"...always missing something"
Such as?
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Such as?
What about Mono?
Or, add these lines to your .bashrc to use Ctrl-p and Ctrl-n:
bind "\C-p":history-search-backward
bind "\C-n":history-search-forward
When I have to use Windows, one of the first things I always do is to install cygwin, so I can use bash, grep, etc.
So do tradesmen.
Not necessarily - in the UK, ITV is free-to-air and entirely funded by advertising and sponsorship.
Yes, but probably not many. I think being unemployed ranks pretty highly in all the 'most stressful life event' lists.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:6GfoIFr...
I'd like to hear if anyone else agrees or disagrees with this article (it seems to be a bit of a grey area).
No, as pointed out above, 20 days holiday, on top of 8 public holidays, is the legal minimum.
I doubt it.
"Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported 28,322 American deaths as suicides in the year 2000. Conservative estimates are that 6-10 people are intimately affected by each death. However, a study by the Baton Rouge, LA Crisis Intervention Center (Bland, 1994), the combination of possibly affected individuals reached over 28 people per suicide. In some families, the estimated numbers exceed 50 people (Coleman, 2003). Since, on average, 1,200 New Yorkers die by suicide each year, the latter estimate means approximately 60,000 people qualify as suicide survivors each and every year. This is equivalent to the population of the city of Utica (pop. 59,947, July 1, 2002)."
http://www.omh.state.ny.us/omhweb/savinglives/volume2/suicid...
That's probably where they get them.
Yes, but until recently their salaries were being supplemented by very generous expenses. They were also allowed to take on other work, subject to certain rules.
> Even the prime minister is on less pay than several civil servants which is ridiculous.
Former prime ministers can earn a fortune, however, just look at Tony Blair. Retired MPs can also cash in, to a lesser extent, on their time in office.
Don't many companies now have a policy that they never give references, just confirm job title and dates of employment, to avoid being sued?
Motorcycling, surely?
"Harvey said he got his idea from studying camouflage methods use during World War I and World War II. His project, CV Dazzle, is based on the original dazzle camouflage used by the military to hide ships in the 1940s."
http://www.banking.state.ny.us/brblc.htm
"Leasing can be beneficial if you want the newest model car, plan on getting a new car every two to three years, plan to drive fewer miles than the lease limit and plan to take very good care of the car... If you plan on driving the car for more than four years you are probably better off buying."
And for those with money to burn, here's a George Best quote:
"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."
I guess he was doing something else when he wrote that.
"It is generally agreed that playing soccer is a good crossover skill for playing tennis, because of the footwork."
Generally agreed? I've never heard this before.
True, but presumably the author's claim is based on reports such as this one, where the figures are also per capita:
ORLY?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_time#Differences_among_...
"By far, workers in South Korea have the longest work hours among OECD countries. The average South Korean works 2,390 hours each year, according to the OECD. This is over 400 hours longer than the next longest-working country and 34% more hours than the average in the United States."
"At this writing, the Jargon File claims the incident actually happened, at Toronto in 1979 or 1980, and that the sysadmin on duty was actually interviewed. The account doesn't provide enough details to track down an independent account, however.
Current University of Toronto sysadmins have expressed skepticism. For one thing, in almost all versions of the story, including the ostensibly documented one in the Jargon File, the computer is a VAX; at the time a VAX would have been a very unusual platform for this kind of data acquisition (they used PDP-11s). The Toronto zoology department has never been licensed to work with primates; the only section of the university that could have done experiments of this nature was the School of Medicine. Investigation continues."
If someone's resigned rather than been fired or made redundant, they'll already have had plenty of time to do that, won't they?
"What I find most puzzling is why announce the resignation via email? This is almost always best done face to face, or at least via phone. Doing this electronically strikes me as immature."
I agree that handing in your resignation is best done in person, maybe it's an age thing.
Ramsay! It's Gordon Ramsay!