Re: is there anybody left here?
Olwe Bottorff <galanolwe-/[email protected]> Wed, 9 Jan 2013 18:53:47 -0800 (PST)
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--1228530961-1191721077-1357786427=:45631 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I'm just lurking at this point -- as I'm doing with the whole Internet . . . and the whole modern sci-tech thing in general. After a journeyman career in computers, mainly database, I threw in the towel and decided to become a Luddite. One of the great frustrations I've had with sci-tech is all the math, i.e., all the algorithms and formulae. One day it occurred to me that God doesn't do any of this! No! He's omnipresent and omniscient, for Christ's sake! That means he doesn't deal with any sort of math, algorithms, no graph theory, no Lambda Calculus, no nodes or networks, no databases where stuff has to go to be stored so it can be taken out again. Nope. God knows about everything everywhere instantly. So wake me up when sci-tech gets interesting again. For example, let me know when somebody has figured out how to "entangle" data (see quantum physics) so that data doesn't have to go live in a database and be c hecked in and out over networks. (Note: I will permit hard-/software networks, just like quantum is based on "fields with waves.") For a time I thought Haskell and functional programming would cotton onto such things -- but not yet apparently. But I still use Linux on older, humbler hardware. . . . Does this answer your question? Larry Bottorff Grand Marais, MN (formerly of Hesston & Moundridge KS) --1228530961-1191721077-1357786427=:45631 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii <html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt">I'm just lurking at this point -- as I'm doing with the whole Internet . . . and the whole modern sci-tech thing in general.<div><br></div><div>After a journeyman career in computers, mainly database, I threw in the towel and decided to become a Luddite. One of the great frustrations I've had with sci-tech is all the math, i.e., all the algorithms and formulae. One day it occurred to me that God doesn't do any of this! No! He's omnipresent and omniscient, for Christ's sake! That means he doesn't deal with any sort of math, algorithms, no graph theory, no Lambda Calculus, no nodes or networks, no databases where stuff has to go to be stored so it can be taken out again. Nope. God knows about everything everywhere instantly. So wake me up when sci-tech gets interesting again. For example, let me know when somebody has figured out how to "entangle" data (see quantum physics) so that data doesn't have to go live in a database and be checked in and out over networks. (Note: I will permit hard-/software networks, just like quantum is based on "fields with waves.") For a time I thought Haskell and functional programming would cotton onto such things -- but not yet apparently.</div><div><br></div><div>But I still use Linux on older, humbler hardware. . . .</div><div><br></div><div>Does this answer your question?</div><div><br></div><div>Larry Bottorff</div><div>Grand Marais, MN (formerly of Hesston & Moundridge KS)</div></div></body></html> --1228530961-1191721077-1357786427=:45631--