I feel a great disturbance in the force. :(

I wonder if those bees just sniff their way into an optimal solution. A bee gathering pollen will probably lose some in flight. Even more so when 'fully loaded'. Those lost pollen would fan out in time. That would mean that from a certain point/ flower, a bee could find the direction of the best path to take by sniffing the direction where the most pollen come from. Doesn't take much computing power. So I guess my question would be: is the hypotheses tested with different weather conditions? Especially wind direction and force.

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You can create the greatest or cheapest control room and it will fail unless you known the process. The company, it's culture and it's people are not going to change (much) just by you building a control room.

How are they handling crisis now?

• Lot's of people discussing with each other? => big screens / whiteboards on the wall. open sight-lines from workspace to those walls.
• The problem quickly gets broken down in lots of (parallel) bits which needs specialistic knowledge to solve? => fairly Isolated 4-screen work-places.

What's the impact of a failure?

• very public, broad impact => communication is essential => war/press-room with overviews and managers
• Few large accounts => use your space / dollars for something else.

It's not about chairs and monitors: it's about how a company is most effective. Using big bucks to create a control room is just a waste of money if you do not know how it is going to be used.

Don't talk to us:talk to the people how are actually doing the crisis-handling at this very moment.

Maybe you confuse Free and Opens Source?

There have been, and are, many java open source projects. I was wondering why they are not part of this site. Especially SUN has been a real advocate for open-source in the past.

ps. C# isn't exactly 'Free' I guess.

No Java requested at all? I've always seen it as the base language for open source.

I, for one, wish to speak a word of thanks. This was a step of courage.
If only half of the people working on a non-solution, on which they own their daily bread, where so courageous.

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Or they get too much email already and need you to communicate more efficiently. It might be a hint? In communications always ask yourself this question. 160.|