Die Systemanalyse ist eine technische und wissenschaftliche Methode ....
"Owing to the neglect of our defences and the mishandling of the German problem in the last five years, we seem to be very near the bleak choice between War and Shame. My feeling is that we shall choose Shame, and then have War thrown in a little later, on even more adverse terms than at present."
Winston Churchill in a letter to Lord Moyne, 1938 [Gilbert 1991]
Die Systemanalyse ist eine technische und wissenschaftliche Methode ....
We physicists know that the application doesn't actually work this way for naive users. Of course, armed with years of methodological experience and the latest in equipment and software, we physicists go out into the human made world and... fall into the morass . When we find a application of our methods and methodologies, we can't directly apply it to real world phenomena. We know too less about these and data gathered by specialists in these fields are not in all cases compatible with our need. To solve these problems the field of interdiciplinary applications of physics was established. The collaborative experience of specialists in their respective field together with the methods to analyse data, building models of the world and ability to understand deeply nested structures brought in by physicists has lead to the ability to apply tested advanced methods to large-scale systems in many modern application areas. This is what we call Physical Technoloy.
Factory Physics is "a systematic description of the underlying behavior of manufacturing systems. Understanding it enables managers and engineers to work with the natural tendencies of manufacturing systems to 1. Identify opportunities for improving existing systems. 2. Design effective new systems. 3. Make the tradeoffs needed to coordinate policies from disparate areas."
Wallace Hopp and Mark Spearman in Factory Physics
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HTTP server watches for documents whose type inherits from this class and only delivers them to authorized users; non-authorized users sent an explanation with the name of a person who could authorize release. |
Measured against the yardstick of "how well does this Internet thing work?", HTML is an underachiever. It lacks sufficient structural and formatting tags to render many documents comprehensible much less aesthetic, even with the addition of style sheets. The META tag can be exploited to implement a document typing system. We need to develop a hierarchy of document types to facilitate implementation of programs that automatically process Web documents. This type system must support multiple inheritance. If we fail to develop some kind of semantic tagging system, computers will be unable to render us any useful assistance with Web documents until the dawn of Artifical Intelligence, i.e., natural language understanding and common sense reasoning.
[small thematic break test] Is the formatting problem solved? I begged for style sheets in my August 1994 paper and now we have them, much better thought-out and more powerful than I envisioned. The author/designer intent split is captured nicely. So what is left to do? Style sheets don't let one publish mathematics, figures with captions, or dozens of other things faciliated by old languages like LaTeX or newer systems like Microsoft Word.
We could just add hyperlinks to LaTeX . This is more or less what a group of people at Los Alamos National Labs did a few years ago . I don't think there are really sound intellectual arguments against this approach, but sentiment seems to be on the side of keeping HTML. If we are indeed stuck with HTML, though, perhaps there is a better way to extend it.
[medium thematic break test] Is the formatting problem solved? I begged for style sheets in my August 1994 paper and now we have them, much better thought-out and more powerful than I envisioned. The author/designer intent split is captured nicely. So what is left to do? Style sheets don't let one publish mathematics, figures with captions, or dozens of other things faciliated by old languages like LaTeX or newer systems like Microsoft Word.
We could just add hyperlinks to LaTeX . This is more or less what a group of people at Los Alamos National Labs did a few years ago . I don't think there are really sound intellectual arguments against this approach, but sentiment seems to be on the side of keeping HTML. If we are indeed stuck with HTML, though, perhaps there is a better way to extend it.
[large thematic break test] Is the formatting problem solved? I begged for style sheets in my August 1994 paper and now we have them, much better thought-out and more powerful than I envisioned. The author/designer intent split is captured nicely. So what is left to do? Style sheets don't let one publish mathematics, figures with captions, or dozens of other things faciliated by old languages like LaTeX or newer systems like Microsoft Word.
We could just add hyperlinks to LaTeX . This is more or less what a group of people at Los Alamos National Labs did a few years ago . I don't think there are really sound intellectual arguments against this approach, but sentiment seems to be on the side of keeping HTML. If we are indeed stuck with HTML, though, perhaps there is a better way to extend it.
Wallace Hopp, Mark Spearman Factory Physics: Foundations of Manufacturing Management third edition, 2000, prefaces
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