Hi(gh)!

On 08.10.2013 21:27, Eero Ahonen wrote:
> In July I visited Great Britain and when flying back home, I started
> tweaking around on the airplane. So this is something I'll continue
> tweaking when flying back home from pretty much anywhere, Ie. tired,
> exhausted and nothing else to do, while I simply don't easily catch any
> sleep at airplane.
>
> So, this is from July.

You know you have been raytracing for too long...

...when you buy a laptop just to raytrace while travelling!

Yes, if I was more of a globetrotter, the notion of always having a 
(POWERFUL, i. e. multi-core with at least 16 GiB, of course running 
under good old XP Professional (not nowadays' wannabe-smartphone OSs!), 
if not under Linux) laptop with me feels tempting... just imagine me 
venturing into the valleys of the Wakhan corridor, with one or two 
donkeys carrying my terrain surveying, raytracing and solar power 
equipment, and then doing live in-situ POVghanistan!

See you in Khyberspace!

Yadgar

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> Yes, if I was more of a globetrotter, the notion of always having a
> (POWERFUL, i. e. multi-core with at least 16 GiB, of course running
> under good old XP Professional (not nowadays' wannabe-smartphone OSs!),
> if not under Linux) laptop with me feels tempting...

I used to be in my old job and never looked back since getting a new 
job. There is nothing fun about carrying around a heavy laptop with a 
power brick the size and weight of a real brick. Yes you can run POV or 
play the latest games on it (and burn your legs in the process), but 
whilst actually travelling (as in on a plane or train or whatever) I 
found it far more fun/relaxing to look out the window or watch the guy 
in the next row edit his power point.

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> 
> You know you have been raytracing for too long...
> 
> ...when you buy a laptop just to raytrace while travelling!
> 

So I haven't been raytracing too long, possibly even not enough. When
travelling I'm carrying/using my lighter work-laptop. It's 2-3 years old
and small and light enough to carry in a backpack through the world. As
scott mentioned, carrying a almost-portable workstation is pain in the ass.

> See you in Khyberspace!
> 
> Yadgar

-Aero

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On 11/10/2013 3:48 PM, scott wrote:
>> Yes, if I was more of a globetrotter, the notion of always having a
>> (POWERFUL, i. e. multi-core with at least 16 GiB, of course running
>> under good old XP Professional (not nowadays' wannabe-smartphone OSs!),
>> if not under Linux) laptop with me feels tempting...
>
> I used to be in my old job and never looked back since getting a new
> job. There is nothing fun about carrying around a heavy laptop with a
> power brick the size and weight of a real brick. Yes you can run POV or
> play the latest games on it (and burn your legs in the process),

I am with you on that, 100%

> whilst actually travelling (as in on a plane or train or whatever) I
> found it far more fun/relaxing to look out the window

I read ebooks on a small tablet.

> or watch the guy
> in the next row edit his power point.
>

I don't know if I should feel sad for them because they are so 
overworked. Or feel irritated because they are so important that they 
have to work all the time.
I wish I knew who coined the phrase "death by Power Point".

-- 
Regards
     Stephen

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