Alan Cummings and Jane Horrocks in a performance of Caberet at the Donmar Warehouse in 1994 very few people would have known who they are.
Cumming (no 's') had already had a lead in a sitcom (albeit the woeful "The High Life") by then. Horrocks was pretty well known by 1994, having been "Bubble" in AbFab for two years, giving her an audience of 12+million per week.
Patrick Stewart was a virtual unknown, if you conflate being on US television with being an actor. He'd done little US TV or film work, but he'd been in a number of *extremely* well known BBC series in Britain: "I, Claudius"; "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy"; "Smiley's People"; and been with the Royal Shakespeare Company for 20 years before Star Trek, as well as working with the National Theatre.
By going backwards it made it nearly impossible for cross overs
Right. And every one knows that crossovers are an absolute necessity for good drama, rather than just a tired old cliche, used by writers who are totally out of ideas.
It's about being tracked and monitored all the time even when you're obeying the law.
No ones getting monitored or tracks. You think there are people *watching* any of this footage. It's recorded and examined post hoc *IF* theres a criminal offence comitted. And no one can use it for anything else.
For the millionth time : NO ONE IS GETTING TRACKED OVER BRITISH CCTV. Its logistically impossible.
The real reason is so they can issue more speeding tickets
Don't want speeding tickets? Heres a simple solution: Drive under the speed limit, you insensitive clod.
Jesus, I'm fed up with people pretending that speeding fines are a stealth tax. They're not. They're a penalty for breaking the law and they're really easy to avoid.
the ability to track every moment of your citizens lives is just a handy bonus.
Tell me, who is getting tracked? Where is this information being used? Who is getting persecuted by this? The idea that the British Govt is using CCTV to spy on and monitor law abiding British Citizens a complete fiction.
I could not agree with you more. However, we do need AK-47's to change the Congress if we need to
Just out of interest. Do you support Iraqi citizens being empowered to carry AK-47s in case they want to overthrow the change their US-Congress-imposed government?
I don't know, maybe I'm just selling out to The Man, but there are things that worry me a lot more than CCTV.
I agree completely. We've had CCTV for years, and (despite being a Guardian and Private Eye reader) I've never heard of its abuse by the authorities to clamp down on any legitimate activity, or to invade the privacy of citizens.
The Data Protection Act is a pretty robust piece of legislation, and the police know that if they break it, they'll never get a conviction and will end up on the wrong end of a serious investigation.
These "slippery slope" arguments about privacy don't wash; there simply hasn't been any great abuse of CCTV.
Is there anything left in the UK that isn't being monitored
Err, yes.
Cameras on all the streets
Err, no. Cameras on some streets, but hardly everywhere.
wireless monitoring your speed
And damn right, too. Speaking as a cyclist, given the number of psychopathic, homicidal pillocks who are allowed to throw 2 tons of metal around on Britain's streets, I want even tighter controls on the speeders. The selfish little bastards put their (marginal) time savings over the safety of the rest of us. If I was as reckless with a gun as all-to-many drivers are with cars, they'd lock me in prison, not just suspend me from driving for a few months.
Wasn't SCO supposed to reveal their cards a couple days ago?
They did have to disclose to IBM. But IBM now have to plough through whats been disclosed before reporting back to judge, who then gets to decide if thats satisfactory. Next court date: 23rd January.
Both 24-hour and 50-year weather 'reports' use the same basic models and concepts
Wrong. Very, very, very, very wrong.
Medium range weather forecasting models (such as ECMWF don't even bother to accurately model those things (such as sea-ice cover and the atmospheric mixing / dispersion of greenhouses gases) which vary on time scales longer than a month -- over short timescales, they're irrelevant. But they do resolve small scale atmospheric eddies, which can cause freak localised weather conditions.
Climate models,such as HadCM3, need to model the slowly varying terms, but individual small scale features can be parameterised as an ensemble average.
The equations are different and most importantly the time scales over which the key parameters vary are different, so the sensitivity to initial conditions comes into play on totally different timescales.
So you have this blind, unquestioned faith in the models eh
Nice strawman.
My whole point is predicting that which is based on *models* is not any better than predicting the weather over 24 hours.
Models are very good at predicting weather over 24 hours. What's your point?
Go find some textbooks on non-dimensionalisation techniques, statistical mechanics, basic chaos theory and their applications to the numerical solutions of PDEs.
Is the only recorded instance where the slashdot troll Eric S RayRNond is more articulate, informative (and sane) than the person he's pretending to be?
Where were the fraudelent claims of importance? Where was the gloating about wealth? Where was the entirely-out-of-context firearm advocacy? Its a very poor ESR impersonation, if it lacks those things.
They can't predict the weather over 24 hours with any degree of accuracy, but of course we are supposed to just believe them when they tell us how things will be in 50 years.
They can't predict the quantum entanglement of even a few atoms, so why should I believe that they can predict the motions of the planets around the sun?
We don't know how much rain they'll be next Wednesday, but we can estimate the total rainfall for February very accurately.
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Angels great, but thats a spin-off, not a crossover. There were crossover episodes, but they tended to be among the worse of each season.
Had trouble composing Haiku
He could not find a reason
To include a season
Without the whole thing just ringing untrue.
How does it decrease my privacy? Explain, give examples how my privacy is decreased. No one looking at that film knows who I am.
For the millionth time : NO ONE IS GETTING TRACKED OVER BRITISH CCTV. Its logistically impossible.
Jesus, I'm fed up with people pretending that speeding fines are a stealth tax. They're not. They're a penalty for breaking the law and they're really easy to avoid.
A groovy little french car, made Renault. Called "Deux CV", for "Deux chevaux" meaning "2 Horse Power"
The Data Protection Act is a pretty robust piece of legislation, and the police know that if they break it, they'll never get a conviction and will end up on the wrong end of a serious investigation.
These "slippery slope" arguments about privacy don't wash; there simply hasn't been any great abuse of CCTV.
And damn right, too. Speaking as a cyclist, given the number of psychopathic, homicidal pillocks who are allowed to throw 2 tons of metal around on Britain's streets, I want even tighter controls on the speeders. The selfish little bastards put their (marginal) time savings over the safety of the rest of us. If I was as reckless with a gun as all-to-many drivers are with cars, they'd lock me in prison, not just suspend me from driving for a few months.
*Then* we might now.
Medium range weather forecasting models (such as ECMWF don't even bother to accurately model those things (such as sea-ice cover and the atmospheric mixing / dispersion of greenhouses gases) which vary on time scales longer than a month -- over short timescales, they're irrelevant. But they do resolve small scale atmospheric eddies, which can cause freak localised weather conditions.
Climate models,such as HadCM3, need to model the slowly varying terms, but individual small scale features can be parameterised as an ensemble average.
The equations are different and most importantly the time scales over which the key parameters vary are different, so the sensitivity to initial conditions comes into play on totally different timescales.
Engineer's Disease has claimed another victim.
"engineers disease": The delusion because you're ubercompetent in your chosen field, you're automatically an expert on everything else.
Of course your entitled to opinions. The question is, how long do you wish those opinions to remain uninformed opinions?
Models are very good at predicting weather over 24 hours. What's your point?
Go find some textbooks on non-dimensionalisation techniques, statistical mechanics, basic chaos theory and their applications to the numerical solutions of PDEs.
Then come back when you're informed.
Is the only recorded instance where the slashdot troll Eric S RayRNond is more articulate, informative (and sane) than the person he's pretending to be?
Where were the fraudelent claims of importance? Where was the gloating about wealth? Where was the entirely-out-of-context firearm advocacy? Its a very poor ESR impersonation, if it lacks those things.
On a lighter note, the real Eric Raymond is a tit man.
We don't know how much rain they'll be next Wednesday, but we can estimate the total rainfall for February very accurately.
Write out 100 times: Climate is not weather.