----- Original Message ----- > From: "Owen DeLong" <o...@delong.com>
> My cells all operate as a single cohesive system with an actual > central control (one brain). Nope; not really. Look up autonomic nervious system; your body makes *wide* use of distributed processing. > Human bodies which do not have that property suffer badly from it. All of them, then, I guess. > There is no central brain managing what we call "THE internet" and my > point isn't that INTERNETs don't exist, it's that there's no > particular one you can point to and call it "THE internet". I can point to any jack that is part of it, and say it's "The Internet" (note, please, capitalization) and be describing it accurately. This is not an issue of engineering; it's one of nomenclature and taxonomy. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274
