If you’re a writer or artist, you understand the power of location when it comes to creativity and finding inspiration. Looking for a place that will get your juices flowing? Here are 15 common places that can inspire your creativity. 1. Libraries an…

Buying real estate involves weighing a lot of factors: location, price . . . smell? Some condo developers are betting that the best way to a buyer's heart is through the nose. The latest sales tools are signature scents designed to enhance a buyer's…

Many companies regularly look up job applicants online as part of the hiring process. A new study suggests they may also use what they find to discriminate. discriminate against:歧视,排斥 look up:查阅,仰望,拜访 The study, a Carnegie Mellon University experimen…

Billions of dollars are flowing into online advertising. But marketers also are confronting an uncomfortable reality: rampant fraud. rampant:猖獗的,狂暴的 About 36% of all Web traffic is considered fake, the product of computers hijacked by viruses and pro…

The appointment of India-born Satya Nadella as Microsoft Corp.'s CEO has caused a bit of a stir in China, where people are questioning why Indians but not Chinese are getting top jobs in the U.S. Language and familiarity with Western culture are the…

The default background for Microsoft's Windows XP operating system -- a perfect blue sky full of cotton-candy clouds above rolling hills with impeccably trimmed grass and daffodils -- is the spring day we wish could last forever. rolling hills:起伏群山  …

tail 命令从指定点开始将文件写到标准输出.使用tail命令的-f选项可以方便的查阅正在改变的日志文件,tail -f filename会把filename里最尾部的内容显示在屏幕上,并且不断刷新,使你看到最新的文件内容. 一．命令格式; tail [必要参数] [选择参数] [文件] 二．命令功能: 用于显示指定文件末尾内容,不指定文件时,作为输入信息进行处理.常用查看日志文件. 三．命令参数: 参数 描述 -f 循环读取 -q 不显示处理信息 -v 显示详细的处理信息 -c 显示的字节数…

In the war for the Chinese Internet, messaging giant Tencent is taking the battle to rival Alibaba's territory as never before. Tencent, a leader in online messaging and gaming, said Monday it will pay $215 million for a 15% stake in online retailer…

The mass uprisings this summer in Egypt, Turkey and Brazil are powerful reminders that the middle classes drive history. What remains unclear, however, is where they are driving it. uprising:起义,升起 The world today is witnessing its third great surge o…

Where are Chinese tourists going to next? Pop culture may hold some clues, from blockbuster rom-com 'Finding Mr. Right' to U.S. sitcom 'The Big Bang Theory.' blockbuster:轰动,巨型炸弹 China is the source of most of the world's tourists as well as its bigge…