Posts by graeme leggett 2470 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Oct 2007
So far - part way through - a free Netflix month, I've saved a fortune on Lego-based entertainment.
And I've watched enough ST:TNG to understand why I don't remember most of them from the first time around.
And watched the first and second series of Suits. which I did enjoy.
At the moment off work ill, I'm passing the time with The Eleventh Hour.
for £6 a month it's not bad value but I don't think I'd be missing out if I cancel before the first month is out.
"So, what have rights holders lost? If I use get_iplayer to record the Afternoon Play from Radio 4 to listen to later , how have I deprived the rights holder of any revenue? It is not like there's a market for CDs for such things "
http://www.digitalaudiobooks.co.uk/authors/bbc-audiobooks/
http://www.bbcshop.com/audio/icat/audio
or even as an example http://www.amazon.co.uk/Diary-Samuel-Pepys-full-cast-dramatisation/dp/1910281425
X-15. Mothership launched X-plane managed, from 1959-1968, 198 powered test flights with one fatality.
Joe Walker crossed the edge of space (100 km up) in July 1963 which - though not as high as the Mercury missions - makes him 7th American in space.
(Walker was killed when his chase plane collided with the XB-70 Mach 3 bomber - a publicity shot too far as it turned out)
In did but "as big as the smallest submarines (excluding one-man ones) during WWII" wouldn't make much of a tagline
Surcouf is a bit of an outlier - but comparing to other more mainstream designs at the large end of the displacements. (bit of rounding on values)
Thames (or River class) British "fleet" design mid-1930s 2,700 tons 345 ft
Type C3 Japanese, cargo type 3,600 tons, 360 ft
Type XIV German resupply type 1,900 tons 220 ft
'Gato' class US "fleet" 2,400 tons, 310 ft
Well
Earth forget all the Cybermen invasions including the Antarctic one in 1986
The Loch Ness monster menacing the Thames
The RAF putting down a Krynoid in leafy Surrey
That time with the strange killer smog in London
its happened a lot since 1963.
Going by Gallifreybase, this one proviokes a similar reaction to Rings of Akhetan. The voting curve isn't a single peak but has more in common with Cisco's logo.
Thematically, there's a tie-in with the Doctor, The Widow, and the Wardrobe with its sparkly vegetation-based lifeforce.
Personally, not one of the stand-outs of the series but may have more meaning once the end of the series is reached. The seasons's themes have been 'choices', 'sacrifice', and 'lies' so this story may have partly been to round off/fill-in some elements as an intro to the finale.
"...27 November is Thanksgiving, the largest public holiday in the United States. Bigger than Christmas"
Is this possibly an illustration of how the US is different from the rest of the world that celebrates Christmas where though national/foundation holidays are important they generally take second place.
More deaths than recently perhaps, but not than in the classic period.
Personally I'm wondering if the new series can manage a Horror of Fang Rock type body count (100% of supporting cast) or a Terror of the Vervoids (total sentient species wipe out)
"I would argue immediately that voting should be mandatory and it should be online"
Says someone who has been appointed to a position of power and influence in an organisation of unelected individuals.
Not that I have any particular problem with the idea of an assembly made up of the wise (actual levels of wisdom may fall as well as rise) to act in a consultation or advisory role to an elected body, but when you are a member of one you should be careful choosing your words re voting.
Stop messing about! You're having a navy Lark.
It's quite obviously an ancient warlord's Bentley. Perhaps he discarded it due to some problem with the mechanism (Binding of the axle after ending up In The Marsh) Or to prevent it falling into his rivals hands - not wanting them to Take It From tHere
On Gallifreybase (other fandom websites are available) 80% of those contributing to poll (1900 votes) placed it as "8 It's certainly worthy of very high praise!" or better, 90% as "7. Well above average" or better.
I think the 12 giving it the lowest rating "1 I'd rather listen to a tape loop of leaf blower noise" might be the fewest I've seen for that rating recently.
Things you could try
1) You could paint your drone a shiny silvery colour to scare birds off - but beware of the solitary corvids (though I have seen a blackbird drive off a jay)
2) Fit a bird scarer - but the neighbours won't be happy, and the recoil won't help straight flying
3) admit that since the disappearance of the flying 'saurs, that birds are the masters of the air
I wonder what a fight between a herring gull and drone looks like....
I'll agree with the basic premise of removing that which is not required is one answer to improved security. And I know of some organisations that operate a basic image and any extra software needs to be justified. (eg a default setup of Word and Lotus 1-2-3 - it was a while ago - but Lotus couldn't handle scientific graphing resulting in a sizeable number of installs of Excel )
Unfortunately I know of at least one organisation where the process to request anything other than a non-standard image is flawed, and/or the people handling the requests are not up to the job of evaluating and delivering on the request even when it is identified as a genuine business need.
So before you can introduce a system, of no admin user rights, and turning off stuff, there needs to be a good system for providing them when they are required. Which might add to the implementation cost, but will carry opinion with you rather than turning everything off and waiting for the shouting to start to find out what's been missed.
Windowsphone 8.1 supports installing apps to the removable storage (though not all apps may offer the choice and certain functions seem to be part of the OS rather than a distinct app). I think also the only way to move an app between the two is to uninstall/reinstall which might be awkward if the settings aren't kept, but I haven't investigated. Certainly it's meant my phone (a 625 with 8Gb internal, and a 8Gb SD card) run without running out of internal storage and needing a reset. Better temporary file handling may also have played a part.
Maps for Nokia Drive is 530 Mb for the whole of the UK, but if you only wanted say Wales that is 110 Mb or so.
"Fortunately most actors have as little knowledge of the gemre as the writers appear to have"
A lot of the writers, actors and production team all grew up with or have previous experience of DW.
Capaldi is a long term fan, as was Tennant, Moffat and Russel T Davies too. Phil Ford (Into the Dalek) wrote for Sarah Jane Adventures, and the Doctor Who Adventure Games. Gatiss (Sherwood) wrote Doctor Who short stories in the 90s too. Gareth Roberts (Caretaker) was writing Doctor Who novels in the 1990s.
Basically the fans have taken over the asylum. Gatiss is good with reworking and pastiche (if you note his involvement with H G Wells adaptations, Quatermass etc)
Since I mentioned actors. Tony Osoba (the other other member of the shuttle crew) has been in Doctor Who twice before, though for more screen time than he got this time around.)
Gallifreybase "rate and review poll" 1800 votes when I checked just now 24% rate it 9 out 10 ("excellent") and 75% rate it 7 ("well above average") or better.
On that unscientific poll, fandom is fairly happy with this episode.
Overnights: 4.81 million viewers, 21% of audience, there was a shift of audience to ITV at the end of Strictly (which had 44% of audience at one point)
Overnights have been level from episode to episode so far. So no sign the average viewer is giving up on it either.
You forget that Doctor Who differs from other shows in that THERE IS NO CANON.
For historical reasons as much as anything, there being no "show bible" written at the start to set out what the show had to include, no recordings to review and see what had gone before, and only memories to work from (the continuity background to Attack of the Cybermen from Tomb of the Cybermen is based on what one person remembered - Tomb was not rediscovered until 6 years after Attack was shown).
The programme evolved as circumstances and tastes changed: no bug-eyed monsters - until Daleks were a hit; one actor for the Doctor - until they found a way round it, accurate historical and educational stories - until they went the way of all things, filmed location and videoed studio - until Sontaran Experiment, filming on location - until inflation led to CSO for Underworld, an arbitrary 12-regeneration limit used for Deadly Assassin - and then sidestepped one actor early in Time of the Doctor.
hitting search engines is more like taking away every signpost that points to the hypothetical city (with a similar effect to ripping up the roads and railways) until all that's left is a few locals that remember "there used to be a city over that away".
That said, the target of the defamed person's ire ought to be the site with the actual data on it, and then google's cache etc
The difference is between
An agreement at the start that Company A would only pay X% in tax, and Company A paying just that amount while others had to pay Y%.
Finding out that Company B ought probably/would have been nice to have paid Y% but had only paid X% in effect and then accepting that it wasn't worth the effort (definitions of effort may go up as well as down) to get the full amount back and so settling for a potentially embarrassingly small sum.
Two points
a) city centre, Norwich is a city, so we say "I go down city yisty" not " I went into town yesterday"
b) it's in the Chapelfield Mall, and the Big Issue sellers are found near the market (I think it used to be said because that are was closer to the train from London)
Perhaps this came about because Norfolk people are inherently suspicious and doubt most things - save that the sun will rise and rain will fall, and NCFC will do both.
Parts of it had a soft rubber finish. After a few years - kept in the provided faux leather softcase, and generally in car glovebox - these areas became tacky.
Removing these parts I found that they were not rubber all the way through but a very thin layer over hard plastic. so I turned to my available selection of solvents.
No. 1 choice, the "universal solvent" had already proved inadequate, but the second choice - meths - did a fine job of lifting off the layer leaving the black plastic underneath only slightly whitened.
Which was good as my next choice would have been petrol.... dissolves rubber but the smell seldom passes.
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