Stewart Stremler wrote:
begin quoting Rick Funderburg as of Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 12:33:17PM -0700:
I hear that Alaska's Senator Ted Stevens knows all about tubes and
technology. ;)
If you're referring to what I think you're referring to, he was neither
wrong nor stupid. If you think otherwise, go find a non-technical
person, and get them to _actually_ understand how a network works (as
opposed to getting 'em to parrot your answers).
The other common approach for an analogy for a network gave us the
"Information Superhighway".
You are right in that the tube analogy isn't that bad. However the
containing speech and sister analogy ("the internet is not a truck")
don't make much sense to me. His arguments are flawed (such as blaming
a 5-day delay of email on the lack of preferred packets), and I don't
think that it is bad to make a few jests about the displayed ignorance.
-- Rick
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