> They were never designed for quick little sums, they were designed for engraving on massive long lasting objects like buildings and copyright notices on feature films, and they look pretty darned good there. Stop complaining that Roman numerals are not Arabic numerals.
Actually, Roman numerals were designed for counting the men in your army, whereas Arabic numerals were designed for mathematics. Comparing the two isn't a good argument against redthrowaway's point at all, because both are better at the task they were designed for.
Yeah. My brother just finished his apprenticeship in cabinet making and is already on more than me, a programmer. Unions don't have anything to do with it, either - I don't think he's even in one - it's just that the demand for tradesmen is so high over here. Hence the rise in cashed up bogans.
Stopped using the car and started going (almost) everywhere by foot and public transport. I probably end up walking about 1 or 2 hours per day.
The best motivation is the fact that I save money, don't have to worry about traffic, and feel more awake after walking. The physical fitness side of it doesn't concern me that much, even though I know it should.
So, I've now been trying this for I don't know how long (yeah, I mean that literally) with interesting results.
I hid the clock on my taskbar, put masking tape over the clock on my landline phone, and put my mobile phone face down and out of my reach. Then I set up my scheduling program to remind me when it's lunch or home time.
But my mind! That little part of my consciousness where it used to keep the time, it doesn't know what to put there any more. And it's freaking out about it, too.
I never realised before this how much mental effort was dedicated to keeping track of time. Now that I know, I'm definitely not going back. I shouldn't be doing anything my computer can do as well as or better than me. That includes keeping track of time.
I'm not saying it should necessarily be upvoted or anything, I'm just wondering what part of it people are taking exception to.