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by mindcreek 5709 days ago
Yea it is time to rewatch babylon 5 .

Java is not a great language but scalability, cross platform and corporate support made it what it is today, if the company behind Java leaves it alone, in time less and less people will choose it in long term mission critical deployments, then it will die.

Or maybe another language will rise after the death of java which can be better in the long term.

I am both happy and sad that java is dying.
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qohen 5709 days ago
Speaking of Babylon 5, for those of you who haven't seen it--or those who wish to rewatch it--all 5 seasons are available online for free at AOL's online TV/movie site, SlashControl.com.

Series page: http://www.slashcontrol.com/free-tv-shows/babylon-5

Start here: http://www.slashcontrol.com/free-tv-shows/babylon-5/season1/...

(There are one or two missing episodes--specifically, I know season 1 #13 isn't there--but you can get whatever's missing from iTunes, etc.).

The pilot is there, as Season 1 ep 1, but the other movies are not (I'd recommend seeing "In the Beginning" just before watching Season 5, if you can).

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ivank 5709 days ago
Anyone tempted to watch it on NetFlix should know that their copy is pan-and-scan 4:3 instead of the original.

(Also, how cool is it to have correctly predicted widescreen TVs in 1993?)

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