Sorry, but of course their numbers look good. Take away all their outer areas and the populations who basically are barely powered by anything and you get more reasonable. Look at their air quality in their major cities. Check their rivers and the like.
Per capita and they are broke too, but I don't think its a fair number to evaluate the earning power of those with modern jobs.
but an old friend of mine is deaf and he listens to music, well he feels music. As such most of what he plays in his car is bass heavy but he does get enjoyment out of it. Now sometimes this leads to some hilarious choices in what he plays.
and no there was no conspiracy about a fifth repilicant, its called their budget would not allow it.
Get the five disc collectors edition, watch the making of which is over four hours long. It smacks down most of the hair brained theories about why what happened, why something looked a certain way, and such.
and oh yeah, only Olmos originally knew what he was saying, he made it up.
As to the validity of making more. Sure, I don't want a re-make but a long time passed sequel would be nice and prequels don't need to involve the same characters to be valid stories.
unless your smoking the same stuff which Krugman of the NYT is because he claims its because Obama is President and our audacity and courage to elect him empowered the people of the Middle East to revolt.
As for aiding the enemy, well, pick one. I am sure we can make one up if we need it. There were certainly documents and such that put the lives of many soldiers and civilians in danger but I understand how quickly many here dismiss them. Its far better to portray it as Us vs The Man even though half the place is willing to hand over all rights and money provided they think someone else gets the shaft.
I didn't buy the first one because it seemed as if it were missing something. The addition of cameras, low powered as they are, does alleviate some concerns and lets me use it for quick and dirty stuff, things I won't have to unpack the camera for. While I would like a SD slot the adapter works fine and it means those who don't need the feature are not paying for it.
The boost in processing power will help with complex apps, the weight reduction should be noticeable and redesign of the case will help others.
I have read about the Xoom, but just as in my office where computers are just Windows based BECAUSE it seems that Tablets are Apple for the same reason, it works. It may not have all the features some want but it just works. The fact "that is just works" is the difference between selling millions versus tens of thousands.
the suicide rate of the surrounding area was significantly higher.
But why do you feel the need to preface Chinese labor with cheap? Their standard of living and cost of living is far different than ours. Now if someone were trying to put these together here for similar rates I can see cheap applied quite well, using min wage workers would make the term more appropriate.
Compensation at their plant is supposedly higher than other jobs available in the same urban area, as much as 50% in many cases. So what defines cheap? The term obviously does not apply locally. It applies from our stand point because $15 to $20 a day is madness for those of us who can buy these devices. Yet, when applied locally how do they fare?
I am all for saying their low cost labor but cheap is an unfair term to apply.
but know the teams that implement/admin them and I am constantly amazed.
Amazed in all that I read here and elsewhere points to incredibly resilient systems yet I have never been anywhere where they don't have scheduled down time on at minimum a quarterly basis and every major outage relied on a reload. So which is it? They make fun of the windows guys and just hope the windows guys don't look at their statistics (and no I am not on Windows either, think IBM Z and I).
My serious question is, is their a certain size system that reloads are valid on? When does it stop becoming a valid solution? When you get to enterprise level systems what are your options then?
I read all these articles but the one thing never clear is, are these large systems or just small servers (small being PC class hardware)
I am sure we could have just kept ignoring the all the killings, rapes, and such, that went on in Afghanistan. Lord knows we are damn good at ignoring the crimes of humanity committed 'over there' or by groups which might want to harm us directly but can't because they are 'over there'. I am quite sure one could sit down and in the space of an hour or two come up with a list of many times when a war occurred that fixed more problems than it caused.
I would take Bush over Obama any day now. It took Obama nearly two weeks after a thousand dead in Libya before he actually said something and even then it was barely a whimper. It used to be that the US could literally stare down these 3rd world dictators (if anything Libya came turned 360 in the early 2000s) but now with our foreign policy which can be defined as "well, if we must get involved can we just apologize for something we did years ago".
Yes people die in wars and it seems every armed conflict going over 48 hours is a war if America is involved. Yet sometimes leaving a problem to fester will result in far more dead and suffering that either the threat of war or actually acting on it. So just because don't agree with a particular war does not mean others have to follow suit. Some live life for other reasons and do far more than moan and groan on message boards about how unfair life is and how evil one President was or how bad their nation is, they instead went out and did something and obtained world acclaim because of it. Having said board troll dismiss this persons work is the height of idiocy.
I really get tired of people dinging foreign workers as cheap labor. Yeah, if you look at their dollar income earned it looks bad, but if you don't compare their income versus others in the region where they work you miss the big picture. Worse, people tend to look at the dollar amount and then assume that all living expenses are equal when they are not.
The problems like others stated are probably the result of a rush order process with insufficient time to work out the manufacturing kinks.
if you are noticing the product placement in a movie one would have to suspect that the movie was not enjoyable.
Really, if product placement stands out then I doubt the movie has a compelling story and is not worth watching in the first place. Its like Mystery Science Theater 3K, they start picking things apart because the movie as a whole is so bad that it becomes a process of anything goes. Now a special exception seems to be cars, people excuse specific cars from showing up; meaning a hot car is permitted regardless.
Product placement is far more rampant during prime time television.
even with many times in the bank that what he has I refuse to buy a "smart phone" or similar. Too me it seems that the name was a give away. Make the owner feel important, pretentious even, and fleece him behind his back because they know he will justify it to himself!!! I deserve it. We have a running joke at my work, the support people drive better (read : more expensive) cars than the programmers and admins. I do not understand the need to pick up a near 800 dollar lease, that damn car's MSRP is near the person's income who drives it.
Its like wandering into Starbucks and seeing all the expensive hardware on display. People are far to convinced that the items they are seen with define them. I will drive my little TDI and smile. Its a flipping car, just like its a flipping phone, laptop, etc. They are meaningless in a world when anyone can go in debt to have them.
Having expensive toys does not make you rich or special.
because we had the press vigorously pursuing every perceived and real attack on our privacy and rights while he was there. Now I am stuck with Fox to do it and have to screen everything they print/show to make sure I am not falling for something from the paranoia side. Worse, all those screaming voices on the Democratic side of Congress are woefully silent with regards to everything our President chooses to do.
If the press rode his ass like they did Bush we would be better off, it might make him live up to his promises/promise. Now all I want is to see him a one term President so we have a chance of something better next time.
It costs $2199 which for many means an additional $150 for the screen resolution it should have as default. Worse that $150 is the only way to get a non-glossy screen. So lets just say 2349 to get off the ground. Want a three year warranty? Considering your down 2349 its worth it to pay off the risk of that, but at 349 its 15% of the cost of the laptop.
Then you can go on with the extras beyond those two requirements. Sorry, in a day when you can buy a laptop for under 399 these premium laptops are absurd. I know you get what you pay for, but you really don't. The price difference stops somewhere well south of this things price point. This is like saying you need a Porsche for your commute because parking at Starbucks in a Chevy is so not your perceived status.
Don't get me wrong, I have an iMac, but I can at least see some of the value in its 27 inch screen. I can't find the value in their laptops. I know other companies make expensive laptops but damn, there are near equivalents for 90% of the apps most people will run for half this price let alone a quarter.
Amazing laptops in the range of workstation prices (looking at the real Mac Pros - the tower units).
My first CFLs lasted about three years before giving up. Before then they progressively lose their strength and take time to get whatever brightness level they max out at. They are hard to find light that looks "right" as coated bulbs can do little to compensate. They also are horrid in out door situations (low life mainly) and any where vibration can get to them, think garages either in or near the openers.
So far my three LED lights are just awesome. Good light dispersion and instant on. I have not tried any where the bulb is mounted horizontal, I have a few fixtures in the ceiling like that, but they do work well in my ceiling fan light fixtures and in bathrooms where the lights are pointed down. Haven't found a replacement for the globe lights that frequent bathrooms, I might end up ditching the fixtures.
Incandescent bulbs still have better variety in spectrum but outside of that I can think of only a few specialized uses their secondary effect; heat; warrants keeping them. OK, cost is their major benefit - at least up front cost.
I am all for keeping them on the death list as I hope it kicks LEDs makers into high gear. We can hope that Wal Mart decides to get behind LED lights like they did for CFLs, they seemed almost responsible for their overnight abundance and price drop. Having made such a big push on those bulbs I hope to see the repeat.
I can just DVR that channel when something interesting shows up on the schedule, if I even reference it. I know from sites like this one and other more in tune sites when something interesting might show up on that channel, the thing is, I use those sites to find it across any channel. After they changed their name to SyFy I was honestly relieved, its is perfect for who they are, some fruity feel good channel trying to cash in on whatever they can but most definitely not bout science fiction.
They have had some good original productions, The OZ and Dune come to mind. Series wise, Stargate and SGA were good to watch, though I admit I much rather watch SG compared to the other two. BSG was good till it started split seasons, then it became annoying. Some of the older shows simply ran their course. They were cult status by the time SciFi mangled them. They have had some original shows, Eureka was definitely out there at times.
Caprica - get real, name one episode that was worth watching - talk about no connection to the series your supposed to be related too - they could have added vampires and werewolves to it and not missed the marker farther than they did.
Don't use inflammatory comments in your e-mail and most of all, take this stuff off line, you can't afford to be caught expressing a view which clearly states you are not open to disagreement.
While many government sponsored investigations have cleared these guys of manipulating data none cleared them of misinterpreting it or better put, showing any desire to prove Falsifiability of their conclusions.
I understand where PayPal is coming from too. They open themselves up to more trouble than a bunch of people complaining on message boards; usually at sites where the people loudly claim that PayPal is evil anyway and cite numerous stories of cousins brothers best friends little dogs being ripped off; compared to some country's politicians deciding to play up the populace with some timely investigations or worse getting other departments to look at areas of business not related.
Corporations can't win, they aren't protected by the law in areas like this. An individual would garner more sympathy than they would should previously mentioned government entities try to make a run at them. So yeah, it sucks for people who like what this group is doing. The truly sad part is that more people will express angst here and on other boards than would have made a contribution.
at 2199. The fact the base resolution isn't much better than Windows budget computers irks me too. If anything their prices are worse than before. The whole push seems to be to get LightPeak out ahead of the iPad2 which many have speculated that the unknown connector on it was LightPeak
The 13 inch laptop is disappointing when compared to even the MBA line. I am can almost justify the 13 price structure but I still trying to get my hands around where they are with the 15 laptops.
I love my Apple iMac but I certainly don't see value in their laptops, I can get by just fine with a $600 dollar range Windows Laptop and have done a trip or two with a netbook just fine. The price difference alone changes how you deal with them on trips, when I traveled with my previous 2.4 MBP I was loathe to leave out of my sight, checking it in at the desk when I had to be out of the room for hours. With the others I just stuffed them under a pillow.
The only thing Pro about these is the price. The name is a pretentious as those with them who camp at Starbucks
that all elected positions in Washington required Corporate sponsorship.
Dodd is just as rotten as the rest but what most people overlook is that even some saintly looking ones get plum jobs for their spouses which tends to influence regulations just as much if not more so.
Those of us who have/had Apple laptops would not have to do the cord dance all the time. The one thing I love about my work laptop (its a Dell) is that I have a dock for it. So when I need an external keyboard/mouse, large monitor, speakers, and whatnot, I just put the laptop on the dock. No messy cabling required because I did it once.
I really think Apple's lack of dock features is purely aesthetic, as in they don't want to sully their cases with a dock connector. For no other reason can I understand this lack of functionality, which btw is one one of most common reasons I keep getting told I could not have an Apple desktop at work. The second of course being cost structure involved as I would still need a license to run Windows for some business apps.
So what if there is one cable, now I will have a daisy chain of accessories? Will I have to hope all these makers put the connectors on the side I need them on, or provide them on both? Will I need a powered hub if I use too many connectors?
It does remind me of CAN-BUS setups now popular in the automotive world
It is more than a bit over the top in the role reversal. While at times I tend to confuse the novels and movies some of the character changes needed to accomplish his story are extreme to the point of bizarreness. So far it is an interesting read, is it a good read, time will tell when I finish it. However fourteen pages in and the portrayals of the formerly good guys is a real stretch, I can see how fans of the book had issues.
where good and evil can sometimes swap places in the minds of the reader if not the populace in the story. Many of his books were recently reprinted in large paper back format making the stories accessible to many. His The Black Company series is a great story where the mercenaries start working for the bad guys but eventually end up for working for the good guys and even team up again with the bad guys. A nice back and forth. The one good point throughout is that being the good guys doesn't mean your not just as rotten as the bad guys, they can even be worse at times as justification comes from not being the other side.
Well I would be worried when they rename themselves to the Syience Channel. Until they they are better than the channel supposedly dedicated to Science Fiction.
Besides, it isn't like the Science Channel is twenty four hours a day educational. Worse, they really do need to broaden their line up which seems to be centered around running two to three copies of the same show back to back.
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Sorry, but of course their numbers look good. Take away all their outer areas and the populations who basically are barely powered by anything and you get more reasonable. Look at their air quality in their major cities. Check their rivers and the like.
Per capita and they are broke too, but I don't think its a fair number to evaluate the earning power of those with modern jobs.
but an old friend of mine is deaf and he listens to music, well he feels music. As such most of what he plays in his car is bass heavy but he does get enjoyment out of it. Now sometimes this leads to some hilarious choices in what he plays.
and left it at that.
I mean, what are they going to do to you?
Too bad you could not get it onto a plane. I wonder how much trouble you would get into taking it or trying to take it on checked luggage?
and no there was no conspiracy about a fifth repilicant, its called their budget would not allow it.
Get the five disc collectors edition, watch the making of which is over four hours long. It smacks down most of the hair brained theories about why what happened, why something looked a certain way, and such.
and oh yeah, only Olmos originally knew what he was saying, he made it up.
As to the validity of making more. Sure, I don't want a re-make but a long time passed sequel would be nice and prequels don't need to involve the same characters to be valid stories.
unless your smoking the same stuff which Krugman of the NYT is because he claims its because Obama is President and our audacity and courage to elect him empowered the people of the Middle East to revolt.
As for aiding the enemy, well, pick one. I am sure we can make one up if we need it. There were certainly documents and such that put the lives of many soldiers and civilians in danger but I understand how quickly many here dismiss them. Its far better to portray it as Us vs The Man even though half the place is willing to hand over all rights and money provided they think someone else gets the shaft.
OK, and I say so what.
I didn't buy the first one because it seemed as if it were missing something. The addition of cameras, low powered as they are, does alleviate some concerns and lets me use it for quick and dirty stuff, things I won't have to unpack the camera for. While I would like a SD slot the adapter works fine and it means those who don't need the feature are not paying for it.
The boost in processing power will help with complex apps, the weight reduction should be noticeable and redesign of the case will help others.
I have read about the Xoom, but just as in my office where computers are just Windows based BECAUSE it seems that Tablets are Apple for the same reason, it works. It may not have all the features some want but it just works. The fact "that is just works" is the difference between selling millions versus tens of thousands.
the suicide rate of the surrounding area was significantly higher.
But why do you feel the need to preface Chinese labor with cheap? Their standard of living and cost of living is far different than ours. Now if someone were trying to put these together here for similar rates I can see cheap applied quite well, using min wage workers would make the term more appropriate.
Compensation at their plant is supposedly higher than other jobs available in the same urban area, as much as 50% in many cases. So what defines cheap? The term obviously does not apply locally. It applies from our stand point because $15 to $20 a day is madness for those of us who can buy these devices. Yet, when applied locally how do they fare?
I am all for saying their low cost labor but cheap is an unfair term to apply.
but know the teams that implement/admin them and I am constantly amazed.
Amazed in all that I read here and elsewhere points to incredibly resilient systems yet I have never been anywhere where they don't have scheduled down time on at minimum a quarterly basis and every major outage relied on a reload. So which is it? They make fun of the windows guys and just hope the windows guys don't look at their statistics (and no I am not on Windows either, think IBM Z and I).
My serious question is, is their a certain size system that reloads are valid on? When does it stop becoming a valid solution? When you get to enterprise level systems what are your options then?
I read all these articles but the one thing never clear is, are these large systems or just small servers (small being PC class hardware)
to remedy a bad situation?
I am sure we could have just kept ignoring the all the killings, rapes, and such, that went on in Afghanistan. Lord knows we are damn good at ignoring the crimes of humanity committed 'over there' or by groups which might want to harm us directly but can't because they are 'over there'. I am quite sure one could sit down and in the space of an hour or two come up with a list of many times when a war occurred that fixed more problems than it caused.
I would take Bush over Obama any day now. It took Obama nearly two weeks after a thousand dead in Libya before he actually said something and even then it was barely a whimper. It used to be that the US could literally stare down these 3rd world dictators (if anything Libya came turned 360 in the early 2000s) but now with our foreign policy which can be defined as "well, if we must get involved can we just apologize for something we did years ago".
Yes people die in wars and it seems every armed conflict going over 48 hours is a war if America is involved. Yet sometimes leaving a problem to fester will result in far more dead and suffering that either the threat of war or actually acting on it. So just because don't agree with a particular war does not mean others have to follow suit. Some live life for other reasons and do far more than moan and groan on message boards about how unfair life is and how evil one President was or how bad their nation is, they instead went out and did something and obtained world acclaim because of it. Having said board troll dismiss this persons work is the height of idiocy.
I really get tired of people dinging foreign workers as cheap labor. Yeah, if you look at their dollar income earned it looks bad, but if you don't compare their income versus others in the region where they work you miss the big picture. Worse, people tend to look at the dollar amount and then assume that all living expenses are equal when they are not.
The problems like others stated are probably the result of a rush order process with insufficient time to work out the manufacturing kinks.
if you are noticing the product placement in a movie one would have to suspect that the movie was not enjoyable.
Really, if product placement stands out then I doubt the movie has a compelling story and is not worth watching in the first place. Its like Mystery Science Theater 3K, they start picking things apart because the movie as a whole is so bad that it becomes a process of anything goes. Now a special exception seems to be cars, people excuse specific cars from showing up; meaning a hot car is permitted regardless.
Product placement is far more rampant during prime time television.
even with many times in the bank that what he has I refuse to buy a "smart phone" or similar. Too me it seems that the name was a give away. Make the owner feel important, pretentious even, and fleece him behind his back because they know he will justify it to himself!!! I deserve it. We have a running joke at my work, the support people drive better (read : more expensive) cars than the programmers and admins. I do not understand the need to pick up a near 800 dollar lease, that damn car's MSRP is near the person's income who drives it.
Its like wandering into Starbucks and seeing all the expensive hardware on display. People are far to convinced that the items they are seen with define them. I will drive my little TDI and smile. Its a flipping car, just like its a flipping phone, laptop, etc. They are meaningless in a world when anyone can go in debt to have them.
Having expensive toys does not make you rich or special.
because we had the press vigorously pursuing every perceived and real attack on our privacy and rights while he was there. Now I am stuck with Fox to do it and have to screen everything they print/show to make sure I am not falling for something from the paranoia side. Worse, all those screaming voices on the Democratic side of Congress are woefully silent with regards to everything our President chooses to do.
If the press rode his ass like they did Bush we would be better off, it might make him live up to his promises/promise. Now all I want is to see him a one term President so we have a chance of something better next time.
It costs $2199 which for many means an additional $150 for the screen resolution it should have as default. Worse that $150 is the only way to get a non-glossy screen. So lets just say 2349 to get off the ground. Want a three year warranty? Considering your down 2349 its worth it to pay off the risk of that, but at 349 its 15% of the cost of the laptop.
Then you can go on with the extras beyond those two requirements. Sorry, in a day when you can buy a laptop for under 399 these premium laptops are absurd. I know you get what you pay for, but you really don't. The price difference stops somewhere well south of this things price point. This is like saying you need a Porsche for your commute because parking at Starbucks in a Chevy is so not your perceived status.
Don't get me wrong, I have an iMac, but I can at least see some of the value in its 27 inch screen. I can't find the value in their laptops. I know other companies make expensive laptops but damn, there are near equivalents for 90% of the apps most people will run for half this price let alone a quarter.
Amazing laptops in the range of workstation prices (looking at the real Mac Pros - the tower units).
My first CFLs lasted about three years before giving up. Before then they progressively lose their strength and take time to get whatever brightness level they max out at. They are hard to find light that looks "right" as coated bulbs can do little to compensate. They also are horrid in out door situations (low life mainly) and any where vibration can get to them, think garages either in or near the openers.
So far my three LED lights are just awesome. Good light dispersion and instant on. I have not tried any where the bulb is mounted horizontal, I have a few fixtures in the ceiling like that, but they do work well in my ceiling fan light fixtures and in bathrooms where the lights are pointed down. Haven't found a replacement for the globe lights that frequent bathrooms, I might end up ditching the fixtures.
Incandescent bulbs still have better variety in spectrum but outside of that I can think of only a few specialized uses their secondary effect; heat; warrants keeping them. OK, cost is their major benefit - at least up front cost.
I am all for keeping them on the death list as I hope it kicks LEDs makers into high gear. We can hope that Wal Mart decides to get behind LED lights like they did for CFLs, they seemed almost responsible for their overnight abundance and price drop. Having made such a big push on those bulbs I hope to see the repeat.
I can just DVR that channel when something interesting shows up on the schedule, if I even reference it. I know from sites like this one and other more in tune sites when something interesting might show up on that channel, the thing is, I use those sites to find it across any channel. After they changed their name to SyFy I was honestly relieved, its is perfect for who they are, some fruity feel good channel trying to cash in on whatever they can but most definitely not bout science fiction.
They have had some good original productions, The OZ and Dune come to mind. Series wise, Stargate and SGA were good to watch, though I admit I much rather watch SG compared to the other two. BSG was good till it started split seasons, then it became annoying. Some of the older shows simply ran their course. They were cult status by the time SciFi mangled them. They have had some original shows, Eureka was definitely out there at times.
Caprica - get real, name one episode that was worth watching - talk about no connection to the series your supposed to be related too - they could have added vampires and werewolves to it and not missed the marker farther than they did.
Don't use inflammatory comments in your e-mail and most of all, take this stuff off line, you can't afford to be caught expressing a view which clearly states you are not open to disagreement.
While many government sponsored investigations have cleared these guys of manipulating data none cleared them of misinterpreting it or better put, showing any desire to prove Falsifiability of their conclusions.
I understand where PayPal is coming from too. They open themselves up to more trouble than a bunch of people complaining on message boards; usually at sites where the people loudly claim that PayPal is evil anyway and cite numerous stories of cousins brothers best friends little dogs being ripped off; compared to some country's politicians deciding to play up the populace with some timely investigations or worse getting other departments to look at areas of business not related.
Corporations can't win, they aren't protected by the law in areas like this. An individual would garner more sympathy than they would should previously mentioned government entities try to make a run at them. So yeah, it sucks for people who like what this group is doing. The truly sad part is that more people will express angst here and on other boards than would have made a contribution.
at 2199. The fact the base resolution isn't much better than Windows budget computers irks me too. If anything their prices are worse than before. The whole push seems to be to get LightPeak out ahead of the iPad2 which many have speculated that the unknown connector on it was LightPeak
The 13 inch laptop is disappointing when compared to even the MBA line. I am can almost justify the 13 price structure but I still trying to get my hands around where they are with the 15 laptops.
I love my Apple iMac but I certainly don't see value in their laptops, I can get by just fine with a $600 dollar range Windows Laptop and have done a trip or two with a netbook just fine. The price difference alone changes how you deal with them on trips, when I traveled with my previous 2.4 MBP I was loathe to leave out of my sight, checking it in at the desk when I had to be out of the room for hours. With the others I just stuffed them under a pillow.
The only thing Pro about these is the price. The name is a pretentious as those with them who camp at Starbucks
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-isnt-wall-street-in-jail-20110216
It just goes to show, those who make the rules benefit the most by them and every administration is in the pocket of Wall Street.
that all elected positions in Washington required Corporate sponsorship.
Dodd is just as rotten as the rest but what most people overlook is that even some saintly looking ones get plum jobs for their spouses which tends to influence regulations just as much if not more so.
Those of us who have/had Apple laptops would not have to do the cord dance all the time. The one thing I love about my work laptop (its a Dell) is that I have a dock for it. So when I need an external keyboard/mouse, large monitor, speakers, and whatnot, I just put the laptop on the dock. No messy cabling required because I did it once.
I really think Apple's lack of dock features is purely aesthetic, as in they don't want to sully their cases with a dock connector. For no other reason can I understand this lack of functionality, which btw is one one of most common reasons I keep getting told I could not have an Apple desktop at work. The second of course being cost structure involved as I would still need a license to run Windows for some business apps.
So what if there is one cable, now I will have a daisy chain of accessories? Will I have to hope all these makers put the connectors on the side I need them on, or provide them on both? Will I need a powered hub if I use too many connectors?
It does remind me of CAN-BUS setups now popular in the automotive world
It is more than a bit over the top in the role reversal. While at times I tend to confuse the novels and movies some of the character changes needed to accomplish his story are extreme to the point of bizarreness. So far it is an interesting read, is it a good read, time will tell when I finish it. However fourteen pages in and the portrayals of the formerly good guys is a real stretch, I can see how fans of the book had issues.
where good and evil can sometimes swap places in the minds of the reader if not the populace in the story. Many of his books were recently reprinted in large paper back format making the stories accessible to many. His The Black Company series is a great story where the mercenaries start working for the bad guys but eventually end up for working for the good guys and even team up again with the bad guys. A nice back and forth. The one good point throughout is that being the good guys doesn't mean your not just as rotten as the bad guys, they can even be worse at times as justification comes from not being the other side.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Company
http://www.amazon.com/Chronicles-Black-Company-Glen-Cook/dp/0765319233/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1298297648&sr=1-2
Well I would be worried when they rename themselves to the Syience Channel. Until they they are better than the channel supposedly dedicated to Science Fiction.
Besides, it isn't like the Science Channel is twenty four hours a day educational. Worse, they really do need to broaden their line up which seems to be centered around running two to three copies of the same show back to back.