Re: [Hampshire] Horizon tonight

>> Some science without too much voodoo.
>
> Heh, was just complaining about the same program :-)

Note that I said "*some* science" :-)

> It's not just dumbing down that narks me (_way_ below the person in
> question would never watch horizon in the first place)

Perhaps. Dumbing down is the way of things these days; TBH, given the
general level of knowledge I see in most people I meet, this might not
actually be a bad idea, even if it does irk some of us :-(

> The narrating was particularly dire, usual "let's repeat everything
> three times and then get scientists to repeat it twice more"

These programmes are designed to be exported as well as shown domestically
- so chances are, it'll turn up in a number of locations where there are
*bazillions* of adverts throughout it. That means you need to recap a bit.
And they're probably aiming at people with attention spans lower than some
of the participants in the programme ;-)

> After last years episode on "computers outsmarting humans" (I think it
> was that) which was diabolically bad

Oh, $DEITY, yes. I remember that. And cringe.

> I thought I would never watch
> another episode. After tonight, I never will.

Well, I thought tonight's was quite passable[1], in a tabloid kind of way...

> Yep - got that :-) Seemed a nice room filled with lots of monitors
> and projector screens, but all running screensavers! Did they not
> have DPMS support?

Pah. Given the energy consumption of LHC, do you really think DPMS is
going to make a difference? *grin*

Vic.


[1] But then, I do have a glass of Stroh on the desk tonight *vvvbg*