At 03:29 PM 4/8/04 -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote: >At 11:28 AM -0700 4/8/04, Major Variola (ret) wrote: >>Geodesic means shortest path, and you'll note if you play with >>tracert that the shortest path (as seen on Earth's surface) is rarely >>taken. > >Measure the path in time?
Yeah, some dead french dude IIRC pointed out that light takes the quickest route through a lens. Light and time being rather intimate if you believe your interferometer. OTOH a packet takes a route that depends on business practices, etc, and isn't generally optimal. In any case you're a lot more readable if one global replaces 'geodesic' with 'well-connected' or glibly 'wired'. Feel free to ignore any constructive hints of course :-) your prose is more identifying than your pk sig.
