From: Roy Wallace <waldo000000_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:44:12 +1000

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Paul Louden <paulthenerd_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> less useful features should be considered critically even if they have
> small binsize costs, just because they're useful to only an exceptionally
> small group. They're a dilution of the total "usefulness density."
>

Using your terms, Paul, it would seem there is disagreement in how important
"usefulness density" is as a goal. For example, the World Wide Web has an
extremely low "usefulness density", but is very useful. Of course, the
importance of usefulness density wholly depends on the "cost" of "storage".
Received on 2008-10-29