Mark Bilk writes,
The 26-episode (so far) anim� "Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex"
is replaying, one ep per night, on the (cable/satellite) Cartoon Network.
It has people uploading their minds ("ghosts") into artificial bodies ("shells")
and into the Net, also some autonomous AIs. Very good production values
-- it's gorgeous. It's restarting from the beginning now -- Monday night
-- so start taping it (it's good enough and complex enough to merit recording).
The series follows the movie Ghost in the Shell, which is also worthwhile
getting; it comes on the cable movie channels occasionally.
http://www.tvtome.com/GhostintheShellStandAloneComplex/eplist.html
For those so inclined, and who may not have Cartoon Netwrok but do have a broadband connection, there are many active bittorrent feeds carrying this, such as:
http://www.snarf-it.org/?snarf=details&id=176530&PHPSESSID=2959e5fba1b17aa2d92d4c018d67e86c
So get the old Azureus churning tonight... only 2.5 gigabytes....
Hey... I had to find something to do with this new 160 gigabyte SATA HD, bought on eBay for $45 !!
BTW, my first HD was a whopping 20 megs and cost over $1000. I was glad to pay it after dealing with floopies for so long. Yeah, I know.... that was twenty years ago, but still. The price/performance ratio between that first one and this new one is... lets see 8000 times more storage - for about twenty times less $$ = 160,000:1 and now if you divide that by 20 years then the increased value per year is still astounding, and that doesn't include the decrease in the value of the dollar which should triple it. I don't think there has been anything which can match this phenomenal change in value in the history of manufacturing...way beyond Moore's law.
