This scares the living shit out of me. I really appreciate all the work that scientists do to protect, understand and appreciate deadly virii in the name of humankind, but for the love of god, people, don't be foolheardy with these biological agents. I think what I dread the most is some alien discovering this world a thousand years from now, a corpse planet, a slow hour long series of flashbacks and a slow fadeout to, "they were destroyed by their own hubris!" I mean, talk about cliche. If you find yourself in possession of a deadly virus, be extra careful and don't send it out to your grandmom by accident, just a tip.
This to me sounds like an invisible fence for pilots, which isn't such a bad idea. This to me sounds like a novel way of dealing with malfunctions when other forms of communication are not available. I worry, though, that this kind of technology might be overused though, like let's have lasers advertisements or laser boundaries marking points of interest outside of a plane for passengers. I guess I wonder since visual distractions will only increase, whether this is just a stop gap measure into they can come up with a less potentially temporarily solution. There is so much light stimulus out there anyway, I wonder if there isn't another, less potentially universal way of creating a modern day lighthouse. Like a directed sonic screeching noise that would reverberate in the cockpit, a bit like those grooves on the side of the road when you are nodding off on a turnpike.
I personally find your comment to be distressing and pessimistic. I feel that the overall goal of having open internet capabilities for all people (and the hardware to do so) has the potential to help people live more productive lives, by aiding in information acquisition and use. By forcing people to pay for a city wide tool such as this, it becomes just another perk for the rich and wealthy to maintain the status quo. Obviously the money for such a project must come from somewhere, and making it a subscription based service initially to cover those costs makes sense, but I should hope that when the infrastructure is paid for maintenance will be from taxes and access would be universal.
I look forward to the time in the not so distant future where wireless internet access is considered an inherent right. Even now, driving around Boston with macstumbler, I can find dozens of open non-WEP protected networks ripe for the taking and so I delude myself these unprotected networks are a purposeful open sharing of bandwidth. Am I the only one who finds the idea of forcing your citizens to pay to join such a network to be a little silly? I guess I think this sort of thing should be a public right rather than an extra cost. Mind you, let's reform healthcare and education first, and give them the kind of money they need, but you know, after taking care of the more essential essentials, free wireless and fiber-optic networks for everyone!
I've been fascinated by these kinds of events for a while. We live in a huge cosmos, full of billions and billions of stars, the fact is that we really could at any point be wiped out by thousands of chance events at any moment, that we wouldn't even see coming, that we right now know nothing about. If our reality as we know it suddenly got deleted for whatever reason, and we had no idea that it was coming, there would be no hindsight to be twenty-twenty about. Just another reason to live life well, while we still have the chance to. Now I feel like eating ice-cream.
This is an excellent point. When I lived in the city, I would obsessively calculate where I should exit the train in order to leave the station or transfer trains in the most efficient way possible. With a digital billboard with the location, speed, and pattern of the trains clearly viewable to the public, the efficiency increase for people traveling in the city would be enormous.
People would intuitively know where to exit and enter trains, whether it was better to wait, to take the local or the express, whether it's worth walking a few blocks or wait for that train that's just about to appear from the corner.
Every regular subway rider does this already, the increase in possible information would just take the equation forward a couple thousand iterations.
The only thing that I noticed was his gazing at himself in a mirror and checking out his floppy ears. Hell, it could be years since his regeneration, since god knows mirrors aren't that common in alternative times/universes. (keeps reflections of television cameras out of frame, you see.)
Yeah, he could always be granted another dozen or two by some sort of entity or something as a reward. Didn't the master make it past twelve? Suffice it to say. I'm confident there are enough creative writers out there to successfully retcon a solution.
Actually, I have a theory that they are hinting to a huge temporal war that ended up in the death of the timelords except for the Doctor (and perhaps what the celestine conciousness was blaming the doctor for when he gets made at him in the premier). It's a pity that Enterprise has kind of poisoned that concept, but it seems pretty different, considered the tragic outcome has already occurred.
I hope I'm right. A subtle interlocking arch tying together the seasons of Who is exactly what is needed to keep this on the air for another 26 years.
Doctor who on television was dead, though. If it means having a really amazing doctor for one year vs keeping the television program off the air, I'd prefer the one year of interesting shows.
I'm not so sure if I agree or even understand your criticism of Piper. Accent accuracy and response by others within the context temporally can either be explained by the translator field generated by the TARDIS or just adorable kitsch campy production value. The fact you find her accent to be low class and that of a stereotypical welfare abuser suggests to me they've done a great job in casting, since I feel, people whom have such thoughts should be exposed to stimuli that counters to such harmful, ridiculous stereotyping.
I just re-watched Rose (oh thank you bittorrent for given me the chance to watch these even though being out of the uk), and realized that the doctor could very well have recognized Rose from previous interaction with her. So if Eccleston guest stars and Piper is still on the program, it wouldn't necessarily violate continuity.
I personally have very little problem with Eccleston's decision. I think that he's done so far a marvelous job in re-igniting the Who franchise. I think his reading of the doctor is marvelous and hope they find someone else who interpret the character so excellently.
What about the doctor being his own companion for several episodes, if Eccleston returns for a guest spot? That would be interesting. I always thought "the * doctors episodes" were among the most compelling as a child.
I think it may have to do with the beleagured Apple effect. 'No one' expects Apple to succeed in the longterm, and punditial wisdom says the company's successes must necessairly be Newtonized into the generalized entropic equilibrium of Microsoftness.
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This scares the living shit out of me. I really appreciate all the work that scientists do to protect, understand and appreciate deadly virii in the name of humankind, but for the love of god, people, don't be foolheardy with these biological agents. I think what I dread the most is some alien discovering this world a thousand years from now, a corpse planet, a slow hour long series of flashbacks and a slow fadeout to, "they were destroyed by their own hubris!" I mean, talk about cliche. If you find yourself in possession of a deadly virus, be extra careful and don't send it out to your grandmom by accident, just a tip.
This to me sounds like an invisible fence for pilots, which isn't such a bad idea. This to me sounds like a novel way of dealing with malfunctions when other forms of communication are not available. I worry, though, that this kind of technology might be overused though, like let's have lasers advertisements or laser boundaries marking points of interest outside of a plane for passengers. I guess I wonder since visual distractions will only increase, whether this is just a stop gap measure into they can come up with a less potentially temporarily solution. There is so much light stimulus out there anyway, I wonder if there isn't another, less potentially universal way of creating a modern day lighthouse. Like a directed sonic screeching noise that would reverberate in the cockpit, a bit like those grooves on the side of the road when you are nodding off on a turnpike.
I personally find your comment to be distressing and pessimistic. I feel that the overall goal of having open internet capabilities for all people (and the hardware to do so) has the potential to help people live more productive lives, by aiding in information acquisition and use. By forcing people to pay for a city wide tool such as this, it becomes just another perk for the rich and wealthy to maintain the status quo. Obviously the money for such a project must come from somewhere, and making it a subscription based service initially to cover those costs makes sense, but I should hope that when the infrastructure is paid for maintenance will be from taxes and access would be universal.
I look forward to the time in the not so distant future where wireless internet access is considered an inherent right. Even now, driving around Boston with macstumbler, I can find dozens of open non-WEP protected networks ripe for the taking and so I delude myself these unprotected networks are a purposeful open sharing of bandwidth. Am I the only one who finds the idea of forcing your citizens to pay to join such a network to be a little silly? I guess I think this sort of thing should be a public right rather than an extra cost. Mind you, let's reform healthcare and education first, and give them the kind of money they need, but you know, after taking care of the more essential essentials, free wireless and fiber-optic networks for everyone!
I've been fascinated by these kinds of events for a while. We live in a huge cosmos, full of billions and billions of stars, the fact is that we really could at any point be wiped out by thousands of chance events at any moment, that we wouldn't even see coming, that we right now know nothing about. If our reality as we know it suddenly got deleted for whatever reason, and we had no idea that it was coming, there would be no hindsight to be twenty-twenty about. Just another reason to live life well, while we still have the chance to. Now I feel like eating ice-cream.
This is an excellent point. When I lived in the city, I would obsessively calculate where I should exit the train in order to leave the station or transfer trains in the most efficient way possible. With a digital billboard with the location, speed, and pattern of the trains clearly viewable to the public, the efficiency increase for people traveling in the city would be enormous. People would intuitively know where to exit and enter trains, whether it was better to wait, to take the local or the express, whether it's worth walking a few blocks or wait for that train that's just about to appear from the corner. Every regular subway rider does this already, the increase in possible information would just take the equation forward a couple thousand iterations.
The only thing that I noticed was his gazing at himself in a mirror and checking out his floppy ears. Hell, it could be years since his regeneration, since god knows mirrors aren't that common in alternative times/universes. (keeps reflections of television cameras out of frame, you see.)
Yeah, he could always be granted another dozen or two by some sort of entity or something as a reward. Didn't the master make it past twelve? Suffice it to say. I'm confident there are enough creative writers out there to successfully retcon a solution.
Actually, I have a theory that they are hinting to a huge temporal war that ended up in the death of the timelords except for the Doctor (and perhaps what the celestine conciousness was blaming the doctor for when he gets made at him in the premier). It's a pity that Enterprise has kind of poisoned that concept, but it seems pretty different, considered the tragic outcome has already occurred. I hope I'm right. A subtle interlocking arch tying together the seasons of Who is exactly what is needed to keep this on the air for another 26 years.
Doctor who on television was dead, though. If it means having a really amazing doctor for one year vs keeping the television program off the air, I'd prefer the one year of interesting shows. I'm not so sure if I agree or even understand your criticism of Piper. Accent accuracy and response by others within the context temporally can either be explained by the translator field generated by the TARDIS or just adorable kitsch campy production value. The fact you find her accent to be low class and that of a stereotypical welfare abuser suggests to me they've done a great job in casting, since I feel, people whom have such thoughts should be exposed to stimuli that counters to such harmful, ridiculous stereotyping.
I just re-watched Rose (oh thank you bittorrent for given me the chance to watch these even though being out of the uk), and realized that the doctor could very well have recognized Rose from previous interaction with her. So if Eccleston guest stars and Piper is still on the program, it wouldn't necessarily violate continuity. I personally have very little problem with Eccleston's decision. I think that he's done so far a marvelous job in re-igniting the Who franchise. I think his reading of the doctor is marvelous and hope they find someone else who interpret the character so excellently. What about the doctor being his own companion for several episodes, if Eccleston returns for a guest spot? That would be interesting. I always thought "the * doctors episodes" were among the most compelling as a child.
I think it may have to do with the beleagured Apple effect. 'No one' expects Apple to succeed in the longterm, and punditial wisdom says the company's successes must necessairly be Newtonized into the generalized entropic equilibrium of Microsoftness.
It's about freakin' time that OS X was brought up to speed. Finally gives a chance for Dungeon Master Java to be played on OS X. hurrah hurrah.
New Lives for Old Bones. Man, I loved this game back on my ST, and now I'm thrilled to have it back at my fingertips.