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  1. Just remembered a test of a mini-itx in a recent german computer magazine. http://www.silverstonetek.com/product.php?pid=419 Even the idea of the thing above look real nice, the case is too small for quad core cooling. My wife has such a small thing (other tha nabove) attached to the monitor-back in the room she practices medicine. But I did only low power notebook stuff in. My brother tested a barebone from Shuttle for the Haswell and says the case is big enough to work and small enough to hide. http://www.itproportal.com/2013/07/29/shuttle-sh87r6-preview-potent-haswell-mini-pc/
  2. Blender, illustrator, .... This is IMUO not allone a matter of the CPU anymore. The programs can use CUDA. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUDA In my experience, with a fixed budget, it is often better for the performance for these programs to balance the money more to the graphic card and not to the CPU. The 400 series oF nvidia has 32bit floating point support, so it is nice for maths. But maths are watt eaters, so don't do the case too small. Some of the new board/case combinations are for normal bureau work. The cooling rips of the fan often hit the case top. Lot of noise andvibrations. For gaming, thats only tertiary in my priority lidt, but what isgoodfor maths isnormally good for gaming too.
  3. What is really good, old recipe from my grandgrandma from the alpes. Selfmade spinach-noodles with a sauce of Schmand and finecut boiled ham. Schmand is not really sour cream or creme freche or smetana: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smetana_%28dairy_product%29 Works even as a cake: thin yeast dough, covered with Schmand and then fine cut boiled ham (or dried bacon) and spinach and other vegs added. Much like a pizza but our area had no tomatoes or easy access to hard cheese. And this cake is centuries old, even before pizza became popular. For hard cheese you need stomachs from calves. Our caddle was multipurpose for tracking waggons and plows, milk, ... so not much calves slaughtered.
  4. The cake looks like it has to be eaten right away because of the ornaments. I would do a vegs/bacon/cheese cake inside and smear quark around. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark_(cheese) http://static.chefkoch-cdn.de/ck.de/rezepte/176/176980/290510-960x720-herzhafter-gemuesekuchen-mit-schinken-und-kaese.jpg
  5. It seems to be base weapon damage of the poison type. Same as if a weapon has poison base damage. I don'T know the correct english name of the modifier right away. So correc it in the wiki if you know.
  6. I wonder if I should do an unarmed combat page, or just add unarmed combat to the combat arts which somehow support unarmed combat. For some shield using characters unarmed seems to be an option. Instead a single strike with a weapon they do doublestrikes if having no weapon. My unarmed SW without x% lifeleech is currently in platin at level 60, and I thnk most know the kungfu dryads.
  7. Level 59, gold campaigne finished. Think I have to push armour lore to mastery. I hate when the stuff I loot is too high in level. The character is overly protected, think I have to push a bit more towards offense. But a 66% deathblow is nice. At normal enemies I notice kills with a single CA. Still use the full pandemonium set because of its nice barbarian look. Remembered what I said in a pen and paper roleplay when I was a student. I had a barbarian and I just killed an opponent instead taking any prisoner. The priest in the group said I should be more diplomatic. I asked how, he said I shouldn't kill instantly. I should use increasing force to get what I want. Like doing a wound , ask if he wants to surrender, if no, doing next wound, .... The next battle I was a bit diplomatic, instead doing an instand kill I just cut off the right arm and right leg of my opponent with my twohanded sword in a single strike. He begged that I released him of his pain... If the wounding was diplomatic, why I was called a barbarian...?
  8. Probably there will be a written program. Just to be sure that weddings here have exercises and tests included. When I married our friends removed a wheel from our wooden horse tracked wedding wagon while we were at church. We had to repair the wagon before we could leave the church place. Exercises are often chosen by the family business of the couple. My father in law was a car mechanic and my family were wood workers. So the exercise was chosen to represent both families. The church door was blocked by a big trunk. We had to saw it away using a century old two people saw. The saw thing is very common, it shows the people that you can work together. We married pre-digital so some quick photos from the internet to show Most often people are in clubs, like soccer, firefighters,... The club does a honour guard and places the trunk http://hochzeit-von-yvonne-und-christian.de/Bilder/Bilder_Hochzeit/Saegen.jpg
  9. Gulasch halb und halb, goulash half beef half pork The beef in the string bondage is often filled with minced pork and vegs. The bondage prevents it from falling apart. Picture was pork left and beef right. Pork is normally not filled and cut in stripes to be served with bread at a cold buffet later the night at a party. The roasted beef is eaten right away.
  10. I just did a small list which product probably wouldn't be allowed to be sold undone in the USA: mixed groud meat, mixed goulash, beef burgers in a fatnet from a big, fish in fatnet, Mit Mett gefuellter Rollbraten,... The later would be: http://www.grillsportverein.de/upload_neu/2008/07/5067_braten_auf_grill_2.jpg Hard to do the rope binding if you are not used to it. Most people here buy it prepared.
  11. You can't even sell it if it is prepared ? BARBARIANS!!! It would be a vote for Kanzler loosing thing to change the Wurst or Bier laws in germany Much harder to touch than this gun law in the USA. And raw meat killed not a handful people in the last 30 years. Raw vegs killed hundreds. I know one person who will never travel to america. Our second daughter: It is not allowed to sell beef roulades filled with a Bratwurst there? Thats her favourite and she is too lazy to do it herself.
  12. Our butcher is a truck. Tuesday and friday he is in our village. Supermarkets are like you say. But I like the talking and knowing where the meat is from. Especially if it is raw eaten. If I see him changing plastic gloves, getting a special knife just for the raw stuff, having a below 4 celcius corner in the truck, ...just a way better feeling than this anonymous superstore stuff. Still many old ladies who never did a driving license and who prefer to buy in village, so the butcher is able to survive with this offer.
  13. We don't do these fat contain numbers at the butcher. We more like to say the purpose. Rinderhack would be your 80/20 ground beef. Rind is beef and hack means not so fine cuts, more a hacking like in hack and slay. Schabefleisch from schaben, to abrade/shave, is to use a real sharp knife and cut away real tiny parts. The main use is to eat it raw. The beef needed would be close to your 94/6. Something like steak tartar. Or, a not raw recipe as something like scotish eggs. Schabefleisch mixed with fine cut vegs and boiled eggs rolled in the mix till they have a layer of the mix. Then heated in a oven to harden the wrapping. I think real scotish eggs use a minced pork mix for sausages and then cover it with bread pieces and fry it.
  14. The daughter of my wife's brother is marrying. She asked if our 8 year old would play the entry song on the organ: Amazing Grace In germany there are two translations of the english original. One is close to the original and one by lena Valaitis is a more joyful text, away from the original. The husband is from a lutherian germam/american family. So the question is: will there be problems playing the joyful german version. Here is the german text with a english translation and a link to Lena Balsitis peforming the song. http://www.allthelyrics.com/forum/german-lyrics-translation/79239-lena-valaitis-ein-sch-ner-tag.html
  15. Hackfleisch halb und halb, Mixed ground meat (half pork, half beef) As so many good recipes it was born in afterwar time: extreme dry beef pieces which were cut away when doing a meal with beef, were mixed with too soft pork pieces which were left when doing pork meal. The butchers put this cut aways in a grinder and mixed them. The fat of the pork made the beef pieces more soft and the beef the too soft pork more tasty. The grinded mix was the cheapest you could buy at a butcher. Now everyone is used to this mix here and it is not really cheap anymore.
  16. Nah,october 29th is only national. 2002 the IFAW made the Weltkatzentag, World-cat-day fixed on 8.8.. Since my name Chattius means wildcat everybody should give me a valentine today http://www.cute-calendar.com/event/world-cat-day/6589-world.html
  17. Today is day of the cat. So I toasted with my cat with a cup of milk. Prost, Sk0l, Cheers, ...
  18. I want a CAS, computer algebra system. Just for on the road calculations Like a barrel has a given size, it is placed at this angle, the vertical height of liquid is such, what is the amount of liquid still in. And a barrel is an easy shape.
  19. I just recognized that our oldest took my HP-50g calculator with her when she leftfor one year infrance. So im currently looking for a new calculator.anyone of you still uses them? Or is it just an app on your tablet for most of you? http://www.hpgraphingcalc.org/prime.html I was thinking about buyimg the new HP-prime. Main reason is that I am so used to UPN notation. Thecalculator will probably be used by our 14 year old too. I would give a calculator aay to a friend when doing homeworks togther, but would I hand over a tablet to a classmate? I know TI has a dual solution: calculator togther with an app for tablets and can run on windows. But no UPN. What is your favourite calculator?
  20. Thalidomide,called contergan in germany. My mother was awaiting my older sister when this scandal popped up. She said 5 month of fear till my sister was born okay. She became a big fan of Kneipp therapy after this: whole corn breads, water walking, .... And took druhs only when really neded: infections. We kinda followed this. We have below surface path with knee deep water and pebbles below in the garden. Dogs like it alot.
  21. Yes, in the afterwar years nearly everything was recycled. My uncle said that the traps my grandgrandpa did were mainly carved. He was a woodworker and had a lot of wood but was very low on metal. Living mid in a forest but roads not passable in the snow rich after war winters. So carving in winter and selling in spring. We still have a cabbage knife which was made from a bayonett and a cayak which was made by my father as a boy by halving a droptank from a fighter plane. Well I gave those for exhibition at a historical museum, but I am still owner.
  22. And with no cows, only artificial leather in future, artificial gelatine, artificial milk,... If cows are kept for milk it would be economical stupid and bad for the environment not to eat them when they get old and produce way less milk but feed the same and produce the same amount of methane. And I believe in epigenetics. Cells need certain molecules to trigger. If these molecules are not in the food the trigger is not activated. "Moreover, the children of the women who were pregnant during the famine were smaller, as expected. However, surprisingly, when these children grew up and had children those children were also smaller than average.[7] These data suggested that the famine experienced by the mothers caused some kind of epigenetic changes that were passed down to the next generation." from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_famine_of_1944 So as long as I don't know how food triggers epigenetics we will stick to the food which our families ate for centuries and we know it worked.
  23. No I won't post a deadly recipe to get rid of all the people you can't like. I will speak about a weapon of massouse destruction. You know kitchens were not always this clean as nowadays. In old times the place below the roof of our house (and houses in the area) was used to store wheat, barley, rye,.... The walls below the roof allowed air to pass so wheat which was harvested a bit wet could dry. But with wheat there are mice. The house was wooden patchwork, with the place between the poles filled with clay and stray. So the mice kinda bite there way up, just through the walls where cats couldn't catch them. But there was a last hope - for the farmer, not the mice. A weapon such terrible that it wasn't build anymore in the last 50 years: the automatic reloading mouse trap. The mouse runs through the door activatibng a trigger which closes the door. Only chance for the mouse to move is up into the tower. But now a trapdoor opens and the mouse falls into something like a bucket full of water. With the mouse in the water some water equivalent to the mouse weight (archimedes) now flows on a swimming trigger which opens the frontdoor for the next mouse. Up to 20 mice in a single night.... Picture is from a museum. I searched for this kind of mousetrap for a while since my uncle said that my grandgrandpa build masskilling mousetraps in the afteryear wars when the surviving son was POW and he was too old to run the woodworking farm. Another family mistery solved, maybe not the same, but my uncle said it is very close. But less of valuable metal, more wood used.
  24. My 10 year daughter listened to the Harp Twins. She asked if they would be known if not twins and good looking. Our 10 year old is playing a lot of different instruments and likes to sing and play theatre. But her size is her problem. She is way taller than all the boys in her class and she will probably grow as big as her oldest sister 1.95cm. In three theatre playings at school she always had to play a male part. So when she is frustrated she says that she will play Mittelalterrock if she is older. She plays electric zither and nyckelharpa so far which can be played at Mittelalterrock.
  25. The dryad has shrunken heads, the TG a battery, but thats it.
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