For those of use with ageing grey matter, which law belongs to Sturgeon? |> -----Original Message----- |> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu [mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu] |> Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 12:07 AM |> To: Patrick Greenwell |> Cc: nanog@merit.edu |> Subject: Re: multi-homing fixes |> |> |> |> On Mon, 27 Aug 2001 21:59:51 PDT, Patrick Greenwell said: |> > > so the world should pay because you won't choose a |> reliable/reasonable |> > > provider? |> > |> > Please provide a definitive list of such providers. |> |> Sturgeon's Law applies here too. |> |> /Valdis (who spent part of last night being amazed at an OC-3 that |> was showing 15000ms packet delays. On a terrestrial link. From a |> big-name provider. Yes, there's 3 zeros in that. No, the router on |> our end of the OC-3 doesn't have THAT much buffer space - that's why |> I was amazed) |>
On Tue, 28 Aug 2001 00:13:48 PDT, Roeland Meyer said:
For those of use with ageing grey matter, which law belongs to Sturgeon?
Theodor Sturgeon gave the keynote address at a science fiction convention a number of years ago. He gave a glowing overview of the rosy state of the field, etc etc. Later on during the Q&A, a heckler asked him how he could say that stuff with a straight face when 90% of the science fiction being written was total crap. Sturgeon thought for a few seconds, and agreed: "Yes, 90% of science ficntion is crap. But then, 90% of everything is crap". /Valdis
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