If your thinking speed is constrained by your typing speed, you aren't programming efficiently.
I may indeed spend two minutes typing fuck all. I want to spend the next two minutes typing fuck all too. The quicker I type the thing I spent two minutes thinking through, the quicker I'm onto the next two minutes.
Type fast, it lets you think faster. Programming is merely a formalised articulation of your thoughts.
I've cleared my mortgage and I bought my car with cash. However if I had to buy my current house with cash now, without selling it first, it would take me 20 years to save up for it.
That's now, with an income over twice the one I had when I bought it and fewer other outgoings.
Avoiding debt is often a good thing. Investing wisely is also often a good thing. Knowing how to balance the two is difficult but can really make a difference in your life.
I have no idea whether the US is different but in the UK there is no 'credit score'. There is a credit history that a number of organisations (including Experian) will track, and that can be accessed by lending organisations.
The algorithm for factoring that credit history into a risk assessment is indeed different between each organisation that extends credit, for two very good reasons: 1 - it's a competitive differentiator. If company A is better at judging risk than company B they'll do more business with lower defaults 2 - competiition law actively prevents people using the same algorithm
Maybe in the US there's a "FICO score" that's also factored in but I'd be fucking amazed if any serious financial institution used purely that one score.
Disclaimer: I've worked for more than one organisation that provides credit
I hope those guides include my preferred option: Fuck off. I was dying, you got me to agree to treatment under duress, it's not a legal contract and I refuse to accept it now.
This is an excellent point. We need to petition Google to skip straight to the Nexus 7 just to avoid any confusion. Or mutinies in the off-world colonies.
Then again, I do have to pay £16/month and despite the unlimited texts, unlimited same-network calls and unlimited landline calls I do only get 2500 'free' minutes.
I'd switch to a cheaper provider but I'm on a one-month rolling contract and I've already paid for next month.
None of your examples are using 8GB at one time. Are you really processing a single 8GB photo? Highly doubtful. Do you have 500 16MB photos? Possible. Once you start batch processing the drive logic is going to be precaching the next likely hits whether its an SSD or HDD. And if game performance was going to be affected by disk drive speed in the way you imply its a first for me - I've yet to see one spec out with "SSD required".
Game performance as a 'frames per second' isn't a storage IO issue. Game performance as a 'why is this game taking 40 seconds to load a level' is. That's where an SSD helps. Trust me, there's a very discernable difference.
And yes, I quite often have 500 16MB photos. Forget precaching, there's "write to hard disk, read from hard disk, generated cached image, write to hard disk, read from hard disk" even before I do the actual photo editing. Being able to do all of that on an SSD cache (and again when I'm reviewing or working on a 2000 photo theme) while also playing a game (because I do) while also doing other stuff on the PC.. well, why constrain myself to a hybrid drive when I have a tower case sat half-empty?
You're also ignoring the fact that an 8GB cache would need to be refreshed far more often. I don't have to use 8GB at once, I can use a total of 30GB over the course of a week, then start re-using it. None of that cached data has been removed from the SSD so I'm still benefiting from that initial cache. There will also be benefits to the drive lifetime as a result - fewer writes needed. Plus the SSD or the 7200 can fail and be replaced at lower cost than the hybrid, so if anything there's a TCO saving.
And yes, cost is trivially extra. Nowhere near $180 extra: checking back at the site I bought my latest PC from, a 64GB SSD (using Intel SRT) + a 2TB disk costs £31 more than the 2TB Seagate hybrid. That gives me far better performance across the range of activities I use my drive for without incurring the $1200 difference you were claiming though in your original post.
I can understand that people might want to save that £31. It was less than 2% of the cost of my system. I perceive it to have benefit. I made a conscious choice not to buy the hybrid drive.
The game has a 5GB file. I have no idea how much of it gets used at once, but it's not unreasonable to assume that across a 12GB game there's a fair bit of data being used.
I'm also certain that I'm using 8GB of storage when I'm processing 8GB of photographs.
I'm also certain that I'm using more than 8GB of storage over the course of a week. A $140 hybrid drive just isn't going to give me the performance I'd like.
So I spent $180 and got a 60gb cache not an 8gb one. But hey, go ahead and save $40 if you don't need the performance boost it would give to you.
I just bought a new desktop and opted for SRT rather than the hybrids.
OS drive: High performance (so quite expensive) dedicated SSD Data drive: 2TB 7200rpm with a rather cheaper 60GB SSD as a cache NAS : Purely spindle, it's there for infrequently accessed files and backup
The biggest benefit over the hybrid is that 60GB not 8GB. If I import 10GB of photos from my camera I don't want them getting flushed off the cache. If I want to play a 15GB install-size game I don't want to lose the benefits of caching. Right now I can use Lightroom and play the game at the same time.
What about men with no penis size issues? Take a picture of my penis and post it online and people will go, "Oh. It's a penis. Seen one of those before."
It's not terribly interesting. It's not abnormally large or small or bent or coloured or pierced or tattooed or covered in growths. It's a penis.
Should that give me the right to publicly humiliate a woman with impunity?
The world at large would tend to disagree with you. Sharing naked pictures seems a pre-requisite of almost any teen relationship these days.
Incidentally I continue to be utterly confused by the use of the term 'junk'. There are so many words available to describe any part of the anatomy and that's just not one that ever seems appropriate.
..then why did you post it on RevengePorn.com..then why did your blog link to it with, "haha, leave me and there are consequences"..then why did you send facebook messages to her friends saying,"Stupid whore left me, how do you like this?"..then why did you search Google for, "best way to post naked pictures of my ex without getting done under the new Californian law?"
You can claim you were merely trying to show the world a beautiful body as much as you like, but your actions may contradict your words.
The irony being that 1200/month is the order of magnitude of my monthly tax bill, which includes education, defence, benefits, old age pensions, foreign aid, EU subsidies and a ton of other shit as well as the NHS.
As much as I malign the inefficiencies inherent in the NHS it's so much more preferable to the current US model that I continue to be bewildered at the hostility Obama's plans engenders.
How big is your house? $2700 is excessive. Hell, $800 is excessive. I'm paying around £105 a year to cover buildings insurance for all causes (including wind, flood and other storm damage) except for terrorism, warfare and possibly (I'd need to check) damage caused by things falling from aircraft. Including the aircraft themselves.
That's in an old coal mining area, so subsidence is a definite danger - but is covered.
Maybe your house is 8 times the size of mine. Very possible. So a simple metric: My insurance (which covers me for rebuild cost) costs approximately 0.1% of the rebuild cost.
Yes, in that their fail-safe is a market rollback.
I'd fucking ban those. If it took out the companies doing HFT because they overcommit in 14ms then on the whole this would be a bloody fantastic thing.
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If your thinking speed is constrained by your typing speed, you aren't programming efficiently.
I may indeed spend two minutes typing fuck all. I want to spend the next two minutes typing fuck all too. The quicker I type the thing I spent two minutes thinking through, the quicker I'm onto the next two minutes.
Type fast, it lets you think faster. Programming is merely a formalised articulation of your thoughts.
I've cleared my mortgage and I bought my car with cash. However if I had to buy my current house with cash now, without selling it first, it would take me 20 years to save up for it.
That's now, with an income over twice the one I had when I bought it and fewer other outgoings.
Avoiding debt is often a good thing. Investing wisely is also often a good thing. Knowing how to balance the two is difficult but can really make a difference in your life.
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Check the T&Cs of all your lines of credit. I bet they all indicate that information on you will be provided to credit bureaux.
I have no idea whether the US is different but in the UK there is no 'credit score'. There is a credit history that a number of organisations (including Experian) will track, and that can be accessed by lending organisations.
The algorithm for factoring that credit history into a risk assessment is indeed different between each organisation that extends credit, for two very good reasons:
1 - it's a competitive differentiator. If company A is better at judging risk than company B they'll do more business with lower defaults
2 - competiition law actively prevents people using the same algorithm
Maybe in the US there's a "FICO score" that's also factored in but I'd be fucking amazed if any serious financial institution used purely that one score.
Disclaimer: I've worked for more than one organisation that provides credit
It would be, but really it's only £12.24
Of course, the value of an individual share is utterly fucking irrelevant anyway, market capitalisation is the key statistic here.
Correlation. Maybe they also read the Washington Post, browse the NY Times website, listening to BBC Worldwide on the radio and watch CNN on TV.
I hope those guides include my preferred option: Fuck off. I was dying, you got me to agree to treatment under duress, it's not a legal contract and I refuse to accept it now.
What are they going to do, undo the treatment?
ATM cards that don't offer POS payment capabilities do exist. Why do you think otherwise?
I didn't know Neelie's a grandmother. She does promote a lot of sensible things though - definitely gets marks for trying.
This is an excellent point. We need to petition Google to skip straight to the Nexus 7 just to avoid any confusion. Or mutinies in the off-world colonies.
How quaint. I have unlimited 3G data.
Then again, I do have to pay £16/month and despite the unlimited texts, unlimited same-network calls and unlimited landline calls I do only get 2500 'free' minutes.
I'd switch to a cheaper provider but I'm on a one-month rolling contract and I've already paid for next month.
None of your examples are using 8GB at one time. Are you really processing a single 8GB photo? Highly doubtful. Do you have 500 16MB photos? Possible. Once you start batch processing the drive logic is going to be precaching the next likely hits whether its an SSD or HDD. And if game performance was going to be affected by disk drive speed in the way you imply its a first for me - I've yet to see one spec out with "SSD required".
Game performance as a 'frames per second' isn't a storage IO issue. Game performance as a 'why is this game taking 40 seconds to load a level' is. That's where an SSD helps. Trust me, there's a very discernable difference.
And yes, I quite often have 500 16MB photos. Forget precaching, there's "write to hard disk, read from hard disk, generated cached image, write to hard disk, read from hard disk" even before I do the actual photo editing. Being able to do all of that on an SSD cache (and again when I'm reviewing or working on a 2000 photo theme) while also playing a game (because I do) while also doing other stuff on the PC.. well, why constrain myself to a hybrid drive when I have a tower case sat half-empty?
You're also ignoring the fact that an 8GB cache would need to be refreshed far more often. I don't have to use 8GB at once, I can use a total of 30GB over the course of a week, then start re-using it. None of that cached data has been removed from the SSD so I'm still benefiting from that initial cache. There will also be benefits to the drive lifetime as a result - fewer writes needed. Plus the SSD or the 7200 can fail and be replaced at lower cost than the hybrid, so if anything there's a TCO saving.
And yes, cost is trivially extra. Nowhere near $180 extra: checking back at the site I bought my latest PC from, a 64GB SSD (using Intel SRT) + a 2TB disk costs £31 more than the 2TB Seagate hybrid. That gives me far better performance across the range of activities I use my drive for without incurring the $1200 difference you were claiming though in your original post.
I can understand that people might want to save that £31. It was less than 2% of the cost of my system. I perceive it to have benefit. I made a conscious choice not to buy the hybrid drive.
I'm with you. Split it equally, voluntarily add some extra if I've caused a disparity in cost.
Or just pay the lot, as I did at lunch today. Away from the table, so that nobody else even knew the bill was being paid, let alone how much it was.
The game has a 5GB file. I have no idea how much of it gets used at once, but it's not unreasonable to assume that across a 12GB game there's a fair bit of data being used.
I'm also certain that I'm using 8GB of storage when I'm processing 8GB of photographs.
I'm also certain that I'm using more than 8GB of storage over the course of a week. A $140 hybrid drive just isn't going to give me the performance I'd like.
So I spent $180 and got a 60gb cache not an 8gb one. But hey, go ahead and save $40 if you don't need the performance boost it would give to you.
sure you can overwhelm the cache but in real world use that is not going to be an issue
L.A. Noire has a single file that's over 5GB in size. The full game is 12GB in size.
That's just one application. I multitask. 8GB of cache just doesn't cut it.
I just bought a new desktop and opted for SRT rather than the hybrids.
OS drive: High performance (so quite expensive) dedicated SSD
Data drive: 2TB 7200rpm with a rather cheaper 60GB SSD as a cache
NAS : Purely spindle, it's there for infrequently accessed files and backup
The biggest benefit over the hybrid is that 60GB not 8GB. If I import 10GB of photos from my camera I don't want them getting flushed off the cache. If I want to play a 15GB install-size game I don't want to lose the benefits of caching. Right now I can use Lightroom and play the game at the same time.
What about men with no penis size issues? Take a picture of my penis and post it online and people will go, "Oh. It's a penis. Seen one of those before."
It's not terribly interesting. It's not abnormally large or small or bent or coloured or pierced or tattooed or covered in growths. It's a penis.
Should that give me the right to publicly humiliate a woman with impunity?
The world at large would tend to disagree with you. Sharing naked pictures seems a pre-requisite of almost any teen relationship these days.
Incidentally I continue to be utterly confused by the use of the term 'junk'. There are so many words available to describe any part of the anatomy and that's just not one that ever seems appropriate.
You can claim you were merely trying to show the world a beautiful body as much as you like, but your actions may contradict your words.
Bitch is gender neutral as an insult itself. Trust me, men don't like being called it either.
Was he in fact "reacting" in an excited way? If so, he did it willingly.
That's a very false assumption.
The irony being that 1200/month is the order of magnitude of my monthly tax bill, which includes education, defence, benefits, old age pensions, foreign aid, EU subsidies and a ton of other shit as well as the NHS.
As much as I malign the inefficiencies inherent in the NHS it's so much more preferable to the current US model that I continue to be bewildered at the hostility Obama's plans engenders.
Communism is not a totalitarian doctrine. It just happens that all of the known implementations have gone that way.
How big is your house? $2700 is excessive. Hell, $800 is excessive. I'm paying around £105 a year to cover buildings insurance for all causes (including wind, flood and other storm damage) except for terrorism, warfare and possibly (I'd need to check) damage caused by things falling from aircraft. Including the aircraft themselves.
That's in an old coal mining area, so subsidence is a definite danger - but is covered.
Maybe your house is 8 times the size of mine. Very possible. So a simple metric: My insurance (which covers me for rebuild cost) costs approximately 0.1% of the rebuild cost.
Yes, in that their fail-safe is a market rollback.
I'd fucking ban those. If it took out the companies doing HFT because they overcommit in 14ms then on the whole this would be a bloody fantastic thing.