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I haven't watched Dr. Who for years, so I was really not up to speed with the general storyline or characters, but I thought it a great production. Apart from the computer simulated battle scenes which were a bit OTT.
Veni, vidi, abiit domum
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I agree, blimey!
I like that they changed history (normally a very bad idea) but in a way one could accept as reasonable, feasible, and absolutely the right thing to do.
Tom Baker as the curator was nice although it made no sense that he was older than he ever was before his regeneration.
The detailed "computer displays" of the battle were a little silly with power shots flying back and forth like some kind of video game but otherwise the show was excellent.
I think everybody would be happy with it (unless your name ends with "Merrens").
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Forogar wrote: I think everybody would be happy with it (unless your name ends with "Merrens").
LOL: to be happy it had be good. Given the source material this was not a great effort. Davies was a far better story teller than Moffat is and it would have been darker and s little less of a CBBC type effort.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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Not sure how it all fits in with the time lords' previous return, but a few things have obviously been scratched off the To Do list (the marriage with Queen Bess, for example).
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I always thought that killing off the rest of the Time Lords was completely stupid, I'm glad they made a return possible.
And who taught Billie Piper to act at last?
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To be fair to the TV Series, the Time War was something that was covered in books, magazines and audio plays prior to the TV Series returning.
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LA LA LA LA LA LAAAAAA!!! I CAN'T HEAR YOU!!!
You have no idea how hard it has been going on the Internet the last couple of days trying to avoid any and all discussions about Day of the Doctor. I don't have cable, so I couldn't watch it on Saturday. But, I have my ticket to see it tonight in the theater.
Did they do that in the UK, too? Select theaters here are showing it in 3D. Saturday shows were sold out, but I managed to get in for tonight.
So...no spoilers, please!
Thank you.
I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone - Bjarne Stroustrup
The world is going to laugh at you anyway, might as well crack the 1st joke!
My code has no bugs, it runs exactly as it was written.
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I deliberately tried to keep my post spoiler free. I have now watched it three times.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: I deliberately tried to keep my post spoiler free. I have now watched it three times.
Yes, and I thank you for that.
But, I have deliberately avoided reading any other posts in this thread!
I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone - Bjarne Stroustrup
The world is going to laugh at you anyway, might as well crack the 1st joke!
My code has no bugs, it runs exactly as it was written.
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My Nexus 10 has just received and installed this update.
Scooted around the tablet and number of changes noted are 0.
Wait! While writing this I noticed a new smiley icon that brings up a smiley/symbols/icon keyboard.
Was apparently there already. However, have noticed the wifi and battery indicators have lost some colour.
Number of changes noted remain at 1.
modified 23-Nov-13 5:25am.
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If you mean in the bottom right corner of the virtual keyboard, then that was an update a couple of weeks ago to Keyboard - my Nexus 7 with V4.3 has that. If not, please don;t tell me they changed the damn punctuation around again: unless to put it back as it was (he said, hopefully, but without any conviction that they would)
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hmm, now I don't know if it was there or not. It is normally hidden by my hand so maybe just not noticed it before
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Is all the punctuation where you expected it to be? If so, then you had the update a few weeks ago - I seem to remember complaining about it here. (Still annoys me now...)
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I'm sure you've seen this list several times.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"Show me a community that obeys the Ten Commandments and I'll show you a less crowded prison system." - Anonymous
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My Nexus 7 is still on 4.3. Here's[^] a summary of what's new in KitKat.
/ravi
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Sorry for this shameless repost[^]*, I guess most of lounge people don't visit that forum.
Please recommend. Thank you.
* Hereafter it won't happen
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But but isn't that a hammer?
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I've actually been through this with a customer. The only way I've found to deal with these problems is if your BIOS is password-protected, and you disable the hardware in the BIOS.
The alternative is to buy your brother a cheap laptop of his own, and let him trash it at will. If he touches yours, beat the crap out of him.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Typically, a 20oz framing hammer judiciously applied to the back of the suspects hand takes care of the problem.
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Solution #1 on this[^] page will allow you to easily disable internet access.
/ravi
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You may want to reply to the OP.
/ravi
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Disable usb with
Disable usb[^]
and disable CDROM with
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\CDRom
Double Click on AutoRun and change the value to 0. This will stop it from automatically starting.
If you double click on start and change the Value to 0, it should disable it.
/Darren
modified 25-Nov-13 7:27am.
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Recently I deactivated Google Analytics for my blog Software Engineering Candies - no tracking anymore! In the past I used Google Analytics to record data about usage, but I decided to stop this tracking and deleted all historical data and reports.
If we compain that NSA, GCHQ, BND and all the others agencies spy us, we should stop to collect data about visitors of our own webpages.
I know that this will not change a lot, but these are my 50 cents to make the internet a better place. We need the freedom to surf without being spied in every detail of personal life.
Maybe you do the same for your pages and/or you share this idea with friends which have a personal page and/or blog.
Kind Regards
Markus Sprunck
http://www.sw-engineering-candies.com/
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I admire the thought but I think you should put it in perspective.
Firstly, your blog itself is powered by Google sites. Your visitors are tracked. End of story.
Secondly, tracking by collecting anonymous information, or tagging a person in order to build an anonymous profile and hence provide targeted advertising is very, very different than scanning emails and phone calls looking for keywords to score you and determine whether to send the boys in dark suits and dark glasses to pay you a visit.
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I honestly feel that the Snowden and Wikileaks stuff has made people more aware (good) but propagated extreme and unwarranted paranoia (bad) and has compromised countries' abilities to protect and compete against those entities that are truly, deeply malicious in their data interception (very, very bad).
Privacy has become a soap opera issue where everyone says "it's bed" without understanding fully what's being done, in what capacity, and why. There's a huge jumping-on-the-bandwagon mentality happening. Visa and my cellphone company know way WAY more about me, my spending habits, where I go, who I talk to, and what I own than any government in the world. And I actually let them - in fact I pay them to have this data.
Yes, there needs to be oversight to protect your personal data but what about the data already in non-governmental agencies? Take a look at how many people have suffered identity theft because employees at credit agencies have sold their information.
Take stock of what tracking currently happens. Decide whether it even matters, whether it may in fact help you get to things that interest you, and how easy it is to nuke whatever tie-in that tracking has to you (delete your cookies and you're free). Then decide if you're actually that important or even vaguely interesting to whomever's doing the tracking and think to yourself what would happen if the institutions whose job it was to protect a country could not actually do their job.
My previous employment has given me, admittedly, a unique perspective on this and I totally agree safeguards and common sense need to be in place, but for me it's like traffic cops: I'd much rather risk a $150 fine for doing 10kmh over the limit than not have anyone there for the crazies driving at 180kmh.
And I also know I'm just not that interesting.
</soapbox>
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