I think that its pretty telling, the fact that so few IT Consulting people have expressed their opinions in this forum. Slashdot is a fairly natural port of call for programmers, yet the IT consultants don't seem to have a presence here (or if they do, they're mighty damn quiet).
I know a little about these companies and it seems that whatever problem you want fixed, it has the exact same solution as that for all their other clients (usually installing a very expensive ERP). This unchallenging m.o. obviously doesn't lend itself to keeping up with the latest ideas in the IT field, thus negating the need to check Slashdot, almost a subconcious action on the part of most regular programmers.
Presidential politics have become more relevant
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In the period that Putnam discusses, Presidential politics have probably become more relevant to people's daily lives not less so. Advances in communications have meant that government decisions have a more immediate effect now than then. I'm sure that federal politics has a greater bearing at the beginning of this century than the beginning of the last, as geographically isolated communities now have more information flowing through them than they know what to do with. Think of your friendly local cop. In 1902, a new law might take weeks before he (they were pretty much all male then) found out about it, if he found out about it at all. These days, he might have just seen congress passing such a law, minutes earlier and be able to enforce it straight away. But, I digress from the main point.
A community is still fundamentally connected to the idea of a family. Would your family have functioned the same if they were living in different parts of the country and communicated by e-mail or even telephone? In the same way, a community, as a kind of a looser type of family, cannot be said to exist without proximity and direct interaction. Relationships which exist through totally artificial means cannot be said to constitute part of a community.
Hell, if I can't talk to someone about the weather, what kind of a connection can I really have with them?
Re:The real problem with this movie is
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The reason that I posted as Anonymous Coward was because this was my first post to Slashdot, and I realised that the user-name that I had thoughtlessly chosen about a year ago gave a little too much away.
I have a few clarifications to make on my earlier comment. Perhaps I shouldn't have used the phrase 'until I heard the name'. I still think that this looks like a cool film and I have every intention of going to see it. I was disappointed in the name because it is likely to hinder the box-office potential of the film, which I think is a pity because it seems to be the type of low-key feature that you don't see in the multiplexes often enough. On the nature of what a name can be to a film or other work of art, while I agree up to a point with your 'rose by any other name' principle, I think that the choosing of a name should be part of the creative process attached to any work. 'Psycho' would still have been a great film if it had been called 'The Bates Motel', but it may not have been so widely seen. You can be sure that no small deal of thought went into such an arresting title. I just wish that I could say the same for 'The Dish'.
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I think that its pretty telling, the fact that so few IT Consulting people have expressed their opinions in this forum. Slashdot is a fairly natural port of call for programmers, yet the IT consultants don't seem to have a presence here (or if they do, they're mighty damn quiet).
I know a little about these companies and it seems that whatever problem you want fixed, it has the exact same solution as that for all their other clients (usually installing a very expensive ERP). This unchallenging m.o. obviously doesn't lend itself to keeping up with the latest ideas in the IT field, thus negating the need to check Slashdot, almost a subconcious action on the part of most regular programmers.
In the period that Putnam discusses, Presidential politics have probably become more relevant to people's daily lives not less so. Advances in communications have meant that government decisions have a more immediate effect now than then. I'm sure that federal politics has a greater bearing at the beginning of this century than the beginning of the last, as geographically isolated communities now have more information flowing through them than they know what to do with. Think of your friendly local cop. In 1902, a new law might take weeks before he (they were pretty much all male then) found out about it, if he found out about it at all. These days, he might have just seen congress passing such a law, minutes earlier and be able to enforce it straight away. But, I digress from the main point.
A community is still fundamentally connected to the idea of a family. Would your family have functioned the same if they were living in different parts of the country and communicated by e-mail or even telephone? In the same way, a community, as a kind of a looser type of family, cannot be said to exist without proximity and direct interaction. Relationships which exist through totally artificial means cannot be said to constitute part of a community.
Hell, if I can't talk to someone about the weather, what kind of a connection can I really have with them?
The reason that I posted as Anonymous Coward was because this was my first post to Slashdot, and I realised that the user-name that I had thoughtlessly chosen about a year ago gave a little too much away.
I have a few clarifications to make on my earlier comment. Perhaps I shouldn't have used the phrase 'until I heard the name'. I still think that this looks like a cool film and I have every intention of going to see it. I was disappointed in the name because it is likely to hinder the box-office potential of the film, which I think is a pity because it seems to be the type of low-key feature that you don't see in the multiplexes often enough. On the nature of what a name can be to a film or other work of art, while I agree up to a point with your 'rose by any other name' principle, I think that the choosing of a name should be part of the creative process attached to any work. 'Psycho' would still have been a great film if it had been called 'The Bates Motel', but it may not have been so widely seen. You can be sure that no small deal of thought went into such an arresting title. I just wish that I could say the same for 'The Dish'.