Guy Macon on "how many microprocessors can dance on the head of a pin?"

Bravo!!!!

Cheers

PeteS ;)



Didi wrote:
> Guy,
> 
>> Good advice.  Other good links on the topic:
> 
> I top-posted in part deliberately because I anticipated
> Chucks response... In part I did so because I just did not
> want to go into much depth about context etc.
> 
> Typically I use my sense to make my post best readable,
> if I feel bottom posting provides that I do bottom posting
> and if I feel top posting is better then I top post.
>  Most frequently I do a mixture of both (call it muxed
> posting if you like :-), that is, my message is designed
> with quoted excerpts (just relevant excerpts I _want_
> quoted in that place) in botom-posting style and at the end,
> in order to provide the entire context, the original message is
> quoted in top posting style. (It took Chuck > a year
> to make up his mind what sort of posting this was and
> surprise surprise, eventually it ended up on his
> "top-posting" list of world threats... :-).
> 
> I do not follow any religion when I post (nor anywhere else,
> for that). Frankly, I have little other than a laugh-away
> attitude for religion followers, and I may seek fun sometimes
> by just annoying them - but not very often, it is too damn
> easy to do so it typically proves to be no fun after all.
> 
> Dimiter
> 
> 
> On Jun 11, 4:06 am, Guy Macon <http://www.guymacon.com/> wrote:
>> CBFalconer wrote:
>>> Please do not top-post.  Your answer belongs after (or intermixed
>>> with) the quoted material to which you reply, after snipping all
>>> irrelevant material.  See the following links:
>>>  <http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html>
>>>  <http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html>
>>>  <http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html>
>>>  <http://cfaj.freeshell.org/google/>  (taming google)
>>>  <http://members.fortunecity.com/nnqweb/>  (newusers)
>> Good advice.  Other good links on the topic:
>>
>> http://www.xs4all.nl/%7ewijnands/nnq/nquote.htmlhttp://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/mail-news-errors.html#quotinghttp://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/brox.htmlhttp://www.i-hate-computers.demon.co.uk/quote.html
>>
>>  "Top posting classically or stereotypically involves no
>>  trimming and of course no contextualizing.of prior posts;  
>>  contrasted with contextualized posts, which sequence
>>  questions and responses in order and context, along
>>  with trimming of unnecessary lines.
>>
>>  In this contrast, the top post is disorderly, messy,
>>  and most notably egocentrical, because it leaves all
>>  of the cleaning up and reorganization to the correspondent
>>  context posters and because it inappropriately emphasizes
>>  the importance of whatever the top poster has to say or
>>  ask while mostly disregarding everything anyone else has
>>  been said before.  It also expects the next reader to try
>>  to guess at what part of the previous posts the top poster
>>  is referring.and makes it nearly impossible to
>>  contextualize hir own responses."     -Mike Easter
>>
>> --  
>> Guy Macon
>> <http://www.guymacon.com/>
> 
> 

On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 10:07:53 +0000, in msg
<yeGdnXiPtfKsUvbb4p2dnA@giganews.com>, Guy Macon <http://www.guymacon.com/>
wrote:

>My own contribution to this was to observe that 
>it takes at least two locations per angel for them to dance.  
>If they are packed at maximum density, they can't move.  Also 
>there are angular momentum issues if they dance the twist.

This is not always the case as you have not seen my brother doing the "Washing
Machine". He uses no more space than standing -- and it will most likely remain
that way since anyone doing the "Washing Machine" will likely continue to dance
alone.

-Zonn
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