Hello everyone On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 9:34 AM, X Acto <[email protected]> wrote: > All, > > What is betterness? what does it mean to you? > > RMP states there are four kinds of betterness.
> Which of those four do you value the most? Hi Ron I am not sure that I follow you... what four kinds of "betterness" does RMP state, and where does he state this? For something to be better, there must be something else to compare it to. For example, from LILA: "The reason Phaedrus used slips rather than full-sized sheets of paper is that a card-catalog tray full of slips provides a more random access. When information is organized in small chunks that can be accessed and sequenced at random it becomes much more valuable than when you have to take it in serial form. It's better, for example, to run a post office where the patrons have numbered boxes and can come in to access these boxes any time they please. It's worse to have them all come in at a certain time, stand in a queue and get their mail from Joe, who has to sort through everything alphabetically each time and who has rheumatism, is going to retire in a few years, and who doesn't care whether they like waiting or not. When any distribution is locked into rigid sequential format it develops Joes that dictate what new changes will be allowed and what will not, and that rigidity is deadly." Dan comments: "Better" can apply to anything, so how can there be only four kinds? Aren't we developing a rigidity by saying so? Dan > > > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
