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Also the geek in me loves the Ansible ;-)
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Somehow I find this depressing, all that wasted talent.
Wow that is big news, I did not know that! That book is so cinematic already, it leaps off the page. Should translate to the screen very well. Hope they do "Use of Weapons" and "Player of Games" also, in fact the entire Culture series is an amazing opportunity for TV conversion.
> Of course what happened here was that Steve Jobs returned to Apple and we suddenly had MacOSX come onto the scene taking at least some air out of the Linux Desktop space.
I really agree with that: if every engineer I know who uses a Mac "because Bash" would use Linux instead, we would have arrived at a decent Linux desktop market-share by now. Kudos Apple.
In saying that, as a desktop Linux user I really don't mind being part of a small user community. I would never switch to MacOSX as it is not (fully) open source, and Windows is nice for running Steam for gaming.
* Edit for typo
Are you dismissing me as "silly Daddy" now? Sorry could not resist ;-)
I clearly said classist.
> It's a British show; why would you expect anything else?
I was expecting a childrens show, not a reinforcement of a world view that some people (royals) are better than others, just because they are born that way. So elitism. Not a positive message for kids, sorry if you disagree.
Glad you found my post funny though, you should look at some of the other articles online criticizing this show, and remember this is your child's psychology at a very impressionable age being influenced. As a parent, I don't find that funny I take it very seriously.
Read my response below to another poster.
Ok if we are going to run with that very tenuous argument, how come there are animals walking around on two legs, wearing clothes, talking to each other? Clearly the lesson for kids is not biology, it's "people" (an analogy thereof in this instance) of the same "type" marry each other exclusively.
> you have differentiated class by accent
No, the show makers have. Either this was a deliberate decision or a mistake.
> but there's no harm in teaching about the royal family and our heritage
I might agree to that if the kids watching were British, but this show is widely exported, so in my case not my heritage (or thankfully my kids).
1. Daddy pig is portrayed as an idiot. In fact, there are no positive male figures in the whole show. Check sexism.
2. All of the animals are married to animals of the same type: there are no "inter-racial" marriages. It is also full of racial stereotypes. Check racism
3. The only person in the show who seems to work, Mrs Rabbit, has several jobs that she does badly (perhaps due to exhaustion) and speaks with a working class English accent (while all of the other characters have upper/middle class accents). Check classism.
4. It heavily promotes the British royal family, especially in the recent movie. Check elitism.
Unless you want to fill your kids full of prejudice from an early age, avoid.
Once I done that, I now have the perfect developer laptop (in my opinion of course :-) )