the router + settings are not the issue because they service 15,000 people a day without issue
---> i'm 100% sure the issue is not with other network configs OR their routers
i have tried every change under the sun (that i know of) with my laptop's own configs.
i've attempted to update all the WNIC drivers, i've made the WNIC as open to connections as i possibly can.
i have disabled ip6 and tried, i have enabled ip6 and tried, and i get no connections happening.
i'm at the end of my wits, i just want my wireless to work, and i have NFI how to make it happen.
Can anybody please help me?
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Yo man I got the same issue in my newly bought laptop Acer Aspire 5253.
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Re: Hope is lost, faith is broken...The Dark Knight Rises - July 20th, 2012
Yes, like it sound.
Nolan is the perfect example of "trying to hard", he desperately desire to be this serious, intelligent and ingenious director but at the same time, needs that recognition from the rankings and the public, so he feels the necesity of make this "serious and complex action movies".
The problem start when he build his movies around a bunch of pilosophical questions that begins to appear across the film and then when is time to give answers, he resort to stupid nosense like the phrase that was quote above. To be serious you don't need that kind of "solemnity" and "cleverness", for example the Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Unforgiven or Once Upon A Time In The West are incredible reflexions about the end of the western and the nature of men and doesn't need 800 cliffhangers and philosophical phrases without meaning.
Also, he falls in a flaw that is common today among the hollywood directors, the tirany of the narrative. All needs to make sense, all begins with the story and the primacy is in the script. Nolan is incapable of shooting a good action scene but yes the story make sense so he is great
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Mushroom, Leek, and Fontina Frittata
Frittatas are excellent served warm or at room temperature, which means that this meatless main is a perfect do-ahead dish.
Published: February 2013 Servings: 6 prep: 30 minutes total: 1 minutes
- 2 tablespoons olive oil, divided
- 2 medium leeks, whites and pale green parts only, chopped
- 8 ounces crimini (baby bella) mushrooms, thinly sliced
- 12 large eggs
- 1/2 cup crème fraîche or sour cream
- 2 tablespoons coarsely chopped flat-leaf parsley
- 3/4 cup shredded Fontina cheese, divided
- Kosher salt, freshly ground pepper
Nutritional Information
6 servings, 1 serving contains:
- Calories (kcal) 300
- Fat (g) 21
- Saturated Fat (g) 9
- Cholesterol (mg) 460
- Carbohydrates (g) 9
- Dietary Fiber (g) 1
- Total Sugars (g) 3
- Protein (g) 18
- Sodium (mg) 330
PREPARATIONView Step-by-Step Directions
Place a rack in upper third of oven; preheat to 350°. Heat 1 tablespoon oil in a 10-inch nonstick ovenproof skillet over medium heat. Add leeks; cook, stirring often, until softened, about 5 minutes. Add mushrooms and cook, stirring often, until softened and all liquid has evaporated, 8-10 minutes.
Meanwhile, whisk eggs, crème fraîche, and parsley in a large bowl; mix in 1/2 cup cheese. Season with salt and pepper.
Increase the heat to medium-high and add remaining 1 tablespoon oil to the skillet. Pour the egg mixture over the mushrooms, shaking the pan to evenly distribute mixture. Cook the frittata, without stirring, until its edges begin to set, about 5 minutes.
Sprinkle remaining 1/4 cup cheese over eggs and transfer skillet to oven. Bake frittata until golden brown and center is set, 25-30 minutes.
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Lois Ehlert [54] (Chicka Chicka Boom Boom / by Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault ; ill. by Lois Ehlert -- Eating the Alphabet -- Planting a Rainbow -- Feathers for Lunch)
Margaret Wise Brown [55] (The Important Book -- The Little Island -- Goodnight Moon --The Runaway Bunny)
Marjorie Flack and Ludwig Bemelmans [56] (The Story About Ping / Marjorie Flack and Kurt Wiese -- Angus and the Ducks / Marjorie Flack -- Madeline / Ludwig Bemelmans -- Madeline's Rescue / Ludwig Bemelmans)
Mark Teague [57] (How I Spent My Summer Vacation -- Pigsty -- Dear Mrs. LaRue : Letters From Obedience School -- How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night? / Jane Yolen and Mark Teague -- Cómo Dan las Buenas Noches los Dinosaurios? / Jane Yolen and Mark Teague)
Maurice Sendak [58] (Chicken Soup With Rice -- Little Bear / Else Holmelund Minarik ; ill. by Maurice Sendak -- Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present / Charlotte Zolotow ; ill. by Maurice Sendak -- Where the Wild Things Are)
Pat Hutchins [59] (Rosie's Walk -- The Doorbell Rang -- Good-night Owl -- 1 Hunter)
Patricia Polacco [60](The Keeping Quilt -- Just Plain Fancy -- My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother -- Babushka's Doll)
Paul Galdone [61] (The three little pigs -- Three little kittens -- The gingerbread boy -- The three bears)
Robert McCloskey [62] (Burt Dow : Deep-water Man -- Blueberries for Sal -- Time of Wonder -- Make Way for Ducklings)
Rosemary Wells [63] (Yoko -- Shy Charles -- Morris's Disappearing Bag -- Bunny Cakes)
Ruth Krauss and Crockett Johnson [64](A Hole Is To Dig / Ruth Krauss; ill. Maurice Sendak -- The Carrot Seed / Ruth Krauss ; ill. Crockett Johnson -- Harold and the Purple Crayon / Crockett Johnson -- The Happy Day / Ruth Krauss ; ill. Marc Simont)
Steven Kellogg [65] (Is Your Mama a Llama? / written by Deborah Guarino ; ill. by Steven Kellogg -- The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash / by Trinka Hakes Noble ; pictures by Steven Kellogg -- The Mysterious Tadpole -- The Island of the Skog)
Tomie dePaola [66] (The Baby Sister -- Charlie Needs a Cloak -- The Art Lesson -- Strega Nona)
Virginia Lee Burton [67] (Maybelle the Cablecar -- Katy and the Big Snow -- The Little House -- Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel)
William Steig [68] (Brave Irene – The Amazing Bone -- Doctor De Soto -- Sylvester and the Magic Pebble)
Materials owned by Rodman Library [69] - Search Rodman's catalog
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Area teachers: Please use this form to request books to be used in your classroom. The library staff will create a collection geared to your topics or specific titles and notify you when the collection is ready to be picked up.
If you have any questions, please call Rodman Public Library's Children's Department at 330-821-2665 x224.
Classroom collections are extended loans of materials teachers select to use in the classroom. The service is available in the Children's Department of the Main Library, Branch, or on the Bookmobile.
Classroom collections allow a teacher to keep library materials together in the classroom for the duration of a particular study unit. Up to 150 items may be borrowed for classroom use. We regret that materials for personal use are not eligible for the extended loan period. This includes any adult materials.
When you have selected the materials you wish to borrow as a classroom collection, please let the Staff know as you present them for check-out. The loan period for classroom collections is 8 weeks.
The staff is willing to select materials for you if you give them at least one week's notice. We will use our professional expertise to make the selections or you may give us a bibliography. For your convenience, you may select your materials from our online catalog and then e-mail the list to the Children's Department. [ Details [72]]
A special online form [73] is also available for your use.
Both of these tools may be used outside the Library. The staff will select materials based on your criteria and prepare them for you to pick up at your convenience.
Because others are often waiting to use the materials, we ask that you return as many books as possible on the due date. However, materials in classroom collections may be renewed for an additional 28 days, if they are not on reserve for another patron. A maximum of three renewals (28 days each) may be made. For your convenience, renewals may be made by calling the library at (330) 821-2665 or online [74].
At the end of the loan period, you will receive an overdue reminder of any items not returned. After the first two-month loan period, we reserve the right to recall items which have been requested by other patrons. If an item is recalled, it is not eligible for renewal. We will notify you of items which need to be recalled.
For further information on borrowing teacher collections for use in your classroom, contact the Children's Department at (330) 821-2665 x224.
Homework help - Try Know It Now [75]
Our children's site features our mascot based on Dewey the Goldfish who lived in a fishbowl in the Children's Department at the Main Library on Broadway Street. Dewey was brought to life by Kathy Gray Farthing, a local illustrator and graphic artist who owns Farthing Graphic Design.
For our new website, Kathy has created a friend for Dewey, named Herman the Hermit Crab.
Dewey is also available in PDF form to print out and color:
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Dewey the Artist [77]
Dewey the Detective [78]
Dewey and Friend Play Checkers [79]
Here are some pictures of Dewey engaged in various fun library activities:
Dewey Reads a Good Book
Dewey the Artist
Dewey Enjoys Playing Checkers with a Friend
Dewey Reads to a Little Friend
Dewey Listens to Music
Dewey Looks for Clues to a Mystery
Dewey Enjoys the Summer Sunshine
Dewey Waves and Says, "Thank You for Visiting!"
Wee Read, a program offered by Rodman Library's Children's Department, is designed to introduce children to books, fingerplays and music incorporating the six early learning skills. Patrons, ages birth through two years, and their parents or caregivers are invited to Wee Read, Monday evenings, from 6:30-7:00 p.m. and Wednesday mornings, from 10:30-11:00 a.m.
Wee Read will be held in the Children's Program Room at Rodman Main Library. Sessions last 20-30 minutes. No registration is required. Come as often as you like. For more information, call the Children's Department at 330-821-2665, ext. 223.
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Reviews for Vittoria Open Pave CG III Isogrip 320tpi Road Bike Tyre
Paul Witcombe from Hampshire on Oct 16, 2014
First bought these for a cobbled sportive in Belgium. Now they are my default winter tyre. They are not cheap, but I have found nothing else compares for grip, comfort and resilience.
Paddy Clarke from Newry on Aug 15, 2014
Superb tyres,great on bumpy roads, comfortable, roll fast and seldom puncture.
chris roberts from east anglia on Aug 12, 2014
This is my first use of these tyres and I have to say, they are a revelation. They've transformed the handling and resopnse of my training bike. Steering is sharper and they roll superbly. It's as if you have a helping hand, gently pushing you along. I'm running them with Vittoria latex inner tubes and at 100psi (I weigh 77kg). The 4 star rating is only because of my lack of use of these tyres over a long period, so I can't comment on their durablility.
K Olusanya from London on May 18, 2014
I'm on my third set of these tyres, in my opinion nothing comes close to them, bought last set a week ago, latest version seems to be a big improvement over the last. feels more resilient against cuts and has a more comfortable feel on the road, going to buy another set as a spare as they aren't stocked at this price in many places - if you can find them. my only (minor) gripe is they don't seem to last as long as other tyres.
Bruce McDougall from Toronto, Canada on Mar 24, 2014
Great tire for post-winter roads covered in salt, gravel and slush. Good grip on the road, reliable cornering, low rolling resistance. Good price, too.
Vittoria Open Pave CG III Isogrip 320tpi Road Bike Tyre
was £53.99 33% off
Proven year after year on the notorious roads of classic races like Paris-Roubaix and the Tour of Flanders, Pave CG is likely the world's strongest racing tubular and this is the clincher version with hand-made "open tubular" construction.
Instantly recognizable by its traditional green tread, now better than ever with our unique 320 TPI casing, and still, naturally, handmade.
Rugged Cotton tyres hold your speed on the toughest parcours
Grip that never lets go, even on greasy cobbles
Preferred by most competitors in early-season pro races
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sometimes I think rules are stupid. other times i think there smart. but most of all there there to protect you. hear are some of my funny/serious rules to live by.
#1 never ask dad if you can play minecraft wile hes watching football and his team is losing. (it could be fatal.)
#2 never stick a key in an electrical outlet. as far as I know it could burn through your skin.
#3 now this one is important never give out your personal info. that one is very serious
#4 when the badgers lose the final four like they did this year don't ask dad "did we win?"
#5 don't ask mom what are taxes?
#6 never search ggggggg its very inappropriate.
#7 never search lol although its funny its also scary and weird.
I'm LOGAN DA EPIC and these are my rules to live by :D


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Concerts & Tickets
Concert Detail
Special Event
Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture: A Star Spangled Evening with the Nashville Symphony
and the 101st Airborne Division Band
Wednesday July 2, 2014. 7:00 p.m.
Schermerhorn Symphony Center
Nashville Symphony
Vinay Parameswaran, conductor
Vinay Parameswaran, conductor
101st Airborne Division Band
Beat the heat and celebrate the Independence Day holiday with the Nashville Symphony at Schermerhorn Symphony Center! It's an evening of all-American classics by Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Duke Ellington, George Gershwin and more, along with some of your favorite patriotic tunes featuring the 101st Airborne Division Band. We'll go out with a bang — literally! — when the orchestra performs Tchaikovsky's explosive 1812 Overture.
Military Discount! The Nashville Symphony offers a 20 percent discount to all U.S. military personnel. Please contact our box office at 615.687.6400 for more information.
Bernstein - Overture to Candide
Copland - Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra
Copland - Fanfare for the Common Man
Ives - Variations on "America"
Ellington - Harlem
Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue
Tchaikovsky - 1812 Overture
Hayman - Servicemen on Parade
Sousa - The Stars and Stripes Forever
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Explore Mars Inc. &
Space Policy Institute at
The George Washington University present:
The Humans to Mars Summit
May 5-7, 2015
at The George Washington University in Washington, DC.
Explore Mars, Inc. is pleased to announce that pre-registration has begun for the 2015 Humans to Mars Summit (H2M). H2M is a comprehensive Mars exploration conference that addresses the major technical, scientific, and policy challenges of getting humans to Mars, as well as how such missions can have positive impacts on STEM education, American Competitiveness and other important collateral issues.
"H2M has become the preeminent annual event focused on human missions to Mars," stated Explore Mars Executive Director, Chris Carberry. "We expect H2M 2015 to be by far our most successful and impactful event yet."
In 2014, H2M had an onsite attendance of almost 650 people and also boasted over 100,000 viewers online. In 2015, Explore Mars intends to dramatically increase both of these numbers, making a clear statement in support of humans to Mars to leaders in the United States and around the world.
H2M 2015 will also feature a new and exciting format, with each day having a specific theme:
Day 1 | It's Time to Explore Mars!: Day 1 will feature 'TED Talk' formatted presentations through which a narrative will be built. This narrative will not only highlight the science and engineering, but also the overall societal aspects of humans to Mars (STEM, innovation, international cooperation, etc.).
Day 2 | The Pathway and Science: Day 2 will feature in-depth discussions based on what is determined to be necessary within the space stakeholder community to get humans to Mars. This day will feature discussions
Day 3 | From Sci-Fi to Reality: Day 3 will be a half-day session. It will feature prominent figures in marketing,entertainment, policy, and science fiction, who will discuss what inspires and compels the public, policy makers, and the world. It will focus on how we can collaboratively maintain and build long-term support and enthusiasm for human exploration of Mars.
Some of our tentative speakers already include :
- Steve Squyres (Cornell University)
- Rebecca Keiser (NASA; American University)
- Tiffany Montague (Former Manager, Google Space Initiatives)
- Alan Stern (Uwingu)
- Joe Cassady (Aerojet Rocketdyne)
- Emily Briere (Time Capsule to Mars)
- Rich Phillips (Phillips and Company)
- Jim Garvin (NASA)
- Scott Hubbard (Stanford University)
According to Explore Mars President, Artemis Westenberg,"We have come a long way in a relatively short time through our Humans to Mars Summits. We have helped to change the attitude of policymakers and space industry leaders from 'Mars-is-too-hard' to 'Ma
To take advantage of the special "pre-registration" rate of $125, please register here before the fee increases on September 30, 2014.


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2013 Stanley Cup playoffs - LeBrun: Kings working on new combinat...Pierre LeBrun
Kings are still unsure of Mike Richards' status for Game 5.Story | Conversation | June 08, 2013
2013 NHL playoffs -- Sharks' Burish is a go for Game 6Pierre LeBrun
Adam Burish, who was hurt in the first round, will return for the Sharks in Game 6 against the Kings, Pierre LeBrun writes.Story | Conversation | May 26, 2013
2013 NHL playoffs -- A long road for Sharks' Scott Hannan and Bra...Pierre LeBrun
They broke into the NHL together and 15 years later, Scott Hannan and Brad Stuart find themselves in familiar territory, Pierre LeBrun writes.Story | Conversation | May 25, 2013
2013 Stanley Cup playoffs - Up 2-0, Kings coach Darryl Sutter sti...Pierre LeBrun
Sutter making changes for Game 3 against Sharks.Story | Conversation | May 18, 2013
Gionta, Pacioretty status on holdPierre LeBrun
Senatos and Canadiens to make changes for Game 3Story | Conversation | May 05, 2013
Wallin talks back on between Sharks, CanesPierre LeBrun
It appears there's a chance Niclas Wallin could be a San Jose Shark after all. On Friday, Hurricanes GM Jim Rutherford told the Raleigh News & Observer the Wallin trade was dead, but two sources close to the situation said the deal was revived late ...Blog | Conversation | February 07, 2010
Weekend roundup: More Kovy fallout, Wings' cap issues and Sid-Ovi...Pierre LeBrun
Before all was said and done Thursday, there were two other teams in the running with New Jersey for Ilya Kovalchuk: the St. Louis Blues and the Philadelphia Flyers. Is it just me, or isn't it surprising the Blues were in it? Jeremy Rutherford had th...Blog | Conversation | February 06, 2010
Wallin trade to Sharks falls throughPierre LeBrun
A potential trade involving Carolina Hurricanes defenseman Niclas Wallin has fallen through. "There was a pending deal with a team, and after going through the process of a few days, it didn't materialize," Hurricanes GM Jim Rutherford told ESPN.com...Blog | Conversation | February 06, 2010
Under the circumstances, Atlanta Thrashers couldn't have done muc...Pierre LeBrun
Martin Brodeur's cell phone was on overload Thursday night. It seemed the whole world wanted him to know his New Jersey Devils had just acquired the most talented offensive player on this season's NHL trade market. And he was pumped about the news....Blog | Conversation | February 04, 2010
Wayne Gretzky's take on why Washington Capitals have their own ve...Pierre LeBrun
Thank goodness you can pause live TV. It's the kind of technological advancement that saves you from missing three goals while you go fix yourself a sandwich during a Washington Capitals game. The Caps are filling the net like nobody's business, obv...Blog | Conversation | February 04, 2010
NHL -- Vancouver Canucks seem to be all right with record 14-game...Pierre LeBrun
They packed everything from tuques to sunblock for a historic road trip that may define their season. But the Vancouver Canucks insist they're not sweating it. The 14-game trek will set an NHL record for most consecutive road games by a team in one ...Blog | Conversation | February 03, 2010
NHL -- With Paul Martin out of Olympics, waiting game now shifts ...Pierre LeBrun
TORONTO -- Paul Martin withdrawing from the 2010 Olympics was a huge loss for Team USA, and the fear now is the Americans could lose another top blueliner in Mike Komisarek. The Toronto Maple Leafs defenseman skated hard in practice Tuesday, and was...Blog | Conversation | February 02, 2010
NHL -- Toronto Maple Leafs defenseman Tomas Kaberle has interesti...Pierre LeBrun
TORONTO -- The NHL's trade market isn't heavy on quality, puck-moving defensemen, and it will be a lot lighter if Tomas Kaberle is not available. Toronto Maple Leafs GM Brian Burke repeated once again Sunday that he would not ask the 31-year-old Cze...Blog | Conversation | February 01, 2010
It's Monday morning ... need to vent?Pierre LeBrun
Got the Monday morning blues? Need to get a hockey rant off your chest? Well, this is the blog for you. Tell me your NHL beefs before 4 p.m. ET and I'll be back Tuesday with your top rants and a little advice to get you through the week. Send in yo...Blog | Conversation | February 01, 2010
NHL -- Toronto Maple Leafs GM Brian Burke gives fans hopePierre LeBrun
TORONTO -- People in these parts still remember where they were that day, 18 Januarys ago, when the Toronto Maple Leafs acquired Doug Gilmour from the Calgary Flames. It was a franchise-altering blockbuster by former GM Cliff Fletcher that will go d...Blog | Conversation | January 31, 2010
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The rumor mill has begun to quietly churn out Bobby Ryan's name because the Anaheim Ducks star winger hasn't signed a contract extension. So I figured I'd get myself an answer on that one. I did. Ducks GM Bob Murray vehemently quashed that baby. "U...Blog | Conversation | January 29, 2010


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Hit the Switch DVD and CD
This April 18 we'll be releasing our very own DVD called 'Hit the Switch' at the Backstage Bar and Grill in Fond du Lac. See you there!
'Hit the Switch' is a rare, behind the scenes look at the creation of Road Trip, one of Wisconsin's most popular bands. This dvd features up close and personal interviews with each band member, including details about their lives, passion for music, and how they became performing artists. The dvd also includes a live concert featuring 14 of the band's favorite songs.
An incredible story, an incredible show.
They will be available at our shows or online at our store.
In July of 2013 we released the 'Hit the Switch' soundtrack. It was recorded at Rock USA 2012, Cheers in Chilton and Antonio's in Plymouth and mixed by Marc Golde of Rock Garden Studio. Thanks to our own DJ Doty for producing, which means overseeing every last detail, because it turned out great. They are available at our shows or online at our store.


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Sales of organic food are on the rise-hitting nearly 25 billion dollars last year! The largest growth was in sales of organic fruits and vegetables. Buying organic means you generally do pay a premium.
But with money so tight these days, what should be at the top of your list? Consumer Reports helps you sort out the choices.
In the grocery store, many people are pulled two ways. Organic fruits and vegetables are good for you and the environment, so we want to buy them.
But the cost is a deterrent. Consumer Reports has some advice on how best to spend your money.
Urvashi Rangan of Consumer Reports says, "Almost any fruits and vegetables grown organically have environmental benefit. They use less pesticides, less chemicals, but if you can't buy everything organic, there are ways to prioritize."
Your dollars will generally have the biggest health impact with softer-skinned fruit...like berries, grapes, and cherries, and some things you're unlikely to peel-including peaches and pears.
And for things you might eat a lot of, like celery, carrots, and apples, buying organic is also a good choice.
Rangan says, "Lettuce and kale are other good organic picks, since some greens grown conventionally can be more contaminated with chemical residue."
For health reasons, there's less need to buy organic versions of produce with skins or outer leaves you don't eat-like bananas, pineapple, and onions. Whether you buy organic or not, it's important to wash any produce really well.
Rangan says, "You don't need a special wash, but think about using a brush especially on hearty vegetables, like potatoes or carrots."
Another way to stretch your organic dollars-buying fresh fruits and vegetables in season, when prices are lowest.
One more piece of advice-Consumer Reports says make sure you wash all produce-organic or not-even if it's marked "pre-washed" or "Triple-washed."
Their tests have found bacteria that indicate poor sanitation in bags of pre-washed lettuce.


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Councils launch eight spying ops on Brits A DAY using RIPA
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Depends on your definition of fly tipping. According to our council, if you arrive at the recycle bins and they are completely full, then piling a few bottles neatly by the side of the bin is fly tipping. And it justifies mounting a surveillance camera to procecute the offenders.
Any sane person would say great, recycling is going even better than expected, lets empty the bins a bit more often.
The fact that the council even consider prosecuting innocent residents for the council's failings is exactly why they shouldn't have such powers.
Apple slapped with 75 lawsuits by staff of titsup French computer biz
Not a big fan of Apple, but it is not uncommon for big companies to impose requirements on retailers who stock their products, in order to protect their brand image.
The big problem seems to be that eBizcuss decided to sell almost exclusively Apple products, apparently without securing a guaranteed supply. It isn't obvious how that was Apple's fault.
Microsoft so sorry for limp wedding tackle gag gaffe
Re: I thought we learned our lessons about making assumptions....
"How do you know I haven't discussed those matters?"
Just a hunch.
Isn't it slightly hypocritical to take the time and trouble to post a comment saying that the subject of the article is so trivial that people shouldn't bother commenting on it? And then mention in passing several other issues which you think people ought to be commenting on instead. This random shooting in the USA ... presumably you have published a detailed opinion on this important piece of news in some other forum somewhere?
Many of the people commenting use Microsoft products every day, and some of those people might be in a position to decide to use alternatives instead - Chrome, Linux, Open Office. So a story about Microsoft losing the plot in a public and embarrassing way is of interest.
Political shifts in France, or the Euro meltdown are more in the category of things which might affect me but there isn't a lot I can do about it.
Riots - they happen in every country. Civil war - there is always one happening somewhere in the world and most countries have had one at some point. Murder in the US - happens 50 times a day. Hellish for the people involved, but if I happen to miss the news that day, it didn't happen.
UK websites: No one bothers with cookie law, why should we?
3rd party analytics (eg Google) and non-tracking advertising are the grey-areas.
You ask why the fuss? That's why.
Most sites don't implement their own cross-site tracking, because most site owners don't control or influence large numbers of sites. Many sites use Google for adverts and analytics. It's the ambiguity over Google et al which is causing the concern.
That is all assuming the rest of what you say is actually how the law will be interpreted. This still has the capacity to become a weapon for those with wealth or power to use against websites they happen not to like.
Re: Kudos to Channel 4
But the vast majority of websites are run by individuals, small non-profit organisations and small businesses who don't have the resources to hire celebrities (or Alan Carr), quite possibly are using a CMS and so don't actually know what cookies their site uses, and maybe aren't that clued up on cookies themselves.
The point of the law is to prevent invasion of privacy. Non-tracking cookies should be unequivocally exempt (no grey areas about whether they are essential to the functionality of the site). Ubiquitous tracking cookies like Google etc should be the responsibility of Google etc - first time they want to track you, they should ask. That shouldn't be the individual responsibility of every single one of the millions of websites which use adsense or analytics.
Don't know where you live, but on my street if you park on the pavement you will cause an obstruction. Doesn't stop them, of course. Just to be certain, they always put their bins out a few days early to make sure the pavement is completely blocked.
Healthy looking hair
My hair's so strong and shiny ... because it's made of nylon.
MoneySavingExpert.com founder flogs website for £87m
Re: Cynical...perhaps
"Martin Lewis is not making a charity donation. He is now one of the wealthy and gets to say how money he would otherwise pay in tax is spent."
I never really thought of it like that.
Although he has to pay for the privilege by donating a large sum of money to the charity out of his own pocket..
But where do you sign up to get your website relentlessly plugged on the BBC?
1930s photos show Greenland glaciers retreating faster than today
Re: Industrial Revolution
But in those days the world population was about 1 billion, most of them not in industrialised countries. UK population was around 10 million, the US not much more.
The steam engines might have had a seriously bad effect on local air quality, but I don't know if there was enough to have a significant global effect.
Online bookie can't scoop £50k losses made by 5-year-old
Same thing happened to me years ago
This isn't just an online thing.
Many years ago my girlfriends 5 year old got hold of my bank account number, went down to the local branch and took out a loan for £50K. Walked out of the bank with a big bag of cash, straight into the bookies next door and blew the lot on a greyhound because it was named after a cartoon character. Lost it all.
Apparently I was liable because the kid new my mother's maiden name.
Seriously, in the analogue world, is there any conceivable way a 5 year old could lose £50K of somebody else's money? If a company has a system which allows that to happen online, it is entirely their own fault imho.
To those of you who are expressing doubt that it was really the kid, Spreadex shot themselves in the foot somewhat by essentially trying to say the guy was liable anyway. Nobody was denying it was the kid (whether it actually was or not) so the court had no reason to question it, and in part the verdict was based on the undisputed fact that it was the kid. Serves them right.
Wealthy Kensington & Chelsea residents reject BT fibre cabinets
Re: Fair enough
NIMBYism usually refers something which is beneficial to the wider population but has an adverse effect on one local area. Most of us are NIMBYs when it comes down to it. If they build something bad near your home it's a double whammy - it spoils your home life but you can't move because you are suddenly in negative equity. I would protest like hell and find any excuse for them not to do it to me, to do it to someone else instead, and so would most of you.
This is different - if the people in a particular borough genuinely* hate these boxes so much that they would rather stay with slow broadband, then that's their choice isn't it? It doesn't affect the rest of us, why be sniffy and say they should go back to dial-up? Let them keep their existing connection if they prefer, that's local democracy. It might even be rational if having the boxes bring house prices down.
*depends whether it is genuine of course. If most people want fibre and it is just a few overly influential luddites stopping it, get together and make some noise.
Re: What happened to miniaturization, micro-electronics, etc?
I would be pretty peeved if I lived in KC.
But I think it is valid to ask, even if they have to be that size, why do they have to be so ugly?
How much would it cost to have them available in a small range of different colours, so that the most sympathetic colour could be chosen for each location? I bet that colour would almost never be dark green.
And could they not design it to look a little bit less like it was built by British Leyland in the 70s? Hell the old red phone boxes became an icon. Can't they put a tiny bit of style into these boxes?
Creatives spin copyright licence that sticks to web
Re: Conspicuous by absence
Not a personal dig, just the other side of the coin ... it is sometimes possible for people to over estimate how creative they are.
Wedding photographers are an example. The venue, people and outfits are all laid on, they charge a reasonable hourly rate as a skilled professional photographer, and what they produce is hopefully good quality but usually not especially original or creative. If you are lucky they have managed to get a group shot where nobody has their eyes closed.
At that point they really have done their job and ought to take the money, hand over the jpegs and go away. But no, they use copyright to gouge the happy couple and their relatives for every single print.
Somebody always gets screwed over by copyright, but it isn't always the creator.
CISPA passes House of Representatives vote
Re: This is enough to piss-off-a-Pirate
29 people took the time and trouble to downvote an AC?
What lasting harm will that do?
Great HR mistakes of our time - Aviva fires 1300 by email
"They sign up for the job because they want to help people"
No they don't. The sole purpose of HR is to prevent the company being sued by its employees. That all.
'Perfect storm' drives electronics stores to EXTINCTION
I think it will be a bit of a shame when there is nowhere to go to actually look at stuff before you go back home and order it off the internet.
Pakistanis revolt over Great Firewall plans
Calm down
They are only blocking blasphemy. People who say bad things about the baby Jesus don't deserve to be heard, do they?
Pew study finds one in five Americans still won't go online
@ John A Blackley
Depends what sort of nonsense. ID is a bit silly - anything science can't currently explain MUST be the work of god. That has been going on since they blamed Thor for thunderstorms, and science doggedly chips away at it. Young earth creationism (earth created 6000 years ago), which I think is taught in some schools, calls into doubt many areas of science (cosmology, nuclear physics, geology etc). But also it refutes the scientific method. That is seriously bad.
The problem is it makes people with limited scientific knowledge think that proven science is "just a theory". Well it is, but not in the sense that anything any idiot makes up is equally valid. So then you get teenage mums, who only have a kid because they were too stupid to use contraception, deciding that their opinion on the safety of MMR is at least as good as that of the entire medical profession. Suddenly measles epidemic, who knew.
Some parts of the USA teaching evolution is banned in schools, which in a democracy I take to mean >50% of the population don't believe in science. (At least I hope so, because any educated person who can sit by and watch science removed from schools because they can't be bothered to vote deserves the theocratic state they are going to get).
So at least 30% of the population use the internet, but think god makes it work.
Fate of punters' Megaupload files to be thrashed out in court
Re: Copying files is not stealing
It says in the article his hard drive crashed. That would imply that the only backup of his business critical files was on a single file sharing site.
Not a very sensible backup strategy, especially now that there are so many alternative free online file storage services available. Should have had the data on at least 2 or 3 of them.
What were Megaupload's terms? If that didn't include guaranteed backups of users' data (which it probably didn't) I can't see he has a case. His situation is exactly the same as if the company had gone bust, or some disaster had happened to their servers.
Naked gyrating iPad vid exposes truth behind Apple's billions
Re: But ...
The population of China is more than 4 times the population of the USA, and most of the people there are poor. Putting up the price of an iPad and paying Chinese workers a bit more to manufacture them isn't going to fix that situation.
Re: it's all relative isn't it?
I am just wondering - what would actually happen if a factory popped up in China and started offering the same salaries and t&c's* as the west? The lucky few would get jobs there, everyone else would just shrug their shoulders and say that's life? I don't think so. There wouldn't be 500 people queuing for jobs, there would be riots and murders.
These countries will go through the same journey as the west, possibly a lot faster than the 200 years it took us to stop treating factory workers as expendable slave labour. Heaven help the fat and lazy UK when they get there, but they will.
*I know, but it doesn't look right without the aberrant apostrophe.
Publishing giants sue open textbook startup over layout
Well, I doubt that you can copyright the choice of font size, style, page size or margin widths.
Given that, how much of the pagination and layout is the result of complex design (on the part of the authors) and how much is simply the result of the authoring software doing its job automatically?
If someone paraphrases the textbook, taking care to keep the paragraphs the same size, they will get the same pagination and layout.
Clearly doing something like that is, at some level, taking advantage of someone else's work (unfairly IMHO), but claiming copyright on something which was created automatically by some piece of software isn't the way to go.
Amount of ice in Bering Sea reaches all-time record
Re: Is the tide turning?????
Hope this isn't a silly question, but is zero ice really a significant state change?
Your point is that declining ice produces positive feedback (there is more sea, which absorbs more heat rather than reflecting it like ice does). There is less and less ice, then at some point there is no ice at some point in the year.
At that point, in sea level terms, things stop getting any worse. Sure the ice can decline further (no ice for one month each year, no ice for three months each year ...). And that might lead to bigger storms to exacerbate the problems with sea levels.
But in this continuous decline, what is so special about the point when the ice disappears? It's just a point on a curve, not a step change.
Renault Twizy budget e-car
Re: target market
"the ability to park anywhere, including pavements at a pinch"
Where do you live? Round our way it is not uncommon to see cars parked on the pavement (all four wheels sometimes). Nobody ever seems to do anything about it.
TITANIC 'UNLIKELY' TO SINK AGAIN, says prof - apparently
Slightly OT
Anybody else sickened by the commemorations today? One minute silence FFS. Someone on the BBC bleating on about "poignant memories" - you would have to be well over 100 to have the vaguest recollection of it. People grieving for distant relatives they never met who died a century ago.
Get some perspective, this happened two years before the deadliest war in human history.
Still, the great and the good of Southampton seem to have taken the excuse to treat themselves to a bit of a bash at the council taxpayers' expense.
Twitter slams top five spammers with legal suit
When you see "RIP Jesus" trending on good friday, you can't help but admire the church for inventing botnets 2000 years before the rest of us. And as various people pointed out, didn't they read the ending?
Crowdsource yourself a new job
Is that for real? People will do design work for free just for a 1 in 100 chance they might get paid for it?
Virgin Media's latest throttling rules
The cap doesn't make any distinction between somebody who uses 10GB at peak times every single day, or someone who downloads a 10GB game upgrade every couple of months.
I think as connections get faster, there probably has to be some kind of limit, but surely part of the point of high speeds is that you can occasionally download a big file quickly, otherwise why bother? A soft limit based on, say, average usage, would be just as effective, but possibly acceptable to a lot more people.
Email cock-up blamed in Check Point domain expiry snafu
Re: Breaking news - Technological break through in domain purchasing..
Not sure how common this is, but the host I use will grab the domain name for you if, eg the credit card fails for auto-renew.
They sting you for $80 to sell it back to you, but it's better than risking losing it. In fact, it is probably better that they charge something, it gives them an incentive to make sure their system is working.
Someone downvoted this?
Internet Explorer nibbles browser rivals, swells by 1%
Re: Lazy
Well this morning I used the Companies House website (a government site) and discovered that it DOESN'T WORK unless you are using IE. They know about it, don't seem to see it as any kind of problem.
It isn't a particularly complicated site (just gathering a few basic details that form the annual return), and I bet they paid a fortune to have it developed. They really should have made it standards compliant.
So please cross one user off the IE count because I wasn't using it out of choice.
Security guards brawl over world's biggest Apple Store
I may be misunderstanding the situation, but it seems to me that the people who put the billboards up were well out of order, and the mall were well within their rights to take them down. They don't even look safe.
Now it is possible the security guards decided to beat up the people who had put the banners up just for the hell of it, but it seems more likely that the fight started because the rival group tried to stop them removing the banners.
Blame lays squarely with the rival mall, imho.
Our shopping centre has, I don't know, four security guards. Mainly to help people who are lost.
Where the hell did all those chinese guards come from? Not just the ones taking down the banners, there is also a wall of guards standing shoulder to shoulder enclosing the customers. There must be hundreds of them. Bizarre.
Lucy in 3.4 million-year-old cross-species cave tryst
Re: An opposable big toe, huh?
But where would you buy shoes that fit? Doesn't work for me.
Re: I'll bet we'll find plenty of other species too.
Ironically, the mechanism by which the smartest get to rule the tribe is religion. Invent a plausible explanation for what happens when you die (heaven or hell depending on whether you do what god wants), convince people that you know what god wants, tell them that he is all seeing so they will go to hell even is nobody catches them doing wrong. Everyone will do what you tell them.
If you are really smart, and intuitively understand that evolution applies to memes as well as genes, also tell them god doesn't like masturbation or birth control.
Gov IT contractors hire staff in India to work on benefits system
Re: the unemployed of the UK aren't developers
Most of the developers I worked with, certainly in my early career, were self taught. These days it is easier than ever to teach yourself programming.
Anybody who has been sat on their arse for however many months/years, drawing benefits and watching Jeremy Kyle, without realising that teaching themselves to program the computer in the corner might be some help ... probably doesn't have what it takes. How are you going to train them to be decent developers?
Raspberry Pi supplier coughs to ship date delay glitch
@John Robson
"The media got a bit excited, the foundation had to offload the distribution (and scale up production)."
But were they unaware that this would mean lengthy certification, causing months of delay to shipments?
Were RS and Farnell aware of that?
It seems to me that they were offering shipment dates which they ought to have known were never possible.
Game closes 277 stores
Re: Suspension of Refunds, Exchanges?
Its a shame people are not more aware of this when buying gift cards. It is an unsecured loan which doesn't pay any interest.
This same thing happened with Zavvy a few years ago, so it was hardly a bolt out of the blue when Game got into trouble. Why would anyone lend them money for free?
Yeah, sure, it means you don't have to choose what to buy for that person you love so much.
Smoked by Android: Microsoft coughs up free laptop
I think the deal is that you get some kind of discount for trading in your phone (and agreeing to be photographed, which is a condition).
But if the challenge is to find the weather in two cities and the Microsoft guy does it in 2 second because he has the apps pre-loaded, is that actually going to impress anybody? If anything it would make me suspicious that if they had to pull stunts like that their phone probably isn't that fast.
That said, with my phone (10 quid Asda special) if I wanted to know the weather I would have to phone my wife and ask her to check on her laptop.
Re: "throttling non-WinPhone devices"
forcing the competitors to use the store's WiFi, which curiously enough seems to be throttled, while the Win Phone is connected to a separate secure and fast WiFi.
Would be possible, I'm not saying that's what they actually did.
BOFH: Dawn raid on Fort BOFH
Failing to distinguish...
between pointless gadgets and obsolete items.
Most of my junk boxes are filled with things which saw plenty of use at the time, but have either been replaced by something better (eg a bigger memory stick) or are no longer needed because things have changed (I used my KVM switch every day in my old job because I worked from home. Now things have changed it is no use at all to me).
But we all make mistakes. Can't imagine why I bought a PDA - and worse still the docking station is still on my desk, plugged in. No idea where the PDA itself is.
New steganography technique relies on letter shapes
The point of steganography is that the enemy don't even know there is an encrypted message so they leave you alone rather than locking you up/torturing you/kidnapping your family to force you to give up the keys.
If you "hide" your message in a bunch of random meaningless text, you are wasting your time with the stego part because it is fairly obvious that the message has a hidden meaning. You might as well use Base 64.
Lawyers of Mordor retreat from The Hobbit
Re: What's in a name?
The pub name probably isn't the problem here (although they would probably do a bit of sabre rattling anyway), it is more likely things like the cocktails. They have trademarked the name Hobbit for every imaginable film spin off, including beverages. If they let this pub sell cocktails with trademarked names, they would lose the trademark (for the broad class which includes beverages and many other things).
You don't go to a pub because of its name, but some people like themed pubs, so there is a potential commercial benefit from using the copyrighted imagery. If you want to argue that the pub provides free promotion for the film - fine, that is something good to throw into the negotiations *when you ask permission*. It isn't a valid excuse to not ask.
Re: More to come?
Yes, if you take images from a recent high profile film and use them to theme your pub, you are going to have to pay fro the privilege. One business using another business's copyright material for commercial gain, of course they have to pay.
The pub is a business, not an amateur fan site.
I don't really understand most peoples' attitude to this case, so I will probably get downvoted. But I don't see how this pub have won some kind of moral victory. Please tell me where my logic is wrong here.
SVC own the rights (trademarks of the names use in relation to beverages amongst other things). They have to defend those rights or risk losing them.
The pub knew someone owned some kind of rights on those names, or ought to have (obvious to anybody who thinks about it for 10 seconds) and it is not exactly difficult to find out who owns the trademark and what it covers these days - its searchable on the IPO site.
If the pub had asked permission before doing it, SVC would have been perfectly within their rights to just say no. And they might well have said no, simply because it is too expensive to deal with a little pub so they can't be arsed. Or because they thought such a deal might cheapen the brand. Would anyone have got on their high horse about that? I doubt it.
So this pub infringe SVC's rights, either because they didn't have the common sense to find out what the legal situation is, or they just hoped they would never get caught out. When SVC do find out, why on earth shouldn't they adopt the same policy they would have done if the pub had asked?
I don't think they originally only wanted the £100 fee - they wanted to restore the situation to what it would have been if the pub had asked permission (ie no LOTR theme). Nothing evil about that, it is their entitlement as rights holders. Having backed down in the face of a somewhat unjustified public backlash, you can't blame them for trying to put a positive spin on it.
Isn't their a real ale called Hobbit? Assuming they paid for the rights, I wonder what they think about Hobbit themed cocktails?
Lawyers of Mordor menace Hobbit boozer
Re: Bad feeling...
INAL, but they only have the trademark registered for certain classes - virtually any type of toy, game, food, drink and other product which might exploit the name.
I don't see anything to stop a pub using the name, or indeed anything to stop the pub trade marking the name (I am no expert, but I recently registered a trade mark which was already registered by someone else, just in a totally different business).
If it is actually a copyright issue, are they using images etc from the film? That would be easily fixed without having to changethe name of the pub. I am pretty sure the name "Hobbit" can't be copyrighted - can it?
iPlayer repeat fees threaten BBC earthquake
Re: Just like buying a DVD without the physical disk.
The trouble is, buying a DVD without the physical disk is nothing like buying a DVD.
You can't give it as a gift, lend it to a friend, sell it or give it to Oxfam when you are fed up with it. And if you happen across it in X years time and decide you would like to watch it again, you will probably find the latest hardware/software won't play it.
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Apr 3, 2012Stacking is a cute game in which you have to solve puzzles using the special powers of different types of Russian stack-dolls. The game feels like a throwback to the PS2 days, when puzzle based titles like Herdy Gerdy were released every day. Stacking is fun and has a great art design / graphical style. it will keep you entertained throughout it's duration and is good value for money. But despite it's charm and good qualities, Stacking still feels rather like a side dish and not quite the main course.… Expand
Mar 3, 2011like i don't get this game, its competeing with much better games.... i tried to like it... i tried to play it, its great for ps3plus members, i found it boring and dull as hell... i'm going to play marvel v capcom 3... this shi.... don't interest me
Feb 8, 2012Why do I love this game? Originality for one. It doesn't do loads of things, but what it does, it does brilliantly. It's this simplicity and whimsy that make this game wonderful. It's not for everyone, and I don't expect the die hard COD's to play it and not hate it. The mechanics of game play are never bad and hopping in and out of other characters does not get boring. I love this game and I love the company it came from. I will continue to support it wholeheartedly.… Expand
Jan 7, 2012Stacking is probably my favorite downloadable title of 2011. The characters are great and the world is breathing with life. Though the game is kinda short, it's still a must-play. It's a beautiful little gem and it shouldn't be missed.
Feb 17, 2011A Great Game ! a game that of the pleasure to play, without badnesses, without violence, if all the games were thus the world was well happyer .............
Feb 13, 2011DOUBLE FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINE!
Great game, the only problem worth noticing is the camera controls.
The puzzles are fun, the dolls are amazing, the world is beautiful and the soundtrack is god-like.
Cut-scenes are silent movie type and you won't wish it was any different.
Do yourself a favor and buy it.
Mar 29, 2011Epic game. The music is nice and relaxing. The characters are actually kind of cute. The fact that there are different ways to complete the tasks at hand is cool.
Mar 28, 2011The nice unusual idea, the great interior, the steampunky/chaplin style, the interesting puzzles to solve, the perfect piano music to keep playing while making and eating a breakfast or making something in your garden. Niice. Double Fine are the real art-house, that do not calls art-house itself. Double-Fine FTW!
Jun 23, 2011I really wanted to like this game, honest. But I just couldn't get into it. The graphics are beautiful, the music is amazing, and the story is fantastic. But it just wasn't that much fun. The controls are a little wacky to me, even after trying to adjust it. The gameplay, although very unique, didn't do it for me.
I downloaded this free from PSN and was thrilled to get a double fine game for nothing (loved Brutal Legend and Costume Quest), but I have to admit that this game is lost on me slightly.
As many people have said, I have tried desperately to like it, but I cant get past just how slow it can be without any real pay-off at the end. Its a real shame because it does have its unique charm, but I am unable to think of anybody I would honestly recommend this to.
I can only hope Double Fine redeem themselves soon.… Collapse
Feb 10, 2011Absolutely a must have game! It's funny, original and different, maybe a bit slow paced, but so great! The style is great too, the old Russian thingy ;) I can really recommend this.
Feb 10, 2011Another winner from Double Fine! I can't keep from smiling when I play it. The art, music AND gameplay combine to form a fresh (and shhhh... approachable) take on the adventure game genre.
I downloaded this free from PSN and was thrilled to get a double fine game for nothing (loved Brutal Legend and Costume Quest), but I have to admit that this game is lost on me slightly.
As many people have said, I have tried desperately to like it, but I cant get past just how slow it can be without any real pay-off at the end. Its a real shame because it does have its unique charm, but I am unable to think of anybody I would honestly recommend this to.
I can only hope Double Fine redeem themselves soon.… Collapse
May 22, 2011Stacking bears all the markings of its creator and designer Tim Schafer. At first glance it might not be as attractive but if you examine the game closer you will understand and love it. [Issue#203]
Apr 18, 2011Stacking is one of the most charming games you'll ever find, a refreshing break from the ubiquitous shooters flooding the market. It may not have much replay value, but you will still enjoy your stay in the whimsical, unique world of Charlie and his fellow stacking dolls.
Apr 7, 2011Stacking is a fun, memorable experience and its sheer uniqueness makes it another successful endeavor by Double Fine.


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Field-testing Google at Heathrow
I bet this would have got more attention if it had happened in the US. Google has been offering free internet access to bored passengers at Heathrow's Terminal 1, and has used it as an opportunity to talk to people about 'what they like and don't like about our products'. Full marks! There is simply nothing more dull than sitting in the departure lounge, especially Terminal 1 where the shopping is pretty poor. And of course, waiting times have increased in the last couple of years thanks to the additional security measures. But it's going to take more than this to make me fly via Heathrow regularly again. Too much of my life has already been spent at baggage reclaim there. I've started going through Southampton as often as possible: much smaller airport, but so much quicker to get through, inbound and outbound.
Deja vu PS2-style
I'm not a 'petrolhead', but I love the BBC's Top Gear. The sheer passion and enthusiasm of Jeremy Clarkson and co is infectious, and you suddenly realise you're tuning in week after week.
But an item on this week's show, the last in the series, was familiar. Apparently F1 world champion Fernando Alonso credited his performance at this year's inaugural Turkish Grand Prix to practising the circuit on the PlayStation. So they wondered, could Jeremy match his time around one of Gran Turismo's simulated tracks in a simulated car, when driving for real around the same track in the same car? Simple answer - no. It's understandable really; if you crash at full speed on the PlayStation, you get another try.
In fact, I tried a similar experiment myself, earlier this year. My wife and I visited Monaco - and emerged from the train station at a place which looked startlingly familiar to me: the foot of the hill just after the start of the Grand Prix circuit. I couldn't believe it; I'd never been there in my life, but I knew the place like the back of my hand. We ended up walking the full circuit over a couple of hours, albeit stopping for some food and taking a detour to the 'old city'. With each turn, I became more and more amazed at how good the PS2 version was. I knew exactly where I was, the whole time.
I'm watching you, Tiscali
Since switching to Tiscali a while back, I've noticed my internet connection suddenly 'dropping out' a lot of the time. Maybe once a day, I suddenly lose connectivity. Maybe for no more than a minute or two, but it was getting very annoying. Might be my fault, might be theirs, you never quite know.
So I found a piece of free software called Link Monitor, which sends a 'ping' signal to a website of your choice every few seconds, and alerts you when/if the signal doesn't get through. All the details are logged in a simple text file. The results? - it isn't anywhere near as bad a problem as it seems, but it is happening relatively frequently: actually, three times in the last 15 or 20 minutes. Certainly I never noticed such problems with NTL.
Online video has a future – of sorts
The San Jose Mercury News publishes its list of the Top 10 tech trends for 2006 - and starts with video, which it says 'will come to the big screen in your living room and to the small screen on your cell phone'. I was always a little cynical about video, after a decade of watching postage-stamp sized pictures. But two things recently have completely changed my mind. I switched broadband provider, upgrading from a 300K connection to 2MB. And I bought myself a 28" widescreen LCD monitor, at a remarkably cheap price which I suspect Dell are probably regretting.
The bandwidth boost certainly helps: although most online video is still being encoded for lower bandwidths, probably assuming a connection of 512K. (By my own non-scientific assessment, video optimised for a 1MB line passes the 'good enough' test. Anything more is a bonus.)
More important, I find, is the large screen size. When I click to view some online video, I invariably find myself maximising the video player to full screen, and pushing my chair to the back of the room. I guess I've been too deeply conditioned by thirty-plus years of watching TV from a distance.
I'm still not sure about small-screen video though. My phone at the moment is the HTC Universal, which has an excellent screen with a good VGA resolution, and very good sound quality. Watching video on it is perfectly possible, and I have a few video files stored on the 512MB SD card it came with, but I really don't find myself watching them. The only good time is when you're sat on a train; but even then, I'm always a bit self-conscious.
Recognising market realities
I've been following Robert Scoble's writings for quite some time: if you haven't come across him yet, he's a 'technical evangelist' working at Microsoft, who (according to the Economist) 'might mark the beginning of the end of âcorporate communicationsâ? as we know it'. I'm inclined to agree. His transparent-beyond-the-call-of-duty approach is startling at first, but quickly wins you over. His employer has always had an image problem in the tech community; it's hard to love a company run by the Richest Man In The World. But as Scoble proves, it's a company full of well-meaning people who genuinely care about what they do.
Writing on Boxing Day, he does some searches to show the number of Microsoft teams who now engage directly with anyone who cares to listen, or more importantly, who cares to join the dialogue. I was interested to note one almost throwaway point: 'I use Google cause thatâs what most of you are using.' This, remember, is a man whose job is to evangelise (or let's face it, sell) Microsoft technology. And this is why it all works. Scoble isn't shy of admitting 'we aren't number one', and hence he maintains his credibility. Mind you, he isn't averse to promising great things for Microsoft's products in the future.
Incidentally, he's right about the mass of anonymous email addresses. During my time with Microsoft, I remember asking where mail sent to our team email addresses actually ended up. The answer was never especially clear, and the mail generally didn't make it to the front line.
links for 2005-12-26
My new WordPress-based, work-related blog. Thoughts on running websites in large bureaucracies, web editorial, writing for the web, web trends likely to enter the mainstream, all in layman's terms.(tags: simondickson)
Proof once again that content is king. The hype behind podcasting is long gone, but this proves it has a role to play - if quality people choose to produce quality material. Half an hour of laugh-out-loud stupidity from the guys behind 'The Office'. Bewar(tags: podcasting tv rss)
links for 2005-12-24
del.icio.us has an option to post lists of the sites you tag on your blog - but to call it 'undocumented' would be very generous. Here's how it works.(tags: wordpress.com del.icio.us)
Design is a dying art
To design or not to design? If I'd been able to answer that question, this blog would have started weeks ago. But I couldn't decide if I liked any of the WordPress.com themes on offer, or if I wanted to design my own in Blogger. In actual fact, if this still matters, it soon won't. I read most of my favourite blogs via their (text only) RSS feed, in Bloglines. I almost never see their websites, and I genuinely don't know what many of them look like. I don't know why, but I just looked at Steve Rubel's MicroPersuasion site - a feed I read every day - and got quite a shock!
Why I finally switched to Firefox
Until very recently, Microsoft's Internet Explorer was my browser of no-choice. By which I mean, in a world where one browser has a market share in excess of 90%, it's insanity to work with anything else - especially if websites are your livelihood. In a clash between 'standards compliance' and '90% market share', I'm afraid standards have to go out the window. But today, I switched my default browser to Firefox - and here's why. (more…)
Blogging on the move
OK, so perhaps you can't email into WordPress.com, but I've found a possible solution. There's a tool called Pocket SharpMT, which seems to speak to WordPress. I'm posting from it now. Only problem so far is that it doesn't seem too keen on working with my PDA's keyboard: not that it isn't working, but I can't see what I'm typing.
UPDATE (23.1.06): I've spotted a few hits to this item today; wonder why it's suddenly of interest? Anyway, my new recommendation is the Windows Mobile version of DopplerRadio, currently in beta but working very well as a blogging client.