Learning all there is to know about house pricing is easier than mastering a new C library. The problem is it is not all in one place.
A quick example is costing. If you have estimated the cost of development you know the concept. If a living room costs x dollars per square foot a kitchen will cost 4x/square and a bathroom 6x. (approximations only.) The reasons are obvious, a living room is empty space while kitchen and bath are not only smaller but filled with expensive equipment.
The consequences can be dramatic. A huge living room or master bedroom is relatively cheap compared to an extra bath. A bath with a double sink is a great improvement without the cost of an entire second bath. The half bath is not all that much savings.
Planning for a family later? An unfinished area, slab with a roof over it, is 0.5x and makes a fine workshop or place for the pool table while waiting.
A general rule is the neighborhood average sets the selling price. This highest cost house is pulled down and the lowest cost is pulled up. (Cost and price are different, remember) In most parts of the country adding a swimming pool lowers the price of a house no matter how much it cost. The more customized your house the harder it will be to find a buyer who wants your idea of customized.
A home is just a house. Never fall in love with a house. It is not permanent, it is not forever. Neighborhoods change. Newlyweds can do better buying under their potential and saving/investing the excess to buy a better home in a better neighborhood later when they have children and care about the schools and neighbors. This is particularly true if they can buy in a neighborhood being renovated for some reason.
Real estate agents make their money on turnover and satisfied clients. That doesn't mean blind trust in their opinion but they know the areas being renovated. Cars out of line with the price of the houses in a neighborhood is an excellent indicator. It is better to best in the second tier after the trend is set than a pioneer.
For people just starting out, home furnishings are priced to last for at least a decade. Do you really want a high priced, leather living room suite when in a few years your kids are going to be spilling food and drink, jumping and vomiting on it? Creative and Pier One go with affordable and replacable without going to brown bag lunches at the same time.
This year no one needs be reminded jobs are not forever, incomes do not rise forever or working in the same city is not forever. Keep that in mind when buying. And when things change consider turning the property into a rental rather than selling it. There are great tax advantages to doing so. Managing rental property is not for everyone, read up on it.
I found the 30 days usually ran out or got close to it before trying to use it. Now if it were 30 days from first usage it might be something else entirely.
For a while I did try doing what you are talking about. I would store the password for the day I got the time to evaluate the software and then download it. Most of the time I forgot about it.
I get this humongous laser and stop/collect all the light from it. Then I launch the collector at the Klingons/Iraqis or whomever is the bad guy this week.
Or I keep the collector and switch it off after an hour letting all the photons to continue on their way towards the terrorist de jour.
The idea of a "metaphor" has been stupid since its conception.
It has been trying to "make it simple" to people who the more they use computers the more they know the metaphor is stupid. But rather than accomodating the learning curve they stick on in it. The more the metophor is used the lamer it appears to the user.
There is an amazing ability of people to confuse a metaphor with an application. An OS desktop is not an application desktop.
If you have to ask how you can develop something without a metaphor you do not understand what you are doing.
Doing something on a computer is intrinsically different from doing it without a computer. Stop the GD MicroS*** pandering to the least common denominator and do your customers a favor and introduce them to the real world of computers.
I assure you, ledger books are truly as dead as single entry ledgers.
They took the first step, getting the virus catching companies to agree not to detect it.
The next requirement is to get Microsoft to agree NEVER to fix their security holes. Additionally they must agree never to release the source so someone else can develop a patch to fix the problem. Twist their arm even harder to get them to agree.
Then they have to get the snoopees never to use linux. While linux as the OS of choice of terrorists would academically increase usage, their testimonials would be unlikely and undesired. "Without linux we could never have blown up _____."
When MS includes Digital Rights Management in their operating system the RIAA will certainly try to sue linux out of existance and the Gov will support their lawsuits. "Protect the country from terrorism (and our copyrights) by banning linux."
Just a couple months ago there I was watching the first episode of Enterprise and thinking how stupid it was for there to be a layer of sodium in the atmosphere.
Of course, leave it to the Star Trek folks to get the distance all wrong.
Any officially designated victim group has the absolute right to decide what constitutes hate speech towards its members. That is the serious issue and really the only issue.
Designated victims can have anything they do not want to hear criminalized as hate speech even if not a race such as Jews.
Are you sick of The Holocaust Channel? Don't say so. That is hate speech.
Muslim terrorist groups use fronts disguised as charities to move money around, and the Holy Land Foundation has long been suspected of being a financial front for Hamas.
Correct, that is the Israeli propaganda line. When are the sites which support Israeli murderers and thieves going to be shut down? Innocent until proven guilty but murder then anyway and passersby and never even pretend to provide evidence.
What can I do against the big guys? I can't afford the first interview with an lawyer with enough experience to take them on. Who would be on my side?
I didn't buy it but I was charged sales tax. The states can't charge sales tax if what I am buying is a license. And stores do not have to charge sales tax.
What big company(s) might like to run a national promotion "No sales tax on the following items"? What states would like to step in and determine it is lawfully a sale?
Are any of them big enough to take on the troublemakers?
When I got sick of it I took a look at where that annoying crap appeared. 90%+ was from newspapers while getting my daily news fix. So I switched to Lynx and later Links for the news. If I want to see a particular picture I have jpg and gif associated with display from Imagemagick. And this leaves Netscape to use where I really want to have Java(script) functioning.
There were several links to discussions of it on Drudge Report in the last two weeks. It was out for nearly 36 hours when I posted. The TV promos have him talking to someone as he crashlands. The SciFi channel Exposure at 7pm EST Friday had him say something like "I have 24 hours to get there to be rescued."
Where could anyone get the idea it was set on earth? ST Voyager tachyon communications?
Sorry to be a wet blanket but it was just the good side of S-U-C-K-S. The entire production was techie terms for magic. Remember Jiminy Cricket, er, Bit? Alice goes through the looking glass. Is that ho hum or hum ho?
I had been into PCs four years when it came out and had a dozen published games for the Atari 800 by then. (Starshot in Byte for the curious.) There was no game quality to the "games" in Tron. There were much more challenging graphics in Atari games in 1982 than there were graphics in the movie which were mostly faked rather than computer graphics as we see them today. Anyone feeling nostalgic catch it on cable or try to rent it and discover nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
Do a sequal of that? How about a sequal of Cinderella? Pinnochio? I saw those when I was about as old as most of this audience was when they first saw Tron. (So was my son and he is now in the business and I presume Tron didn't discourage him. No blame.) What impresses us in youth does not bear repeating in age.
What is the purpose of a sequal? To inspire today's youth? When most games they have is better than movies can afford to make? To inspire _us_ again?
Some things were right for their time and not afterwards. Anyone for a remake of the Shirley Temple movies? Tron is about that to Matrix. Shirley Temple was a child talent contest winner with cute lines.
Leave Tron alone as a period piece so all my above criticisms of it will not become painfully obvious in the flop remake and ruin old memories.
P.S. Planet of the Apes remake is not on earth? What pray tell is the point of it unless the nerfbrain creator believes in Trekkian parallel evolution? He "corrected" problems in the original while injecting vastly greater idiocies?
Can Tron 2.0 fail substitute the _creative_ process for very well known facts which would require real creativity from the project?
I am almost a "Senior Citizen." My first FORTRAN program compiled in 1967 and set a standard for my "industry" at the time.
Enough said.
Count back from their age to the use of computers and think about it. Basic demographics says their average age is 75. That means in 1991 they were running companies at their age 65 retirement.
You would do better searching retirement homes as a source of hacking than trying to teach.
I am amazed at the kids who believe these folks are feeble and simple minded and "oh so grateful." Wake up and smell the napalm!
The image of "old folks" has not changed in my 56 years on this planet and I have to ask if there are stores for the women to but "Arsenic and Old Lace" clothing or if the TV stations have it in their costume departments. "I got my free Rascal!"
This is getting so sickening I just might refuse to grow old on general principles.
9 in 10 techies who are tired of $60k+ wage slavery and tired of buying a Ferrari and with eyes on buying Ferrari Inc. talk about starting their own company.
I assure one and all being the world's greatest authority on techie stuff will not contribute on whit to a successful business.
Java as a teaching language is great in a community college where the objective is to teach a trade in an incomplete language without general applicability and is a transient language.
Pascal or a structured BASIC are proper introductory languages. They easily demonstrate the fundamentals of programming. Once learned a person can get out the manual in any other language and find how it is done in the other language.
C should be taught after the introduction for no other reason than the availability of compilers for so many platforms. And that is not to teach a trade as would be Java but as a working language for the rest of the degree program. (I don't use C, so no bias.)
In the degree work exposure to one or more other langauages such as Lisp, Java, Forth, Perl, C++ and others not for their inherent value to to impress upon the student there is more than one way to skin a CPU. And certainly some place along the way a seminar on choosing the best language for a project.
Java is highly unlikely to be more than a passing fad. And even if long lived four years of college is a significant fraction the life of even a long-lived one.
C shows no signs of disappearing, not even waning the the face of the newer languages. It expanded to C++. Pascal has been through two reincarnations whether or not you like it.
I have had two motion related problems over the years, one in the jaw (TMJ) and one in the knee with no fancy name. In both cases I identified the motion which was the cause of the problem and stopped doing it.
I can also move my fingers on the keyboard in such a way as to cause sharp stinging pains. I suggest anyone suffering from it, learn to more your fingers in a way which does not cause those problems.
As to its reality, in the old days there were typing pools, nothing but typing all day, and CTS was unheardof. If any programmer types that much he needs be inducted into some Hall of Fame or needs to use much shorter variable names.
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A quick example is costing. If you have estimated the cost of development you know the concept. If a living room costs x dollars per square foot a kitchen will cost 4x/square and a bathroom 6x. (approximations only.) The reasons are obvious, a living room is empty space while kitchen and bath are not only smaller but filled with expensive equipment.
The consequences can be dramatic. A huge living room or master bedroom is relatively cheap compared to an extra bath. A bath with a double sink is a great improvement without the cost of an entire second bath. The half bath is not all that much savings.
Planning for a family later? An unfinished area, slab with a roof over it, is 0.5x and makes a fine workshop or place for the pool table while waiting.
A general rule is the neighborhood average sets the selling price. This highest cost house is pulled down and the lowest cost is pulled up. (Cost and price are different, remember) In most parts of the country adding a swimming pool lowers the price of a house no matter how much it cost. The more customized your house the harder it will be to find a buyer who wants your idea of customized.
A home is just a house. Never fall in love with a house. It is not permanent, it is not forever. Neighborhoods change. Newlyweds can do better buying under their potential and saving/investing the excess to buy a better home in a better neighborhood later when they have children and care about the schools and neighbors. This is particularly true if they can buy in a neighborhood being renovated for some reason.
Real estate agents make their money on turnover and satisfied clients. That doesn't mean blind trust in their opinion but they know the areas being renovated. Cars out of line with the price of the houses in a neighborhood is an excellent indicator. It is better to best in the second tier after the trend is set than a pioneer.
For people just starting out, home furnishings are priced to last for at least a decade. Do you really want a high priced, leather living room suite when in a few years your kids are going to be spilling food and drink, jumping and vomiting on it? Creative and Pier One go with affordable and replacable without going to brown bag lunches at the same time.
This year no one needs be reminded jobs are not forever, incomes do not rise forever or working in the same city is not forever. Keep that in mind when buying. And when things change consider turning the property into a rental rather than selling it. There are great tax advantages to doing so. Managing rental property is not for everyone, read up on it.
I have had RR for over two years and it has been doing that since I joined up.
Got anything interesting?
This law or any like it will REQUIRE all computers to be crippled.
I found the 30 days usually ran out or got close to it before trying to use it. Now if it were 30 days from first usage it might be something else entirely.
For a while I did try doing what you are talking about. I would store the password for the day I got the time to evaluate the software and then download it. Most of the time I forgot about it.
Or I keep the collector and switch it off after an hour letting all the photons to continue on their way towards the terrorist de jour.
So when do we get slow glass?
It has been trying to "make it simple" to people who the more they use computers the more they know the metaphor is stupid. But rather than accomodating the learning curve they stick on in it. The more the metophor is used the lamer it appears to the user.
There is an amazing ability of people to confuse a metaphor with an application. An OS desktop is not an application desktop.
If you have to ask how you can develop something without a metaphor you do not understand what you are doing.
Doing something on a computer is intrinsically different from doing it without a computer. Stop the GD MicroS*** pandering to the least common denominator and do your customers a favor and introduce them to the real world of computers.
I assure you, ledger books are truly as dead as single entry ledgers.
They took the first step, getting the virus catching companies to agree not to detect it.
The next requirement is to get Microsoft to agree NEVER to fix their security holes. Additionally they must agree never to release the source so someone else can develop a patch to fix the problem. Twist their arm even harder to get them to agree.
Then they have to get the snoopees never to use linux. While linux as the OS of choice of terrorists would academically increase usage, their testimonials would be unlikely and undesired. "Without linux we could never have blown up _____."
When MS includes Digital Rights Management in their operating system the RIAA will certainly try to sue linux out of existance and the Gov will support their lawsuits. "Protect the country from terrorism (and our copyrights) by banning linux."
The car is just a variation on the DVD player which is just a variation on the space shuttle.
Do you think power tools and space shuttles will find much in common to talk about?
Do we see the inside of the box or the inside of the cat or the inside of the cat's stomach?
Of course, leave it to the Star Trek folks to get the distance all wrong.
"You want to carry this bottle of flammable liquid on board the plane?"
After six weeks of detention for questioning I ask, "Why not ethanol which the airline will sell me as vodka on board the plane to refuel it?"
Any officially designated victim group has the absolute right to decide what constitutes hate speech towards its members. That is the serious issue and really the only issue.
Designated victims can have anything they do not want to hear criminalized as hate speech even if not a race such as Jews.
Are you sick of The Holocaust Channel? Don't say so. That is hate speech.
How are NASA, Oak Ridge, NSA, super computer manufacturers and all the rest going to react when they discover the limitations put on their computers?
Correct, that is the Israeli propaganda line. When are the sites which support Israeli murderers and thieves going to be shut down? Innocent until proven guilty but murder then anyway and passersby and never even pretend to provide evidence.
Redhat for another reason. It has the largest installed base. Therefore it has the most people to ask for help when needed.
I didn't buy it but I was charged sales tax. The states can't charge sales tax if what I am buying is a license. And stores do not have to charge sales tax.
What big company(s) might like to run a national promotion "No sales tax on the following items"? What states would like to step in and determine it is lawfully a sale?
Are any of them big enough to take on the troublemakers?
When I got sick of it I took a look at where that annoying crap appeared. 90%+ was from newspapers while getting my daily news fix. So I switched to Lynx and later Links for the news. If I want to see a particular picture I have jpg and gif associated with display from Imagemagick. And this leaves Netscape to use where I really want to have Java(script) functioning.
Where could anyone get the idea it was set on earth? ST Voyager tachyon communications?
I had been into PCs four years when it came out and had a dozen published games for the Atari 800 by then. (Starshot in Byte for the curious.) There was no game quality to the "games" in Tron. There were much more challenging graphics in Atari games in 1982 than there were graphics in the movie which were mostly faked rather than computer graphics as we see them today. Anyone feeling nostalgic catch it on cable or try to rent it and discover nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
Do a sequal of that? How about a sequal of Cinderella? Pinnochio? I saw those when I was about as old as most of this audience was when they first saw Tron. (So was my son and he is now in the business and I presume Tron didn't discourage him. No blame.) What impresses us in youth does not bear repeating in age.
What is the purpose of a sequal? To inspire today's youth? When most games they have is better than movies can afford to make? To inspire _us_ again?
Some things were right for their time and not afterwards. Anyone for a remake of the Shirley Temple movies? Tron is about that to Matrix. Shirley Temple was a child talent contest winner with cute lines.
Leave Tron alone as a period piece so all my above criticisms of it will not become painfully obvious in the flop remake and ruin old memories.
P.S. Planet of the Apes remake is not on earth? What pray tell is the point of it unless the nerfbrain creator believes in Trekkian parallel evolution? He "corrected" problems in the original while injecting vastly greater idiocies?
Can Tron 2.0 fail substitute the _creative_ process for very well known facts which would require real creativity from the project?
If I remember right even the IBM-PC was introduced in 1982. But the term Personal Computer if not the acronym PC was introduced in 1978.
One night while talking in his sleep he uttered on distinct word, Andromeda.
Enough said.
Count back from their age to the use of computers and think about it. Basic demographics says their average age is 75. That means in 1991 they were running companies at their age 65 retirement.
You would do better searching retirement homes as a source of hacking than trying to teach.
I am amazed at the kids who believe these folks are feeble and simple minded and "oh so grateful." Wake up and smell the napalm!
The image of "old folks" has not changed in my 56 years on this planet and I have to ask if there are stores for the women to but "Arsenic and Old Lace" clothing or if the TV stations have it in their costume departments. "I got my free Rascal!"
This is getting so sickening I just might refuse to grow old on general principles.
I assure one and all being the world's greatest authority on techie stuff will not contribute on whit to a successful business.
Pascal or a structured BASIC are proper introductory languages. They easily demonstrate the fundamentals of programming. Once learned a person can get out the manual in any other language and find how it is done in the other language.
C should be taught after the introduction for no other reason than the availability of compilers for so many platforms. And that is not to teach a trade as would be Java but as a working language for the rest of the degree program. (I don't use C, so no bias.)
In the degree work exposure to one or more other langauages such as Lisp, Java, Forth, Perl, C++ and others not for their inherent value to to impress upon the student there is more than one way to skin a CPU. And certainly some place along the way a seminar on choosing the best language for a project.
Java is highly unlikely to be more than a passing fad. And even if long lived four years of college is a significant fraction the life of even a long-lived one.
C shows no signs of disappearing, not even waning the the face of the newer languages. It expanded to C++. Pascal has been through two reincarnations whether or not you like it.
I have had two motion related problems over the years, one in the jaw (TMJ) and one in the knee with no fancy name. In both cases I identified the motion which was the cause of the problem and stopped doing it.
I can also move my fingers on the keyboard in such a way as to cause sharp stinging pains. I suggest anyone suffering from it, learn to more your fingers in a way which does not cause those problems.
As to its reality, in the old days there were typing pools, nothing but typing all day, and CTS was unheardof. If any programmer types that much he needs be inducted into some Hall of Fame or needs to use much shorter variable names.