Prokofiev; The Montagues and the Capulets springs to mind. He pretty much uses all of the range available. Try this one. Stick it on whatever sound system you have and turn the volume up.
About half way through it gets very quiet, sounds shit on many audio systems, you may not even be able to hear it. It gets crucified on MP3.
I listen to all sorts of music, I love Queen, ACDC, Rainbow, Gorillaz, Mozart, Prokofiev, Scott Joplin, ABBA, Paul Brady, Snoop Dogg etc etc etc etc etc. The music world isn't all Katy Perry.
Just because there's no benefit for ACDC, doesn't mean there's no benefit for Mozart.
You know when you turn on a stereo and you hear a slight hiss and hum? Linn stuff doesn't.
Linn kit does a pretty good job of sounding like it isn't there...
At a ridiculous price of course.
A while back, I saw a comparison between various brands of stereo equipment, including some very high end stuff, and a live performance, and price does matter, you can tell even with the most outrageously expensive, but it's more difficult the more you spend. Seems to be logarithmic, you spend 10x more for a linear improvement.
For the average person like yourself, I'm sure Apple and Sony would do.
You realise that they are knocking houses down because the supply of them is such that they are worth less than the loans which were taken out to build them.
Let me say that again, to emphasise the insanity. They are knocking houses down.
Despite all the poverty and homelessness, despite the trailer parks. Because for capitalism to function, supply must never meet demand. It is only by destroying perfectly good housing that the supply can be reduced, the remaining stock can be made more valuable and people can go back to their wage slavery in order to pay the mortgage.
See QE 1 and QE2 for the reason behind the US bubble economy. The money has to go somewhere once it has hit the banks and they get to buy into lots of shiny toys.
It's worth getting in at the bottom of these things, but watch for the burst.
In my experience over the last few decades, the problem with anything electronic is durability. It's all designed to break or be obsolete within three years and thereby provide revenue for the corporations and banks.
Can you still read 10 year old word documents? What happens when Amazon go out of business? Can you replace the battery when it wears out?
Forget about interplanetary networking, the primary use case for the Bundle protocol is peer to peer networking of mobile phones over WIFI or Bluetooth. Bypassing the telcos, ISPs, governments etc.
If Bundle was already installed on most phones, the Egyptian (and US) governments would be unable to turn off the network.
Tram lines are even more expensive. Think of a really big number. Nope. Double it. Nope. It's still more expensive than that.
1. Buses are stop/start. The top speed is irrelevant because they have to stop every 500 meters. The average speed is about 10mph no matter what the theoretical top speed is.
2. As above. Overhead lines and tram lines are really expensive. Much more expensive than a battery, or ten.
3. Your average city bus run will be lucky if it tops 10 miles.
This is about the only way that either PV solar panels or electric vehicles make any sort of sense economically. Use the solar energy to reduce the cost of the expensive energy; Transport.
Shame the combination has a capital cost for a system comes in somewhere around 70,000 euros. ~30k for an appropriately sized PV installation and ~40k for the vehicle.
You're probably still talking around 10 years for most people. Sans government subsidy.
It's a feature of the supply of credit to the market. You make money by pushing your competitors out of the market and taking their business. Credit is what allows you to do that.
In addition, the fact that you have loans to pay means you are largely required by your creditors to grow.
In 5 years, what will your current work be worth? 50 years? 500? 5000? Our entire civilisation will be gone. 50,000?
Anyone name anything or anyone or from 50,000 years ago? It's a blink of an eye in geological and evolutionary terms, but there is one single thing you can do which can matter over these timescales.
Have children. Procreate. Pass your genes on.
Your genes have an unbroken line of success going back to the primordial slime 4 billion years ago. If you break that line you are just another genetic dead end.
People try to do really dumb stuff (at a national and global level) when they don't understand the maths of what they're going. Drill Drill Drill springs to mind. A little maths goes a long way.
Having said that, getting rid of the hard stuff from school would provide a larger underclass to exploit, which is quite handy from a corporate point of view.
Education, funnily enough isn't just about what's needed.
It's a simple tradgedy of the commons economic problem and it's common to many organisations. The people making the requests are not the ones paying for your time. You're free to them and it's human nature that we consume all of free resources.
It used to be that contacting people and asking them to do something was a pain. Writing letters, filling forms. There was an economic cost to doing so. Today you have email, instant messaging etc and asking other people to do stuff is easy, so you end up with vast amounts of utter crap (requests and information) being generated. Lots and lots of busy work. Put a cost onto your input. When there is a cost to your work, people will choose what they want you to do more carefully.
Things are paid for in money, you have to have money to gain service. No money, no service. However within most organisations, charging between departments is hit or miss, it's a pain to set up and a pain to run. Now, you could set up a pre-payment scheme. Create some internal money (hours of development work for example) and give them to the internal customers. When they run out of hours they don't get any more of your time.
Kanban does this by making "signalling cards" into a kind of internal currency. No card, no service. It depends how you implement it. Rather than cards, we've defined "slots". There are 2 slots per worker. When the slots are full, no more work can be requested. When it's complete, a slot is opened up. Often something stalls, which is why 2 per person rather than one.
Well, fairly quickly it becomes apparent that some work is (much) more valuable to the business than other work... And very quickly priorities are created and these fill the slots, the junk work simply doesn't get requested. It also becomes easy to track how long different types of work really take, any ticket system can do this. Real bottlenecks in the business throughput instantly become blindingly apparent to management.
It's a very simple concept, you pull the work you can do instead of staring at a mountain of work that other people push. The same for information. Pull what you need, ignore crap that others push. Pull vs push.
Write the things you need to do down on postits. Put into a "todo" area on a door or something. Then take two[1] out, stick them into in-progress and do them[2]. Each one completed gets a sweetie.
[1] Limit the number, and do the important ones first. The more you have going on, the longer it takes and the less you actually get done.
[2] keep it real, and short. A week or two at most. Y'know, break things down into stuff that can actually be done.
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As well as pop/rock/rap.
Prokofiev; The Montagues and the Capulets springs to mind. He pretty much uses all of the range available. Try this one. Stick it on whatever sound system you have and turn the volume up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljOMXgfflRI
About half way through it gets very quiet, sounds shit on many audio systems, you may not even be able to hear it. It gets crucified on MP3.
I listen to all sorts of music, I love Queen, ACDC, Rainbow, Gorillaz, Mozart, Prokofiev, Scott Joplin, ABBA, Paul Brady, Snoop Dogg etc etc etc etc etc. The music world isn't all Katy Perry.
Just because there's no benefit for ACDC, doesn't mean there's no benefit for Mozart.
You know when you turn on a stereo and you hear a slight hiss and hum? Linn stuff doesn't.
Linn kit does a pretty good job of sounding like it isn't there...
At a ridiculous price of course.
A while back, I saw a comparison between various brands of stereo equipment, including some very high end stuff, and a live performance, and price does matter, you can tell even with the most outrageously expensive, but it's more difficult the more you spend. Seems to be logarithmic, you spend 10x more for a linear improvement.
For the average person like yourself, I'm sure Apple and Sony would do.
Go on.
Please define valuable.
You realise that they are knocking houses down because the supply of them is such that they are worth less than the loans which were taken out to build them.
Let me say that again, to emphasise the insanity. They are knocking houses down.
Despite all the poverty and homelessness, despite the trailer parks. Because for capitalism to function, supply must never meet demand. It is only by destroying perfectly good housing that the supply can be reduced, the remaining stock can be made more valuable and people can go back to their wage slavery in order to pay the mortgage.
See QE 1 and QE2 for the reason behind the US bubble economy. The money has to go somewhere once it has hit the banks and they get to buy into lots of shiny toys.
It's worth getting in at the bottom of these things, but watch for the burst.
Like for example a new foreign minister who is only able to use windows.
Incumbent Guido Westerwelle since 28 October 2009
Coincidence of course.
New guy at the top. Probably doesn't know where the save option is in Open Office.
They have distributors.
Paper...
Or vellum for the win, but not if you're a vegie.
In my experience over the last few decades, the problem with anything electronic is durability. It's all designed to break or be obsolete within three years and thereby provide revenue for the corporations and banks.
Can you still read 10 year old word documents?
What happens when Amazon go out of business?
Can you replace the battery when it wears out?
etc etc.
I of course don't make mistakes, but what do you think would happen if for example you wiped 8.5 billion dollars off of the value of your company?
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=NOK+Basic+Chart&t=3m
Do we have a world record here Mr. Elop?
Forget about interplanetary networking, the primary use case for the Bundle protocol is peer to peer networking of mobile phones over WIFI or Bluetooth. Bypassing the telcos, ISPs, governments etc.
If Bundle was already installed on most phones, the Egyptian (and US) governments would be unable to turn off the network.
Only the names didn't change.
And restrictive.
Tram lines are even more expensive. Think of a really big number. Nope. Double it. Nope. It's still more expensive than that.
1. Buses are stop/start. The top speed is irrelevant because they have to stop every 500 meters. The average speed is about 10mph no matter what the theoretical top speed is.
2. As above. Overhead lines and tram lines are really expensive. Much more expensive than a battery, or ten.
3. Your average city bus run will be lucky if it tops 10 miles.
And cynical...
Welcome to the club :)
You also haven't factored in winter, or light incidence angle, both which mean you need a bigger area or tracking systems.
Yeah, could be done, but really expensive.
This is about the only way that either PV solar panels or electric vehicles make any sort of sense economically. Use the solar energy to reduce the cost of the expensive energy; Transport.
Shame the combination has a capital cost for a system comes in somewhere around 70,000 euros. ~30k for an appropriately sized PV installation and ~40k for the vehicle.
You're probably still talking around 10 years for most people. Sans government subsidy.
It's a feature of the supply of credit to the market. You make money by pushing your competitors out of the market and taking their business. Credit is what allows you to do that.
In addition, the fact that you have loans to pay means you are largely required by your creditors to grow.
Not quite all human activity.
In 5 years, what will your current work be worth?
50 years?
500?
5000? Our entire civilisation will be gone.
50,000?
Anyone name anything or anyone or from 50,000 years ago? It's a blink of an eye in geological and evolutionary terms, but there is one single thing you can do which can matter over these timescales.
Have children. Procreate. Pass your genes on.
Your genes have an unbroken line of success going back to the primordial slime 4 billion years ago. If you break that line you are just another genetic dead end.
Tents with air conditioners?
Oh wait, no, course not.
People try to do really dumb stuff (at a national and global level) when they don't understand the maths of what they're going. Drill Drill Drill springs to mind. A little maths goes a long way.
Having said that, getting rid of the hard stuff from school would provide a larger underclass to exploit, which is quite handy from a corporate point of view.
Education, funnily enough isn't just about what's needed.
Join the "limited work in progress" society.
It's a simple tradgedy of the commons economic problem and it's common to many organisations. The people making the requests are not the ones paying for your time. You're free to them and it's human nature that we consume all of free resources.
It used to be that contacting people and asking them to do something was a pain. Writing letters, filling forms. There was an economic cost to doing so. Today you have email, instant messaging etc and asking other people to do stuff is easy, so you end up with vast amounts of utter crap (requests and information) being generated. Lots and lots of busy work. Put a cost onto your input. When there is a cost to your work, people will choose what they want you to do more carefully.
Things are paid for in money, you have to have money to gain service. No money, no service. However within most organisations, charging between departments is hit or miss, it's a pain to set up and a pain to run. Now, you could set up a pre-payment scheme. Create some internal money (hours of development work for example) and give them to the internal customers. When they run out of hours they don't get any more of your time.
Kanban does this by making "signalling cards" into a kind of internal currency. No card, no service. It depends how you implement it. Rather than cards, we've defined "slots". There are 2 slots per worker. When the slots are full, no more work can be requested. When it's complete, a slot is opened up. Often something stalls, which is why 2 per person rather than one.
Well, fairly quickly it becomes apparent that some work is (much) more valuable to the business than other work... And very quickly priorities are created and these fill the slots, the junk work simply doesn't get requested. It also becomes easy to track how long different types of work really take, any ticket system can do this. Real bottlenecks in the business throughput instantly become blindingly apparent to management.
It's a very simple concept, you pull the work you can do instead of staring at a mountain of work that other people push. The same for information. Pull what you need, ignore crap that others push. Pull vs push.
flowers == advertisements
So what do you do if they should be in 3 or 4 different folders?
Write the things you need to do down on postits. Put into a "todo" area on a door or something. Then take two[1] out, stick them into in-progress and do them[2].
Each one completed gets a sweetie.
[1] Limit the number, and do the important ones first. The more you have going on, the longer it takes and the less you actually get done.
[2] keep it real, and short. A week or two at most. Y'know, break things down into stuff that can actually be done.