rules of thumb

But in everyday things I live by the light of a supplementary set of laws. I'd better call them rules of thumb.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and give some rules of thumb first, then give some examples to try to justify them.

He has never received formal training in navigation. but through years of sailing on the sea, he has accumulated many rules of thumb.

useful survival mechanisms and rules of thumb about the world that have been honed by millions of years of evolution.

If these rules of thumb ring true to others and help them to run their lives, so much the better.

To avoid confusion--and possibly food poisoning--use the rules of thumb at the end of this article.

Applying these rules of thumb will require that you spend some time editing your papers after writing a first draft.

A large number of tasks in facility development depend on judgment, experience, and rules of thumb accumulated by experts in the domain.

This article will break down the essentialcharacteristics of great Web sites into some easily followed rules of thumb.

Rules of thumb like 'don't waste' as well as our obsession with collecting tokens (money) work against our impulse to spend.

Heuristics are mental rules of thumb, the quick, common-sense principles you apply to solve a problem or make a decision.

When confronted with such uncertainty about the intrinsic value of things, consumers use simple rules of thumb that they understand.

The following rules of thumb can be applied to most initial installations.

The list included advanced API features, as well as rules of thumb for development decisions.

This section provides a feel (and only a feel) for the nature of design decisions and rules of thumb.

First, they deny that monetary policy in the early 2000s was excessively loose by traditional central-bank rules of thumb.

It is important to point out that you can use also these rules of thumb to make a bad design look good.

They are good rules of thumb, especially for economists writing for a general audience.

I tried to show a lot of examples to illustrate some of the tradeoffs involved and to support my rules of thumb.

Rules of thumb (also know as ROTs) can be useful when planning, monitoring and optimizing DB2 performance.

rules of thumb that track past Fed behavior suggest that the short-term interest rate should be -5% or lower.

Since they cannot see the whole picture, they use simple rules ( "rules of thumb" ) and partial information to guide their decisions.

Instead, companies must keep reinforcing simple rules of thumb that can be applied in the most complex situations.

The micro components include general design rules, patterns and rules of thumb.

That alone will challenge old rules of thumb about the relative riskiness of emerging-market debt.

Finally some rules of thumb for the design of studies in this field are proposed.

I have organized this essay around six rules of thumb that I follow as I go about my working life.

Note that these are simple rules of thumb -- rules that, when followed consistently, result in diagrams that are easier to read.

Start with some rules of thumb regarding class and method size and then use tools like PMD and JavaNCSS to hone in on the details.

Over time we build up many rules of thumb about the situations that make us happy (or unhappy).

businesses can plan to get maximum benefit from their advertising by following some simple rules of thumb.

It relies instead upon countless interactions between individual ants, each of which is following simple rules of thumb.

Below are a few rules of thumb that will have you using typography more lucidly than ever before.

Rules of thumb are useful, but one should never be afraid tobreak them.

"We had three rules of thumb, " says Herdt.

What's more, it includes rules of thumb, customizable alert and alarm thresholds, and so on.

Rules of Thumb for Chemical Engineers 3rd ed.

So, next time you write an email, here are some rules of thumb to keep in mind.

The following are rules of thumb that can help you create a Web service that is Java test client-friendly.

Several good rules of thumb when allowing other people legitimate access to your Linux machine

Rules of thumb for minimum stud sizes and spacing (design tables for other lengths, species, and load configurations)

The rules of thumb you have to break

With those definitions in mind, we can "scope out" some rules of thumb for using the different scopes