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[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: Re: The Rule of Least Power - does it miss the point?
 On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, M. David Peterson wrote: > 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... Len tends to the poetic. Sometimes at the cost of comprehension by his readers. I think he is saying that real world data is fuzzy in meaning, but that in taking actions (such as executing a program) based on it we objectify it with specific meaning and interpretation. He is also saying that a good deal of things treated as objective fact by people are actually majority subjective opinion and implying that business meetings are painful examples of this. - Jerry On 3/9/06, Bullard, Claude L (Len) <len.bullard@i...> 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@u...] > > 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. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an > initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription > manager: <http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/index.php> > > -- <M:D/> M. David Peterson http://www.xsltblog.com/ -- Jerry If you can't handle reality, it *will* handle you. 
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