@phoneboy101: It can be used well, without turing the picture into a tilt-shift. The iPhone tends to have as much of the scene in focus as possible. Generally, that isn't what you want. So careful use of TiltShiftGen can make it seem like the phone was focusing only on the subject.

@Defendant: Well, according to him, it was fixed- he was just taking it "around the block" to confirm that. He could have been wrong, or he could have been careless.

@mike_311: I've been repeatedly surprised by my iPhone camera in low-light. I will often shoot in low light using ProHDR- with real photography, HDR usually adds noise and when shooting in the dark that means craploads of noise. But for whatever reason, ProHDR does a really good job of cleaning up the image and…

TiltShiftGen has greatly improved many a photo for me (I've picked up a nasty habit of overusing it, but I'm trying to make the effects more subtle). Sure, it's meant for making tilt-shifts, but properly abused, it's fantastic for pretending that your phone camera actually has a real DOF.

@Defendant: Both times?

The TARDIS isn't precise because the Doctor isn't precise. He's sloppy, slapdash, except when he isn't. Matt Smith captures this well, especially the difficulties the Doctor has at moving in linear time like normal people.

@ZachMatthews: The solution there is to use a dynamic DNS service, like dyndns.

I like my job, and my favorite part of my job is that they pay me. My job isn't terribly exciting, interesting, or challenging. I make sure that widgets get shipped by writing software to manage production processes and inventory. The vast majority of my programs take this form: "Pick up these records from here,…

The tickmark thing is creepy as hell. That episode looks like a lot of fun.

The roads must roll, I suppose.

@DIOX-HOL-STER: To do that, we'd have to relocate the scores of mutated turtles living in there today. It would be ecologically unsound of us to encroach yet further onto the habitat of this endangered species.

@x Dave Lister x: He can't, except when he can.

@d4: Have you been living in a cave?

The idea of the ghost of Christmas future using your present as the cautionary tale is very chilling.

@Lawdog: I love you.

So, we should expect the first episode to air in 2012, and the season to actually finish in 2014?

@Delphinus100: Certainly, it will. Who do you think is going to build the colonies? Not humans! How are the humans to survive without an operating colony already there? And without humans to build it, who will? Robots.

"Urgent" isn't the right word. Expanding to other worlds isn't urgent- quite the contrary, it's the opposite of urgent. The odds of an extinction-level event happening in any individual's lifetime are very slim. Even if we expand that to the average lifetime of civilizations, it's very slim.

Christmas? Is that coming up soon?

Why would I need this when I have online Star Trek RPGs? That's where I met my wife, after all.