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The bandwidth of a record is pretty good, 50khZ and up to 100kHz with quality gear according to google. e: for fun, ATSC uses 6MHz to send 19.4Mbps, so that's 320 kbps for 100khz bandwidth on a record, assuming everything transfers linearly which  Then there is the speed it spins at, probably going to be 45 to get us 100khz. Denser grooves are possible, but this makes me think we'd want like 25 minutes. Which is 33 rpm, so we need to multiply by 0.73 to account for running at 45rpm. I think we get 350MB per side, but I did this pretty quick. e2: oh its actually 18.2Mbps with error correcting code overhead which we would want to have so 328 MB e3: so i updated this like 3 times now i'm going to pretend its right now taqueso fucked around with this message at 21:59 on Apr 23, 2020 |
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pseudanonymous posted:It is frustrating having to change the platter between each sub-level though. Great, getting Amiga flash backs here. Remember when games came on several floppy disks and you had to change between levels?
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Apr 24, 2020 09:33
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Antigravitas posted:Great, getting Amiga flash backs here. Remember when games came on several floppy disks and you had to change between levels? I 'member when there was no saving because there was no writable media. Each time you loaded the game into RAM, you started from scratch.
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Apr 24, 2020 14:50
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Google maps lists the barnes & noble down the road as "temporarily closed" but I wonder how temporary that will turn out to be. Aren't they in pretty bad shape?
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Apr 28, 2020 23:03
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They've closed tons of stores last year and are now owned by some hedge fund. Never a good sign.
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Apr 29, 2020 10:56
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Lambert posted:They've closed tons of stores last year and are now owned by some hedge fund. Never a good sign. Private equity ruins everything.
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Apr 29, 2020 11:20
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TyroneGoldstein posted:Private equity ruins everything. Elliot Management wants to get that sweet, sweet real estate that some B&N stores (mainly the Union Square flagship) sit on.
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Apr 29, 2020 14:08
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anonumos posted:I 'member when there was no saving because there was no writable media. Each time you loaded the game into RAM, you started from scratch. That's what level codes were for. They were a lot less painful than having a corrupted save disk though.
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Apr 29, 2020 14:22
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Lambert posted:They've closed tons of stores last year and are now owned by some hedge fund. Never a good sign. This, extremely. I actually worked there part time in grad school and it was a pretty good place to work, after factoring in the usual retail bullshit. About two years ago, I bumped into one of my former colleagues, who informed me every single fulltime employee had been unceremoniously fired, from the registers to the warehouse. Most of them had been at that store since it opened. This turned out to be a company-wide mass sacking. A healthy company doesn't destroy that much institutional knowledge and expertise just to save some money. It's only a matter of time before the corpse is picked clean.
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Apr 29, 2020 15:56
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Excellent article up on The Atlantic which discusses how the COVID19 shutdown will accelerate the death, but also the consolidation of retail. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/how-pandemic-will-change-face-retail/610738/ quote:The year 2020 may bring the death of the department store, marking the end of that 200-year-old retail innovation after decades of decline. Macy’s has furloughed more than 100,000 workers. Neiman Marcus has filed for Chapter 11. More legacy department stores and apparel retailers will almost certainly follow them to bankruptcy court or the corporate graveyard. As these anchor stores shutter, hundreds of malls that were already wobbling in 2019 will be knocked out in 2020.
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Apr 29, 2020 19:01
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I used to go a lot to barnes & nobles not for the books but for coffee in places that had no other options in walking distance.
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Apr 30, 2020 01:50
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Celexi posted:I used to go a lot to barnes & nobles not for the books but for coffee in places that had no other options in walking distance. The one in my area is a pretty good board game store too now that all of those in the area died.
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Solaris 2.0 posted:Excellent article up on The Atlantic which discusses how the COVID19 shutdown will accelerate the death, but also the consolidation of retail. https://wwd.com/business-news/financial/coronavirus-covid-19-retail-bankruptcies-ready-to-boil-over-1203625604/ Add J-Crew, Neiman Marcus, and J.C. Penney to the fire
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Celexi posted:I used to go a lot to barnes & nobles not for the books but for coffee in places that had no other options in walking distance.
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https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1257255780576890881?s=20 Down goes JCrew
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May 4, 2020 14:54
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Calling it a casualty of the COVID 19 pandemic isn't the whole truth, though. It's more another in the long line of casualties of private equity.
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May 4, 2020 18:52
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/05/15/jc-penney-bankruptcy-chapter-11/ JC Penney Someone probably won a bet.
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Dehry posted:https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/05/15/jc-penney-bankruptcy-chapter-11/ Like yesterday they confirmed execs we're getting their bonuses
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Proud Christian Mom posted:Like yesterday they confirmed execs we're getting their bonuses You can’t let little things like bankruptcy and horrible mismanagement get in the way of execs getting massive “performance-based” bonuses.
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Doom Rooster posted:You can’t let little things like bankruptcy and horrible mismanagement get in the way of execs getting massive “performance-based” bonuses. How can stripping the copper wiring by management be a preference payment...? 
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May 16, 2020 14:35
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In retail news Victorias Secret is closing 250 stores.
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May 21, 2020 08:28
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Proud Christian Mom posted:Like yesterday they confirmed execs we're getting their bonuses
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May 21, 2020 11:21
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Yeah, we really need to pay top dollar to keep these great executives that ran the copmany into the ground.
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May 21, 2020 11:43
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Doom Rooster posted:You can’t let little things like bankruptcy and horrible mismanagement get in the way of execs getting massive “performance-based” bonuses. Tbf the execs intentionally ran it into the ground so they did perform to expectations
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May 21, 2020 11:53
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The mistake here is assuming that the CEOs are there for the benefit of the company and not the other way around.
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May 21, 2020 11:57
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Apparently a pretty big Canadian retailer, Reitmans, filed for bankuptcy a few days ago.
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May 21, 2020 12:19
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OneEightHundred posted:This is somewhat common, companies that are doing lovely have to sweeten the deal to get CEOs to hop on, and stay on, a sinking ship. According to other CEOs.
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May 21, 2020 12:26
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Lambert posted:Yeah, we really need to pay top dollar to keep these great executives that ran the copmany into the ground. OneEightHundred fucked around with this message at 13:41 on May 21, 2020 |
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May 21, 2020 13:38
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Horseshoe theory posted:Apparently a pretty big Canadian retailer, Reitmans, filed for bankuptcy a few days ago. https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/reitmans-restructuring-1.5575036 You're right. They owned the only?? Canada-wide women's plus-sized store chains Penningtons and Addition Elle. They were already in the middle of restructuring underperforming stores when restrictions prevented retail shopping. This just tipped it over entirely.
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May 21, 2020 14:52
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Lambert posted:Yeah, we really need to pay top dollar to keep these great executives that ran the copmany into the ground. The executives that took JC Penney and ran it into the ground are gone. They had to hire someone to come in, pick up the pieces, and try to glue it back together. If you had two job offers (for any position, not just CEO) and one was for a successful business and the other was for a business on life support, what would it take for you to take the job with the one on life support?
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Missing Donut posted:The executives that took JC Penney and ran it into the ground are gone. They had to hire someone to come in, pick up the pieces, and try to glue it back together. These assholes are making millions of dollars a year, they don’t have to work at all. In fact, taking on the challenge of turning around a dying company could easily make you worth more money in the future.
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Solkanar512 posted:These assholes are making millions of dollars a year, they don’t have to work at all. In fact, taking on the challenge of turning around a dying company could easily make you worth more money in the future. And if you fail, doesn’t matter, you already proved you’re in the correct social class and will get more companies to loot.
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skooma512 posted:And if you fail, doesn’t matter, you already proved you’re in the correct social class and will get more companies to loot. The kind of people that determine who gets hired for jobs like this often stand to make more by participating in the looting of assets of these companies than if the company turns around. So you do well, people in your network do well, and then the company totally fails and the common shareholder and employee gets nothing because the pension fund was looted and assets sold for pennies on the dollar. Then it's not your fault the company failed, it was already failing when you came in, and your same network hooks you up with another company.
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There's also the very common practice of hiring a CEO to restructure, accumulating failures during the otherwise successful restructuring, then sandbagging the CEO with blame and ousting them as soon as the books are back in the black. As a CEO, restructuring is not safe. It's one of the only chances you have to create real structural change, and as such it's the best opportunity to get fired for loving up, especially if the changes that were implemented don't resemble your plan in any way. Look at HP, they've done it 5 times, smashing the company into the ground over and over in pursuit of record profits and self-destructing printers and laptops made of cling film. A good CEO knows there's money to be made in fixing problems, but a great CEO knows that prolonging problems is even more profitable, and looting the corpse once you're done is more profitable still.
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Solkanar512 posted:These assholes are making millions of dollars a year, they don’t have to work at all. In fact, taking on the challenge of turning around a dying company could easily make you worth more money in the future. Could. If they’re successful, but it’s taking on extra risk. If you were put in the position to make $5 million a year for a CEO position with a successful company, what would you expect to be paid for the same job title at a different company, which is much harder because you’re tasked with the job of saving a failing company from bankruptcy and if you fail you and thousands of people don’t have a job any more? Don’t hate the player, hate the game.
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The key here is they don’t need to make millions and millions of dollars while their employees make garbage wages and will not have a job soon.
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If there is a hard limit on CEO supply then it makes sense for companies to pay ridiculous amounts of money for one. But there isn't a limit. Go find someone who isn't being offered 5 million by a successful company. Find some people with business management experience that are currently making 250k and offer them 400k at the risky company.
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Dylan16807 posted:But there isn't a limit. Go find someone who isn't being offered 5 million by a successful company. Find some people with business management experience that are currently making 250k and offer them 400k at the risky company. but they might run the company into the ground
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2nd Rate Poster posted:but they might run the company into the ground Worse, they might not run it into the ground and loot its corpse.
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Dylan16807 posted:Find some people with business management experience that are currently making 250k and offer them 400k at the risky company. Anyone dumb enough to trade a $250k job for a CEO position at a failing company paying $400k is too stupid to be CEO. And I’m not saying you have to be smart to be a CEO — far from it — but you really shouldn’t be that stupid.
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