rule of thumb

All other things being the same, we seem to use a rule of thumb "if it sounds familiar, it is more likely to be true. "

As a very rough rule of thumb, a price-to-rent ratio of less than 20 suggests that buying may be a good deal.

A good rule of thumb is to cut the size of your current backlog to contain no more requirements than could be completed in two releases.

A popular rule of thumb in the 1990s was that countries should be able to cover a year's worth of debt obligations.

Injection density is often used as a rule of thumb to estimate the difficulty of curing resonant combustion.

As a rough rule of thumb, this makes Chinese labor at least double the cost of that in Indochina.

As a rule of thumb, you can increase the size of the buffer pools as long as you get a corresponding increase of the bufferpool hit ratio.

Granted, this is usually specific to the business domain, but this rule of thumb seems to hold up in most circumstances.

Different people respond differently, but it's a good rule of thumb not to take them for more than two days in a week.

As there was no clear concept of continuous " " , resulting in one rule of thumb is to take employees first had to sign a contract.

As a rule of thumb, a country needs enough foreign exchange to cover three months' imports or to settle its short-term foreign debt.

Despite the pressure on salaries during the downturn, a good rule of thumb is to ask for a 10% higher salary, says Ms. de Lande Long.

It has always been a pretty sound rule of thumb that deflation is good for fixed interest bonds and bad for equities.

A good rule of thumb is to use a thread only if an operating system notification that you block on is at the root of the background work .

A good rule of thumb is to pretend like you were going to wear pants, and then just fail to put them on.

But a good rule of thumb is to think not of the color of the wine, but of its body and texture.

A good rule of thumb: Dress as if it's 20 degrees warmer outside than it really is.

A good rule of thumb is to suggest that this stakeholder goals document be no longer than five pages in length.

The rule of thumb is to have at least three logical instances of an operating system and similar firewalls, routers, switches, and so on.

And a good rule of thumb, if there is no line, is to keep the water level a half inch below the top of the overflow tube inside the tank.

The best rule of thumb is to put yourself in situations where the fewest mistakes possible can be made.

In other words, as a rough rule of thumb, homes are probably fairly valued in a city when they cost about 15 times a year's rent.

When working out natural lighting for the kitchen a good rule of thumb is no less than 10% of the kitchen floor area .

The first rule of thumb is do not just take a driver and compile it with some of your changes.

As a rule of thumb, I recommend partial rendering as the best approach for building a rock-solid first AJAX version of a site.

Ratio-based analysis - utilizes a number of rule-of-thumb ratios to gauge performance of a database, user connection, or piece of code.

A good rule of thumb is to have enough cash on hand to handle about four to six months of your living expenses in case you lose your job.

The rule of thumb is very simple & it's summed up in the little slogan on priorities, "Jesus & others, then you" .

A rule of thumb is always to enter at least 3 digits for numerical questions.

The rule of thumb is always set number of CPU VPs no more then two for per physical CPUs on the machine.

The general rule of thumb is one IOI per minute. If you've achieved this "IOI Rate" , she's primed and ready for the Kiss Test!

A rule of thumb: If your baby has symptoms that worry you, don't just chalk it up to teething.

As a rule of thumb, all arrowheads should face toward the right, and no arrows should cross in an AOA network diagram.

The rule of thumb is to set the maximum number of servers equal to ten times the amount of disk or ten times the amount of processors.

As a rule of thumb, children should see a dentist once a year.

It would be a good rule of thumb to keep budgetary and monetary outlay under a certain amount.

As a rule of thumb good trend lines should touch at least three previous highs or lows. The.

"My usual rule of thumb is for every hour you spend in the field, you spend at least a thousand hours on analysis, " Boston said.

As rule of thumb, it is usually said that any mushroom found in the wild are more than likely poisonous.

As a general rule of thumb, if a response to an email needs to be longer than the email itself, email is not the right medium!

Using this rule of thumb can be quite a handy placeholder in the early phases of game development.

As a rule of thumb, try to book at least 21 days in advance if you want to travel domestically.

A good rule of thumb is to adopt no more than one large-scale development tool at a time.

As a general rule of thumb, a single connected entity graph should only be associated to a single unit of work at a time.

A good rule of thumb for determining the difference between a recession and a depression is to look at the changes in GNP.

The rule of thumb for selecting which directory catalog is right for your environment should be based on the size of the directory catalog.

A rule of thumb about what to call others is simply to wait for the other person to suggest a change from formal to informal name usage.

As a system administrator, this isn't the easiest thing to do. A good rule of thumb is to look at the directory owner or group.

A good rule of thumb is to listen initially for at least 5 minutes without interrupting the patient.

As a rule of thumb, if you find yourself wrapping more than three disparate chunks of code in a category, consider making it an expando.

A useful rule of thumb: Don't say or do anything in front of a recruiter that you wouldn't say or do in front of your boss (or your mother).

This, according to a widely used rule of thumb, would put them in recession, a fate which America has so far avoided.

A good rule of thumb is to multitask what you want to execute, rather than absorb, and choose jobs where mistakes won't matter.

Most people aren't going to have time to read a 5-paragraph description. So the rule of thumb is to keep it as short as possible.

A good rule of thumb is to provide at least one deadman per 16 square feet of exposed wall face.

In web design, there aren't specifically named guidelines, but it's a good rule of thumb to organize your content in an intuitive way.

Hence, as a rule of thumb, you may consider setting the number of page cleaners equal to the number of CPUs on the database server.

A rule of thumb on obedience corrections is that we want the dog to be able to take food and play with us after a correction.

Choosing two styles that are relatively close causes visual confusion and should be avoided as a general rule of thumb.

The general rule of thumb calls for a current ratio of 2 to 1. This rule , of course, is subject to many exceptions.

A good rule of thumb is to set util_heap_sz to at least 10000 x #CPUs on the DB2 server.

In fact, a good rule of thumb would indicate that at least 23 tests should have been written.

For a helpful rule of thumb, you could say that a method with more than 100 non-commenting lines of code is way too long.

As a rule of thumb: If you create a recurring appointment, the start-date should be the first occurrence of the series.

Paris-based LVMH is a luxury conglomerate and an exception to my rule of thumb that fashion rarely lends itself to long-term dominance.

As a rule of thumb, it takes a two-percentage point increase in GDP to reduce the unemployment rate by one percentage point.

As a rule of thumb, wherever there is "system invocation logic embedded in the BPEL implementation" we expect the divergence to be high.

The general rule of thumb is to always create a backup before beginning.

On a grittier note, a good rule of thumb I've heard is to look at the color of your urine.

That was the old rule of thumb for the growth needed to absorb new entrants into the labour market.

Too much? A good rule of thumb: about 20 times salary for life insurance (for one or both spouses) minus any other resources you may have.

A very loose rule of thumb is: Whatever we believe we were deprived of as children can easily become addictions in adulthood.

As a rule of thumb, aperture webs should be no less than the stencil thickness to curtail bridging defects.

You can probably take it as a rule of thumb from now on that if people don't think you're weird, you're living badly.

One rule of thumb is never to introduce a design element if you could accomplish the same goal with white space.

The rule of thumb was that, if my mother couldn't understand it, then we couldn't use it in the video.

Here's a handy rule of thumb: the fact that it's for sale in the first place is a very bad sign.

Not at all: studies of cricket and baseball players have shown that they use a rule of thumb.

As a rule of thumb, no user input data is secure, until proven otherwise, and every parameter from the user is potentially manipulated .

The general rule of thumb is that, the closer a style is to the actual HTML element, the higher priority it gets.

A good rule of thumb is to take a whiff of what you are buying.

Another helpful rule of thumb is to make a distinction between structured data and unstructured data.

As a rule of thumb, for every magnitude you drop down, there are roughly ten times more earthquakes, to a certain extent.

As a rule of thumb , the vineyards around Stellenbosch are the best .

As a general rule of thumb, if you feel nervous about losing money at all, you probably shouldn't be invested in stocks.

Mother does not need any cookbook, nor does she weigh the spices she puts into the dishes. She cooks rule of thumb.

Although this limit applies only to GET (as opposed to POST) requests, it is still a good rule of thumb to follow.

A once common rule of thumb was to create swap space equivalent to the amount of real RAM.

When preparing Asian fondue, a general rule of thumb is to have bland broth and spicy dips.

A rule of thumb is to secure a commitment from diverse groups as well as to adjust for the culture in the estimates you produce.

As a general rule of thumb, children this age should not spend more than one hour on homework.

Be aware that certain terrains and situations can put a much greater demand on a winch over the typical 1. 5 multiplication rule of thumb.

For his two seasons at Stamford Bridge, the rough rule of thumb was two players for every position plus three goalkeepers.

As a rule of thumb, turning points in the economy are signaled by three consecutive monthly LEI changes in the same direction.

Rule of thumb, if you're looking to get a girlfriend, you should usually keep quiet about your desire for a long-term relationship.

In addition, there was a rule of thumb that no computers will be delivered until things are solved with Internet connection.

The general rule of thumb is don't put build artifacts into your SCM system.

An old rule of thumb was to not eat after six o'clock in the evening.

A good rule of thumb is to use a large enough resistor to cause a 1V drop at the maximum current to be measured.

As a rule of thumb, do not exceed 100 words of explanation (combined).

A good rule of thumb for thawing a frozen turkey in the refrigerator is to allow a day for every five pounds of meat.

The general rule of thumb is that decision that impact interoperability should be centralized.

The rule of thumb is to use SAX when you need more control and DOM when you want increased convenience.

A good rule of thumb is to create a number of test cases equal to the cyclomatic complexity value of the code being tested.

As a rule of thumb, we only create a cinemagraph from subject matter that would also make a good still photo.

A rule of thumb is that you can begin with the number of HTTP servers that you currently have routing to your application servers.

The designer can use these rule-of-thumb guides to help resolve the confusion.

A good rule of thumb is to select a project with a low ratio of effort to impact.

A good rule of thumb is to use a "library voice" while on the phone and to keep chit-chat to a minimum.

A great rule of thumb applies here: you can reach your short term goals with debts, but you can't reach your long term goals with debts.

As a rule of thumb, concludes the report, countries that suffer large-scale violence lose almost 1% in poverty reduction each year.

Basic rule of thumb for shoes at work? Pick something practical over something cute, and be careful when it comes to flip-flops and sandals.

Biology also suggests that beauty may, indeed, be a good rule of thumb for assessing someone of either sex.

A general rule of thumb is to set SHEAPTHRES to at least 10 * SORTHEAP.

When I was young enough to lust after a stack of hi-fi components, I remember being given a rule-of-thumb guide to buying speakers.

First rule of thumb -- skip the trends and invest in wardrobe basics that have maximum mix-and-match potential.

Don't give away share options too early. As a rule of thumb, cash is sufficient reward for knowledge and skill.

A good rule of thumb is to use the faster, more powerful computer as the VM debug host because of the computational resources required.

As a general rule of thumb, I don't recommend drinking a lot of fruit juice as it is loaded with sugar and calories.

Rule of thumb (if possible): Pick a major in a field in which you're getting more A's than B's.

The popular rule of thumb for a recession is two consecutive quarters of falling GDP.

For a rule of thumb, investors might see a retracement of about 40% to 60% of the gains from the lows.

When making suchtradeoffs the rule of thumb is to think about the player demographics.

The best rule of thumb I can think of is that love, compassion and knowing your child have to come first, whatever culture you're from.

The rule of thumb is to grant only those privileges one requires and no more.

A good rule of thumb is to encrypt on a 32-bit CPU at the rate of 10 CPU clock cycles per byte.

Follow this rule of thumb, and you should have no trouble reaping the benefits of this templating system.

gene therapy rule of thumb is to use genetic engineering technology to treat these diseases.

Remember, as a general rule of thumb, that you want to capture husks primarily because of the advantage they give.

As a rule of thumb, a country should have enough reserves to cover its short-term foreign debt.

Rule of thumb: If you can't make a serious 5-year commitment to a given career path, it's not your path.

As a general rule of thumb, adult guinea pigs will eat between one and two ounces of pellets each day.

The rule of thumb here is to avoid touching the static members of another type from within a type constructor.

There is a basic rule of thumb to follow: if it's cool, it's not romantic.

Beauty may be a good rule of thumb for assessing someone of either sex.

The rule of thumb says these figures should be well above 2% for investors to get a decent deal.

When using a shutter speed slower than this simple rule of thumb suggests, a tripod is in order.

My rule of thumb is to set my appointments for next week this week.

Here's a rule of thumb that will help you: If you believe that something is good, and you do it, it benefits you.

As a rule of thumb, wider ad formats tend to outperform their taller counterparts.

The rule of thumb is well established -- the more components you monitor, the greater the impact on server performance.

As a rule of thumb, severe pathology and risky behaviors - such as lethally suicidal conditions - may not be appropriate for online work.

The rule of thumb that investors should own more bonds as they age also still holds true.

A good rule of thumb for predicting the son's height is an average of both parents' heights plus 2 inches.

Rule of thumb: If you mention a source, make sure it has played some role in your argument in your paper.

and the same rule of thumb could be applied to the free parts and episodes.

The Taylor rule, a popular rule of thumb, suggests it should be six percentage points below.

A good rule of thumb is to start thinking about the design of a utility the second time you have to solve a problem.

As a rule of thumb, for each event the process handles, there is one corresponding operation in the interface file.

A popular rule of thumb for a "safe" level of government debt in a rich economy is 60% of GDP.

So the rule of thumb is, "" Highly specialized, then unionize. "" It's the smart thing to DO.

A good rule of thumb: no stretching or hard work until tenderness (pain when you push on the muscle or joint) is gone.

We have a rule of thumb: "Never carry around any more cash than you can afford to have stolen. "

A good rule of thumb is the more frequently you send campaigns, the shorter they should be.

Be objective in all your dealings. This rule of thumb will safeguard you against making poor judgement calls.

A good rule of thumb is to consider organic foods for those products you consume the most.

"The traditional rule of thumb is that twice as much content takes four times as much resources to develop, " says Mr Newell.

But a hazy rule of thumb is that revenue growth is expected to be above 15% annually.

But experts do agree on this rule of thumb: Use your car manual as your guide.

A good rule of thumb for conference organisers is that the main auditorium should roughly match the number of participants.

The basic rule of thumb is if you are polite, courteous , and have clear English, you will probably get more clients as well as business.

This isn't a RUP rule, but it served as a good rule of thumb for us.

In this case, the price of the chocolates provides the rule of thumb.

Men, as a rule of thumb, should always keep their nails clipped.

As a rule of thumb for OLTP applications, use DMS tablespaces with multiple devices.

A general rule of thumb I try to adhere to is to keep my methods to 20 lines of code or fewer.

Perhaps the fastest and most frugal rule of thumb is the Recognition heuristic.

The rule of thumb in the pharmaceuticals industry is that it takes a decade to go "from molecule to market" .

As a general rule of thumb, at every transition point, log it.

Kaimowitz says that scientists' rule of thumb is that "if landslides are deeper than one metre, trees are not going to make a difference" .

My rule of thumb is that lending money doesn't mix well at all with personal relationships and should be avoided at all costs.

General Rule of Thumb: Use emoticons and chat acronyms sparingly.

As a rule of thumb, floating-point is about 2x slower than integer on Android devices.

I haven't been taught the finer points of carpentry ; I just make things by rule of thumb.

So is extreme caution the rule of thumb for leaders of high-profile businesses?

In the bond market, too, the rule of thumb was low credit quality equals high returns.

By a rough rule of thumb, a recession occurs if there are two consecutive quarters when the economy shrinks.

This basic knowledge is in most cases a rule of thumb.

'It's like a rule of thumb: You have to live with them before you decide, ' she says.

As a rule of thumb, a careful cull of the 10% of lowest performers can make a firm leaner by removing fat without damaging muscle.

In fact, one-person-month-per-use-case is a good rule-of-thumb metric for rough estimation.

Another good rule of thumb is to take 1 gram of protein for every pound of total body weight.

A good rule of thumb is to cook two handfuls of rice per person.

My main rule of thumb for element schema order is: Use ordered patterns unless you have specific reason not to.

That's a good thing. The rule of thumb here is to not allow this situation to take place.

Rule of thumb: always choose low glycemic index foods with good carb.

The rule of thumb is to drink six glasses of water for every glass of alcohol.

I had a rule of thumb as a reporter.

Another rule of thumb is to keep knees covered anytime the weather is below 50 degrees.

This basic chemical knowledge, which was applied in most cases as a rule of thumb, was nevertheless dependent on previous experiment.

This rule of thumb applies to just about any attempt at persuasion.

One rule of thumb reporters follow when researching a story is that no single source can provide all of the information they might need.

5 is commonly recommended in classic typographic books, so our study backs up this rule of thumb.

Rule of Thumb & Schindler Benchmark.

A good rule of thumb: Don't depend on "pushed information. "

As a rule of thumb, anything that is "leading edge" and in its first version falls into this category.

A good rule of thumb is to wait and see if an observation association pops up again when the study is repeated, something Dr.

Here's a quick rule of thumb: the higher the return, the higher the risk.

The general rule of thumb has been that a spread of more than $8. 50 favors shipment from the PNW.

Here's a good rule of thumb for house guests: Short stays are best.

The rule of thumb is to expect the unexpected.

As rule of thumb, five to ten test cases per class seems about right.

A good rule of thumb in any business is to under promise and overdeliver instead of doing the opposite.

My rule of thumb on Java projects says that no methods should ever be longer than 10 lines of code.

Another common but useless rule of thumb is history.

As a rule of thumb, avoid companies with leverage ratios above 5, which is the average of S&P 500 Index ($INX) stocks, and lower is better.

AZUZ: What percentage, is there a rule of thumb that students should start saving?

The second rule of thumb: It's all about location, location, location.

A rule of thumb is that total contributions need to be around 20% of wages to match a traditional final-salary scheme.

It's a simple rule of thumb: Buy before the good news; sell before the bad.

"The general rule of thumb is that 60% or 70% of library thefts are by patrons, " he says.

However the rule of thumb is, it's not safe to go off alone and a dog comes.

A good rule of thumb is that it takes about one program manager for every four programmers.

What rule of thumb you should remember when sharing the road with trucks and other large vehicles?

A widely used rule of thumb says each sustained $10-a-barrel increase in oil prices shaves 0. 2 percentage point off U. S. growth.

As a rule of thumb, a link with a BER between 0 and 0. 1% is workable.

The rule of thumb is that you should not change any customer data, but make your customer's data better.

A good rule of thumb is to exercise 30 minutes a day.

A rule of thumb is that a 10% increase in the price of oil will cut a quarter of a percentage point off global growth .

Here is an important rule of thumb that you will want to remember: Any problem you encounter will have a solution.

All those figures were worked out by rule of thumb .

If a new strategy works, then it will be adopted and further routinized as a rule of thumb.

A rule of thumb is that you should never bring up pay; let the hiring manager do it.

It's a rule of thumb to water plants in the morning before the temperature gets too high.

The rule of thumb has been red wine with meat, white wine with fish.

The rule of thumb for packing is pack less, not more.

What's the rule of thumb on expired medicines?

As a rule of thumb, economists reckon that a family withonechild needs30%more income a childless couple to maintainthesame living standard.

The golden rule of thumb is that you need only half the words for online text, but more structure.

A good rule of thumb is about five minutes.

A rule of thumb says that when claims stay above 400, 000, the economy is slipping into recession.

A fair rule of thumb is that each member of an IT consultancy traveling onsite to resolve client issues should bill 20 to 25 hours per week.

The rule of thumb in the field is that each recorded minute of interaction takes an hour to analyse.

His most basic rule of thumb is: be patient.

Yet whatever your job, the rule of thumb is that sexy is almost always good but tacky is almost always bad.

The rule of thirds is a compositional rule of thumb in visual arts such as painting, photography and design.

A rule of thumb is one connection for every 10 users.

Long term such as rule of thumb, by my understanding, that, by the sales force other ". "

He is a rule - of - thumb photographer.

The rule of thumb is that XML expands by a factor of ten when read into memory.

PETA and the restaurant guessed George's age at about 140, using a rule of thumb based on the creature's weight.

Remember the rule of thumb: if you wouldn't want to download it yourself, don't share it.

But a rule of thumb is that some 90% of the province's 2m people are Albanians.

An oft-cited rule of thumb is that a $10 per barrel increase in the price of oil knocks half a percentage point from global GDP growth.

When I give a humorous speech, a general rule of thumb is to aim for 20 laughs in 5 minutes.

Another rule of thumb is that, if there's a line outside, it's probably worth the wait.

A rule of thumb if you like. A way of making a decision.

A rule-of-thumb in retail real estate is that rent should not exceed 10 percent of sales.

Most Americans stick more than any other people to the rule of thumb: Work while you work, play while you play.

As a general rule of thumb, it takes about ten years of heavy labor to become an expert in any field.