Companions should change more frequently than Doctors. Otherwise, it's hard to explain the Doctor's age increases.
Consider that:
In the second Doctor series, he listed his age at around 450.
In the fourth Doctor series, he stated his age was around 750.
In the sixth Doctor series, he said he was 900.
Early in the seventh Doctor series, he claimed he had been travelling over 900 years.
Granted, the ninth Doctor has given his age at around 900 (which he's probably not being too truthful about because if the general trend continued he should have passed 1000 in his seventh form) but even still if a human companion sticks around for an entire Doctor's tenure and doesn't seem to age much it makes it hard to explain the Doctor's passing of years.
There's a few. Don't forget Malla, Itchy, Scratchy, Lumpy, etc. from the Holiday Special.
I don't think that Lumpy technically can be said to have survived the Clone Wars as he was born several years after they ended.
"Itchy", though, is a more interesting matter. Does anyone know if he's the other Wookie that was hanging with Chewbacca and Yoda in "Sith"? If so, he really went downhill fast, and no light was shed on where he got his thing for human women...
It's not surprising to me that Obi-Wan didn't remember R2-D2. He hadn't seen him for many years, and his friend's droid probably didn't figure too high in his mind during that period.
What is more surprising to me is that Vader didn't remember C-3P0. Unlike the friend-of-a-friend relationship between Obi-Wan and R2-D2, Vader actually built C-3P0 with parts he'd snarfed as a kid.
It's also a little surprising to me that neither R2 nor 3P0 seem to see anything significant in the name "Skywalker" or the planet Tatooine...
Going quickly through the logs of all the various sites I administer, I see 10% (as a round number) being the average for Mac users. As someone else pointed out, the fact that your site discusses photography may (and it's a bit of a stretch) bias it toward Macs, but your site's numbers aren't too far off from mine. (Plus, most other installed base quotes put the Mac at around 8% - 12% or so -- 16% is the highest I've seen).
It's interesting to note that both versions 1.0 and 2.0 of RSS support enclosures (and thus podcasting) but lots of podcasting software out there now only handles RSS 2.0. Hopefully iTunes will not get embroiled in the 1.0 RDF Site Summary versus the 2.0 Really Simple Syndication battle...
It depends. Please let me clarify that I was talking about patches when already in the maintenance mode of a product (which is applicable for the KDE stuff being discussed). I agree with you wholeheartedly when talking about brand new designs.
No, they're not, but they often can't be achieved in the same (usually all too brief) time frame. I tend to side with the Apple / Firefox folks on this argument -- fix it first, clean the code second.
It's interesting to note that Apple doesn't seem to have gotten into any significant disagreements with any of the other OSS people they're working with (regarding Darwin, etc.) along the lines of what's happening now with the KDE kamp. That leads a little more credence to Apple now, too.
With the mention of both Third Voice and the Annotation Engine, I'm surprised the somewhat more standard (or at least endorsed by the W3C) Annotea wasn't referenced.
Besides having native support in Amaya, there's a plug-in being actively developed for the Mozilla family of browsers.
Plus, from a practical standpoint, he's eating up incarnations like candy. Going on to the 10th out of 13 after just one series seems a bit quick, but allowing the current Doctor to be a phoney gives the writers an extra incarnation to play with.
He's also gotten younger. I recall the sixth Doctor mentioning that he was already 900 years old in one of his first season episodes, and the seventh Doctor mentioned (AFAICR) that he had been messing around with alien technology for over 900 years implying that he'd already been off Gallifrey for at least that long, and yet in the new series he's back to 900.
Actually in some of the episodes Daleks have pretty long monologues. One observation that I have though is the longer they talk, the more excited and angry sounding they get...
I may be in the minority, but I'd personally not really want the series to suffer all sorts of horrible twists in order to go beyond a thirteenth Doctor... I'd rather it go out with semblance of dignity rather than jump the shark.
Also, besides "The Doctor" and "The Master" there was also "The Monk", "The Rani", and "The War Chief" (plus possibly others that don't immediately come to mind) so they weren't all named after degrees.
Agreed, they should work out a contract with any potential Doctor for at least three seasons should the BBC so want it. The way they've been spitting through Doctors since the fifth, they'll be out very soon.
After reading the article I find myself wondering if homeopathy and the placebo effect are in any way related regarding what makes them work...
Is a solution so weak that it probably doesn't even contain a single molecule of the active ingredient any different from a solution that isn't an active ingredient at all? In both cases it seems the key factor is that the patient believes it's an active ingredient.
One of the good things about the Python language is that it forces indentation. And it doesn't have insignificant indentation that can lead to bugs. Two, two of the good things about Python are...
Seriously though I've seen enough cases of buggy things like:
if (condition)
statement one; statement two;
that were meant to be:
if (condition)
{
statment one; statement two;
}
to appreciate a language that doesn't encourage one to meaninglessly indent code but instead actually uses the indentation to determine blocks.
(Unfortunately/.'s ecode tag doesn't seem to preserve leading spaces, so you can't actually see the indents -- I'm guessing though that most readers will know where they're supposed to be.)
Yes, when I first started coding I used a lot more comments than I do now. In time one realizes that comments can get out of date, too, and need to be maintained as much as the code...
Now I make heavier use of expressive names for variables, classes, and methods, and tend to focus comments on interfaces and particularly tricky bits of logic.
It's a pity there hasn't been more work with Literate Programming out in the world at large...
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Companions should change more frequently than Doctors. Otherwise, it's hard to explain the Doctor's age increases.
Consider that:
Granted, the ninth Doctor has given his age at around 900 (which he's probably not being too truthful about because if the general trend continued he should have passed 1000 in his seventh form) but even still if a human companion sticks around for an entire Doctor's tenure and doesn't seem to age much it makes it hard to explain the Doctor's passing of years.
Ouch. Just be sure to remember the typical FireWire static safety tips
.If you watch 4.5 "A Wookie Holiday" right before the prequels, it makes them seem far less bad in comparison and thus more entertaining...
I don't think that Lumpy technically can be said to have survived the Clone Wars as he was born several years after they ended.
"Itchy", though, is a more interesting matter. Does anyone know if he's the other Wookie that was hanging with Chewbacca and Yoda in "Sith"? If so, he really went downhill fast, and no light was shed on where he got his thing for human women...
It's not surprising to me that Obi-Wan didn't remember R2-D2. He hadn't seen him for many years, and his friend's droid probably didn't figure too high in his mind during that period.
What is more surprising to me is that Vader didn't remember C-3P0. Unlike the friend-of-a-friend relationship between Obi-Wan and R2-D2, Vader actually built C-3P0 with parts he'd snarfed as a kid.
It's also a little surprising to me that neither R2 nor 3P0 seem to see anything significant in the name "Skywalker" or the planet Tatooine...
Going quickly through the logs of all the various sites I administer, I see 10% (as a round number) being the average for Mac users. As someone else pointed out, the fact that your site discusses photography may (and it's a bit of a stretch) bias it toward Macs, but your site's numbers aren't too far off from mine. (Plus, most other installed base quotes put the Mac at around 8% - 12% or so -- 16% is the highest I've seen).
Plus Newton books continue to get released.
It's interesting to note that both versions 1.0 and 2.0 of RSS support enclosures (and thus podcasting) but lots of podcasting software out there now only handles RSS 2.0. Hopefully iTunes will not get embroiled in the 1.0 RDF Site Summary versus the 2.0 Really Simple Syndication battle...
It depends. Please let me clarify that I was talking about patches when already in the maintenance mode of a product (which is applicable for the KDE stuff being discussed). I agree with you wholeheartedly when talking about brand new designs.
No, they're not, but they often can't be achieved in the same (usually all too brief) time frame. I tend to side with the Apple / Firefox folks on this argument -- fix it first, clean the code second.
It's interesting to note that Apple doesn't seem to have gotten into any significant disagreements with any of the other OSS people they're working with (regarding Darwin, etc.) along the lines of what's happening now with the KDE kamp. That leads a little more credence to Apple now, too.
With the mention of both Third Voice and the Annotation Engine, I'm surprised the somewhat more standard (or at least endorsed by the W3C) Annotea wasn't referenced.
Besides having native support in Amaya, there's a plug-in being actively developed for the Mozilla family of browsers.
He's also gotten younger. I recall the sixth Doctor mentioning that he was already 900 years old in one of his first season episodes, and the seventh Doctor mentioned (AFAICR) that he had been messing around with alien technology for over 900 years implying that he'd already been off Gallifrey for at least that long, and yet in the new series he's back to 900.
Actually in some of the episodes Daleks have pretty long monologues. One observation that I have though is the longer they talk, the more excited and angry sounding they get...
I doubt the mice do, either.
Reminds me of the old quote by Borusa:
that he ironically used to key a lock with a voice print...
Hopefully they'll support transparent Flash SWF files. Version 7 for the Mac still doesn't seem to.
Yup. He saved us, but failed to save the unfortunates on the parallel Earth...
Actually, thinking back, didn't Inferno supposed to have taken place in around our current time period?
I may be in the minority, but I'd personally not really want the series to suffer all sorts of horrible twists in order to go beyond a thirteenth Doctor... I'd rather it go out with semblance of dignity rather than jump the shark.
Also, besides "The Doctor" and "The Master" there was also "The Monk", "The Rani", and "The War Chief" (plus possibly others that don't immediately come to mind) so they weren't all named after degrees.
Apparently not so well known as to get his name spelled correctly...
Agreed, they should work out a contract with any potential Doctor for at least three seasons should the BBC so want it. The way they've been spitting through Doctors since the fifth, they'll be out very soon.
After reading the article I find myself wondering if homeopathy and the placebo effect are in any way related regarding what makes them work...
Is a solution so weak that it probably doesn't even contain a single molecule of the active ingredient any different from a solution that isn't an active ingredient at all? In both cases it seems the key factor is that the patient believes it's an active ingredient.
MIT and Harvard (both located in Cambridge) are also pretty well known worldwide...
It took me awhile to figure out that this was Cambridge in the U.K. and not Cambridge in Massachusetts with the site currently being /.ed.
One of the good things about the Python language is that it forces indentation. And it doesn't have insignificant indentation that can lead to bugs. Two, two of the good things about Python are...
Seriously though I've seen enough cases of buggy things like:
if (condition)that were meant to be:
if (condition) {}to appreciate a language that doesn't encourage one to meaninglessly indent code but instead actually uses the indentation to determine blocks.
(Unfortunately /.'s ecode tag doesn't seem to preserve leading spaces, so you can't actually see the indents -- I'm guessing though that most readers will know where they're supposed to be.)
Yes, when I first started coding I used a lot more comments than I do now. In time one realizes that comments can get out of date, too, and need to be maintained as much as the code...
Now I make heavier use of expressive names for variables, classes, and methods, and tend to focus comments on interfaces and particularly tricky bits of logic.
It's a pity there hasn't been more work with Literate Programming out in the world at large...