Re: Question about General Relativity

jmfbahciv@xxxxxxx wrote:

I think one of the problems is an aspect of this medium which
is ASCII. This medium works because it is only ASCII;
so this plus does have a great minus at the same time.

Yes, I always thought that was a great strength of the medium. I was
particularly excited, many years ago, when I found I could log into my
school's IBM mainframe via a dial-up account from a terminal emulator
on my Commodore 128. The tech at the computor center said "you might
have better luck from an IBM PC", not understanding the universality of
the terminal emulator/dial-up account idiom. After this, and
discovering USENET, I had visions of all the world's educated but
technically dispossed dialing into local hosts with obsolescent PC'a
running terminal emulators, all diving into the great democratic sea of
universal text.

Well, it doesn't seem to have worked out that way. I suppose one flaw
in my vision is that even with dicarded PC's, you still need
electricity, telephone lines, and a local host. Still, these things
would seem to be available in -- is the "second world" the right
nomenclature?

Ah... but I am illustrating the law which I immodestly hope may bear my
name: all threads among old USENET salts will utlimately devolve to
discussions of obsolete computer technology. I'm also writing like an
old man. Interesting. What is the "old man" (not "Old Man") style? I
think it is the methodically correct if plodding use of language,
perhaps conditioned by years of pitfalls and misunderstandings, and the
decision to stop cavorting to avoid falling into old mire pits. The
person afraid to fall into more pits is, apparently, an old fogey.

.

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