From owner-freebsd-chat Sun May 23 15:47:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from hades.riverstyx.net (hq-port-89.harbour-dhcp-pool.infinetgroup.com [207.23.37.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 029A7150E6 for ; Sun, 23 May 1999 15:47:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from unknown@riverstyx.net) Received: from localhost (unknown@localhost) by hades.riverstyx.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA19320; Sun, 23 May 1999 15:55:19 -0700 Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 15:55:19 -0700 (PDT) From: To: Darren Pilgrim Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Music to code by In-Reply-To: <37488103.B522929B@uswest.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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