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Yes, fake books are indeed real.

The MacBeth comic book quite good, and despite the inaccurate description and reviews on Amazon it is not abridged or altered in any way- the complete text of the play is contained in the captions and word balloons.

Maybe he was the inspiration for this guy.

At least, in that they're filled with lots of random little suggestions on how to do things.

The O'Reilly books are incredibly useful, though - at least Linux Server Hacks certainly was; I just used hack # 99 (the RewriteMap hack) a week or so ago to do some simple load-balancing. Very handy.

You should check out the Austin Lounge Lizards' song "Big Rio Grande River" (Amazon link, has audio samples if you use one of the supported players), just about the last word on this sort of repetitious, redundant, reiterated, and redundant circumlocution.

Oh, and "Grunge Song" on the same album (Never an Adult Moment) is pretty great, too.

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I teach Project Management in the Masters Degree Program. The best book is Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules by Steve McConnell It covers all aspects of project management. Most of the tools and tips he presents have real world usage.

One thing that irritates me about Amazon is that it will not tell you which book comes next in a series.

Actually, they do for most series. When you click on A Crown of Swords , for example, the book title says "(The Wheel of Time, Book 7)", and there's a link below saying "This is the 7th item in The Wheel of Time Series ".

By the way, it's interesting to see the first few series Amazon has (by changing the /2/ in the URL). One through four are fantasy; 5 and 6 are movie trilogies, #7 is the soundtracks from Dawson's Creek...!? There doesn't seem to be any ordering to this. #8 (surprisingly, not #1 or anything) is LoTR, and it takes until #40 to reach Discworld. Probably they just added series as they found them. It goes until rougly 904 (with a few gaps).

One thing that irritates me about Amazon is that it will not tell you which book comes next in a series.

Actually, they do for most series. When you click on A Crown of Swords , for example, the book title says "(The Wheel of Time, Book 7)", and there's a link below saying "This is the 7th item in The Wheel of Time Series ".

By the way, it's interesting to see the first few series Amazon has (by changing the /2/ in the URL). One through four are fantasy; 5 and 6 are movie trilogies, #7 is the soundtracks from Dawson's Creek...!? There doesn't seem to be any ordering to this. #8 (surprisingly, not #1 or anything) is LoTR, and it takes until #40 to reach Discworld. Probably they just added series as they found them. It goes until rougly 904 (with a few gaps).

Sometimes when I go to the huge used bookstore by my house, I can't find what I'm looking for, just because I have no idea what genre some publisher monkey wanted to force that book to be in. Try House of Leaves, or such, what genre is it? Fiction? Sci-Fi? Horror? Or even authors who right across genres but are popular for one, hence all of Stephen King's Gunslinger books being thrown into horror, same with some of Koontz' fiction.

Then we have the older books just thown into literature. What the heck does that mean? Should Kerouac be thown in with Kafka and Tolstoy as general lit? In most bookstores Self Help and hard Psychology are thrown together. And Philosophy and New Age. Neither of these make sense.

But with Amazon, this makes less sense, being that they have a search feature. Do people really browse Amazon like they browse physical shops?

Amazon ... [has] little to no incentive for me to rate a product or provide any feedback.... However, i use the Netflix rating system extensively, because they use my ratings to provide feedback on what new movies I might like, and the system actually works. How can Amazon incentivize people to tag??

By using your ratings to provide feedback on what new books you might like. And yes, the system actually works.

In related news, Amazon started selling vibrators recently. and another

In related news, Amazon started selling vibrators recently. and another

These semantic baubles should be dangled from blogs as much as tags should be glued into amazon records.

There's an example here (with the concordance and text stats linked half way down).

If only they were as good with their deliveries (after a three week wait in 2003 I gave up on them)

DK

These semantic baubles should be dangled from blogs as much as tags should be glued into amazon records.

There's an example here (with the concordance and text stats linked half way down).

If only they were as good with their deliveries (after a three week wait in 2003 I gave up on them)

DK

These semantic baubles should be dangled from blogs as much as tags should be glued into amazon records.

There's an example here (with the concordance and text stats linked half way down).

If only they were as good with their deliveries (after a three week wait in 2003 I gave up on them)

DK

These semantic baubles should be dangled from blogs as much as tags should be glued into amazon records.

There's an example here (with the concordance and text stats linked half way down).

If only they were as good with their deliveries (after a three week wait in 2003 I gave up on them)

DK

Items that infringe upon an individual's privacy. Amazon.com holds personal privacy in the highest regard. Therefore, items that infringe upon, or have potential to infringe upon, an individual's privacy are prohibited.

TAOPM is on the Personal MBA book list.
http://www.personalmba.com/
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/guides/guide- display/-/2T49HSJQJBYI1/
The author meets with people there to discuss concepts in the book. I highly recommend the Personal MBA to anyone looking to further their business management knowledge. I'm working on mine right now.

Read the comments for this protected disc by Van Zant on the Sony label.
,br>OUCH.

Pikmin came out Nov 21st, 3 days after the launch date of Nov 18th. That is a launch title.

link and link

Pikmin came out Nov 21st, 3 days after the launch date of Nov 18th. That is a launch title.

link and link

Here it is on Amazon.com for $39.95
And here on Bookpool for $32.95

If you want to know what it takes to succeed read "Think and Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill. The bottomline is that it takes drive, persistence, and organization. All of these traits can be acquired by the willing.

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And some morons seem to think that this constitutes good software engineering...

The "moron" in question here is Nicholas Lesiecki, author of Java Tools for Extreme Programming: Mastering Open Source Tools Including Ant, JUnit, and Cactus. This review in Dr. Dobb's Journal calls it "original and useful".

He is also a contributor to Cactus, "a simple test framework for unit testing server-side java code", part of the Apache Jakarta project.

He is currently a software engineer and programming instructor with Google.

You do know that the basics of the UNIX operating system fits in a relatively thin book called Lions' commentary on UNIX 6th edition? Right?

One person can learn the entire theory of UNIX operating systems by reading this 254 page book. UNIX is clear, UNIX is concise, UNIX is a beautiful elegant masterwork. Much of the framework used in every modern OS is present in UNIX 6th edition.

I read and comprehended the entire book in just over a week.

It's getting there. The hardest problem is the fact that it's such a pain in the ass to get unit tests around existing code. There's a book out there that deals with that problem: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0131 177052/ It shows you how to get tests around the nastiest code using NUnit, JUnit, and CppUnit.

I found this to be a pretty good book on the subject.

Sometimes public enterprise does a better job of things than private enterprise.

Really? What examples do you have exactly?

I cite the pre-civil war South as the iconic example of local government abuse that would have continued unchecked without the feds putting their foot down.

I cite the fact that there were roughly 20 slave holding societies which made slavery illegal without resorting to violence, vs the ONE that did. I suggest you do a bit of checking into the causes for the civil war as well. It was not slavery but taxation which was the root cause of the civil war. I suggest this book. It sheds alot of light on what was going on at the time.

Some choice facts: the south paid roughly 90% of the federal taxes at the time, while most federal spending was in the north. The Republicans came to power on a platform of protectionism, (including an increase in tariffs). Congress increased tariffs from 20% to 50% on imported goods shortly upon the start of the new session. Since Southern states exported their unfinished goods and took payment in finished goods they were the ones who had the most to lose.

Federal government at least has to answer to every state for abuses.
When was the last time the federal government had to "answer" for anything? Funny how the Fed makes pollution laws which we have to obey, but they are exempt from.

If a local government's victims stay local and powerless, they're fucked. There's no lower level of government to appeal to. Really? Who are we to appeal to when the national government is unjust? The local ones? When the power comes from above it is next to impossible to check.

ALL government has a price, and that price matters. Yes, which is why I'd rather have budwieser, etc have to buy off 10,000 local governments than send
"campaign" contributions to 100 senators.

if you want to play table top D&D but don't want to be bogged down by all the rules and time required, check out Heroscape! It really is an awesome and quick game to play which isn't overwhelming.

Personally, I haven't been able to get into it too deeply. Writing new tests from scratch in a project for which you've already written a big chunk code is daunting and tedious, IMO. You literally have to go step by step through the program and simulate every forseeable use case. I did write some tests and I can see the benefit. I tested what I thought was some rather simple code and found bugs right away. Bugs that might not have been obvious by simply clicking through the application. Also, writing such tests can give you ideas for features that you might not have thought of before.

Leadership for Dummies. Do we really want dummies for leaders?

DOH!

PS: Other related Dummies titles include areas such as Managing, Communicating Effectively, and Coaching & Mentoring. The Peter Principle is alive and well and living at Amazon.com

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You may also need "Advanced Speed Typing" and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Treatment.

Only if you're also using this book.

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But he's way behind on speed. The current record holder is "Teach Yourself UNIX in 10 minutes".

You may also need "Advanced Speed Typing" and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Treatment.

But he's way behind on speed. The current record holder is "Teach Yourself UNIX in 10 minutes".

You may also need "Advanced Speed Typing" and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Treatment.

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that there is survival pressure for disease organisms to evolve towards benign coexistence is a well-establshed idea in virology

remember: ther are now so many peopl on Earth that evem a tiny mortality rate means million dead. And the virus's current non-contagious incarnation does not have a tiny mortality rate.