[windows2000] Re: OT: Programming question
- From: "Rick Fogarty" <rick@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 16:13:26 -0500
Chris,
It's funny that you mention that!!! That's why I got stuck with this in the
first place. When we first heard about the conversion, the powers that be
decided to outsource this. We have 10's of thousands of students (dating
back to the 80's) and we're converting the student transcripts. So, in
management's mind, it would be easier to outsource the project then let
someone here do it. Well, here's the steps they were going to take - print
each transcript only to have them scanned back in at the vendors to
incorporate into a DB. Cost? $150k. Can you believe that?
So, I told them - Hey, I'll do it for a couple of thousand and I'll have it
done in less then a week! Besides the name snafu, everything works
perfectly! I might even get a decent bonus out of it....
Outsourcing? Geez, who needs it!
-----Original Message-----
From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chris Berry
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 3:30 PM
To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [windows2000] Re: OT: Programming question
>From: Rick Fogarty [mailto:rick@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>So you see my dilemma.... It boils down to some type of artificial
>intelligence that I'd have to program.... I thought of scanning for De
>Los blah blah blah. But then I saw names like Mac Intosh, Mc Whorter
>etc...
>
>At least I'm not going crazy, you see the boat that I'm in...
The solution is simple, hire some $6/hr temps to go through the data and put
in some rational delimiters.
Chris Berry
compjma@xxxxxxxxxxx
Systems Administrator
JM Associates
"Ok, so the servers are down, the lights are out, and all I have to work
with is a roll of duct tape, a ball point pen, a lighter, and a twenty year
old copy of emacs. Where's the problem?"
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