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Too Clever by Half

9 September, 2010 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

Most lifts have the buttons inside, the ones that tell the lift which floor you want to go to. Yesterday I used a bank of lifts that had the buttons on the outside.  You choose your floor before the lift arrives, this gives the computer extra time to figure out the most efficient way to […]

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