40th anniversary? What is it commemorating, the animated series from the 70s? The TV show begain in the 60s so the 40th anniversary was around 2006 (or earlier if you want to count the cage).
There have been home projects to replicate the spectrum, ula included... one was called speccybob which replicated the machine in TTL logic, meaning it would be possible to take that design and cram it onto a single chip.
But alas, the person running that project ran into lots of bad luck and had to abort it.
Also not forgetting Gwen Cooper... Same actress played the servant girl to the undertaker in the unquiet undead... (and in fact, the doctor recognised the similarity iand enquired about Gwen's heritage)
Alhhh, but karma bites both ways.... Balance out the death of him and his family in torchwood... With the doctor and donna noble saving him and his family from the volcano at pompeii
"J.K. Rowling recently revealed that she was the author of a book she had published under a pseudonym, which spiked in sales after she was outed as the true author."?
No, she didn't. Some blabbermouth at her solicitors (american, look up lawyers), did. She's pretty peeved about it, in spite of the extra sales.
Tisk tisk tisk... EVERYONE knows that richard III *WON* the battle of bosworth field, but then got murdered accidentally by a weasel called Edmund when he thought Richard was nicking his horse. Richard IV then became king for a year before the entire family was (again) accidentally murdered by Lord Percy when he put poison into a jug of wine rather than a single cup.
THEN EBH7 took the throne and erased that year from history.:)
You have either a terrible memory or you weren't around at the start of this... back in about 2003, a Linux distribution by the name of Caldera bought the Unix part of SCO (the other part went on to continue trading under a different name) Then. in a moment of utter insanity, they decided to sue IBM under allegations that IBM had included their UNIX "property" in the linux kernel...
Millions of man hours of searching later. people came up with about 5 lines of code that were so generic it was impossible to copyright them,..
So, the IBM trial went on and on and dragged other companies into the mess... Microsoft "invested" in SCO, presumably to keep the trial going. Novell disputed what SCO actually claimed to own...
Last year (or was it 2011) the novell case finally concluded that SCO didn't own any of the copyrights they were suing IBM over in the first place. IBM have yet to countersue, but there's so little of SCO left now it's probably no longer worth it.
That's just general big headedness on our part. We have no idea about how they lived, acted, fought, courted... etc... So the pronounced forehead made them look thick and stupid but looks aren't everything. Just bringing one back won't tell us anything new about them APART from their intellect when guided by us. You'd need a TARDIS to learn about their uninfluenced intelligence and culture back then.
They're politicians, the only qualifications any of them are likely to have is one for "political science" or some other similar non-subject. And they don't even need that, joe bloggs from down the street who left school with no o-levels could walk into the local political party office, join up, talk them round, get elected and become prime minister with zero qualifications at all. (highly unlikely of course but he might be a manipulative charismatic bastard and pull it off)...
It's happened. In london. But that time it was after a bunch of armed gunmen took hostages in the iranian embassy. 1980, the SAS storming that is one of the iconic images of that decade.
Spooky. When I was reading your comment the thought of the hitchhiker's guide series vs film graphics sprang to mind. The graphics in the original series from the late 70s were far better, funnier and flashier than the crap ones in the recent film.
IF demanded to answer an unanswerable yes/no question in court, the most prudent thing to say would be "Your honour, answering this question in the way that you demand would result in me purjering myself. I swore to tell the truth, the WHOLE truth and nothing but the truth and yes or no are not the WHOLE truth.There is no yes/no answer to such a question, it's far more complicated than that".
But this story isn't news for nerds OR stuff that matters.
Someone shot someone, who then died, so the first someone goes on trial for murder...
How is ANYTHING in the above a story that matters? Slashdot doesn't reportt every other murder,. If it did there'd be no room for anything else. So why is this special? Or is the implication that as he was neighbourhood watch, that was somehow a vindication that granted him more powers than the average man in the street?
Here;re some of my favourites... Fionavar Tapestry by Guy Gavriel Kay (The summer tree, the wandering fire and the longest road) The winter of the world by Michael Scot Rohan (Anvil of ice, etc) I'll agree with another poster here when he mentioned Taltos the Assassin (I got it in a single volume) David Eddings' Belgariad and Malorian were good too... Preferred them to the sapphire rose books. There're a hell of a lot more on my bookshelf but those are top of the list. (I did like thomas covenant too,but that's had a mention already)
I DID like Robert Jordan's wheel of time... But I got stuck in one of them and never got it finished... And I found myself skipping whole chapters because I found the matt cauthon character utterly boring,
Daleks haven't been challenged by stairs since 1988. The sylvestor mccoy episode "remembrance of the daleks" had a transmat in the basement of a school used to transport daleks in.
First time we saw one float upstairs was THEN, not in the new incarnation "Dalek" episode.
And look what happened to Great Giana Sisters... Real shame too, the game got a Crash Smash but then never made it to shelves (the spectrum version that is, I know the commodore 64 version managed to get released).
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40th anniversary?
What is it commemorating, the animated series from the 70s?
The TV show begain in the 60s so the 40th anniversary was around 2006 (or earlier if you want to count the cage).
You'll spend so much time wandering around outside hacking portals you won't have time for any other apps.
I'd go for the royal. Hated that one.
There have been home projects to replicate the spectrum, ula included...
one was called speccybob which replicated the machine in TTL logic, meaning it would be possible to take that design and cram it onto a single chip.
But alas, the person running that project ran into lots of bad luck and had to abort it.
The shoe phone as used by Maxwell Smart...
Also not forgetting Gwen Cooper... Same actress played the servant girl to the undertaker in the unquiet undead... (and in fact, the doctor recognised the similarity iand enquired about Gwen's heritage)
Alhhh, but karma bites both ways.... Balance out the death of him and his family in torchwood...
With the doctor and donna noble saving him and his family from the volcano at pompeii
Think you're missing out a few there...
Born in '67, vaccinated against Diptheria, Whooping cough, polio and TB...
Not too sure on the smallpox., maybe by my time, it'd been officially eradicated.
"J.K. Rowling recently revealed that she was the author of a book she had published under a pseudonym, which spiked in sales after she was outed as the true author."?
No, she didn't.
Some blabbermouth at her solicitors (american, look up lawyers), did.
She's pretty peeved about it, in spite of the extra sales.
Tisk tisk tisk... EVERYONE knows that richard III *WON* the battle of bosworth field, but then got murdered accidentally by a weasel called Edmund when he thought Richard was nicking his horse. Richard IV then became king for a year before the entire family was (again) accidentally murdered by Lord Percy when he put poison into a jug of wine rather than a single cup.
THEN EBH7 took the throne and erased that year from history. :)
My number is one digit off a chinese takeaway nearby... Constantly getting "Can I place an order?" calls...
My usual response is "NO!" hangup.
Might have to try taking the order when I'm feeling extra petulant... :)
You have either a terrible memory or you weren't around at the start of this...
back in about 2003, a Linux distribution by the name of Caldera bought the Unix part of SCO (the other part went on to continue trading under a different name)
Then. in a moment of utter insanity, they decided to sue IBM under allegations that IBM had included their UNIX "property" in the linux kernel...
Millions of man hours of searching later. people came up with about 5 lines of code that were so generic it was impossible to copyright them,..
So, the IBM trial went on and on and dragged other companies into the mess...
Microsoft "invested" in SCO, presumably to keep the trial going.
Novell disputed what SCO actually claimed to own...
Last year (or was it 2011) the novell case finally concluded that SCO didn't own any of the copyrights they were suing IBM over in the first place.
IBM have yet to countersue, but there's so little of SCO left now it's probably no longer worth it.
That's just general big headedness on our part.
We have no idea about how they lived, acted, fought, courted... etc...
So the pronounced forehead made them look thick and stupid but looks aren't everything.
Just bringing one back won't tell us anything new about them APART from their intellect when guided by us. You'd need a TARDIS to learn about their uninfluenced intelligence and culture back then.
"Now where did I put that thing to blow up the aeroplane?... "
Pulls out a hand pump and an inflatable toy plane.
Of course the UK is in the EU!
We're not part of the EURO but we ARE in the EU.
They're politicians, the only qualifications any of them are likely to have is one for "political science" or some other similar non-subject.
And they don't even need that, joe bloggs from down the street who left school with no o-levels could walk into the local political party office, join up, talk them round, get elected and become prime minister with zero qualifications at all.
(highly unlikely of course but he might be a manipulative charismatic bastard and pull it off)...
That's democracy for you.
It's happened.
In london. But that time it was after a bunch of armed gunmen took hostages in the iranian embassy.
1980, the SAS storming that is one of the iconic images of that decade.
The gayon...
After all it is composed of up strange bottom quarks... :)
"Agrajag: "Oh no, not again!""
Spooky. When I was reading your comment the thought of the hitchhiker's guide series vs film graphics sprang to mind.
The graphics in the original series from the late 70s were far better, funnier and flashier than the crap ones in the recent film.
IF demanded to answer an unanswerable yes/no question in court, the most prudent thing to say would be "Your honour, answering this question in the way that you demand would result in me purjering myself. I swore to tell the truth, the WHOLE truth and nothing but the truth and yes or no are not the WHOLE truth.There is no yes/no answer to such a question, it's far more complicated than that".
But this story isn't news for nerds OR stuff that matters.
Someone shot someone, who then died, so the first someone goes on trial for murder...
How is ANYTHING in the above a story that matters? Slashdot doesn't reportt every other murder,. If it did there'd be no room for anything else.
So why is this special?
Or is the implication that as he was neighbourhood watch, that was somehow a vindication that granted him more powers than the average man in the street?
I take it you've never seen "the matrix: dezionised"?
2 and 3 edited together, removing all traces of zion and various other tweaks.
Here;re some of my favourites...
Fionavar Tapestry by Guy Gavriel Kay (The summer tree, the wandering fire and the longest road)
The winter of the world by Michael Scot Rohan (Anvil of ice, etc)
I'll agree with another poster here when he mentioned Taltos the Assassin (I got it in a single volume)
David Eddings' Belgariad and Malorian were good too... Preferred them to the sapphire rose books.
There're a hell of a lot more on my bookshelf but those are top of the list.
(I did like thomas covenant too,but that's had a mention already)
I DID like Robert Jordan's wheel of time... But I got stuck in one of them and never got it finished... And I found myself skipping whole chapters because I found the matt cauthon character utterly boring,
Daleks haven't been challenged by stairs since 1988.
The sylvestor mccoy episode "remembrance of the daleks" had a transmat in the basement of a school used to transport daleks in.
First time we saw one float upstairs was THEN, not in the new incarnation "Dalek" episode.
And look what happened to Great Giana Sisters...
Real shame too, the game got a Crash Smash but then never made it to shelves (the spectrum version that is, I know the commodore 64 version managed to get released).