I dumped Roadrunner months ago. Their service is bad even for a consumer ISP. Port blocking? Peanuts compared to complete service outages that would last for days. Not to mention a service department that never answers the phone. I'm much happier with DSL. Still not completely satisfied, but at least they answer their phone (usually).
AOL Time Warner owns several channels and thus does not want to shoot itself in the foot.
AOL/TW owns several (many) cable channels, whose primary revenue comes from their licensing fees paid by cable service providers, NOT by advertisers buying commercial time. I don't know about you, but my monthly cable bill is the same whether I skip the commercials or not.
This is a *serious* security hole, and it's all sun's fault.
How is it Sun's fault? I thought it was a fault in the System V code. Since when did Sun write System V? And has Sun been sneaking its code base in to AIX? Those guys are really devious, eh?...
If you routinely use Solaris or AIX to login and do work, keep in mind that anybody can take over your computer, steal sensitive files, destroy your machine, anything.
If I'm going to a resort (or anywhere) on vacation, I'm doing it to get away from the network, computers, work, obligations, and other day-to-day drudgeries.
Why would you want to "get away from it all" only to get connected back up again?
I get pretty impatient with my wife when we go away on a nice vacation and she obsesses about checking her voice mail and electronic mail. Leave it be! Enjoy yourself! Relax!
Any other field outside of IT, where people rarely work more than 40-50hrs a week
You are proceeding from a bad assumption. There are many fields "outside of IT" where employees routinely work over 50 hours a week. I know a few people in fields like these, and from what I can tell there seems to be very little socializing outside of work in their workplaces as well.
Mr. Sketch, either you've been hacked or you're one sick jerk.
Everyone else: that like was not a mirror.
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Those of us who had read dozens of good fantasy novels, the polished gems to Tolkien's crude chippings, before ever looking to LOTR often don't have the same reverence for it.
I try to be an open minded individual. Can you name your top two or three "good fantasy novels"? I'd like to read them.
Given the stilted dialog and otherwise awkward writing, I don't think most people would think it was that great without being told a hundred times that it was, or without being told that it was the first of its kind.
I decided I liked the work without any such outside influences, if that matters. Granted, I was young at the time, and perhaps overly impressionable. But I certainly had heard nothing about the book before reading it.
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The point is that the fascination that Tolkein inspires has to do with the devotion he invested into inventing a world, and that he was, in so doing, a role model for many of us who have --- or who have tried to, or would like to find the time to try to --- do the same.
For me it is not just that he created a world, but that he did such a complete and thorough job of it. There is far more to the story than just the prose in LOTR. There are multitudes of background stories that it builds on. It has a sense of totality, of a complete reality. Except that it isn't: it is all made up. Quite an accomplishment!
Am I the only/. reader who didn't interpret this article ("Lord of the Geeks") as a slam against all that is geekdom?
No you are not. I also interpret it not as a slam on LOTR but on all the high-brow self-proclaimed intellectuals who look down their noses at it. Unfortunately, his positive comments on LOTR and its influence on our sub-culture were so severly diluted by his constant references to the work's detractors that it was very difficult to determine exactly what his personal opinion was. I certainly understand why others are confused about what he was trying to say: he did a very poor job of expressing it, I think. I also have a personal problem with the use of the term "geek" to describe us. I simply cannot get past the negative connotations of that word, largely for personal reasons. I would much prefer "nerd", but even that I find rather detestable.
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But you're back to the same problem with who controls the top level categories. And as the usenet experience has shown countless times, there are many things in life that cannot fit in to a single category. Where would GE go? Or AOL/Time-Warner? Or any cross-country, cross-industry conglomerate.
The current schema may appear broken, but the primary reason for that is that this is a HARD PROBLEM! Not just technically, but also politically and economically.
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I dumped Roadrunner months ago. Their service is bad even for a consumer ISP. Port blocking? Peanuts compared to complete service outages that would last for days. Not to mention a service department that never answers the phone. I'm much happier with DSL. Still not completely satisfied, but at least they answer their phone (usually).
AOL Time Warner owns several channels and thus does not want to shoot itself in the foot.
AOL/TW owns several (many) cable channels, whose primary revenue comes from their licensing fees paid by cable service providers, NOT by advertisers buying commercial time. I don't know about you, but my monthly cable bill is the same whether I skip the commercials or not.
Or get a pilot's license and fly yourself......
That's what I do. Faster than driving, more convenient than airlines, and a whole lot of fun besides!
This is a *serious* security hole, and it's all sun's fault.
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How is it Sun's fault? I thought it was a fault in the System V code. Since when did Sun write System V? And has Sun been sneaking its code base in to AIX? Those guys are really devious, eh?
If you routinely use Solaris or AIX to login and do work, keep in mind that anybody can take over your computer, steal sensitive files, destroy your machine, anything.
s/Solaris or AIX/any networked computer system/
If I'm going to a resort (or anywhere) on vacation, I'm doing it to get away from the network, computers, work, obligations, and other day-to-day drudgeries.
Why would you want to "get away from it all" only to get connected back up again?
I get pretty impatient with my wife when we go away on a nice vacation and she obsesses about checking her voice mail and electronic mail. Leave it be! Enjoy yourself! Relax!
Any other field outside of IT, where people rarely work more than 40-50hrs a week
You are proceeding from a bad assumption. There are many fields "outside of IT" where employees routinely work over 50 hours a week. I know a few people in fields like these, and from what I can tell there seems to be very little socializing outside of work in their workplaces as well.
On slashdot??? Never!
;-)
As are .p and .l, unfortunately. :-/
Everyone else: that like was not a mirror.
I try to be an open minded individual. Can you name your top two or three "good fantasy novels"? I'd like to read them.
Given the stilted dialog and otherwise awkward writing, I don't think most people would think it was that great without being told a hundred times that it was, or without being told that it was the first of its kind.
I decided I liked the work without any such outside influences, if that matters. Granted, I was young at the time, and perhaps overly impressionable. But I certainly had heard nothing about the book before reading it.
For me it is not just that he created a world, but that he did such a complete and thorough job of it. There is far more to the story than just the prose in LOTR. There are multitudes of background stories that it builds on. It has a sense of totality, of a complete reality. Except that it isn't: it is all made up. Quite an accomplishment!
No you are not. I also interpret it not as a slam on LOTR but on all the high-brow self-proclaimed intellectuals who look down their noses at it. Unfortunately, his positive comments on LOTR and its influence on our sub-culture were so severly diluted by his constant references to the work's detractors that it was very difficult to determine exactly what his personal opinion was. I certainly understand why others are confused about what he was trying to say: he did a very poor job of expressing it, I think. I also have a personal problem with the use of the term "geek" to describe us. I simply cannot get past the negative connotations of that word, largely for personal reasons. I would much prefer "nerd", but even that I find rather detestable.
But you're back to the same problem with who controls the top level categories. And as the usenet experience has shown countless times, there are many things in life that cannot fit in to a single category. Where would GE go? Or AOL/Time-Warner? Or any cross-country, cross-industry conglomerate. The current schema may appear broken, but the primary reason for that is that this is a HARD PROBLEM! Not just technically, but also politically and economically.
CNN get slashdotted? Not very likely....