Well just like everything else in life - there is no silver bullet. Everything has pros and cons. The best course of action is to diversify. Use an option with a smaller impact in the area you're trying to build it. Build out each as a piece of the pie to reduce the negative impact any one method will have.
I absolutely agree when it comes to meetings at work - but on a public forum like this the contributors are here for fun. I don't consider it a "cost" to spend time doing things I enjoy. Employers paying for their people to surf slashdot while working on the other hand....
It's not a wager - it's what ships *do*. Storms come, ships leave to avoid them. The vast majority of the time they don't have any issues. On the rare occasions they don't make it, there's armies of armchair sailors ready to chime in their opinions...
You're absolutely right - you're no experienced seaman. That's OK though, I'm not either - but here's the reasoning behind this:
Boats can move. If there's a storm coming, they will leave to get away from it. The vast majority of the time, they make it out just fine, hang out somewhere away from the storm, then come back when the storm has passed. They may have some rain and weather, but they're designed for that. On very rare occasion they don't make it far enough away and the weather is too much for them (or they have a mechanical fault, as it seems happened in this case).
Agreed - I went full time at the place I interned for during college, it's great for the student to get work experience and a bit o cash and it's great for the company to get some cheap semi-skilled labor *and* on the job training out of the way. Most of us who've gone through internships here have stayed on full time after graduating (along with getting that "real boy" pay increase).
I strongly recommend seeking out an internship to anybody in college, particularly in a technical field. Even if you don't stay on with that company, it's a healthy boost to your resume.
Sure, it needs to be asked from parents - but you'll still get a skewed view. So much learning comes from making mistakes, I fear if you take away the ability to make those mistakes you will end up with people who don't have the right appreciation for the consequences of their actions.
Lost in this discussion is the cost benefit. I went with a Phenom II 945 when I rebuilt my computer (CPU, RAM, mobo) two or three years back and ended far cheaper than an i7 while not being too terribly far behind in performance. If you want the fastest, sweet - get an Intel. AMDs offerings do stack up quite well in performance per dollar. It's not their glory days of yore when they were cheaper *and* faster than Intel, but cheaper and not that much slower still isn't a bad place to be.
And turn the pot off so I don't have to scrape it out!
God I hate this, and I rarely even drink coffee! I've lost track of how many times I walk through the break room in the late after noon and the burner's still running on some smelly brown goo at the bottom of the pots.
The day after you spend $1000 fixing a $2000 car, you've still spent a lot less than $6000 on a replacement. When a car gets that old, it's value isn't very relevant. Sure, you still have a 2000 dollar car, but it's already had its major maintenance and mechanically is more known than one fresh off the used car lot. Now, if it's a car that you've had a parade of troubles with (which could be your situation), dumping it at a major expense is perfectly sensible. However, if you have a historically reliable ten year old car, you shouldn't be using cost to justify foregoing a $1000 service to buy a $6000 car.
I'm absolutely not saying you're wasting money if you choose to replace your car with a less old one you like - there's definitely something to be said for moving to a newer model car for comfort, convenience, performance, or any number of factors. I'm just saying I've seen too many people use a one time service cost of $600 to $1000 as their excuse to take on a new (or used) car loan they can barely afford. And again, I know this isn't your situation, but I've seen a strange mentality from several people I know of "I can't afford this $800 service, so I'm going to get a $300 per month car loan." Fundamentally, they just want a new car. The problem is they go into it with the idea that it will save them money in the long run, when they end up without a big change in annual maintenance cost. They end up just spending another ten grand on a car every five to ten years instead of stretching it out to ten or fifteen.
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Well just like everything else in life - there is no silver bullet. Everything has pros and cons. The best course of action is to diversify. Use an option with a smaller impact in the area you're trying to build it. Build out each as a piece of the pie to reduce the negative impact any one method will have.
...normal nerds? Palm Pilot? Dude, you've got issues.
Engineering calculator - there's an ask slashdot that will erupt in holy war...
Burn the heretic!!!
I absolutely agree when it comes to meetings at work - but on a public forum like this the contributors are here for fun. I don't consider it a "cost" to spend time doing things I enjoy. Employers paying for their people to surf slashdot while working on the other hand....
It's not a wager - it's what ships *do*. Storms come, ships leave to avoid them. The vast majority of the time they don't have any issues. On the rare occasions they don't make it, there's armies of armchair sailors ready to chime in their opinions...
You're absolutely right - you're no experienced seaman. That's OK though, I'm not either - but here's the reasoning behind this:
Boats can move. If there's a storm coming, they will leave to get away from it. The vast majority of the time, they make it out just fine, hang out somewhere away from the storm, then come back when the storm has passed. They may have some rain and weather, but they're designed for that. On very rare occasion they don't make it far enough away and the weather is too much for them (or they have a mechanical fault, as it seems happened in this case).
Dude! Let's bro up and throw down some code! Get me another Red Bull!!!
Agreed - I went full time at the place I interned for during college, it's great for the student to get work experience and a bit o cash and it's great for the company to get some cheap semi-skilled labor *and* on the job training out of the way. Most of us who've gone through internships here have stayed on full time after graduating (along with getting that "real boy" pay increase).
I strongly recommend seeking out an internship to anybody in college, particularly in a technical field. Even if you don't stay on with that company, it's a healthy boost to your resume.
Do you like how you turned out as an adult?
Correct me if I'm wrong - but wouldn't be hard to loose your friends at a hop scotch event? Isn't a hop scotch game like... twelve feet long?
I think something small and in an easy to scan location would be ideal - like a teardrop on the face perhaps?
Depends on the dog and the owner I suppose... I consider a dog carried around in a purse to be an accessory, not an animal.
Sure, it needs to be asked from parents - but you'll still get a skewed view. So much learning comes from making mistakes, I fear if you take away the ability to make those mistakes you will end up with people who don't have the right appreciation for the consequences of their actions.
Seriously, I still do that when my mom heads out of town. Who else is gonna bring a new bag of cheetos down into the basement!?
You kid, but I think there are several of us who remember Yesterdays Enterprise pretty well :P
So *that* was the route I should have taken when I had the option in Starfleet Academy!
First thing I did. Still takes up tons of space that can't be scrolled up off the top of the screen. Woe unto me :(
Two of the five were never captains of the Enterprise...
Lost in this discussion is the cost benefit. I went with a Phenom II 945 when I rebuilt my computer (CPU, RAM, mobo) two or three years back and ended far cheaper than an i7 while not being too terribly far behind in performance. If you want the fastest, sweet - get an Intel. AMDs offerings do stack up quite well in performance per dollar. It's not their glory days of yore when they were cheaper *and* faster than Intel, but cheaper and not that much slower still isn't a bad place to be.
Yup, save all that space in your browser so that the Gmail website can waste it with its big empty blue bars!
OK, I feel better for letting that off my chest.
He must have gotten the point. Actually I'm pretty sure he made the point before you ever thought of it - this guy is actualized.
And turn the pot off so I don't have to scrape it out!
God I hate this, and I rarely even drink coffee! I've lost track of how many times I walk through the break room in the late after noon and the burner's still running on some smelly brown goo at the bottom of the pots.
...so put a picture of a new photo frame on your old photo frames.
Do we have to think of *everything* for you?!
The day after you spend $1000 fixing a $2000 car, you've still spent a lot less than $6000 on a replacement. When a car gets that old, it's value isn't very relevant. Sure, you still have a 2000 dollar car, but it's already had its major maintenance and mechanically is more known than one fresh off the used car lot. Now, if it's a car that you've had a parade of troubles with (which could be your situation), dumping it at a major expense is perfectly sensible. However, if you have a historically reliable ten year old car, you shouldn't be using cost to justify foregoing a $1000 service to buy a $6000 car.
I'm absolutely not saying you're wasting money if you choose to replace your car with a less old one you like - there's definitely something to be said for moving to a newer model car for comfort, convenience, performance, or any number of factors. I'm just saying I've seen too many people use a one time service cost of $600 to $1000 as their excuse to take on a new (or used) car loan they can barely afford. And again, I know this isn't your situation, but I've seen a strange mentality from several people I know of "I can't afford this $800 service, so I'm going to get a $300 per month car loan." Fundamentally, they just want a new car. The problem is they go into it with the idea that it will save them money in the long run, when they end up without a big change in annual maintenance cost. They end up just spending another ten grand on a car every five to ten years instead of stretching it out to ten or fifteen.