At 05:39 PM 6/14/2005, Walter Banks wrote: >This isn't a value judgment but it is entirely possible that James >first description >has an economic advantage to everyone even when accounting for the apparent >economic loss from the second group. > >Take all the features that everyone wants and build a device that >supports them >charge each customer for the features they want. Integrate the costs and the >revenue generated and compare the integration of costs and revenue generated >from several different products for several different customer types. Reliably >should be up and and customer costs costs should be down. Nash won a >Nobel prize for just this type of economic thinking. I've seen and read beautiful mind, but I would like to know more about nash's work. Also, my wife has the same problem, though not usually to that degree. Makes life interesting. -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist