RE: Re: [xml-dev] The Rule of Least Power - does it miss the point?

["Bullard, Claude L \(Len\)" <len.bullard@intergraph.com>]

The blind-spot of the network-based point of view and approach to systems design is that not all problems are solvable by Get and Put. 

See Evolutionary Stable Strategies and games of the form "Rock Paper Scissors".

len

-----Original Message-----
From: M. David Peterson [mailto:xmlhacker@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 9:12 AM
To: Bullard, Claude L (Len)
Cc: Richard Salz; XML Developers List
Subject: Re: Re: [xml-dev] The Rule of Least Power - does it miss the point?

I think I have reached a point in my career in which I have decided that if things have become so complex that most dictionaries, including geek dictionaries, have yet to catch up with the words and phrases being used... I'm either simply too damn stupid to get it, or things have just got to damn complex, and they dont need to be.

 

I'm voting for a little of both myself, but none the less I will throw this question into the mix just for the hell of it:

 

What on earth did you just say?  I'll accept the fact that I'm simply too dumb to understand, if you'll accept the fact that what you just said "dontmakanosense".

 

Oh well, I'll stick to writing code.... its more fun... I think...

 

On 3/9/06, Bullard, Claude L (Len) <len.bullard@intergraph.com> wrote:

They take the names in the author slots seriously.
Think of it as the high side of the long tail and
look up "vanara".

As I said, after a month of digging through papers
on pragmatics and business intelligence, this is the
subjective approach:  reality is what you say it is
if enough people agree.  Subjective systems provide
for multiple points of view over the same information.
Objective systems provide for information plus operations
so really, one point of view.   As you know, a
subjective system is Heisenbergian:  information is
in superposition until measured and measurement is
a means of objectification.  So what you see is data
moved in superposition (in a range from delimited
to XML, for example), received, then objectified.

Information is transported subjective;y (least
power, least authority) and objectified for
local processing.  As a writer on Grice's Maxims
titled his article: "Do The Right Thing".

Gotta go to a meeting now and try with all my
might to remain objective. ;-)

len


From: Richard Salz [mailto:rsalz@us.ibm.com]

I find it hard to believe that folks take this serious.  Perhaps they can
also resolve the which editor is best, now that we've been told how to
choose a programing language.  Perhaps we'll see a PhD thesis on this
soon.

The rule, principal, commandment, whatever, is really very simple:  choose
the right one.

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