The Battle Angel Alita series - Peerless!
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I found the Akira film first. It was good! I stopped dodging Japanese animation.
Then I found the Akira graphic novel, which floored my jaw (and which incidentally, nobody can buy anywhere any more, they obviously don't want money)
Then I found the Battle Angel Alita books, and I was utterly... and completely... blown away.
The author wrote and drew the whole series. Anyone reading this MUST check them out. Samples of artwork can be found here
The first two episode were made into a video, which was complete garbage in comparison with the books.:-(
After you've bought, read, savoured, and reread the Alita series you may want to check out the vidoes of 'Macros Plus' (very very good), 'Tenchi Muyo' (absolutely hilarious), 'Armitage III' and any of the cinema released Anime films, which all seem to be pretty damned good.
I'm off to locate this Neon Genesis that I can't help hearing rave reviews about.
(I don't have the project website on me - anybody?)
Psion have HUGE experience in handhelds. I believe they *invented* the personal organiser, but they just don't have MS/HP/Casio marketing power. Instead, they have 'DOH-why-didn't-I-think-of-that' software/hardware design.
My ancient Psion 3a, when necessary, is the emergency console for my Linux box (if X freezes, or svgalib crashes). The rest of the time it keeps my appointments, spreadsheets, notes etc and passwords (encrypted file - a feature even then) with me. And all for 2xAA batteries every 3+ months...
And this from when its competitors were still calculators!
When I saw this I thought - didn't I see Xerox demo that on TV, a coupla years ago??!?!?! IIRC they were dead chuffed with it at the time... and maybe copyrighted it?
Heads up Sunlabs - you may have done an MS "we just invented anti-aliasing";-)
A friend of mine has actually written NFS for other platforms, and he's none too chuffed with the Linux NFS in several areas. Apparently there are still soft spots and non-standard bits floating around in there.
He does send problems and patchlets in to knfsd, but has no patience with the userspace nfsd. Remember that the Titanic Linux network often got stuck when the (SGI) NFS server fell over. (I severely doubt that particular problem is still around).
Personally I'm waiting for CODA - NFS isn't the prettiest creature in any light, or on anyones platform.
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I found the Akira film first. It was good! I stopped dodging Japanese animation.
:-(
Then I found the Akira graphic novel, which floored my jaw (and which incidentally, nobody can buy anywhere any more, they obviously don't want money)
Then I found the Battle Angel Alita books, and I was utterly... and completely... blown away.
The author wrote and drew the whole series. Anyone reading this MUST check them out.
Samples of artwork can be found here
The first two episode were made into a video, which was complete garbage in comparison with the books.
After you've bought, read, savoured, and reread the Alita series you may want to check out the vidoes of 'Macros Plus' (very very good), 'Tenchi Muyo' (absolutely hilarious), 'Armitage III' and any of the cinema released Anime films, which all seem to be pretty damned good.
I'm off to locate this Neon Genesis that I can't help hearing rave reviews about.
Haldane
It Runs Linux... ask Alan Cox :-)
(I don't have the project website on me - anybody?)
Psion have HUGE experience in handhelds. I believe they *invented* the personal organiser, but they just don't have MS/HP/Casio marketing power.
Instead, they have 'DOH-why-didn't-I-think-of-that' software/hardware design.
My ancient Psion 3a, when necessary, is the emergency console for my Linux box (if X freezes, or svgalib crashes).
The rest of the time it keeps my appointments, spreadsheets, notes etc and passwords (encrypted file - a feature even then) with me.
And all for 2xAA batteries every 3+ months...
And this from when its competitors were still calculators!
I agree - Deja Vu!
... and maybe copyrighted it?
;-)
When I saw this I thought - didn't I see Xerox demo that on TV, a coupla years ago??!?!?!
IIRC they were dead chuffed with it at the time
Heads up Sunlabs - you may have done an MS "we just invented anti-aliasing"
A friend of mine has actually written NFS for other platforms, and he's none too chuffed with the Linux NFS in several areas.
Apparently there are still soft spots and non-standard bits floating around in there.
He does send problems and patchlets in to knfsd, but has no patience with the userspace nfsd.
Remember that the Titanic Linux network often got stuck when the (SGI) NFS server fell over. (I severely doubt that particular problem is still around).
Personally I'm waiting for CODA - NFS isn't the prettiest creature in any light, or on anyones platform.