I suspect you will find the newer stuff more accessible. I would start with the Christopher Ecclestone season and watch through to the present day.
After that, you may want to sample some of the older stuff, so here are a few suggestions for the various Doctors:
William Hartnell: An Unearthly Child, The Daleks, The Dalek Invasion of Earth. The first two are included in a set called In The Beginning
Patrick Troughton: The Tomb of the Cybermen
Jon Pertwee: Spearhead from Space, The Sea Devils
Tom Baker: Robot (his introductory episode), Genesis of the Daleks, Pyramids of Mars, Robots of Death, Deadly Assassin, City of Death
Peter Davison: Earthshock, The Caves of Androzani
Colin Baker: Revelation of the Daleks
Sylvester McCoy: Remembrance of the Daleks
In my opinion, seasons 12-15, the first four seasons of Tom Baker, are the best of the older series. But the list above should give you a taste of the whole thing. See what you like.
Top-drawer leadership is more valuable than gold. And way more valuable than a newbie programmer with a background in the flavor of the month. Why? Because top-drawer leaders can build top-drawer teams, and a top-drawer team will outperform any hotshot solo programmer. A top-drawer leader will make everyone in their team significantly more productive, by cutting out the bullshit, and by making the team members happy to be working on the project. There is also the huge benefit of knowing what not to do, and how to limit the scope of a new project or feature early in the design phase, which makes every phase after that much, much easier.
Comparing the Falcon 9 to the N-1 is like comparing a Honda Civic to a Trabant.
The N-1 was a half-assed design from the beginning, it didn't even have the fuel tanks integrated into the structure of the rocket because the Soviets were too cheap to build the tooling necessary. So they built it with spherical tanks like a Goddard rocket, giving it a lousy mass to thrust ratio. Then the Soviets compounded the problem by only testing selected engines out of each production batch, instead of test-firing all of the engines. Lastly, their design didn't cope with engine failure at all well, which is a problem when your testing regimen guarantees engine failure.
The Falcon 9, on the other hand, uses a thoroughly modern design. Its engines are more reliable than the N-1's, and have been test-fired as a group successfully. Plus, it shares many components with the now-proven Falcon 1a design.
It is possible that they will still have problems with the Falcon 9, just like they did with the Falcon 1, but I think it is very likely that they will overcome them.
That's because porn doesn't have to be good in order to sell. It will sell on novelty alone, at least for a little while. So it is an ideal early adopter for new media.
I am using a Zodiac 2 now, and have a TX in storage if the Zod dies, but I am wondering what options exist for moving/using my data on other platforms?
I know Access has sold their ALP platform to a couple companies, it's on at least one digital camera, too. They also put out a PalmOS compatible layer for the Nokia internet tablets.
I think there is a company that emulates the basic built-in apps on WinCE and iPhone/iPod Touch. Haven't heard great things about that.
Seriously, with BC, upgrading to the PS3 from the PS2 is a pretty obvious choice.
Without it, if you're going to upgrade to something that can't play PS2 games, why not a 360?
I know several people who were once interested in the PS3, but completely lost interest once they found out you can't get PS/2 BC any more. They're in wait-and-see mode now, waiting for Sony to bring back BC.
That or being just really wimpy. My computer uses a GeForce 5200 card, which is passively cooled, and has lasted for years. It's pretty weak for gaming, though: forget Crysis, it struggles with Sam & Max. And forget about playback in HD.
But for everything else, it's been great: quiet, produces great output, and it doesn't heat up the whole room during the summer.
Free and unrestricted access to a useful resource leads to overuse that eventually renders that resource unusable to anyone.
When Usenet was in its heyday, before the September That Never Ended, access was very much restricted. When I first got on in the mid-80's, you pretty much had to have a university computer account. This meant that people who abused the system were easily identified and either straightened out, or kicked out. Every September, there would be a flurry of nonsense and misbehavior from the new accounts, which died down after about a month or so, as the majority learned the rules, and the losers and abusers got kicked out.
Things were also aided by the fact that the total number of users was relatively small, which kept things manageable.
Once access to Usenet became easy, anonymous, and free, the doom was unavoidable.
People have already mentioned The Phantom, but I think The American, by Mark Verheiden, is an even better example.
Comic starts out with The American, a Captain America-like hero, coming in to break up a terrorist attack (or something like that). A bystander sees him screw up and get killed. But that night, there he is taking a bow for the evening news.
So the bystander starts digging into what's going on, and strikes conspiracy pretty quickly. Turns out there have been hundreds of different guys playing the role of The American over the last 50 years. And the government doesn't want that getting out.
It won't EVER be capable of self-replication, because some of the parts need to be made out of different materials than the printing plastic for it to work.
If you make the printing stage and the bits that touch hot plastic out of the same plastic, it will just fuse to them and ruin the thing in no time.
To say nothing of the fact that it can't make its own electronics, particularly the stepper servomotors.
Every DVD player that I know of can be flashed with new firmware by the simple expedient of burning the update file to a CD-ROM and putting it in the drive. It was common to do this back in the day, because sometimes the old firmware couldn't play some newer DVDs. Or sometimes people did it to gain access to extra features like region code hack menus.
You can update the firmware on Blu-ray players as well. Probably the exact same way.
Yeah, I have had the same reaction. Wait for periodic Amazon sales, or the inevitable discounts down the road.
There is an interesting parallel there: at this point in the DVD rollout, say back in '99 or so, I was doing the same thing for DVDs. They were running $25 and up at retail, so I would wait for sales, or buy them online for less. There were a number of online sites that were exclusively DVD discounters, though most of them eventually went bust when retail prices dropped.
Basically, these things aren't licensed like airliners. The FAA has been willing (has bent over backwards, really) to consider these vehicles as barnstormers. So they have been willing to forego the usual rounds of testing that new airliners have to undergo in order to be certified for commercial passenger use.
This is a big deal, as the testing required to certify an airliner costs tens of millions of dollars, and takes years.
If you try to fly these rocket planes as commercial passenger planes, that exemption will most likely go away.
That being said, who can say where the market will go once companies start making money on suborbital flights? I suspect someone will build a New York to Tokyo model...
My housemate had a 600A, and while it was indeed multiregion capable, and inexpensive, there is no getting around that it was also just really cheap.
It glitched a lot, and sound and picture were only OK. And it was ugly, if utilitarian.
I bought a Philips 642 a few years after that completely blows it away. Great picture, better looking, thinner, and yes, it does multiregion. And for $66 bucks.
But frankly, the best DVD player I've ever owned is my PS3. Love the bluetooth remote and the upscaling.
No, turning off tracking TURNS OFF TRACKING. What it doesn't do is remove the existing tracked changes that were in the document from before you turned off tracking. To get rid of those, you can either accept them one at a time, or do an "Accept all changes."
FWIW, I don't use the Track Changes feature in Word, because it causes problems with Word's already screwed up automatic numbering system.
So, no new Palm PDAs for another year. :(
on
Palm to go Linux
·
· Score: 1
Translation: "We're going to spend yet another year on yet another wild goose chase, so if you were hoping for a new PDA, or even an update to one of our old models, keep hoping."
Their current models are already two years old. That's an eternity in the gadget market. And they weren't exactly cutting edge when they were new.
These things are going to be buried under several feet of lunar soil in order to provide radiation protection. That will certainly protect them from micro-meteorites.
The XBox sold abysmally poorly in Japan. As in, the Dreamcast sometimes outsold it after the Dreamcast was officially cancelled.
It's not because the XBox is American, either: there are tons of American brands that do very well in Japan, such as Apple. It's because the Japanese XBox launch was a disaster of epic proportions.
Slashdot Mirror
I suspect you will find the newer stuff more accessible. I would start with the Christopher Ecclestone season and watch through to the present day.
After that, you may want to sample some of the older stuff, so here are a few suggestions for the various Doctors:
William Hartnell: An Unearthly Child, The Daleks, The Dalek Invasion of Earth. The first two are included in a set called In The Beginning
Patrick Troughton: The Tomb of the Cybermen
Jon Pertwee: Spearhead from Space, The Sea Devils
Tom Baker: Robot (his introductory episode), Genesis of the Daleks, Pyramids of Mars, Robots of Death, Deadly Assassin, City of Death
Peter Davison: Earthshock, The Caves of Androzani
Colin Baker: Revelation of the Daleks
Sylvester McCoy: Remembrance of the Daleks
In my opinion, seasons 12-15, the first four seasons of Tom Baker, are the best of the older series. But the list above should give you a taste of the whole thing. See what you like.
Top-drawer leadership is more valuable than gold. And way more valuable than a newbie programmer with a background in the flavor of the month. Why? Because top-drawer leaders can build top-drawer teams, and a top-drawer team will outperform any hotshot solo programmer. A top-drawer leader will make everyone in their team significantly more productive, by cutting out the bullshit, and by making the team members happy to be working on the project. There is also the huge benefit of knowing what not to do, and how to limit the scope of a new project or feature early in the design phase, which makes every phase after that much, much easier.
Comparing the Falcon 9 to the N-1 is like comparing a Honda Civic to a Trabant.
The N-1 was a half-assed design from the beginning, it didn't even have the fuel tanks integrated into the structure of the rocket because the Soviets were too cheap to build the tooling necessary. So they built it with spherical tanks like a Goddard rocket, giving it a lousy mass to thrust ratio. Then the Soviets compounded the problem by only testing selected engines out of each production batch, instead of test-firing all of the engines. Lastly, their design didn't cope with engine failure at all well, which is a problem when your testing regimen guarantees engine failure.
The Falcon 9, on the other hand, uses a thoroughly modern design. Its engines are more reliable than the N-1's, and have been test-fired as a group successfully. Plus, it shares many components with the now-proven Falcon 1a design.
It is possible that they will still have problems with the Falcon 9, just like they did with the Falcon 1, but I think it is very likely that they will overcome them.
Another good site for that line of machines is Little Linux Laptop.
I've got one, and am now running 3MX on it. 3MX makes it better, but still has some issues.
Porn doesn't drive development of anything, it's an early adopter. There's a difference.
Hugh Hefner doesn't fund research into new media, but he'll be glad to sell his wares anywhere he can.
Mainly, I think, because porn doesn't necessarily have to be good in order to sell.
That's because porn doesn't have to be good in order to sell. It will sell on novelty alone, at least for a little while. So it is an ideal early adopter for new media.
That is pure unfounded supposition on your part. :)
I am using a Zodiac 2 now, and have a TX in storage if the Zod dies, but I am wondering what options exist for moving/using my data on other platforms?
I know Access has sold their ALP platform to a couple companies, it's on at least one digital camera, too. They also put out a PalmOS compatible layer for the Nokia internet tablets.
I think there is a company that emulates the basic built-in apps on WinCE and iPhone/iPod Touch. Haven't heard great things about that.
Are there other options out there?
Seriously, with BC, upgrading to the PS3 from the PS2 is a pretty obvious choice.
Without it, if you're going to upgrade to something that can't play PS2 games, why not a 360?
I know several people who were once interested in the PS3, but completely lost interest once they found out you can't get PS/2 BC any more. They're in wait-and-see mode now, waiting for Sony to bring back BC.
Though, they still play PS1 games, FWIW.
That or being just really wimpy. My computer uses a GeForce 5200 card, which is passively cooled, and has lasted for years. It's pretty weak for gaming, though: forget Crysis, it struggles with Sam & Max. And forget about playback in HD.
But for everything else, it's been great: quiet, produces great output, and it doesn't heat up the whole room during the summer.
Free and unrestricted access to a useful resource leads to overuse that eventually renders that resource unusable to anyone.
When Usenet was in its heyday, before the September That Never Ended, access was very much restricted. When I first got on in the mid-80's, you pretty much had to have a university computer account. This meant that people who abused the system were easily identified and either straightened out, or kicked out. Every September, there would be a flurry of nonsense and misbehavior from the new accounts, which died down after about a month or so, as the majority learned the rules, and the losers and abusers got kicked out.
Things were also aided by the fact that the total number of users was relatively small, which kept things manageable.
Once access to Usenet became easy, anonymous, and free, the doom was unavoidable.
People have already mentioned The Phantom, but I think The American, by Mark Verheiden, is an even better example.
Comic starts out with The American, a Captain America-like hero, coming in to break up a terrorist attack (or something like that). A bystander sees him screw up and get killed. But that night, there he is taking a bow for the evening news.
So the bystander starts digging into what's going on, and strikes conspiracy pretty quickly. Turns out there have been hundreds of different guys playing the role of The American over the last 50 years. And the government doesn't want that getting out.
And hey, it's still in print!
It won't EVER be capable of self-replication, because some of the parts need to be made out of different materials than the printing plastic for it to work.
If you make the printing stage and the bits that touch hot plastic out of the same plastic, it will just fuse to them and ruin the thing in no time.
To say nothing of the fact that it can't make its own electronics, particularly the stepper servomotors.
Every DVD player that I know of can be flashed with new firmware by the simple expedient of burning the update file to a CD-ROM and putting it in the drive. It was common to do this back in the day, because sometimes the old firmware couldn't play some newer DVDs. Or sometimes people did it to gain access to extra features like region code hack menus.
You can update the firmware on Blu-ray players as well. Probably the exact same way.
Yeah, I have had the same reaction. Wait for periodic Amazon sales, or the inevitable discounts down the road.
There is an interesting parallel there: at this point in the DVD rollout, say back in '99 or so, I was doing the same thing for DVDs. They were running $25 and up at retail, so I would wait for sales, or buy them online for less. There were a number of online sites that were exclusively DVD discounters, though most of them eventually went bust when retail prices dropped.
Basically, these things aren't licensed like airliners. The FAA has been willing (has bent over backwards, really) to consider these vehicles as barnstormers. So they have been willing to forego the usual rounds of testing that new airliners have to undergo in order to be certified for commercial passenger use.
This is a big deal, as the testing required to certify an airliner costs tens of millions of dollars, and takes years.
If you try to fly these rocket planes as commercial passenger planes, that exemption will most likely go away.
That being said, who can say where the market will go once companies start making money on suborbital flights? I suspect someone will build a New York to Tokyo model...
My housemate had a 600A, and while it was indeed multiregion capable, and inexpensive, there is no getting around that it was also just really cheap.
It glitched a lot, and sound and picture were only OK. And it was ugly, if utilitarian.
I bought a Philips 642 a few years after that completely blows it away. Great picture, better looking, thinner, and yes, it does multiregion. And for $66 bucks.
But frankly, the best DVD player I've ever owned is my PS3. Love the bluetooth remote and the upscaling.
Not full-bore, all the shinies turned on Crysis, but it can run it.
http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTQ1MCwxLCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA==
Did Amiga Unix support the multimedia end of things? Could you run the Video Toaster off it?
If not, it sounds like a square peg in a round hole type situation, as the Amiga's real niche was in multimedia.
Jon Acheson
For "just so freakin' bad" I nominate Daikatana.
OTOH, for "kind of cheap but it knows it's bad and has fun with it," I nominate Duke Nukem.
No, turning off tracking TURNS OFF TRACKING. What it doesn't do is remove the existing tracked changes that were in the document from before you turned off tracking. To get rid of those, you can either accept them one at a time, or do an "Accept all changes."
FWIW, I don't use the Track Changes feature in Word, because it causes problems with Word's already screwed up automatic numbering system.
Translation: "We're going to spend yet another year on yet another wild goose chase, so if you were hoping for a new PDA, or even an update to one of our old models, keep hoping."
Their current models are already two years old. That's an eternity in the gadget market. And they weren't exactly cutting edge when they were new.
Talk about taking your customers for granted!
These things are going to be buried under several feet of lunar soil in order to provide radiation protection. That will certainly protect them from micro-meteorites.
Jon Acheson
It's a play on the inventor's name, Troy. Trojan = "from Troy."
At the very least, maybe they'll use them in the Halo movie.
Jon Acheson
The XBox sold abysmally poorly in Japan. As in, the Dreamcast sometimes outsold it after the Dreamcast was officially cancelled.
It's not because the XBox is American, either: there are tons of American brands that do very well in Japan, such as Apple. It's because the Japanese XBox launch was a disaster of epic proportions.
Jon Acheson