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dalamar70

One caution about learning new languages, at least in my experience: it's hard to learn something like Japanese if you don't have friends to practice with (or if you're not going to Japan). I find myself with little motivation to go beyond the basics when there's nobody to encourage me to learn more...

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At least the thread topic "Can someone do my assignment, Please ?" is honest and there were no attempts at pretenses.

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On some older keyboards the control key was right next to 'A', where caps lock is now. The 'Windows' key seems to be a fairly recent invention too, not to speak of all the special "Mail" and "Web" keys nowadays.

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1) If Macs are so great then what the heck are Mac owners all using Windows on the Apples for?? I thought buying an Apple was because the user was looking to use progs that can't be touched by a Windows prog, which leads me to... Remember that Mac users tend to be more passionate about Macs than PC...

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Forge wrote:
I should win a prize for 'lamest xmas loot' -

I got a shirt that's too big, a jacket that's too small, and a baseball cap. If I hadn't bought Logitech X-5500 speakers for myself it would have been a record breaking bad year.

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I got a set of these a few weeks ago. They're very good for the price, but the best thing for me were all the input options and the surround decoding--I'm using this mostly for DVDs and music in the living room (no HTPC). On the minus side I have yet to figure out how to run the rear speaker wires n...

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There are a couple of cost of living comparators available on the web. There's one at salary.com for instance ( http://swz.salary.com/costoflivingwizard/layoutscripts/coll_start.asp ). I don't know where they get their data, but they say that the CoL in Canton is 10% less than Sacramento, and jobs a...

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So, the new 680i chipset does in fact support what I have been talking about all along. Great! The problem is you're blaming ASUS for not supporting something they never claimed to support. And for some reason you're using forums for other motherboards and chipsets as proof of how ASUS has betrayed...

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I have a v270 that I use with a MacBook Pro. The connection is lost every 5-10 minutes or so, although it comes back within a few seconds. I don't know if that's the mouse or the MacBook. The v270 is also a bit on the heavy side for me, since it takes two AA batteries.

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Try to "ping" the Windows machine from the Macs, and vice versa, to make sure the machines are reachable and not firewalled somehow.

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My company has 3 full-time IT support folks for about 200 workers. It's a software company so on the one hand the users are a little more advanced than average, but on the other hand they expect more from the IT team too!

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I would rather that there was a degree in Computer Programming rather than stupid Computer Science and that had you doing nothing but sitting at your PC 16 hours a day having fun coding away. Because that's what most programmers wanna do. The courses should be more practical and oriented towards so...

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The goal of most 4 year colleges is to give you a fairly broad education. You probably won't have a chance to get very deeply into any specific subject like writing games. At best a big college will have a few relevant classes like computer graphics and animation, and you might have some chances to ...

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I wouldn't spring for a MacBook Pro if I wasn't sure that I needed or wanted one. If you're just interested in trying out a Mac, then you're probably better off with one of Apple's cheaper models--the regular white MacBook is much more cost-effective than the MacBook Pro. You can also opt for a Mac ...

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I think finding an internship is pretty similar to finding a full-time job. If the company is a good place to work full-time, then it should be a good place for an internship as well. The best way to tell is by looking at the people who currently work there. If they seem happy, then you'd probably b...

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I have a pair of HD497s like DaveG. They're excellent headphones for the price, but they can get uncomfortable if you have a big head like me.

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Not to go off topic, but what factors influence (in laymens terms please) the value of hte dollar. I thought inflation occured when you printer too much money so the value becomes cheapened in a sense. Wikipedia is usually a good source of information. Their article about inflation is a bit long, b...

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There are a couple of other choices for online savings accounts too. Emigrant Direct and HSBC Direct are both offering 4.65% right now. I don't have either one though, so I don't know how well they work.

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Out of curiosity, do you know where the packages were shipped from? I ordered an iPod nano from Amazon with free super saver shipping. It arrived the next day because they apparently shipped it from only 50 miles away.

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I am all for getting what you are worth, but if you haven't done anything are you really worth all that. That's the real question, and apparently for NFL teams some rookies really are worth all that. Keep in mind that it's all a matter of perspective: $12 million is incomprehensible to average peop...

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In my experience finding a good recruiter is unfortunately as hard as finding the job itself. I've never gotten a second call back from a recruiter, except for one--who was recommended to me by a friend. (Connections again.) The tech recruiters I talked to also never knew anything about what they we...

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If you're on a budget, you can just buy one knife at a time. It's not necessarily more expensive than buying a complete set. For example, a 3-piece Shun set costs about the same as the individual knives (although you get a box with the set). If you're getting married, you might consider putting indi...

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totoro wrote:
Check out this description for the new iPod case:
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Whoa! That slipcase is $99!

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Apple computers have always been considered more expensive, but part of the reason is that Apple usually includes more stuff with their packages. The mini is supposed to be Apple's cheap low-end option, so I'm a bit worried that they added more features and increased the price today--that seems to r...

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For many companies the specific language doesn't matter as much as the language paradigm. For example if you know C++ you can (sometimes) get a Java job too, because they're both "object-oriented" languages. On the other hand, the God of Lisp might have difficulty getting that Java job. Also, "worth...

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For programming, language-aware editors with auto-completion of keywords and identifiers, type error highlighting, and jumping to definitions are really useful so I'm surprised there's only been one mention of Eclipse. IntelliJ is similar too. The editor almost writes the program for you. I know you...

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There are some web sites devoted to searching song lyrics, if you haven't tried those yet. I tried doing a quick search at http://lyrics.astraweb.com/ and the closest I found was Jaci Velasquez's "Little Voice Inside": Little voice inside keeps calling, Little voice inside me cries, Little voice ins...

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Randall T. Randall, Jr. I got a cab ride once from a guy named Mohammed M. Mohammed. I can't see where anybody thinks giving a kid the same name over and over is a good idea....I'm sure his middle name was Mohammed. Maybe what bothers me more is that with Randall is that not only did his grandparen...

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Sargent Duck wrote:
I have a friend who's last name is Slocum. And she's female. She's heard it all.

http://www.warrenslocum.com/

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"Five years' odyssey" sounds funny, but maybe that's just because it appears in isolation. How about "Four years' study made me smarter" or "A year's work was lost in the flood"?

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