The BBC is a business
Actually it isn't. Their charter says nothing about making a profit and they are funded largely by the license fee. (Although they have expaned into marketing a good deal recently, they are still advert-free)
Which is not to say that they don't care about costs and saving money. But please, one of the reasons the BBC is different from most broadcasting organisations (especially N American ones) is that they are not a business.
As an ex-patriate who misses the BBC (particularly Radio 3) more than anything else about the UK, I heartily concur. Radio 4 sounds great (although catching The Archers when you're 8 hours behind is tricky) but yes, please, let's hear what Radio 3 sounds like. Real Audio is OK, but there is a slightly tinny edge to the sound at 44K which I don't detect with Ogg, although I'm unable to compares apples with apples.
Ogg certainly seesm to work very well and, pace the previous message, I can persuade xmms 1.2.5 to add URLs to the playlist and it works just fine.
Keep up the good work Auntie!
I was just beginning to wonder whether anyone was going to mention Brunner too.
Shockwave Rider is probably the most relevant to the online culture of today; I reread it just a few weeks ago, oddly enough - ultimately I think he is far to optimistic in his ending.
I have the nasty feeling, though, that The Sheep Look Up, with its predictions of environmental disaster, may well be closer to where we're heading.
Precisely
And The Hobbit was published in 1937 and Tolkien says quite plainly in the foreword to LOTR that it was written "between 1936 and 1949".
In fact JRRT started LOTR before The Hobbit was even published but broke off in order to start what was eventually to become the (incomplete) Silmarilion.
But his friends and family persuaded him that there was no audience for that book, so he went back to LOTR.
And all of this happened before WWII, not after.
I can't say I'm much inclined to take note of a review whose author is so little concerned with accuracy.
And Asimov was right - he should have done. LOTR is a far greater work of imagination and consistency than either Foundation or Heinlein's stuff.
I don't know though, I have a really hard time accepting a fantasy novel as a Hugo winner. I'm not sure what the distinction is that others are making between hard- and soft- SF but Im' sure that LOTR and Harry P are neither.
Until the paperback publication of Lord of the Rings in the 1960s there was essentially no market for fantasy.
All of the books you claim bore you also bore me - because they are nothing more than poor imitation of the real thing.
Tolkien wrote one of history's most remarkable works of imagination; he was a great scholar and a great writer. It is not reasonable to expect that there would be 2 of him.
I reread the Hobbit and LOR every few years (finished a couple of months ago). I *never* read any other fantasy.
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The BBC is a business Actually it isn't. Their charter says nothing about making a profit and they are funded largely by the license fee. (Although they have expaned into marketing a good deal recently, they are still advert-free) Which is not to say that they don't care about costs and saving money. But please, one of the reasons the BBC is different from most broadcasting organisations (especially N American ones) is that they are not a business.
As an ex-patriate who misses the BBC (particularly Radio 3) more than anything else about the UK, I heartily concur. Radio 4 sounds great (although catching The Archers when you're 8 hours behind is tricky) but yes, please, let's hear what Radio 3 sounds like. Real Audio is OK, but there is a slightly tinny edge to the sound at 44K which I don't detect with Ogg, although I'm unable to compares apples with apples. Ogg certainly seesm to work very well and, pace the previous message, I can persuade xmms 1.2.5 to add URLs to the playlist and it works just fine. Keep up the good work Auntie!
Indeed. Iseem to recall reading somewhere that The Forever War was also written as a sort of counterblast to Starship Troopers.
I was just beginning to wonder whether anyone was going to mention Brunner too.
Shockwave Rider is probably the most relevant to the online culture of today; I reread it just a few weeks ago, oddly enough - ultimately I think he is far to optimistic in his ending.
I have the nasty feeling, though, that The Sheep Look Up, with its predictions of environmental disaster, may well be closer to where we're heading.
I'll also add The Jagged Orbit to the list.
Precisely And The Hobbit was published in 1937 and Tolkien says quite plainly in the foreword to LOTR that it was written "between 1936 and 1949". In fact JRRT started LOTR before The Hobbit was even published but broke off in order to start what was eventually to become the (incomplete) Silmarilion. But his friends and family persuaded him that there was no audience for that book, so he went back to LOTR. And all of this happened before WWII, not after. I can't say I'm much inclined to take note of a review whose author is so little concerned with accuracy.
I agree that the unix CLI is over-cryptic.
Unfortunately the finest example of a CLI I've ever encountered is no more - it was called Multics.
And Asimov was right - he should have done. LOTR is a far greater work of imagination and consistency than either Foundation or Heinlein's stuff.
I don't know though, I have a really hard time accepting a fantasy novel as a Hugo winner. I'm not sure what the distinction is that others are making between hard- and soft- SF but Im' sure that LOTR and Harry P are neither.
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Until the paperback publication of Lord of the Rings in the 1960s there was essentially no market for fantasy.
All of the books you claim bore you also bore me - because they are nothing more than poor imitation of the real thing.
Tolkien wrote one of history's most remarkable works of imagination; he was a great scholar and a great writer. It is not reasonable to expect that there would be 2 of him.
I reread the Hobbit and LOR every few years (finished a couple of months ago). I *never* read any other fantasy.