I gave up on programming in jr high. We were supposed to write a program that made a little guy made of x's walk across the screen. Mine would walk half way across and blow up! I compared my program with the ones that worked, and some friends checked it too. Mine was exactly the same as theirs, but mine consistently blasted that poor little guy to smithereens... no one ever did figure out what that computer had against my guy, and I refused to work on a computer again til Macs came out. Macs seemed much more professional in their interpersonal relationships.
I can get the same amount of work done in a few hours that it would have taken a day or two before computers.
Some days even more.
There are days when I crunch data relating to hundreds of thousands of entries. doing so without a computer would have taken a week and an army of people. Now i can do it with Access or Excel and a couple of forumlas and about 2 hours.
__________________ If I do something stupid blame the Lortab!
Of course I remember working without computers. Time was spent typing things over and over again since you couldn't "save" anything. If you made an error, you typed the whole thing over. Or if there were copies, had to correct each copy.......
You didn't send an email to ask a question, so you spent more time on the phone trying to get answers.
You actually SPOKE to your co-workers more since you didn't communicate via the computer.
speaking of speaking to co-workers, we now have both Email and Q.
Q is like IM at work. and it is really cool and ulta quick to get answers!
LOVE it and it is a time saver too!
__________________ If I do something stupid blame the Lortab!
I gave up on programming in jr high. We were supposed to write a program that made a little guy made of x's walk across the screen. Mine would walk half way across and blow up! I compared my program with the ones that worked, and some friends checked it too. Mine was exactly the same as theirs, but mine consistently blasted that poor little guy to smithereens... no one ever did figure out what that computer had against my guy, and I refused to work on a computer again til Macs came out. Macs seemed much more professional in their interpersonal relationships.
I read a LOT. I'd go through 7 - 10 books per week. Mostly fiction, so it's not like I was really improving my brain.
I waste way too much time on the internet. My internet was down the other day, so I took my laptop down to my parents to use their wireless. I checked all of my sites, did everything I needed to do, and was done in less than 20 minutes. Made me realize how much time I waste on it normally. I'm going to work on that.
I read a lot more too! BTW, I am firm believer that you don't have to be reading non-fiction to be learning or stretching your brain. There is a lot that we absorb from fiction, if nothing else, it definitely improves vocabulary!
I read a lot more too! BTW, I am firm believer that you don't have to be reading non-fiction to be learning or stretching your brain. There is a lot that we absorb from fiction, if nothing else, it definitely improves vocabulary!
This is true. Plus it gives a lot of insight about human nature, and you can learn a lot about different cultures and places.
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