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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.cog-eng
Subject: Re: modern terminals
Message-ID: <9390@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 15 Jan 89 17:07:57 GMT
References: <19@xenlink.UUCP> <7328@chinet.chi.il.us> <144@bms-at.UUCP> <4876@mtgzz.att.com> <1013@vsi.COM>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1013@vsi.COM> friedl@vsi.COM (Stephen J. Friedl) writes:
>In article <9325@smoke.BRL.MIL>, gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
>> How, indeed, is one to reduce the advantages of
>> increased flexibility and convenience to a specific dollar value?
>In article <4876@mtgzz.att.com>, avr@mtgzz.att.com (a.v.reed) writes:
>> With figures. ...
>... one must be careful not to present an argument that will get shot down.

Exactly.  Once you start to play the American business manager's own
game, you will lose.  There are SO many factors in doing a proper job
of economic analysis, including estimating probabilities of future
trends, that you will never get the job done "right".  And many of
the thing s you leave out can be used to "support" the contrary
position.  This is a case where intuition and vision count for a lot,
but those don't lend themselves to cost-accounting techniques.