Web browser, TCP/IP with PPP support coming, theme support, support for multiple types of hardware. All running on a 6502/6510 with a max of 64K, oh and it does multitasking? From what I remember of the 6502, the code liked to written to run at a fixed address (you could write relocatable code, but its support was limited), this would make make any kind of multitasking difficult, because the two programs could require the same memory addresses, oh and did I mention there's no memory protection?
Anybody actually use this thing? Does it really work?
This once again perpetuates the myth that all UFO photos are blurry and therefore suspect. There are many, many CLEAR photos of strange flying objects going back decades.
The real problem is there is no way to conclusively authenticate or disprove many of these except for the obvious fakes that photo experts can weed out.
It's also interesting that the skeptics, in addition to arguing that the blurry, grainy photos are probably fake, also often argue that the good, clear photos are probably fakes because they are too good and clear!
I think the DMCA is a horrible law, and I can see how it could stiffle innovation in some areas, I still don't see that it has contributed to this downturn. I'm somewhat of an economics geek, and follow economic news closely.
Basically in the late 90's it seemed as though any company that started with a lowercase 'e' or 'i' or ended in ".com" could get funding even though they didn't have sound business plans. These companies spent like drunken sailors and paid for lots of advertising and bought lots of hardware from companies like Sun and Cisco.
In March 2000, investors began to question the so-called "New Economy" hype, and the Nasdaq had some dramatic drops. This spelled doom for the unprofitable dot-coms. Suddenly these companies were gone, and companies that benefitted from them (Cisco and Sun and also those who depend on Ad revenues) were taking a beating because they hadn't planned for it. This had a ripple effect throughout much of the economy. We later learned that some companies, like Worldcom and Global Crossing were nothing but hype to begin with.
Not too many people were realized how bad the DMCA was until they started seeing the effects in late 2000/early 2001. The economic downturn was already in progress by then.
It remains to be seen if DMCA concerns have a major impact on the ability of startup companies to attract new investments. Right now the lack of funding is due to a lousy IPO market.
I also think the DMCA will be corrected in due course, either by the courts or the legislature. DMCA concerns will become more mainstream until they hit critical mass. Right now, as intelligent techno-geeks, we can see what's wrong with the DMCA, but the average person cannot. I see this slowly changing with articles about DMCA problems starting to appear in more mainstream media outlets. If this continues, I predict you'll see a change in thinking in Washington. The DMCA benefits mostly California and maybe New York. Most Senators and Reps want to be on the side of economic freedom prosperity for their state rather than on the side of an industry that benefits other states, even if this industry has deep pockets.
The problem I see in much of these protectionist ideas is that somewhere between selling one copy of a piece of software used by millions of people and charging rent for every single access to a piece of software used by millions of people there is a happy middle ground
Bottom line: Where intellectual property is a delicate balance between the interests of producer and consumer I'm all for it. Where intellectual property becomes a kudgel for controlling market entry I'd rather see it abolished entirely
I pretty much agree except for the "abolished entirely" part. I see patents and copyrights as useful, but they must be limited, and more common sense is needed for patents in particular
I am no fan of the DMCA, but the current economic slump is due to the outrageous excesses of the late 90's, the dot-com boom and Y2K spending. Companies geared up and spent money like the good times would never end. Some, with money they never even had (Enron, et al). It was not sustainable and we are now paying the price.
The DMCA has little or nothing to do with it.
Computer users may share things, but if your source of income is tied to what you produce on your computer, then you are going to protect what you do to guarantee future income. Companies who produce mass-market goods will be affected the most, were you need to sell a large number of units to break-even. Is a company going to produce the next Quake or Unreal with no guarantee that they'll sell more than one copy? Not unless that one copy gets sold for 10 million or more.
Of course some would argue that those games should be Open source. I suppose the programmers could work at McDonalds by day and code the next Open Source Sims add-on as a hobby by night, and it'll be ready after five years. Wine has been in development for what, ten years? and it hasn't even reached version 1.0 yet! I love open source, and contribute to open source, but face it, if you want rapid development, you need either highly motivated developers (which there is not an endless supply of), or you need to pay people. If you pay people then you need to find a reliable income stream.
If IP laws were abolished, RMS and his fellow idealists would become the leading advocates FOR IP Laws.
Why? Abolishing IP law would have the opposite effect that people wishing for it intend. Which scenario is more likely:
A) Intellectual Property and copyright laws are abolished, people look at each other and say "Gee, I guess we better share everything with each other now. Birds chirp, people join hands singing Kumbaya under bright rainbows, etc.
or
B) Intellectual Property and copyright laws are abolished, People say, well I guess I have to protect my work even more now because the government won't help me. Source code will be an even closer guarded secret. Copy protection schemes will become even more ubiquitous and nasty. If they aren't effective, then maybe some markets will dry up. To see a movie you might have to go to the theater, because movie companies stop releasing on DVD and VHS Many projects won't get off the ground because there's not enough return on investment. New drugs don't get developed because the financial incentive to do so has been removed.
If we all receive grants that we can live off the interest of, like RMS, then maybe scenario A can happen. But as long as most of us have to produce products and services for a living, B is far more likely. Laws don't change human nature.
IP is not the problem, the problem is in the implementation of it.
The GPL would be unnecessary if there were no copyright law.
If there were no copyright law, people could still hoard source and release only binaries, and there would be no GPL or any mechanism to compel them to release the source.
You would have to come and steal it from their computer to get it.
Nothing will make me nostalgic for DOS PCs
Nothing like rebooting constantly with different DOS disks with different autoexec.bats and config.syss only because you have too many drivers and TSRs, and your games won't run because not enough of the low 640K is free.
BBS memory: Downloading an 80Kb game for an hour at 300Bps!
Wow! Free the Faulklands- Two islands that are NOT a mirror image of each other! And look at how many multi-colored sprites are present in "Hands across America" and "Punch buggy", they don't even seem to be flickering!
Not bad for a system that had no video memory.
Why did I ever put up with games with crap graphics like Night Driver, Adventure and Outlaw when I could've had these?
when he was a professor, his students hated him because he made them think (imagine that) and he frequently gave them assignments that were much like this show (the one I recall best was they were given a remote control car, assorted kitchen appliances, tin foil, wood, tennis balls, a 286, and some other stuff and were supposed to make a robot that would roam about a gym and retrieve various objects that were placed there. nobody completed the assignment and most didn't even try)
That IS evil. What kind of class was this for? Did the students really posess the knowledge and skills needed to complete the project? How much time were they given? I don't think a semester is enough unless it's the only class they were taking. Was it a team project or individual?
I don't even think the average RC car could transport a 286 and other accessories (like where's the software, on a 5.25" disk?)
Making people think is one thing (IE, accurately describing how such a robot could be built in detail), but actually pulling this project off takes a wide range of skills and experiences and drive that the average student just doesn't have. Less experience means more trial and error.
But I really believe that changing NASA's focus might be the ideal solution to the public's (read: media's) boredom with our space program.
Very true, I was reading a comment the other day about how the ISS has failed to capture the public's imagination. But until I visted the Kennedy Space center in Sept 1998, I had no idea that such a space station was anything more than a pipe dream. I was surprised that they were ready to begin launching it only two months later.
Why hasn't it captured our imagination? Probably because the media hasn't covered it much.
The downside to a rescue mission was the risk of having 14 people stranded in orbit. If they mistakenly felt there was no risk of re-entry, they they did what they felt was right.
Well, a rescue mission shouldn't require a crew of seven. It would be 2-3 max, maybe even 1 person. I don't know how many people a shuttle can safely carry to landing.
Ron Dittemore made it clear in the Saturday press conference that there is no way to do an EVA in order to inspect the wing or tiles. The EVAs that are done are done in the cargo bay area. The arm that is used to go further out wasn't aboard this flight.
Right, this crew also probably isn't trained for a spacewalk, they don't have the equipment, and such a manuever itself would risk damage to the tiles which are very fragile.
One thing that surprises me is that NASA doesn't seem to have the capability for either Earth-based or satellite-based visual observance of orbiters. The amateur videos taken clearly showed debris coming off, I'm sure better cameras with better lenses could be set up to have a much clearer picture of what happened, maybe even spot a critical defect before they tried to land. They do this with the launch, which is how they spotted the insulation problem.
Also, there is no way they could have gone to the space station. The Columbia is the heaviest of the shuttles and they used the old style heavy main tank for liftoff. They can't get to the station's orbit with that configuration.
I also believe that the Columbia is the only shuttle that wasn't retrofitted with the capability to dock with the ISS, so even if they could get there, they would have to do a very risky maneuver to get from the shuttle to the ISS.
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As was noted in the press conference over the weekend, off-scale and zero readings are still useful. For example, a zero reading in one sensor implies a broken sensor. When several read zero, it implies a multiplexer box is damaged or a wire has been cut.
Or it may imply widespread damage that damaged multiple sensors
One thing I've been wondering about is whether it might be possible to spray some kind of sealant on the tiles to help protect them from damage before orbit. Maybe something wax-like that would melt off during reentry. Off course we'd need to be sure that it wouldn't damage the tiles itself.
This is a rather strange paragraph from the FAQ:
Whatever, there is currently quite a bit of evidence that Columbia's damage was caused by hardened foam insulation falling off the rocket booster during launch. A meteor explanation isn't needed right now.
Don't bother looking for evidence, our mind is made up.
Sure the video on Linux situation isn't perfect, but it's not as bad as JWZ makes it out to be.
Xine is pretty easy to get working, the biggest pain there is getting the dvdnav stuff working, but you can blame the MPAA for that, not xine. Once running it is no more annoying, and often less so than Windows DVD players.
mplayer is a real pain to get working, but it has more features than xine, so it's worth it. I too use this in it's command-line form
As for theming, yes there are a bunch of crappy themes with hard to read fonts, but at least you should be able to find a theme with titlebars and large fonts.
I started using these tools about 18 months ago, and they've improved greatly in that time.
I agree with other posters that this article wasn't worthy of posting.
The top 5% don't pay 90% of the taxes. They do however make more then 90% of the money. I think the top 5 (or the 10) ought to pay same percentage of the taxes as they make the income.
If, as you say they make 90% of the money, how can they not be paying at least 90% of the taxes? Do the math, the income tax is still progressive.
And don't give me that bull that the rich get all the tax breaks, many of the breaks get phased out over certain income levels, and you also have to start dealing with the AMT
That's fine if your tax situation is simple, I used to be a fan of that method myself, but get married, buy a house, buy and sell stock, have kids, run a business from home, etc, and "doing it with pencil" will drive you mad. It doesn't help that the IRS publications are all written to make people's brains explode.
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Sorry, I just don't understand this line of reasoning...
Why do anthropologists travel far to study primitive tribes?
Obviously, it's a widely shared dream among humans to one day explore the universe, if it weren't then there wouldn't be so much science fiction. So assuming that one day we discover a way travel the vast distances of space, would we not want to look for alien lifeforms, especially intelligent ones? Assuming we discover such life forms, would we not want to study them? And in studying them, wouldn't it be unwise to make our presence widely known because of the drastic effects it could have on their civilization? So therefore wouldn't we probably resort to means of study such as abducting specimens from their sleep, and if possible, blocking the experience from their memories?
So if aliens are visiting us and doing these things (which we can't really prove either way), we shouldn't find it so absurd
Continuity has ALWAYS been screwed up in this series. There are so many examples. For one small example, despite the frequent, cheesy, multi-doctor storylines. Why do the past doctors have no memory of their future selves? Why do the present doctors have no memory of what their past selves did? (IE in the 2 doctors, why doesn't the sixth doctor not remember that he visited the space station with a message from Gallifrey as the 2nd doctor?) I could give many examples.
There is a simple way to reconcile all inconsistancies, including this one. Since the timelords travel in time, and there are several renegade timelords who are always trying to muck with history. They could in theory, change past and future events and make something that you saw happen in the series never happen.
Do you think the doctor can always manage to show up just in time to foil the Master's plot? What if the Master and the Rani are executing separate operations simultaneously at different points in space and time? There again, if two things are occuring at different points in time, how can they be occuring simultaneouly? Of course they can't, yet this type of thing has been used as a plot device too many times.
Anyway maybe some renegade time traveler caused the events in Shada to never have occured in the 4th doctors time. Maybe the fact that the Timelords pulled the 4th doctor out of the Shada episode, and returns him to the end of the Shada episode negates the whole Shada episode.
And these same events maybe lead to the doctor to never visit E-space, thus never leaving Romana and K-9 there (there are actually 2 or 3 K-9's BTW). In turn, this would mean that much of the fifth doctor never happened, since the Doctor never would have found Adrick. See? Everything you know is wrong.
So now the Eighth doctor (who really should be manipulated out of existance because that Fox movie that introduced him was unforgivable) has to come in and fix the mess that the fourth doctor never did.
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In other words, the prof didn't understand your code. ;-)
How could He/she tell you to "use any language", then dock you because you used the wrong one?
Web browser, TCP/IP with PPP support coming, theme support, support for multiple types of hardware. All running on a 6502/6510 with a max of 64K, oh and it does multitasking? From what I remember of the 6502, the code liked to written to run at a fixed address (you could write relocatable code, but its support was limited), this would make make any kind of multitasking difficult, because the two programs could require the same memory addresses, oh and did I mention there's no memory protection? Anybody actually use this thing? Does it really work?
This once again perpetuates the myth that all UFO photos are blurry and therefore suspect. There are many, many CLEAR photos of strange flying objects going back decades.
The real problem is there is no way to conclusively authenticate or disprove many of these except for the obvious fakes that photo experts can weed out.
It's also interesting that the skeptics, in addition to arguing that the blurry, grainy photos are probably fake, also often argue that the good, clear photos are probably fakes because they are too good and clear!
I think the DMCA is a horrible law, and I can see how it could stiffle innovation in some areas, I still don't see that it has contributed to this downturn. I'm somewhat of an economics geek, and follow economic news closely.
Basically in the late 90's it seemed as though any company that started with a lowercase 'e' or 'i' or ended in ".com" could get funding even though they didn't have sound business plans. These companies spent like drunken sailors and paid for lots of advertising and bought lots of hardware from companies like Sun and Cisco.
In March 2000, investors began to question the so-called "New Economy" hype, and the Nasdaq had some dramatic drops. This spelled doom for the unprofitable dot-coms. Suddenly these companies were gone, and companies that benefitted from them (Cisco and Sun and also those who depend on Ad revenues) were taking a beating because they hadn't planned for it. This had a ripple effect throughout much of the economy. We later learned that some companies, like Worldcom and Global Crossing were nothing but hype to begin with.
Not too many people were realized how bad the DMCA was until they started seeing the effects in late 2000/early 2001. The economic downturn was already in progress by then.
It remains to be seen if DMCA concerns have a major impact on the ability of startup companies to attract new investments. Right now the lack of funding is due to a lousy IPO market.
I also think the DMCA will be corrected in due course, either by the courts or the legislature. DMCA concerns will become more mainstream until they hit critical mass. Right now, as intelligent techno-geeks, we can see what's wrong with the DMCA, but the average person cannot. I see this slowly changing with articles about DMCA problems starting to appear in more mainstream media outlets. If this continues, I predict you'll see a change in thinking in Washington. The DMCA benefits mostly California and maybe New York. Most Senators and Reps want to be on the side of economic freedom prosperity for their state rather than on the side of an industry that benefits other states, even if this industry has deep pockets.
The problem I see in much of these protectionist ideas is that somewhere between selling one copy of a piece of software used by millions of people and charging rent for every single access to a piece of software used by millions of people there is a happy middle ground Bottom line: Where intellectual property is a delicate balance between the interests of producer and consumer I'm all for it. Where intellectual property becomes a kudgel for controlling market entry I'd rather see it abolished entirely I pretty much agree except for the "abolished entirely" part. I see patents and copyrights as useful, but they must be limited, and more common sense is needed for patents in particularI am no fan of the DMCA, but the current economic slump is due to the outrageous excesses of the late 90's, the dot-com boom and Y2K spending. Companies geared up and spent money like the good times would never end. Some, with money they never even had (Enron, et al). It was not sustainable and we are now paying the price. The DMCA has little or nothing to do with it.
Computer users may share things, but if your source of income is tied to what you produce on your computer, then you are going to protect what you do to guarantee future income. Companies who produce mass-market goods will be affected the most, were you need to sell a large number of units to break-even. Is a company going to produce the next Quake or Unreal with no guarantee that they'll sell more than one copy? Not unless that one copy gets sold for 10 million or more.
Of course some would argue that those games should be Open source. I suppose the programmers could work at McDonalds by day and code the next Open Source Sims add-on as a hobby by night, and it'll be ready after five years. Wine has been in development for what, ten years? and it hasn't even reached version 1.0 yet! I love open source, and contribute to open source, but face it, if you want rapid development, you need either highly motivated developers (which there is not an endless supply of), or you need to pay people. If you pay people then you need to find a reliable income stream.
Except that the original author's source code would be human-readable.
If IP laws were abolished, RMS and his fellow idealists would become the leading advocates FOR IP Laws.
Why? Abolishing IP law would have the opposite effect that people wishing for it intend. Which scenario is more likely:
A) Intellectual Property and copyright laws are abolished, people look at each other and say "Gee, I guess we better share everything with each other now. Birds chirp, people join hands singing Kumbaya under bright rainbows, etc.
or
B) Intellectual Property and copyright laws are abolished, People say, well I guess I have to protect my work even more now because the government won't help me. Source code will be an even closer guarded secret.
Copy protection schemes will become even more ubiquitous and nasty. If they aren't effective, then maybe some markets will dry up. To see a movie you might have to go to the theater, because movie companies stop releasing on DVD and VHS
Many projects won't get off the ground because there's not enough return on investment.
New drugs don't get developed because the financial incentive to do so has been removed.
If we all receive grants that we can live off the interest of, like RMS, then maybe scenario A can happen. But as long as most of us have to produce products and services for a living, B is far more likely. Laws don't change human nature.
IP is not the problem, the problem is in the implementation of it.
If there were no copyright law, people could still hoard source and release only binaries, and there would be no GPL or any mechanism to compel them to release the source.
You would have to come and steal it from their computer to get it.
GPL needs copyright to function, deal with it.
I just submitted the manuscript for Understanding and Healing your Computer through Transidental Meditation. Reserve your copy today!
Nothing will make me nostalgic for DOS PCs Nothing like rebooting constantly with different DOS disks with different autoexec.bats and config.syss only because you have too many drivers and TSRs, and your games won't run because not enough of the low 640K is free. BBS memory: Downloading an 80Kb game for an hour at 300Bps!
Wow! Free the Faulklands- Two islands that are NOT a mirror image of each other! And look at how many multi-colored sprites are present in "Hands across America" and "Punch buggy", they don't even seem to be flickering!
Not bad for a system that had no video memory.
Why did I ever put up with games with crap graphics like Night Driver, Adventure and Outlaw when I could've had these?
when he was a professor, his students hated him because he made them think (imagine that) and he frequently gave them assignments that were much like this show (the one I recall best was they were given a remote control car, assorted kitchen appliances, tin foil, wood, tennis balls, a 286, and some other stuff and were supposed to make a robot that would roam about a gym and retrieve various objects that were placed there. nobody completed the assignment and most didn't even try)
That IS evil. What kind of class was this for? Did the students really posess the knowledge and skills needed to complete the project? How much time were they given? I don't think a semester is enough unless it's the only class they were taking. Was it a team project or individual?
I don't even think the average RC car could transport a 286 and other accessories (like where's the software, on a 5.25" disk?)
Making people think is one thing (IE, accurately describing how such a robot could be built in detail), but actually pulling this project off takes a wide range of skills and experiences and drive that the average student just doesn't have. Less experience means more trial and error.
Very true, I was reading a comment the other day about how the ISS has failed to capture the public's imagination. But until I visted the Kennedy Space center in Sept 1998, I had no idea that such a space station was anything more than a pipe dream. I was surprised that they were ready to begin launching it only two months later.
Why hasn't it captured our imagination? Probably because the media hasn't covered it much.
The best thing about Nostradamus' prophecies is that they are reusable.
Did you know the same quatrain that predicted the WTC disaster also predicted the TWA 800 disaster?
Clearly Nostradamus had much more insight than we give him credit for!
Disclaimer: The above is sarcasm, for the sarcasm-detectionally challenged
Well, a rescue mission shouldn't require a crew of seven. It would be 2-3 max, maybe even 1 person. I don't know how many people a shuttle can safely carry to landing.
Right, this crew also probably isn't trained for a spacewalk, they don't have the equipment, and such a manuever itself would risk damage to the tiles which are very fragile.
One thing that surprises me is that NASA doesn't seem to have the capability for either Earth-based or satellite-based visual observance of orbiters. The amateur videos taken clearly showed debris coming off, I'm sure better cameras with better lenses could be set up to have a much clearer picture of what happened, maybe even spot a critical defect before they tried to land. They do this with the launch, which is how they spotted the insulation problem.
Also, there is no way they could have gone to the space station. The Columbia is the heaviest of the shuttles and they used the old style heavy main tank for liftoff. They can't get to the station's orbit with that configuration.I also believe that the Columbia is the only shuttle that wasn't retrofitted with the capability to dock with the ISS, so even if they could get there, they would have to do a very risky maneuver to get from the shuttle to the ISS.
Or it may imply widespread damage that damaged multiple sensors
One thing I've been wondering about is whether it might be possible to spray some kind of sealant on the tiles to help protect them from damage before orbit. Maybe something wax-like that would melt off during reentry. Off course we'd need to be sure that it wouldn't damage the tiles itself.
Don't bother looking for evidence, our mind is made up.
It's a bonus DVD for the movie signs with deleted scenes and an alternate ending where they aliens aren't defeated.
Sure the video on Linux situation isn't perfect, but it's not as bad as JWZ makes it out to be.
Xine is pretty easy to get working, the biggest pain there is getting the dvdnav stuff working, but you can blame the MPAA for that, not xine. Once running it is no more annoying, and often less so than Windows DVD players.
mplayer is a real pain to get working, but it has more features than xine, so it's worth it. I too use this in it's command-line form
As for theming, yes there are a bunch of crappy themes with hard to read fonts, but at least you should be able to find a theme with titlebars and large fonts.
I started using these tools about 18 months ago, and they've improved greatly in that time.
I agree with other posters that this article wasn't worthy of posting.
If, as you say they make 90% of the money, how can they not be paying at least 90% of the taxes? Do the math, the income tax is still progressive.
And don't give me that bull that the rich get all the tax breaks, many of the breaks get phased out over certain income levels, and you also have to start dealing with the AMT
That's fine if your tax situation is simple, I used to be a fan of that method myself, but get married, buy a house, buy and sell stock, have kids, run a business from home, etc, and "doing it with pencil" will drive you mad. It doesn't help that the IRS publications are all written to make people's brains explode.
Sorry, I just don't understand this line of reasoning...
Why do anthropologists travel far to study primitive tribes?
Obviously, it's a widely shared dream among humans to one day explore the universe, if it weren't then there wouldn't be so much science fiction. So assuming that one day we discover a way travel the vast distances of space, would we not want to look for alien lifeforms, especially intelligent ones?
Assuming we discover such life forms, would we not want to study them?
And in studying them, wouldn't it be unwise to make our presence widely known because of the drastic effects it could have on their civilization?
So therefore wouldn't we probably resort to means of study such as abducting specimens from their sleep, and if possible, blocking the experience from their memories?
So if aliens are visiting us and doing these things (which we can't really prove either way), we shouldn't find it so absurd
Dude,
Continuity has ALWAYS been screwed up in this series. There are so many examples. For one small example, despite the frequent, cheesy, multi-doctor storylines. Why do the past doctors have no memory of their future selves? Why do the present doctors have no memory of what their past selves did? (IE in the 2 doctors, why doesn't the sixth doctor not remember that he visited the space station with a message from Gallifrey as the 2nd doctor?) I could give many examples.
There is a simple way to reconcile all inconsistancies, including this one. Since the timelords travel in time, and there are several renegade timelords who are always trying to muck with history. They could in theory, change past and future events and make something that you saw happen in the series never happen.
Do you think the doctor can always manage to show up just in time to foil the Master's plot? What if the Master and the Rani are executing separate operations simultaneously at different points in space and time? There again, if two things are occuring at different points in time, how can they be occuring simultaneouly? Of course they can't, yet this type of thing has been used as a plot device too many times.
Anyway maybe some renegade time traveler caused the events in Shada to never have occured in the 4th doctors time. Maybe the fact that the Timelords pulled the 4th doctor out of the Shada episode, and returns him to the end of the Shada episode negates the whole Shada episode.
And these same events maybe lead to the doctor to never visit E-space, thus never leaving Romana and K-9 there (there are actually 2 or 3 K-9's BTW). In turn, this would mean that much of the fifth doctor never happened, since the Doctor never would have found Adrick. See? Everything you know is wrong.
So now the Eighth doctor (who really should be manipulated out of existance because that Fox movie that introduced him was unforgivable) has to come in and fix the mess that the fourth doctor never did.
(my brain hurts)