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401k Savings Plans	02/08/2005
Artemis Project -- Electronic Communication	09/19/2004	One of the greatest challenges for the project is having a huge team spread out all over the world. We keep in touch through extensive use of electronic communications. This chapter of the Artemis Data Book provides the details of the Artemis Electronic Communications infrastructure, which includes the World Wide Web site, mailing lists, on-line services, and real-time meetings.
Canadian Business Information Center -- Help For Starting Business	09/19/2004	The BIS contains a description in both official languages of over 1,250 business-related programmes, services and regulations under the ægis of 37 federal departments and agencies, as well as non-governmental organizations. Information meets strict quality standards with respect to timeliness, accuracy and readability.
Catalog of Articles And Data In Date Last Modified Order - Detailed	02/14/2005	The data entered into this section of the web is generally from other web sites and includes articles and new items of possible interest to the completion of our plans. This page has the data arranged in the order of the last modified date.
Catalog of Articles And Data In Title Order -- Detailed	02/14/2005	The data entered into this section of the web is generally from other web sites and includes articles and new items of possible interest to the completion of our plans. The data on this page is arranged in the alphabetical order of the Title.
Catalog of Articles And Data In Title Order -- Summary	02/14/2005	The data entered into this section of the web is generally from other web sites and includes articles and new items of possible interest to the completion of our plans. The data on this page is arranged in the order of the Date Last Modified.
Catalog of Articles And Data In Title Order -- Summary	02/14/2005	The data entered into this section of the web is generally from other web sites and includes articles and new items of possible interest to the completion of our plans. The data on this page is arranged in the alphabetical order of the Title.
Chinese Eagerness To Prosper Contrasts With Typical US Apathy	01/25/2005
Codd's Rules For Relational Databases	09/19/2004	In 1985 Codd proposed an informal set of twelve rules by which a database could be evaluated to see how "relational" it is.  He did this because many vendors were selling DBMSs, which did not live up to Codd's original concept of what a relational database model was and claiming that they  were relational products.
Collecting data you want, in a format you want it	09/19/2004	Now that we have identified studies we are going to consider for inclusion in the review, we need to work out how we are going to use them and what information we need to extract from the studies to include in the review. Like all other components of the review we try to do this in a systematic way.
Comments By Others About Google AdWords	09/19/2004	Tens of thousands of businesses already know about one of the best-kept secrets on the Internet: paying for small text advertisements which appear near search engine results. The ads are triggered by the keywords typed in by the end user, and the advertiser pays on a "pay-per-click" basis. For many, paying for this kind of targeted traffic has been the bargain of a lifetime. Those that got in earliest got the best deals.
Compensation Solution -- Academia Thinking	02/06/2005
Cookie Heaven -- All You Wanted To Know	09/19/2004	Cookies are a very important method for maintaining state on the Web. "State" in this case refers to an application's ability to work interactively with a user, remembering all data since the application started, and differentiating between users and their individual data sets.
Cookies Are Short Pieces Of Data Used By Servers	09/19/2004	Whenever a web browser requests a file from the web server that sent it a cookie, the browser sends a copy of that cookie back to the server along with the request. Thus a server sends you a cookie and you send it back whenever you request another file from the same server. In this way, the server knows you have visited before and can coordinate your access to different pages on its web site. For example, an Internet shopping site uses a cookie to keep track of which shopping basket belongs to you. A server cannot find out your name or e-mail address, or anything about your computer using cookies.
Criticism Of CEO Earnings Gap	02/06/2005
Data About Consignment Sales	09/19/2004	The Sale of Goods on Consignment Agreement allows a Consignor to provide goods to a Consignee, who then attempts to sell the goods. The Consignee then pays the Consignor for goods sold and returns any unsold goods.
Design Web Pages With Seniors In Mind:  WSJ, November 2004	12/06/2004	Web sites most often aren't designed with older adults in mind, an oversight that can be costly to businesses online as the population ages and as more seniors discover the Internet. Usability studies suggest many sites need to be more accessible for older people just beginning to learn about computers and for those suffering from age-related eyesight, memory and movement problems. Just one example: Many sites don't let visitors enlarge small type.
E-Commerce Sites Make Great Laboratory For Today's Economists	10/12/2004
Electronic College Courses and Study	09/19/2004	University of Phoenix Online Don't let a busy schedule stop your education. Whether you are looking to finish your degree, advance your career or start a new one, University of Phoenix Online offers bachelor's, master's, and Continuing Teacher Education programs specifically designed for busy professionals who need to balance work, family, AND an education. Take classes at your convenience -- all from your computer. Earn one of the most current and relevant degrees offered in the areas of Business, Technology, Education, and Nursing. Complete your degree in only 2-3 years, in most cases -- faster than many traditional universities. That is why more working professionals attend University of Phoenix Online than any other private University in the U.S. Request more info.
Electronic Communication Options -- Indiana University	09/19/2004	At IUB, there are several options for course communication, information posting, collaborative discussion, group work, and file sharing. This document outlines these options and provides a start for matching your course needs with the appropriate supporting technology. Currently, options include:
Electronic Publishing -- Success Strategy	09/19/2004	These days -- for an additional fee described as "substantial" but "reasonable" by Drexel's librarian -- the university has online access to some 1,500 Elsevier journals through the company's ScienceDirect service. [web page here] ScienceDirect offers all Elsevier titles and provides specialized Internet searches and links to titles from other publishers.
Electronic Takeover Of Stock Exchange -- And The World	09/19/2004	But then these revenues themselves have been suspect in the public mind lately. Shares of stock can in theory be traded everywhere and nowhere (in cyberspace), but the NYSE still captures a dominant chunk of the business thanks to a mixture of regulatory advantage and historical luck. Mr. Grasso did wonders bringing technology to bear and building the exchange's brand equity, but some believe the future of trading is all-electronic and that the NYSE has been dragging its feet mainly because the current system benefits insiders at the expense of the public.
Electronic Traffic School -- Popular!  Effective?	09/19/2004	Why should parents be penalized by having to pay the additional childcare costs when they have to attend traffic school? Why should people who work unusual shifts, such as graveyard, be penalized by having to get up during normal hours in order to attend a classroom traffic school? Why should people who work more than five days per week have to take time off work to attend classroom setting traffic schools? Why shouldn't home study programs be available to the general public, so that they can complete them at their own pace, when they have time available, rather than having to work around someone else's schedule? We feel that Home Study Alternative Programs should be available to anyone who wants to attend.
Extension of Ban On Internet Taxes Nears Approval	11/18/2004	The measure, which had been stalled for months, is an important element of President Bush's promise to have nationwide high-speed Internet access in place by 2007. Yesterday, the Senate voted unanimously to approve the extended ban, which applies to Internet access services such as America Online and Earthlink.
Finding Your Way Online When the Lights Go Out	09/19/2004	FOR MOST PEOPLE stuck at home during the blackout, the Internet was just as dead as their lights. But that didn't always indicate a problem with the service provider. In some cases, the connection was working fine -- and all that was needed was some extra juice in the den or home office. More on that later. First, a look at how the various Web-access technologies stack up.
Fire In The Belly!	02/06/2005	"Fire in the belly" is an interesting term, often used by various people to illustrate things quite different. I want to draw from others, but put my own definition to this term, "Fire in the Belly!" Mostly what I find, searching the web, are uses of this term to promote some "career counseling" or "psychological mumbo jumbo." I prefer to use this term to mean an intense enthusiasm for some cause greater than yourself.
Froogle Data Feed Instructions	09/19/2004	Important: The content in your feed must be the same as the content visible to users on your web site. The description and price you provide in the feed must be exactly the same as the description and price on your product URL page. The image URL must be the actual product image on the product page. Here’s what you’ll need to create a data feed and send it to Froogle:
Froogle Search And Listing Of Shopping Carts	09/19/2004	Froogle is a new service from Google that makes it easy to find information about products for sale online. By focusing entirely on product search, Froogle applies the power of Google's search technology to a very specific task: locating stores that sell the item you want to find and pointing you directly to the place where you can make a purchase.
Golden Parachute	03/31/2005
Google AdWords Campaign	09/19/2004	Google AdWords aims to provide the most effective advertising available for businesses of any size. We pledge to help you meet your customer acquisition needs by enabling you to:
Google Is Most Popular Search Site, But Others Sometimes Do It Better	09/19/2004	The advantages of this approach might not be immediately apparent to the casual visitor to the Teoma.com site. Pay attention, though, to the "refinements" you see on the right side of the screen after a search. Teoma's software has, in effect, found the "community" associated with your search, and is listing what related topics that community is "discussing." For "power blackout," the refinements Friday included "electrical surge" and "cost of downtime."
Guidelines for using XML for Electronic Data Interchange	09/19/2004	Put simply, the goal of XML/EDI is to deliver unambiguous and durable business transactions via electronic means. Associated with this is a goal to establish a standard for commercial electronic data interchange that is open and accessible to all, and which delivers a broad spectrum of capabilities suitable to meet the full breadth of business needs.
Hacking!  Lack of Awareness (Morality) Is The Cause	09/19/2004	There is another type of hacking that is just as barbaric, but it is "modern" and "Western" in practice. That is "computer hacking" and the creation and spread of computer viruses. The Geeks who do these crimes are far more technologically "modern" but their morals are no better than the mud-hut Muslim who "protects" his family's honor by hacking his sister to death.
Here is a Web Designer Asking The Same Question I have Asked	09/19/2004	I have just about no experience working with cookies in PHP, although I do have some moderate experience with other elements of PHP and with MySQL.
History of Programming Technology	09/19/2004	DOS (Disk Operating System) is a very simple language for manipulating data on the hard disk. There are relatively few commands within DOS, and data is stored, in essence, in random places on the disk -- with a "File Allocation Table" keeping track of where stuff was stored. DOS has been pretty much replaced by the "Windows Operating System" which has the same purpose, but does it in a far more complex and useful way. The dBase program language, and MySQL (both described on this page) are, in reality, nothing more than greatly improved methods of placing and manipulating data.
In Defense of Print	10/12/2004	In any case, our surveys have shown over and over again that users do like the ability to get long documents in hardcopy, which is why even online publishing systems need a print feature. The implication for web design is to provide printable versions of any long documents. Web browsers are slowly gaining decent print functionality, but one cannot rely on browser companies to produce well-crafted printouts since their main interest is online information. For example, Netscape and Internet Explorer both use the same typeface and font size for online viewing and printing, even though it is known to all typography specialists that the two media require different type.
Instructions For Removal Of Data By Google	09/19/2004	Google views the quality of its search results as an extremely important priority. Therefore, Google stops indexing the pages on your site only at the request of the webmaster who is responsible for those pages or as required by law. This policy is necessary to ensure that pages are not inappropriately removed from our index
Jakob Nielsen:  How Users Read on the Web	09/19/2004	People rarely read Web pages word by word; instead, they scan the page, picking out individual words and sentences. In a recent study John Morkes and I found that 79 percent of our test users always scanned any new page they came across; only 16 percent read word-by-word.
JavaScript Cookies	09/19/2004	These scripts all use JavaScript Cookies. Cookies are small bits of information such as a name, a date, an order, etc. Web pages can set cookies on a user's system and later retrieve them. They are becoming increasingly common in personal web pages to track repeat visits. These are the most difficult scripts to write - just look at the code.
Junk E-Mail:  Surviving the Flood	09/19/2004	Senators want to ban it. Internet service providers want to keep it from clogging up their systems. And consumers just want it out of their e-mail boxes. "It" is spam, or unsolicited commercial e-mail, and it's spiraling out of control, costing companies billions of dollars in blocking software and lost worker productivity. But others argue that tough restrictions on spam would be limiting free speech, and any rules must be considered carefully.
Log Cabin Republicans -- A "Group" Within A Group	09/19/2004	This page is included on this web as an example given HERE -- about a "group" within a "group." The Republican Party, for instance, is a "group" with relatively loose mutual agreements compared to the "group" of Gay Republicans where there is much more agreement within the group. There would be, of course, further sub-sub-groups within the Log Cabin Republicans, or any larger group. The concept of mutual agreement making up a "group" is developed HERE.
Low Personal Savings Leads To Slavery	02/08/2005
Measuring The Effectiveness Of Advertising	09/19/2004	WHAT do you flow outwards is always a question, but a bigger question is HOW do you measure the variable results of different messages using the same medium, or variable results with the same message in different media.
Merit Pay For Teachers Is Blasted By Teachers!	02/06/2005
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 260971	09/19/2004	A cookie is a text string that is included with Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) requests and responses. Cookies are used to maintain state information as you navigate different pages on a Web site or return to the Web site at a later time. This article provides information about cookies.
Milton Friedman: The Fed's Thermostat	09/19/2004	Fifteen years ago, in an op-ed on this page entitled "The Fed Has No Clothes" (April 15, 1988), I wrote, "No major institution in the U.S. has so poor a record of performance over so long a period as the Federal Reserve, yet so high a public recognition." As I believe my column demonstrated, that judgement is amply justified for the first seven decades or so of the Fed's existence. I am glad to report that it is not valid for the period since.
More Employers Are Asking Job Seekers for SAT Scores	09/19/2004	The SATs, usually taken by high-school juniors and seniors and once used solely as a criterion for college admission, are now following many people through college and into the workplace as a defining performance measure. A certain cadre of companies that hire large numbers of fresh college graduates have long asked about SAT scores, but many other large employers took up the habit in recent years because of the dismal job market. With thousands of resumes flooding in for even a single open position these days, employers see the scores as one more way to differentiate among applicants.
MySQL Naming Rules	09/19/2004	This document describes the symbol naming conventions to be used while writing C programs, C header files, or SQL script files. The purpose for this standard is not to restrict the programmer's style as much as it is to assist the newcomer and improve readability.
Naming Conventions For PHP	09/19/2004	Every language has some conventions about naming. E.g. Variables must not contain any special character etc. What about variables and functions in PHP?
New Skills Needed To Survive	02/10/2005
Object Oriented Programming Compared With Java, MySQL and PHP	09/19/2004	Until recently, programs were thought of as a series of procedures that acted upon data. A procedure, or function, is a set of specific instructions executed one after another. The data was quite separate from the procedures, and the trick in programming was to keep track of which functions called which other functions, and what data was changed. To make sense of this potentially confusing situation, structured programming was created.
PDF: Unfit for Human Consumption	09/19/2004	Users get lost inside PDF files, which are typically big, linear text blobs that are optimized for print and unpleasant to read and navigate online. PDF is good for printing, but that's it. Don't use it for online presentation.
Pony Express Information	09/19/2004	To provide the fastest mail delivery between St. Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California. To draw public attention to the central route in hope of gaining the million dollar government mail contract for the Central Overland California and Pikes Peak Express Company.
Powerful Bulk Mail Software:  Mailer's+4	09/19/2004	MAILER'S+4 Standard is everything you need for maximum postal discounts, faster deliveries, reduced returns, updating area codes and much much more! And it's perfect for the small office/home office user, with a low volume of mail, who needs just the basic functions of the program.
Privacy in the Digital Age: Work in Progress	09/19/2004	The Internet is at once a new communications medium and a new locus for social organization on a global basis. Because of its decentralized, open, and interactive nature, the Internet is the first electronic medium to allow every user to "publish" and engage in commerce. Users can reach and create communities of interest despite geographic, social, and political barriers. The Internet is an unprecedented mechanism for delivering government and social services, from education and healthcare to public information. As the World Wide Web grows to fully support voice, data, and video, it will become in many respects a virtual "face-to-face" social and political milieu.
Private Medical Care Savings Plans	02/08/2005
Relative Pay Rates among Major Industry and Occupational Groups	02/06/2005
Sample Froogle Data Feeds	09/19/2004	product_url name description price image_url category http://www.imaginarystore.com/asp/sp.asp?productid=1006 Brushed Aluminum Lemur Trivet This gorgeous metal trivet is beautiful - the more so since it's an imaginary product at an imaginary store. 10.99 http://www.imaginarystore.com/images/1006.jpg Home & Garden > Kitchen > Accessories
Second Generation Entrepreneurs in Family Business Face New Challenges	01/17/2005
Server Databases Clash -- MySQL	09/19/2004	Finding solid performance data to help choose among competing technologies is as tough as creating the data in the first place. This is particularly true in the database space, where database vendors routinely use no-benchmarking clauses in their license agreements to block publication of benchmarks of which they do not approve.
SOME Industries Grow Amazingly Fast!  Why?	09/19/2004	Some industries, like the flat screen industry, grow in sales and acceptance exponentially, while others, such as "oral chelation" have a greater overall value to "life" but seem to grow very slowly. Why is that? Is it because there is so much suppression of improvements in health, coming from the entrenched ideas, the drug industry, whereas there is virtually no resistance to improvement in the technology of mechanical communication? After all, flat screens also bring "better images" which more closely approximate live communication. Is that a good sign? Is it that those who control the mechanics of the physical universe are trying to make them more alive? See THIS PAGE for the relevance of this article and concept.
Staff 'Handfuls' And the Bosses Who Coddle Them	09/19/2004	There are basically two kinds of good employees. Robert Brubaker had both. One of the computer-network manager's two key people was a woman who could fix any problem. She managed complex contracts, tended to customer needs and did everything asked of her, plus plenty of things that weren't, and wanted nothing in return, not even a promotion. Praise embarrassed her.
Structured Programming! What Is It?	09/19/2004	Towards the end of the 20th century, designers have created new paradigms loosely based on procedural programming that accept the lessons of structured programming but attempt to go beyond this in providing structure for data as well as for program flow. Object-oriented programming in most cases can be seen as an example of this, although there are also some object-oriented variants that are not procedural.
Teachers Strike -- Settle For Seniority Pay	02/06/2005
The future of electronic connectivity in the healthcare industry	09/19/2004	MISSION: To foster widespread support for the adoption of electronic commerce within healthcare. To fulfill our mission, we will achieve the following:
The Museum of Electronic  Communications -- New York	09/19/2004	Our Museum is one of the few devoted to research, preservation and documentation of the history of wireless communications. There is a complete range of historical communications equipment on exhibit. Some of which, can be associated with famous people like Guglielmo Marconi, Lee De Forest, Edwin Armstrong, Thomas Edison and other famous pioneers. Members of the Antique Wireless AssociationTM, a world-wide group, have collected these exhibits from around the world - much of which are still in working order.
The Risks of Electronic Communication -- Tom Van Vleck	09/19/2004	Sending an electronic message is a lot more permanent than saying something; long after your feelings change, the words are still there. Unlike messages on paper, electronic messages are hard to stop once you've sent them: they can be delivered and read seconds after you send them. And electronic messages are awfully easy to copy and resend -- you can't be sure who will read them eventually and form a negative impression of you for sending them.
The World Changes!  Do You Change With It?	09/19/2004	At the start of the 20th century, most of the U.S. population was male, under 23 years old, lived outside metropolitan areas and rented their homes. Nearly half lived in a household with five or more other persons.  One hundred years later, most of the population was female, at least 35 years old, lived in metro areas and owned their homes. Most lived alone or in a household with one or two other people.
Top Executive Pay	02/06/2005
Trying to Remember New Passwords Isn't As Easy as  ABC123:  WSJ, December 2004	12/11/2004	Before she begins work each morning, Kate Prior must enter eight computer passwords. Each must contain at least eight characters, and most require letters and numbers. Every three months, she must change them all. How does the 28-year-old monitor of drug trials remember her passwords? Easy: They're written on a blue Post-It note affixed to her computer.
Typical Error Message:  Cookies Not Saved	09/19/2004	Not-So-Short Description: JavaScript and Cookies are required to access certain portions of our site. Check your browser's preferences to assure that these two options are active and enabled. There are many reasons why a cookie could not be set correctly, here are the most common:
What is a Cookie?  Slide Show	09/19/2004	These are "slide shows" and they are a good way to explain what a "cookie" is and other features of a cookie.  Note that this slide show includes how cookies can be used improperly, usually without your knowledge.
WHAT IS PRICE FIXING?	09/19/2004	Most state statutes provide that fixing the price of a product or service in agreement with another individual or business is illegal. The general rule provides that a vendor may not in combination with another vendor agree to set a certain price thereby creating a fixed price within a certain market. A business acting on its own and not in concert with another may use legitimate efforts to obtain the best price they can, including their ability to raise prices to the detriment of the general public.
Why Am I Getting All This Spam?	09/19/2004	Every day, millions of people receive dozens of unsolicited commercial e-mails (UCE), known popularly as "spam." Some users see spam as a minor annoyance, while others are so overwhelmed with spam that they are forced to switch e-mail addresses. This has led many Internet users to wonder: How did these people get my e-mail address?
WordTracker Word Popularity Measurement	09/19/2004	We compile a database of terms that people search for. You enter some keywords, and we tell you how often people search for them, and also tell you how many competing sites use those keywords.
Writing for the Web  - Jakob Nielsen	09/19/2004	Research on how users read on the Web and how authors should write their Web pages. Mainly based on studies by John Morkes and Jakob Nielsen.
WSJ:  A New Battleground In Web Privacy War: Ads That Can Snoop	09/19/2004	Marketers are perfecting novel ways to implant their own software into other people's computers, then peppering them with carefully targeted advertising. This software, dubbed "spyware," often installs itself on people's computers when they download free programs -- such as those that provide weather information or facilitate the swapping of recorded music. But consumers are gradually catching on, and many of them are angry.
WSJ:  Could Spam One Day End Up Crushed Under Its Own Weight?	09/19/2004	We have treated the spam e-mail problem the way we do most challenges of modern life: We have thrown money, technology and consultants at it. Now, all we have is a big, entrenched spam-fighting industry that gleefully reminds us how bad a problem we have in the first place.
WSJ:  Data-Farm Flop Points To Flaws in Tech Fad	09/19/2004	Perhaps the greatest impact of StorageNetworks' demise is how it throws light on potential cracks in another marketing strategy, called "computing on demand" or "utility computing," that is so in vogue today. Industry behemoths International Business Machines Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co., for example, aim to sell a broad array of computing services, including storage, the way StorageNetworks vended data storage.
WSJ:  November 7, 2003:  Productivity Changes -- Information Technology	09/19/2004	In comments to the Securities Industry Association Thursday, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan described the run of productivity growth as "startlingly large." Mr. Greenspan said that while some of the factors that have driven productivity higher probably were temporary, some were likely related to long-term changes in the economy that would continue to bolster productivity in the future.
WSJ:  October 22, 2003:  Disney Decides It Must Draw Artists Into the Computer Age	09/19/2004	The main challenge is retraining a crew of artists wedded to a different medium. Unlike traditional animation, which involves thousands of hand-drawn pictures, computer-generated characters are built as computer models, placed in three-dimensional virtual sets and lit much like actors in a live-action movie.
WSJ:  Viruses Are Wake-Up Call For Software Industry	09/19/2004	Hidden in the Blaster "worm" that crippled computers earlier this month was a two-sentence message taunting Microsoft Corp.'s famous founder and chairman.
WSJ:  Web Ads on the Rebound After Multiyear Slump	09/19/2004	After a downturn that threatened to wipe out the nascent Internet-ad industry, big advertisers are showing renewed interest in touting their wares on the Web. Overall, purchases of Web ads rose to $3.2 billion in the first half of this year, from $2.8 billion in the same period last year, according to Evaliant, the online unit of market researcher TNS Media Intelligence/CMR.