Wouldn't it be the opposite? That is, when in a state of "focus," (and assuming the brain has a finite amount of "cycles" to devote to various tasks) the brain requires fewer cycles to process immediate activity and therefore has cycles to spare that would otherwise be spent on the immediate activity if not in focus?
Using your music analogy, the brain of the musician able to sightread requires fewer cycles to manipulate whatever their instrument to sound immediate notes and can use the spare cycles to read ahead and "cache" future notes. This seems to be the case for me, a woeful guitarist. I can feel my brain devoting every cycle to reading music (even guitar tablature) and playing at the same time and I know I have absolutely no cycles to spare for anything else, hence not being in focus.
Whatever language you use to enter a search string into Google is the universal language. I don't speak a word of any other language except for English and have never been outside of North America, and yet I am able to spoil your surprise after spending less than 10 seconds with Google:
"The lángos is something inspired, not for the faint-hearted: a deep-fried (ideally in lard) frisbee of dough covered in sour cream & cheese, then drizzled with a garlic-salt chrism of some sort." http://www.culturalsociety.org/vienna7.html
Goes to show again that what's important is not what you know, but that you can find out what you don't know. I could go for some langos right now, though. Can't go wrong with sour cream and cheese, regardless of what language you speak!
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Wired magazine and Radio Shack did something like this about ten years ago. CueCat anyone?
Well, as long as the lasers don't interfere with the "chemtrails"...
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Wouldn't it be the opposite? That is, when in a state of "focus," (and assuming the brain has a finite amount of "cycles" to devote to various tasks) the brain requires fewer cycles to process immediate activity and therefore has cycles to spare that would otherwise be spent on the immediate activity if not in focus?
Using your music analogy, the brain of the musician able to sightread requires fewer cycles to manipulate whatever their instrument to sound immediate notes and can use the spare cycles to read ahead and "cache" future notes. This seems to be the case for me, a woeful guitarist. I can feel my brain devoting every cycle to reading music (even guitar tablature) and playing at the same time and I know I have absolutely no cycles to spare for anything else, hence not being in focus.
All that running must make you hungry; hungry like a wolf.
"An attempt at a Utopia project (dear Lord, if it happens, don't "Gutopia")..."
I think "Gootopia" is what you're getting at, as "Gutopia" would be pronounced "gut-opia."
However, if Google were to undertake such a project with the assistance of Richard Stallman, "GNUtopia" might be more appropriate.
Indeed we can:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/aircraft/asw3.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_anomaly_detector
Whatever language you use to enter a search string into Google is the universal language. I don't speak a word of any other language except for English and have never been outside of North America, and yet I am able to spoil your surprise after spending less than 10 seconds with Google:
"The lángos is something inspired, not for the faint-hearted: a deep-fried (ideally in lard) frisbee of dough covered in sour cream & cheese, then drizzled with a garlic-salt chrism of some sort."
http://www.culturalsociety.org/vienna7.html
Goes to show again that what's important is not what you know, but that you can find out what you don't know. I could go for some langos right now, though. Can't go wrong with sour cream and cheese, regardless of what language you speak!
If you have a fiber jack in your cranium, why do you need a VR helmet on it?
Not true, according to Snopes:
Claim: The American interstate highway system was designed to be used for emergency airstrips in case of war. Status: False. http://www.snopes.com/autos/law/airstrip.asp
No, that would be wadcasting. At least for males.
As Eddie Van Halen once said, "You've only got 12 notes and however you mix them up is your thing."