Legalizing drugs hurts the people that use them and everyone around them. That's why they were made illegal in the first place.
Now, I'm not sure I feel like getting in a long debate on the legalization of drugs and such, but this is just not true. Drug legislation genuinely did stem more from racism and paranoia than any actual social problems related to addiction or crime. There was a great fear that the coked up, weeded out negro would rape all them purty white womens.
Now, since we're certainly a little past assuming our brown tinged neighbor will go berzerk and wave his giant, uncircumcized member over the fence and onto our lawn, why are drugs still illegal?
Profit! Political and economic. I'm afraid I lack the passion at the moment to aggregate tons of readings and statistics on the subject, but I'm quite certain that a quick googling will expose you to a wealth of information on the subject, such as this rant, for one.
At this site, there was a large carbon deposit in the same strata as these tools, thought (by Al Goodyear, at least) to be a wood burning hearth.
Sadly, no one knows this, because Al is playing Archaeology By Press Release- not a popular game these days. The report on Topper that he's been working on for several years now is due out in the immediate future, but, this new date won't be up for debate till an Oct 2005 conference.
The Atlantic crossing model may have gotten a lot of attention in the media in the past few years, but it's just not well accepted in the biz, so to speak.
Now, talk about skirting the pacific way the hell before clovis- Well, that's another story entirely.
Most anthropologists I've studied under, worked with, and recently read, will readily agree to a coastal migration route, either concurrent with the recession of the glacial mass (The Ice Free Corridor- Beringia isn't the time limiting factor with the land bridge model, the fact that Beringia ran straight into a glacier that didn't clear up a free corridor till 11,500ya is), or before it.
Most everyone accepts at least the reasonable possibility of a pre-clovis occupation.. I'd say most find it likely, but prefer to withold their theories till more evidence can be discovered.
However- One thing that most of the people I know will agree to: The European route isn't that likely. It's not a matter of denying it because of it's antiquity, nor is it denying that one COULD skirt the ice, had one a significant maritime adaptation- It's the fact that there's no evidence of any Solutrean (European, at this time) maritime adaptation whatsoever. No evidence of reliance on seafood, and very little coastal occupations in the first place.
They haven't announced an official date.. According to my sources, open beta hit a snag when some of their hardware was more damaged by the tornado than they previously thought, but that won't impact release.
As for the *unofficial* date, they've distributed promotional materials to a variety of game purveyors indicating a Nov. 16 launch, BUT, such posters and promo gear have in the past been recalled before display at the last second, so, we'll see.
World of Warcraft is the only one that currently exists (Although unreleased) that I would call good.
Ultima Online *WAS* good, a long, long time ago, in a different era of MMORPG gaming, but, it's long since hit it's internally mandated expiration date.
To clarify that I'm not just saying things were better in the good ol' days, Merridian 59 wasn't all that good.
Everquest never was, and never will be good.
SWG never was, and never will be good.
Ascherons Call 1 was novel and interesting, but "good" is an overstatement.
Shadowbane was and is not good, *unless* you enjoy massive PvP and politics with 14 year olds.
Dwarf elephant skeletons are crazy neat. There was a sizeable population of dwarf MAMMOTHS on an island in the Aleutian chain up until just a couple hundred years ago, although when discovered they were immediately hunted to extinction.
I could be mistaken, but I'm fairly sure modern pygmy groups are generally considered to be of our species, so, I don't see how this discovery should be looked at terribly differently.
Generally speaking, landmass breakups in that part of the world are within the realm of feasibility, but there are well more isolated islands supporting human fossil records, indicating 30kya man was well more inclined to use boats than we're tempted to give him credit for. Although, I've never seen any numbers that would indicate how quickly such a drastic size change could occur.. Different anthropologists have wildly different opinions on such things in general, speaking specifically of craniometrics, the prevailing new view is that massive morphological differences can occur quite rapidly (Seeking to explain Kennewick man, who's 8,000ish radiocarbon years BP and sports a decidedly non-Native American skull), while others cry "bullhockey!" and simply say that there were a lot more populations inflowing into the Americas in the 18,000-13,000 calender years BP range than we give credit for.
I must admit, I agree with some other posters that your situation just shouldn't be right.. I'm running 1024x with "high" graphics on a MUCH lesser graphics card (2500+ and a 9500 Pro).
But, instead of having an FPS pissing contest, lemme offer a couple tips: Install the beta 4.9 catalysts, they're manditory for acceptable ATI Doom3 preformance.
THEN, do a search for Doom 3 tweaks. There's an astonishing array of things you can modify to GREATLY improve preformance, most importantly including a number of changes to the Doom 3 config file.. Additionally, unpacking the pak's with WinRar helps a lot too. Anandtech has some good links / guides to these tweaks. DO check it out, DO use them.
Before installing the 4.9 cat's and doing a ton of these tweaks I was eeking out around 11 FPS (fo' real, brotha) if I dared up my graphics to the level I have them at now... Afterwards, I virtually never drop below 30 (Keeping in mind that I'm really pushing the settings higher than would seem reasonable with my gear, this is exceptional).
The only way I see for this to be feasible is if each user was only rendering a tiny segment of each frame. I don't know if this is technically possible, but, it would reduce the massive bandwidth needs to a more SETI like level.
Secondly: Users cannot see what they have rendered. This is a given, as has been pointed out a thousand times already, this is insane from a security and PR standpoint. INSTEAD, simply let users who participate on a regular basis have access to a private forum, developer blogs, and grant them access to the official PR material slightly before it gets published. It's less cool, sure, but it could work.
In addition to the gender bonus (Which is debatable, honestly), Ms Pac Man is simply put, a better game. Just as PS2's are more common out and set up in living rooms now than PSXs, because they're more powerful, more interesting, but still duplicate the gameplay of the original.. Just as Ms Pac Man was more advanced, but still in the same vein as the immensely popular Pac Man.
I assume most everyone here has played Pac Man in their lives, but to those who haven't: Pac Man uses completely static levels. It's exactly the same. EVERY TIME. Once you learn the pattern you can play for damn near infinity. Ms. Pac Man, on the other hand, varies the makeup of the levels significantly, in color and layout, as well as the difficulty and speed that Pac Man has.
That's a BIG difference in a long quarter-poppin' session.
Don't take this as overly harshly, or as a flame in the least, but this is a subject I see come up quite a lot, and I simply have to respond.
Slashdot is not the manifestation of your personal ideological beliefs. It is a site that people of a like demographic submit links to stories on the internet that they think that others in their demographic may be interested in reading.
Slashdot does not ban "signing away your life" to get to stories because Slashdot is not a political rights action committee, bent on upholding Slashdottian ideals. Slashdot is a news service and forum community.
True, however, it does allow someone who does not currently have the ability to play Ultima Online to.. you know, play Ultima Online. Even without AoS, this is a free opportunity to game.
Strangely, on #3, that isn't even that big a deal- This wasn't very widely publicized, but you can actually download it (Ultima Online- Complete including Age of Shadows, both 2d and 3d clients) *completely legally* WITH a 2 week free trial account from a few places online- Fileshack has it, I believe, past that, I don't know.
I did the same. I can't imagine a better feeling than taking money from the RIAA, and giving it straight to those lovely people fighting them...And I'm not even a kazaa-kiddie, I don't really download much of the stuff at all, it's just the blatant price fixing that I find so repugnant.
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Excuse me, the link I provided was for the audiobook- The hardcover version can be found Here
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I'm sure the followers of Dr. Bass would love to have you here at the University of TN in the "body farm" - The largest and most advanced forensics research facility in the country, I believe.
If you're curious, Dr. Bass recently published a book, Death's Acre
The work of this man has essentially single handedly revolutionized the world of forensics- a field previously very, very lacking, based on the story of how he came to start the project: He was called in to take a look at a corpse in a shallow grave, and determined that the time of death was within the last year.. Well, it turns out it was a casualty of the civil war, which means that that estimate was just a *teensy* bit off, to say the least. Frustraited with the lack of research and advanced techniques for the identification of bodies and forensic decay, he started off with a little concrete hut sponsored by the Univ. of TN.. Now, that hut has grown to be a very large, very unpleasant place to accidentally trespass.
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Legalizing drugs hurts the people that use them and everyone around them. That's why they were made illegal in the first place.
Now, I'm not sure I feel like getting in a long debate on the legalization of drugs and such, but this is just not true. Drug legislation genuinely did stem more from racism and paranoia than any actual social problems related to addiction or crime. There was a great fear that the coked up, weeded out negro would rape all them purty white womens.
Now, since we're certainly a little past assuming our brown tinged neighbor will go berzerk and wave his giant, uncircumcized member over the fence and onto our lawn, why are drugs still illegal?
Profit! Political and economic. I'm afraid I lack the passion at the moment to aggregate tons of readings and statistics on the subject, but I'm quite certain that a quick googling will expose you to a wealth of information on the subject, such as this rant, for one.
At this site, there was a large carbon deposit in the same strata as these tools, thought (by Al Goodyear, at least) to be a wood burning hearth.
Sadly, no one knows this, because Al is playing Archaeology By Press Release- not a popular game these days. The report on Topper that he's been working on for several years now is due out in the immediate future, but, this new date won't be up for debate till an Oct 2005 conference.
The Atlantic crossing model may have gotten a lot of attention in the media in the past few years, but it's just not well accepted in the biz, so to speak.
Now, talk about skirting the pacific way the hell before clovis- Well, that's another story entirely.
Most anthropologists I've studied under, worked with, and recently read, will readily agree to a coastal migration route, either concurrent with the recession of the glacial mass (The Ice Free Corridor- Beringia isn't the time limiting factor with the land bridge model, the fact that Beringia ran straight into a glacier that didn't clear up a free corridor till 11,500ya is), or before it.
Most everyone accepts at least the reasonable possibility of a pre-clovis occupation.. I'd say most find it likely, but prefer to withold their theories till more evidence can be discovered.
However- One thing that most of the people I know will agree to: The European route isn't that likely. It's not a matter of denying it because of it's antiquity, nor is it denying that one COULD skirt the ice, had one a significant maritime adaptation- It's the fact that there's no evidence of any Solutrean (European, at this time) maritime adaptation whatsoever. No evidence of reliance on seafood, and very little coastal occupations in the first place.
They haven't announced an official date.. According to my sources, open beta hit a snag when some of their hardware was more damaged by the tornado than they previously thought, but that won't impact release.
As for the *unofficial* date, they've distributed promotional materials to a variety of game purveyors indicating a Nov. 16 launch, BUT, such posters and promo gear have in the past been recalled before display at the last second, so, we'll see.
Suffice to say, the team is scrambling like mad.
World of Warcraft is the only one that currently exists (Although unreleased) that I would call good.
Ultima Online *WAS* good, a long, long time ago, in a different era of MMORPG gaming, but, it's long since hit it's internally mandated expiration date.
To clarify that I'm not just saying things were better in the good ol' days, Merridian 59 wasn't all that good.
Everquest never was, and never will be good.
SWG never was, and never will be good.
Ascherons Call 1 was novel and interesting, but "good" is an overstatement.
Shadowbane was and is not good, *unless* you enjoy massive PvP and politics with 14 year olds.
Dwarf elephant skeletons are crazy neat. There was a sizeable population of dwarf MAMMOTHS on an island in the Aleutian chain up until just a couple hundred years ago, although when discovered they were immediately hunted to extinction.
Further reading: .
It's surprisingly hard to find good web references on the Australian / Tasmanian pygmies!
I could be mistaken, but I'm fairly sure modern pygmy groups are generally considered to be of our species, so, I don't see how this discovery should be looked at terribly differently.
Generally speaking, landmass breakups in that part of the world are within the realm of feasibility, but there are well more isolated islands supporting human fossil records, indicating 30kya man was well more inclined to use boats than we're tempted to give him credit for. Although, I've never seen any numbers that would indicate how quickly such a drastic size change could occur.. Different anthropologists have wildly different opinions on such things in general, speaking specifically of craniometrics, the prevailing new view is that massive morphological differences can occur quite rapidly (Seeking to explain Kennewick man, who's 8,000ish radiocarbon years BP and sports a decidedly non-Native American skull), while others cry "bullhockey!" and simply say that there were a lot more populations inflowing into the Americas in the 18,000-13,000 calender years BP range than we give credit for.
So, in conclusion, I rambled away from the topic.
Oooo, but why not buy silver? I can't stand CS, personally, but Day of Defeat Source is teh wins, as the kids say these days.
I must admit, I agree with some other posters that your situation just shouldn't be right.. I'm running 1024x with "high" graphics on a MUCH lesser graphics card (2500+ and a 9500 Pro).
But, instead of having an FPS pissing contest, lemme offer a couple tips: Install the beta 4.9 catalysts, they're manditory for acceptable ATI Doom3 preformance.
THEN, do a search for Doom 3 tweaks. There's an astonishing array of things you can modify to GREATLY improve preformance, most importantly including a number of changes to the Doom 3 config file.. Additionally, unpacking the pak's with WinRar helps a lot too. Anandtech has some good links / guides to these tweaks. DO check it out, DO use them.
Before installing the 4.9 cat's and doing a ton of these tweaks I was eeking out around 11 FPS (fo' real, brotha) if I dared up my graphics to the level I have them at now... Afterwards, I virtually never drop below 30 (Keeping in mind that I'm really pushing the settings higher than would seem reasonable with my gear, this is exceptional).
DO IT!
The only way I see for this to be feasible is if each user was only rendering a tiny segment of each frame. I don't know if this is technically possible, but, it would reduce the massive bandwidth needs to a more SETI like level.
Secondly: Users cannot see what they have rendered. This is a given, as has been pointed out a thousand times already, this is insane from a security and PR standpoint. INSTEAD, simply let users who participate on a regular basis have access to a private forum, developer blogs, and grant them access to the official PR material slightly before it gets published. It's less cool, sure, but it could work.
In addition to the gender bonus (Which is debatable, honestly), Ms Pac Man is simply put, a better game. Just as PS2's are more common out and set up in living rooms now than PSXs, because they're more powerful, more interesting, but still duplicate the gameplay of the original.. Just as Ms Pac Man was more advanced, but still in the same vein as the immensely popular Pac Man.
I assume most everyone here has played Pac Man in their lives, but to those who haven't: Pac Man uses completely static levels. It's exactly the same. EVERY TIME. Once you learn the pattern you can play for damn near infinity. Ms. Pac Man, on the other hand, varies the makeup of the levels significantly, in color and layout, as well as the difficulty and speed that Pac Man has.
That's a BIG difference in a long quarter-poppin' session.
Around Oak Ridge National Labs we had nothing but formations of helicopters going in circles ALL night, LOTS of 'em...
Don't be so sure!
Just remember that saying "Daikatana" can still crack up a room full of nerds to this very day!
So...
How's the rent, and are there lots of restaurants?
=)
Don't take this as overly harshly, or as a flame in the least, but this is a subject I see come up quite a lot, and I simply have to respond.
Slashdot is not the manifestation of your personal ideological beliefs. It is a site that people of a like demographic submit links to stories on the internet that they think that others in their demographic may be interested in reading.
Slashdot does not ban "signing away your life" to get to stories because Slashdot is not a political rights action committee, bent on upholding Slashdottian ideals. Slashdot is a news service and forum community.
I've been wondering about this stereotype.. It really seems to play true in practice..
My theory: We read when we were little, often in less than ideal lighting circumstances (I used a black light for a while.. hmmm).
Anyone know anything about this phenomenon?
True, however, it does allow someone who does not currently have the ability to play Ultima Online to.. you know, play Ultima Online. Even without AoS, this is a free opportunity to game.
Source 1
Source 2
Here ya'll go! Free Ultima Online to mourn the loss of OSI with.
Strangely, on #3, that isn't even that big a deal- This wasn't very widely publicized, but you can actually download it (Ultima Online- Complete including Age of Shadows, both 2d and 3d clients) *completely legally* WITH a 2 week free trial account from a few places online- Fileshack has it, I believe, past that, I don't know.
I did the same. I can't imagine a better feeling than taking money from the RIAA, and giving it straight to those lovely people fighting them. ..And I'm not even a kazaa-kiddie, I don't really download much of the stuff at all, it's just the blatant price fixing that I find so repugnant.
Excuse me, the link I provided was for the audiobook- The hardcover version can be found Here
I'm sure the followers of Dr. Bass would love to have you here at the University of TN in the "body farm" - The largest and most advanced forensics research facility in the country, I believe.
If you're curious, Dr. Bass recently published a book, Death's Acre
The work of this man has essentially single handedly revolutionized the world of forensics- a field previously very, very lacking, based on the story of how he came to start the project: He was called in to take a look at a corpse in a shallow grave, and determined that the time of death was within the last year.. Well, it turns out it was a casualty of the civil war, which means that that estimate was just a *teensy* bit off, to say the least. Frustraited with the lack of research and advanced techniques for the identification of bodies and forensic decay, he started off with a little concrete hut sponsored by the Univ. of TN.. Now, that hut has grown to be a very large, very unpleasant place to accidentally trespass.