Yo! Kerry:
Saturday May 10 1997 12:38, Kerry Kowalski wrote to Bill Cheek:
 BC>> I believe the truth of your statement to be far overshadowed by the
 BC>> truth of mine.  Nothing personal, though.....more like a cosmic truth
 BC>> versus a local truth.
 KK> I can see yers also... Every thin has its drawbacks tho... Wait till man
 KK> can control the weather!
Oh oh.  So far, it's WEATHER: 1000000   MAN:  2    or thereabouts.   :-)
 BC>> So WHAT drawbacks of the Internet am I not seeing, and what
 BC>> difference does it make if I don't see them?  Remember studying the
 KK> Nor did most who started smoking... At the time at least.
Oh geez.....  Using the Internet to acquire knowledge and to communicate with 
others is NOT akin to smoking......
 KK> I be on the I-net less than thee... You should see the adictiveness
 KK> of it...
It can be....yes.  So can wine..... or television....  or computers.... etc.
 KK> I've also been to an I-net guru and he's showed me the ability of a
 KK> persistant person + a little know how to basicly stalk any one you
 KK> wish... And get totaly away with it!
You can do that anyway......  private dicks do it for a living, long before 
the Internet.
 BC>> Well.....communications and connectivity are one of three vital
 BC>> ingredients, not only to basic survival, but also to a free society.
 KK> Yeah... But when ones wife has to leave you E-mail to get her point
 KK> across... (not meaning you) The divorce rate is up! Not because of
 KK> comunication but, the lack of it...
THAT is a personal problem.  Alcohol is a problem to some; not to others.  So 
is everything else.
 BC>> As I recall......you are still mired in a herd of computers from the
 BC>> dinosaur age....Radio Shack Color Computers, right? It would make
 BC>> sense that you are against the development of the Internet....same as
 BC>> the Amish are against the development of technoloogy and the
 BC>> Christian Scientists are against the development of Medicine.
 KK> Yes I have have my COCO's... And as long as they serve my needs... I
 KK> woulden't call it a herd tho... Just a few.
It only takes a few to make a "herd".  :-)
 KK> But to group that with bein' against the development of the I-net
 KK> would be hog wash! Besides at the April 26th CoCo Fest in Chicago I
 KK> talked with a software developer who is working on a Inet browser for
 KK> the COCO. It sounded impressive for these little machines... 19.2
 KK> baud rate included...
Good grief!  19.2-kbps for an Internet connection?  You've got to be kidding? 
That's utterly silly even though it might bring the Internet to a few more 
people.  If they like it, they'll dump their CoCo's and jump on PC's.....
 KK> Maby once I dig into the MSDOS and Windoz and get an understanding of
 KK> it I can do the same there. But I just can't see pointing and
 KK> clicking to do things. Sure it's easy... But do you realy know what
 KK> yer doing???
Do you REALLY know what's going on inside as you watch your TV?  Or drive 
your car?  Or make whoopee with the good woman?  Or eat a peanut butter 
sandwich? Or breath the fresh night air?  Or study a history book?  Or record 
a scanner event?  Or just listen to a scanner event?
The important thing is to be DOING SOMETHING USEFUL AND PRODUCTIVE.  Getting 
mired and bogged down in the software that helps make it happen isn't all 
that germane to a writer; an engineer; a historian; a scientist; or a janitor 
just trying to get ahead in Life.  You don't have to know a thing about a 
library to check out and read the books it offers.
 KK> I don't think so. The software does it for you! Too damn easy...
And your internal combustion engine powers your car.....doubtful you know 
much beyond the basics of THAT.  Likewise with radio, TV, dishwashers, 
guitars, harmonicas, and a zillion other things that make Life better for 
you.  You are, no doubt an expert at a few things......but what about the 
innards of the rest? Does that mean you don't drive because you don't 
understand the intricasies of internal combustion?  Or don't listen to radios 
because you don't understand the electrical engineering?
 KK> I'd rather walk on solid ground and know the inside as well as the
 KK> outside of my file structure. Floating was never good enough for
 KK> me... Any one can do that!
Tell me that you understand the innards of every aspect of Life that you 
indulge in.
The innards of a computer are not important to those who simply want to use a 
computer as a tool to communicate with others and to enlarge their knowledge 
base.
WHAT a computer can DO *is* important.  Even if you can get on the Internet 
at 19.2-kbps, you will be getting on a freeway with a derned old horse.  It 
will be a good start in this case.....but you need that 386 (not a CoCo) to 
do the muscle work.
By the way.....my Internet connection is now 24-hrs a day/7-days a week at 
Ethernet speeds of 10-Mbps.   I downloaded the 3.02 version of MS Internet 
Explorer in 18-secs on a bad day.  The size was over 10-MBytes!!!  It would 
take you 83-hours to do that at 19.2-kbps.
In a word, you are concentrating on mastering a 3/8" box-end wrench when the 
world is floating with Crescent wrenches and ratchet/socket sets with 
pneumatic drives.
THINK about it.
Bill Cheek: bcheek@san.rr.com
Windows 95 Juggernaut Team ~ Microsoft MVP
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