What brand of refrigerator was Harrison Ford Product Placing for such contingencies?
I dunno, but I've really gotta get me one of those fridges that can withstand a nuclear blast, completely fend off all radiation, and is completely comfortable to ride in through mile-long rough-and-tumble, so much so that you can immediately get out and walk away from earlier-mentioned nuclear blast. Did I sum that all up in one sentence well enough?
RE the gas thing about Oregon: If you don't specify, they'll fill you up with Super. Keep that in mind if you ever drive through Oregon. Especially nowdays.
Really? I've been living and driving in Oregon for 6 years and that has never once happened to me at any of the dozens of gas stations I've been to.
I'm ok with that. Blizzard doesn't (necessarily) have a reputation for fast, on-time releases; instead, they have a reputation for good releases. I'd much rather wait for two years for a rock solid game (as Blizzard has always provided us in the past) than get it in one year and have it be a waste of money.
I disagree completely. If you have ever walked blindly into a system with nothing but code and diagrams to help you through, you'd know that those diagrams are invaluable. Unless you want to waste man power by having another architect hand-hold your way through the system for hours/days/weeks until you've got a firm grasp on it, there's just no substitute for well-made design docs.
I think the notion of "diagrams are useless" spawns from system architects who don't have the foresight to realize that diagrams aren't meant for themselves, but rather everyone else who has to deal with the system thereafter.
I can't link to them due to a non-disclosure agreement.
I work for a high profile interactive ad agency. The websites I work on are for brands and companies we would all instantly recognize. My company would rightly have my head if I started bragging about them on slashdot. I've never heard of a non-disclosure agreement that required you to hide your identity as well as your employer. Unless, of course, you're counting Mission Impossible agents. What kind of company tells their employees, "Absolutely do NOT mention who you work for to ANYONE! We can NOT afford to have our name become better known!"?
Ok, I see your point. Let's pretend Browser X is using dirty tricks with Windows's memory management system to shrink down how much memory is allocated to it. Browser Y is not doing that and appears to be less efficient.
Well and good, but it's irrelevant. The remains that Browser X is taking less memory from Windows's pool of resources. It doesn't matter how Browser X is doing it or how efficient Browser X being with the memory internally, it is a solid truth that Browser X is using occupying fewer system resources than Browser Y.
It's really a moot point, because it's unlikely that the developers of Browser X knew any "cheats" that would let them use substantially less memory than every other browser out there.
As a follow-up to my own post, I want to point out two things. One, I made a typo -- the average Japanese male height (according to the Wikipedia link) was 5'7.2", not 5'7.3". Also, I have absolutely no idea what I typed in to get 1.046875, but that is incorrect. The ratio should have been 1.03125, meaning we're even worse off than I originally thought.
I did the same thing. Taking it farther, the average US male is 5'9.3" compared to the average Japanese male who is 5'7.3". US men are therefore 1.046875x taller, which means that a 33" Japanese waist equates to a 34.55" US waist. We still fail it.
Sexual intercourse is meant to be an act performed in private for the two parties that love and care for each other deeply enough to create a stronger bond.
What do you mean "meant to"? As far as I know, the only thing sex is "meant to" do is allow for continuation of a species and to pass genes. The only time sex has any kind of emotion attached to it is when YOU attach it yourself. Sex by itself cannot have any special meaning unless you intentionally interpret it as such.
That being said, your interpretation of sex should have nothing to do with mine. Obviously there are conflicts -- i.e. if my interpretation of sex is "I get to rape anyone I want including Mactyn", then there's an issue we need to work out. However, me walking around naked (though I don't) should not directly impact you. If you let my public nudity change your own interpretation of sex, that is your problem, not mine.
Certainly, in the Judeo-Christian value system that Europe and the US was brought up in, we were taught that once Adam & Eve ate the fruit and became smart, they put clothes on - to be in public without clothes on is an affront to modesty and morality. Didn't those two little harlots get kicked out of heaven for that?
You're still missing the point: it's an outlier! From a random statistic I pulled (by Googling "cell phone while driving accident"), there are 200 deaths per year from cell-phone related accidents. That is such a small drop in the bucket that it wouldn't even make the surface ripple. If all 100 million people on the road are saving those 730 hours (which is, again, an underestimation), it doesn't even matter if each of those deaths caused 100,000 hours of productivity loss (which wouldn't happen anyway, because their position in society would be filled by someone else).
So you don't think the possibility of killing or maiming other people has anything to do with efficiency?
I think that the possibility of killing or maiming someone exists whether or not a cell phone is involved. More importantly, killing or maiming someone is an outlier event that has little or no effect on the actual average productivity of an individual.
Let's take a hypothetical situation. Let's say that every minute I talk on the phone while driving is a minute saved. That is, if I spend five minutes talking on the phone while I was driving, that's five minutes I didn't have to spend talking on the phone later (an assumption, yes, but it simplifies the scenario). If I talk on a cell phone once a day (everyday) for five minutes while driving, then from the age of 16 (when I started driving) until 40 I will save 43,800 minutes, or 730 hours out of my life. Now, let's go WILD and say that my cell phone usage actually causes me to get in five different accidents over those 24 years. Even if I say that each of those accidents somehow took 100 hours out of my life (between legal battles and such), I still came out ahead by 230 hours.
Please note that I've been talking on my cell phone for much more than five minutes a day, while driving, for many years, and have never even close to an accident because of it.
Even in a scenario with minimal gain (5 minutes a day) and extremely high loss (100 hours per accident, 5 accidents), there is still a net efficiency bonus. Yes, there are safety issues involved. Yes, people die from cellphone-induced car accidents. People also die from radio-induced car accidents. However, that is NOT the point of this discussion.
That's true, but I think the OP's assumption was that you are able to perform both tasks with some reasonable overlap. Using his numbers, 25 minutes is the overlap of two 20 minute tasks, which is significantly better than 40 minutes.
You're right, of course, that overlapping two 20 minutes COULD result in taking more than 40 minutes, but I think that situation is an outlier, not a norm. If you are constantly walking into telephone poles while talking on the phone, I think there is a more serious underlying issue.
An example would be driving while talking on the cell phone. There's little debate that your driving skills are worsened when you do this, as you simply have less concentration to go around. Ok, fine, but that doesn't in fact mean it is detrimental to efficiency. Unless you're in Britain, in which case it is detrimental to efficiency... as your ass will end up in a cell, because using a phone while driving is illegal.
That's because it's deemed highly inefficient if you kill someone else who was minding their own business while you slightly increase your own productivity.
You managed to completely, blatantly ignore this line from his post:
I realise with driving there is a safety consideration in this case, but I am talking overall about task performance. If your goal was to selectively pick one fact from his post, remove all context completely, and then pick it apart just to make a point that isn't even related to the topic, then, congratulations, you have set up a perfect straw man.
Can we get back to talking about multitasking efficiency now?
First, I think you chose a poor example, because I think a vast majority of Slashdotters can't name a single "famous flautist", male OR female.
Second, your supporting data makes no sense. Why are you asking about names of famous flute players and comparing to the stats of high school flute players?
It's not guaranteed obviously, but there are data points to support some correlation.
Those data points may exist, but you have not demonstrated them anywhere in your post. There is no direct correlation between high school flute players and famous flute players unless you can show data that says otherwise. (Such as, "80% of famous flute players played flute in high school", or similar).
In fact, wouldn't that get over the problem of people being able to see the colour combo. just don't display the combo, but memorize the number of presses on each button.
I think you missed out on one of the details of this device. The colors of the buttons change -- randomly, at that -- every time you press a button. In this way, the button-pressing pattern is dynamic. When I push a blue button the first time, even though I know I have to push red next, I don't necessarily know where red is going to be.
To be clear, I agree you with you, not the clown. However, I have a question. Consider this hypothetical scenario:
You begin downloading a very unpopular song via bittorrent. We'll say it's 4MB to keep up with your example. This song is so unpopular, in fact, that it has only one seed and no other leeches (downloaders). When you get to, let's say, 75% of the download, the only other seed disconnects. Now the torrent only has one person distributing information: you.
Now, say another person begins downloading from that torrent. You are the only person distributing data, and in fact you distribute all 3MB of your data to that new person. It may or may not be sequential data, but 3MB out of 4 is certainly enough to identify the information that data represents.
This brings up a couple questions. Did you steal that song, even though you only have 3/4 of it? Did you also give a copy of it to someone else, even though you only gave them 3/4 of something?
Obviously this hypothetical is not a typical situation, but it is not entirely uncommon and certainly not unfathomable. What do you make of it?
Only online access provided by medical providers that are explicitly covered under the Act. This new generation of info-providers such as Google, MS, etc. are NOT covered by HIPPA. Even the Government has said so (link is posted elsewhere in this discussion by someone). That is the third time in a row you've referred to the HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) as "HIPPA", even after being corrected by someone else. Is there some reason you keep doing this?
But, I would have to say, when you actions lead to someone being beaten, jailed, and forced to use the same dish to eat and shit, then you can be sure your action was evil.
What the hell is wrong with the world? Remember that "evil", regardless of your definition, is regarding the intent of your actions, not the outcome. I have no evidence to stand on, but I'm pretty sure Google (as an entity) didn't say, "Let's give up this man's IP address so we can him eat shit." I think it was more along the lines of, "This man is a criminal, let's give up his IP address so the proper authorities can punish him accordingly." It is not Google's fault that the "proper authorities" are sick, brutish assholes.
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I like a game that says "you the player are the hero," not games where the hero is Master Chief/Solid Snake/whoever-the-fuck. I never connect to those characters because *I'm* the hero, not them.
Are your powers of suspending disbelief so strong that you can believe that you personally are a crack soldier equipped with state of the art weaponry? Since the game is complete fantasy, and I at any rate am always aware that I remain sitting on my ass in my living room, I think a third-person perspective where you play as a character the gam emakers thought up makes sense.
I'm going out on a limb here, but I think the GP is referring to the use of his imagination. Generally, games (and fantasy books, for that matter) exist as a tool for users to escape from reality and pretend to be someone/something else.
I do believe pretending to be someone else isn't as wildly abnormal as you make it out to be.
I'd assume the adverts are targeted yes, but I don't actually know because I have an ad-blocker installed. You can install 'applications' and then choose how much information you wan the application to install, and then you get asked (or sometimes required, which is a pain in the ass) to invite a bunch of friends to install the app. Bebo does the same thing. I also have adblock installed, but when I occasionally browse facebook from other computers, I noticed something interesting: after changing my Relationship Status to "In a Relationship" (from the previous "Single"), I suddenly stopped seeing adds for "meet a woman" websites. They vanished completely, whereas before it was all I ever saw.
You have to install the app and give them permission which parts of your data that you want them to have access to.
Yes and no. Bear it mind that there is a two-part process:
1) You must actively choose to install the program -- that is, you must opt in to get the app. However,
2) once installed, you must opt out of various privacy negations. By default, this app will have FULL access to everything you have posted.
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What brand of refrigerator was Harrison Ford Product Placing for such contingencies?
I dunno, but I've really gotta get me one of those fridges that can withstand a nuclear blast, completely fend off all radiation, and is completely comfortable to ride in through mile-long rough-and-tumble, so much so that you can immediately get out and walk away from earlier-mentioned nuclear blast. Did I sum that all up in one sentence well enough?
RE the gas thing about Oregon: If you don't specify, they'll fill you up with Super. Keep that in mind if you ever drive through Oregon. Especially nowdays.
Really? I've been living and driving in Oregon for 6 years and that has never once happened to me at any of the dozens of gas stations I've been to.
I heard in Seattle that you have to work all the rainy days and you get the sunny days off.
Is that true?
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Yes, but unfortunately that means you only get nine days off per year. Including weekends.
I'm ok with that. Blizzard doesn't (necessarily) have a reputation for fast, on-time releases; instead, they have a reputation for good releases. I'd much rather wait for two years for a rock solid game (as Blizzard has always provided us in the past) than get it in one year and have it be a waste of money.
I disagree completely. If you have ever walked blindly into a system with nothing but code and diagrams to help you through, you'd know that those diagrams are invaluable. Unless you want to waste man power by having another architect hand-hold your way through the system for hours/days/weeks until you've got a firm grasp on it, there's just no substitute for well-made design docs.
I think the notion of "diagrams are useless" spawns from system architects who don't have the foresight to realize that diagrams aren't meant for themselves, but rather everyone else who has to deal with the system thereafter.
Ok, I see your point. Let's pretend Browser X is using dirty tricks with Windows's memory management system to shrink down how much memory is allocated to it. Browser Y is not doing that and appears to be less efficient.
Well and good, but it's irrelevant. The remains that Browser X is taking less memory from Windows's pool of resources. It doesn't matter how Browser X is doing it or how efficient Browser X being with the memory internally, it is a solid truth that Browser X is using occupying fewer system resources than Browser Y.
It's really a moot point, because it's unlikely that the developers of Browser X knew any "cheats" that would let them use substantially less memory than every other browser out there.
As a follow-up to my own post, I want to point out two things. One, I made a typo -- the average Japanese male height (according to the Wikipedia link) was 5'7.2", not 5'7.3". Also, I have absolutely no idea what I typed in to get 1.046875, but that is incorrect. The ratio should have been 1.03125, meaning we're even worse off than I originally thought.
Sorry about that.
I did the same thing. Taking it farther, the average US male is 5'9.3" compared to the average Japanese male who is 5'7.3". US men are therefore 1.046875x taller, which means that a 33" Japanese waist equates to a 34.55" US waist. We still fail it.
What do you mean "meant to"? As far as I know, the only thing sex is "meant to" do is allow for continuation of a species and to pass genes. The only time sex has any kind of emotion attached to it is when YOU attach it yourself. Sex by itself cannot have any special meaning unless you intentionally interpret it as such.
That being said, your interpretation of sex should have nothing to do with mine. Obviously there are conflicts -- i.e. if my interpretation of sex is "I get to rape anyone I want including Mactyn", then there's an issue we need to work out. However, me walking around naked (though I don't) should not directly impact you. If you let my public nudity change your own interpretation of sex, that is your problem, not mine.
Certainly, in the Judeo-Christian value system that Europe and the US was brought up in, we were taught that once Adam & Eve ate the fruit and became smart, they put clothes on - to be in public without clothes on is an affront to modesty and morality. Didn't those two little harlots get kicked out of heaven for that?You're still missing the point: it's an outlier! From a random statistic I pulled (by Googling "cell phone while driving accident"), there are 200 deaths per year from cell-phone related accidents. That is such a small drop in the bucket that it wouldn't even make the surface ripple. If all 100 million people on the road are saving those 730 hours (which is, again, an underestimation), it doesn't even matter if each of those deaths caused 100,000 hours of productivity loss (which wouldn't happen anyway, because their position in society would be filled by someone else).
It's statistically insignificant.
I think that the possibility of killing or maiming someone exists whether or not a cell phone is involved. More importantly, killing or maiming someone is an outlier event that has little or no effect on the actual average productivity of an individual.
Let's take a hypothetical situation. Let's say that every minute I talk on the phone while driving is a minute saved. That is, if I spend five minutes talking on the phone while I was driving, that's five minutes I didn't have to spend talking on the phone later (an assumption, yes, but it simplifies the scenario). If I talk on a cell phone once a day (everyday) for five minutes while driving, then from the age of 16 (when I started driving) until 40 I will save 43,800 minutes, or 730 hours out of my life. Now, let's go WILD and say that my cell phone usage actually causes me to get in five different accidents over those 24 years. Even if I say that each of those accidents somehow took 100 hours out of my life (between legal battles and such), I still came out ahead by 230 hours.
Please note that I've been talking on my cell phone for much more than five minutes a day, while driving, for many years, and have never even close to an accident because of it.
Even in a scenario with minimal gain (5 minutes a day) and extremely high loss (100 hours per accident, 5 accidents), there is still a net efficiency bonus. Yes, there are safety issues involved. Yes, people die from cellphone-induced car accidents. People also die from radio-induced car accidents. However, that is NOT the point of this discussion.
That's true, but I think the OP's assumption was that you are able to perform both tasks with some reasonable overlap. Using his numbers, 25 minutes is the overlap of two 20 minute tasks, which is significantly better than 40 minutes.
You're right, of course, that overlapping two 20 minutes COULD result in taking more than 40 minutes, but I think that situation is an outlier, not a norm. If you are constantly walking into telephone poles while talking on the phone, I think there is a more serious underlying issue.
That's because it's deemed highly inefficient if you kill someone else who was minding their own business while you slightly increase your own productivity.
You managed to completely, blatantly ignore this line from his post: I realise with driving there is a safety consideration in this case, but I am talking overall about task performance. If your goal was to selectively pick one fact from his post, remove all context completely, and then pick it apart just to make a point that isn't even related to the topic, then, congratulations, you have set up a perfect straw man.Can we get back to talking about multitasking efficiency now?
You have a 4-digit UID, which automatically means you belong to an older generation of music than me. Sorry gramps.
*ducks and runs*
Second, your supporting data makes no sense. Why are you asking about names of famous flute players and comparing to the stats of high school flute players? Those data points may exist, but you have not demonstrated them anywhere in your post. There is no direct correlation between high school flute players and famous flute players unless you can show data that says otherwise. (Such as, "80% of famous flute players played flute in high school", or similar).
In fact, wouldn't that get over the problem of people being able to see the colour combo. just don't display the combo, but memorize the number of presses on each button.
I think you missed out on one of the details of this device. The colors of the buttons change -- randomly, at that -- every time you press a button. In this way, the button-pressing pattern is dynamic. When I push a blue button the first time, even though I know I have to push red next, I don't necessarily know where red is going to be.To be clear, I agree you with you, not the clown. However, I have a question. Consider this hypothetical scenario:
You begin downloading a very unpopular song via bittorrent. We'll say it's 4MB to keep up with your example. This song is so unpopular, in fact, that it has only one seed and no other leeches (downloaders). When you get to, let's say, 75% of the download, the only other seed disconnects. Now the torrent only has one person distributing information: you.
Now, say another person begins downloading from that torrent. You are the only person distributing data, and in fact you distribute all 3MB of your data to that new person. It may or may not be sequential data, but 3MB out of 4 is certainly enough to identify the information that data represents.
This brings up a couple questions. Did you steal that song, even though you only have 3/4 of it? Did you also give a copy of it to someone else, even though you only gave them 3/4 of something?
Obviously this hypothetical is not a typical situation, but it is not entirely uncommon and certainly not unfathomable. What do you make of it?
Are your powers of suspending disbelief so strong that you can believe that you personally are a crack soldier equipped with state of the art weaponry? Since the game is complete fantasy, and I at any rate am always aware that I remain sitting on my ass in my living room, I think a third-person perspective where you play as a character the gam emakers thought up makes sense.
I'm going out on a limb here, but I think the GP is referring to the use of his imagination. Generally, games (and fantasy books, for that matter) exist as a tool for users to escape from reality and pretend to be someone/something else.I do believe pretending to be someone else isn't as wildly abnormal as you make it out to be.
Could be a coincidence. Could be.
1) You must actively choose to install the program -- that is, you must opt in to get the app. However,
2) once installed, you must opt out of various privacy negations. By default, this app will have FULL access to everything you have posted.
But if it were, I bet people would complain about it a lot less.