"Without entertainment, which provided 30 percent of the company's revenue and nearly all its profits, Sony would be as bad off as Matsushita, NEC, and Toshiba, its traditional Japanese rivals."
So, if Sony didn't keep its' content producing divisions it would go broke.
While it's owned by clearchannel (I think, could be the other company, but I don't think it matters) It (usually) plays a decent cross section of rock. After listening for a couple of weeks, it will seem to get repetitive, however they change the playlists every month or so, so it doesent get too stale. Interestingly enough, many of the DJ's are from the old WNEW 102.7 (Including Scott Muni)
On a side note, for an interesting look at the history of FM radio in NY check out Richard Neer's book, FM: The Rise and Fall of FM Radio.
My understanding is that there is already too much data to analyze, and no real way to analyze it effectively. Think about how big the databases would need to be, and how much CPU it would take to perform queries on even a subset of that data. (Not that this makes me feel any better about this situation either.)
This would seem to be especially true if looking for "Terrorist Activities" as it's hard to tell what you're looking for.
Sometimes it seems to me that people who are seeking that holy grail of "perfectly reproduced sound" spend a little too much time listining to their stereo and not enough time listening to music....
"Dude, listen to the sound reproduction on my new stereo...." -someone I know
*Recording from the hard disk to a DVD-RAM or DVD-R disc cannot be done with images for which only single-generation recording is allowed. When recording these images to a DVD-RAM disc, the original image on the hard disk is erased.
I suppose we should be grateful that it supports any type of fair use.
Car companies don't make as many cars as you think. VW sold approx 330,000 cars in the US for 2001.
Additionally, cars don't have re-occuring revenue, such as maintenence and support contracts. (although after a few years they can sell replacement parts)
As an IT consultant installing enterprise management/ capacity planning software, I have seen both ends of the spectrum. Some companies seem to re-invent the wheel by writing custom applications to do off the shelf tasks. I've seen enterprise class servers that never had more than 10% loads. I've also seen well managed companies that balanced their IT spending with their business goals. There was a time when companies were spending money for buzword compliance. Company XYZ has this new fully integrated paridime enterprise baloney etc.... Do We? Now wiser heads (or at least more conservative, anyway) prevail, and companies are performing cost benifit anaylsis on all of their software and hardware expenditures. With all the shrinking bottom lines the stock holders aren't asking if the companies that they own have the latest and greatest technology, but are asking are we making money?
There will be new technology and some of it will be worth buying, but untill vendors can prove that their products will save money, without a huge capital investment people will not be interested in the near future.
In my experience the difference between a barber shop and a salon is about $15. I've been going to the same Italian barber for about 10 years. $11 for a shave and a haircut, you can't beat it! That barber shop has been there since the 1940's and is always full of old men bantering in Italian
1 lb. Ground Beef 1 Medium Onion 2 boxes store brand Mac&Cheese
Finely chop onion brown ground beef and onion boil noodles according to box drain noodles add beef/onion mixture to pot add powdered cheese packets add milk and stir while on low heat
That station exists....I just got DirecTV and one of the digital music channels is "Singers and Standards" Sounds like what your looking for. Whatever floats your boat.
Actually, It's "A Planet Called Treason" and I have to agree, It's a better book. I liked "Enders Game" but it seemed a little cheezy when I read it. (I was young at the time) "A Planet Called Treason" is a totally unique world, where iron is a rare element, and everything is constructed out of bio-mass.
I haven't watched X-files in years, but I caught the fist few minutes, after watching Malcom in the middle. My first thought was wow, x-files has really gone down the tubes, they're re-using lone gunman footage... I always liked Frohicke(sp?) the best.
I have a problem with No. 1. I am a software consultant, meaning I install, configure and customize server monitoring software. I don't work for the software manufacturer and I work with several different monitoring packages and all flavors of OS. In my experience it is the employees of these companies that are complete idiots. (I will admit I have met some moron consultants as well.) I generally don't deal with developers, but the ones I meet are generally pretty savvy. I can't tell you how many clueless Admins I have had to deal with.
With regards to the management question, I manage people and projects as a techie. This is my advice:
Outline projects before they start, do not allow projects to become nebulous, or they will never get finished.
Everyone involved (from upper mgt. to the programmers) should have the same expectations regarding projects. This is critical. If everyone is on the same page, all the features get implemented they way they're supposed to, and deadlines are met.
Push your employees to do their best work. Don't let them slack (too much). The best manager I ever had knew exactly where my limits were and constantly pushed me to do great work. I was always busy, and was constantly learning new things. Under him we were always on time and almost always under budget, and I got more and more productive the longer I worked for him. I rarely had to work overtime and was never stressed.
This is true of any engineering degree. I have a BECE (B. Eng. Civil Engineering) and am now a software consultant. All of the best Tech guys I know have BEME's and have great design and analytical skills. Not too many schools give out real engineering degrees though. However a BS in an engineering subject is considered equivalent most of the time.
Though it needs a 7AU7 tube for the horizontal amplifier circuit to get it working again.
Anyway on topic portion of this comment:
Though I am a big sci-fi/fantasy reader, I have never been able to read LoTR, although I have tried numerous times. It's not that I can't read big heavy books, just not this particular set. I'm looking forward to the movie to see what I've missed, story-wise. Perhaps I'll try to read it again this weekend before I go see it. (Normally I prefer to read a book before watching the movie, but this may be an exception) I find it strange that so many other people have truly enjoyed these books, yet I (an avid reader) have never been able to get into them.
On a calculator doing x.xx * y.yy will display as many digits as will fill the screen. It dosen't mean that any of those digits after 2 decimal places are significant....
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For a number of years, prior to becoming an IT Professional, I was a construction Engineer in NJ. (I am a civil engineer by educaton) I can tell you that non union construction outfits are significantly more competative than union shops. Bids by non union shops were 10 - 20% lower.
Is this because non union shops pay their employees less? No, leagly they must pay the prevailing wage (admittedly this wage is negotiated by the unions) for a particular job. (Yes it is enforced, though generally not necessary) The main difference is in union work regulations. (A bullldozer operator can only work a bulldozer, and each operation has minimum crew sizes) A flexible workforce is a very valuable asset, allowing companies to remain competitive. In truth many non union employees are better compensated then their union counterparts.
As many people have said before, the non union guys work much harder and more efficently - the union will not allow people to be efficent, that would take jobs away from their members.
There are a number of large union construction co. that have had to change their policies, and the unions had to negotiate away some of their benefits just to compete.
The moral is, if your compamy will become less competitive you are in greater danger of losing your job due to a lack of revenue, then you are of losing your job because you are not protected by a union. (unless your incompentent or lazy, in which case you don't deserve your job anyway...)
(as a side note, professional engineers are cautioned against joining unions by their licenseing boards, so as not to dilute their professional status)
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If you read the article:
"Without entertainment, which provided 30 percent of the company's revenue and nearly all its profits, Sony would be as bad off as Matsushita, NEC, and Toshiba, its traditional Japanese rivals."
So, if Sony didn't keep its' content producing divisions it would go broke.
You are missing one important NY station.
104.3 - "Classic Rock"
While it's owned by clearchannel (I think, could be the other company, but I don't think it matters) It (usually) plays a decent cross section of rock. After listening for a couple of weeks, it will seem to get repetitive, however they change the playlists every month or so, so it doesent get too stale. Interestingly enough, many of the DJ's are from the old WNEW 102.7 (Including Scott Muni)
On a side note, for an interesting look at the history of FM radio in NY check out Richard Neer's book, FM: The Rise and Fall of FM Radio.
There is a tool called Vag-com, for Audi/VW's which allows a connection to a laptop, and comes with a windows based interface.
http://www.goapr.com/Audi/products/vagcom.html
It has been said before, but deserves to be repeated here:
"Four boxes to be used in the defence of liberty: Soap, Ballot, Jury, Ammo. Use in that order"
--Ed Howdershelt
My understanding is that there is already too much data to analyze, and no real way to analyze it effectively. Think about how big the databases would need to be, and how much CPU it would take to perform queries on even a subset of that data. (Not that this makes me feel any better about this situation either.)
This would seem to be especially true if looking for "Terrorist Activities" as it's hard to tell what you're looking for.
Sometimes it seems to me that people who are seeking that holy grail of "perfectly reproduced sound" spend a little too much time listining to their stereo and not enough time listening to music....
"Dude, listen to the sound reproduction on my new stereo...." -someone I know
"You don't even like that song!" -me
From the article:
*Recording from the hard disk to a DVD-RAM or DVD-R disc cannot be done with images for which only single-generation recording is allowed. When recording these images to a DVD-RAM disc, the original image on the hard disk is erased.
I suppose we should be grateful that it supports any type of fair use.
Shareza is a nice crap free gnutella client. Lots of nifty features.
www.shareza.com
Additionally, cars don't have re-occuring revenue, such as maintenence and support contracts. (although after a few years they can sell replacement parts)
sales stats here
As an IT consultant installing enterprise management/ capacity planning software, I have seen both ends of the spectrum. Some companies seem to re-invent the wheel by writing custom applications to do off the shelf tasks. I've seen enterprise class servers that never had more than 10% loads. I've also seen well managed companies that balanced their IT spending with their business goals. There was a time when companies were spending money for buzword compliance. Company XYZ has this new fully integrated paridime enterprise baloney etc.... Do We? Now wiser heads (or at least more conservative, anyway) prevail, and companies are performing cost benifit anaylsis on all of their software and hardware expenditures. With all the shrinking bottom lines the stock holders aren't asking if the companies that they own have the latest and greatest technology, but are asking are we making money?
There will be new technology and some of it will be worth buying, but untill vendors can prove that their products will save money, without a huge capital investment people will not be interested in the near future.
In my experience the difference between a barber shop and a salon is about $15. I've been going to the same Italian barber for about 10 years. $11 for a shave and a haircut, you can't beat it! That barber shop has been there since the 1940's and is always full of old men bantering in Italian
Poor Mans Hamburger Helper
1 lb. Ground Beef
1 Medium Onion
2 boxes store brand Mac&Cheese
Finely chop onion
brown ground beef and onion
boil noodles according to box
drain noodles
add beef/onion mixture to pot
add powdered cheese packets
add milk and stir while on low heat
serves 3 - 5
Enjoy
That station exists....I just got DirecTV and one of the digital music channels is "Singers and Standards" Sounds like what your looking for. Whatever floats your boat.
Actually, It's "A Planet Called Treason" and I have to agree, It's a better book. I liked "Enders Game" but it seemed a little cheezy when I read it. (I was young at the time) "A Planet Called Treason" is a totally unique world, where iron is a rare element, and everything is constructed out of bio-mass.
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I haven't watched X-files in years, but I caught the fist few minutes, after watching Malcom in the middle. My first thought was wow, x-files has really gone down the tubes, they're re-using lone gunman footage... I always liked Frohicke(sp?) the best.
I have a problem with No. 1. I am a software consultant, meaning I install, configure and customize server monitoring software. I don't work for the software manufacturer and I work with several different monitoring packages and all flavors of OS. In my experience it is the employees of these companies that are complete idiots. (I will admit I have met some moron consultants as well.) I generally don't deal with developers, but the ones I meet are generally pretty savvy. I can't tell you how many clueless Admins I have had to deal with.
With regards to the management question, I manage people and projects as a techie. This is my advice:
Outline projects before they start, do not allow projects to become nebulous, or they will never get finished.
Everyone involved (from upper mgt. to the programmers) should have the same expectations regarding projects. This is critical. If everyone is on the same page, all the features get implemented they way they're supposed to, and deadlines are met.
Push your employees to do their best work. Don't let them slack (too much). The best manager I ever had knew exactly where my limits were and constantly pushed me to do great work. I was always busy, and was constantly learning new things. Under him we were always on time and almost always under budget, and I got more and more productive the longer I worked for him. I rarely had to work overtime and was never stressed.
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7. MP3's from both modern and old-school p2p clients of tracks you already own on cd because you're too lazy to rip them and have a fat pipe.
(this is what I do anyway)
This is true of any engineering degree. I have a BECE (B. Eng. Civil Engineering) and am now a software consultant. All of the best Tech guys I know have BEME's and have great design and analytical skills. Not too many schools give out real engineering degrees though. However a BS in an engineering subject is considered equivalent most of the time.
I have one of those...
Though it needs a 7AU7 tube for the horizontal amplifier circuit to get it working again.
Anyway on topic portion of this comment:
Though I am a big sci-fi/fantasy reader, I have never been able to read LoTR, although I have tried numerous times. It's not that I can't read big heavy books, just not this particular set. I'm looking forward to the movie to see what I've missed, story-wise. Perhaps I'll try to read it again this weekend before I go see it. (Normally I prefer to read a book before watching the movie, but this may be an exception) I find it strange that so many other people have truly enjoyed these books, yet I (an avid reader) have never been able to get into them.
Anyone else unable to enjoy these books?
On a calculator doing x.xx * y.yy will display as many digits as will fill the screen. It dosen't mean that any of those digits after 2 decimal places are significant....
For a number of years, prior to becoming an IT Professional, I was a construction Engineer in NJ. (I am a civil engineer by educaton) I can tell you that non union construction outfits are significantly more competative than union shops. Bids by non union shops were 10 - 20% lower. Is this because non union shops pay their employees less? No, leagly they must pay the prevailing wage (admittedly this wage is negotiated by the unions) for a particular job. (Yes it is enforced, though generally not necessary) The main difference is in union work regulations. (A bullldozer operator can only work a bulldozer, and each operation has minimum crew sizes) A flexible workforce is a very valuable asset, allowing companies to remain competitive. In truth many non union employees are better compensated then their union counterparts. As many people have said before, the non union guys work much harder and more efficently - the union will not allow people to be efficent, that would take jobs away from their members. There are a number of large union construction co. that have had to change their policies, and the unions had to negotiate away some of their benefits just to compete. The moral is, if your compamy will become less competitive you are in greater danger of losing your job due to a lack of revenue, then you are of losing your job because you are not protected by a union. (unless your incompentent or lazy, in which case you don't deserve your job anyway...) (as a side note, professional engineers are cautioned against joining unions by their licenseing boards, so as not to dilute their professional status)