Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 15:55:19 -0700 (PDT) From: <unknown@riverstyx.net> To: Darren Pilgrim <dpilgrim@uswest.net> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Music to code by Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9905231553310.18385-100000@hades.riverstyx.net> In-Reply-To: <37488103.B522929B@uswest.net>
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Following on that tangent, you can get a neat effect if you put a mouse on COM1 and a modem on COM3. You'll only transfer data properly if you move your mouse vigourously the entire time that you're online :) --- tani hosokawa river styx internet On Sun, 23 May 1999, Darren Pilgrim wrote: > >> Coding is inherently mathematical, as is music. Using the same > >> part of your brain for two activities results in half (or less) > >> of the effort applied to the activity than if you were using it > >> for one. > > > > From what I've read (not a lot, but enough) listening to music actaully > > serves to *stimulate* those segments of the brain. Why would you think > > that listening to music would "use up" your brain power? And why do you > > think that the brain is some kind of single-tasking system? I think the > > brain is not nearly as linear and mechanical as you seem to think. > > I'm reminded of someone's trouble with NIC performance. The problem > was the speed at which the IRQs fired. The faster the IRQs came, the > faster his NIC performed. When he shared the NIC's IRQ with something > that was generating a lot of IRQs (an active disk controller, eg) the > NIC's performance shot up. > > You could look at listening to music the same way: it speeds up the > rate of electrical signals in the part of the brain that is also used > to write code. I know that when I'm designing a circuit board or > working on some graphics routine, listening to fast music shortens > the length of time it takes me to perform that task. If I listen to > a slow song it takes me longer. > > The brain really is a computer. It's a multiple bus system with > hundreds of processors running asymetrically. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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