User Reviews

I enjoyed this episode - usual amount of bangs, crackles, tactics and strategy. It was particularly good to see the core team start to work Jesse Porter towards becoming a member. But I have to reply to the previous reviewer who complained about the price of CPUs. The script said that 50000 units were worth $5000000, so the baddie was hoping to get $1000 each. In 2010, Amazon (and the consequent on-line market) had nowhere near the position it now has. Even taking Amazon's clout into account, a 6-core Ivy Lake i7 CPU is being advertised by Amazon (Jul 2018) at up to $1800. Intel are expected to launch an 8-core equivalent soon. What would someone interested give to get early production versions? We're pretty close to black-market pricing. And (unfortunately) I've not been able to dig up historical pricing, but does anyone else remember when they had to pay $1200 for an 8-bit CPU and 32KB of memory? (And a tape mass-memory drive. But that was $300-$1000 more!)

"Military leaders since the city states of early Greece have known, that tried and tested methods of getting rid of an adversary is to provoke into an attack a more powerful enemy.

Provide an ambitious adversary with a backing of a seemingly invincible army and he is bound to go hunting for even his toughest rival...

Making sure your adversary is eliminated, then becomes about pulling that backing once he has declared war on his rival, when it's too late for him to take it all back."

This quote is a good example of why this show can be so addicting. Some of the drama is a little played out, but the military references make the show very engaging.