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Landing Pages
A landing page is a webpage where a person arrives (“lands”) when he/she clicks on – in this case - an e-mail link (it can also be an online ad banner, or maybe a search engine result). Many marketers believe that their outbound campaign (e.g. e-newsletter) does all the work, and that the landing page is simply a passive gateway, but in fact the exact opposite is in many cases true. Let’s take a look
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Laptops & Palm (’99)
Eric Allen CI366 PC Notebook and Palm Computers 10/5/99 We’ve come a long way from the first successful portable computer. The Osborne, was introduced in 1981 and weighed 25 pounds, it came with 64 kilobits of memory. The Osborne’s limited capacity and portability made it awkward compared to today’s notebooks. And the cost was close to $1800, that’s not to affordable for the 1980’s. Through relentless pursuit of technology, notebooks of today are just
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Laptops in the Classroom
Laptops in the Classroom Laptops increase student motivation and desire to become involved with lessons initiated in the classroom. Performance and motivation levels were increased due to laptops being used by students for learning purposes. Laptops increase the level of interactivity, engagement and interest students have towards course content. Their interaction with school work, peers and the teacher will increase as a result of having the laptop to use daily. The involvement with multimedia presentations
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Laptops Vs. Desktops
Laptops vs. Desktops In this world of ever changing technology, sometimes you come face to face with difficult decisions. For instances, you purchase a new computer during the summer, but come Christmas time it is deemed obsolete. Knowing that it is time to buy a new computer, you ask yourself, "Should I buy a desktop or a laptop?" However, laptops are the new fad, but that doesn’t mean you should race out to get
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Laptops Vs. Web-Accessible Cell Phones
Laptops and Web-accessible cell phones are the most popular mobile devices. Mobility is the main concern these days, and this is why electronic gadgets are becoming smaller and lighter. Technology has been improving at a fast rate, so much that cell phones with internet connectivity are crossing boundaries and performing functions similar to laptops. "Laptops have evolved over the years to become more than just platforms to conduct general business-oriented tasks on. They used to
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Laser Technique
In laser resurfacing, sometimes called "laser peel," a carbon dioxide (CO2) laser is used to remove areas of damaged or wrinkled skin, layer by layer. The procedure is most commonly used to minimize the appearance of fine lines, especially around the mouth and the eyes. However, it is also effective in treating facial scars or areas of uneven pigmentation. Laser resurfacing may be performed on the whole face or in specific regions. Often, the procedure
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Law Firm Relies on Traffic Shaping for Wan Performance.
A project to consolidate servers in a central data centre highlighted the need for international law firm Reed Smith to use traffic-shaping technology to ensure that its most important applications perform well on its now-critical WAN. So far Reed Smith has used Packeteer PacketShapers to prioritise key flows, limit or block unnecessary traffic and adjust the size of its WAN links to make the network as cost-effective as possible, says Frank Hervert, senior manager of
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Layer 1 Physical
=== Verbose logging started: 4/21/2011 14:49:51 Build type: SHIP UNICODE 3.01.4001.5512 Calling process: C:WINDOWSsystem32msiexec.exe === MSI (c) (88:24) [14:49:51:000]: Resetting cached policy values MSI (c) (88:24) [14:49:51:000]: Machine policy value 'Debug' is 0 MSI (c) (88:24) [14:49:51:000]: ******* RunEngine: ******* Product: C:PTtempMessageCenterSage Message Center.msi ******* Action: ******* CommandLine: ********** MSI (c) (88:24) [14:49:51:000]: Client-side and UI is none or basic: Running entire install on the server. MSI (c) (88:24) [14:49:51:000]: Grabbed execution mutex. MSI (c)
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Leadership
Introduction Leadership is the basis of all organizations and civilized countries. Without it, they would crumble. Every organization is run by some sort of leader whether that leader is known to the subordinates or hidden. Leaders make sure that things are being done correctly and everything runs smoothly. Every country is run by some sort of leader. In countries like America, France, Germany, and England, the leader is there for the population to see and
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Leadership at a Software Startup
1. Company Background Phoenix Systems is now a leading software firm which develops financial software solutions in Pakistan. In 1998, David and Sohail both around their early fifties left their salaried jobs as senior consultants in a financial multinational and invested their entire savings to start their own software firm. The twenty employee firm was based in Karachi and had no financial backing; therefore, it was under stress to produce profits. The firm positioned itself
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Leadership in the Public Sector
Abstract Positive leadership in the public sector is essential throughout organizations when inspiring employees or associates to strive for excellence. Leadership is not a skill that one is born with. However, there is a small percentage that one could be born with such a gift. Nevertheless, leadership is developed at an early age that leads that is used throughout ones career life. Producing prominent leadership enhances ones ability to perform in a manner that inspires
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Leadership Profile - Jeff Hawkins
Leadership Profile Paper This paper will profile Jeff Hawkins, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for PalmOne, Inc. examining qualities that Mr. Hawkins exhibits that make him influential leader. The paper will also examine details of the business strategy that make this man an exceptional innovator and his contribution to eBusiness technology. Vision Jeff Hawkins a graduate of Cornell Universityis best known as “the inventor who, in 1994, took blocks of mahogany and plywood into his garage
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Learning Computers
Home is a great place to start teaching children how to use a computer responsibly. Chances are, they can handle it. In fact, they might know more about computers than you do. Kids in more than 12,000 U.S. school districts currently work with computers at school. Computers at home One in four students has access to a personal computer at home, recent surveys say, and that number continues to grow. By using software that makes
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Learning Environment
Albert Einstein, a famously mediocre student, once commented that "It is little short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not completely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry." Many educational theorists and gifted teachers have taken this to heart and endeavored to create learning environments that reflect innovations that are both intuitive and ingenious. This paper shows, that, unfortunately, we often see these same innovations stifled at the high school level. Whereas the
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Learning to Drive a Stick
Learning to Drive a Stick Learning to drive a car with a manual transmission is much more difficult than learning to drive a vehicle with an automatic transmission. There are several steps to learning how to drive. You will need to pay close attention to the steps below to be able to become a safe and defensive driver. . The first step to learning to drive is to identify all the important parts. In
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Lessons
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Letter of Confession
~Before I begin this letter, I want you to know that the reason why I’m sharing this with you is because I feel that I have to be completely honest about something that’s very personal to me. Originally, I wanted to tell you, but I just did not feel comfortable and I did not trust you enough. But, I can not keep this from you any longer. I hope after I explain this that
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Lexisnexis
Entertainment 2.0 In order to provide a column that is more relevant to you, the reader, please rate this statement on a scale of 0 to 5 (with 0 representing "complete disagreement" and 5 representing "total agreement"): "I'm delighted by the notion that software may soon understand my tastes in music, books, movies, and TV shows better than my closest friends and family members." A group of entrepreneurs are hard at work on a new
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Life
Definition of the Philosopher (474b-480a) It should be pointed out that Plato has a very specific idea of what a philosopher is. He begins his attempt to define the philosopher in the following way(474c-475c): A lover of X loves not juts a certain kind of X, but all X [e.g., a lover of food loves all food, a lover of wine loves all wine] Philosophers are lovers of wisdom The Philosopher therefore is that person
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Life of a Computer Programmer
Imagine having a computer without running software. Computers would be slightly pointless without programs to run it. There would be no directions in the computer to tell it how to run, where to run, and what to do. A computer would have the ability to turn on, but a blank screen would be the only thing to appear on a monitor. I am sure that the question of “Who creates these programs?” has run through
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Life-Cycle Cost Analysis
Life-cycle cost analysis (LCCA) is a method for assessing the total cost of facility ownership. It takes into account all costs of acquiring, owning, and disposing of a building or building system. LCCA is especially useful when project alternatives that fulfill the same performance requirements, but differ with respect to initial costs and operating costs, have to be compared in order to select the one that maximizes net savings. For example, LCCA will help determine
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Limiting Children's Access to Internet Pornography
Pornography is one of mankind’s most revered, respected, and repulsed pastimes. Adults can use pornography to relieve stress, enhance their sex lives, or simply as a means of entertainment. One of the easiest and most popular ways of obtaining pornographic material is over the Internet. The only downside is that the Internet is accessible to children; therefore, pornography is accessible to children. While adults should have limitless access to Internet porn, minors should be
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Lindows.Com
OS upstart can continue operating under its current name until April, when the two companies go to trial. By Tony Kontzer Lindows.com Inc. posted its latest courtroom win over Microsoft this week. It's the second setback in Microsoft's attempt to prove that the Lindows name infringes on its Windows trademark. A U.S. District Court judge rejected Microsoft's appeal of a decision in March to deny an injunction request that would have prevented Lindows from
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Linear Programming
Linear Programming: As we have in the past, we will pose a problem and follow it through the steps of the model: We have two types of boxed sets; the Aristorocks and the Millionaire sets. We have two people working in the boxing section and one person working in the shipping department. The Aristorocks take 2 hours to box and 3/2 hours to pack and ship. The Millionaires take 3 hours to box, but only
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Linux
ABSTRACT Linux is a free open source operating system based on UNIX. It was developed by Linus Corvalds. UNIX system was developed by bell laboratories. Bell laboratories never released the source code of UNIX. To make it affordable by common people Linus Corvalds developed Linux as an open source operating system. After its inception Linux became known to common people. Linux is the only system which covers a wide range of hardware applications. It covers
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Linux /unix Vs. Windows
COST The total cost of running an environment based on Linux/Unix distributions vs. running an environment of a Windows Distribution is extreme. The chart below gives you the basic software cost. (Image from Cyber Source, 2000) In a server environment, based on the cost of a configured server through Go Daddy, a Linux Server is still considerably less per year than that of a Windows Environment: Linux 2 Dual Hard Drive with Raid Operating System
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Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control
Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control Netherlabs BV bert.hubert@netherlabs.nl Thomas Graf (Section Author) tgraf%suug.ch Gregory Maxwell (Section Author) Remco van Mook (Section Author) remco@virtu.nl Martijn van Oosterhout (Section Author) kleptog@cupid.suninternet.com Paul B Schroeder (Section Author) paulsch@us.ibm.com Jasper Spaans (Section Author) jasper@spaans.ds9a.nl Pedro Larroy (Section Author) piotr%member.fsf.org A very hands-on approach to iproute2, traffic shaping and a bit of netfilter. _______________________________________________________________________ Table of Contents 1. Dedication 2. Introduction 2.1. Disclaimer & License 2.2. Prior knowledge 2.3.
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Linux and Microsoft
Abstract Linux and Microsoft operating systems have been developed and marketed in two very different ways. Microsoft has become synonymous with monopoly and substandard software, while Linux is based on free, open source and the concept of open standards, full disclosure and sharing. Microsoft attempts to discourage consumers from using the Linux solution by suggesting that the operating system is less than perfect, yet it remains blind to its own operating system’s problems existent within
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Linux Clusters and Server Farms
Linux Clusters and Server Farms A server farm is a group of computers which share the load of performing a particular task, such as serving up a website. A cluster, on the other hand, is a group of computers which function as a single computer. Unlike the situation with SMP, in these cases each processor has its own RAM, hard disks and so on, eliminating congestion on these resources. On the other hand, communication between
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Linux Mail Server Configuration
Email is an important part of any Web site you create. In a home environment, a free web based email service may be sufficient, but if you are running a business, then a dedicated mail server will probably be required. This chapter will show you how to use sendmail to create a mail server that will relay your mail to a remote user's mailbox or incoming mail to a local mail box. You'll also learn
Rating:Essay Length: 8,404 Words / 34 PagesSubmitted: April 23, 2010