PETITION TO REMOVE RED BRICK NERF

These changes are unnecessary, aggressive, CRIMINAL ACTS against the VERY BUILDERS WHO constitute the FOUNDATION OF LEGOLAND!.

Red bricks ALREADY have a 10 second cooldown, why would you reduce our DPS! WE already suck next to blue bricks.

Reply #1: /signed

Reply #2:
Learn to build noob

Reply #3:
can i has ur bricks?

From my buzz Inbox, and I quote:

Jeff - Buzz - Public - Muted
what the hell is this?

Sean - no one knows. its like google wave raped twitter. kinda like how blade was formed...

How many of those 9 million posts you referenced are complaining about buzz, asking how to turn it off, and asking why in gods name is there no button to kill it with fire? Seriously, I need a button to kill it with fire. I would never stop pressing it.

To me, Calvin and Hobbes looked like the poster child of a comic that yearned to be on the web. If you read any of his books, he often had long and bitter fights with the publisher about the format of his comics. How much space he could use, if he had to have the “Throwaway frame” and so forth. I wish a comic like this had come along maybe 10 years later so it could take full advantage of the web, instead of being smothered by the oppressive newspaper guideline . Then again, I may just have wanted it delayed so we’d still have new ones, but hey. I can dream.

Random side note. I mentally swapped FPY into PFY, or pimply faced youth. One of the main characters in the Bastard Operator From Hell. Which is the single greatest collection of stories about IT workers abusing users.

I have to be difficult here.

A degree from the Colorado School of Mines is not just a bit of paper. This is because they print the degrees on silver. No joke. So my degree is worth whatever a few grams of silver is, something like $40. I could easily trade it for a pizza, if the person that owns the shop is also a precious metal dealership.

This is similar to the experience they had over at Salon. This was one of my favorite places to get news until they put up a pay wall, and in December they talked about how it hard hurt their traffic.

This is a great read, for people who actually care about the discussion of pay walls vs free.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/dec/03/memories-paywall-pioneer

It "worked" for us in that it provided some revenue for Salon to survive through the leanest period of its existence. (We'd already completed the latest of three rounds of layoffs, and the entire staff took pay cuts, three weeks before 9/11.) But within a few months, as advertisers began dipping their toes back in the water and the influx of new subscribers who'd flocked to help us out in a crisis dwindled, we could see that the subscription model didn't provide much room for growth. So we tried something new: we put up an ad over the front door of the site. Subscribers wouldn't see it at all; other readers had to watch a 30-second video ad, then they got a "day pass."

The day pass approach was beloved by the advertisers and hated by many, though not all, readers. More important, by this point the public was, understandably, thoroughly confused about how to get to read Salon content. It took many years for our traffic to begin to grow again. Paywalls are psychological as much as navigational, and it's a lot easier to put them up than to take them down. Once web users get it in their head that your site is "closed" to them, if you ever change your mind and want them to come back, it's extremely difficult to get that word out.

The OP has this backwards. The money microsoft is paying for this service doesn't come from thin air. They get paid for each and every search thanks to advertisements. What the OP really should of said is, "Ubuntu users provide revenue to Microsoft."

That's right, you're now supporting microsoft by choosing to not use windows, or internet explorer.

I know this is a dead article that nobody will read. However, synthesis gas is what you call this gas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthesis_gas

You see how what I was posted was correct, and you're wrong? Take a chemistry class before you try to pretend you know what you're talking about.

The company that I worked for commissioned a few studies on algae based biofuels. It turns out that the most efficient way of handling the material was to collect the algae in cakes and burn it in a reactor to make synthesis gas. Synthesis gas is a mixture of CO and Hydrogen. If you add steam, you could then perform a shift reaction to get methane or methanol. The main value of the process was not in producing fuel, or generating electricity. The main thing you could use it for was as a chemical feedstock. Methanol is a good starting point for many plastics.

(final comment, my spell checker wants to change biofuels to befouled)

I'm going to need to say you're wrong here. Being able to physically fire the bow added a huge level of immersion for me. Particularly with poisons, the sneak attack 4x bonus, and the zoom at level 50. Sneaking up on a target, poisoning the arrow, and then gently sliding it into the back of his head was a sublime thrill.

I was really disappointed that this experience is totally lost in Dragon Age. You hit auto attack, and your character fires arrows as fast as they particularly feel like it. They hit if their hit dice says they will. Thanks to the floating camera you don't even really look at enemies when you kill them. Red glowing dots appear on your radar, you hit 'A' to auto attack, and your character attacks him just like any lifeless marine in star craft.

And for reference? I hate the huntsman in Team Fortress 2.

Your link is broken. You added an extra h to the front. Potentially for hyperbole? I don't know, I'm not a computer geek.

I worked for an HMO doing IT support, and for 500 people we had 6 IT workers. The HMO generated a terrifying amount of paperwork, and one person would be on printer/fax duty every day. This doesn't sound hard, but we had 3 buildings spread out over 4 city blocks, each building with 4 floors, and each floor with a dozen printers (I'm counting fax machines in this number). This wasn't really by design, the company grew organically and this is the end result.

I wonder what kind of legal precedent this sets. Not the situation where everybody copyrights their name and sues the world to pieces, but the situation where Facebook buries a notice in their terms and conditions that says they now own your name. You'd end up having to send them a few dollars every time you signed a check, which would lead to a never ending cycle of check writing and sending to Facebook.

Hmm...I like it. Time to buy facebook stock.

The best example of using Valve's assets in a community creation would be Gang Garrison. Gang Garrison is a sprite version of Team Fortress 2 made in a parody style. Instead of the pyro you have the firebug. Instead of the heavy you have the overweight. Instead of eating a sandvich (spelled with a "v", I swear) you eat a manwich.

Although the gameplay is interesting by itself, the faithful 8-bit midi renditions of all the Team Fortress music is pretty much worth downloading the free game. Its not the best game I've ever played, but I'd be sad if it never existed because Valve screamed foul over IP rights.

I wonder if this is doomed to become a niche operating system that doesn't even scratch the surface of the market. Preventing your most enthusiastic linux base from trying out your software unless they purchase a new computer will prevent a large majority of people from playing with Chrome. The main thing I'm afraid of is that we're brewing a new Apple. At least they're not going for the single mouse button (yet).