Re: Ping: dawn, some mvl questions

David Cressey wrote:
> "Keith H Duggar" <duggar_at_alum.mit.edu> wrote in message
> news:1148249698.686154.221010_at_i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
> > dawn wrote:
>
> > > information never verbalized
> >
> > (though "verbalized" seems a poor choice of words perhaps
> > for "modeled" or "represented"?)
> >
>
> Your over all response seems to me to assume that if data is lost,
> information is lost. I would contend that there are sitations where data
> can be discarded without losibg information, provided its information about
> some specific context.

I would add that it is often good to lose information. A design determines both what we will keep and what we will not. --dawn Received on Tue May 23 2006 - 00:26:56 CEST