The constant P2P/Corporate blow-ups strike me as very similar to the Catholic Church's initial reaction to the printing press...
It ate into a Church Monopoly (ie the reproduction of text) and also offered a far wider audience for critics of the Church (ie Protestants)...
Once the Church worked out that:
a) It couldn't stop the critics BUT
b) It could flood the world with cheap bibles & hence get more members
It was all good...
Ok maybe an oversimplified analogy but wars were fought over this so the P2P/Corporate thing will be resolved with far less deaths...
Well that's my hope anyway...
I wonder if they're planning this run to finish up around the time the new Dr Who series broadcasts here, sometime in 2005 or 2006?
It'd be nice if it did time it to run as a continuum of Dr. Who...
Assuming they skip the really bad movie...
I was actually fond of Sylvester McCoy - he seemed the best of the post Tom Baker Doctors...
What would also be very nice would be a re-run of Blakes 7...
Now there was a sci-fi series with guts...
For those not familiar with it I suggest you track it down - the first episode is one of the darkest things ever done in TV sci-fi...
You can thank me later...
Hmmm interesting point on the character development but I've always found the 'Scouring of the Shire' a little odd in context to the rest of the books. It seems like a rant on Tolkiens part about the growth of modern industrialisation ruining his 'green and pleasant land'. Given both the changes he witnessed in his life and his experiences in WW1 this section comes across as a plea to return to a simpler time. A wonderfully niave and romantic (in the old sense) thought that has lost its impact on current generations that only know the industrialised world.
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*Shudders* Thanks for reminding me of that - do you know how much I had to drink to erase those memories...
...hows the power consumption?
2 screens & 2 processors - thats gotta chew up the batteries pretty quick relative to a standard GameBoy...
Also how useful will the second screen be in a fast paced game where 'glancing at the second screen' = painful death?
Hmmmm well yes the last episode is dark - but only on an all-dark palette...
It's the first episode that sets that palette...
I don't want to spoil anything either...
Can we like argue this privately?
10 links in one article - I like to keep up on stuff but that article had more links than a full day at FARK (and far less boobies)...
The constant P2P/Corporate blow-ups strike me as very similar to the Catholic Church's initial reaction to the printing press... It ate into a Church Monopoly (ie the reproduction of text) and also offered a far wider audience for critics of the Church (ie Protestants)... Once the Church worked out that: a) It couldn't stop the critics BUT b) It could flood the world with cheap bibles & hence get more members It was all good... Ok maybe an oversimplified analogy but wars were fought over this so the P2P/Corporate thing will be resolved with far less deaths... Well that's my hope anyway...
I wonder if they're planning this run to finish up around the time the new Dr Who series broadcasts here, sometime in 2005 or 2006?
It'd be nice if it did time it to run as a continuum of Dr. Who...
Assuming they skip the really bad movie...
I was actually fond of Sylvester McCoy - he seemed the best of the post Tom Baker Doctors...
What would also be very nice would be a re-run of Blakes 7...
Now there was a sci-fi series with guts...
For those not familiar with it I suggest you track it down - the first episode is one of the darkest things ever done in TV sci-fi...
You can thank me later...
Hmmm interesting point on the character development but I've always found the 'Scouring of the Shire' a little odd in context to the rest of the books. It seems like a rant on Tolkiens part about the growth of modern industrialisation ruining his 'green and pleasant land'. Given both the changes he witnessed in his life and his experiences in WW1 this section comes across as a plea to return to a simpler time. A wonderfully niave and romantic (in the old sense) thought that has lost its impact on current generations that only know the industrialised world.