The Geek Syndrome

2001-12-07 Thread Leon Brocard
There's an article in December's Wired magazine entitled The Geek Syndrome. Finally an interesting article in Wired, you say, well, here are a couple of choice quotes as I can't find it online: Autism - and its milder cousin Asperger's syndrome - is surging among the children of Silicon Valley. A

Re: The Geek Syndrome

2001-12-07 Thread Struan Donald
* at 07/12 13:56 + Leon Brocard said: > There's an article in December's Wired magazine entitled The Geek > Syndrome. Finally an interesting article in Wired, you say, well, here > are a couple of choice quotes as I can't find it online: > Oh, go and buy the magazine, I'm not typing the r

Re: The Geek Syndrome

2001-12-07 Thread Simon Wistow
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 01:56:15PM +, Leon Brocard said: > Autism - and its milder cousin Asperger's syndrome - is surging among > the children of Silicon Valley. Are math-and-tech genes to blame? Also Dyslexia which is apparently from the same family, as is Dsypraxia apparently. This is int

Re: The Geek Syndrome

2001-12-07 Thread Sue Spence
Leon Brocard wrote: > > There's an article in December's Wired magazine entitled The Geek > Syndrome. Finally an interesting article in Wired, you say, well, here > are a couple of choice quotes as I can't find it online: > > Autism - and its milder cousin Asperger's syndrome - is surging among

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2001-12-07 Thread Simon Wistow
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Re: Small world [was] Re: London, Tube, Perl, and maths. (fwd)

2001-12-07 Thread Tom 2.0
From: "anathema" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Alex Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> That rebuttal got me kicked off a mailing list. > >That's not quite the way it happened, but I'm not going to go dragging up > >old arguments on another mailing list *g* > > Oh, all right. The consequences of who and

Re: The Geek Syndrome

2001-12-07 Thread Paul Mison
On 07/12/2001 at 13:56 +, Leon Brocard wrote: >Oh, go and buy the magazine, I'm not typing the rest in. Wired's web updates are, like many magazine sites, put up just after the magazine goes off the shelves. In this case, it appears that this will be happening on the 11th: http://www.wired.

REVIEW: Network Troubleshooting Tools

2001-12-07 Thread Roger Burton West
Network Troubleshooting Tools: Joseph B. Sloan, O'Reilly, ISBN 0-596-00186-X, 348pp Network Troubleshooting Tools (the Basilisk book) is a book that has no clear brief. In theory it is an introduction to data-gathering tools for use when networking problems occur; in practice, it also deals with

Re: Small world [was] Re: London, Tube, Perl, and maths. (fwd)

2001-12-07 Thread anathema
Tom 2.0 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Tomfucious, he say: >If you are unable to look back upon your past and learn from your mistakes, >you have no future. Anathema, she say this isn't the sort of thing that should be discussed on this mailing list, okay? -- http://www.the-anathema.org "Don't hold

Re: Small world [was] Re: London, Tube, Perl, and maths. (fwd)

2001-12-07 Thread the hatter
On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, anathema wrote: > Tom 2.0 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anathema, she say Oi, you two, get a room already. the hatter

Re: The Geek Syndrome

2001-12-07 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 02:27:46PM +, Simon Wistow wrote: > On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 01:56:15PM +, Leon Brocard said: > > Autism - and its milder cousin Asperger's syndrome - is surging among > > the children of Silicon Valley. Are math-and-tech genes to blame? > > Also Dyslexia which is a

Re: The Geek Syndrome

2001-12-07 Thread Anthony Fisher
I also read this. (Some of the other comments in this thread are addressed in the article, by the way.) It seems clear to me, that in order to secure a future for the human race with both genetic diversity and technical skills, the government should introduce a programme whereby male geeks hav

Re: The Geek Syndrome

2001-12-07 Thread Chris Devers
On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Anthony Fisher wrote: > It seems clear to me, that in order to secure > a future for the human race with both genetic > diversity and technical skills, the government > should introduce a programme whereby male geeks > have attractive bimbo-type women made available > on dema

Re: Small world [was] Re: London, Tube, Perl, and maths. (fwd)

2001-12-07 Thread anathema
the hatter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Tom 2.0 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Anathema, she say >Oi, you two, get a room already. That's what *i* said. Can a girl get no peace? -- http://www.the-anathema.org "A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for." - W.C. Fields

Re: Small world [was] Re: London, Tube, Perl, and maths. (fwd)

2001-12-07 Thread David H. Adler
On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 12:28:08AM -0500, anathema wrote: > > Can a girl get no peace? [throws a dove at anathema] -- David H. Adler - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ "supported" is an MS term that means the function exists. The fact that it always fails means, that it is an

Re: Small world [was] Re: London, Tube, Perl, and maths. (fwd)

2001-12-07 Thread anathema
David H. Adler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Can a girl get no peace? >[throws a dove at anathema] It's dovely! Ah ha ha ha. Ha. Haha. Oh. -- http://www.the-anathema.org "Have you seen the canals?" "I am a canal!" - Eddie Izzard, Unrepeatable