At 01:07 PM 9/15/00 -0700, Bill wrote:
> > Suppose that
> > a European firm proposes to manufacture an entirely new
> > household appliance in a Southeast Asian factory. And suppose
> > that for commercial reasons, the firm does not wish to
> > communicate to the factory any details of the appliance's function
>-
> > - how it works, what purposes it will serve. With only a few
> > thousand bits of information, the factory is not going to proceed
> > very far or very fast.
>
>Schutzenberger obviously has never worked in a machine shop. All one
>needs is a set of drawings.
How many bits of information in a drawing?
>On the other hand, residential architects often specify construction
>details which can't be built. <G>
>
>billwald@juno.com
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Brian Harper
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The Ohio State University
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