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> Does any other country in the world have a plane
> to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tri-
> Star, or the Douglas DC10? If so, why don't they
> fly them? Why do all the International
> lines except Russia fly American Planes?
Nothing wrong with chearing a hurt neighbor, but the facts are way wrong.
Hasn't he ever heard of Airbus, the European aerospace consortium? Don't they make some mighty fine planes, like the A330, which is equivalent to, if not superior to, the Boeing 747? Even Air Canada buys from Airbus. Airbus is owned by EADS, which is a partner in the ISS and makes some extremely advanced fighter aircraft.
> You talk about American technocracy, and you
> find men on the moon - not once, but several
> times and safely home again.
And a great achievement, one to be remembered till the end of human history. No denying that America was and is a great country. But belittling the achievements of others and mis-stating facts to further arguments will get you nowhere, and will even increase the scorn that many people feel torwards America.
- Both the AA and UA planes that hit the WTC came from Boston Logan and bound for LA
- 56 and 81 passengers per plane
- AA's family response number is 1-800-245-0999, UA's number is 1-800-932-8555
- The pilot and crew of one of the planes were from the Boston area
- Both planes stayed overnight in Logan airport the night before
- Families of passengers can go to the Hyatt where an emergency center is being set up
- CTO and co-founder of Akamai on one plane
- Donate blood at Beth Israel, or 25 Stuart St, or other centers. Appointments not needed, but expect long lines. Don't hesitate to give tomorrow or later this week.
- Cellular 911 seeing major congestion problems, PLEASE DON'T USE CELLULAR 911 UNLESS ABOSOLUTELY NECCESARY
- Logan Airport was surprised about the incident - claims to have known anything only after crash
- Tall buildings evacuated, including Hancock and Prudential
- Federal employees sent home
- Most non-critical city employees sent home
- Many colleges closing
- Most schools, including after-school programs, not closed
- T rides for free, extra capacity hauled out to accomidate people going home
- Northeast Amtrack shut down, including Boston-DC
- 9th district primary elections going on as scheduled
- MIT not cancelling classes, but attendance is optional, cars not allowed to enter inside campus, vigil at 5pm in front of Student Center
- No major police presense or activities (yet)
- Otherwise a nice day, sunny and a good wind. Perfect day for sailing if I weren't feeling so bad. People crying and running around the corridors. Quiet everywhere. Please don't rush to conclusions and bomb anybody until somebody takes claim and it can be substantiated. Note that Taliban, Hamas, DFLP, Jihad, and Arafat have explicitely denied involvement.
I'm going to the Sloan School of Management at MIT this fall, after 4 years in management consulting at BCG and a couple of years in school doing systems administration, programming, and web development. For perspective, Sloan-MIT is a top 5 ranked school (or something like that), and BCG is a top-ranked consulting firm. Some thoughts on your pending decision, from a guy who has thought it through and is acting on it.
What are your career goals?
I frankly didn't think that programming and working as a cog in a technical position would be very challenging. Sure I would be pushing the edge of technology, but I wouldn't have the chance to make decisions about the direction of my organization/business, and certainly nobody would listen to me on issues outside of IT. That's why I got into consulting. My reasons for going to business school are much different.
What your career prospects will be:
Approximately 80% of MBA students change employers after graduation. This reflects another aspect of business-school, the proximity to new ideas. Certainly going to MIT will allow me to help nurture new technologies into potentially successful new businesses, and help me build some great connections. Youre choice of school should depend on what type of options you'd like to open.
Upwards of 60% of all graduates go into consulting or investment banking. These two careers certainly offer the most money (at least 100K for most firms), but also offer an exciting diversity of work. Most consulting firms will give you exposure to a variety of challenges and industries for a couple of years before you're pressured to specialize. The issues you face in i-banking are a bit more specialized and high-stress, and the MBA helps to reduce the risk that you'll screw up in a major way.
What you'll get out of the experience:
What you'll get will be 2 years of working with the largest concentration of the smartest and most passionate people you've ever met. The people at my company are pretty cool, not especially techies, but very smart in there respective diverse fields. My future classmates (met several already) are simply that, and in addition are actively thinking about starting new businesses and making an impact on society. You've really got to check whether the student culture to the school that you're going to matches what you're expecting. Some other poster mentioned this, but it deserves repeating: you'll thrive in b-school if you're proactive, have a natural tendancy to lead or organize, can lead with your heart, and can think through diverse problems well. It/really/ helps to have as much work experience, especially in management, and possible. You will not enjoy your time if you're in it for the salary bump or you simply want fast track access to to middle management.
You will probably never touch production code ever again if you graduate from business school. If you're fine with this, and want to tackle some other challenges, then great. If you want to continue coding, then I'd just concentrate on improving my coding skills. On the other hand, your chances of leading a business project that requires IT, which in turn needs responsible project managers to lead a team that can deliver quality code, in time and on budget will be much increased.
Lots of dilbert-wannabe's on this topic are moaning that an MBA will turn you into a PHB. This is simply bull, and unfortunately, probably comes from never having worked with a good manager. An MBA represents 2 years of education, project work, internships, and working in teams in high-stress but low-risk situations. It prepares you to be a good manager, and tries to nuture good leadership. You can be a jacka$$ PHB regardless of the degree, but the chances that you'll survive b-school to begin with are much reduced. It really depends on you, and how much you want to lead rather than follow. All my opinion of course...
Sony Pictures Entertainment is the movie subsidiary of Sony. Sony Music is the music subsidiary of Sony. Sony Pictures has nothing whatsoever to do with Sony Music. Sony Music sells soundtracks from movies done by other movie houses, while Sony Pictures' movies very often uses music by artists from other record companies. The two are totally independant companies, linked only in that they take orders from the Sony CEO.
Therefore, why is Heckler giving his opinion about Napster and music distrubution? These are issues affecting Sony Music, not Sony Pictures. His interview is really strange. He's spouting off about stuff his bosses won't give a damn about.
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> Does any other country in the world have a plane
> to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tri-
> Star, or the Douglas DC10? If so, why don't they
> fly them? Why do all the International
> lines except Russia fly American Planes?
Nothing wrong with chearing a hurt neighbor, but the facts are way wrong.
Hasn't he ever heard of Airbus, the European aerospace consortium? Don't they make some mighty fine planes, like the A330, which is equivalent to, if not superior to, the Boeing 747? Even Air Canada buys from Airbus. Airbus is owned by EADS, which is a partner in the ISS and makes some extremely advanced fighter aircraft.
> You talk about American technocracy, and you
> find men on the moon - not once, but several
> times and safely home again.
And a great achievement, one to be remembered till the end of human history. No denying that America was and is a great country. But belittling the achievements of others and mis-stating facts to further arguments will get you nowhere, and will even increase the scorn that many people feel torwards America.
Patiwat Panurach
patiwat@-nospam-.mit.edu
Cambridge/Boston Update
- Both the AA and UA planes that hit the WTC came from Boston Logan and bound for LA
- 56 and 81 passengers per plane
- AA's family response number is 1-800-245-0999, UA's number is 1-800-932-8555
- The pilot and crew of one of the planes were from the Boston area
- Both planes stayed overnight in Logan airport the night before
- Families of passengers can go to the Hyatt where an emergency center is being set up
- CTO and co-founder of Akamai on one plane
- Donate blood at Beth Israel, or 25 Stuart St, or other centers. Appointments not needed, but expect long lines. Don't hesitate to give tomorrow or later this week.
- Cellular 911 seeing major congestion problems, PLEASE DON'T USE CELLULAR 911 UNLESS ABOSOLUTELY NECCESARY
- Logan Airport was surprised about the incident - claims to have known anything only after crash
- Tall buildings evacuated, including Hancock and Prudential
- Federal employees sent home
- Most non-critical city employees sent home
- Many colleges closing
- Most schools, including after-school programs, not closed
- T rides for free, extra capacity hauled out to accomidate people going home
- Northeast Amtrack shut down, including Boston-DC
- 9th district primary elections going on as scheduled
- MIT not cancelling classes, but attendance is optional, cars not allowed to enter inside campus, vigil at 5pm in front of Student Center
- No major police presense or activities (yet)
- Otherwise a nice day, sunny and a good wind. Perfect day for sailing if I weren't feeling so bad. People crying and running around the corridors. Quiet everywhere. Please don't rush to conclusions and bomb anybody until somebody takes claim and it can be substantiated. Note that Taliban, Hamas, DFLP, Jihad, and Arafat have explicitely denied involvement.
patiwat@NOSPAM.mit.edu
What are your career goals?
I frankly didn't think that programming and working as a cog in a technical position would be very challenging. Sure I would be pushing the edge of technology, but I wouldn't have the chance to make decisions about the direction of my organization/business, and certainly nobody would listen to me on issues outside of IT. That's why I got into consulting. My reasons for going to business school are much different.
What your career prospects will be: Approximately 80% of MBA students change employers after graduation. This reflects another aspect of business-school, the proximity to new ideas. Certainly going to MIT will allow me to help nurture new technologies into potentially successful new businesses, and help me build some great connections. Youre choice of school should depend on what type of options you'd like to open.
Upwards of 60% of all graduates go into consulting or investment banking. These two careers certainly offer the most money (at least 100K for most firms), but also offer an exciting diversity of work. Most consulting firms will give you exposure to a variety of challenges and industries for a couple of years before you're pressured to specialize. The issues you face in i-banking are a bit more specialized and high-stress, and the MBA helps to reduce the risk that you'll screw up in a major way.
What you'll get out of the experience: What you'll get will be 2 years of working with the largest concentration of the smartest and most passionate people you've ever met. The people at my company are pretty cool, not especially techies, but very smart in there respective diverse fields. My future classmates (met several already) are simply that, and in addition are actively thinking about starting new businesses and making an impact on society. You've really got to check whether the student culture to the school that you're going to matches what you're expecting. Some other poster mentioned this, but it deserves repeating: you'll thrive in b-school if you're proactive, have a natural tendancy to lead or organize, can lead with your heart, and can think through diverse problems well. It /really/ helps to have as much work experience, especially in management, and possible. You will not enjoy your time if you're in it for the salary bump or you simply want fast track access to to middle management.
You will probably never touch production code ever again if you graduate from business school. If you're fine with this, and want to tackle some other challenges, then great. If you want to continue coding, then I'd just concentrate on improving my coding skills. On the other hand, your chances of leading a business project that requires IT, which in turn needs responsible project managers to lead a team that can deliver quality code, in time and on budget will be much increased.
Lots of dilbert-wannabe's on this topic are moaning that an MBA will turn you into a PHB. This is simply bull, and unfortunately, probably comes from never having worked with a good manager. An MBA represents 2 years of education, project work, internships, and working in teams in high-stress but low-risk situations. It prepares you to be a good manager, and tries to nuture good leadership. You can be a jacka$$ PHB regardless of the degree, but the chances that you'll survive b-school to begin with are much reduced. It really depends on you, and how much you want to lead rather than follow. All my opinion of course...
- panurach.patiwat@bcg.com
Sony Pictures Entertainment is the movie subsidiary of Sony. Sony Music is the music subsidiary of Sony. Sony Pictures has nothing whatsoever to do with Sony Music. Sony Music sells soundtracks from movies done by other movie houses, while Sony Pictures' movies very often uses music by artists from other record companies. The two are totally independant companies, linked only in that they take orders from the Sony CEO.
Therefore, why is Heckler giving his opinion about Napster and music distrubution? These are issues affecting Sony Music, not Sony Pictures. His interview is really strange. He's spouting off about stuff his bosses won't give a damn about.