Design for Decision

Throughout this book I must have been critical of people who produce beautiful thoughts with little or no data be­hind them. Some readers may have felt that the decision-maker (принятие решения с использованием ЭВМ ) is a cold-hearted, even grim, method of making decisions. These readers might admit that a machine may be all right for making the scientific decisions or even commercial decisions, but they may have felt that Statisti­cal Decision had no place in their world, that it is mea­ningless insofar as personal, governmental, or international decisions are concerned.

I disagree with this point of view. I think that Sta­tistical Decision must have played a useful role in a wider class of decisions which have a direct influence on all of us. I certainly do not consider Statistical Decision to be a panacea. It is one method among many methods of rea­ching decisions. It is not necessarily the best method; there are situations in which intuitive procedures lead to more effective decisions than any existing Decision-Maker. In fact I think that most people must have already used many of the principles in making their decisions. You may have felt that such concepts as mathematical expectations were new and unfamiliar. However, I am sure that you have had to make decisions on the basis of expectations, when you have had to combine probabilities and desirability (though you may not have used these names).

 

Упражнение 11. Поставьте следующие предложения в прошедшее время не меняя их смысл, где это возможно, и переведите их:

1. Programs which the control unit operates must be in internal memory in order to be processed. 2. It is allowed to alter some features. 3. They are to discuss the results of their pilot research at the next meeting. 4. Drawings can be stored on a hard or floppy disk. 5. Before you start giving these instructions, however, you might like to know how to quit MS-DOS. 6. Also the memory cells could be given symbolic names instead of referring to them by their actual numeric (binary) addresses. 7. Anyone will be able to operate this menu driven program. 8. The costs of microelectronic would continue to decrease and we have not yet seen any significant departure from this law. 9. Each type of logic circuit may be implemented as a microelectronic circuit using microelectronic transistors and resistors. 10. You need to consider and make decisions on the following aspects.

 

Упражнение 12. Выберите вариант перевода, соответствующий приведенным сообщениям:

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1. Cannot recover nonremovable drive X.	а) Не следует восстанавливать несъемный накопитель Х; b) Нельзя восстановить несъемный накопитель Х; c) Восстановить несъемный накопитель Х.
2. Target disk cannot be used for back-up.	а) Диск, на который осуществляется запись, не может быть использован для резервного копирования; b) Не используйте диск, на который осуществляется запись, для резервного копирования; c) Диск, на который осуществляется запись, может быть использован для резервного копирования.
3. Unable to create table in resident memory.	а) Возможно создать таблицу в резидентной памяти; b) Невозможно создать таблицу в резидентной памяти; c) Создайте таблицу в резидентной памяти.
4. Target floppy may be unusable.	а) Дискета, на которую ведется запись, является непригодной; b) Дискета, на которую ведется запись, может быть непригодной; c) Дискета, на которую ведется запись, должна быть пригодной.
5. Drive letter must be specified.	а) Буква, определяющая дисковод, должна быть определена; b) Буква, определяющая дисковод, может быть определена; c) Буква, определяющая дисковод, определена.

 

Упражнение 13. Заполните пропуски модальными глаголами, русские эквиваленты которых даны в скобках:

Hard disk … (может) be divided into one to four separate sections, called partitions. Partitions separate your hard disk into individual areas, and each partition … (может) contain a different operating system.

To prepare your hard disk for the MS-DOS operating system, you … (должны) create a partition for MS-DOS, called a DOS partition. You … (можете) create a DOS partition on your hard disk by using a menu driven utility called fdisk. You … (должны) use fdisk if you want to create or delete an extended DOS partition. You … (должны) to follow all the instructions to get the required results.

 

Упражнение 14. Прочтите текст и заполните пропуски подходящими по смыслу модальными глаголами и данными в скобках инфинитивами а правильной форме:

Peripheral Equipment

The microcomputer … (to communicate) with the outside world, so that programs and data … (to enter) into its memory and processed information … (to display) or (to transmit) in some form to the microcomputer user.

There are various types of peripheral equipment that … (to attach) to microcomputers including keyboards and paper tape readers for input, and visual display units (VDUs) and printers for output. Information … (to output) from the microcomputer on to magnetic tape or disk for storage and re-entered when required. Different sensors and actuators … (to link) to the microcomputer for controlling instruments and machines.