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From: schow@bnr-public.uucp (Stanley Chow)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin,comp.misc
Subject: Re: computer charge back
Summary: Welcome to the real world.
Message-ID: <431@bnr-fos.UUCP>
Date: 25 Apr 89 03:33:06 GMT
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In article <1674@ccnysci.UUCP> dan@ccnysci.UUCP (Dan Schlitt) writes:
>
>You can force students to endure all sorts of nonsense (although you
>shouldn't), but in other parts of the world there are real costs to be
>taken into account which are ignored in the computer charging stuff.
>For the computer user all time is real time.  If your charging methods
>reduce the productivity of your programming staff or discourage the
>computer shy from taking advantage of computer facilities then you
>have failed to include an important cost.
>

But Dan, maximizing computer usage is not necessarily optimal.

It may be that supplying enough computing power is too expensive and
fical reality forces a company (or an university) to cut back. The overall
allocation of resources (be it computer, human or whatever) is what counts.
Modifying user behaviour is certainly usefull.


Stanley Chow    ..!utgpu!bnr-vpa!bnr-fos!schow%bnr-public


I would consider representing other people for a large fee, no one has
paid, ergo, I don't represent anyone.