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 17:52:14 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87wqhi4tns.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> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1391014534 30586 80.91.229.3 (29 Jan 2014 16:55:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 16:55:34 +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 17:55:43 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 1W8YQQ-0001It-H8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Jan 2014 17:55:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43821 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W8YQQ-00039K-5v for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Jan 2014 11:55:42 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.ecp.fr!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 55 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:URfhGbbzUmcMJqnJHQQ3FR8Poek= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:203486 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:95756 Archived-At: phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk (Phillip Lord) writes: > Just because something works for you, does not mean > that it would work for everyone. You probably have > different working practices, different work, are a > different age, and have a different mind and body > from me. Computers are personal (like opinions). > > I have about 5 computers, for different > circumstances. Of course, you may have as many computers as you like. Two things: First, it depends on the level of consistency you want/need. I'm close to OCB when it comes to computers, so for me to have many computers would just be OH times OH. You know if you use a multicore instead of a uniprocessor, and then a microkernel instead of a monolithic kernel, and then put virtualization and real time upon than, and finally you program in C++... Each time you chose the difficult path, difficulties are not added, they are multiplied - they just sky rocket. It would be the same for me with several computers. The only way I could make that work is to consider them not shafts of a hub, but all independent. And I don't want that because then the benefits from all the time spent mastering *one* computer would be gone, and I would be aware of that, and that would be frustrating. But more importantly, I don't believe in the "always on" productivity way of thinking. Like in trains, I don't believe in having a laptop, I believe in having a book or mp3 player (with for example audio tracks from "The Computer Chronicles"). In a cottage, I believe in fishing and chopping wood, and if you feel like it, you can apply your analytic skills acquired from computer work to make it more efficient, like to make it blend with your personality. With the *hours* people spend using gadgets today - after they play ice hockey, when they eat, in libraries, even when drunk at bars - you would think they, and not we, are the programmers. Or, in the words of Dr. Jones, "To be a good archaeologist, you need to get out of the library." -- underground experts united: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573