Re: [Plug] At the risk of getting flamed to my dying day, I'm going to pose a question...

[Chris Fearnley <cjf@netaxs.com>]

Hi,

OK, I'll hazard a comment on this far off-topic issue.

First, I think it is necessary to characterize women and men as
functional entities in Universe.  Woman are the continuity of human
life ... women form a continuous waveform of generation after
generation of new life.  Men are discontinuous.  Synergetics
(http://www.CJFearnley.com/fuller-faq-2.html) discusses how continuous
tension (pull) and discontinuous compression (push) as complementary
forces in Universe are two of the key ideas needed to understand how
both the Universe and thinking function.  Women are primarily tensional
and men primarily compressional; women tend to pull/attract and men
tend to push/force.  Of course, as you pull a rope taught in tension,
its girth contracts in compression at ninety degrees to the direction of
the pull-force.  Tension and compression are always and only
coexistent.  This can all be modeled by the tetrahedron.  For more
discussion see Prudence Allen's article and my discussion of it at
http://www.CJFearnley.com/fuller-faq-2.html#ss2.26 .

Unix is to my mind an elegantly balanced meld of tension and
compression.  Pipes, wrappers and glue scripts, sockets, independent
yet complementary config files, etc.  It has the feel of a large,
complex, gossamer structure:  tensional relationships everywhere and no
independently standing compressional struts.  Like a geodesic sphere
(http://www.CJFearnley.com/jpegs.html) or tensegrity
(http://www.CJFearnley.com/fuller-faq-5.html#ss5.1).  The Windows model
of strictly hierarchical menus and configuration in a monolithic
registry strikes me as an oversized stone house (stability depends on
the weight of the stones upon each other and not upon tension).  Unlike
the geodesic dome which can grow to arbitrary size, a very large stone
or brick house will eventually collapse under its own weight.

Unix is yin/yang.  Windows is just a penis.

-- 
Christopher J. Fearnley          |  Linux/Internet Consulting
cjf@netaxs.com                   |  Design Science Revolutionary
http://www.CJFearnley.com        |  Explorer in Universe
                  "Dare to be Naïve" -- Bucky Fuller

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