instead of thinking of 'supertasking' as only the ability to just do more things simultaneously you have to add the ability of some people to multitask some combinations while others can multitask other combinations. Think of kind of a map of things a certain person can do simultanuously, and things that get in each other's way. Different people have different maps, and training can modify the map to some extent. With training a pianist can learn to do different things with left and right hand, or a drummer can learn to play different rthms with left and right feet. On the other hand some guitarists can easily sing and play, others just can't do it, as if one guitarist needs the same part of the brain for both tasks, while another uses different parts. Richard Feynman once spent time investigating that map. Some people can easily keep time, counting off 60 seconds very reliably while doing other tasks such as reading, and others just can't do it. Some people will be better at multitasking, while some will just be different at it. I wonder if the researchers distinguished between those.
NASA had this conflict between the sales pitch of a perfectly safe weekly flight and the engineers' opinion on this which by itself should have had a devastating impact on the flow of information. Apparently there's a wikipage on it.
When you mention the opposite problem, are you thinking about ISO9000 stuff?
NASA has phenomenal quality control, your comparison is apples to oranges. My knowledge is outdated, but I read Feynman's report on Nasa's quality control after the Challenger disaster, and I hope they got their act together after that. Quality control was huge then, in volume and procedure, but that doesn't mean it had any value. The software department was good, I recall that much.
Let me see. A minimum set of characters would contain 30-ish in all. your text is 13 chars, so 13**30 is 10 e33 combinations. The chances of encountering this string in a say a Mhz random bitstream does seem rather small. But "Navy" must have been possible.
The wikipage on the no fly list has an interesting take on false positives. They're people who have the same name as someone on the list. The guy who wrote that apparently can't conceive of the possibility that someone may be on the list for no reason at all, let alone the possibility that the list scores about the same as a list consisting of a random sample of the population.
Monday: everyone on slashdot recommends all their work collegues Tuesday: recommend all friends and family Wednesday: recommend random sample from phonebook Thursday: everyone who owns a black dog. Friday: Lieberman.
That way we'll slashdot the service AND do the nation a favor.
My business of smuggling illicit recreational chemicals has become so much easier after 9/11. All my people dress with long beards and try to look arab(takes some training). Alright so it's not fun when the man with the glove comes but they never get checked for drugs. I lost a few that were sent to Uzbekistan but hey, it's not supposed to be a safe business.
How about the allegation that there was a reactor there? In any case signalling to an opponent that you've got trojans in his tools is best postponed as long as possible. It's not something you give away for the benefit a single airraid. the NYTimes story builds speculation on speculation. It's crap.
much will depend on how much Clackmannanshire is willing to pay. The Coca Cola company has paid through the nose to give their beverages the highes ranking (the spell checker will recommend as a cheaper option over 'water') . If Clackmannanshire wants to have its name spelled correctly it'll cost them. Until then the spell checker will propose "somewhere near Edinburgh".
and your spell checker gets a module that suggests cheaper words to use in your sentences. And it takes in account the extra tax on words the government doesn't like. You can still write what you want but some things are really costly..
I see two naked women very thoroughly covered up by inkblots. All Rorschach pictures were made by that approach, it's well known. It's less common knowledge that several windows fonts have been created with the same approach. Wingdings of course, but also Arial. Arial bold is particularly naughty, hence the name.
but then my new Google-car-ad-spamming business proposal would be dead from the start. There's an awful lot of sandwichmen I have to pay to be in the right spot at the right time.
if *everyone* now dresses up their streets as other streets when the google street view car arrives then google will show it all wrong and Washington will look like Moscow and Moscow will look like London and we can all have a laugh and we can go to sleep at night feeling we've done something useful.
What the hell have opinions of soldiers to do with this? When policy is translated into the indoctrination that it's better to kill 50 random 'other' people than to run the risk that one of your own people might be harmed then there is no respect. And the article serves the myth that problems are caused by soldiers not adhering to army policies.
Intelligent robots could shift the balance indeed, because you can sacrifice them more easily and it's even good business to do so. But on the other hand killing by remote is easier than in real life(well, for most) and it also becomes easier to keep people at home completely oblivious of what's happening in the war.
So there will be interest. Good business, more control over information, and less killed in your own camp. That sums up the morality.
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instead of thinking of 'supertasking' as only the ability to just do more things simultaneously you have to add the ability of some people to multitask some combinations while others can multitask other combinations.
Think of kind of a map of things a certain person can do simultanuously, and things that get in each other's way.
Different people have different maps, and training can modify the map to some extent.
With training a pianist can learn to do different things with left and right hand, or a drummer can learn to play different rthms with left and right feet.
On the other hand some guitarists can easily sing and play, others just can't do it, as if one guitarist needs the same part of the brain for both tasks, while another uses different parts.
Richard Feynman once spent time investigating that map. Some people can easily keep time, counting off 60 seconds very reliably while doing other tasks such as reading, and others just can't do it.
Some people will be better at multitasking, while some will just be different at it. I wonder if the researchers distinguished between those.
NASA had this conflict between the sales pitch of a perfectly safe weekly flight and the engineers' opinion on this which by itself should have had a devastating impact on the flow of information. Apparently there's a wikipage on it.
When you mention the opposite problem, are you thinking about ISO9000 stuff?
NASA has phenomenal quality control, your comparison is apples to oranges. My knowledge is outdated, but I read Feynman's report on Nasa's quality control after the Challenger disaster, and I hope they got their act together after that. Quality control was huge then, in volume and procedure, but that doesn't mean it had any value. The software department was good, I recall that much.
Study finds that toddlers who spend all their time on slashdot are much smarter than the average toddler. Well I knew that.
Let me see. A minimum set of characters would contain 30-ish in all. your text is 13 chars, so 13**30 is 10 e33 combinations. The chances of encountering this string in a say a Mhz random bitstream does seem rather small. But "Navy" must have been possible.
That's what the world has come to in these PC times. Attempting to insult people by calling them a cigarette.
The wikipage on the no fly list has an interesting take on false positives. They're people who have the same name as someone on the list. The guy who wrote that apparently can't conceive of the possibility that someone may be on the list for no reason at all, let alone the possibility that the list scores about the same as a list consisting of a random sample of the population.
Woah. Imagine a beowulf cluster of those! You think the list should be combined with an echelon triggerwords list?
Monday: everyone on slashdot recommends all their work collegues
Tuesday: recommend all friends and family
Wednesday: recommend random sample from phonebook
Thursday: everyone who owns a black dog.
Friday: Lieberman.
That way we'll slashdot the service AND do the nation a favor.
My business of smuggling illicit recreational chemicals has become so much easier after 9/11. All my people dress with long beards and try to look arab(takes some training). Alright so it's not fun when the man with the glove comes but they never get checked for drugs. I lost a few that were sent to Uzbekistan but hey, it's not supposed to be a safe business.
How about the allegation that there was a reactor there? In any case signalling to an opponent that you've got trojans in his tools is best postponed as long as possible. It's not something you give away for the benefit a single airraid. the NYTimes story builds speculation on speculation. It's crap.
Wait till they try out Linex. Trounces Windex hands down it will!
much will depend on how much Clackmannanshire is willing to pay. The Coca Cola company has paid through the nose to give their beverages the highes ranking (the spell checker will recommend as a cheaper option over 'water') . If Clackmannanshire wants to have its name spelled correctly it'll cost them. Until then the spell checker will propose "somewhere near Edinburgh".
and your spell checker gets a module that suggests cheaper words to use in your sentences. And it takes in account the extra tax on words the government doesn't like. You can still write what you want but some things are really costly..
A "new discipline" that is 100 years old.
I see two naked women very thoroughly covered up by inkblots. All Rorschach pictures were made by that approach, it's well known. It's less common knowledge that several windows fonts have been created with the same approach. Wingdings of course, but also Arial. Arial bold is particularly naughty, hence the name.
All the doors in our house have 'kinetic energy' hinges. I gradually increased the tension and you should see the arms we all have around here now.
at least wishful thinking explains the article.
Contrary to infrared lasers that have problems getting through glass...
Well, to be fair, maybe enough gets through to make it usable.
but then my new Google-car-ad-spamming business proposal would be dead from the start. There's an awful lot of sandwichmen I have to pay to be in the right spot at the right time.
if *everyone* now dresses up their streets as other streets when the google street view car arrives then google will show it all wrong and Washington will look like Moscow and Moscow will look like London and we can all have a laugh and we can go to sleep at night feeling we've done something useful.
it won't stop me from defiantly claiming that Darwin's writings are the dog's dangly bits! I dare say the creationists will fully agree with me there!
Always start with the bog standard task manager, and switch on cpu usage, threads, mem usage and gdi objects to start with.
the size of Pluto maybe.
What the hell have opinions of soldiers to do with this? When policy is translated into the indoctrination that it's better to kill 50 random 'other' people than to run the risk that one of your own people might be harmed then there is no respect. And the article serves the myth that problems are caused by soldiers not adhering to army policies.
Intelligent robots could shift the balance indeed, because you can sacrifice them more easily and it's even good business to do so. But on the other hand killing by remote is easier than in real life(well, for most) and it also becomes easier to keep people at home completely oblivious of what's happening in the war.
So there will be interest. Good business, more control over information, and less killed in your own camp. That sums up the morality.