In article <C456ps.LuC.1 at cs.cmu.edu>, valdes+ at CS.CMU.EDU (Raul Valdes-Perez) writes:
> In article <1993Mar19.100010.77935 at embl-heidelberg.de>, rice at embl-heidelberg.de (Peter Rice) writes:
> |> In article <C4390H.493.1 at cs.cmu.edu>, valdes+ at CS.CMU.EDU (Raul Valdes-Perez) writes:
> |>
> |> > We should keep in mind the old joke about bad marketing:
> |> > to determine the demand for a new bridge, go to the river
> |> > and count how many people swim across. The analogy is not
> |> > exact, but the spirit is similar.
> |>
> |> But a biologist would ask: Why are they swimming across?
>> But, there is nobody at all swimming across.
Are you trying to confuse me? You succeeded.
You count how many people swim across. You determine that nobody does. Then
you build a bridge???
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