You are wise in not purchasing a CRT through mail order, if only because of the variation in display quality (even from the most well-regarded manufacturers) and the cost of shipping a faulty unit back to them. But nowadays I would not hesitate to purchase a flat-panel monitor from a quality manufacturer, such as ViewSonic or Samsung (the maker of my current flat-panel monitor, a SyncMaster, which is well-designed and a joy to use).
In general, throughout the Far East, touching anyone or anything with one's shoes or feet is considered insulting. This is true even when at a distance: For example, pointing the soles of one's shoes or feet towards one's hosts could easily be considered an affront. When visiting a Buddhist temple, it's very poor form to sit with your legs extended in front of you, pointing towards the statues, etc. in front.
I've read that this is a natural result of their considering a person's head to be the spiritually 'highest' part of the body (not just in elevation), while the feet are the 'lowest'.
Even better, if you do buy a single home now, in the right location, it might get converted into two separate open-air units, free of charge.
But don't buy a fish tank just yet. A buddy of mine living in Northridge at the time of the big quake, woke up in time to see his huge fish tank slowly gyrate out into the middle of his room, and then explode.
"TPR reports? No, management named them TPS reports during one of the early Initech corporate brainstorming conferences in Las Vegas. Did you get the memo? Let me resend that memo to you. Right... right... Yeah, I'll send that memo to you again..."
How can SirSlud's financially unsound suggestion ("Imagine if O'Reilly books are free.... Economically speaking, this *could* make O'Reilly more in the long run.") get mod-ed up to "Score:5, Insightful", while NoCoward's funny rejoinder only merits a "Score:1"?!
Or for Zep fans: "You shock me, baby. You shock me awe night long."
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No, Google does support full-word wildcards, in which an isolated '*' represents a full word. Multiple wildcards (e.g., "How to * a *") can be used in a phrase. Google does not support stemming, in which a wildcard character (such as '*') represents a portion of a word, e.g., "How to feed a cat*" in hopes of matching 'cat', 'catfish', 'cathous- er, you get the idea.
The ineffectiveness of spamming the major job Web sites has been quantified, to some extent, in the 2003 edition of What Color is Your Parachute?, one of the most popular books for job hunters. In particular, the author lists the following methods to find a job, in increasing order of success:
Internet search (1-10% success rate, depending upon field),
mailing out resumes randomly,
responding to newspaper ads,
using agencies,
networking through acquaintances (33%),
visiting all companies in person,
calling companies in Yellow Pages, and
doing a "life-changing job hunt" (as defined in the book) (86%).
I can't recall all of the success rates, but the take-home lesson is clear.
Yes, but the value of a book's index is proportional to the effort by its publisher to create a complete index with correct page numbers. Unfortunately, given the apparent speed with which technical titles are brought to market nowadays, the indexes of these books are frequently inadequate and riddled with incorrect page numbers. Most of my programming books have required ongoing additions and corrections to their indexes. Admittedly, the index of an online book may be just as bad as that of its paper cousin (in fact, they are probably identical, except of course for the handy links in the online version). But an online search facility -- similar to that of Safari -- bypasses the problem of errors in the index.
Kinesis programmable keyboards allow you to assign any keyboard combination to a series of keystrokes. For instance, you could assign Ctrl + F1 to type your password for you. Just don't let people see you doing it...
Voice rec? Even if it were perfect, it would require massive changes to places like where I work. As any any cubical farm other voices are distracting from what I'm doing.
Probably not, since people are able to use speech recognition successfully using a voice volume level less than that of their neighbors talking on their phones. I've used speech recognition for years at several employers, and most of that time I was in a cubicle and not a (shared) office.
Besides the fact that Voice Rec would really suck for entering code.
Even though dictating code is less efficient than dictating text, countless developers are now using speech recognition for coding. Check out http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VoiceCoder/.
Another advantage to Kinesis Contoured keyboards is the flat open space on top of the keyboard, between the two key wells. It's an ideal location for a touchpad, if you use one. Then you can kick back, put the keyboard on your lap, and not have to be reaching forward to your desk.
But more than likely, the image of your keyboard layout will be blocked by the windows that you are trying to type into. Minimizing all windows to see the image, and then restoring those windows, will take longer than simply glancing down at your keyboard.
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...you cannot claim 100% [of your start up expenses] on the first year's taxes.
You can if they all can be considered Section 179 expenses, which is often the case for most small businesses.
You are wise in not purchasing a CRT through mail order, if only because of the variation in display quality (even from the most well-regarded manufacturers) and the cost of shipping a faulty unit back to them. But nowadays I would not hesitate to purchase a flat-panel monitor from a quality manufacturer, such as ViewSonic or Samsung (the maker of my current flat-panel monitor, a SyncMaster, which is well-designed and a joy to use).
In general, throughout the Far East, touching anyone or anything with one's shoes or feet is considered insulting. This is true even when at a distance: For example, pointing the soles of one's shoes or feet towards one's hosts could easily be considered an affront. When visiting a Buddhist temple, it's very poor form to sit with your legs extended in front of you, pointing towards the statues, etc. in front.
I've read that this is a natural result of their considering a person's head to be the spiritually 'highest' part of the body (not just in elevation), while the feet are the 'lowest'.
Besides, what nation is going to want a bunch of undereducated Americans?
...or overeducated, "overqualified", yet unemployed American programmers? India? ;)
That long of a delay could only be the 405, "Satan's Parking Lot".
Even better, if you do buy a single home now, in the right location, it might get converted into two separate open-air units, free of charge.
But don't buy a fish tank just yet. A buddy of mine living in Northridge at the time of the big quake, woke up in time to see his huge fish tank slowly gyrate out into the middle of his room, and then explode.
"TPR reports? No, management named them TPS reports during one of the early Initech corporate brainstorming conferences in Las Vegas. Did you get the memo? Let me resend that memo to you. Right... right... Yeah, I'll send that memo to you again..."
The day of the HTML "developer" making 100k a year are long past.
Good riddance to those days.
No, those high salaries during the e-commerce party helped all of us -- sys admins, developers, site designers, DBA's, etc.
Sure. Tell that to your landlord. He'll understand.
A neglected film noir classic from 1950, starring Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame.
How can SirSlud's financially unsound suggestion ("Imagine if O'Reilly books are free. ... Economically speaking, this *could* make O'Reilly more in the long run.") get mod-ed up to "Score:5, Insightful", while NoCoward's funny rejoinder only merits a "Score:1"?!
Or for Zep fans: "You shock me, baby. You shock me awe night long."
No, Google does support full-word wildcards, in which an isolated '*' represents a full word. Multiple wildcards (e.g., "How to * a *") can be used in a phrase. Google does not support stemming, in which a wildcard character (such as '*') represents a portion of a word, e.g., "How to feed a cat*" in hopes of matching 'cat', 'catfish', 'cathous- er, you get the idea.
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Internet search (1-10% success rate, depending upon field),
-
mailing out resumes randomly,
-
responding to newspaper ads,
-
using agencies,
-
networking through acquaintances (33%),
-
visiting all companies in person,
-
calling companies in Yellow Pages, and
-
doing a "life-changing job hunt" (as defined in the book) (86%).
I can't recall all of the success rates, but the take-home lesson is clear....and crime, to keep the police and rent-a-cops employed.
Yes, but the value of a book's index is proportional to the effort by its publisher to create a complete index with correct page numbers. Unfortunately, given the apparent speed with which technical titles are brought to market nowadays, the indexes of these books are frequently inadequate and riddled with incorrect page numbers. Most of my programming books have required ongoing additions and corrections to their indexes. Admittedly, the index of an online book may be just as bad as that of its paper cousin (in fact, they are probably identical, except of course for the handy links in the online version). But an online search facility -- similar to that of Safari -- bypasses the problem of errors in the index.
Kinesis programmable keyboards allow you to assign any keyboard combination to a series of keystrokes. For instance, you could assign Ctrl + F1 to type your password for you. Just don't let people see you doing it...
Sounds like a Kinesis Contoured keyboard with a foot switch.
Voice rec? Even if it were perfect, it would require massive changes to places like where I work. As any any cubical farm other voices are distracting from what I'm doing.
Probably not, since people are able to use speech recognition successfully using a voice volume level less than that of their neighbors talking on their phones. I've used speech recognition for years at several employers, and most of that time I was in a cubicle and not a (shared) office.
Besides the fact that Voice Rec would really suck for entering code.
Even though dictating code is less efficient than dictating text, countless developers are now using speech recognition for coding. Check out http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VoiceCoder/.
Another advantage to Kinesis Contoured keyboards is the flat open space on top of the keyboard, between the two key wells. It's an ideal location for a touchpad, if you use one. Then you can kick back, put the keyboard on your lap, and not have to be reaching forward to your desk.
But more than likely, the image of your keyboard layout will be blocked by the windows that you are trying to type into. Minimizing all windows to see the image, and then restoring those windows, will take longer than simply glancing down at your keyboard.
...I find that phphome is amazing... www.phphome.net ?
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