Assuming that there really is such a thing as a 'Geek Film Movement Thing' what would be good to film next ? Microserfs ? The Cuckoo's Egg ? My vote's for the Llama book...
Thanks, Jon, now I'll get the same flamage as you;)
re: artisans / 'Guilds' -- I could be wrong but IIRC weren't Guilds (medievil unions) established partly to *restrict* the free spread of information ? Isn't there part of the Hypocratic Oath sworn by MDs that prohibits the dissemination of The Craft / Lore of medicine ?
Geekness / hackerdom etc has always been mostly about solitary exploration of technological possibilities...
Yes, geek != alienated, and vice versa; as someone once said, mental hospitals are full of depressed non-writers and smackheads who don't play jazz. Or grunge. You have to, um, plough your own furrow...
Alienation is a pheneomena of the industrial/technological age. Dostoyevsky, Camus, Satre, Kierkegaard (et al) were all Modernists, explicitly the product of a technological culture which generates the wealth that gives us time to think.
How beautifully circular that (some of) geekdom should seek to reclaim the power of alienation through the technology that gave it birth.
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Some whois servers :
America
Asia Pacific
Europe.
arin.net link to "rs.internic.net for domain related information" is broken :(
The GTK look is very stylish, it's going to be a bit of a shock to the typical M$ user (in a good way).
Assuming that there really is such a thing as a 'Geek Film Movement Thing' what would be good ...
to film next ? Microserfs ? The Cuckoo's Egg ?
My vote's for the Llama book
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Thanks, Jon, now I'll get the same flamage as you ;)
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re: artisans / 'Guilds' -- I could be wrong but IIRC weren't Guilds (medievil unions) established partly to *restrict* the free spread of information ? Isn't there part of the Hypocratic Oath sworn by MDs that prohibits the dissemination of The Craft / Lore of medicine ?
Geekness / hackerdom etc has always been mostly
about solitary exploration of technological possibilities
Yes, geek != alienated, and vice versa; as someone once said, mental hospitals are full of depressed non-writers and smackheads who don't play jazz. Or grunge. You have to, um, plough your own furrow
Alienation is a pheneomena of the industrial /technological age. Dostoyevsky, Camus, Satre,
...
Kierkegaard (et al) were all Modernists, explicitly the product of a technological culture which generates the wealth that gives us time to think.
How beautifully circular that (some of) geekdom should seek to reclaim the power of alienation through the technology that gave it birth.
[Dynamically linked] libraries gave us power