please spend some time thinking about your comment and the others on this thead.
What, comments like "why do you keep replying? STOP REPLYING TO ME" and "I will REPORT YOU to editors FOR HARASSMENT"? Oh, wait, that was you.
ask yourself, have i contributed to the universe being a better place through my contributions here?
More than you have, I'm pretty sure. I'm enjoying myself, at least.
what about my larger participation in the slashdot community?
Again, more positive than yours, I'd think. We've only got one remotely objective measurement, which is karma, and mine's been Excellent for a while.
once you have pondered these things, please let me know what conclusions you come to (although I already know what you'll find).
My conclusion is: you've avoided my question about being a sanctimonious dick for publicly berating a passer-by by being an even more sanctimonious dick. Kudos!
Yeah, it totally does look like a rehash of the story we saw here a couple of years ago! I've also only read the first few paragraphs of this new article, too, but I also haven't found anything different from the previous one. I'm not suggesting plagiarism either, I'm just also saying it looks like the author just took the information from previous stories and rewrote it in his own words, without adding anything new. What a douche!
Oh, and by the way, it's not only illegal to use a mobile phone. It's illegal to be holding one while driving (so in fact "using" one with a hands-free kit is fine). Any new law will make it illegal to wear Google Glasses or similar.
You can't take eight lawnmower engines, put them together and now claim you have an eight-cylinder Ferrari. It just doesn't make sense,
You're right, it doesn't make sense. But then who, if anyone, is making such claims? Or did you, perhaps, invent those claims just so you could knock them down?
Fine, if you don't enjoy it the same way as you did as a kid, that doesn't bother me. Each to their own. Not sure why you feel so strongly about not feeling strongly about it that you need to be a sanctimonious dick and insult the rest of us who still enjoy a bit of Saturday-night escapism, though.
There would be a far bigger wow factor if they just showed the episode and let viewers be amazed by what happens.
John Hurt's role was kept under wraps until the broadcast of the latest episode, just as it was meant to be. I agree it's a shame that shows feel they have to divulge "spoilers" (they aren't really that if they've been legitimately revealed), but it's a tough multi-channel world out there and you've got to promote.
No, they haven't ruled anything out - did you read the article? He gave Matt Smith a throwaway line - nothing more than an in-character joke.
It’ll never stick, though. That 13 lives is stuck in people’s heads [...] I’m quite serious that that 507 thing won’t stick, because the 13 is too deeply ingrained in the public consciousness.
What is the "Moment?" How did it simultaneously destroy both the Timelords and the Daleks?
The Moment. Not really canon. I prefer to think that it's mostly meant in a metaphorical sense - "the Doctor possesses the moment" to mean that he has control of the situation, but in some sort of Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey way that also makes it some kind of physical, tangible object...
In other words, it was yet another thing RTD slipped in just because it sounded cool and mysterious, which someone else has gone and ruined by writing a backstory for.
i've never seen any lens / visibility effects here.
Here where? Something has to alter the Glass display's focal distance, otherwise it would be physically impossible to focus on it. As Google themselves say, it is "the equivalent of a 25-inch high definition screen from eight feet away," and it seems perfectly reasonable to assume that it does in fact appear to be focused at that distance. Maybe it's the prism, maybe it's a lens in conjunction with the prism (though it would presumably be cheaper to do it in one).
I tried it and I can't focus on it at all. how can I view a screen crisply enough to read it when i can't even focus on it?
Because you're actually looking at an image of the screen reflected in a prism, and the prism is presumably also doing the refocusing so that - as far as your eye's focus is concerned - it's about eight feet away.
Still not great for driving concentration though, and perhaps I was being a little too pedantic over the meaning of the word "focus."
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please spend some time thinking about your comment and the others on this thead.
What, comments like "why do you keep replying? STOP REPLYING TO ME" and "I will REPORT YOU to editors FOR HARASSMENT"? Oh, wait, that was you.
ask yourself, have i contributed to the universe being a better place through my contributions here?
More than you have, I'm pretty sure. I'm enjoying myself, at least.
what about my larger participation in the slashdot community?
Again, more positive than yours, I'd think. We've only got one remotely objective measurement, which is karma, and mine's been Excellent for a while.
once you have pondered these things, please let me know what conclusions you come to (although I already know what you'll find).
My conclusion is: you've avoided my question about being a sanctimonious dick for publicly berating a passer-by by being an even more sanctimonious dick. Kudos!
Using the word "overrated" to describe something that you personally don't enjoy is overrated.
Enlighten me. In what way were the words you claim to have spoken to a Google Glass wearer not sanctimonious?
I thought it was dazzling.
I asked him, "do you know you look like a retard?"
Do you know you sound like a sanctimonious dick?
Oops.
Yeah, it totally does look like a rehash of the story we saw here a couple of years ago! I've also only read the first few paragraphs of this new article, too, but I also haven't found anything different from the previous one. I'm not suggesting plagiarism either, I'm just also saying it looks like the author just took the information from previous stories and rewrote it in his own words, without adding anything new. What a douche!
"I wasn't using it, just left it on my head."
Oh, and by the way, it's not only illegal to use a mobile phone. It's illegal to be holding one while driving (so in fact "using" one with a hands-free kit is fine). Any new law will make it illegal to wear Google Glasses or similar.
Get real. Probably 1% of people who use a mobile while driving are caught and fined.
Where'd you get that, the Office Of Statistics Pulled Out Of My Butt?
And so what if the catch rate is (arbitrarily) low?
why do you keep replying? STOP REPLYING TO ME
Because it is (or was) a discussion. If you don't want to take any further part in it, you stop replying.
You can't take eight lawnmower engines, put them together and now claim you have an eight-cylinder Ferrari. It just doesn't make sense,
You're right, it doesn't make sense. But then who, if anyone, is making such claims? Or did you, perhaps, invent those claims just so you could knock them down?
I'm the Doctor
I'll be able to create animated gifs crossing James Bond and Doctor Who
Timothy Dalton as Rassilon not good enough for ya?
I do not watch Doctor Who anymore.
Fine, if you don't enjoy it the same way as you did as a kid, that doesn't bother me. Each to their own. Not sure why you feel so strongly about not feeling strongly about it that you need to be a sanctimonious dick and insult the rest of us who still enjoy a bit of Saturday-night escapism, though.
There would be a far bigger wow factor if they just showed the episode and let viewers be amazed by what happens.
John Hurt's role was kept under wraps until the broadcast of the latest episode, just as it was meant to be. I agree it's a shame that shows feel they have to divulge "spoilers" (they aren't really that if they've been legitimately revealed), but it's a tough multi-channel world out there and you've got to promote.
Rule #2 ... Moffat mispells his own name just to keep you guessing.
It’ll never stick, though. That 13 lives is stuck in people’s heads [...] I’m quite serious that that 507 thing won’t stick, because the 13 is too deeply ingrained in the public consciousness.
If they'd tried to italicise "Doctor Who" in the headline it would probably have crashed the site.
Not sure I agree here, some of Davies' scripts seemed ridiculous. The Idiot's Lantern was cringe-making.
That was Mark Gatiss, not RTD.
New Earth was terrible. Midnight was brilliant.
My wish would be for RTD as Executive Producer, but Moffat as lead writer.
What is the "Moment?" How did it simultaneously destroy both the Timelords and the Daleks?
The Moment. Not really canon. I prefer to think that it's mostly meant in a metaphorical sense - "the Doctor possesses the moment" to mean that he has control of the situation, but in some sort of Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey way that also makes it some kind of physical, tangible object...
In other words, it was yet another thing RTD slipped in just because it sounded cool and mysterious, which someone else has gone and ruined by writing a backstory for.
i've never seen any lens / visibility effects here.
Here where? Something has to alter the Glass display's focal distance, otherwise it would be physically impossible to focus on it. As Google themselves say, it is "the equivalent of a 25-inch high definition screen from eight feet away," and it seems perfectly reasonable to assume that it does in fact appear to be focused at that distance. Maybe it's the prism, maybe it's a lens in conjunction with the prism (though it would presumably be cheaper to do it in one).
These are HFT folks, they have essentially unlimited money.
Unlimited money solves a lot of problems.
But not, apparently, the problem of an ongoing obsession with making even more money.
I tried it and I can't focus on it at all. how can I view a screen crisply enough to read it when i can't even focus on it?
Because you're actually looking at an image of the screen reflected in a prism, and the prism is presumably also doing the refocusing so that - as far as your eye's focus is concerned - it's about eight feet away.
Still not great for driving concentration though, and perhaps I was being a little too pedantic over the meaning of the word "focus."
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That does make a difference. Not saying it's a big one, but it's a difference.