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RE: Re: The Rule of Least Power - does it miss the point?

• To: "Richard Salz" <rsalz@u...>
• Subject: RE: Re: The Rule of Least Power - does it miss the point?
• From: "Bullard, Claude L \(Len\)" <len.bullard@i...>
• Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 09:01:02 -0600
• Cc: "XML Developers List" <xml-dev@l...>
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• Thread-topic: Re: The Rule of Least Power - does it miss the point?

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.

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