RE: Pertwee was a bit before my time, but I realised at some stage (having seen the repeats) that I didn't really like him that much.
The man was larger than life and turned the Doc into a bit of an action hero. That in and of itself r0x0rs. Him being a dandy didn't hurt things either.
RE: It's that whole earth-bound, part-of-the-army type thing (wasn't the Doctor always a bit of an anti-conformist?).
Er, yes, but you have to understand, the Beeb decided that they were going to spring for 'Who to be in color (HOORAY!) but to compensate, the budgets would be cut (HOO-what?) so they put him on Earth to save on sets. As for the Army, the story was he was trying to fix his timecraft to get the hell off the rock he was stuck on, so why not pimp your skills out to the United Nations and supposedly get access as a result to the very best tech the 1970s had to offer?
The thing is, the execution was flawed, the acting hammy and the staging contrived, but some of the stories in that series were really really good, which is why the novelisations of the series are in my mind infinitely better. I remember reading "The Web Planet" in novel form long before anyone dreamed of seeing it on TV, and when I finally saw it, I was like, "this is for..."
Genesis of the Daleks, properly filmed, would be creepy as hell. I'd like to see some real money, some real guts and some real actors do rewritten versions of the Phil Hinchcliffe years. Horror of Fang Rock. Planet of Evil. Talons of Weng Chiang. Deadly Assassin. Pyramids of Mars. Brain of Morbius. Heck, Morbius played for the horror it really was would be teh cool, ditto playing up the drama and political back and forth in "Deadly Assassin".
Instead of guys in cheap rubber suits and overacting with CSO.
That's good to know. I do honestly feel for the effects dept. at Doctor who between, oh, say 1964 and 1979, in which the entire effects budget consisted of "whatever you could scrounge out of the dumpster".
I am not mentioning the rat from Talons of Weng Chiang, again. Oh wait, I just did. Shall we turn this into a thread of other howlers in terms of REALLY bad special effects?
RE: latterly it turned into a celeb-laden unfunny pantomime
Er, wasn't it ALWAYS a celeb-laden unfunny pantomime?
EXHIBIT A: "Mr. Rumbold" in the Dalek Master Plan (IIRC). Come on, with those ears and those glasses, you were like "now that's the first half decent special effect I've seen on this show in years."
EXHIBIT B: Jon Pertwee was teh God, but come on, "reverse the polarity of the neutron flow?" While wearing opera dress? And trying not to look utterly ridiculous while being scared of a terrible "fizzy" bluescreened in hand puppet? Of the kind that made the giant rat in Talons of Weng Chiang look like T2?
EXHIBIT C: Patrick "I thought I'd channel Charlie Chaplin" Troughton. Enough said.
But you're right, the Baker years really put the boots to it. Phil Hinchcliffe turned it into Goth horror, so they gave the reins to that twit in the Hawaiian shirts as director, that let Tom overact his way through crappier and crappier scripts. Then we got the hyperventilating balding vet and the ever-expanding fashion disaster "Doctor Huge", and By the time they gave the gig to McCoy, whose last TV appearance in Canada was as a giant chicken going "buck-AWWWK" for fifteen minutes in a painful "Vision On" segment with Tony whatsisname - it was a total farce. Richard "Cannot say more than one word a sentence kind of like William Shatner only out of breath instead of simply dense" Briers as a Hitler clone in a world with candy shaped Robots?
RE: so its quite a bit rough with the cgi, credits and theme not even being done
As opposed to the smooth, jaw dropping, incredible Emmy winning CGI effects that the Beeb effects department are famous for?
This would be the same department, if I remember correctly, that rendered a bomb attack on giant maggots by, and I'm not making this up, dropping toilet flush handles (porcelain pull-type) onto barely inflated condoms.
Now I really want to see this leaked program. Maybe it'd be better television just to keep the balding git standing there with a piece of poster board saying "special effect here - (once we've panhandled enough to raid the local "Next To Nowt")
Look it it this way. All governments suck one way or another - they're all liars and all of them, every one, screams blue murder about some offense against them or other by country X that they themselves go and do to country Y.
NOBODY has a monopoly on hypocrisy. But the French come pretty damn close.
Er, I'm not talking about breaking US law while in the US. I'm talking about breaking US law while in Canada.
The specific example I'm thinking of is the Canadian businessman, doing business with Cuba, who finds himself charged and arrested when he takes his kids to Disney World. He does no business in the USA at all. But apparently, he broke some US law.
News flash: no country's laws extend outside its borders. Or, if you want to change this, be prepared to find yourself sued by France, etc.
Before you get all huffty and high and mighty, please remember that there are Canadians dealing with problems in the United States stemming from the fact that while in Canada they did business with Cuba, and america seems to think that its anti-Castro laws extend beyond its borders into Canada.
That being said, yeah the French think they have the authority over everyone. The Quebecers are the same way. It was funny, them demanding that Pokemon produce French only versions, etc.
Wipe off the surface when you're done. It's possible to "breathe" on the reader with some models and have the condensation on the oil pattern be enough to trigger a "read" and you therefore impersonate the last person to use the reader.
And that's the thing I can't stand about this whole global warming stuff. To my feeble, albeit unpropagadized mind, a greenhouse is a situation in which you've got an insulated facility which has an elevated temperature because heat, while incoming, is trapped inside thanks to the insulation.
When I walk through a greenhouse, there aren't spots therein in which it's freezing cold. If this is the case, it's because there are GAPS in the insulation, or a draft, or whatever.
Now, let's go back to the 1970s. People drove Camaros, Bruce Lee was kicking it up on the silver screen, and the ferret juggling hemp smoking egghead crowd were screaming that we were all going to FREEZE TO DEATH because the earth was getting colder and colder, and naturally it's our fault, and if we don't act RIGHT NOW (get rid of cars, central heating, electricity etc.) WE ARE DOOMED. Don't argue, don't contradict me, WE HAVE INCONTROVERTIBLE PROOF.
Now, some thirty years later, their dress sense is still the same but the line is that we're going to die in flames unless we, strangely enough, get rid of our cars, central heating etc. Seems like a solution in search of a problem to me. And once again, WE HAVE INCONTROVERTIBLE PROOF. I know that the Northern Caribou are stranded because stuff that's normally frozen is melting, glaciers are cracking - but there are record cold temperatures elsewhere, and in some instances, places are staying the same temp. or getting colder. We know this because David "the sacred balance of Nature" Suzuki made the claim that Windsor is warmer than it was when he was a boy. Someone called him on this, and turns out the data doesn't back this up. So Stats Can no longer allows people to look it up. Can't let facts get in the way of propaganda, I mean, government efforts for a cleaner environment.
And if you point out that parts of the world are actually getting colder, record cold temperatures, they say "see? That proves our theory."
And naturally, if they're right, they should be against Kyoto - because it doesn't stop people from emitting tons of CO2 and other gases, it just stops Americans from doing it while giving China and India all the jobs, I mean all the carte blanche it needs to keep polluting. Of course, that's because their CO2 is politically correct, natural CO2 whereas ours comes from cars, which isn't politically correct or natural. Apparently the Earth only warms when CO2 is emitted from a car, or an American factory - not an Indian cooking fire or a Chinese factory. Go figure.
Dude, our CEOs are sending all the high paying jobs to you as fast as they physically can. If they were to spend any more hours a day doing it they'd have to cut out spending time on the links or in court defending themselves against insider trading, and they do not want to do the former and are compelled to do the latter.
1) Most are from tech firms just looking to get more resumes in
2) Some are "we're required by law to offer this job to people other than our H1-B person, but we'll reject every CV off our desk".
3) Then there are the "oh those jobs were JUST filled. We'll keep your resume on file blah blah blah blah blah" jobs.
4) Then there are the "Must have 15 years experience in C#" requirements job postings.
5) Then there are the "oh, you might have a family/a life/want money/have too much experience" type of jobs, basically startups who want people equivalent to 10yr experience but with entry level pay and hours til past midnight, and therefore won't hire almost everyone.
So try and find the one, lone job prospect that's actually real. If I was actively job seeking right now, it'd take me the better part of the day to handcraft all these applications, most of which will go in the pail anyway.
Anonymous coward (aptly named), YOU get a clue. Do you honestly think that either the Republocrats or the Demoblicans would hand back a victory over this issue?
Or do you think it's just whining after the fact?
Do you maybe think that the DAY BEFORE THE ELECTION is a LITTLE TOO LATE to be pulling this crap? JUST A THOUGHT.
The reason why many of these systems don't have a "something you have, something you know is".... because somebody (whose "software company" consists of nothing but patent lawyers sitting on ideas) patented that idea.
None of the companies that manufacture biometric scanning technology can implement that without running afoul of the patent.
And the amount this shyster company is asking for is ludicrous. Hence, that kind of system is never used.
Ask several people who didn't turn off their cell phones in movie theatres, restaurants, etc. but instead made some dismissive gesture while continuing to shout into said phone in an inappropriate place.
Purists will argue that "rectally implanted" is not the same as "worn" but as far as *I* am concerned it's poTAYto, poTAHto...
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RE: Pertwee was a bit before my time, but I realised at some stage (having seen the repeats) that I didn't really like him that much.
The man was larger than life and turned the Doc into a bit of an action hero. That in and of itself r0x0rs. Him being a dandy didn't hurt things either.
RE: It's that whole earth-bound, part-of-the-army type thing (wasn't the Doctor always a bit of an anti-conformist?).
Er, yes, but you have to understand, the Beeb decided that they were going to spring for 'Who to be in color (HOORAY!) but to compensate, the budgets would be cut (HOO-what?) so they put him on Earth to save on sets. As for the Army, the story was he was trying to fix his timecraft to get the hell off the rock he was stuck on, so why not pimp your skills out to the United Nations and supposedly get access as a result to the very best tech the 1970s had to offer?
The thing is, the execution was flawed, the acting hammy and the staging contrived, but some of the stories in that series were really really good, which is why the novelisations of the series are in my mind infinitely better. I remember reading "The Web Planet" in novel form long before anyone dreamed of seeing it on TV, and when I finally saw it, I was like, "this is for ..."
Genesis of the Daleks, properly filmed, would be creepy as hell. I'd like to see some real money, some real guts and some real actors do rewritten versions of the Phil Hinchcliffe years. Horror of Fang Rock. Planet of Evil. Talons of Weng Chiang. Deadly Assassin. Pyramids of Mars. Brain of Morbius. Heck, Morbius played for the horror it really was would be teh cool, ditto playing up the drama and political back and forth in "Deadly Assassin".
Instead of guys in cheap rubber suits and overacting with CSO.
That's good to know. I do honestly feel for the effects dept. at Doctor who between, oh, say 1964 and 1979, in which the entire effects budget consisted of "whatever you could scrounge out of the dumpster".
I am not mentioning the rat from Talons of Weng Chiang, again. Oh wait, I just did. Shall we turn this into a thread of other howlers in terms of REALLY bad special effects?
RE: latterly it turned into a celeb-laden unfunny pantomime
Er, wasn't it ALWAYS a celeb-laden unfunny pantomime?
EXHIBIT A: "Mr. Rumbold" in the Dalek Master Plan (IIRC). Come on, with those ears and those glasses, you were like "now that's the first half decent special effect I've seen on this show in years."
EXHIBIT B: Jon Pertwee was teh God, but come on, "reverse the polarity of the neutron flow?" While wearing opera dress? And trying not to look utterly ridiculous while being scared of a terrible "fizzy" bluescreened in hand puppet? Of the kind that made the giant rat in Talons of Weng Chiang look like T2?
EXHIBIT C: Patrick "I thought I'd channel Charlie Chaplin" Troughton. Enough said.
But you're right, the Baker years really put the boots to it. Phil Hinchcliffe turned it into Goth horror, so they gave the reins to that twit in the Hawaiian shirts as director, that let Tom overact his way through crappier and crappier scripts. Then we got the hyperventilating balding vet and the ever-expanding fashion disaster "Doctor Huge", and By the time they gave the gig to McCoy, whose last TV appearance in Canada was as a giant chicken going "buck-AWWWK" for fifteen minutes in a painful "Vision On" segment with Tony whatsisname - it was a total farce. Richard "Cannot say more than one word a sentence kind of like William Shatner only out of breath instead of simply dense" Briers as a Hitler clone in a world with candy shaped Robots?
Shooting was too good for it by that stage.
RE: so its quite a bit rough with the cgi, credits and theme not even being done
As opposed to the smooth, jaw dropping, incredible Emmy winning CGI effects that the Beeb effects department are famous for?
This would be the same department, if I remember correctly, that rendered a bomb attack on giant maggots by, and I'm not making this up, dropping toilet flush handles (porcelain pull-type) onto barely inflated condoms.
Now I really want to see this leaked program. Maybe it'd be better television just to keep the balding git standing there with a piece of poster board saying "special effect here - (once we've panhandled enough to raid the local "Next To Nowt")
Weightlifters train to lift things over their heads. What practical advantage does that give you in breaking someone's arm?
Wow, what a sensitive thing to say. Someone's got a spinal cord injury in the neck, and you make a joke involving brain damage.
Any of us is a trip and fall or other accident away from the same situation.
There but for the grace of God go you and I, so watch it. Coward.
Hey, no sweat. It happens. :)
Look it it this way. All governments suck one way or another - they're all liars and all of them, every one, screams blue murder about some offense against them or other by country X that they themselves go and do to country Y.
NOBODY has a monopoly on hypocrisy. But the French come pretty damn close.
Er, I'm not talking about breaking US law while in the US. I'm talking about breaking US law while in Canada.
The specific example I'm thinking of is the Canadian businessman, doing business with Cuba, who finds himself charged and arrested when he takes his kids to Disney World. He does no business in the USA at all. But apparently, he broke some US law.
News flash: no country's laws extend outside its borders. Or, if you want to change this, be prepared to find yourself sued by France, etc.
Before you get all huffty and high and mighty, please remember that there are Canadians dealing with problems in the United States stemming from the fact that while in Canada they did business with Cuba, and america seems to think that its anti-Castro laws extend beyond its borders into Canada.
That being said, yeah the French think they have the authority over everyone. The Quebecers are the same way. It was funny, them demanding that Pokemon produce French only versions, etc.
IT's not FAT, it's EXT2, right?
It's optical.
Wipe off the surface when you're done. It's possible to "breathe" on the reader with some models and have the condensation on the oil pattern be enough to trigger a "read" and you therefore impersonate the last person to use the reader.
And that's the thing I can't stand about this whole global warming stuff. To my feeble, albeit unpropagadized mind, a greenhouse is a situation in which you've got an insulated facility which has an elevated temperature because heat, while incoming, is trapped inside thanks to the insulation.
When I walk through a greenhouse, there aren't spots therein in which it's freezing cold. If this is the case, it's because there are GAPS in the insulation, or a draft, or whatever.
Now, let's go back to the 1970s. People drove Camaros, Bruce Lee was kicking it up on the silver screen, and the ferret juggling hemp smoking egghead crowd were screaming that we were all going to FREEZE TO DEATH because the earth was getting colder and colder, and naturally it's our fault, and if we don't act RIGHT NOW (get rid of cars, central heating, electricity etc.) WE ARE DOOMED. Don't argue, don't contradict me, WE HAVE INCONTROVERTIBLE PROOF.
Now, some thirty years later, their dress sense is still the same but the line is that we're going to die in flames unless we, strangely enough, get rid of our cars, central heating etc. Seems like a solution in search of a problem to me. And once again, WE HAVE INCONTROVERTIBLE PROOF. I know that the Northern Caribou are stranded because stuff that's normally frozen is melting, glaciers are cracking - but there are record cold temperatures elsewhere, and in some instances, places are staying the same temp. or getting colder. We know this because David "the sacred balance of Nature" Suzuki made the claim that Windsor is warmer than it was when he was a boy. Someone called him on this, and turns out the data doesn't back this up. So Stats Can no longer allows people to look it up. Can't let facts get in the way of propaganda, I mean, government efforts for a cleaner environment.
And if you point out that parts of the world are actually getting colder, record cold temperatures, they say "see? That proves our theory."
And naturally, if they're right, they should be against Kyoto - because it doesn't stop people from emitting tons of CO2 and other gases, it just stops Americans from doing it while giving China and India all the jobs, I mean all the carte blanche it needs to keep polluting. Of course, that's because their CO2 is politically correct, natural CO2 whereas ours comes from cars, which isn't politically correct or natural. Apparently the Earth only warms when CO2 is emitted from a car, or an American factory - not an Indian cooking fire or a Chinese factory. Go figure.
RE: Indians need - jobs
Dude, our CEOs are sending all the high paying jobs to you as fast as they physically can. If they were to spend any more hours a day doing it they'd have to cut out spending time on the links or in court defending themselves against insider trading, and they do not want to do the former and are compelled to do the latter.
Do you know WHY there's generic cover letters?
Because out of ten "job offers"
1) Most are from tech firms just looking to get more resumes in
2) Some are "we're required by law to offer this job to people other than our H1-B person, but we'll reject every CV off our desk".
3) Then there are the "oh those jobs were JUST filled. We'll keep your resume on file blah blah blah blah blah" jobs.
4) Then there are the "Must have 15 years experience in C#" requirements job postings.
5) Then there are the "oh, you might have a family/a life/want money/have too much experience" type of jobs, basically startups who want people equivalent to 10yr experience but with entry level pay and hours til past midnight, and therefore won't hire almost everyone.
So try and find the one, lone job prospect that's actually real. If I was actively job seeking right now, it'd take me the better part of the day to handcraft all these applications, most of which will go in the pail anyway.
The class action suit enriches the lawyers.
The developers, after the lawyers are paid, get a $5 off coupon on the next version of Madden.
Singapore gets the jobs, as EA simply decides the hell with this and moves out.
Good news - ipr0n
Bad news - The spinning of the dials stuff precludes having any hands free for any other purpose.
Anonymous coward (aptly named), YOU get a clue. Do you honestly think that either the Republocrats or the Demoblicans would hand back a victory over this issue?
Or do you think it's just whining after the fact?
Do you maybe think that the DAY BEFORE THE ELECTION is a LITTLE TOO LATE to be pulling this crap? JUST A THOUGHT.
Move to Canada or whatever, but Bush won - by a large margin. Get over it.
None of this will change anything.
Although, it's not technically accurate...
Lagaan?
Taxes.
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I can't wait for Harley Davidson to licence the technology and hire the Hells Angels to work out the skinning.....
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The reason why many of these systems don't have a "something you have, something you know is".... because somebody (whose "software company" consists of nothing but patent lawyers sitting on ideas) patented that idea.
None of the companies that manufacture biometric scanning technology can implement that without running afoul of the patent.
And the amount this shyster company is asking for is ludicrous. Hence, that kind of system is never used.
Ask several people who didn't turn off their cell phones in movie theatres, restaurants, etc. but instead made some dismissive gesture while continuing to shout into said phone in an inappropriate place.
Purists will argue that "rectally implanted" is not the same as "worn" but as far as *I* am concerned it's poTAYto, poTAHto...