Oddly enough, buying a 5 subject notebook per semester did the same thing for me through my BS. And I did computer science, with minors in math and physics... Fortunately, most of my profs put dry erase marker to the board rather than powerpoint mind-death (Edward Tufte had an interesting paper about this).
No worries about crashes, running out of battery, no expensive tablet to draw non-text stuff (handy since much of cs and physics includes graphs and "circle&line" information). All for a couple bucks a semester:)
While I adore my powerbook and ibook, I can't seem them as being useful in attending lectures (I attended one today at work, a prof from dartmouth came to talk about the riemann hypothesis, and left the laptop in my office, favoring a small notebook and pen).
As others have said, a computer is merely a tool. A highly over-used tool that too many people rely on for every tasks better served by other tools. And I write software for a living:)
I was using a 40w incadescent bulb behind the screen pointed up for a while, and it helped greatly for me:) Since I've shuffled my office, it's not an option anymore, so I have the light behind me and pointed at the ceiling, which is still far better than darkness or the incadescent office lights.
Additionally, I make sure to keep the monitor a fair distance away (work monitors are about half a foot out of my reach, laptop at the tips of my fingers if I reach all the way out), and regularly look away from the screen, at something far away if possible.
I somehow have 20/20 vision after staring at computer screens since '83, so things like proper lighting and placement (as well as exercising moderation... take breaks!) seem to have significant impact.
Your interpretation of "the geek community" is fine for half the job people have to do, but not the other half... There're two primary roles as a professional. The first is the technical aspect, in which dressing down is appropriate (today, I wore a jeans, gym socks, boots, and a flannel shirt I didn't bother tucking in to work), but there is also a secondary roll; representation. When you give presentations, when you meet with groups for negotiations, etc, you represent your group, so the whole 'first impression' aspect is critical. Last tuesday, I met with managerial staff from several groups, and I wore black slacks, an off white shirt, a black tie, took out my earrings, ponytailed my hair... dress shoes, black socks... if I had a suit that still fit, I'd have worn that. Guess it's time to make a trip to a suit store... maybe I'll try to find a suit store that isn't pumping the pr machine:) Wearing a suit doesn't make you a good person, but it gives a professional first impression, which is important if you want to be taken seriously as a representative of your organization or team.
I've had good luck usings bochs http://bochs.sourceforge.net/ for x86 on my powerbook. It's a little work getting the bochsrc set up just right, and installing an os on the disk image if you need one to support the code... (I've been dorking with os-less stuff...)
I find this article difficult to take seriously given the second word in the abstract, 'Microsoft', is misspelled on the ComputerWeekly site. I'd hope any professional author writing a professional article would at LEAST grind it through spell checking software before publishing, particularly for a piece intended for management types instead of tech weenies. WTF is 'micorsoft'?
Secondly, it's not the bugs that are known and reported that concern me, it's those undiscovered and/or kept hidden. The reporter sensationalizes that fact even with quotes from Secunia's CTO saying bugcount is more or less irrelevant..
I drive a '96 4cyl 5spd s10, and have been averaging about 28-29 mpg in 'suburban' driving, I believe my highway top was 33.6 about a year ago... epa stickers are 19/26...
Not too long ago, I had failing spark plugs causing missing when I gave it too much gas at low engine speeds... my solution was to drive the vehicle harder, running up to higher rpm's before shifting... and my mileage went UP. I was boggled, I'd been driving for years thinking I wanted to keep the engine speed as close to idle as possible to maximize efficiency, and vagually recall getting like 23 and 24 mpg in suburban/highway driving... Now I wind up a bit before shifting and enjoy higher efficiencies...
I got my first 'puter in '83, and they were fun and unique machines back in that time... I got an x86 in '89 I think, and used it as little as possible... it had no fun, no appeal, it was just an ugly hard to use POS... the few times i used it were for a couple choice games (wolf3d, civ, doom) but generally favored my commodores for games. After taking 2 quarters of college with the intent for something like an EE or aeronautical engineering degree, I moved and sold off the commodores to minimize the crap to transport. After a few months, I heard about linux, tried it on an isp's shell, and it seemed fun... so I installed it on the 486 (thrashing dos in the process) and have been using linux in some form since. I used win95 for quite a while because of some psychological malfunction where I thought the tools on windows were better/easier... then it clicked and I "got" the unix way. I shifted to fbsd in I think '99, and primarily use osX and fbsd now. But having linux on that 486 making the computer fun and mine again was critical; it was so fun that I decided to go back to school for a cs degree. Now I have a nice paying job playing with the same toys I grew up with:)
Microprose hasn't sued them yet?
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Didn't microprose release a game in '87 called "Pirates!" for the commadore 64, amiga, ibm compatible, etc? sid meier? Did these people bother looking to see if the name had been used?:)
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I wonder if an emulator for the apple 2 series would be approved?
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Oddly enough, buying a 5 subject notebook per semester did the same thing for me through my BS. And I did computer science, with minors in math and physics... Fortunately, most of my profs put dry erase marker to the board rather than powerpoint mind-death (Edward Tufte had an interesting paper about this).
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No worries about crashes, running out of battery, no expensive tablet to draw non-text stuff (handy since much of cs and physics includes graphs and "circle&line" information). All for a couple bucks a semester
While I adore my powerbook and ibook, I can't seem them as being useful in attending lectures (I attended one today at work, a prof from dartmouth came to talk about the riemann hypothesis, and left the laptop in my office, favoring a small notebook and pen).
As others have said, a computer is merely a tool. A highly over-used tool that too many people rely on for every tasks better served by other tools. And I write software for a living
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damn young'ns *shakes cane*
(woops, flourescent office lights, not incandescent)
I was using a 40w incadescent bulb behind the screen pointed up for a while, and it helped greatly for me :) Since I've shuffled my office, it's not an option anymore, so I have the light behind me and pointed at the ceiling, which is still far better than darkness or the incadescent office lights.
Additionally, I make sure to keep the monitor a fair distance away (work monitors are about half a foot out of my reach, laptop at the tips of my fingers if I reach all the way out), and regularly look away from the screen, at something far away if possible.
I somehow have 20/20 vision after staring at computer screens since '83, so things like proper lighting and placement (as well as exercising moderation... take breaks!) seem to have significant impact.
Your interpretation of "the geek community" is fine for half the job people have to do, but not the other half... There're two primary roles as a professional. The first is the technical aspect, in which dressing down is appropriate (today, I wore a jeans, gym socks, boots, and a flannel shirt I didn't bother tucking in to work), but there is also a secondary roll; representation. When you give presentations, when you meet with groups for negotiations, etc, you represent your group, so the whole 'first impression' aspect is critical. Last tuesday, I met with managerial staff from several groups, and I wore black slacks, an off white shirt, a black tie, took out my earrings, ponytailed my hair... dress shoes, black socks... if I had a suit that still fit, I'd have worn that. Guess it's time to make a trip to a suit store... maybe I'll try to find a suit store that isn't pumping the pr machine :) Wearing a suit doesn't make you a good person, but it gives a professional first impression, which is important if you want to be taken seriously as a representative of your organization or team.
I've had good luck usings bochs http://bochs.sourceforge.net/ for x86 on my powerbook. It's a little work getting the bochsrc set up just right, and installing an os on the disk image if you need one to support the code... (I've been dorking with os-less stuff...)
-Erik
I find this article difficult to take seriously given the second word in the abstract, 'Microsoft', is misspelled on the ComputerWeekly site. I'd hope any professional author writing a professional article would at LEAST grind it through spell checking software before publishing, particularly for a piece intended for management types instead of tech weenies. WTF is 'micorsoft'?
Secondly, it's not the bugs that are known and reported that concern me, it's those undiscovered and/or kept hidden. The reporter sensationalizes that fact even with quotes from Secunia's CTO saying bugcount is more or less irrelevant..
-Erik
I drive a '96 4cyl 5spd s10, and have been averaging about 28-29 mpg in 'suburban' driving, I believe my highway top was 33.6 about a year ago... epa stickers are 19/26...
Not too long ago, I had failing spark plugs causing missing when I gave it too much gas at low engine speeds... my solution was to drive the vehicle harder, running up to higher rpm's before shifting... and my mileage went UP. I was boggled, I'd been driving for years thinking I wanted to keep the engine speed as close to idle as possible to maximize efficiency, and vagually recall getting like 23 and 24 mpg in suburban/highway driving... Now I wind up a bit before shifting and enjoy higher efficiencies...
-Erik
I got my first 'puter in '83, and they were fun and unique machines back in that time... I got an x86 in '89 I think, and used it as little as possible... it had no fun, no appeal, it was just an ugly hard to use POS... the few times i used it were for a couple choice games (wolf3d, civ, doom) but generally favored my commodores for games. After taking 2 quarters of college with the intent for something like an EE or aeronautical engineering degree, I moved and sold off the commodores to minimize the crap to transport. After a few months, I heard about linux, tried it on an isp's shell, and it seemed fun... so I installed it on the 486 (thrashing dos in the process) and have been using linux in some form since. I used win95 for quite a while because of some psychological malfunction where I thought the tools on windows were better/easier... then it clicked and I "got" the unix way. I shifted to fbsd in I think '99, and primarily use osX and fbsd now. But having linux on that 486 making the computer fun and mine again was critical; it was so fun that I decided to go back to school for a cs degree. Now I have a nice paying job playing with the same toys I grew up with :)
Didn't microprose release a game in '87 called "Pirates!" for the commadore 64, amiga, ibm compatible, etc? sid meier? Did these people bother looking to see if the name had been used? :)
-Erik <erik@smluc.org> [http://math.smsu.edu/~erik/]