Without defending poor spelling, it does make sense. The vowel sound in "lose" is the same is "boot" or "look". Properly spelled, "lose" looks like it should rhyme with "rose".
For the ultimate OSC-style twist, the game could borrow a trick from Fable only in reverse. As you level up, your character would get younger until all of the high-level uber-characters were less than ten years old.
The author credits Piri Re for making a very good map of South America using the cartographic techniques of the time, but concludes that it is not Antarctica. Instead what is often interpreted as Antarctica is the coast of South America, perhaps bent around to fit the map onto the irregular parchment (or whatever) it is drawn on.
Perhaps most damning to the Antarctica interpretation are the marginal notes which (according to the site author) say the coastline in question was reported by sailors blown off course, who described the region as "very hot".
The story is "The Crystal Spheres" and it won the Hugo award for Best Short Story in 1985.
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I've had an Audible account since they first went iPod compatible (September 2002, I think) and I've always been able to pause playback at any point and resume where it left off (*). I agree that the ability to do this is crucial for multi-hour audio files.
Slashdot favorite Snow Crash and Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson are also available from Audible. Unfortunately Cryptonomicon is only available as "Unabridged Exerpts".
*In truth usually it resumes about 30 seconds before that point if I've turned it off or played something else in between.
Dude, criticizing a popular science (NY Times, after all) article for use of "about" rather than an exact number is petty. Does the average NYT reader care if the exact number is 34 or 38?
The article itself emphasizes the speculative nature of the conclusion by rating the probability of the P-T extinction/asteroid link as a 3 or 4 on a scale of 10, as opposed to a solid 10 for the dinosaur-killing K-T extinction 65 million years ago.
And bringing evolution into the discussion qualifies your post as a bona fide troll. If you don't believe the earth is billions of years old, why did you even bother to read the story? The dating techniques are the best available; in the future we may develop better methods. What sort of accuracy would it take to convince you that the technique is accurate and the earth really is older than Bishop Usher calculated?
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Just another idiosyncrasy of English.
A familiar sensation for all the fans of Marathon back when Bungie made games for the Mac.
For the ultimate OSC-style twist, the game could borrow a trick from Fable only in reverse. As you level up, your character would get younger until all of the high-level uber-characters were less than ten years old.
The parent is a clever and understated reference to this Dr. Who episode.
The author credits Piri Re for making a very good map of South America using the cartographic techniques of the time, but concludes that it is not Antarctica. Instead what is often interpreted as Antarctica is the coast of South America, perhaps bent around to fit the map onto the irregular parchment (or whatever) it is drawn on.
Perhaps most damning to the Antarctica interpretation are the marginal notes which (according to the site author) say the coastline in question was reported by sailors blown off course, who described the region as "very hot".
(The link should be good until sometime this weekend, then it will be avaiable in re-runs)
The story is "The Crystal Spheres" and it won the Hugo award for Best Short Story in 1985.
Slashdot favorite Snow Crash and Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson are also available from Audible. Unfortunately Cryptonomicon is only available as "Unabridged Exerpts".
*In truth usually it resumes about 30 seconds before that point if I've turned it off or played something else in between.
On the QuickTime download page, fullscreen playback is listed as the number one reason to give Apple US$30 to upgrade to QuickTime Pro.
The article itself emphasizes the speculative nature of the conclusion by rating the probability of the P-T extinction/asteroid link as a 3 or 4 on a scale of 10, as opposed to a solid 10 for the dinosaur-killing K-T extinction 65 million years ago.
And bringing evolution into the discussion qualifies your post as a bona fide troll. If you don't believe the earth is billions of years old, why did you even bother to read the story? The dating techniques are the best available; in the future we may develop better methods. What sort of accuracy would it take to convince you that the technique is accurate and the earth really is older than Bishop Usher calculated?
They promise another announcement when the OS X patch is available.
When salt was traded for gold and the Soninke ruled the Ghana empire.