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Oct. 16th, 2003 09:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
scottobearWell, Riverworld as an adaptation of the books was bad. If they make it a series, I won't bother. It didn't really have the right vibe. Looking at it without the books attached, I'd give it a 5/10.. nothing special but not lousy, either. A lot of lost potential.
Misfires but not a problem for me
Elements that ruined the spirit of the books-
Flipside, Blade Runner was a great movie, and wasn't a very good adaption of PKD's book, but was a fine movie.
Launching for the doc shortly. Hoping that the information will be solid and downtime minimal.
New Internet speed Record: 1.1 Terabytes of Data at 5.44 Gigabits a Second
CERN, whose laboratories straddle the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, said it had sent 1.1 Terabytes of data at 5.44 gigabits a second (Gbps) to a lab at the California Institute of Technology, or Caltech, on October 1.
This is more than 20,000 times faster than a typical home broadband connection, and is also equivalent to transferring a 60-minute compact disc within one second -- an operation that takes around eight minutes on standard broadband.
Misfires but not a problem for me
- Everyone can speak English
- No Hermann Goering
- No Joe Miller
- Beards
Elements that ruined the spirit of the books-
- No personal grails (key element to how society got by)
- Horses?? Those can be food, weapons, and useful tools.
- No mention of the "Suicide Express" (On riverworld, if you die, you're born again somewhere else on the river.)
- Sam Clemens as poorly written as possible
- Metal?? Enough to make swords & armor?
- Go For Broke (rather than Not For Hire)
Flipside, Blade Runner was a great movie, and wasn't a very good adaption of PKD's book, but was a fine movie.
Launching for the doc shortly. Hoping that the information will be solid and downtime minimal.
New Internet speed Record: 1.1 Terabytes of Data at 5.44 Gigabits a Second
CERN, whose laboratories straddle the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, said it had sent 1.1 Terabytes of data at 5.44 gigabits a second (Gbps) to a lab at the California Institute of Technology, or Caltech, on October 1.
This is more than 20,000 times faster than a typical home broadband connection, and is also equivalent to transferring a 60-minute compact disc within one second -- an operation that takes around eight minutes on standard broadband.
