I agree that partitioning is arbitrary, but some divisions juse seem to have arisen by themselves.. For instance, once you find one porn site, it seems to be linked to all the rest of the porn sites. if your opening page was a porn site, it might appear to you that the whole net is porn..
Or perhaps you are into information that is useful to people in military service. These sites are all linked together, so if your initial page was www.usaf.gov, for instance, one might feel that the whole net is about govermnent business.
Of course, there are sites that rise above these at a meta-level. These are the search engines, etc. The portals are often the gateways to the various subcultures on the web.
A fun way to randomly find new subcultures is to play a game i made up one day while bored.. The object is to find, using a search engine (any one will do) a single-word search string which returns exactly one link. The pages you find during this quest can be rather diverse..
I used to work at a military site where the servers were named after planets, then we went to greek gods.. as the one most familiar with mythology, I would get consulted with questions like "What's a good name for an exchange server? we've already used mercury"
One of my favorites was one that was supposed to be a resume database.. We named it 'akasha' after the hindu akashic records.
I have a cel phone. *I* pay the bill. It's *my* convenience. Same with my home phone. Just cause I have a phone doesn't mean I have an obligation to answer it (no matter what ASSumptions others make) It takes a while to get over the twitching caused by an unanswered phone, but once you get past that, it's pretty cool.
If you pack your satellite uplink communications device in the mountains, you have no one but yourself to blame. When I'm off the clock, I'm off the clock. If I don't feel like carrying my cel phone or pager, I don't.
Yup, I've missed out on a party or two. Darn. That woulda happened if I didnt have these toys.
Oh, and I love my Palm connecte device.. but if I want to run FreeCell on it, I do. Guess who paid for it?
$40 in addition to the normal charge for the line.. the line can allegedly be used for ADSL and voice simultaneously. I am personally familiar with three ADSL installations in Metro Denver. One is just fine - he has one line, uses it for ADSL & voice.
The other two have a background of static. Kind of like recording a conversation with an auto-level tape recorder at the beach. When there arent any voices, the static increases, when someone is talking, the static gets less.
My other friend has his fax connected to the same line and reports no ill effects. I suspect the connect speed is slower, but haven't been able to prove that. I'll probably put a fax listener on that line when i get ambitious, so it's ok.. So I'm actually paying: $40 to USWest for the ADSL (not sure about the $29.99 mentioned - will have to check the bill) $15 for my second voice line $19 to my ISP ===== $74 total.
Sure it costs more, but I'm happy with the service, I was the first on my geek-block to get high speed service (my home network is the envy of the BUG and both my wife and i get to surf fast at the same time.
I figured I'd sign up with whoever paved a circuit to my door first. USWest with ADSL won.
I am on idcomm.com for my ISP in Denver. I love it!! I also have the Cisco DSL router/modem thingy.. my ISP gives me a static IP address and they're easy to deal with. (if you mention me when you sign up I'll get a free month's service *hint*) They know I have a network, but haven't given me any flack about it. I even talked about it when i talked to the USWest techs when I placed the order.
I am paying $40/month to USWest for 256k, if i wanted to pay for 512k it would be $65, then I pay for my ISP separately ($18.95/mo). Regarding the faster speeds, what I have heard on one of my other tech lists is that the Cisco will autodetect how fast the line will go, and go that fast. It's only a matter of time before they fix that hole.
After reading the other responses about USWest apparently doing something right, I actually called my friend who works there (as a contractor) to tell him about it.. Heck, we bitch long and loud when ppl do stupid things, it's only fair to send compliments when it's appropriate.
Never mind the web.. You can play any of the infocom games on your Palm Computing Platform using a program called ZIP (look at www.palmcentral.com).. All the games are available on a CD ROM called something like "Lost Masterpieces of Infocom".. the CD is only about $17 and includes all the original documentation in PDF format.
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I agree that partitioning is arbitrary, but some divisions juse seem to have arisen by themselves.. For instance, once you find one porn site, it seems to be linked to all the rest of the porn sites. if your opening page was a porn site, it might appear to you that the whole net is porn..
Or perhaps you are into information that is useful to people in military service. These sites are all linked together, so if your initial page was www.usaf.gov, for instance, one might feel that the whole net is about govermnent business.
Of course, there are sites that rise above these at a meta-level. These are the search engines, etc. The portals are often the gateways to the various subcultures on the web.
A fun way to randomly find new subcultures is to play a game i made up one day while bored.. The object is to find, using a search engine (any one will do) a single-word search string which returns exactly one link. The pages you find during this quest can be rather diverse..
-bob
I used to work at a military site where the servers were named after planets, then we went to greek gods.. as the one most familiar with mythology, I would get consulted with questions like "What's a good name for an exchange server? we've already used mercury"
One of my favorites was one that was supposed to be a resume database.. We named it 'akasha' after the hindu akashic records.
I have a cel phone. *I* pay the bill. It's *my* convenience. Same with my home phone. Just cause I have a phone doesn't mean I have an obligation to answer it (no matter what ASSumptions others make) It takes a while to get over the twitching caused by an unanswered phone, but once you get past that, it's pretty cool.
If you pack your satellite uplink communications device in the mountains, you have no one but yourself to blame. When I'm off the clock, I'm off the clock. If I don't feel like carrying my cel phone or pager, I don't.
Yup, I've missed out on a party or two. Darn. That woulda happened if I didnt have these toys.
Oh, and I love my Palm connecte device.. but if I want to run FreeCell on it, I do. Guess who paid for it?
My wife and I applauded at this scene (only ones in the movie, however) and I usually think it's lame when people applaud at movies.
*shrug*
:)
The other two have a background of static. Kind of like recording a conversation with an auto-level tape recorder at the beach. When there arent any voices, the static increases, when someone is talking, the static gets less.
My other friend has his fax connected to the same line and reports no ill effects. I suspect the connect speed is slower, but haven't been able to prove that. I'll probably put a fax listener on that line when i get ambitious, so it's ok.. So I'm actually paying:
$40 to USWest for the ADSL (not sure about the $29.99 mentioned - will have to check the bill)
$15 for my second voice line
$19 to my ISP
=====
$74 total.
Sure it costs more, but I'm happy with the service, I was the first on my geek-block to get high speed service (my home network is the envy of the BUG and both my wife and i get to surf fast at the same time.
-bob anzlovar
I am on idcomm.com for my ISP in Denver. I love it!! I also have the Cisco DSL router/modem thingy.. my ISP gives me a static IP address and they're easy to deal with. (if you mention me when you sign up I'll get a free month's service *hint*) They know I have a network, but haven't given me any flack about it. I even talked about it when i talked to the USWest techs when I placed the order.
I am paying $40/month to USWest for 256k, if i wanted to pay for 512k it would be $65, then I pay for my ISP separately ($18.95/mo). Regarding the faster speeds, what I have heard on one of my other tech lists is that the Cisco will autodetect how fast the line will go, and go that fast. It's only a matter of time before they fix that hole.
After reading the other responses about USWest apparently doing something right, I actually called my friend who works there (as a contractor) to tell him about it.. Heck, we bitch long and loud when ppl do stupid things, it's only fair to send compliments when it's appropriate.
-bob anzlovar
Never mind the web.. You can play any of the infocom games on your Palm Computing Platform using a program called ZIP (look at www.palmcentral.com).. All the games are available on a CD ROM called something like "Lost Masterpieces of Infocom".. the CD is only about $17 and includes all the original documentation in PDF format.