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Bad Reporting, Not Email, Worse Than Marijuana
MoNickels writes "Turns out, those endless news reports and blog entries in April about "texting makes you stupid" were inaccurate. As linguist Mark Liberman at LanguageLog now reports by way of apologizing to Wilson, it wasn't Wilson's fault, but that of "rotten science journalism." Psychologist Glenn Wilson was reported to have done a study said that chat and email, as the Guardian put it, "are a greater threat to IQ and concentration than taking cannabis." But Wilson says, "This...is a temporary distraction effect—not a permanent loss of IQ. The equivalences with smoking pot and losing sleep were made by others, against my counsel, and 8 [subjects] somehow became '80 clinical trials.'" The original Slashdot story was covered back in April."
Mozilla has built in Flash playback now?
Analogies don't equal equalities, they are merely somewhat analogous.
I have the latest Quicktime installed and every codec I can think of, and on Windows, I STILL can't watch h.264. It's not really 'there' yet so don't sing it's praises. I even tried it with the Windows version of Mplayer thinking something magical would happen but nope...no dice.
Maybe I'll give it a shot if I can find a Mac.