If you work in support you probably use something almost identical already. You know; RT, OTRS, Bugzilla, Remedy.
A CRM usually has a couple of add ons though. A link to a comprehensive database of customers which records all interactions with them via email, telephone, snail mail etc so that marketing can look for purchase preferences to send them junk mail and customer services can make sure customers are happy rather than annoyed.
The other thing is usually a workflow add on (many ticket systems already have this) so that you can take a customer request through various business processes, be that a sale, a problem resolution, whatever. It makes sure that they eventually get through to the end without dropping through the cracks.
There's various other features depending on the vendor but you can pretty much roll your own CRM system using some of the open source ticket management systems, they just need a little tweaking.
Sure, Yahoo! and Google will have new offerings, but the small guy with a great idea is likely screwed. Without net neutrality, you'll make it next to impossible for a startup company offering online services, or someone competing with telecom and cable (like small ISPs or VOIP services) to compete because the big guys will always be able to make THEIR stuff superior. This is simply hysterical hyperbole. If people find that their network connection is slow they'll switch providers.
1: If you spend less on cheaper goods, you have more to spend on other things, like family, friends, education, charities, whatever.
2: Things tend to get better, not just cheaper. I can call my girlfriend pretty much any time, anywhere in the world and instantly get hold of her on a mobile phone, I can see my niece on a video phone because I choose to pay for the things which matter to me, not to you.
You never know. Enforcing net neutrality may prevent the development of a ubiquitous high bandwidth wireless Internet which can compete with the land lines for performance and cost. When you institute a law like this you are essentially trying to hold development static at the current state of affairs.
Take for example the massive subsidies that rail gets in the UK, this certainly holds the cost down to about half of the real cost for the small minority who use it, but it also makes it extremely difficult for alternative transportation systems which are potentially superior to compete, even to get venture capital.
In short, just because you (or a politician) don't know the solution to a problem doesn't mean that someone else hasn't already found a solution and is just dying to put it into practice for you.
I could use thousands of machines like these and at the moment am stuck between using full laptops with all of the associate cost and bollocks or palm like devices which are useless for anything but reading the occasional appointment.
These machines are substantially below the market value, in particular the built in mesh networking is interesting. What's going to happen is that they will be diverted in large numbers to places like ebay. What would you do if you were handed something worth a year's salary? To stop that they'll have to release the units generally to the public, hell it's even a good idea, the increased production would reduce the cost per unit significantly and will subsidise the educational version.
"The first units will be closer to 100 Euros than 100 dollars," admits Bletsas. Of course the dollar has dropped in value by 40% over the period the OLPC has been in creation, so perhaps it isn't the best standard to compare the price against.
Yachts use solar and wind power to charge their batteries, it's a combination which works. Take a look at vertical axis wind turbines as well as photovoltaics. They can be cheap and run at low wind speeds.
It's more to do with cost per kiloWatt. While it may be more efficient to put in photovoltaic cells or a ground source heat pump for space heating, it may not be cheaper.
If the Chinese ever "call in our paper" we would experience a recession while their country went down in flames. That might have been true were the dollar the only reserve currency... By diversifying into euros and others, the currencies in question will increase in value making imports cheaper for those countries. Imports from for example china.
I reckon you're basically on the right track, but it's very unlikely to result in armageddon. What'll happen instead is that china, japan, opec etc will get tired of losing money on their dollar reserves and will diversify (are already diversifying) and start selling the US bonds, the dollar will fall further, interest rates will rise further.
It will however balance out. China, Japan and OPEC can't simply dump 2-3 trillion dollars worth of bonds, they would be insane to do so. Instead they'll simply make Americans pay their debt. The US is just going to be saddled with high interest rates and high inflation for a while. At the end the dollar probably isn't going to be such a favoured reserve currency and Americans will have to work that little bit harder, just the same as the rest of the world.
They do currently have another option. Stop printing money and start running a surplus budget.
Oh Btw, the big problem isn't Iraq, that's just causing a gradual slide, it's the retirement of the baby boomers, we should start to see the effects fairly soon.
Something central to human psychology. The more we have of something, the more we use. It's why supply and demand works, why scarce things are valuable.
An electric vehicle has almost no moving parts. There's the bearings, the motor, brakes and that's about it. There are no valves, no cams, no crank, no pistons, no piston rings, no spark plugs, no distributor, no air filters, no oil, etc etc to service every 10,000 miles. They don't even really need a gearbox. Basically it should just run and run and run as long as the battery lasts, and the Altair Nano lithium titanate battery is rated for thousands of charges, ~25 years.
So you have bugger all power costs, you have bugger all servicing costs. The cost per mile basically comes down to the power plus capital cost over the lifetime of the vehicle, and there's no reason it shouldn't do a million miles with the occasional replaced tyre, brakepad, windscreen wiper and maybe a bearing every 100,000 miles.
It showed that some people would cause harm (not kill) another person when instructed to do so by an authority figure. Yeah sure, harm to the point of death. 450 volts is quite enough to kill.
Well, the details in my story might not be correct because Ubuntu went out a long time ago, after not being able to get WPA-PSK to work. I'm using WPA-PSK right now after doing no more than filling the details into System->Administration->Networking->Wireless Connection.
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When you're seeing bogeymen under every rock you're afraid. Paranoid even.
Then plug it back in real quick.
If you work in support you probably use something almost identical already. You know; RT, OTRS, Bugzilla, Remedy.
A CRM usually has a couple of add ons though. A link to a comprehensive database of customers which records all interactions with them via email, telephone, snail mail etc so that marketing can look for purchase preferences to send them junk mail and customer services can make sure customers are happy rather than annoyed.
The other thing is usually a workflow add on (many ticket systems already have this) so that you can take a customer request through various business processes, be that a sale, a problem resolution, whatever. It makes sure that they eventually get through to the end without dropping through the cracks.
There's various other features depending on the vendor but you can pretty much roll your own CRM system using some of the open source ticket management systems, they just need a little tweaking.
A couple of points.
1: If you spend less on cheaper goods, you have more to spend on other things, like family, friends, education, charities, whatever.
2: Things tend to get better, not just cheaper. I can call my girlfriend pretty much any time, anywhere in the world and instantly get hold of her on a mobile phone, I can see my niece on a video phone because I choose to pay for the things which matter to me, not to you.
You never know. Enforcing net neutrality may prevent the development of a ubiquitous high bandwidth wireless Internet which can compete with the land lines for performance and cost. When you institute a law like this you are essentially trying to hold development static at the current state of affairs.
Take for example the massive subsidies that rail gets in the UK, this certainly holds the cost down to about half of the real cost for the small minority who use it, but it also makes it extremely difficult for alternative transportation systems which are potentially superior to compete, even to get venture capital.
In short, just because you (or a politician) don't know the solution to a problem doesn't mean that someone else hasn't already found a solution and is just dying to put it into practice for you.
That's why it's good to research strange things in Civilisation.
These machines are substantially below the market value, in particular the built in mesh networking is interesting. What's going to happen is that they will be diverted in large numbers to places like ebay. What would you do if you were handed something worth a year's salary? To stop that they'll have to release the units generally to the public, hell it's even a good idea, the increased production would reduce the cost per unit significantly and will subsidise the educational version. "The first units will be closer to 100 Euros than 100 dollars," admits Bletsas. Of course the dollar has dropped in value by 40% over the period the OLPC has been in creation, so perhaps it isn't the best standard to compare the price against.
Yachts use solar and wind power to charge their batteries, it's a combination which works. Take a look at vertical axis wind turbines as well as photovoltaics. They can be cheap and run at low wind speeds.
"You can't cheat an honest man; never give a sucker an even break, or smarten up a chump." - W.C. Fields.
Really, there's a remarkable number of sheeple out there.
Expected to increase in value more than tenfold over the next 10-15 years. They've just joined the EU you see.
So, even accounting for some inflation by the current owners, anyone who can afford to buy this place is almost certain to make a bundle.
It's more to do with cost per kiloWatt. While it may be more efficient to put in photovoltaic cells or a ground source heat pump for space heating, it may not be cheaper.
e.g.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0ca841d4-c3c7-11da-bc52-0
I reckon you're basically on the right track, but it's very unlikely to result in armageddon. What'll happen instead is that china, japan, opec etc will get tired of losing money on their dollar reserves and will diversify (are already diversifying) and start selling the US bonds, the dollar will fall further, interest rates will rise further.
It will however balance out. China, Japan and OPEC can't simply dump 2-3 trillion dollars worth of bonds, they would be insane to do so. Instead they'll simply make Americans pay their debt. The US is just going to be saddled with high interest rates and high inflation for a while. At the end the dollar probably isn't going to be such a favoured reserve currency and Americans will have to work that little bit harder, just the same as the rest of the world.
They do currently have another option. Stop printing money and start running a surplus budget.
Oh Btw, the big problem isn't Iraq, that's just causing a gradual slide, it's the retirement of the baby boomers, we should start to see the effects fairly soon.
Something central to human psychology. The more we have of something, the more we use. It's why supply and demand works, why scarce things are valuable.
It gets better.
An electric vehicle has almost no moving parts. There's the bearings, the motor, brakes and that's about it. There are no valves, no cams, no crank, no pistons, no piston rings, no spark plugs, no distributor, no air filters, no oil, etc etc to service every 10,000 miles. They don't even really need a gearbox. Basically it should just run and run and run as long as the battery lasts, and the Altair Nano lithium titanate battery is rated for thousands of charges, ~25 years.
So you have bugger all power costs, you have bugger all servicing costs. The cost per mile basically comes down to the power plus capital cost over the lifetime of the vehicle, and there's no reason it shouldn't do a million miles with the occasional replaced tyre, brakepad, windscreen wiper and maybe a bearing every 100,000 miles.
Not any more they don't. 25 year life, thousands of charges with little or no degradation, 10 mins per charge. 250 miles per charge.
Look up the altairnano nanosafe.
I mean, come on. Get a life.
Power stations are only 35-40% efficient. The 60% waste, is heat. Ideally we'd be selling the heat to customers but till then, it's waste.
Generate electricity for these:
http://www.phoenixmotorcars.com/
or these:
http://www.teslamotors.com/
And everything else. Then you don't have to bugger about expending energy processing it the stuff into biofuels.
The original experiment showed that the vast majority of people will kill others if they are told to do so by someone in authority.
Smile did/do it.