We've done a cut over where the old and new systems co-existed for a period of time (like 1 month) with the "no new cases" rule for the old system. Anything that wasn't closed in that window were required to be manually entered by the assigned rep in the new system (incentive for closing them).
As, I believe, did the original poster (at a minimum, he's got a project that he is considering making open source)......and turning a FOSS project into a future job matched the suggestion above....
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I'll take your discount, and when I want control back, I'll simply install a Faraday Cage around my thermostat.....the article describes it as an FM signal......last time I checked, those were pretty easy to block. If they were to do something where the signal travelled the wire, then obviously it wouldn't work, but I can block your wireless signal.
I'm sure there are enough old hard drives floating around places that accept used computer equipment (Goodwill, Tech museums, collectors) that we should be able to do a quick survey.....provided someone can find a working RLL controller.
Ahh, but ask Kenneth Lay what his job prospects are now that Enron has gone bust? Generic Low Level Programmer dude? He's had a job at a similar salary (his previous salary, obviously) for quite a while now.......
Not having read up on it, but can someone tell me why we aren't pushing for an upgrade to Bluetooth and instead are researching W-USB or UWB? I used to describe Bluetooth to people (back when only geeks knew what it was) as "wireless" USB......it was designed for device to device communication for short distances, the same purpose as USB. Is it just a matter or marketing and licensing or is there some other reason why we need a new standard and all that it entails (security protocols, handshaking, new cards/dongles/etc)? I see the transfer speeds of the two mentioned above, is there a technical limit with the way Bluetooth was designed (frequency or something) that puts a cap on the speed? With the existing adoption rate of Bluetooth, I would expect that you would want to leverage that instead of creating some new standard that may or may not get adopted (whether you are Sony creating UWB or some other group creating W-USB).
And my point was that those of us familiar w/ Sci-Fi are also familiar w/ Alpha Quadrant.....and Alpha Quadrant was already applied in the current context.....East/West is a new application of existing terms instead of an existing application of existing terms.
Ummm Sci-Fi fans have been dealing with Alpha - Delta quadrants for a while......and I would bet whoever named them North/South/East/West was a Sci-Fi fan and would have understood those terms.
One of the nice things about working in the database and getting those crap "data conversion" tasks is that most of the time they run for hours.......I'm "testing" my conversion, time to read the Internet.....I'll check it tomorrow, fix the bugs I notice and repeat the cycle.:D
So, can you use this knowledge to make perpetual motion machine? From what I remember of my chemistry (granted, I only got a C and it was quite a few years ago), but chemical reactions give off heat.....and heat can be used to generate power.
Maybe after they got this fine they said "screw this" and finished making the switch.....that article doesn't have a date on it, so I can't tell when they made the switch.
America is caught in a catch-22 at this point. I don't think it will get to the point where a car is not a necessity until teleportation is invented.
* Americans don't want to spend tax dollars on public transportation because it doesn't go where they need it. (see next point) * Public transportation doesn't serve areas where noone uses it. (see previous point)
* America is spacious. We build out and not up. Consider this, India is near the size of Texas but has the population on the scale of the entire United States.
In the areas there building has gone up instead of out, they take better advantage of public transportation. The density is such that it justifies the expense. Go to a place like LA or Houston (large, sprawling cities), and it takes forever (plus about 8 transfers) to go from one side to the other on public transportation.......
I didn't justify the purchase simply due to the gas price; I indicated I needed the space for transporting things (people to be exact....me, daughter, daughters' friends (3 to 5 depending on the day) because no bus service was available.
Mentioning the skyrocketing gas price justified the reduction in value of a $40k vehicle to less than I owe (not even counting the immediate depreciation after leaving the lot). I can't sell the vehicle without taking a sizeable loss, more than the cost of the Tata. It would be cheaper for me to buy one of these cars and garage my Armada than it would be to trade in my Armada (at a loss) and buy something more appropriate to my current needs.
@ $3/gal (the approximate price of gas where I live), it would only take around 14,300 miles to justify the cost savings. That's not too bad of a rate of return.....not to mention the savings in maintenance on an SUV (tires alone is the difference between like $100 for four vs $100 per tire -- and the SUV tires rarely even get a milage rating because they expect them to wear out fast).
I'd love to get one of those....however, $13,500+ vs $2,500 means that the Tata is a lot closer to affordable.....
I'm all for green if it's convenient or financially reasonable, but it would take a lot of 10 mile trips to justify the $10k price difference.....and by then, I'll be ready to but Tata #2.
Assume the person is a salesman for Really Cool Paper Tools Inc. They need to visit every Dunder Mifflin branch office to woo them to purchse a new Widget. To make the sales call personal, it won't be done over the phone, but actually in person.
As a SALESMAN, you TRAVEL across the region making sales calls. Thus, this is a TRAVELLING SALESMAN problem. I had an uncle who used to make sales calls to restaurants in the Daytona Beach area.....a little more local, but the same principle.....he travelled the city making sales calls.
And the problem does not deal with DISTANCES but with WEIGHTS. The weight is any computation you deem appropriate.....amount of wind encountered, cost of flights between cities, time, distance, number of blue houses passed, whatever....and you can have a goal of maximizing or minimizing that weighting.
yet there are humans that do this processing every day. How? The human mind is still one of the best computers available.....especially for pattern recognition and learning.
Those guys have had time to refine their routes based on previous instances (John Customer is a neighbor to Sally Secretary who used the service just last week). They can also look at things at the microscopic and macroscopic levels and include multiple inputs (time of day, traffic patterns, importance, time, distance, etc.) quite easily where a computer only knows what it knows. And in your specific instance, are you sure it was the perfect OPTIMAL route or just the perfect really close to OPTIMAL route (or locally optimal with the inefficiencies being absorbed by travel time).
TSP deals with weighted edges. Edge weights can be determined by any means appropriate for your problem. For example, the travelling UPS driver would be looking at shortest time....the travelling consultant would be looking for shortest flight durations.....the travelling small business owner would be looking for cheapest flights......the travelling grandma with her turn signal on would be looking for the highest annoyance factor. Just devise a formula that computes a value that represents the goal. Distance is the easiest for most people to understand when talking about geography, so it is normally used in the definition of the problem.....but weight could just as easily be "distance * time / traffic factor + dollars * 6.79" if that's what makes sense for your specific problem.
Probably not what was being asked exactly, but here's someone working on TSP and using Google Maps (in their final results display): http://bob.myisland.as/tsp/
Num Lock still has some use......I like to play some games with the square pattern (7 and 9 become strafe left/right, 5 becomes some secondary important function like reset camera, etc.), some "compact" keyboard (laptops) share keys and need it, I'm sure there are others.
While I don't normally use "write over" mode, I could see where it could be useful in a command prompt/terminal window where you've recalled a previous command and are just changing switches.....but I normally just delete and insert, not much more effort and I don't get in the wrong mode for every other window.
I use the Windows key a lot and wish that it was supported in Linux (no matter how "wrong" that would feel). Window+E, explorer. Window+M, minimize. Window+F, Find (files, networks, people, etc.). Window+D, show desktop. As a Linux user, I would assume you would appreciate the shortcut keys.
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We've done a cut over where the old and new systems co-existed for a period of time (like 1 month) with the "no new cases" rule for the old system. Anything that wasn't closed in that window were required to be manually entered by the assigned rep in the new system (incentive for closing them).
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As, I believe, did the original poster (at a minimum, he's got a project that he is considering making open source)......and turning a FOSS project into a future job matched the suggestion above....
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"Blayme" my mom.
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Two words: Faraday Cage.
I'll take your discount, and when I want control back, I'll simply install a Faraday Cage around my thermostat.....the article describes it as an FM signal......last time I checked, those were pretty easy to block. If they were to do something where the signal travelled the wire, then obviously it wouldn't work, but I can block your wireless signal.
Layne
I'm sure there are enough old hard drives floating around places that accept used computer equipment (Goodwill, Tech museums, collectors) that we should be able to do a quick survey.....provided someone can find a working RLL controller.
Layne
Ahh, but ask Kenneth Lay what his job prospects are now that Enron has gone bust? Generic Low Level Programmer dude? He's had a job at a similar salary (his previous salary, obviously) for quite a while now.......
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I believe it worked for a certain Mr. Torvalds.......
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Not having read up on it, but can someone tell me why we aren't pushing for an upgrade to Bluetooth and instead are researching W-USB or UWB? I used to describe Bluetooth to people (back when only geeks knew what it was) as "wireless" USB......it was designed for device to device communication for short distances, the same purpose as USB. Is it just a matter or marketing and licensing or is there some other reason why we need a new standard and all that it entails (security protocols, handshaking, new cards/dongles/etc)? I see the transfer speeds of the two mentioned above, is there a technical limit with the way Bluetooth was designed (frequency or something) that puts a cap on the speed? With the existing adoption rate of Bluetooth, I would expect that you would want to leverage that instead of creating some new standard that may or may not get adopted (whether you are Sony creating UWB or some other group creating W-USB).
Layne
And my point was that those of us familiar w/ Sci-Fi are also familiar w/ Alpha Quadrant.....and Alpha Quadrant was already applied in the current context.....East/West is a new application of existing terms instead of an existing application of existing terms.
Layne
Ummm Sci-Fi fans have been dealing with Alpha - Delta quadrants for a while......and I would bet whoever named them North/South/East/West was a Sci-Fi fan and would have understood those terms.
Layne
It's all of those CFC's causing Galactic Warming.....legislate now! Save the galaxy!
Layne
Obviously, that's why we're outsourcing our programming jobs to Moscow.......
Layne
One of the nice things about working in the database and getting those crap "data conversion" tasks is that most of the time they run for hours.......I'm "testing" my conversion, time to read the Internet.....I'll check it tomorrow, fix the bugs I notice and repeat the cycle. :D
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So, can you use this knowledge to make perpetual motion machine? From what I remember of my chemistry (granted, I only got a C and it was quite a few years ago), but chemical reactions give off heat.....and heat can be used to generate power.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_motion
Layne
Maybe after they got this fine they said "screw this" and finished making the switch.....that article doesn't have a date on it, so I can't tell when they made the switch.
Layne
America is caught in a catch-22 at this point. I don't think it will get to the point where a car is not a necessity until teleportation is invented.
* Americans don't want to spend tax dollars on public transportation because it doesn't go where they need it. (see next point)
* Public transportation doesn't serve areas where noone uses it. (see previous point)
* America is spacious. We build out and not up. Consider this, India is near the size of Texas but has the population on the scale of the entire United States.
In the areas there building has gone up instead of out, they take better advantage of public transportation. The density is such that it justifies the expense. Go to a place like LA or Houston (large, sprawling cities), and it takes forever (plus about 8 transfers) to go from one side to the other on public transportation.......
Layne
I didn't justify the purchase simply due to the gas price; I indicated I needed the space for transporting things (people to be exact....me, daughter, daughters' friends (3 to 5 depending on the day) because no bus service was available.
Mentioning the skyrocketing gas price justified the reduction in value of a $40k vehicle to less than I owe (not even counting the immediate depreciation after leaving the lot). I can't sell the vehicle without taking a sizeable loss, more than the cost of the Tata. It would be cheaper for me to buy one of these cars and garage my Armada than it would be to trade in my Armada (at a loss) and buy something more appropriate to my current needs.
@ $3/gal (the approximate price of gas where I live), it would only take around 14,300 miles to justify the cost savings. That's not too bad of a rate of return.....not to mention the savings in maintenance on an SUV (tires alone is the difference between like $100 for four vs $100 per tire -- and the SUV tires rarely even get a milage rating because they expect them to wear out fast).
Layne
I'd love to get one of those....however, $13,500+ vs $2,500 means that the Tata is a lot closer to affordable.....
I'm all for green if it's convenient or financially reasonable, but it would take a lot of 10 mile trips to justify the $10k price difference.....and by then, I'll be ready to but Tata #2.
Layne
Assume the person is a salesman for Really Cool Paper Tools Inc. They need to visit every Dunder Mifflin branch office to woo them to purchse a new Widget. To make the sales call personal, it won't be done over the phone, but actually in person.
As a SALESMAN, you TRAVEL across the region making sales calls. Thus, this is a TRAVELLING SALESMAN problem. I had an uncle who used to make sales calls to restaurants in the Daytona Beach area.....a little more local, but the same principle.....he travelled the city making sales calls.
And the problem does not deal with DISTANCES but with WEIGHTS. The weight is any computation you deem appropriate.....amount of wind encountered, cost of flights between cities, time, distance, number of blue houses passed, whatever....and you can have a goal of maximizing or minimizing that weighting.
Layne
Those guys have had time to refine their routes based on previous instances (John Customer is a neighbor to Sally Secretary who used the service just last week). They can also look at things at the microscopic and macroscopic levels and include multiple inputs (time of day, traffic patterns, importance, time, distance, etc.) quite easily where a computer only knows what it knows. And in your specific instance, are you sure it was the perfect OPTIMAL route or just the perfect really close to OPTIMAL route (or locally optimal with the inefficiencies being absorbed by travel time).
Layne
TSP deals with weighted edges. Edge weights can be determined by any means appropriate for your problem. For example, the travelling UPS driver would be looking at shortest time....the travelling consultant would be looking for shortest flight durations.....the travelling small business owner would be looking for cheapest flights......the travelling grandma with her turn signal on would be looking for the highest annoyance factor. Just devise a formula that computes a value that represents the goal. Distance is the easiest for most people to understand when talking about geography, so it is normally used in the definition of the problem.....but weight could just as easily be "distance * time / traffic factor + dollars * 6.79" if that's what makes sense for your specific problem.
Layne
Probably not what was being asked exactly, but here's someone working on TSP and using Google Maps (in their final results display): http://bob.myisland.as/tsp/
Layne
Num Lock still has some use......I like to play some games with the square pattern (7 and 9 become strafe left/right, 5 becomes some secondary important function like reset camera, etc.), some "compact" keyboard (laptops) share keys and need it, I'm sure there are others.
While I don't normally use "write over" mode, I could see where it could be useful in a command prompt/terminal window where you've recalled a previous command and are just changing switches.....but I normally just delete and insert, not much more effort and I don't get in the wrong mode for every other window.
I use the Windows key a lot and wish that it was supported in Linux (no matter how "wrong" that would feel). Window+E, explorer. Window+M, minimize. Window+F, Find (files, networks, people, etc.). Window+D, show desktop. As a Linux user, I would assume you would appreciate the shortcut keys.
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