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Spiritus Sancti
06-13-2004, 01:57 PM
You decide.

CloudySky
06-13-2004, 02:03 PM
Um... q&q of what? That is the question?

Spiritus Sancti
06-13-2004, 02:06 PM
Just in general, oh and btw I picked quality.

Levian
06-13-2004, 02:07 PM
Depends what it is actually. Overall, I guess quality is the bigger winner, but in some cases quantity could be just as well :p

Breine
06-13-2004, 02:38 PM
Quality is better than Quantity... Go figure.

-N-
06-13-2004, 03:21 PM
I dunno, 10 $100 bills are better than 1 "Quality" $100 bill...

edit: Here's a fun question: Provide a general defintion for quality.

Maxico
06-13-2004, 04:19 PM
8 entries found for quality.
qual·i·ty ( P ) Pronunciation Key (kwl-t)
n. pl. qual·i·ties

An inherent or distinguishing characteristic; a property.
A personal trait, especially a character trait: “The most vital quality a soldier can possess is self-confidence” (George S. Patton).
Essential character; nature: “The quality of mercy is not strain'd” (Shakespeare).

Superiority of kind: an intellect of unquestioned quality.
Degree or grade of excellence: yard goods of low quality.

High social position.
Those in a high social position.
Music. Timbre, as determined by harmonics: a voice with a distinctive metallic quality.
Linguistics. The character of a vowel sound determined by the size and shape of the oral cavity and the amount of resonance with which the sound is produced.
Logic. The positive or negative character of a proposition.

adj.
Having a high degree of excellence: the importance of quality health care.

Spiritus Sancti
06-13-2004, 04:30 PM
:p Well said

White Raven
06-13-2004, 05:07 PM
Quality for:
~Car's
~Women
~Video games
~Some foods

Quantity for:
~Money
~Other foods

This question is way too open.

Del Murder
06-13-2004, 05:19 PM
Only the best.

-N-
06-14-2004, 01:26 AM
Well, it doesn't become very interesting if you're not bright enough to think of one on your own, does it now?

Del: What's best? So on and so forth. I stipulate in all specific cases you can concretely tie quality to certain objective aspects of the case, but not in a general case - there's no definite intercase correlation.

Starcrest
06-14-2004, 03:04 AM
Well it depends. Lets say 100 weakly armed soldiers (quantity) attacked 45 well armed soldiers (quality) fought, the 45 would win because even though they r outnumbered, they have better armmanets, therefore, could do more things with it, long range, short range, automatic, semi-auto, one shot, all depeneds, so i put quality

EDIT-- Look at LOTR Two Towers, Helms Deep. The elves had better quality weapons, along with the humans, therefore beating the quantity of the Uraki

Denmark
06-14-2004, 03:14 AM
*Uruk-Hai

quantity in regards to number of penguins.

quality in regards to healthy penguins.

eg., I'd take one healthy penguin over 100 penguins infected with syphilis. because after a short time, those 100 penguins would die.

Kirobaito
06-14-2004, 03:22 AM
It really depends on what. What would I rather have, 1 FF7 or 3 FF8s? Well, I'd rather have 3 FF8s, so I could pawn two of them and buy me an FF7. *nod*

I picked quality, though, and I just now thought of that analogy.

Shoyku
06-14-2004, 03:47 AM
Quality.

Yamaneko
06-14-2004, 03:49 AM
Quantity. A lengthier essay will always get a higher grade than a quality paper because the teacher doesn't want to read it and will automatically assume you did a good job since it contains a lot of words and pages. :)

Del Murder
06-14-2004, 03:51 AM
The above is a secret that very few students ever figure out. It's gotten me through 8 years of English classes, no joke.

RSL
06-14-2004, 03:52 AM
I want both.

Starcrest
06-14-2004, 04:05 AM
LMAO really Del Murder?

Peegee
06-14-2004, 04:17 AM
More is better.

Agent Proto
06-14-2004, 04:23 AM
In terms of being the consumer, you would want the best in a product, so quality.

In terms of being the seller, you would want to sell the most products, so you would want to go with quantity. The more you sell, the more money you get.

However, you can't have both. With a high quantity of a product, the quality will be low. But a high quality product would be low in quantity.

I would go with quality, because it's a guaranteed thing.

GrimmReaper
06-14-2004, 05:22 AM
say you have a pile of garbage. It does'nt matter how big the pile is, it will still be nothing more than a pile of garbage. Quality of said pile, can make it gold, which is in essence, of the few things that quantity can say for otherwise. So they're pretty much opposites.

I'd rather do a good job, than get it done fast.

Raistlin
06-14-2004, 06:04 AM
Quantity. A lengthier essay will always get a higher grade than a quality paper because the teacher doesn't want to read it and will automatically assume you did a good job since it contains a lot of words and pages. :)

That is so true it's scary.

HOOTERS
06-14-2004, 06:21 AM
Quality. You don't get much but that's not necessarily a bad thing. How is that you ask? Well what if the thing you got was crap. You wouldn't want a truckload of crap, would you? You would?!?! Uhh...don't talk to me anymore. Stupid rhetoric. :mog:

Mattokenzi
06-14-2004, 01:04 PM
Quality for:
~Car's
~Women
~Video games
~Some foods

Quantity for:
~Money
~Other foods

This question is way too open.

Quantity
- Friends

It's hard to pick with the two things (it's like picking one of those things love, money or power).

Ki Ki
06-14-2004, 01:10 PM
Better is more.
....

Spiritus Sancti
06-14-2004, 03:50 PM
Quantity
- Friends

It's hard to pick with the two things (it's like picking one of those things love, money or power).

I'd prefer a few very good friends then alot of friends who aren't that good

Shoyku
06-14-2004, 03:54 PM
Quantity. A lengthier essay will always get a higher grade than a quality paper because the teacher doesn't want to read it and will automatically assume you did a good job since it contains a lot of words and pages. :)Doesn't work in my situation, since my teachers give me a certain limit to how much I can produce. Any more and it's an instant fail.

Iceglow
06-14-2004, 04:21 PM
As someone who works with computers I say quality over quantity what is the point of 100 P133s working on the same task when one 2.4ghz can do it? however my friend who is an art student gets told time and time again to do quantity over quality as his grades will improve for 10 crap pictures over 1 perfect picture.

Cz
06-14-2004, 07:34 PM
Depends on the context. For example, I'd rather have had 3 scrappy England goals than one brilliant one, in last night's match.

-N-
06-15-2004, 01:36 AM
As someone who works with computers I say quality over quantity what is the point of 100 P133s working on the same task when one 2.4ghz can do it? however my friend who is an art student gets told time and time again to do quantity over quality as his grades will improve for 10 crap pictures over 1 perfect picture.

Funny how an art student says that.