Multitasking reduces the time you are waiting for a task to complete, and in many environments, despite the acknowledged penalty due to context switching, you'll come out ahead.
That's executing sequentially and not "multitasking" - you're only ever doing one thing at a time.
Try completing all four tasks (or even just one) while holding a continuing conversation with someone, without gaps in either your work or the task. That is multitasking. (And your success at it will depend on the nature of the task and your own capabilities.)
I can't listen to an audiobook and read textual content at the same time, because it's using the same 'context' in my brain. I also can't talk while listening to an audiobook (I miss book content) but I can sing. I can also listen to an audiobook and play a game on my tablet - depending on the skills involved in the game. And I retain what I've heard while doing well in the game.
Seems pretty clear that if you are focusing on one task, and you interrupt/overlap that task with contextually related data... you're going to suffer cognitive impairment.
What happens if the participants are asked to memoeize a sequence of colors or shapes while listening to words in the background?
Let's all be insensitive about each others culture, I'm sure we will have a better society
I have an idea - let us instead not look at things that we know will offend us, as an alternative to declaring what other people are permitted to say and hear.
It's so funny watching you idiots trample over each other in a rush to get trolled. Really; are you that dumb?
I'm smart enough that I don't need to insult random strangers on the Internet to feel better about myself.
On to the substantive part of what you had to say: Yes, as I've noted in earlier comments it's possible that this is nothing but a troll. It is over-the-top obvious - though some subtlety too, such as the misdirection around WP8. Hard to call it from reading, but if it's a troll then it's one that someone is putting a lot of repeated time and effort into.
I'm assuming he's got a library of such commentary pre-written and ready to go, possibly provided by his employers. Most likely a subscription account as well (but posting with indicator turned off), so that he can get FP on these types of stories.
No you're missing the point. It's a long writeup ostensibly about how MS is positioned for success - but if you read a little closer, it's actually pitching Visual Studio to the slashdot crowd (like so many similar posts have in recent months). By presenting commentary related to VS as fact in the context of opinion related to the phone product, they're trying to send a subtle message that it's already proven beyond question that VS is a good product. By focusing on the debate around the phone - evidenced by your inclusion of "Nokia" in the list of culprits - you let that slip right by;)
Hello copy-paste shill and welcome! I happened to observe that you posted at the instant the story went live, and had nothing but good things to say about MS. You also called out in particular MS's awesome Visual Studio product - a common thread among these kinds of posts over the last few months. Perhaps not coincidentally, Slashdot is a site that's seen as catering to developer types.
On other sites, I assume you have a similarly tailored copy-paste message ready to go.
Not only would Google's self-driving car be vulnerable to this attack, it would start driving around itself! And you would be responsible for everything the hacked vehicle did.
I agree with the previous note. It raises some very interesting points and why Google's self-driving cars would be bad. Just imagine if someone hacked your car and it ran over someone.
Hell yah. The car gets hacked and is all like "no way bitch" and gets all up in the thief's grill and is like "FO SHIZZLE" and runs him down like a scythe cutting wheat.
To be fair, fans of any platform do that. "We don't need X". "Hey we have X, it's the BEST IMPLEMENTATION EVAR"! For APple that includes copy/paste, multitasking, good notifcations. For RIM it was 10s of thousands of apps in the app store, email on the playbook For Android: good email, good UI, good security model... oh wait, we're still waiting for all that. For WP it's more than 3 users.
Etc.
Still you get the point. It's all perspective. People who identify with one brand are not so different as they'd like to think from those who identify with a different brand.
To this I say "so what"? When you have one primary job to do - respond to DNS requests for millions of domains that are registered through you - and you fail to do so, it's over. No matter what the root cause is, you caused *millions* of web sites to be unreachable for most people, for a period of time spanning hours. This is not "oops", this is catastrophic failure from a business perspective.
I can only hope that sufficient numbers of customers will be as offended, and seek more reliable solutions.
Just stay out of the left lane when not passing and driving will be much safer for everyone.
And frankly, use your brain before getting into the left lane to pass.
That person approaching in the left lane behind you is likely going much faster than you think they are, and you're about to cut off enough kinetic force to flatten you.
Just try to stick to the right hand lane to let faster traffic pass. And if you're on the cellphone doing whatever, you're slower traffic (why is it that cellphone users always seem to be the cause of congestion?
Because when we're in congestion we have more time to look around and see what other people are doing, and we're often frustrated to begin with. Combine these two things, and you get: see someone on phone, assign blame.
Of course, sometimes they *are* to blame - but just as often it's clueless rubbernecking, volume, and/or fear of such difficult tasks as "merging".
Yet the number of people who would be able to decipher that without comments is vastly lower than those who could decipher my example - an example that works the same way in any number of languages.
As far as overflow possibility: sure. but a comment wouldn't tell of that possibility either.
Slashdot Mirror
Multitasking reduces the time you are waiting for a task to complete, and in many environments, despite the acknowledged penalty due to context switching, you'll come out ahead.
That's executing sequentially and not "multitasking" - you're only ever doing one thing at a time.
Try completing all four tasks (or even just one) while holding a continuing conversation with someone, without gaps in either your work or the task. That is multitasking. .)
(And your success at it will depend on the nature of the task and your own capabilities
I can't listen to an audiobook and read textual content at the same time, because it's using the same 'context' in my brain. I also can't talk while listening to an audiobook (I miss book content) but I can sing. I can also listen to an audiobook and play a game on my tablet - depending on the skills involved in the game. And I retain what I've heard while doing well in the game.
Seems pretty clear that if you are focusing on one task, and you interrupt/overlap that task with contextually related data... you're going to suffer cognitive impairment.
What happens if the participants are asked to memoeize a sequence of colors or shapes while listening to words in the background?
that's company-wide, not for the media subset.
I suspect Slashdot was a secondary consideration - the other assets seem more of interest to a company like Dice.
Why don't you ever comment anymore?
Because you don't commit.
Maybe I'd be more willing to commit if you'd be more willing to fork.
I am a mechanical engineer, wife is electrical.
Help me out here, I"m having a hard time visualizing how that... connection... would work.
Let's all be insensitive about each others culture, I'm sure we will have a better society
I have an idea - let us instead not look at things that we know will offend us, as an alternative to declaring what other people are permitted to say and hear.
It's so funny watching you idiots trample over each other in a rush to get trolled. Really; are you that dumb?
I'm smart enough that I don't need to insult random strangers on the Internet to feel better about myself.
On to the substantive part of what you had to say: Yes, as I've noted in earlier comments it's possible that this is nothing but a troll. It is over-the-top obvious - though some subtlety too, such as the misdirection around WP8. Hard to call it from reading, but if it's a troll then it's one that someone is putting a lot of repeated time and effort into.
I'm assuming he's got a library of such commentary pre-written and ready to go, possibly provided by his employers. Most likely a subscription account as well (but posting with indicator turned off), so that he can get FP on these types of stories.
No you're missing the point. It's a long writeup ostensibly about how MS is positioned for success - but if you read a little closer, it's actually pitching Visual Studio to the slashdot crowd (like so many similar posts have in recent months). By presenting commentary related to VS as fact in the context of opinion related to the phone product, they're trying to send a subtle message that it's already proven beyond question that VS is a good product. By focusing on the debate around the phone - evidenced by your inclusion of "Nokia" in the list of culprits - you let that slip right by ;)
Hello copy-paste shill and welcome! I happened to observe that you posted at the instant the story went live, and had nothing but good things to say about MS. You also called out in particular MS's awesome Visual Studio product - a common thread among these kinds of posts over the last few months. Perhaps not coincidentally, Slashdot is a site that's seen as catering to developer types.
On other sites, I assume you have a similarly tailored copy-paste message ready to go.
Not only would Google's self-driving car be vulnerable to this attack, it would start driving around itself! And you would be responsible for everything the hacked vehicle did.
I agree with the previous note. It raises some very interesting points and why Google's self-driving cars would be bad. Just imagine if someone hacked your car and it ran over someone.
Hell yah. The car gets hacked and is all like "no way bitch" and gets all up in the thief's grill and is like "FO SHIZZLE" and runs him down like a scythe cutting wheat.
Bring it.
To be fair, fans of any platform do that. "We don't need X". "Hey we have X, it's the BEST IMPLEMENTATION EVAR"!
For APple that includes copy/paste, multitasking, good notifcations.
For RIM it was 10s of thousands of apps in the app store, email on the playbook
For Android: good email, good UI, good security model... oh wait, we're still waiting for all that.
For WP it's more than 3 users.
Etc.
Still you get the point. It's all perspective. People who identify with one brand are not so different as they'd like to think from those who identify with a different brand.
Not whatever.
Five rows, man - five rows of icons! It's amazing! It's ... magical...
Don't be ridiculous. "OS X Kitty" can also be followed up with the inevitable maintenance release a year later, called "OS X Purring Kitty".
What do you follow "Domestic Cat" with, hmmm?
To this I say "so what"? When you have one primary job to do - respond to DNS requests for millions of domains that are registered through you - and you fail to do so, it's over. No matter what the root cause is, you caused *millions* of web sites to be unreachable for most people, for a period of time spanning hours. This is not "oops", this is catastrophic failure from a business perspective.
I can only hope that sufficient numbers of customers will be as offended, and seek more reliable solutions.
Probably true, but they're going downhill on the feline names already.
I hope they don't change before we get "OS X Domestic Cat".
OS X Kitty has a better ring to it.
I was going to be all like "citation required" and shit, but then I looked and I found this:
Bob Parsons' 16 Rules
(Yes. It's down at time of writing. That's the joke.)
The intent of this blog post is not give “hackers” or “scriptkiddies” any funny ideas, but merely for awareness.
And yet , after reading the blog post, I see he made no mention of warning whatsapp, giving them a chance to alter this, etc.
Nicely done with the "responsible disclosure".
I thought they might take me to V14GRA pages.
Wait, this wasn't randomly generated text designed to bypass spam filters?
Huh. Go figure.
I very rarely use a phone when driving; when I do, I'm always a) using my car's handfree system and b) moving over into the slow lane.
But hey, thanks for jumping to conclusions! I'll bet it was good exercise for you.
Just stay out of the left lane when not passing and driving will be much safer for everyone.
And frankly, use your brain before getting into the left lane to pass.
That person approaching in the left lane behind you is likely going much faster than you think they are, and you're about to cut off enough kinetic force to flatten you.
Just try to stick to the right hand lane to let faster traffic pass. And if you're on the cellphone doing whatever, you're slower traffic (why is it that cellphone users always seem to be the cause of congestion?
Because when we're in congestion we have more time to look around and see what other people are doing, and we're often frustrated to begin with. Combine these two things, and you get: see someone on phone, assign blame.
Of course, sometimes they *are* to blame - but just as often it's clueless rubbernecking, volume, and/or fear of such difficult tasks as "merging".
An inside source told me that they'll be adding a cool air intake and a bigger exhaust in order to attain the extra power they're after.
Not to mention switching to Gentoo as the OS.
Yet the number of people who would be able to decipher that without comments is vastly lower than those who could decipher my example - an example that works the same way in any number of languages.
As far as overflow possibility: sure. but a comment wouldn't tell of that possibility either.