Apple Magic Mouse
I ordered an Apple Magic Mouse yesterday on Amazon with the 2nd day shipping option, and, surprisingly, it came through today. Since I'm on Amazon Prime trial period, it was pretty much a free overnight shipping.
Even though everyone says it's a great mouse, there are things I like and things I don't like.
Pros
I love how the scrolling feels.
No cheap feeling when I grab it.
It uses AA batteries unlike my old mouse that uses AAA. Rechargeable batteries of size AA that I have have almost three times more capacity than AAAs I have.
Cons
Easily scratchable surface.
The tracking speed is so damn slow! Virtually unusable even with the maximum speed in the system preferences. I even tried
defaults write -g com.apple.mouse.scaling 12.0
but it seems that it only changes how it accelerates and it doesn't change the tracking speed. If I don't find a better solution for this, I might return the mouse.
Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford Commencement Address
I think this is a great speech. I hope one day I become another person who can say those thing in front of people. In the speech, Steve Jobs gave me some clues that lead me to an answer that I've been looking for a long time. Jobs said,
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
Even though the statement he made was highly abstract and conceptual, it forced me to re-think about everything I was doing and I have been doing. Ever since I decided to study computer science, I thought I already knew what I want to do. But there were too much of noise from others, temptations and uncertainties. Computer science is indeed a broad subject and it doesn't define me. It is just one of things I am interested in.
I don't think anyone else can answer to this question for me; what do I really want to become? If someone else answers to the question, it's probably not what I truly want to become. Thus I shall be the one who ultimately answers to the question, and hopefully not too late.