I forgot to add my displeasure of certain buzz words used by our US president. In a way he's considered a manager and definitely has his own set of words. How about weapons of mass destruction or axis of evil? There are tons more, too many to list. I find they get on my nerves just as much as the ones used by people at my job.
From my last job "synergy" was the big buzz word. Also on my list of dislikes are "paradigm shift" and "proactive". Proactive is a big one at my job now since we obvioulsy want to advocate a proactive approach to everything while taking a very reactive role (as to not cause waves). Since I work in a non-tech atmosphere now, I don't seem to encounter the typical words as much. Now I get things that are more along the lines of "a life of service" and a "community of learning".
A book like Julie Meloni's PHP Essentials gives a very easy place to start with the web programming end of things. It starts off very basic, but provides examples that are cool enough to make you want to learn more.
...theoretically capable of "thermochromic" effects that change the color with the temperature...
Reminds me of the old hypercolor shirts in approximately the early 90s that changed color when you wore them. I could see this feature appealing to a younger generation.
But, seriously, geek girl or not, you can NEVER go wrong with flowers.
I don't know about that. When my husband got me a dozen roses for our anniversary they were nice, but I couldn't help thinking that $60+ could have been spent on something else that would have lasted longer than a few days!
Supposedly if Dell is behind this idea they would update the bios to let you install from one of these. I think they'd have to do something in this regard to back themselves up.
Easily accessible USB ports is my main gripe about this idea. I love the USB key that the college I work at provides students for use with their laptops. Since I wanted one too they gave me one. But what a pain when your box is under your desk, or otherwise out of reach! Not to mention confusing trying to explain to some non-techie person where to plug it in (especially if they're already using their slots). If the Dimension line plans to have ports on the front, then this could be promoted a lot more easily.
Even though CDs are cheap, I don't think that the technology is as affordable as it needs to be for most people to adopt it yet.
Consider some places in Iowa. For instance, Forest City is a town of about 4500 people and the home of Winnebago Industries. It's possible it might be a little too small for your tastes though.
If not here is a description. It is 2 hours to get to Des Moines and 2 hours to Minneapolis, about 15 minutes off I-35. It has a small college and the housing is cheap. I live about 30 minutes west and our house was only $20k (though we got a bargain because it was forecolosed by Fannie Mae from the previous owners). It's a 3 bedroom on a double lot. Really nice houses can be had for $75k-$100. Job prospects all depend on the kind of work you want to do and whether you're willing to drive a little. 30 miles here means a 30 minute commute, not like it is in the cities where you're crawling across town. The schools here are good and the area is low in crime. The area's wired pretty well too, if working from home could be an option for you.
I believe he somewhat answer this in his web page FAQ for students:
Do you ever sit down to write your weekly column and just not feel like being funny? What do you do? I often don't feel funny; I just keep at it, and eventually something appears.
People posting questions should definitely check the FAQ's first, links to the two are here
I must say that it's a great concept, but my first impression is that the thing is really ugly. I wonder how many people rank the look of their vehicle in the list of priorities for buying. If they do, will the look of this one negatively affect its sales?
It isn't necessary to read Pratchett's books in the published order but I recommend that you at least read the 'sets' in order. The sets are sub-series of books featuring the same characters (the city watch, witches, Rincewind, etc).
For instance, the books focusing on the witches include:
Wyrd Sisters Witches Abroad Lords And Ladies Maskerade and others.
There will be some things happening in Lords and Ladies that you'll want to know about from the previous two, but it wouldn't make any difference if you'd read The Color of Magic, or most of the other books that come first chronologically.
I'd recommend his books to anyone! This site http://www.co.uk.lspace.org/ is very informative. And here is a reading order guide I found through a link on that site. It pretty much confirms what I've suggested.
Assuming you live in the US, with the job market the way it is right now my first instinct would suggest to head to college and hope that the war is over by the time you're set to graduate. The economy isn't going to pick up until the situation is resolved. While in college try to land an internship or even part time job in your related field. That way when you graduate you'll not only have the degree, but at least something to put on your resume. You'll be in a better position than this guy posting on/. for advice.
Marketplace had a cool report on this yesterday afternoon that the reporter recorded as an MP3 file from the flight.
In the report he indicated that on first try his laptop didn't connect, but that Lufthansa had three connection specialists on the plane and were able to get him running within 5 minutes. Apparently the plane was full on reporters and other testing it out, so the connection was a little slower than is usually expected.
The thing that hit me was that they would charge up to $30 extra to use this feature. That might not be a big deal to business passengers, but I'm not sure the average person will appreciate that extra fee on their ticket.
Mod me a troll if you want. The post probably just offends me because I'm female, but I still don't think it is insightful. If it had been modded as funny I might have let you have that one.
I have several memories from around age 2-3. Mainly things like my bedroom's blue fuzzy curtains, being at the bottom of the basement steps, when my parakeet died, etc. The other big thing is that my dad and sister died when I was three (same week, different causes) and I remember the room with all the caskets and one part of dad's funeral. I'm pretty sure I remember mom taking me to the bedroom to tell me about dad being gone, but know nothing of what she said. I would guess those stick with me because they were somewhat tramatic. Many of these memories were not told to me, but that I questioned my mom about later to see if I was accurate. There's just one memory that I have from a time with my dad that my mom cannot confirm whether happened or not. Of course for each memory like this I have, I have 3 dozen other associated memories that are most likely based on things I've been told or seen in pictures.
Check them out for yourself at rael.org. It's much more fun to read Rael's own accounts than the NYTimes summation. That is, if the site isn't down with all the traffic they are probably getting from the/. crowd and the regular public.
The Clonaid organization was turned over to Brigitte Bossellier(sp?) from Rael a year or so ago. I first ran across them about two or so years ago. It's actually sort of fun to learn about their group.:-) I'm guessing they're pretty unhappy about the whole middle east situation because if I remember right for the Elohim to come back they needed to purchase land and build a center in one of major religious areas there, perhaps Jerusalem?
Or more likely, a web designer's obligation to bow to the wants of his client. Some can be educated, but you'll still have the owner who insists his page look exactly as his brochure does down to the exact same fonts and graphics.
It would help if you mentioned which language(s) you want to learn. I've ran across sites that are very helpful for a particular language, but don't want to hunt them all down right now. If we knew what exactly you were looking for, we could make suggestions.
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I forgot to add my displeasure of certain buzz words used by our US president. In a way he's considered a manager and definitely has his own set of words. How about weapons of mass destruction or axis of evil? There are tons more, too many to list. I find they get on my nerves just as much as the ones used by people at my job.
From my last job "synergy" was the big buzz word. Also on my list of dislikes are "paradigm shift" and "proactive". Proactive is a big one at my job now since we obvioulsy want to advocate a proactive approach to everything while taking a very reactive role (as to not cause waves). Since I work in a non-tech atmosphere now, I don't seem to encounter the typical words as much. Now I get things that are more along the lines of "a life of service" and a "community of learning".
A book like Julie Meloni's PHP Essentials gives a very easy place to start with the web programming end of things. It starts off very basic, but provides examples that are cool enough to make you want to learn more.
It doesn't say that. It says
"We could look better than paint. But right now, we have to look like paint."
...theoretically capable of "thermochromic" effects that change the color with the temperature...
Reminds me of the old hypercolor shirts in approximately the early 90s that changed color when you wore them. I could see this feature appealing to a younger generation.
But, seriously, geek girl or not, you can NEVER go wrong with flowers.
I don't know about that. When my husband got me a dozen roses for our anniversary they were nice, but I couldn't help thinking that $60+ could have been spent on something else that would have lasted longer than a few days!
Sorry for the ignorance. What kind of peroxide is necessary for something like this?
Supposedly if Dell is behind this idea they would update the bios to let you install from one of these. I think they'd have to do something in this regard to back themselves up.
Easily accessible USB ports is my main gripe about this idea. I love the USB key that the college I work at provides students for use with their laptops. Since I wanted one too they gave me one. But what a pain when your box is under your desk, or otherwise out of reach! Not to mention confusing trying to explain to some non-techie person where to plug it in (especially if they're already using their slots). If the Dimension line plans to have ports on the front, then this could be promoted a lot more easily.
Even though CDs are cheap, I don't think that the technology is as affordable as it needs to be for most people to adopt it yet.
Consider some places in Iowa. For instance, Forest City is a town of about 4500 people and the home of Winnebago Industries. It's possible it might be a little too small for your tastes though.
If not here is a description. It is 2 hours to get to Des Moines and 2 hours to Minneapolis, about 15 minutes off I-35. It has a small college and the housing is cheap. I live about 30 minutes west and our house was only $20k (though we got a bargain because it was forecolosed by Fannie Mae from the previous owners). It's a 3 bedroom on a double lot. Really nice houses can be had for $75k-$100. Job prospects all depend on the kind of work you want to do and whether you're willing to drive a little. 30 miles here means a 30 minute commute, not like it is in the cities where you're crawling across town. The schools here are good and the area is low in crime. The area's wired pretty well too, if working from home could be an option for you.
I believe he somewhat answer this in his web page FAQ for students:
Do you ever sit down to write your weekly column and just not feel like being funny? What do you do?
I often don't feel funny; I just keep at it, and eventually something appears.
People posting questions should definitely check the FAQ's first, links to the two are here
It would be nice if they had a suggested price. I suppose it's still too early to tell, but I'm curious to know if it will be affordable.
To prove my point, I found some more photos of the thing. Especially notices the seats.
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From the Detroit Auto Show
http://www.corral.net/photopost/showgallery.php?c
and From this story
http://www.evworld.com/images/ford_modelu_2.jpg
http://www.evworld.com/images/ford_modelu_1.jpg
I must say that it's a great concept, but my first impression is that the thing is really ugly. I wonder how many people rank the look of their vehicle in the list of priorities for buying. If they do, will the look of this one negatively affect its sales?
It isn't necessary to read Pratchett's books in the published order but I recommend that you at least read the 'sets' in order. The sets are sub-series of books featuring the same characters (the city watch, witches, Rincewind, etc).
For instance, the books focusing on the witches include:
Wyrd Sisters
Witches Abroad
Lords And Ladies
Maskerade
and others.
There will be some things happening in Lords and Ladies that you'll want to know about from the previous two, but it wouldn't make any difference if you'd read The Color of Magic, or most of the other books that come first chronologically.
I'd recommend his books to anyone! This site http://www.co.uk.lspace.org/ is very informative. And here is a reading order guide I found through a link on that site. It pretty much confirms what I've suggested.
Assuming you live in the US, with the job market the way it is right now my first instinct would suggest to head to college and hope that the war is over by the time you're set to graduate. The economy isn't going to pick up until the situation is resolved. While in college try to land an internship or even part time job in your related field. That way when you graduate you'll not only have the degree, but at least something to put on your resume. You'll be in a better position than this guy posting on /. for advice.
There's a space in the URL. Try this: http://www.handsometechs.com/hardwaregod/articles/ ITDisappointment.htm
Marketplace had a cool report on this yesterday afternoon that the reporter recorded as an MP3 file from the flight.
In the report he indicated that on first try his laptop didn't connect, but that Lufthansa had three connection specialists on the plane and were able to get him running within 5 minutes. Apparently the plane was full on reporters and other testing it out, so the connection was a little slower than is usually expected.
The thing that hit me was that they would charge up to $30 extra to use this feature. That might not be a big deal to business passengers, but I'm not sure the average person will appreciate that extra fee on their ticket.
slapping .NET on so many Microsoft products has confused people as to what .NET actually means
Crap?
Mod me a troll if you want. The post probably just offends me because I'm female, but I still don't think it is insightful. If it had been modded as funny I might have let you have that one.
This post is in NO WAY insightful.
I have several memories from around age 2-3. Mainly things like my bedroom's blue fuzzy curtains, being at the bottom of the basement steps, when my parakeet died, etc. The other big thing is that my dad and sister died when I was three (same week, different causes) and I remember the room with all the caskets and one part of dad's funeral. I'm pretty sure I remember mom taking me to the bedroom to tell me about dad being gone, but know nothing of what she said. I would guess those stick with me because they were somewhat tramatic. Many of these memories were not told to me, but that I questioned my mom about later to see if I was accurate. There's just one memory that I have from a time with my dad that my mom cannot confirm whether happened or not. Of course for each memory like this I have, I have 3 dozen other associated memories that are most likely based on things I've been told or seen in pictures.
Check them out for yourself at rael.org. It's much more fun to read Rael's own accounts than the NYTimes summation. That is, if the site isn't down with all the traffic they are probably getting from the /. crowd and the regular public.
:-) I'm guessing they're pretty unhappy about the whole middle east situation because if I remember right for the Elohim to come back they needed to purchase land and build a center in one of major religious areas there, perhaps Jerusalem?
The Clonaid organization was turned over to Brigitte Bossellier(sp?) from Rael a year or so ago. I first ran across them about two or so years ago. It's actually sort of fun to learn about their group.
Or more likely, a web designer's obligation to bow to the wants of his client. Some can be educated, but you'll still have the owner who insists his page look exactly as his brochure does down to the exact same fonts and graphics.
It would help if you mentioned which language(s) you want to learn. I've ran across sites that are very helpful for a particular language, but don't want to hunt them all down right now. If we knew what exactly you were looking for, we could make suggestions.