So that's the plan then?
Watch what Trump does, do the opposite? ☺
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"Just do a Never Mind the Buzzcocks/etc and line up a series of single-episode guest Doctors?"
There's actually merit in the idea.
Just have a regeneration be unstable, causing his mannerisms and looks to constantly shift.*
Then when an actor 'clicks' with the viewers, <plotdevice> makes him the doctor until the next regen, and lather, rinse, repeat.
*And why not? They've already admitted they make it up as they go along anyway.
And then when the lawyers show up From Disney Galactic to sue them, the janitor, the Field Museum in Chicago, The company that recreated the DVD reader to read the DVDs, and the company that made the boxes they were stored in for $INCREDIBLY_VAST_SUM for copyright infringement, intellectual theft, and DRM breaking, then they will realize why there is a giant void starting in around 1990 where no historical records survive
"You guys still do the tower and axeman?"
Given the tenacity of British bureaucracy:
In some civil servant warren, there's an office with a desk, whose occupant shuffles in every day, and checks his memos.
Then strokes "Old Friend" hanging on the wall, and mutters, "Not today old friend, not today.", before taking it off its hooks for oiling and sharpening.
"Suspect it will require a resurrected Silverlight and .NET to be installed..."
No no, this will require something new and Different!
Silver.net, with a C# like syntax, but totally incompatible without the new IDE. (Which is still in development, but will be rolled out by late September 2020, at the latest!)
"Media types seem to have trouble with schedules."
Which is exactly why I dropped the local paper in the town I lived in years ago.
Every event was noted as "attendance down from last year", when they listed the program of the event... the week after.
Eventually, the town simply rented a billboard on the main highway to advertise events before they occurred. Attendance at events improved.
"Contrast this with your favourite web browser, which pushes out updates every six weeks. I don't even need to know what your favourite browser is to make this generalisation because they all do it."
Mine doesn't. SeaMonkey's at version 2.46, kept fully up to date, and hasn't had a major UI change in ages.
It just works, and works well.
(ACK! Screwed up the URL and didn't notice before the 10 minutes was up, withdrawn and corrected.)
"On the potential bright side is that lower income and reduced profits for Oracle might mean less money to play with and fewer vexatious lawsuits from litigious Larry."
Unfortunately, lower income and reduced profits are what usually causes a company to "Cry HAVOC! and let slip the lawyers of IP!"
Fat happy CEOs just threaten litigation, losing CEOs act like mad dogs and attack everything in sight.
"It strains credulity that TWO suppliers (one of which is Samsung SDI, i.e. basically itself!) had the same problems"
Bet you a nickle that, if true, it'll turn out that Samsung SDI subcontracted their battery manufacturing to the other company. To save costs, of course.
"Well I have observed, that just like scum, bad management frequently rises towards the top."
It's called the Peter Principle.
Unbelievably, most of them actually started off good at their jobs.
Then they kept getting promoted until they reached a level they're not fit to handle.
Then rather than admit or even acknowledge they made a mistake, their boss just keeps shuffling them around from position to position to hide the damage.
Why would their boss do that? How do you think he got where he is?
"I seriously don't understand the hate against Wesley Crusher."
He's the visible symptom of the problem, and caught all the hate.
The real problem was lazy writers.
"Hey Earl, what's this episode's resolution?"
"Uhhh... Wesley saves the day by suggesting they use anti-tachyons?"
"Meh, good enough."
"Dudes, Wesley was wrote out of the show last season, remember?"
"DAMN! Ok... Don't panic, I got this... Barclay saves the day by suggesting they use anti-tachyons!"
"Love it! That oughta keep those damn Trekkies happy."
"Keep this crap out of the OS and keep it in Skype or whatever so that it will turn off when I tell it to. </rant>"
Hear hear! Send me a message on IRC* if you want to communicate.
Text keeps communication (relatively) succinct and to the point, unlike voice, where once someone starts talking, they forget how to stop!
* Yes, I'm that guy.
(how much of a vac does it need?)
Well, a couple of centuries back (1870s), a demonstator was built proving that as long as the air pressure was lower in the front than the back, no other propulsion needed. so not much vacuum.
"A case to point: NASA spent millions of dollars developing a pen American astronauts could use in micro-gravity conditions"
Nope. They both used grease pencils.
The Fisher Pen Co. developed a pen that would write in any position, on their own, no funding, and NASA started using those after they tested out OK for zero gravity use.
"Nadella calls for AI sector to move beyond 'worshipping' a handful of companies"
"Hey guys! WE can do it too, honest! So quit following the industry leaders and follow us! We'll have something almost working any day now, scout's honor!"
When did Nadella suffer a blow to the head and started thinking he was Ballmer?
"What's to stop IBM getting a banking license and then offering to buy the Lloyds brand at a knock-down price?"
They're already a finance company! There's nothing to stop them.
(Look a trifle risky, putting your bank under a competing company's control, don't it?)
"Try calling <snip> just about any "service" these days."
No thanks, it always seems to go like this:
"Thank you for calling Megacorp,your call is important to us. Please press the appropriate number for the service you wish to use:"(switches to different voice)
"plerk berk srng dorf klep"
"Singe nerf terk twang blerk"
"Smerk nerb burble cleff nor"
"Perkle twik smok torb blin"
"Aper nerk tohn jurblly mergle plot"
"...."
(switches back to original voice after pause)
"You have not selected any number listed. We will now hang up."
"Fuck you for calling Megacorp."
I've had this exact same experience calling several different company's help lines.
I'm sure it's deliberate.
"I'm curious why there is apparently less control for a linear motor than a steam piston."
Curiously, the steam valve that was fitted to the electric catapult (as per military regulations regarding carrier catapults) had no effect controlling the motor's performance. ☺
"Finally, how many man hours of effort, meetings and yet more meetings did it take to change the BDOD screen into the GSOD? Don't the people in redmond realise that they are doing the MS equivalent of 'fiddling while Rome burns'?"
Looks like MS has actually abandoned its attempts to emulate Google.
Now they're emulating Yahoo! instead!
"Because teddy bears are so CUUUUTE!"
About those "teddy bears". To quote Kkatman:
"A mechanically intuitive species and fascinated with technology. How many 'primitives' do you know that can engineer a war glider? That can carry boulders? Or figure out a speeder bike in five seconds flat?... Or did you think we worshipped the mechanical man with the glowing eyes because he was shiny?"
In Kkatman's fan fic, Endor was destroyed by the exploding Death Star, and covered up by rebel propaganda.
The only surviving Ewoks were the ones in the Imperial shield generator bunker, and abandoned by their rebel "friends".
They survived the Hell their world became because:
A.They were tech savvy and used the Death star Wreckage, and
B. Their shaman used his new training to protect them.
New training? "The biggest, most badass Sith was betrayed and murdered within sight of my home.
Ask yourself: Do you think only the good ones can pull off that glowey-ghost mentor trick?"
When Jobs died, it was much ballyhooed that his vision would go on because he'd written down a plan for Apple's future.
It was never mentioned again after the ballyhoo died.
So what happened?
A. There was no plan, just a story to keep investors happy?
B. There is a plan, but it lies untouched in the shrine they made of Job's office?
C. There was a plan, but all it essentially says is, "Good luck!"?
D. There is a plan, full of ideas and insight for the future. Cook read it, but wailed, "But this'll cost a fortune in research and development! No way!"
Personally, I lean toward D.
Say what you want about Jobs, he had vision, and the balls to follow it.
IMO, He was able to record the vision to pass it on, but Cook lacks the balls to follow it.