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I have now begun reading David Weber's Starfire novels. I couldn't find a copy of the first one so i'm starting with my dad's paperback copy of In Death Ground.



That is all.

RogueIce wrote:Windows XP was the greatest. I miss it.

I find Windows 8 to be a Jekyll and Hyde OS - I find it very good on my Nokia Lumia but more illogical, awkward on my laptop if I have to do more than just browse the net or use email.

Your Nokia does not have Windows 8. It's Windows Phone 8. Don't worry, it was supposed to trick you like that.

And you're correct, it does fail completely by trying to be a tablet OS on the desktop. Do yourself a favour and install something like Pokki menu, it puts back a start menu and forces desktop mode on boot.

I'm one of the three people in the world who actually likes the windows 8 interface lol

I like it too tho I'm not complaining about the return of the start button.

Bounty wrote:
And you're correct, it does fail completely by trying to be a tablet OS on the desktop. Do yourself a favour and install something like Pokki menu, it puts back a start menu and forces desktop mode on boot.

It's not just that, my problem is Windows 8's Video Application steadfastly refusing to play any kind of video file, even the darn videos from my Windows Phone 8 (however an older holdover video play from W7 on my traditional desktop can play video files, no problem).

Oh yeah, the Windows 8 video application sucks donkey balls. I just use VLC for all that, though.

But I think Windows 8's Photo and Skydrive suites are genuinely good (synching up with my phone beautifully), which makes up up for the Video Player fuckwittery (which seems to be trying to be a cheapish knock-off of Netflix or Lovefilm rather than a reliable video player).

I'm not sure how I feel about being the only member of a club besides evilsoup and flagg :L

You should feel shitty.

So in a shocking turn of events, the next incarnation of the Doctor is to be played by a white man

Yes, the BBC made a really bold decision there.

On the upside, if you're going for a white man you could do much, much worse than Peter Capaldi. He's an awesome actor.

Capaldi is a swell actor (and I was subconsciously thinking about him) but I must say it was a pretty conservative, almost safe choice, and he's a Scotsman like Tennant. But it's refreshing he's visibly fairly old and not a young(ish) adult like his last three predecessors.

He can't be the Doctor! HE'S ALREADY PART OF THE WHOVERSE!

And DEAD!

More seriously, that's not a bad choice, I think, based on what little of him I've seen. Though, I was hoping for a woman, actually. There's precedence of a sorts, since they mention (IIRC) in The Doctor's Wife that one of the incarnations of another Time Lord, who was usually male, was female. Good to see they didn't continue the trend of younger Doctors. It's be hard to believe that a teen was all that wise and what not, even if the teen was actually pushing a millennium and a half.

I was hoping for a black man. Idris Elba or that one with the unrememberable name. Eijiwsomething.

HE'S ALREADY PART OF THE WHOVERSE!

As were Karen Gillian, Freema Agyeman and Catherine Tate.

Bounty wrote:As were Karen Gillian, Freema Agyeman and Catherine Tate.

And, clearly, I was not being facetious.

Two other actors that I think would make decent Doctors are Alan Davies and Robert Carlyle.

Big Orangutan wrote:Two other actors that I think would make decent Doctors are Alan Davies and Robert Carlyle.

Since I knew they were going to cast a white male Brit I was hoping for Carlyle.

aww man I was really hoping for Idris Elba
*googles Peter Capaldi* haha oh the guy from In the Loop? Fucking yes

I want Stephen Fry as the Doctor if he must be an old white dude. He does that "I know more than you" thing entirely too well.

Now this frees Idris Elba to be James Bond

evilsoup wrote:Oh yeah, the Windows 8 video application sucks donkey balls. I just use VLC for all that, though.

Media Player Classic Home Cinema wants to be your best friend.

F.J. Prefect, Esq wrote:Now this frees Idris Elba to be James Bond

YES

The Spartan wrote:

Bounty wrote:As were Karen Gillian, Freema Agyeman and Catherine Tate.

And, clearly, I was not being facetious.

your sarcasm didn't register