Posts by Kyle Matthews
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Wasn't it on at some bizarre time?
Wait, it's not free to air if it's on at 11pm?
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Aha. Thanks David.
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Well it wasn't a beach, it was an island runway typical of those built in the second world war. Packed earth mostly. I missed how it magically appeared.
But yes, a cesna could have taken off from that. A jet airliner? Meh.
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I'd suggest that Claire having the baby over the two hours would have annoyed you more. Two minutes of that woman whining about her baby is more than I can take.
Well true. But they could have time compressed it a bit so that it at least looked like it took more than 5 minutes.
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Glad I mostly gave up after s2. The finale explained nothing.
I think the finale explained itself, and parts of season 6. It didn't really resolve much from the earlier seasons.
Claire having a baby in two minutes annoyed me too.
Someone upthread suggested that looking for explanations misses the point. I don't think so. It depends on the genre. I certainly don't mind dealing with metaphor or whathaveyou, but if I'm watching Hercule Poirot I expect to find out whodunit. Lost set up a situation that invited an over-arching explanation for all the weird goings-on, but the payoff was non-existant.
I think it's helping me to think about it as a story about characters rather than events. Given the massive investment in backstory throughout all the seasons, and then theoretical poststory in season 6, I think that's the best way to approach it. It's not a story about an island, a plane crash, darma, time travel etc, those are just things that happen to the characters. They therefore don't necessarily need to be resolved, as the characters didn't resolve them themselves.
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And I wouldn't read a graphic novel on a backlit screen on any light - I'd do it on paper.
I suspect for some graphic novelists, the interactive possibilities that an ipad or similar create are exciting. Creating bridges between comic, film, computer game etc.
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Sure, but the Kobo doesn't show color in any light. I couldn't use it to read graphic novels unless I was happy for black and white only.
It would lose one of its main advantages (battery life) if you made that change. They tend to work by having thousands of tiny metal balls, white on the default up side, black on the other. To make part of the screen black you activate an electromagnet underneath the balls you want to roll over (turn black). Because most of a printed page is white, you don't use any power on most of the screen.
Comic books are different colours all over, so you'd have to power the whole screen, so the efficiency would probably largely disappear. And I don't know how they'd do more than two colours.
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would be a marvellous thing- but a copyright nightmare, eh?
Having music available would be desirable but not essential. First thing you'd want is a complete record of every piece of music released in NZ. After you've spent a couple of years compiling that, you can start trying to add digital versions to the database.
Can I read it while I'm soaking in a hot bath?
Well you can read an ipad in the bath. But like a book, don't drop it.
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On the other hand, if you follow the iHype you would think the problems world hunger, war and ugly clothes had been solved and would continue to be solved if we only let the nice Mr. Jobs get on with managing our lives.
Kyle, I have tried Apple's computers, honestly. But whilst the nice factor lasts five minutes the constraints last forever.
There's two contradictory statements. I don't use an apple computer, but Steve Jobs is managing my life? Did he take over your PC as well?
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I have tried an iPad and found it doesn't work for just about everything I use a computer to do...other than browsing the Internet, and even then there is a massive youtube fail.
If you wanted something to do what a computer does, why didn't you try apple's extensive line of computers?