I would think that simultaneously tracking multiple resources and projects, while handling other unanticipated events, can be considered multi-tasking. An interrupt doesn't stop the other processes and they still require supervision.
Is the simple act of reading off of one monitor and typing on another adhere to your real definition of multi-tasking?
I would consider multi-tasking having multiple jobs going at once. This is a daily requirement in my field. I have to manage around 20 employees, streamline processes, stay on top of corporate projects, and still roll up my sleeves to help them with their daily work (due to cut-backs).
If they want to study how people multi-task, study some people who are actually working and not just watching tv or blogging.
The PS3 failure rate might start increasing at the 3 year mark, it might not. I'm just saying it's a pretty unfair comparison to stack the failure rate of an electronic product on the market for 3.5 years versus one that is 2.5 years
Just as a follow-up, the subs are nuclear-powered, not nuclear-armed as indicated in your linked article to the guardian. They are Akula class subs
From Reuters: "Akula is the NATO code name for the Nerpa submarine, which has been in service since the mid-1980s. They are armed with torpedoes, cruise missiles and can carry underwater missiles."
Aren't the steps between "Mafia gangstas" and hording in WoW fairly small? Don't you build a team of people, gear up, and then go kill/plunder to get items/gold?
I can't wait for the first Halo 3 Chat Lawsuit. Microsoft and Bungie may put a disclaimer up about "experiences may change online", but that doesn't necessarily protect the "anonymous" party threatening others from a lawsuit. Does it?
Chromehounds did a good job in this regard. I enjoyed it for quite some time. I've been playing "mech" games since Battledrome and I've had an itch lately to get back into playing them. So much so that I loaded Earthsiege onto an old PC.
I'll keep an eye on battletech.com for the distro release.
So now, aside from locating a place where you and your friends can setup your computers and play - you now get to find someplace with an internet connection that can handle all of them at the same time.
Wait til they try to sort out what to do about people commuting together. Should Bill have to pay the same tax when he was transporting 3 other people to work?
I think we all knew taxes were going to go up at some point in time. You can only run in a deficit for so long before you have to find some way to make that money back.
It's great to give people tax breaks, but eventually those tax breaks have to be conceded. We are now in a time when we'll need to concede the tax breaks of a prior generation.
The only problem is that an additional $0.25 per gallon is not going to drive more fuel-efficient cars, it's only going to take more money out of the pockets of those driving.
Until something is done to demand higher (re MUCH HIGHER) standards from auto-manufacturers, we'll still see small incremental movements in the MPG.
I sense a touch of sarcasm. Anyways, they are basically multiplying the tax level of driving 300%.
You would be looking at paying $300.00 in taxes annually based on a 15,000 mile a year average, if it is set at a $0.02 per mile level. Opposed to a $0.185 per gallon tax now.
Say your vehicle holds 13 gallons and goes 30 miles per gallon. You are currently paying $2.775 in taxes for those 390 miles. Stretch that out to 15,000 miles and you are paying $106.73 a year in taxes. That is quite a leap from $106.73 to $300.00.
Score one for the "Everyone's special" crowd. However, this could be good for the regular gamer.
We have an entire generation of employees entering the workforce that can't think for themselves. A step like this in the video game world is not that surprising.
It USED to be that you had to think to solve puzzles, complex puzzles, to continue a story - not just finish the game. This has been diluted over the years to give the end-user more flashy graphics without really challenging them.
Now imagine if a developer could create mind-bending puzzles that would cause even the most experienced gamer problems - but not alienate the "I'm special" crowd. It COULD be a great step in the evolution of gaming.
However, it probably will just be to assist those people that can't even handle the mediocre challenges that we currently see.
But we will be safe! At least those of us still wearing our aluminum foil hats. They will repel the impending microwave of destruction right? Just like the hamburger wrapped up in foil in the microwave?
What about using something like the Kindle? I haven't heard of any virii making their way onto it and it could be a win-win for Amazon and California. You just need the scholastic textbooks to be available via Amazon.
I've officially missed the warranty boat. I picked up my 360 on 1/1/2006 and have not had a problem with it. It is the only console I own and it acts as my main DVD player as well. It is consistenly used and has not faltered. I'm not sure what the difference is, because everyone I know is either on their 3rd or 4th replacement.
They think it has something to do with the woodgrain faceplate.
I would be interested to know how many people HAVE NOT had a problem with this console? They're usually the least likely to speak up.
I agree that we can't bail out everyone and I'm not sure what it's going to take to "fix" what is going on. If the large companies start to fall and more and more people lose their jobs (we're already up to a 20% unemployment rate in some areas) who's going to be around to buy the goods from the companies that still exist?
How is that modded up as insightful? Are all the ego-bruised republicans meta-moderating today?
Barack has been in office for.............three months. I haven't lost any more civil liberties than I had when he started and I'm not going to start bagging on the guy for not fixing EVERYTHING in three months. He is working on getting the economy stimulated by spending money and trying to regulate the financial sector. More power to him.
I work for a company that had a 100 year existance and my current(ex) CEO bankrupted the thing in side of 6 months. The kicker is the "Change of Control" documents that him and his buddies were having filed so that when the thing went bankrupt/acquired he would be compensated for doing so. I'm still not positive how you can drive a company into the ground and walk away with three times your annual salary and your highest bonus over the past three years.
So to get back on track, Barack's been in office for three months and he's trying to fix the economy. I'm still waiting for the republican counter-plan.
The same thing was happening back in 1998 when I went to school. You had a bunch of people that heard that "CS and the IT sector was where the jobs were," so you had a lot of people signing up for them. What you never hear is how many freshman and sophomore students transfer out of CS and into Communications or Poly-Sci because they don't have the abilities necessary for that career path.
I would be more interested in the number of students that graduate with a CS degree.
I don't think the networks care if you watch the commercials or not. Now the people buying the advertising time might care, but does a DVR really make that big of a difference? I didn't watch commercials before I got mine and I don't watch them now. In episode product place is probably the only time I see/watch commercial items. I'll even point them out when I see them because they are completely obvious.
I honestly don't know when 90% of the shows I watch are on. I typically don't watch them until the following day or later (in the case of Fringe because my wife isn't into it).
So I for one don't care when the shows air, as long as they air.
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The second space race has already started. With India and China in active development, this would be a great opportunity for the U.S.
We team up with Russia to get to Mars, meanwhile India and China work to do the same.
It's OK to not have to compete with EVERY other country out there. We don't always have to be THAT GUY.
I would think that simultaneously tracking multiple resources and projects, while handling other unanticipated events, can be considered multi-tasking. An interrupt doesn't stop the other processes and they still require supervision.
Is the simple act of reading off of one monitor and typing on another adhere to your real definition of multi-tasking?
I would consider multi-tasking having multiple jobs going at once. This is a daily requirement in my field. I have to manage around 20 employees, streamline processes, stay on top of corporate projects, and still roll up my sleeves to help them with their daily work (due to cut-backs).
If they want to study how people multi-task, study some people who are actually working and not just watching tv or blogging.
The PS3 failure rate might start increasing at the 3 year mark, it might not. I'm just saying it's a pretty unfair comparison to stack the failure rate of an electronic product on the market for 3.5 years versus one that is 2.5 years
My 360 lasted for 3.5 years before it broke and I picked mine up 1/1/2006.
The Xbox 360 was launched 11/22/2005.
The PS3 was launched 11/17/2006 in North America.
So basically you won't have an "even comparison" until you do the exact same survey next year using the 360 numbers from this year. Right?
A lot can happen in a year.
Just as a follow-up, the subs are nuclear-powered, not nuclear-armed as indicated in your linked article to the guardian. They are Akula class subs
From Reuters: "Akula is the NATO code name for the Nerpa submarine, which has been in service since the mid-1980s. They are armed with torpedoes, cruise missiles and can carry underwater missiles."
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE5740DV20090805
Cruise Missiles != Nuclear Missiles
It was my understanding that the pair of subs were not capable of carrying nuclear missiles. Can you provide source to the contrary?
Aren't the steps between "Mafia gangstas" and hording in WoW fairly small? Don't you build a team of people, gear up, and then go kill/plunder to get items/gold?
I can't wait for the first Halo 3 Chat Lawsuit. Microsoft and Bungie may put a disclaimer up about "experiences may change online", but that doesn't necessarily protect the "anonymous" party threatening others from a lawsuit. Does it?
Chromehounds did a good job in this regard. I enjoyed it for quite some time. I've been playing "mech" games since Battledrome and I've had an itch lately to get back into playing them. So much so that I loaded Earthsiege onto an old PC.
I'll keep an eye on battletech.com for the distro release.
So now, aside from locating a place where you and your friends can setup your computers and play - you now get to find someplace with an internet connection that can handle all of them at the same time.
Way to go Blizzard.
Wait til they try to sort out what to do about people commuting together. Should Bill have to pay the same tax when he was transporting 3 other people to work?
I think we all knew taxes were going to go up at some point in time. You can only run in a deficit for so long before you have to find some way to make that money back.
It's great to give people tax breaks, but eventually those tax breaks have to be conceded. We are now in a time when we'll need to concede the tax breaks of a prior generation.
The only problem is that an additional $0.25 per gallon is not going to drive more fuel-efficient cars, it's only going to take more money out of the pockets of those driving.
Until something is done to demand higher (re MUCH HIGHER) standards from auto-manufacturers, we'll still see small incremental movements in the MPG.
I sense a touch of sarcasm. Anyways, they are basically multiplying the tax level of driving 300%.
You would be looking at paying $300.00 in taxes annually based on a 15,000 mile a year average, if it is set at a $0.02 per mile level. Opposed to a $0.185 per gallon tax now.
Say your vehicle holds 13 gallons and goes 30 miles per gallon. You are currently paying $2.775 in taxes for those 390 miles. Stretch that out to 15,000 miles and you are paying $106.73 a year in taxes. That is quite a leap from $106.73 to $300.00.
Score one for the "Everyone's special" crowd. However, this could be good for the regular gamer.
We have an entire generation of employees entering the workforce that can't think for themselves. A step like this in the video game world is not that surprising.
It USED to be that you had to think to solve puzzles, complex puzzles, to continue a story - not just finish the game. This has been diluted over the years to give the end-user more flashy graphics without really challenging them.
Now imagine if a developer could create mind-bending puzzles that would cause even the most experienced gamer problems - but not alienate the "I'm special" crowd. It COULD be a great step in the evolution of gaming.
However, it probably will just be to assist those people that can't even handle the mediocre challenges that we currently see.
But we will be safe! At least those of us still wearing our aluminum foil hats. They will repel the impending microwave of destruction right? Just like the hamburger wrapped up in foil in the microwave?
What about using something like the Kindle? I haven't heard of any virii making their way onto it and it could be a win-win for Amazon and California. You just need the scholastic textbooks to be available via Amazon.
I've officially missed the warranty boat. I picked up my 360 on 1/1/2006 and have not had a problem with it. It is the only console I own and it acts as my main DVD player as well. It is consistenly used and has not faltered. I'm not sure what the difference is, because everyone I know is either on their 3rd or 4th replacement.
They think it has something to do with the woodgrain faceplate.
I would be interested to know how many people HAVE NOT had a problem with this console? They're usually the least likely to speak up.
I agree that we can't bail out everyone and I'm not sure what it's going to take to "fix" what is going on. If the large companies start to fall and more and more people lose their jobs (we're already up to a 20% unemployment rate in some areas) who's going to be around to buy the goods from the companies that still exist?
How is that modded up as insightful? Are all the ego-bruised republicans meta-moderating today?
Barack has been in office for.............three months. I haven't lost any more civil liberties than I had when he started and I'm not going to start bagging on the guy for not fixing EVERYTHING in three months. He is working on getting the economy stimulated by spending money and trying to regulate the financial sector. More power to him.
I work for a company that had a 100 year existance and my current(ex) CEO bankrupted the thing in side of 6 months. The kicker is the "Change of Control" documents that him and his buddies were having filed so that when the thing went bankrupt/acquired he would be compensated for doing so. I'm still not positive how you can drive a company into the ground and walk away with three times your annual salary and your highest bonus over the past three years.
So to get back on track, Barack's been in office for three months and he's trying to fix the economy. I'm still waiting for the republican counter-plan.
The same thing was happening back in 1998 when I went to school. You had a bunch of people that heard that "CS and the IT sector was where the jobs were," so you had a lot of people signing up for them. What you never hear is how many freshman and sophomore students transfer out of CS and into Communications or Poly-Sci because they don't have the abilities necessary for that career path.
I would be more interested in the number of students that graduate with a CS degree.
I don't think the networks care if you watch the commercials or not. Now the people buying the advertising time might care, but does a DVR really make that big of a difference? I didn't watch commercials before I got mine and I don't watch them now. In episode product place is probably the only time I see/watch commercial items. I'll even point them out when I see them because they are completely obvious.
I honestly don't know when 90% of the shows I watch are on. I typically don't watch them until the following day or later (in the case of Fringe because my wife isn't into it).
So I for one don't care when the shows air, as long as they air.
Someone explain to me why ANYONE would need to turn their console either vertical or horizontal while playing a video game?
He didn't need to resort to throwing punches at the end, Palin has been doing it for him.