Re: OT - Re: Program templates as Object Classes

>>Elitists are all for deciding what are worthy ways for others to
spend their 

>Sounds like you're referring to Wal-Mart.

No, Robert, it was referring to you.  You expressed the views that you
want railways to run on 1948 timetables regardless of the economics,
you want people to stop eating meat, it seems you want to decide how
people spend their time and money.

Wal-Mart and every other business puts stuff on shelves and people buy
it or they don't.  The stores are not deciding on what people _should_
do, they decide based entirely on how they make the most money.

> It wasn't engineered by anyone; it developed over years due to
chaotic market forces.

That's the one.  It is the one that farmers follow when they decide to
grow crops or raise chickens or feed grain to beef.  They decide based
on how they will make the most money.

It seems that you want to change the system so that _you_ decide what
people should buy and what farmers should grow.

> In free markets, choices are decided by one's neighbors. It's a
popularity contest.
> Outside the biggest cities, some things simply aren't available.

Yes they are, but the price might be too high.  If you want hampers
flown in from Harrods for your Sunday lunch in central Arizona then
that can be made available, but you wouldn't want to pay the price.

On 16 Dec 2004 18:02:11 -0800, "Richard" <riplin@Azonic.co.nz> wrote:
 
>line 
>scanner.
>
>You may not understand this part of the business

Oh that I weren't so stupid.
 
>record deliveries into the system.  Between coming off the truck and
>being put on the shelves the stock receival process is done.  If the
>item isn't in the system it can't be received.  They don't just take it
>off the truck and stick it on the sheves as you imply.

That's expensive. Low-cost retailers don't think it's necessary.

>> but they actually do record deliveries into the system. 
you imply.

That's expensive. Low-cost retailers don't think it's necessary.

Excuse me but what is "expensive and not necessary" ?

Recording deliveries ?
Having the item in the system ?

Do you imagine anyone just 'takes stuff off the truck and puts it on
the shelf' ?  Without counting the boxes, without checking the
documentation, without recording it in the system ?

>> but they actually do record deliveries into the system. 
you imply.

That's expensive. Low-cost retailers don't think it's necessary.

Excuse me but what is "expensive and not necessary" ?

Recording deliveries ?
Having the item in the system ?

Do you imagine anyone just 'takes stuff off the truck and puts it on
the shelf' ?  Without counting the boxes, without checking the
documentation, without recording it in the system ?