I just look at it like one of those dense technical manuals translated from the Japanese.  You just have to keep reading and reading it and do a few experiments with the equipment until you start to understand.

>>> Roy Brown <[log in to unmask]> 12/09/99 04:51PM >>>
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Try page 1 of Stephen Hawking's 'A Brief History of Time'.

(The popular canard being that despite the enormous *ownership* of this
book, the *readership* often doesn't get a whole lot further).