| Author | Message | ||
| Dave Wapinski (Davewapinski)
Member Username: Davewapinski Post Number: 644 Registered: 8-2001 |
Currently not in the market for another one, but will consider it in the future. Can you email me or post photos of the interior of yours? Especially showing how easy it would be to do minor work on a Ferrari in it. Also living areas. What is high cruise speed? Have a great one! | ||
| Chris Parr (Cmparrf40)
Member Username: Cmparrf40 Post Number: 787 Registered: 3-2002 |
Dave, I had this one made for me... Tim Gendreau on this forum has (had?) a company that makes these. They run about $175,000 to $300,000 depending on how elaborate you want it. The major advantage is that they are fast and very reliable. | ||
| Dave Wapinski (Davewapinski)
Member Username: Davewapinski Post Number: 643 Registered: 8-2001 |
Nothing made by men/women is perfect. However, artists and others throughout the centuries had done great things with imperfect tools. How word search works is the software optical character recognizies every character. If unsure, it shows the group to an operator and says what it thinks it is. It can also compare to dictionaries and nearby words. Then it strips out common works like "the", "and", etc. It makes an indexed database out of the remaining words. Then one can search for any word or group of words even if it is 100,000,000 + documents. If one enters a Spanish word and the documents are in English, the software translates into English and then searches. Have an auto engineering drawing done in Detroit and needs to be reviewed world wide. In France, it is viewed in French, in Italy, Italian, in Japan, Japaneese, etc. Having documents being done worldwide. The parts are automatically translated as it goes around the world. Also a manager can see the status of each part to see delays before it delays the project. Also revisions are kept in case one wants to go back. Comments can be kept with revisions as documents go through departments. Value of information resources can be increased. When the Bellagio Casino first opened, they used FileNET to hire something like 6,000 employees in something like 60 calander days. This was from first advertising to all paperwork to employee briefings. It could not have been done without the technology. It does not come cheap. Typical Documentum software installation runs about $1,500,000 to $5,000,000. I believe the language translation runs about $250,000. I believe Ford paid about $5,000,000 for their package. Generally tell me what information you want to capture and I can come up with a way to do it. If you tell me your business goals, I can come up with a way to achieve them better, faster, and cheaper than your competitors. Of course, ethics is a constant consideration. | ||
| Dave Wapinski (Davewapinski)
Member Username: Davewapinski Post Number: 642 Registered: 8-2001 |
Chris, Am not currently in the market for another one, but that one looks interesting. Who makes it? Who knows what might happen in the future. Thanks, DAve | ||
| luciano favero (Ontogenetic1007)
Junior Member Username: Ontogenetic1007 Post Number: 63 Registered: 11-2002 |
>Also can be used for putting on a secure online system every piece of paperwork for >10,000,000 insurance policies going back 50 years. These can be also be word searched. I suspect you mean natural language / context queries? KM is an interesting field however flawed, as artificial intelligence. The principal input to the human brain is pictures and the principal output is words. Thus one may describe the human brain as a device for converting pictures to words. Aristotle has said that all human knowledge can be expressed in the form a = b. Nouns and verbs are separated from static image nouns. Separated in the retina they are reunited in speech. Nearly all human thought is pattern recognition. there are four types. 1 dimensional - music 2 dimensional - fine art 3 dimensional - human anatomy 4 dimensional - physiology One general theory of pattern recognition is feasible - the sieve of Eratosthenes. Two aren't plausible. When humans think seriously they think abstractly. They conjure up simplified pictures of reality called concepts theories. models. paradigms. from godard's alphaville: In quest of knowledge... ...I watched night create day... ...while we seemed unchanged O beloved of all, beloved of one alone... ...your mouth silently promised to be happy Away, away, says hate; never, never, says love A caress leads us from our childhood Increasingly I see the human form... ...as a lover�s dialogue The heart has but one mouth Everything ordered by chance All words without aforethought Sentiments adrift Men roam the city A glance, a word Because I love you Everything moves To live, only advance! Aim straight for those you love I went towards you, endlessly towards the light If you smile, it is to enfold me all the better The rays of your arms pierce the mist | ||
| Dave Wapinski (Davewapinski)
Member Username: Davewapinski Post Number: 641 Registered: 8-2001 |
These can also be used for web site and software development. Also can be used for putting on a secure online system every piece of paperwork for 10,000,000 insurance policies going back 50 years. These can be also be word searched. | ||
| Dave Wapinski (Davewapinski)
Member Username: Davewapinski Post Number: 640 Registered: 8-2001 |
Pete, I would think there are many fields that require a person to be at a customer�s site for 7 months or longer. In order to save my time and be more efficient, in 1991 I became interested in a new field called Knowledge and Document Management. Over years of hard work I became one of the world�s best in this field. It is an interesting field with many facets. For example, one Fortune 500 Company has its technicians carry digital tape recorders. The technicians do not have time to fill out reports. They explain what they found and what they did to correct it into the recorder. It is automatically entered word for word into a database where it can be word searched by any of their technicians worldwide. If you gamble, your habits are probably being tracked by one of the two major knowledge/document management programs: Documentum or FileNET. This is a small New Drug Application (NDA):  It is only about 15,000 pages long. A big one is over 1,000,000 pages. The FDA now accepts NDAs in eCTD (electronic Common Technical Document). They have to be done on certified secure computer systems (the FDA gets upset if the records of 5,000 deaths are deleted). In order to accelerate approval, there are very exact standards for eCTDs. It can cut the approval time for new drugs down from about 2-3 years to 1 year. If a drug brings in $600,000,000 a year in profits, this is significant. Also it gives a jump over competitors. Business rules can be incorporated into knowledge workflows. For example accounting might be connected to sales so that a customer who is 120 days behind is not shipped more product until the account is paid. A new accounting employee might be automatically given certain access, but not be allowed to see what the CEO is making. A knowledge workflow might be set up to make sure the state application for a new insurance policy is complete and track the approval status. A claims workflow might be developed so that claims are paid faster and customer satisfaction is increased. South Africa is setting up a knowledge management and knowledge workflow so that cases are tried much faster and nothing gets lost. One car manufacturer can search every technical drawing it has for a particular word or group of words. The drawings can be automatically translated into any major language. Also searches are also done for the foreign word translations if requested. Information can be sliced and diced anyway someone wants. There is more demand for these skills than there are people who can do it. If you go to monster.com and search for documentum, you will find that there are normally a couple hundred jobs that cannot be filled. Documentum changes $2,000.00 to $2,300.00 a day plus expenses to help corporations do this (and there is a waiting list). This opens up opportunities for my corporation. In the last two years, I have spent between $40,000.00 and $50,000.00 on hotels. Let me find out what I like and dislike about this one, then I will consider the next one. Have a great one, DAve | ||
| Chris Parr (Cmparrf40)
Member Username: Cmparrf40 Post Number: 782 Registered: 3-2002 |
Dave, this is what you need...  Full living quarters, elevator rear door for flat loading, 2 car garage, snap-on tool boxes, 500hp, Eaton-Fuller Autoshift. | ||
| PSk (Psk)
Intermediate Member Username: Psk Post Number: 1087 Registered: 11-2002 |
Dave, May I ask 'What do you do?' that requires you to spend months with a single client and investigate ... sounds interesting, but I can't think of anything that would fit. Pete | ||
| Dave Wapinski (Davewapinski)
Member Username: Davewapinski Post Number: 638 Registered: 8-2001 |
unfortuniately this one does not have a fireplace! | ||
| Mule (Mule)
Junior Member Username: Mule Post Number: 138 Registered: 6-2003 |
Dave, Nice setup. There was a Discovery Channel show on the ultr-luxery motorcoaches that stars have. They showed one that opend up in the rear and a Mini Cooper was inside. The coach was so big, that the bedroom was above the "garage". Looking forward to seeing you Mog motorhome. There is a guy in Anchorage with one, but it looks pretty basic. More of a camping version. | ||
| Dave Wapinski (Davewapinski)
Member Username: Davewapinski Post Number: 637 Registered: 8-2001 |
Sometimes I have to go to client's sites for months on end. To work more efficiently, to carry reference materials, and to explore more easily, I will pick up a motor home on Monday while I am building a custom motor home on a Unimog. To also bring the Ferrari, a 4x4, or a sedan, will pick up a car trailer on Wednesday. Also if the Ferrari breaks down in a remote area, can dispatch the motor home and trailer to pick it up.              |