Walter Wong Phone: 1.412.268.8514
Systems Architect FAX: 1.412.268.4987
Computing Services email: wcw+@cmu.edu
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
In case of an emergency or sort of catastrophic failure, you can request that I be
paged by contacting Computer Operations.
From Iain Banks' Excession:
An Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilizations
encountered just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in the
same way a sentence encountered a full stop. The usual example given to
illustrate an Outside Context Problem was imagining you were a tribe on
a lush, fertile island; you'd tamed the land, invented the wheel or
writing or whatever, the neighbors were cooperative or enslaved but at
any rate peacful and you were busy raising temples to yourself with all
the excess productive capacity you had, you were in a position of near-
absolute power and control which your hallowed ancestors could hardly
have dreamed of and the whole situation was just running along nicely
like a canoe on wet grass ... when suddenly this bristling lump of iron
appears sailess and trailing steam in the bay and these guys carrying long
funny-looking sticks come ashore and announce you've just been discovered,
you're all subjects of the Emperor now, he's keen on presents called
tax and these bright-eyed holy men would like a word with your
priests.
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