On 10 Sep 98, at 1:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>     Oh, I can see some of the need and utility for Java, an interactive
> form which decides a lot of things on the user's machine, then sends back
> a request only for what is needed. 

It crashes and downloading the applets is a waste of bandwidth.
I think JavaScript is better but too many people use it in a GRRRR 
way so I surf with JavaScript OFF.

>      Sure! We will throw out the usless hype and use what we find useful,
> just as we threw away the label "piano assembly tool", and use the
> screwdriver to pry open paint can lids, jimmy windows, and even, now and
> then, to screw screws.  (I wish I remembered the Czech inventor's name...)

Are you sure? Maybe you're talking about Lapis that invented the 
pencil. But I'm not sure either.

> > > So will/should we support/develope for these "new technologies"?  

>     Yes!

Mumble...

>     BUT... if we don't make 100 percent of the new stuff, we won't get
> that 10 percent useful stuff nor the halt to one percent you would be
> willing to almost die for!  (And for all the wrong reasons, too!  Once you
> start using stuff, you see just how wrong you are about what you thought
> it was good for.  If you don't get too jaded, you see new ideas come into
> the realm of possibility as you muck with your new tools!)

OK but one you've tryed you should know what is useful and what 
is not. Maybe I'm too used to Windows where to be a computer 
geek the first thing you have to learn is where the trash can is.

>      Well, maybe his generation would not.  We don't see the continuity.
> We see the CONTENT!  And we don't really see it, either.  WE put it
> together in our mind's eye, just as the lioness puts together the disjoint
> images of the gazelle through the grasses and dist clouds as she runs him
> down!  Real sight, isn't what you see, it is what your mind's eye sees,
> linked to all that other experiential stuff in your mind, just like a
> world wide web within your mind, the pieces so small, that you don't
> notice your memory of that window and the memory of the curtains and the
> pattern are from different times.

I've read some literature on this. It's really fashinating!!!!

>      Already the pharmo industry has managed to virtually ban herbs in
> Europe.  They know that once patients see how others have side effects,
> the doctors won't be able to continue to say this or that reaction is not
> related.  If you are taking any kind of pills, get a hold of the
> Physician's Desk Reference or the Nurse's Drug Reference and look that

Fortunately the only thing I take is aspirin (acetil slicid??? acid)
And of course I eat as a pig... fortunately I swim and I'm a part time 
fighter :-)

When I'll need something more than aspirin I'll give a look at your 
site.


>      What is next?  Just look at what my stats are showing as the hottest
> query on the web -- mp3 -- Audio!  Cheap telephony and long distance radio
> is the next revolution. 

>      Beyond that, I don't know that is next.  I have some ideas...  But I
> am just a lone guy who can't sell those ideas... at least not alone. 

We are at least two guy that can't sell their ideas... Is two a team 
or a club?

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