Tagged: Literature

Has anyone watched a SF show called Lexx?

British author H. G. Wells' 1895 novel The Tim...
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I found it on Netflix and because I like Science Fiction I watched it. The first season was pretty good, but then it quickly got worse. This is not a rant about the show, but more of a question of why?

Why do shows like this get made? With all the great fiction that has been written, why is so little produced as movies? I understand that people don’t want to mess with classics, but some just is crying out to be made. How can people not appreciate some of the fine fiction classic that are available? Does this mean that the people who make movies don’t believe that best-selling books will be popular movies?

Why are the worst movies made from classics? Is our collective IQ going to grow with more Rambo movies?

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Hands-on: running Haiku alpha 3 on a netbook

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Hands-on: running Haiku alpha 3 on a netbook. If you used Be OS in the past, you will think it has come back from the dead. It was great fun to use Be OS in the past and I tried to start a user group, but at that time people only wanted to run Windows 95. It is obvious that this is a dead OS, but still fun to play around with. Perhaps when it has better wireless support I might install it on an old laptop and see what it can do.

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