Will Hartnell was actually a very sick man, hardening of the arteries, the plot device for fluffed lines/ memory was actually his idea to cover for this and to save re-takes on a too tight schedule, it was only later that he was diagnosed and the reason for his failing memory and other problems became clear.
Watching it on an old 405 line UHF black and white set, this was before man had walked on the moon, the TV worked on thermionic valves, back in those days it was genuinely good, the scripts were good and the stories pushed the envelope of props and effect to the limit, and often moved the boundaries.
Nowadays it is a bunch of feeble, lowest common denominator camp crap.
You only have to watch the original movie Gone in 60 seconds and the awful remake to understand what I mean.
I may be wrong, but from the UK perspective this is not "NHS Lite" socialised healthcare, rather this is the wetware equivalent of compulsory motor insurance, now applied to human beings...
Nice civil liberties you have there citizen, shame if anything happened to them, better buy this here medical insurance, know what I mean?
Sounds like this bill has nothing whatsoever to do with medical treatment per se.
One small step from the RIAA et al doing the same thing.
So, you are basically stating for the public record that YOU PERSONALLY ACCEPT TOTAL RESPONSIBILITY for every last byte of data stored on your computers...
I hope your computer are stocked in a vault to which only you have physical access, and which is blocked from the net, and which doesn't have any mains power.
After all, you just stated you believe it is an absolute offence with no possible or acceptable defence.
Good of you to volunteer me for the same bullshit without first asking me though.
"Yes M'lud, Mr Taco is charged with making these images"
sounds a lot worse than
"Yes M'lud, Mr Taco is charged with owning a computer running Microsoft Windows 98 and Internet Explorer 5, which, when Mr Taco visited the website in question, caused cached copies of the images in question to be stored temporarily on the hard disk, in an area of files not used or accessed directly by Mr Taco, but by the Microsoft products aforementioned"
The latter is also sounding a lot weaker if you're trying to sell yourself as tough of peedos, anything for the childruuun, vote for meeeee!
Class was finishing up in the Head Of Department's class on my first day as lecturer.
Head of Department had been lecturing about 2 and 4 stroke cycles, petrol and diesel etc.
"country bumpkin" student puts hand up and asks about 2 stroke diesels.
Head of Department smiles condescendingly, entire class laughs at "country bumpkin", Head of Department says something condescending and superior to "country bumpkin"
By this time I have forgotten that Head of Department is running late and into my class time, I've forgotten he is Head of Department, I have forgotten it is my first day as Lecturer, well, maybe not forgotten, but don't care.
I step forwards, and say to Head of Department in a loud and clear voice (class is now silent) "have you got a phone in your office?"
He looks puzzled... meh
I continue, "because you ought to ring the United States, Detroit Diesel specifically, and tell them there is no such thing as a 2 stroke diesel, which will be an interesting phone call, seeing as they have been making the things in VAST numbers for fifty fucking years."
Needless to say, my teaching career was short lived.
Dude, apprenticeships were tough in my day, they were MEANT to be so, and I had it easy, my father's parents had TO PAY HIS EMPLOYER for the first two years, basically for permission to come to work, no wages, because you're economically useless when you start out.
IF YOU GENUINELY want to learn, find some old retired guys in your field, or a closely related one (a 60 year old turner who learned his trade before CNC can still tell an aeronautics guys a shit load about materials and engineering) and start hanging out with him.
After a while you'll start to learn, nothing new under the sun, it has all been done before, usually better.
Really, please make me a 3 phase 380 VAC supply at 60 amperes with a kWh cost of 10 cents or less and deliver it to the point of sale with your "software" and have it "run directly".
I would also like your "software" to "run directly" without the need for me to purchase any hardware that is manufactured overseas.
By Engineer I mean mechanical, probably one of the last to have had (survived / endured) the old style apprenticeship, which is another point that won't mean anything to those younger than me, but is in fact vastly relevant to overall ability and knowledge.
For every technology that I have seen, the following is true.
1,000 guys actually manufacturing a product commercially using "x" technology push the field more in one year than 1,000 guys working in R&D do in 10 years.
Yeah, there is a bit of chicken and egg there, but the fact is that it is only when you start to make the product commercially, not prototypes, that you really learn about and master the technology.
The old engineering adage is "you have to build one, to build one".
A classic example for the US audience is the Saturn V, that was the pinnacle of 20 years of PRODUCTION effort from a team that arguably started with Von Braun's flying prototype bombs.
Even with CAD / CAM / CAE / CNC / etc, none of which we had back then, I sincerely doubt the US could build one today that actually flew to spec.
The Japanese basically fucked the British bike industry by starting out on PRODUCTION for a generation, before they were capable of designing anything even equal to what we had, not because they were stupid of rubbish engineers, but because it takes production experience to master anything.
Then the Japanese basically fucked the British car industry, exactly the same way.
Television sets? Ditto.
And the beat goes on.
You all have it 180 degrees out, worrying about R&D and IP and all that crap being outsourced, when you outsource production you are eating your own seed grain, doom is inevitable.
The next generation is based on the apprentice of today, and by far the best apprenticeship is one served in a production environment.
Mod me down as much as you like, I've got karma to burn.
It was in order to build a totally silent computer, the cooling aspect worked OK, nothing spectacular, not of you layout the case properly, buy fans with decent blade profiles and proper bearings, and decent aftermarket heatsinks, but the total silence was beautiful... even ATX PSU's do make a noise, you only notice when you immerse *everything*
The idea is funky, but to get good cooling you want convection (every joule of pump energy from a circulating pump gets transferred into the oil at yet more heat) which means deep tanks which means, to the server environment, goodbye high density.
The ONLY thing that has changed since I was doing this is the affordability of SSDs, which mean that now it is practical to immerse the whole computer, and the mass storage too, which makes things a lot simpler and cheaper, and means you really can be JUST oil cooled, not oil cooled mainly, except for air cooled HDs etc.
TOP TIP from an old hand.
If you are going to oil cool by immersion, buy the latest top quality hardware, because once immersed it stays there, you'll only pull it once to see why it sucks.
BIGGEST mistake experimenters make is using old hardware, cos you always end up playing with it, making mess, ahh fsckit..
Nota Bene if you are building one of these in anger, make allowances for the significant increase in the weight that the oil makes.
Says it all really, no need for a melodramatic "article" trying to draw parallels between the non indexed and page ranked portion of the net, and kiddie porn.
Some of us just don't want google indexing out stuff on general principles.
FX, types "brain tumour" into google
up pops page full of links asking me if I want to buy a brain tumour on fleabay...
No, I don't mean just the fact that the simple text string filter is too crude, but mainly the fact that there is no penalties imposed (eg loss of job) on the assholes who implement filtering technology with the same due diligence as an indian first line support call centre, and fuck up the entire internet for whole groups of users, or domain owners.
Scunthorpe is just one example, what is crude, evil or illegal to one person, is totally innocent and innocuous to another person.
Back in the day, no ISP wanted to touch filtering with a bargepole, not even if it cut their upstream bandwidth costs by 50%, for one simple reason... once you filter, you take legal responsibility for EVERYTHING, and open yourself up to lawsuits.
Goodbye "common carrier" and "mere conduit" status.
EU Law states (and I know exactly of what I speak, being personally instrumental in this law being codified and specified within UK Law) that for the purposes of the Electronic Commerce Directive an ISP is a "mere conduit"
As this applies to a UK ISP this ruling SPECIFICALLY EXEMPTS the "mere conduit" from all civil, and criminal, liabilities, even if the material in question is defamatory, copyright violation, or even child pornography... PROVIDED THEY REMAIN A "MERE CONDUIT"
The nanosecond you start filtering, you are no longer a mere conduit or common carrier.
You basically only have to walk down the street with your ears open.
Back when I were a lad, it was routine to insult kids who were not of your group, fatty, lanky, ginger, smelly, stinky, etc.
Today the default insult is "paedo"
I've lost count of the number of times I have seen teenagers and younger, of both sexes, respond to an adult who tells them off for something, eg "stop fucking around with my car" with chants of "paedo!"
Teachers in UK schools essentially live in fear of one of the kids responding to being told off for setting fire to little johnny in 2A with an accusation of violence or sexual assault being made against the teacher.
You won't find a small kid who does not already;
a/ own a mobile phone b/ know the childline and other abuse numbers by heart
We are sowing what we reaped.
I say in all sincerity, there are a LOT of adults today who have learned this lesson so well that they could witness either an adult women or a schoolgirl being gang raped, and simply walk on by, deliberately seeing nothing, as being the only safe option.
I know years ago Intel did not, for example, make a 3 GHz P4, they made shed loads of P4's and then gave each one a clock speed that it would handle, so you had a distribution curve from each batch that ran from maybe 1.6 to 3.2 GHz, and priced accordingly.
I can't imagine any recent changes in chip production per se that would mean an end to this distribution curve out of each batch.
Rather this is a case of a new process finally coming on line with the production bugs mainly worked out, which shifts the distribution curve up to higher clock speeds, the analogy here is the LHC or any other complex system.
Certainly when building systems myself you always went for near the peak but on the high side of the curve, to get most bang for your buck and also most reliability.
As any (mechanical) engineer knows, to get an efficient internal combustion engine you want compression pressures as high as possible and combustion temperatures as high as possible (an oversimplification, to be sure) because an internal combustion engine is a heat engine, and the greater the temperature and pressure difference between the combustion event in the cylinder, and ambient conditions at the end of the exhaust system, the more efficient it is.
UNFORTUNATELY, some three quarters of the gas that the internal combustion engine draws in from the atmosphere is Nitrogen, and when you expose Nitrogen to the high pressures and temperatures of a combustion chamber, what happens next is simple, and unavoidable, chemistry, you get oxides of nitrogen out the exhaust pipe.
So on the one hand an efficient engine will be running petrol / gasoline at 13:1 compression ratios, or diesel at 25:1 compression ratios, and polluting the crap out of everything.
On the other hand, a "green" engine will be running petrol / gasoline at 9:1 compression ratios, or diesel at 17:1, and wasting energy efficiency like an ice rink in Dubai.
(for the yanks, it was and is a genuine political party)
Knew all the old crew (Sutch, Hope, et al) well, great social events and parties, no hope of ever actually winning, just thumbing your nose at the system.
Why is the UK Pirate party any different, apart from the lack of great social events and satirical candidate names? Oh, and the lack of any other decent policies to counter the insanity worked by the likes of Harman etc.
Whereas a vote for the BNP (British National Party, often called British Nazi Party) really would be a protest vote, as more than a handful of seats might actually go to them, and NOTHING would shock british politics more than a notable proportion of the population electing wannabe Hitlers to the House of Commons.
Slashdot Mirror
plus I can buy and fit / swap batteries with one button, use the webcam, burn dvd's, watch true HD on the 1920x1200 screen, etc etc etc...
obviously I haven't drunk the apple kool-aid
Will Hartnell was actually a very sick man, hardening of the arteries, the plot device for fluffed lines/ memory was actually his idea to cover for this and to save re-takes on a too tight schedule, it was only later that he was diagnosed and the reason for his failing memory and other problems became clear.
Were the best, by far.
Watching it on an old 405 line UHF black and white set, this was before man had walked on the moon, the TV worked on thermionic valves, back in those days it was genuinely good, the scripts were good and the stories pushed the envelope of props and effect to the limit, and often moved the boundaries.
Nowadays it is a bunch of feeble, lowest common denominator camp crap.
You only have to watch the original movie Gone in 60 seconds and the awful remake to understand what I mean.
and tic-tac-toe
nuff sed
I may be wrong, but from the UK perspective this is not "NHS Lite" socialised healthcare, rather this is the wetware equivalent of compulsory motor insurance, now applied to human beings...
Nice civil liberties you have there citizen, shame if anything happened to them, better buy this here medical insurance, know what I mean?
Sounds like this bill has nothing whatsoever to do with medical treatment per se.
One small step from the RIAA et al doing the same thing.
of things about to go wrong in a big way...
So, you are basically stating for the public record that YOU PERSONALLY ACCEPT TOTAL RESPONSIBILITY for every last byte of data stored on your computers...
I hope your computer are stocked in a vault to which only you have physical access, and which is blocked from the net, and which doesn't have any mains power.
After all, you just stated you believe it is an absolute offence with no possible or acceptable defence.
Good of you to volunteer me for the same bullshit without first asking me though.
Sounds a lot worse as a charge...
"Yes M'lud, Mr Taco is charged with making these images"
sounds a lot worse than
"Yes M'lud, Mr Taco is charged with owning a computer running Microsoft Windows 98 and Internet Explorer 5, which, when Mr Taco visited the website in question, caused cached copies of the images in question to be stored temporarily on the hard disk, in an area of files not used or accessed directly by Mr Taco, but by the Microsoft products aforementioned"
The latter is also sounding a lot weaker if you're trying to sell yourself as tough of peedos, anything for the childruuun, vote for meeeee!
I did a stint at teaching, the modern way.
True story this.
Class was finishing up in the Head Of Department's class on my first day as lecturer.
Head of Department had been lecturing about 2 and 4 stroke cycles, petrol and diesel etc.
"country bumpkin" student puts hand up and asks about 2 stroke diesels.
Head of Department smiles condescendingly, entire class laughs at "country bumpkin", Head of Department says something condescending and superior to "country bumpkin"
By this time I have forgotten that Head of Department is running late and into my class time, I've forgotten he is Head of Department, I have forgotten it is my first day as Lecturer, well, maybe not forgotten, but don't care.
I step forwards, and say to Head of Department in a loud and clear voice (class is now silent) "have you got a phone in your office?"
He looks puzzled... meh
I continue, "because you ought to ring the United States, Detroit Diesel specifically, and tell them there is no such thing as a 2 stroke diesel, which will be an interesting phone call, seeing as they have been making the things in VAST numbers for fifty fucking years."
Needless to say, my teaching career was short lived.
Dude, apprenticeships were tough in my day, they were MEANT to be so, and I had it easy, my father's parents had TO PAY HIS EMPLOYER for the first two years, basically for permission to come to work, no wages, because you're economically useless when you start out.
IF YOU GENUINELY want to learn, find some old retired guys in your field, or a closely related one (a 60 year old turner who learned his trade before CNC can still tell an aeronautics guys a shit load about materials and engineering) and start hanging out with him.
After a while you'll start to learn, nothing new under the sun, it has all been done before, usually better.
Really, please make me a 3 phase 380 VAC supply at 60 amperes with a kWh cost of 10 cents or less and deliver it to the point of sale with your "software" and have it "run directly".
I would also like your "software" to "run directly" without the need for me to purchase any hardware that is manufactured overseas.
Thanks in advance.
By Engineer I mean mechanical, probably one of the last to have had (survived / endured) the old style apprenticeship, which is another point that won't mean anything to those younger than me, but is in fact vastly relevant to overall ability and knowledge.
For every technology that I have seen, the following is true.
1,000 guys actually manufacturing a product commercially using "x" technology push the field more in one year than 1,000 guys working in R&D do in 10 years.
Yeah, there is a bit of chicken and egg there, but the fact is that it is only when you start to make the product commercially, not prototypes, that you really learn about and master the technology.
The old engineering adage is "you have to build one, to build one".
A classic example for the US audience is the Saturn V, that was the pinnacle of 20 years of PRODUCTION effort from a team that arguably started with Von Braun's flying prototype bombs.
Even with CAD / CAM / CAE / CNC / etc, none of which we had back then, I sincerely doubt the US could build one today that actually flew to spec.
The Japanese basically fucked the British bike industry by starting out on PRODUCTION for a generation, before they were capable of designing anything even equal to what we had, not because they were stupid of rubbish engineers, but because it takes production experience to master anything.
Then the Japanese basically fucked the British car industry, exactly the same way.
Television sets? Ditto.
And the beat goes on.
You all have it 180 degrees out, worrying about R&D and IP and all that crap being outsourced, when you outsource production you are eating your own seed grain, doom is inevitable.
The next generation is based on the apprentice of today, and by far the best apprenticeship is one served in a production environment.
Mod me down as much as you like, I've got karma to burn.
not quite there yet, but it's another step along the way...
still, at least we will have computers that are voice controlled and capable of infinite zoom into a photo.. oh, and hot femmbots
It was in order to build a totally silent computer, the cooling aspect worked OK, nothing spectacular, not of you layout the case properly, buy fans with decent blade profiles and proper bearings, and decent aftermarket heatsinks, but the total silence was beautiful... even ATX PSU's do make a noise, you only notice when you immerse *everything*
..computers, allow me to label this a "fad"
The idea is funky, but to get good cooling you want convection (every joule of pump energy from a circulating pump gets transferred into the oil at yet more heat) which means deep tanks which means, to the server environment, goodbye high density.
The ONLY thing that has changed since I was doing this is the affordability of SSDs, which mean that now it is practical to immerse the whole computer, and the mass storage too, which makes things a lot simpler and cheaper, and means you really can be JUST oil cooled, not oil cooled mainly, except for air cooled HDs etc.
TOP TIP from an old hand.
If you are going to oil cool by immersion, buy the latest top quality hardware, because once immersed it stays there, you'll only pull it once to see why it sucks.
BIGGEST mistake experimenters make is using old hardware, cos you always end up playing with it, making mess, ahh fsckit..
Nota Bene if you are building one of these in anger, make allowances for the significant increase in the weight that the oil makes.
HTH etc
RAND terms only applied IF you developed and contributed to the standard.
RAND terms SPECIFICALLY EXCLUDED everyone who came along afterwards and wanted to use / licence GSM.
Apple DID NOT help develop GSM.
Apple REFUSED to accept non-RAND GSM licencing terms.
These are the facts. These are ALL the facts.
http://www.robotstxt.org/
Says it all really, no need for a melodramatic "article" trying to draw parallels between the non indexed and page ranked portion of the net, and kiddie porn.
Some of us just don't want google indexing out stuff on general principles.
FX, types "brain tumour" into google
up pops page full of links asking me if I want to buy a brain tumour on fleabay...
as in, we have already reaped the "rewards" of sowing the seeds of this sort of dissension in the past, so, what do we do?
We sow more seeds of dissension.
We reaped diseased crops, and instead of discarding the seed we simply plant it back in the ground.
Hence "sowing what we reaped"
of why filtering doesn't work.
No, I don't mean just the fact that the simple text string filter is too crude, but mainly the fact that there is no penalties imposed (eg loss of job) on the assholes who implement filtering technology with the same due diligence as an indian first line support call centre, and fuck up the entire internet for whole groups of users, or domain owners.
Scunthorpe is just one example, what is crude, evil or illegal to one person, is totally innocent and innocuous to another person.
Back in the day, no ISP wanted to touch filtering with a bargepole, not even if it cut their upstream bandwidth costs by 50%, for one simple reason... once you filter, you take legal responsibility for EVERYTHING, and open yourself up to lawsuits.
Goodbye "common carrier" and "mere conduit" status.
EU Law states (and I know exactly of what I speak, being personally instrumental in this law being codified and specified within UK Law) that for the purposes of the Electronic Commerce Directive an ISP is a "mere conduit"
As this applies to a UK ISP this ruling SPECIFICALLY EXEMPTS the "mere conduit" from all civil, and criminal, liabilities, even if the material in question is defamatory, copyright violation, or even child pornography... PROVIDED THEY REMAIN A "MERE CONDUIT"
The nanosecond you start filtering, you are no longer a mere conduit or common carrier.
You basically only have to walk down the street with your ears open.
Back when I were a lad, it was routine to insult kids who were not of your group, fatty, lanky, ginger, smelly, stinky, etc.
Today the default insult is "paedo"
I've lost count of the number of times I have seen teenagers and younger, of both sexes, respond to an adult who tells them off for something, eg "stop fucking around with my car" with chants of "paedo!"
Teachers in UK schools essentially live in fear of one of the kids responding to being told off for setting fire to little johnny in 2A with an accusation of violence or sexual assault being made against the teacher.
You won't find a small kid who does not already;
a/ own a mobile phone
b/ know the childline and other abuse numbers by heart
We are sowing what we reaped.
I say in all sincerity, there are a LOT of adults today who have learned this lesson so well that they could witness either an adult women or a schoolgirl being gang raped, and simply walk on by, deliberately seeing nothing, as being the only safe option.
http://falserapesociety.blogspot.com/
Divorced guys know ALL about this scenario.
The ex's new boyfriend doesn't have the fact that they are his kids programmed into him 24/7
I know years ago Intel did not, for example, make a 3 GHz P4, they made shed loads of P4's and then gave each one a clock speed that it would handle, so you had a distribution curve from each batch that ran from maybe 1.6 to 3.2 GHz, and priced accordingly.
I can't imagine any recent changes in chip production per se that would mean an end to this distribution curve out of each batch.
Rather this is a case of a new process finally coming on line with the production bugs mainly worked out, which shifts the distribution curve up to higher clock speeds, the analogy here is the LHC or any other complex system.
Certainly when building systems myself you always went for near the peak but on the high side of the curve, to get most bang for your buck and also most reliability.
Back in the day I used basic a LOT, arguably like a sophisticated calculator programming language to do engineering calculations.
Show me a page of PHP even and everything goes blurry and out of focus.
That's dyslexia for you.
As any (mechanical) engineer knows, to get an efficient internal combustion engine you want compression pressures as high as possible and combustion temperatures as high as possible (an oversimplification, to be sure) because an internal combustion engine is a heat engine, and the greater the temperature and pressure difference between the combustion event in the cylinder, and ambient conditions at the end of the exhaust system, the more efficient it is.
UNFORTUNATELY, some three quarters of the gas that the internal combustion engine draws in from the atmosphere is Nitrogen, and when you expose Nitrogen to the high pressures and temperatures of a combustion chamber, what happens next is simple, and unavoidable, chemistry, you get oxides of nitrogen out the exhaust pipe.
So on the one hand an efficient engine will be running petrol / gasoline at 13:1 compression ratios, or diesel at 25:1 compression ratios, and polluting the crap out of everything.
On the other hand, a "green" engine will be running petrol / gasoline at 9:1 compression ratios, or diesel at 17:1, and wasting energy efficiency like an ice rink in Dubai.
You can't have it both ways.
some fluff to beat lameness filter, message as subject.
(for the yanks, it was and is a genuine political party)
Knew all the old crew (Sutch, Hope, et al) well, great social events and parties, no hope of ever actually winning, just thumbing your nose at the system.
Why is the UK Pirate party any different, apart from the lack of great social events and satirical candidate names? Oh, and the lack of any other decent policies to counter the insanity worked by the likes of Harman etc.
Whereas a vote for the BNP (British National Party, often called British Nazi Party) really would be a protest vote, as more than a handful of seats might actually go to them, and NOTHING would shock british politics more than a notable proportion of the population electing wannabe Hitlers to the House of Commons.
This is not a troll, this is a serious question.