It would be regrettable, moreover, if this seemingly small schedule change were to signal the end, or the beginning of the end, of the serious hourlong dramatic show.
The slow radio programmes were part of a raft of commissions, small schedule changes and presenter reshuffles announced by Radio 3 on Wednesday.
The N.B.A. action was limited to a small schedule of games Thursday night, during which the Kings lost to the Lakers, but the people of Sacramento still had something to cheer because, as Mark Kriedler writes on ESPN.com, they have an arena deal that will keep their team in town thanks to some strong-arming by Commissioner David Stern.
"In a negotiation environment, you'd be better off taking the hit now with regard to paging, but preserving your well-established, in their case long-term, pricing position of being equitable across advertisers and not really engaging in heavy discounting and widespread negotiations just to get a small schedule," he said, using the industry term for an advertiser's annual commitment to a magazine.
Even if you're on summer vacation, make a small schedule for when you will watch TV, when you will go out, when you will read...etc...etc
One of them was to expand the company's initially small scheduled-route business in 1991, in the expectation that travel would pick up after the Gulf War.
"The small release schedule is fundamental to what we do," says Russell of the label he helped launch in 1989.
And some of the future planning is downright weird, such as killing the Ford Taurus and replacing it with two new cars the 500, on sale now, and the smaller Fusion, scheduled for release this fall.
In the following algorithm we choose from among the set of arcs outgoing from the fragment (f(r)), the arc with the smallest arc schedule time such that it can form a valid journey starting from the root.
In this paper, therefore, the objective of link scheduling is to determine a time slot assignment for all links or flows with a smallest possible schedule period, such that not only interference can be avoided, but also each node has enough energy upon being scheduled.
