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In theory, at least, most marketers recognize that they should run their brands as a portfolio. Managing brands in a coordinated way helps a company to avoid confusing its consumers, investing in overlapping product-development and marketing efforts, and multiplying its brands at its own rather than its competitors' expense. Moreover, killing off weaker or ill-fitting parts of the product range—an important tenet of brand-portfolio management, though not one that should be applied at all times—frees marketers to focus resources on the stronger remaining brands and to position them distinctively. It thus reduces the complexity of the marketing effort and counteracts the decreasing efficiency and effectiveness of traditional media and distribution channels.
Theory, however, is one thing, practice another. Marketers today face heavy pressure to produce growth in an era of fragmenting customer needs. Understandably, they often react by expanding rather than pruning their brand offerings. After all, killing tired brands and curbing the launch of new ones isn't easy when the remaining portfolio must capture nearly half of a discontinued brand's volume merely to break even. Marketers also worry about the repercussions of using a portfolio approach and making the wrong call. Companies today are more likely to punish brand managers for missing an emerging opportunity than for failing when they try to exploit it.
For these and other reasons, brands (including sub-brands and line extensions) are proliferating at a breakneck pace in industries such as beverages, consumer durables, food, household goods, and pharmaceuticals.1 1. Roughly three-quarters of the Fortune 1000 consumer goods companies manage more than 100 brands each. From 1997 to 2001, the number of brands increased by 79 percent in the pharmaceutical industry, by 60 percent in white goods and travel and leisure, by 46 percent in the automotive industry, and by at least 15 percent in food, household goods, and beverages. Among other ills, this explosion makes it harder to define customer segments and positioning objectives consistently. Consider, for example, the predicament of automakers that have stuffed their brand portfolios with dozens of all-too-similar sport utility vehicles. Discerning indeed is the consumer who can pick out meaningful differences among them. Costs reflect the profusion of brands as well, since companies with too many of them suffer from increased marketing and operational complexity and from the associated diseconomies of scale.
If marketers are to thrive, they must resist the compulsion to launch new and protect old brands and instead shepherd fewer, stronger ones in a more synchronized way. Anheuser-Busch, for example, uses a coordinated approach: it recognizes that customers shift to different beers (from lower- to higher-end or fuller to lighter brews, for example), and its portfolio strategy aims to keep those customers within its family of brands when they do so. Procter & Gamble has carried out a successful global rationalization over the past few years. And several other consumer goods companies have achieved rates of revenue growth two to five times higher than their historic norms and saved 20 percent of their overall marketing expenditures by managing their brand portfolios more effectively.
How do such companies do so? In part by establishing clear roles, relationships, and boundaries for their brands and then, within these guidelines, giving individual brand managers plenty of scope, subject to oversight from one person who is responsible for the portfolio as a whole. Top-down goals, such as P&G's recent desire to prune brands that aren't top-two performers in their categories, also play an important role—provided that the goals are informed by a deep understanding of consumer needs. In addition, since new portfolio strategies frequently prompt reactions from competitors and have unanticipated consequences, companies will have to change the organization to facilitate quick, coordinated responses for the portfolio as a whole and for individual brands. Robust metrics that highlight unexpected shifts are critical to both.
More brands, lower revenues
It's easy to see why marketers resist the portfolio approach to brands. After all, entrepreneurial brand managers, not portfolio managers, built most of the world's great ones, such as Tide (P&G) and Cheerios (General Mills), in the United States, and Persil (Henkel), in Europe. Even if most of these brands are part of portfolios today, a portfolio approach wasn't necessary when the pioneers were developing smaller numbers of brands.
But managing them has become more difficult, since companies in maturing sectors have not only used new brands and products to pursue continued growth but also resisted pruning existing ones, in hopes of maintaining market share, cash flows, and long-lived consumer franchises. Mergers, which became much more common during the 1980s and 1990s,2 2. Global merger activity increased by 11 percent a year from 1992 to 2000. compounded the problem. All too often, an acquisition motivated by the allure of a specific brand, such as PepsiCo's purchase of Quaker Oats to obtain Gatorade, also brought a legacy—from breakfast cereals like Cap'n Crunch to dinner favorites like Rice-A-Roni—that complicated the portfolio manager's task.
Although the search for growth provided the main impetus for launching new brands and sheltering old ones, most industries failed to achieve the desired result. In confectionery, for example, the number of brands increased by more than 40 percent in recent years, but overall revenue and volume haven't kept pace (Exhibit 1): most individual candy brands have a smaller market share than they did a few years ago. In addition, an ever-growing number of brands imposes complexity costs affecting the entire life cycle, from product development and sourcing (more R&D resources) to manufacturing and distribution (more labor schedules to coordinate) to sales and channel management (more training and more brands than the sales force can really focus on) to marketing and promotions (more documentation and more coordination of marketing vendors and agencies).
The demanding nature of the solution makes matters even more difficult: restoring order calls for centralization and restraint, both of which run against the grain of even the most sophisticated marketing organizations.3 3. For a summary of the promise and pitfalls of brand consolidation, see Lars Finskud, Egil Hogna, Trond Riiber Knudsen, and Richard Törnblom, 'Brand consolidation makes a lot of economic sense,' The McKinsey Quarterly, 1997 Number 4, pp. 189–93. Brand moves that look economically attractive or strategically tidy may founder because of the complex interrelationships between products and segments or a backlash from consumers. Volkswagen's impressive success at repositioning Seat and koda Auto, for instance, raised the bar for some of Volkswagen's core products, such as the Golf. Even Proctor & Gamble had to backtrack on its effort to replace Fairy dishwasher detergent with Dawn in Germany after its market share in dish soaps dropped to 5 percent, from 12 percent, in less than two years.
To deal with the mess, companies need a flexible portfolio approach sensitive to consumers and current brands alike. While bold, top-down declarations of intent do have a place, marketers will be better served by first clarifying the needs that brands could satisfy and then assessing both the economic attractiveness of meeting them and their fit with the positioning of existing brands. Only then should marketers move to increase the portfolio's value by making strategic decisions on the restructuring, acquisition, divestiture, or launch of brands.
The starting point for marketers is to define categories as consumers do. Over the past decade or so, PepsiCo, for example, has recognized that customers choose among all nonalcoholic beverages, not just carbonated ones, to satisfy their need for refreshment. It has therefore made acquisitions (Gatorade, SoBe, Tropicana), developed new products (Amp, Aquafina), and completed several joint ventures (the one with Starbucks led to the bottled Frappuccino). Strong operating results have followed.4 4. Pepsi's share of the US noncarbonated segment increased from 37.6 percent in 2000 to 45.6 percent in 2003. At the same time, Coca-Cola's share increased to 28.4 percent, from 25.3 percent. These figures exclude Tropicana's 100 percent fruit juice products. Had they been included, Pepsi's lead over Coke would be even higher. Pepsi has the number-one brand in water, juices, iced tea, and sports drinks.
Successes such as PepsiCo's—as well as Kellogg's winning move from breakfasts to nutritional minimeals and Procter & Gamble's repositioning of Olay from moisturizing products to all skin- and beauty-care offerings—result from a judicious, deliberate broadening of a company's frame of reference. The revised view of consumer needs is neither too narrow and category constrained nor too broad and conceptual. Moving gradually often helps companies to strike such a balance; PepsiCo, for instance, initially expanded its frame of reference from cola drinks to all carbonated beverages and only later moved into nonalcoholic, nondairy ones. The fit between the redefined frame of reference and existing organizational capabilities also provides a reality check. When an expanded frame of reference implies brand-extension opportunities that a company can't easily seize by itself, it must weigh the benefits of acquisitions or partnerships to broaden its portfolio against their complexity costs.
Within a given frame of reference, marketers need a disciplined way of evaluating their brands' opportunities. One is to scrutinize "need states"—the intersection between what customers want and how they want it (Exhibit 2). Many marketers think about need states from time to time, but most define their brands by product (for instance, an economy brand) or consumer segment (young adults, say) instead of consumer needs ("people consume this brand when they want something cheap, don't care about nutrition, and can't spend time cooking at home"). Although thinking through need states is demanding, it often suggests new ways for existing brands to satisfy the needs of customers, thereby helping marketers avoid the common trap of launching a new brand every time they want to enter a market.
Analyzing the customer's 'need states'
When a global brewer scrutinized the need states of its customers, for example, it discovered that there was no single "import" segment; a wide range of people bought imports across several need states. Such findings show that the "one brand per customer segment" approach can be mistaken. If the occasions when consumers use a product largely shape their needs, it is often appropriate to offer the target consumer a number of brands.
Need states are more than descriptive tools: they also represent market opportunities. To evaluate them, marketers must begin by estimating their size. Since need states rarely coincide with conventional market definitions, it is often necessary to piece together known segment-share and channel-mix figures creatively. Category, consumer, product, and packaging trends can point to the likely future size of need states, and potential shifts in the intensity of competition can shed light on future profitability. The resulting profit pool map (Exhibit 3) reveals attractive opportunities for brands to target.
Mapping future profits through 'need state' analysis
But make no mistake: a profit map is no portfolio strategy. For starters, to target some seemingly attractive need states, it may be necessary to reposition brands so much that they no longer appeal to their original consumers. Such considerations help explain Toyota Motor's 1989 decision to launch Lexus as a separate brand and not as a new Toyota model. By contrast, Mazda Motor's much-praised Millenia luxury car struggled with its brand identity from introduction in 1994 until it was phased out in 2003.
To avoid positioning mistakes, marketers must understand each brand's unique contribution to the portfolio. Mapping its current brands against the universe of relevant need states is a helpful starting point. The most valuable insights often emerge when marketers use statistical tools and market research to assess the relationship between the things customers value in a given need state and the attributes that differentiate the brand for them.5 5. Such an analysis is also frequently the starting point for efforts to set individual brand strategies. In fact, the mapping of brands against need states represents the intersection of portfolio and single-brand strategies. For more on individual brand strategies and statistical tools, see Nora A. Aufreiter, David Elzinga, and Jonathan W. Gordon, 'Better branding,' The McKinsey Quarterly, 2003 Number 4, pp. 28–39. Combining this consumer knowledge with conventional metrics (such as each brand's market share within a variety of need states as well as the proportion of each brand's volume that a need state represents) helps clarify the attainable opportunities for each brand and the amount of differentiation or overlap within the portfolio.
Many companies mapping out their portfolios find that they have at least one relatively weak brand. Some choose to retain and improve underperformers rather than jettisoning them or targeting them toward new customers, but that approach carries risks. Frequently, companies that hold on to underperformers can't really support all of their brands and thus have to make small cuts in the resources allotted to each, thereby undermining the performance of their portfolios. One benefit of developing a profit map is that it helps catalyze more dramatic action by painting a clear picture of the economic opportunities companies forgo if they don't take the portfolio approach.
Marketers generally have two options for achieving their portfolio goals. First, they can restructure their brands by repositioning those that have lost relevance to the target segments, by consolidating two or more mature brands competing for the same consumers or by divesting a brand that absorbs more resources than it contributes and holds little promise of a turnaround. Restructuring doesn't involve pursuing customers whom a company doesn't currently serve; rather it means changing the brands that serve its present customers. The other option is to change the portfolio to drive new growth by launching a new brand, by acquiring or licensing one from another company, or by redefining an existing brand to target a new category of customers.
Restructuring is scary because it involves modifying brands and consumer attitudes. But though careful management is certainly needed to restructure brands without losing customers, the risk of adding new brands or categories is often greater—and so are the investments. Value-creating brand acquisitions are few and far between. Roughly three-quarters of all new brands fail. And stretching brands into any new category is risky because it's easy to go too far and lose their identity. Brand managers are accustomed to making headlines through launches or acquisitions, but those tactics are usually the last to consider for a portfolio strategy.
Of course, companies can rework their brand portfolios in a number of ways, which are often interconnected—if one brand is repositioned, that may have ripple effects for others—so it isn't practical to evaluate each brand move in isolation. Marketers must therefore develop and compare a manageable number of plausible scenarios that bundle compatible moves. Each scenario should involve only a few of them (Exhibit 4); more than four or five can overwhelm a marketing organization and confuse consumers. To define those moves, a company must make decisions about issues such as the right number of brands—and which to have—and the advisability of offering umbrella brands with sub-brands beneath them rather than a medley of individual ones.
Adjusting a brand portfolio through carefully defined moves
Several rules of thumb help marketers to avoid playing a trial-and-error game. First, they can build their strategies around leading brands. If well-known ones are financially successful, their role in the portfolio shouldn't change much, but when they underperform it's critical to adjust their positioning before recrafting the roles of other brands. Second, marketers must ensure that their sophisticated and ambitious portfolio ideas are feasible in view of internal resource constraints and likely competitive reactions. Finally, they should know when a brand is the consumer's second choice. Research techniques such as conjoint analysis can help them learn whether two or more adjacent brands are taking share and margins from each other or from competitors.
For an international industrial-equipment manufacturer, building the portfolio around a leading global brand has been a straightforward affair in many markets but problematic where the company's other brands are powerful leaders. In those countries, the company makes styling adjustments and includes features valued locally even though they increase the complexity of its offerings. It also found that in some markets, it sold similar products for different prices. The resulting cannibalization—people usually bought the cheaper offering—was costly. By clarifying brand roles, making local adjustments when necessary, and doubling the number of shared parts in products, the manufacturer has raised its portfolio sales by 3 percent in a stagnant market and cut its development costs by up to 5 percent.
Getting strategy right is only part of the battle; companies must also make organizational changes if they are to adapt their brand portfolios quickly to shifting trends, competitive responses, mergers, and new-product launches while also managing the natural life cycle of their brands. Since taking action with one often means doing so with another, companies must appoint a dynamic portfolio manager who can ensure that the whole portfolio moves nimbly.
How can a company centralize this kind of authority without handcuffing the managers of its individual brands? That depends largely on how it constitutes the portfolio manager's role. The crucial thing is that the person who holds it must have the ability to determine, on an ongoing basis, how well individual brands are fulfilling their part in the portfolio strategy and whether the strategy itself still makes sense. The portfolio manager must, of course, have certain traits and skills. But much will also be required of the organization, including unity of purpose across functions and businesses and robust metrics for tracking performance.
To articulate and monitor a brand-portfolio strategy, the portfolio manager must have the authority, the marketing skills, the facts, and the analyses to sway the brand managers. Sometimes the chief marketing officer, the vice president for marketing, or a person who rose through the ranks of the marketing organization and then became general manager of a business unit can serve as portfolio manager while still carrying out his or her primary duties. The support team might consist primarily of "swing" analysts who have some responsibility for individual brands but can be called up by the portfolio manager for major events, such as a new-product launch or the acquisition of several brands. At the extreme, brand teams might have a fluid membership.
In other cases—particularly in industries characterized by rapidly changing tastes (fashion), many sub-brands (autos), or rapid consolidation—a full-time portfolio-management structure may be warranted. One global automobile manufacturer relies on a central organization to coordinate its brand strategy. Pricing is one key area of focus because although each of the portfolio's car lines has a specific role that its list price reflects, differences in base features and functions make apples-to-apples comparisons difficult. The central team gets around this problem by creating "virtual" cars with identical features across brands, setting the value of each brand according to its role in the portfolio, and then building in or stripping out standard features to arrive at real pricing.
Whatever structure a company selects, it is vital for the portfolio manager to channel the entrepreneurial energies of the brand managers in the right direction and, when necessary, to make them trim their sails or change course.
Building agreement. The portfolio manager must get individual brand groups to endorse the portfolio strategy formally. Incentives that reward them for the whole portfolio's performance help to ensure that they don't revise their brands' strategies when no one is watching.
Meanwhile, the portfolio manager should reconcile the portfolio strategy with functional agendas elsewhere in the company. It might, for example, be necessary to set up focused R&D initiatives to fill gaps in the brand portfolio, to work with the finance organization to include key brand metrics in annual and long-range plans, and to have the sales organization develop a calendar and resource-allocation guidelines. The calendar would be linked to key dates in the strategy's rollout, and the guidelines would include directions for presenting brands to intermediaries such as grocery stores or car dealers.
Tracking progress. Measuring whether each brand is fulfilling its role in the portfolio is crucial. Standard metrics show whether consumers know about, have tried, or ever considered purchasing a brand; their attitudes toward it (for instance, is it "worth paying more for?"); rates for converting prospects into customers and for retaining customers in target segments; and levels of customer satisfaction. Other metrics should be tailored to the strategic goals for each brand. If the managers of several brands in the same portfolio track identical metrics, the company often has a problem: either the metrics are at too high a level to shed light on the relative performance of different brands, or the brands are positioned so closely together that the strategy needs a rethink.
An appliance maker introducing a new, lower-priced line to its portfolio, for example, found it helpful to track product-mix changes by sales channels. It discovered that in some of them, its existing premium products were positioned close to the new line, a problem that leads to cannibalization and falling margins. This timely channel data prompted the company to stop the bleeding quickly. Well-conceived metrics also clarify major competitive moves. In the value end of the appliance industry, for instance, LG Electronics and Samsung have made advances that are prompting several other manufacturers to rethink the role of value offerings in their own portfolios.
Although the annual planning process is a natural time for such dialogues, brand managers should raise red flags whenever these issues appear, particularly if the portfolio manager's likely response to them includes adding a brand. When market researchers recognize a new consumer trend, the portfolio manager must get involved to avoid a familiar outcome: a number of similar products for similar customers and need states.
Marketers are uneasy about rigorous brand-portfolio management, but overcoming this mind-set can pay big dividends. For companies that succeed, setting the portfolio strategy isn't a onetime event; it's a living, breathing part of day-to-day business.
Steve Carlotti and Mary Ellen Coe are principals in McKinsey's Chicago office, and Jesko Perrey is a principal in the Düsseldorf office.
The authors wish to thank Jonathan Gordon, Tamara Jurgenson, and Jürgen Schröder for their contributions to this article.
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Posts: 13858 What is the difference between a carpet and a rug? I tend to think of a carpet as covering more space than a rug.
But the dictionaries give them as synonyms.
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Instead of the luxurious apartment I had prepared myself to behold, a plain, scantily-furnished room opened before me, of a nature between a library and a studio. There was not even a carpet on the polished floor, only a rug.....,
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#124165 - 02/29/04 03:56 PM Re: carpet vs. rug
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Loc: Portland, Oregon Yeah, I think of carpet as having that wall-to-wall quality, whereas a rug just covers a portion of the floor... throw rug, area rug, mug rug ... no one I know would ever say "throw carpet".
#124166 - 02/29/04 04:40 PM Re: carpet vs. rug
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when I was a kid.
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Loc: California If a carpet goes from wall to wall, why would anybody talk about wall-to-wall carpeting? Or an area rug? (I.e., if it only covers an area anyway?) Also, there used to be talk about a flying carpet, not a flying rug. You get called onto the carpet, but have the rug pulled out from younder yourself. Carpet is from Latin/Italian and rug is from Scandinavian.
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Loc: California well, I wuz jes' sayin'...
Oh, so was I, eta. Just tryin' to glom onto their meaning(s).
#124170 - 02/29/04 05:00 PM Re: carpet vs. rug
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Posts: 13803 I would say that a carpet is fancier than a rug. Just as a general thing. A Persian carpet, for example, is of a finer thread and a more complex design than a Navajo rug.
#124172 - 02/29/04 06:12 PM Re: carpet vs. rug
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Posts: 13858 All the wall-to-wall carpet I have ever seen is solid
color. Any pattern would greatly complicate the job
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I was thinking of this concept too. There's something funny about aliens reading a amp. Nice job.
Your use of negative space really makes it sit nicely on the shirt.
I wonder what that sounds like?
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SOOOOOOO ADORABLE lurves dah chubby pony <3 and its such a neat design! :D
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Had to fix some colors but thanks for the comment Orabbit!
This is deep. Too bad I don't know enough to appreciate it.
Is this a play on wolfmother's cosmic egg song/album?
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The birth of Mickey Mouse!
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I love the triple pun!
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Wow...amazing artwork. Gave me chills ^^
Kind of reminds me of episodes from the show "Outer Limits". The guy that is responsible for the demise of Earth usually ends up witnessing the consequences of his catastrophic actions from a distant location.
Up hasn't slept in days, Down suffers from malaise. Charm has a magic buzz. Strange is as strange does. Top is the king of the hill. Bottom crashed; he's feeling ill. Before you say "Off-topic!", I would like to remind you that you can't have a universe without particles.
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Hope this one makes it to the 3! Non-cutesy rabbits are totally my animal of the moment, and this concept is odd enough to really suit an oddball like me =)
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Awesome idea and looks mighty fine on the shirt. :^)
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Lovely color choices! At first I thought the design was a little unbalanced on the shirt, but that space around Pluto helps emphasize that extra joke so that's actually pretty clever. :^)
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Thanks a lot! Scratch it yo! ;)
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I'd go out of my way to wear this at work tbh- the artwork is simply gorgeous and the sheer amusement I'd get out of my coworkers finally "seeing" the sperm planets would be oh so worthwhile!
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Very Nice!!
Sure, I understand what you mean, the composition is so much better now and we can infer the rest of the story It's in the fog!! now it's time to climb to the top3!:D
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I solemnly promise to buy this shirt. Even after buying 4 this week. Promise.
Woah - a real change of style for you. Looks good!
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I like this one, But if it had some color to it I would love it!
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Though the arch is named amd64 does not mean that intel is not using basically the same. That is all the x86 compatible intel CPUs (like the Core2 series) are based using amd64 (as it is named in gentoo) as 64bit arch. Another common name for the arch both AMD and Intel use is x86_64. Still both are basically (binary) compatible as long as you don't use explicit cpu specific optimisations.First i was thinking of an Intel based cpu, but iam interested in running 64-bit linux. Though iam not sure if an amd64 gentoo system will support all the applications i want to run, and no packages in portage seem to support ia64.
On the other hand ia64 is Intels (not so well known) server architecture Itanium. It has some really nice concepts, but it *not* meant for Desktop systems at all.
I got a HD3850 512MB in my system (Gentoo x86 unstable based) and it works really well. No problems with fglrx or anything. I can play etqw in 1920x1200 with high details and the game is 100% fluid. It even is CPU limited, not graphics limited... I bought the card simply to have something for (future?) games (yes, I am a Linux only user!) and to support AMD/ATI for their approach to open specs.If i run an AMD/ATI processor i would like to run an ATI based card. I have been looking at Asus Extreme HD3870 512MB GDDR4. The Nvidia card i have been interested in is: Asus Extreme GeForce 8800GT 1024 MB. Any opinions about those cards running under linux? What about their performance today and in the future?
I have read reviews and tests about both cards and i find them quite equal. I am mostly playing Team Fortress 2, but i would like to be able to play future games too. But iam not gfx junkie ;-)
Today there is only SLI support in linux. But reading some of Michaels post I got the impression that Crossfire might come in the nearer future, too. But in general I don't think that these techniques are (currently)not of too much use since you don't double (not even nearly) performance when using two cards. You only get something like 60% more performance. Maybe in the future when the design of graphics cards goes more in the direction of "many simple chips on one card and the driver organizes what happens" this might change, but ATM it is probably easier to just buy one card and later on, when this card is too slow, sell the old one and buy a new.What do you think about crossfire and/or SLI under linux in the future? How is the support today?
The only area where "more cards are better" is *really* valid is in "stream computing" using the graphics cards to do work with the various stream SDKs.
Hmm, I have no own experience with those board (since I am currently running and Intel based system). But IIRC Asus is basically "reference class" when it comes to AMD based systems. Though I think their reputation is not this good for Intel based systems, there it is more Gigabyte who is in the lead.Does anyone have any good/bad experiences about any ASUS motherboards? I have been looking for reviews at phoronix and found one, but user experiences are always nice! If i go for AMD i will most likely go for: Asus M3A32-MVP Deluxe.
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Military pay and the pay of some federal civilians and contractors will be exempt from delay during a government shutdown, under a law signed late Monday by President Obama
In one of the few agreements lawmakers have been able to reach in weeks of tense negotiations, the threat of military members, including the Coast Guard, missing their mid-October payday was resolved with a new law that appropriates whatever sum of money is needed to cover military payroll costs.
Obama signed the bill after it easily passed the House of Representatives on Sunday and the Senate early Monday afternoon.
There may be a similar effort to exempt veterans benefits from the effects of a shutdown. Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Vermont Independent who is chairman of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, introduced a bill Monday aimed at preventing the Veterans Affairs Department from running out of money to pay for veterans disability, survivor and education benefits.
Without the military pay bill, troops would work during a government shutdown and accrue pay but would not receive it until government funding is restored. The Oct. 15 payday is the first date when a shutdown could have an impact.
The bill, HR 3210, applies to pay and allowances of active-duty members, including reservists on full-time active duty, plus pay and allowances for Defense Department and Homeland Security Department civilians and contractors who are determined to be providing support to members of the armed forces.
Decisions about which federal workers and contractors would receive pay would be left to the defense secretary or homeland security secretary.
Rep. Mike Coffman, R-Colo., a former Marine Corps and Army veteran who served in Iraq in 2006, is the chief sponsor of what is being called the Pay Our Military Act.
I fully understand the stresses that our men and women in uniform face on a day-to-day basis, particularly when we are still a nation at war, Coffman said. When things do not go well at home, the stress that our deployed men and women are already under is multiplied, particularly if their families go without an income and suffer financial hardships due to a government shutdown.
Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, one of the lawmakers fighting to include restrictions on health care reform in any government funding bill, said service members dont need to be caught up in the political battle.
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"Tonight's results out of Virginia confirm what we all know: Today's GOP is the party of the Koch Brothers and the Tea Party," he said. "This foreshadows bad news for Scott Brown (in the primary for U.S. Senate) and Walt Havenstein (in the primary for governor), who will have to spend the next few months pandering to the Tea Party in order to advance their primary politics, all the while leaving them poorly positioned for November."
Buckley had predicted a few weeks ago that Democrats would field candidates in all 24 state Senate districts, and in what the party called "a display of unity and enthusiasm," 21 of them filed their candidacy for state Senate as a group at 11 a.m. on Wednesday.
House Republican Leader Gene Chandler, R-Bartlett, made it clear when he filed for reelection on Wednesday that former Republican House Speaker Bill O'Brien will not have an unfettered path to the podium should Republicans regain control of the House in the fall.
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Tuesday - 10/30/2012, 4:34pm EDT
Federal agencies in the Washington, D.C., area reopened Wednesday with unscheduled leave and telework options available to employees, the Office of Personnel Management announced.
The announcement came after two days of shuttered federal offices as superstorm Sandy ploughed through the East Coast.
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Non-Emergency Employees must notify their supervisor of their intent to use unscheduled leave or unscheduled telework (if telework-ready). In accordance with their agency's policies and procedures, subject to any applicable collective bargaining requirements, non-emergency employees have the option to use:Many agencies detail only minor impactsTelework-Ready Employees who are regularly scheduled to perform telework or who notify their supervisors of their intention to perform unscheduled telework must be prepared to telework for the entire workday, or take unscheduled leave, or a combination of both, for the entire workday in accordance with their agency's policies and procedures, subject to any applicable collective bargaining requirements.
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Spokesmen for the Departments of Housing and Urban Development and Homeland Security, as well as the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, NASA and the Small Business Administration said their headquarters were not damaged or didn't lose power from the hurricane.
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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., suffered very minor damage with some leaky roofs in a handful of buildings, according to a spokesman, who said, overall, the center is ready to open.
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Posted 19 September 2011 - 06:34 PM
QUOTE (nelutka @ Jun 9 2010, 12:45 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Is photographing a hobby for you or is it your work or maybe the both?
As for me I make pictures only for myself, they are not good enough to sell, but I'm not interested in profit. The main thing is the process.
As for me I make pictures only for myself, they are not good enough to sell, but I'm not interested in profit. The main thing is the process.
I do it for the chicks and getting backstage at all the big concerts (4 free)
ha ha. Only kidding. I did it to make a living for many years and now, I'm doing it (mostly for my own enjoyment) and teaching the newbies various tricks and tips with a focus on Portraits and Weddings.
What I enjoy most, shots from my garden.
Posted 19 October 2011 - 11:11 AM
QUOTE (trinsleynewton @ Sep 17 2011, 06:19 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
photography is an art, and like all other art forms, i like photography too:)
I wanna say it The art of photography. There are very little photographer who has this kind of art. So the art is one kind of life. Life means acting. So what is the difference betn art and act....?
Posted 22 November 2011 - 10:13 AM
There is lot of people and lot of interest and there is many many different character. I like photography but you don't, why? Because my passion is photography and may be your passion is something different. So Every person has an art of his or her profession. I will say it passion not profession.
Posted 01 December 2011 - 04:32 PM
Because I can't draw, and I love to make something beautiful. Having found out how hard it is to found your own business in another sphere, I suspect that trying to profit from my photography would totally take the enjoyment out of it! I just love making a beautiful image - especially working with photoshop to realise a vision that's inside my head rather than an exact replica of what i saw....sometimes i enjoy the digital darkroom stuff more than the actual photography!
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Posted 28 December 2011 - 05:36 AM
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Photography, for me, is entirely personal and selfish. My wife, generally, is the only person who sees my images. I don't post, I rarely print, I don't share.
Your wife is lucky. I lament my loss. BobWed#24
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Posted 30 April 2012 - 05:53 AM
Photography is mainly a hobby that I love doing. However I live far away from my family, so photography also allows me to mail them pictures of my son and I so that they feel more involved with our lives. Its very easy for me to have pictures printed and then mail them to family and friends to see.
Posted 17 June 2012 - 12:21 AM
For most people, photography was at first a hobby. But when you get better at it, it will become a source of income. And that's the best thing there -- monetizing your passion. Soon, you will be picking your printing company, contacting clients, documenting events and a thousand of other interesting things.
Posted 24 July 2012 - 11:46 PM
I've always loved the idea of capturing something forever. Even if you lose the actual object or memory, you have the memento of a photograph.
Posted 27 September 2012 - 05:29 AM
For me its my passion to take pictures, not to mention about the profit you will earn but in photography you can satisfy our hunger of those beautiful places. wherever i go always carry my best friend ( digital camera).
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Of course. It's Vaughn. His 3A is the best in the world.
Anyhoo, dance4u. Thank you so much for sharing the story of Vaughn's mom and the family. I am deeply moved by her sacrifice for her son.
If Vaughn is assigned to Skate Canada 2008, and she want to come over to Ottawa to see him and his loyal fan, please let me know. I would love to meet and greet with her.
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Vaughn's short program 3 axel was more than text book ask Kurt Browning. Don't get me wrong Fedor has a beautiful 3 axel but Vaughn's is better, Vaughn doesn't look as pretty as Fedor, not as dreamy
Fedor Andreev.
Sorry about the late reply. It is a heart breaking story. I'll PM you.
Vaughn Chipeur in the SP, hands down. I think that's the best triple axel in the world, not just in Canada.
Vaughn's triple axel was certainly the most powerful, but Fedor's was the most beautiful. I've always enjoyed that little extra flair on the landing of jumps more than pure athleticism, so I'd have to go with Fedor's triple axel.
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My ex hubby who is still drinking said that to me today. This makes me wonder about what he meant by us remaining friends. Excuse me if I am wrong, and please correct me if I am but my ex'es interpetation of us being friends consists of the following:
1. Be my friend since your income is higher than mine and I need you to take up all the slack of my bills that don't paid because I drink my paychecks away.
hmmmm my reply was to be forced into bribing him to get him off my checking account but at least he can no longer access my money. I made arrangements with the bank to stop the insurance payment on his vehicle from coming out of my account. the $350 check I gave him when he moved out I put a stop payment on when I realized he had run up and ridiculous amount of bills here in the last couple weeks he was here, and also to reimburse me for the things he simply stole as he was moving out. Good thing he didn't have a bigger truck or the furniture would have vanished also.
2. Be my friend since I may occassionally want sex and I don't know any other women that would have me on a bet
hmmmmm NOT!!! that well ran dry a LONG time ago
3. Be my friend so you can go to court and lie like a dog to protect me from any prosecution now or in the future, especially since you are the only person I know that is capable of showing up in any courtroom without getting a public intoxacation arrest.
hmmmm No I don't think so. I have to work on me and my own recovery, and can't do this while covering for you anymore.
4. Be my friend so I will have someone to call and cry to on the phone, or worst yet, talk about OUR problems.
hmmmm No I'm sorry when what few friends you have left get tired of you whining and crying in your beer and puking on their floors you can find more new friends to use and abuse. As far as OUR problems go WE have no problems anymore... you are there and I am here, hence the end of all of our problems
5. Be my friend because I'm on the last couch of friends that I have since I wore my welcome out at all of the others houses, and I may need to improve my lifestyle from living in my truck to a nice home, such as YOURS!
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