I played it with Quicktime Alternative in Windows Media Player Classic and the same thing happened. The problem is with the file. Recommend finding an alternate source...
Can I just say? That's just really mean to the telemarketers. I'm not a telemarketer, I hate being telemarketed at as much as anybody, but it seems to me that far from solving the problem, this is just increases the amount of pain in the world for humorous effect. I mean, two wrongs don't make a right. It may be a cliche but it still holds.
This is just the beginning. By 2009 the times tables are going to be half as complicated as they are now. And multicoloured. Also, physics is being merged into one single physic.
Lisa, admiring a private school's facilities: "Their periodic table has two hundred and fifty elements!"
Skinner: "Our school board has cut us back to sixteen. All of them lanthanides!"
No more than the Elements Song is already out of date. It predates the discovery of all the elements above Lawrencium... I do still rather admire the audacity of attempting to rhyme "Harvard" with "discovered".
Congratulations! You have won our hourly prize! Click OK to claim it
It always strikes me as implausible that I can do things like visit the same site twice and be the 1,000,000th hit both times. I actually made a fake ad once where the top part said in bright glowing bouncing letters "ATTENTION! If the link below is flashing then YOU HAVE WON!!!" Below that, in dull grey, was a link saying "you have lost".
Seems to me like that's something lacking in basically every fan film, Star Wars, Star Trek and miscellaneous - acting. CGI seems to be easy these days, but a fan film with people in it who aren't just fans, but actually decent actors would be like gold dust. Anybody know any good examples?
What I like best about this movie is the way its brevity makes it open to interpretation and sparks the imagination. The real movie is in the details you yourself supply. "Available" can be anyone you want him/her to be, though personally I hold the opinion that "Available" is you, the viewer.
That would have an interesting result which I've never seen in movies before: you return to the present to find that your parents have a different kid: the same age as you, and technically your sibling, but a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT PERSON. And they've never heard of YOU. Even though you inexplicably have Dad's eyes...
There theory is that there'd be a little feedback loop to repair the inconsistency. The universe would iron itself out, so that, on the day you left, there WERE in fact footprints in the cement. And when you return to the present that's what you'll find.
It's almost the same model they use in the first Back To The Future movie. You'd think that the slight changes - Twin Pine Mall becomes Lone Pine Mall etc. - would mean that the second Marty you see going back in time at the end of the movie is indeed a SECOND Marty. What's actually happened is the universe has been adjusted - that Marty is the original Marty, and he's going back in time to make a whole lot of changes which have already been made. It all works out.
Pretty sure the Master isn't going to appear in this series. RTD is trying to bring in new viewers, not alienate everybody except existing fans, which is what bringing in the Master would achieve.
I think the Bad Wolf references are all attempts by the Controller to get the Doctor's attention, my opinion is outlined in more detail on my Bad Wolf page here. I'm also of the opinion that the mysterious "They survived through me!" voice is the Face of Boe...
Well, there's a throwaway line at the conclusion of "The Doctor Dances" where the Doctor has successfully wrapped up the adventure - with zero fatalities, an almost unique event in DW history. Rose remarks, "Look at you, beaming away like you're Father Christmas!" to which he instantly replies "Who says I'm not? Red-bicycle-when-you-were-twelve."
Could've just been dropped in by Stephen Moffat (who wrote that episode) for laughs... but who knows?
Re:Will this Dr. Who tackle harsh political issues
on
Dr Who Rolls On
·
· Score: 1
Well, the episode "The Long Game" deals with the manipulation of individuals through the media, specifically the news. Take a look at the current state of Fox News and so on and I'm sure we can all find something to nod knowingly at...
It's just a matter of emphasis. The right word in the right broadcast repeated often enough can destabilise an economy, invent an enemy, change a vote..."
It'd be the 29th, actually. The current series is the 27th. But all the documents related to it list it as season 1. And the IMDB considers them separate shows. Whatever you like, really.
There are going to be species out there that are vastly more intelligent or have incredible memories. In the movies and TV shows, all aliens have pretty much the same brainpower. That's just unrealistic.
This is a fair point, but it's surprisingly difficult to avoid. Sub-human intelligences are just dumb/goofy/difficult to take seriously. And superhuman intelligences: well, it's logically impossible for somebody to write a story about a person who's smarter than the writer. (That is, it's entirely possible to write about "the greatest detective who ever lived", but it's impossible to write about him making any leap of deduction you couldn't have made yourself.) Iain M. Banks, whom I perceive as one of the smartest people in science fiction, comes pretty close when he writes about the thousands-of-times-smarter-than-humans Minds who inhabit the Culture universe, but he can't write about a Mind acting smarter than he is.
This is also why so many people - even supposedly smart people - behave stupidly in TV shows. Because the writers aren't that clever.
Slashdot Mirror
Well, I can see why you wouldn't want to waste any precious mime time. :D
I played it with Quicktime Alternative in Windows Media Player Classic and the same thing happened. The problem is with the file. Recommend finding an alternate source...
Can I just say? That's just really mean to the telemarketers. I'm not a telemarketer, I hate being telemarketed at as much as anybody, but it seems to me that far from solving the problem, this is just increases the amount of pain in the world for humorous effect. I mean, two wrongs don't make a right. It may be a cliche but it still holds.
This is just the beginning. By 2009 the times tables are going to be half as complicated as they are now. And multicoloured. Also, physics is being merged into one single physic.
Lisa, admiring a private school's facilities: "Their periodic table has two hundred and fifty elements!" Skinner: "Our school board has cut us back to sixteen. All of them lanthanides!"
No more than the Elements Song is already out of date. It predates the discovery of all the elements above Lawrencium... I do still rather admire the audacity of attempting to rhyme "Harvard" with "discovered".
Lack of what? Lack of WHAT?
You're new here, right?
Your earlier points are valid, but this is an extremely poor argument against something being possible. Creationists try this one all the time.
It always strikes me as implausible that I can do things like visit the same site twice and be the 1,000,000th hit both times. I actually made a fake ad once where the top part said in bright glowing bouncing letters "ATTENTION! If the link below is flashing then YOU HAVE WON!!!" Below that, in dull grey, was a link saying "you have lost".
If you're using FlashBlock for Firefox like I am, it's possible to whitelist sites if you go in your Extensions settings.
Seems to me like that's something lacking in basically every fan film, Star Wars, Star Trek and miscellaneous - acting. CGI seems to be easy these days, but a fan film with people in it who aren't just fans, but actually decent actors would be like gold dust. Anybody know any good examples?
What I like best about this movie is the way its brevity makes it open to interpretation and sparks the imagination. The real movie is in the details you yourself supply. "Available" can be anyone you want him/her to be, though personally I hold the opinion that "Available" is you, the viewer.
Great, so you can begin decelerating!
It would be really cold and dark and you'd be dying?
That would have an interesting result which I've never seen in movies before: you return to the present to find that your parents have a different kid: the same age as you, and technically your sibling, but a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT PERSON. And they've never heard of YOU. Even though you inexplicably have Dad's eyes...
There theory is that there'd be a little feedback loop to repair the inconsistency. The universe would iron itself out, so that, on the day you left, there WERE in fact footprints in the cement. And when you return to the present that's what you'll find.
It's almost the same model they use in the first Back To The Future movie. You'd think that the slight changes - Twin Pine Mall becomes Lone Pine Mall etc. - would mean that the second Marty you see going back in time at the end of the movie is indeed a SECOND Marty. What's actually happened is the universe has been adjusted - that Marty is the original Marty, and he's going back in time to make a whole lot of changes which have already been made. It all works out.
Hayden Christensen is not a bird. And if this reaches +5 Informative I shall despair for the state of humanity.
Pretty sure the Master isn't going to appear in this series. RTD is trying to bring in new viewers, not alienate everybody except existing fans, which is what bringing in the Master would achieve.
I think the Bad Wolf references are all attempts by the Controller to get the Doctor's attention, my opinion is outlined in more detail on my Bad Wolf page here. I'm also of the opinion that the mysterious "They survived through me!" voice is the Face of Boe...
Well, there's a throwaway line at the conclusion of "The Doctor Dances" where the Doctor has successfully wrapped up the adventure - with zero fatalities, an almost unique event in DW history. Rose remarks, "Look at you, beaming away like you're Father Christmas!" to which he instantly replies "Who says I'm not? Red-bicycle-when-you-were-twelve."
Could've just been dropped in by Stephen Moffat (who wrote that episode) for laughs... but who knows?
Well, the episode "The Long Game" deals with the manipulation of individuals through the media, specifically the news. Take a look at the current state of Fox News and so on and I'm sure we can all find something to nod knowingly at...
Anybody else thinking the word "terrorism"?It'd be the 29th, actually. The current series is the 27th. But all the documents related to it list it as season 1. And the IMDB considers them separate shows. Whatever you like, really.
This is a fair point, but it's surprisingly difficult to avoid. Sub-human intelligences are just dumb/goofy/difficult to take seriously. And superhuman intelligences: well, it's logically impossible for somebody to write a story about a person who's smarter than the writer. (That is, it's entirely possible to write about "the greatest detective who ever lived", but it's impossible to write about him making any leap of deduction you couldn't have made yourself.) Iain M. Banks, whom I perceive as one of the smartest people in science fiction, comes pretty close when he writes about the thousands-of-times-smarter-than-humans Minds who inhabit the Culture universe, but he can't write about a Mind acting smarter than he is.
This is also why so many people - even supposedly smart people - behave stupidly in TV shows. Because the writers aren't that clever.
idk
I've got a simulator running which renders the entire Earth at string theory level at 10^34 FPS.
Unfortunately it's in use at the moment.