On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 01:57:51PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Jack Byers wrote: > > > Hal Burgiss responded to another thread: > > > > >Mutt + procmail is light years ahead of this stuff. Especially, when > > >you consider vim can be used as the editor. > > > > I am reasonably sure most members of this list, and almost surely Hal > > himself, really know that "light year" is a technical term: > > > > specifically it is a measure of _distance_ ; > > and said another way, it most certainly is not a measure of _time_ > > which is the sense it was used in the above quote.
If someone said "miles ahead" would you think it meant time? Is not a mile, as well as a light-year, a measure of distance? Why is one of them appropriate to use this way but not the other? No, there's nothing wrong with what the OP said, he means WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY ahead, not just miles, but much much much more than miles: light years! > Han Solo: "Fast? Yeah, she's fast. She made the Kessel run in > under 12 parsecs." Which makes sense only if the "kessel run" is some kind of benchmark other than a DISTANCE benchmark, i.e., if they're benchmarking something whose ultimate goal is to be achieved over some variable distance, and 12 parsecs is a record-setting distance. But of course, even that doesn't make much sense, it's just a bit of flotsam/jetsam on the sea of stupid movie lines. > > rday > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- .---- Fred Smith / ( /__ ,__. __ __ / __ : / / / / /__) / / /__) .+' Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / / (__ (___ (__(_ (___ / :__ 781-438-5471 -------------------------------- Jude 1:24,25 --------------------------------- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
