From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: In defense of Customize [was: Trying to right-align my window on startup] Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 19:21:22 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <8761p27io4.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> References: <3cec217d-8adb-4e6c-b239-eff0c8b520c9@googlegroups.com> <6hrwqhkjfv6.fsf@sap.com> <87zjmgosx7.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> <87wqhi4tns.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1391019914 3608 80.91.229.3 (29 Jan 2014 18:25:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 18:25:14 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 29 19:25:21 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W8Zp7-0000E1-RO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Jan 2014 19:25:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44588 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W8Zp7-0006Xz-Cz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Jan 2014 13:25:17 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed4.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!news.stack.nl!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 34 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: VVbyYd/iFZoeWNmD9i++cQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:3BZ6mV5ikZtBwYiKjrtdIA0p/Gg= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:203489 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:95758 Archived-At: phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk (Phillip Lord) writes: > Again, depends on what you do with a laptop. If I am > travelling for work, then I can use the time to work, > or else I can listen to music and then ignore my > family when I get home while I catch up with work. Yeah, I guess it depends on the hours to travel, the means of transportation, etc. I have been a lot on trains and busses and I have seen a lot of people with laptops. But I didn't see as many people doing real work, far from it. I get the impression that 95% of those either do that because of boredom, or because of nervous energy, or because they actually think it will work, each time. I think it is much more productive to read or to listen to mp3 lectures and documentaries, and you don't need to be "spot on" on either. You might be a better programmer after reading a book on dinosaurs. But I don't think anyone benefits from getting the computer in place, then being stressed with power, the Internet, then checking Facebook where nothing ever happens, then from their seats to the bathroom like Houdini (nowhere to put the laptop), change of bus/train, do it all over again... But if you are on a boat from Poland to Sweden, you have more time and space, it is another ball game. -- underground experts united: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573