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From: Glen Coakley <gcoakley AT mqsoftware DOT com>
To: Cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: FW: Off-Topic: RE: "shouted down", "shot down", apologies
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 17:30:11 -0500 
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> Consider navigating the world: one does not try to bring 
> along a single map to do this.
> 
> If you were going to visit a friend in Jakarta, you might first find it
> on a globe, then set out in that general direction.  Once you got in the
> vicinity, you might pick up a country map, to show you major roads you
> could take to get to the city.  Then when you reach the city, you might
> pick up a street map to find your friend's house.
> 
> My point is that easy navigation is about hierarchical organization. 
> The world is a mondo-huge place, but it's still possible to find
> relatively small things like particular houses.

I have to disagree with this. A hierarcical organization it just one way of 
reducing and then organizing the remaining number of potential
possiblilities 
so that us humans can better deal with large amounts of data. But, as the
subject suggests, that is another thread.

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