On Jun 9, 2006, at 6:42 AM, bgoodheart wrote: [snip] a 'c | n > k' moment... -- Milo Velimirović University of Wisconsin - La Crosse La Crosse, Wisconsin 54601 USA 43 48 48 N 91 13 53 W -- There's a reason Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson have been awarded the U.S. National Medal of Technology (1998) and are fellows of the Computer History Museum Online. Dave Cutler hasn't and isn't. "You are not expected to understand this."

Quoting Tim Newsham <newsham(a)lava.net>et>: AKA, "If a face could sink/launch a thousand ships, then why can't I paint you?\ The words will never show, the you I've come to know ..." ;) Graphical displays of data excel in showing relationships and patterns. Discovering patterns in text can be much, much harder. Hence the blink comparator in astronomy. And Fred Hoyle's feeble attempt to describe such a form of data transfer in "The Black Cloud". But a lot depends on one's familiarity with the idioms of the graphical data - anyone can see a desolate outback, but it took an Albert Namatjira to make us see it as beautiful. Wesley Parish "Sharpened hands are happy hands. "Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands" - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge "I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot!" I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press