I agree with you completely. I think everyone would love just working on a beach with their laptop, but would they be that productive having hot girls in bikinis walking by every five minutes?
Enjoying your work environment and being productive are two different things. Open environments may be appropriate for certain occupations such as shipping centers or operations centers, but I don't think so for programming. I like to be able to concentrate on what I'm working on for extended periods of time without constant interruptions, intentional or otherwise. Ideally, you want privacy/noise-isolation but to be close enough in proximity with your fellow developers in case you need to have a 5 minute micro-meeting.
DVD Studio Pro can create HD-DVDs that can be burnt to regular DVDs. Apples DVD player can play these at HD resolution, I'm not sure about other dvd players though.
I use Mac OS primarily in both setups. You are correct that the window manager does not have enough features to help the organization of the windows. A virtual dual monitor setup would be great. I think part of the problem also is the shear height of the 30" display. As someone else posted, I think a wider aspect ratio would make the 30" display better for programming.
I have a 30" cinema display at home and two 23" cinema displays at work. I do an equal amount of programming from each. I like the dual-display setup better for programming. For programming it seems to be easier to arrange the windows (IDE,firefox,terminals,etc) in the most efficient way. When using programs like autocad and photoshop though, the 30" is much better.
I think some routers allow you to set which times during the day an ip/mac address can connect to the internet. I would be bored as hell on my computer without an internet connection.
I've never believed that access to computers make people more intelligent or educated, in the same way I think calculators are overused in math classes today. People will just use them as a crutch. The only thing access to a calculator helped me with in high school was my TI-85 programming skills for automating problem solving (you could argue cheating) on calculus tests. Then you have all the people just downloading their term papers, and test answers. We will soon have a society full of people who are excellent at using computers, but not very good at anything useful.
Our team uses Subversion in conjunction with http://www.edgewall.com/trac/ and I think it works great! It can be a little tricky to get setup the first time (at least on a mac) but it's well worth it.
I'm sure low lying cubical partitions are great when you aren't also working around a couple of non-programmers who tend to sit around, bullshit, yick-yack all day long, which can be really distracting (at least for me).
I was born in kansas educated as an engineer and have been a devout atheist since I could crawl. Ironically my father (raised in kansas) is a molecular geneticist and director at arguably the worlds leading research institute. I can only imagine what may have come of him (and in turn myself) had he been influenced by the people at the reigns of education in kansas today. All I can say is someone needs to take back control out there.
Maybe you should stop to think that maybe not everybody's needs are like yours. If I'm storing millions of records per day, many of which are never even seen, but I also need a decent query facility, than mySQL is more than sufficient. And yes, mysql IS much faster than postgres in many use cases, most importantly, the ones I'm working with now. However, when speed isn't as important I will use postgres.
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Just out of curiosity, where did you get the idea for your user name??
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Like he said, pedantic...
How is Java Support? Can I run eclipse?
I agree with you completely. I think everyone would love just working on a beach with their laptop, but would they be that productive having hot girls in bikinis walking by every five minutes?
Enjoying your work environment and being productive are two different things. Open environments may be appropriate for certain occupations such as shipping centers or operations centers, but I don't think so for programming. I like to be able to concentrate on what I'm working on for extended periods of time without constant interruptions, intentional or otherwise. Ideally, you want privacy/noise-isolation but to be close enough in proximity with your fellow developers in case you need to have a 5 minute micro-meeting.
I guess people didn't watch movies before cell phones existed in case their mother happened to die during it? riiiiight...
DVD Studio Pro can create HD-DVDs that can be burnt to regular DVDs. Apples DVD player can play these at HD resolution, I'm not sure about other dvd players though.
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http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/dvdstudiopro/
and 3 nanoseconds later killed itself.
and I'm sure you've never had problems with drivers for your hardware right?
I use Mac OS primarily in both setups. You are correct that the window manager does not have enough features to help the organization of the windows. A virtual dual monitor setup would be great. I think part of the problem also is the shear height of the 30" display. As someone else posted, I think a wider aspect ratio would make the 30" display better for programming.
I have a 30" cinema display at home and two 23" cinema displays at work. I do an equal amount of programming from each. I like the dual-display setup better for programming. For programming it seems to be easier to arrange the windows (IDE,firefox,terminals,etc) in the most efficient way. When using programs like autocad and photoshop though, the 30" is much better.
This card does not support dual-link. It has two single-link dvi connectors
I think some routers allow you to set which times during the day an ip/mac address can connect to the internet. I would be bored as hell on my computer without an internet connection.
I've never believed that access to computers make people more intelligent or educated, in the same way I think calculators are overused in math classes today. People will just use them as a crutch. The only thing access to a calculator helped me with in high school was my TI-85 programming skills for automating problem solving (you could argue cheating) on calculus tests. Then you have all the people just downloading their term papers, and test answers. We will soon have a society full of people who are excellent at using computers, but not very good at anything useful.
Our team uses Subversion in conjunction with http://www.edgewall.com/trac/ and I think it works great! It can be a little tricky to get setup the first time (at least on a mac) but it's well worth it.
I'm sure low lying cubical partitions are great when you aren't also working around a couple of non-programmers who tend to sit around, bullshit, yick-yack all day long, which can be really distracting (at least for me).
If evolution were real, than those who didn't believe in it, would not exist... hmmm.... ;-)
That character in Napolean Dynamite was a giant DORK, not a geek. The are mutually exclusive in my opinion.
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Are demons known for their number crunching abilities?
I was born in kansas educated as an engineer and have been a devout atheist since I could crawl. Ironically my father (raised in kansas) is a molecular geneticist and director at arguably the worlds leading research institute. I can only imagine what may have come of him (and in turn myself) had he been influenced by the people at the reigns of education in kansas today. All I can say is someone needs to take back control out there.
try using eclipse
monkey balls! monkey balls! shit eating monkey ball licking... oh wait whats going on... where am i? monkey balls!
how would your phone ring if the network didn't know where you were?
I for one bow down to our... what's this article about?
Maybe you should stop to think that maybe not everybody's needs are like yours. If I'm storing millions of records per day, many of which are never even seen, but I also need a decent query facility, than mySQL is more than sufficient. And yes, mysql IS much faster than postgres in many use cases, most importantly, the ones I'm working with now. However, when speed isn't as important I will use postgres.