I don't know why this would be anything other than a positive for Indrema. I don't give a shit about Linux, yet the IES appeals to me on its on merits (and it's release date as opposed to Xbox). If anything, this means less competition. With PS2's lack of built in broadband networking, and the Gamecube's relatively unimpressive specs, the Indrema looks tasty indeed.
Of course what doesn't bode well for the IES is that the best system is typically beaten down by the homogenous 2nd best. I don't like MS any better than anybody else, but at least the 2nd best Xbox is pretty impressive itself. Xbox it is.
There is something to be said for gaining technology at a pace that allows it to be understood - and more importantly, by a civilization that has the capacity to wield it with wisdom. You can drop a truckload of dune buggys and uzis off at the primate house at your local zoo; but a more advanced bunch o' monkeys ain't what you'll get. (more like Mad Max meets the Bananna Splits I imagine:)
With any luck, future civilizations will be evolved enough when they find any such records to recognize that they don't want to take advice from a bunch of screw-ups like us. After all, if we manage to dissapear, it will almost certainly be at our own hand. What makes us think our advice or knowledge will be anything but a curse to hypothetical future civilizations?
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I don't know why this would be anything other than a positive for Indrema. I don't give a shit about Linux, yet the IES appeals to me on its on merits (and it's release date as opposed to Xbox). If anything, this means less competition. With PS2's lack of built in broadband networking, and the Gamecube's relatively unimpressive specs, the Indrema looks tasty indeed. Of course what doesn't bode well for the IES is that the best system is typically beaten down by the homogenous 2nd best. I don't like MS any better than anybody else, but at least the 2nd best Xbox is pretty impressive itself. Xbox it is.
With any luck, future civilizations will be evolved enough when they find any such records to recognize that they don't want to take advice from a bunch of screw-ups like us. After all, if we manage to dissapear, it will almost certainly be at our own hand. What makes us think our advice or knowledge will be anything but a curse to hypothetical future civilizations?