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  1. If you don't want to start with William Hartnell . on Ask Slashdot: How/Where To Start Watching Dr. Who? · · Score: 2

    Then best start with the new stuff, beginning with Christopher Eccleston then watcdh the older stuff as you come to it

    If you want to experience the full thing in "we have no money o vision" and you can't transform yourself to me aged 5 in Scotland on a Saturday night, then try starting with Jon Pertwee then move into Tom Baker.

    I never saw the earlier stuff so can't comment, but those two had some cracking stories, the Green Death, the Autons (put me off Daffodils for years), Pyramids of Mars and some Dalek stories

  2. Slashdot is also Censored on Groklaw — Don't Go Home, Go Big · · Score: 1

    In effect by modding down then, unless you have your settings turned that way, modded down posts disappeared

  3. How long dows copyright last? on The Ease of Publishing an Ebook · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I notice he talks about controlling the book forever, so he would also like a copyright term of infinity?

  4. not that I am suggesting anything untoward on Webvention Demanding $80k For Rollover Images · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Isn't it true that the judge these cases often comes to has a son that works for a law firm that often represents the patent trolls

  5. Re:iPad thoughts? on Best Mobile Computing Options For People With RSI? · · Score: 1

    An author/artist who got an iPad as part payment for his job has had his RSI confirmed, he doesn't find the iPad that wonderful as far as the RSI goes, though he loves it apart from that

  6. Re:Beebs are good machines on 'Retro Programming' Teaches Using 1980s Machines · · Score: 1

    Yes beebs usually used ordinary cassettes, which I didn't specify, but they could use microcassettes (as could the Sinclair QL) and disks. The disks needed an extra ROM, not just a drive.

    Note the bit where I said I worked with the bloody things

  7. Beebs are good machines on 'Retro Programming' Teaches Using 1980s Machines · · Score: 2, Informative

    I was using them at college when they were new.

    My first job was writing software that controlled scientific instruments and their was an awful lot of eductaional software written for them because they were designed to be used in schools. The Basic was more structuured and it could use microcassettes or 5 1/4 flopies with its own DOS.

    In short, if you are going to use a dinosaur, it is the best dinosaur to choose

  8. Demon is not what it used to be on UK ISP To Prioritize Gaming Traffic · · Score: 1

    I was with Demon from 1996, hen I connected to Newsnet and email on my Amiga 1200, until three years ago when I got 75,000 + emails in a morning in a Joe Job attack

    Their response is why I am no longer with Demon, I would not now touch them with a barge pole

  9. Nothing new - Back in the Amiga days on F1 Simulators Revealed · · Score: 4, Interesting

    David Coultard was about to race at Monaco, but he had never raced there before, so he fired up the Microprose F1 Grand Prix to get used to the course, and won it too!

  10. No more Paradox for me on The World's Strongest, Most Expensive Beer Served Inside a Squirrel · · Score: 1

    I like Brewdog beer, but this is just attention seking.

    They can go and take a running jump

  11. No cloud of Radio with DAB on After a Decade, Digital Radio Still an Also-Ran In UK · · Score: 1

    With FM we have more han one radio on in the house, so we walk through a cloud of radio

    With DAB the signals are out of sync, much less satisactory

  12. The showed this in Scotland on Survey Says To UK — Repeal Laws of Thermodynamics · · Score: 1

    The LDs supported Labour in the Scottish parliament and abandonded most of their principles to do so.

    THey didn't support the SNP because the SNP want a referendum on Independence, despite havign this principle of referenda and indeed havign a history of Home Rule

    IT is what they do

  13. Re:Odd choice on Amazon Kindle Fails First College Test · · Score: 1

    I love my Sony book reader, for novels, but I spotted straight away that for rules for wargames and RPGs it was not suited, for exactly the same reason as the students with their textbooks.

    I am amazed that Amazon did not spot it right from day 1

  14. Get Alexandr Orlov to do promo work on Next Ubuntu Linux To Be a Maverick · · Score: 1

    It makes sense

    I have been using another distro on my main machine for a little while, Archlinux, but I had a look at 10.4 on my testing machine and it has a slick look about it, and so far, on an evening's writing work, does the basic stuff.

    I'll give it a proper hammering over the next week

  15. Re:Article title not true on NHS Should Stop Funding Homeopathy, Says Parliamentary Committee · · Score: 3, Informative

    Not only that, there is no such thing as the UK NHS, in Scotland the NHS is separate and responds to different priorities

  16. Englightenment on my Acer 3694 on Enlightenment Returns To Bring Ubuntu To ARM · · Score: 1

    I bought a second hand Acer Aspire 3694, shoved a bigger HDD in it and installed MacPup, a Puppy Linux Puplet that has Englightenment as its Window Manager

    It is smooth, pretty and fast.
    i'd licke to see it actively continue, it is a great way to get decent eye candy on older machines

  17. Ubuntu or other distros often included in magazine on Windows Patch Leaves Many XP Users With Blue Screens · · Score: 1

    No need to buy a $50 book. If the place sells that book it will sell a cheaper magazine

  18. Re:I have introduced a lot of people to OO.org on OpenOffice Tops 21% Market Share In Germany · · Score: 1

    I had a colleague who had a mild laptop problem. After he sorted it the Works he had with the machine wouldn't open his documents.

    I recommended OOO (he was gladat how easy it was to get a Spanish version as he was typing docs and using Spreadsheets in Spanish) and he is a convert.

    I've used OOO for RPG and wargames reviews and articles, and I've used Writer for small handout type stuff, but I'm trying to get my head around Scribus for DTP

  19. It would be Captain Sir Jean-Luc on Sir Patrick Stewart · · Score: 1

    Earned Rank comes first

  20. Re:Tbh, these definitions need to be dropped. on Revisiting the "Holy Trinity" of MMORPG Classes · · Score: 1

    It's re-enactment experience but still

    Two weapons is mainly used with one for parrying or in combination trapping your opponent's weapon. By havinng te parrying device in your off hand being a weapon then you have an extra threat, not as a damage multiplier

    But I'd rather have a shield

  21. Just as long as they don't phase out Cheques on UK Wants To Phase Out Checks By 2018 · · Score: 1

    I think this is a daft idea, there are still lots of times where electronic banking doesn't cut it, such as payments between individuals.

  22. Re:Bribery on Mark Cuban's Plan To Kill Google · · Score: 1

    In Scotland a "Bing" is a spoil head of rubbish left over from mining operations, in otherwords worthless detritus.

    I think the word is Scandanavian in origin

  23. No ebook VAT in the UK on Amazon Hobbles Features For International Kindle · · Score: 1, Informative

    books are not taxed, ebooks are treated as books

  24. DS9 "pinched" its effects team from Babylon5 on Old Operating Systems Never Die · · Score: 1

    Ironically enough, and one of the reasons a new effects team had to b ecreated, the company doing the effects put their A team onto DS9 and their Z to B5

    I love the B5 space battles on my 37" HD widescreen, upscaled and drooling

  25. Adams had the same problem on New Hitchhiker's Guide Book "Not Very Funny" · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Listen to the original radio series and then listen to every incarnation as it is refined, Douglas Adams just killed the humour our of it with every rewrite, the rawer script for the Radio Series worked best

    Disclaimer, I gfot an A in an English exam on the book of Hitchhikers, the question on the peper was write about someone who finds himself in events over which he has no control, goodbye Huck Finn, hello Arthur Dent