That'd be interesting but not that all helpful when the #1 killer of smokers is heart disease, not long cancer. In other words, most smokers won't live long enough to get lung cancer.
first off, whats your definition of race car driving? if its just holding a steering wheel and putting the pedal to the metal, then yes, you are right. however, i'd contradict that properly driving a race car involves all that you mentioned. planning what line to follow to get the maximum exit speed, blocking the people behind you, when to start braking, when to start accelerating, etc. to me, all that falls under the concept of driving. in which case, they are focusing on driving.
to further your example as it relates to programming, programming rarely involves focusing on just one task at a time. for example, first i need to construct my loop bounds, then the iterators, then the code that needs to run within the loop, then how to do error handling within the loop. finally, pull all that into a function. those are all different things, but still considered programming.
if we are to take what you consider the "perfect" example of concentrating on a single task, then the only thing that would really fit that condition is something extremely repetitive such as picking up a package off an assembly line and sticking it in a box. that is exactly a single task. and you'd be right to say that humans don't concentrate on that 100%. however, i'd argue that its not because we can't. rather, i'd say its because we don't need to. our brains are developed enough that a single task (which is inherently simple. a complex task, according to your definition, would truly consist of more than one task) does not require 100% attentiveness. that would an unnecessary waste of our "brain cycles".
Well, even they are not concentrating 100% on the thing that keeps them alive - driving the car safely and efficiently. They'll also be managing their sleep cycle, planning fuel stop strategies, reporting back to the pits on the condition of the track and what tyres they need, analysing the car's behaviour to predict potential failures
arguably, everything that you mentioned is what keeps them alive - driving the car safely and efficiently... for if they don't know the status of the tyres, the track, their sleep cycle, or potential failures, then they run the risk of catastrophic failure... which is inherently not driving the car safely
how the hell you got to the conclusion that driving a street car on the highway is anything like driving a racecar on a racetrack is completely beyond me... but its quite obvious that you've never sat in a race car and you're speaking out of ignorance. and yes, i have sat in a race car and i have raced cars on a track
what the software will do when the big red button is pressed
You will get one million dollars, but someone you don't know will die... that or a staples employee will appear out of no where and say "That was easy!"
get a box of foam rubber ear plugs (you can get them at the hardware store, they're used as hearing protection when working with loud equipment).
I'm not sure if its the same ones you're talking about, but the ones at the gun range don't really block out chatter that well. It'll drastically reduce high decibel noise but low decibel chatter is still pretty easy to hear. I can usually have a conversation with someone at the indoor range without taking off my ear protection (which I really shouldn't) while other people are shooting in the background.
Actual racing is somewhat mindless after a few hundred laps
Have you ever been in a race thats a "few hundred laps"? I HIGHLY doubt it. The amount of endurance necessary to do that is immense. Not sure what kind of vehicles you raced, but from my experience, its not mindless. If you're going into a turn and you daze for a split second, you're easily off the track and possibly injuring yourself. It might be a bit easier to be mindless if you're in a production car... but I've never experienced it karting. And Le Mans class cars are much more difficult to drive than a kart.
right and if they got in accidents, then they wouldn't have won the race... which is what i sent you, a list of WINNERS of the race. besides, i was refuting your statement "A human being CAN NOT EVER focus 100%". All I needed was one person to be able to do that to prove you wrong, which I think I sufficiently did.
A human being CAN NOT EVER focus 100% on a single thing for a prolonged time!
A list of people that concentrate 100% for a prolonged period of time (4 hours at a time)... because their lives count on it.
But apparently, you are very far from knowing how to use it.
I don't know how you came to that conclusion. Your rant was all over the place. It didn't even seem like you could focus on one concept in just writing a single post
I've heard bosses and professors before say that if you're listening to music, then you're not 100% focusing on your studying/work. In an environment where its perfectly silent, then I can see how music can be distracting. However, most of us work in an office where there are cubicles with people within earshot talking about work or talking to other people on the phone. The problem with that is that people talking is very erratic. Pitch and volume changes unpredictably and those unpredictable changes suddenly distract me from my work. On the other hand, the music I have playing is, for the most part, music that I've heard numerous times. On top of that, there's a consistent "flow" to the music. It drowns out the distracting random noise and provides some constant noise that lets me focus on my work.
not everyone lives in the pacifist world that you think they live in. some people seriously NEED a beating to get them under control. pcp users, for one.
If you go from 0 trees to 1 tree that you harvest every time it is fully grown and use the wood in building a house or some other permanent structure and keep replanting that tree every 10-15 years then you are removing 1 tree's worth of carbon from the atmosphere every 10-15 years.
Yea, but every time you take a tree, you don't restore the nutrients in the ground. So its unlikely the cycle will continue to be 10-15 years. It will grow to be longer and longer as it takes more time to replenish the nitrogen in the ground.
Additionally, producing plants is the only way we have of creating a net decrease in carbon while producing energy. Of course, this excludes damages done by irrigation, fertilizer runoff pollution, or whatever other bad things happen when we try to grow large quantities of plants where they wouldn't normally grow
thats an interesting concept. i was under the impression you wanted it as a recruiting tool like what america's army is. however, i think that learning the concepts of dog fighting, or even just intense acrobatic flying, requires an intensive classroom lesson in physics and the dynamics of flight. if they could somehow fit that into the game, i'd be all for it. i'd definitely d/l that game and play it. i've always wanted to learn to fly.
The airforce is hardly having difficulty with recruitment. In fact, they're so overwhelmed with requests that you can barely enlist for the airforce anymore. I enlisted in July and I went to MEPS 32 times after enlisting and everytime, the Airforce recruitment office in the LA MEPS (biggest in the nation) was closed. They're going to focus their developers working on top secret software and other related projects and thats exactly what they should be doing.
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Then maybe the GP should also include the part of Israel's history about how it turned into a nation partially due to terrorism
Obviously, they're trying to light up the targets hiding in the shadows
Then the economy tanked. What changed? Here's another hint, it rhymes with congress
umm..... progress! You have a messed up sense of progress
That'd be interesting but not that all helpful when the #1 killer of smokers is heart disease, not long cancer. In other words, most smokers won't live long enough to get lung cancer.
why does an octopus eating fish from another tank turn you off from eating octopus?
first off, whats your definition of race car driving? if its just holding a steering wheel and putting the pedal to the metal, then yes, you are right. however, i'd contradict that properly driving a race car involves all that you mentioned. planning what line to follow to get the maximum exit speed, blocking the people behind you, when to start braking, when to start accelerating, etc. to me, all that falls under the concept of driving. in which case, they are focusing on driving.
to further your example as it relates to programming, programming rarely involves focusing on just one task at a time. for example, first i need to construct my loop bounds, then the iterators, then the code that needs to run within the loop, then how to do error handling within the loop. finally, pull all that into a function. those are all different things, but still considered programming.
if we are to take what you consider the "perfect" example of concentrating on a single task, then the only thing that would really fit that condition is something extremely repetitive such as picking up a package off an assembly line and sticking it in a box. that is exactly a single task. and you'd be right to say that humans don't concentrate on that 100%. however, i'd argue that its not because we can't. rather, i'd say its because we don't need to. our brains are developed enough that a single task (which is inherently simple. a complex task, according to your definition, would truly consist of more than one task) does not require 100% attentiveness. that would an unnecessary waste of our "brain cycles".
and yes, i race as a hobby too
Well, even they are not concentrating 100% on the thing that keeps them alive - driving the car safely and efficiently. They'll also be managing their sleep cycle, planning fuel stop strategies, reporting back to the pits on the condition of the track and what tyres they need, analysing the car's behaviour to predict potential failures
arguably, everything that you mentioned is what keeps them alive - driving the car safely and efficiently... for if they don't know the status of the tyres, the track, their sleep cycle, or potential failures, then they run the risk of catastrophic failure... which is inherently not driving the car safely
how the hell you got to the conclusion that driving a street car on the highway is anything like driving a racecar on a racetrack is completely beyond me... but its quite obvious that you've never sat in a race car and you're speaking out of ignorance. and yes, i have sat in a race car and i have raced cars on a track
what the software will do when the big red button is pressed
You will get one million dollars, but someone you don't know will die... that or a staples employee will appear out of no where and say "That was easy!"
but its an exciting death
get a box of foam rubber ear plugs (you can get them at the hardware store, they're used as hearing protection when working with loud equipment).
I'm not sure if its the same ones you're talking about, but the ones at the gun range don't really block out chatter that well. It'll drastically reduce high decibel noise but low decibel chatter is still pretty easy to hear. I can usually have a conversation with someone at the indoor range without taking off my ear protection (which I really shouldn't) while other people are shooting in the background.
Actual racing is somewhat mindless after a few hundred laps
Have you ever been in a race thats a "few hundred laps"? I HIGHLY doubt it. The amount of endurance necessary to do that is immense. Not sure what kind of vehicles you raced, but from my experience, its not mindless. If you're going into a turn and you daze for a split second, you're easily off the track and possibly injuring yourself. It might be a bit easier to be mindless if you're in a production car... but I've never experienced it karting. And Le Mans class cars are much more difficult to drive than a kart.
right and if they got in accidents, then they wouldn't have won the race... which is what i sent you, a list of WINNERS of the race. besides, i was refuting your statement "A human being CAN NOT EVER focus 100%". All I needed was one person to be able to do that to prove you wrong, which I think I sufficiently did.
A human being CAN NOT EVER focus 100% on a single thing for a prolonged time!
A list of people that concentrate 100% for a prolonged period of time (4 hours at a time)... because their lives count on it.
But apparently, you are very far from knowing how to use it.
I don't know how you came to that conclusion. Your rant was all over the place. It didn't even seem like you could focus on one concept in just writing a single post
I've heard bosses and professors before say that if you're listening to music, then you're not 100% focusing on your studying/work. In an environment where its perfectly silent, then I can see how music can be distracting. However, most of us work in an office where there are cubicles with people within earshot talking about work or talking to other people on the phone. The problem with that is that people talking is very erratic. Pitch and volume changes unpredictably and those unpredictable changes suddenly distract me from my work. On the other hand, the music I have playing is, for the most part, music that I've heard numerous times. On top of that, there's a consistent "flow" to the music. It drowns out the distracting random noise and provides some constant noise that lets me focus on my work.
its not common, but its still there besides that, that was only one example. don't be so nitpicky
not everyone lives in the pacifist world that you think they live in. some people seriously NEED a beating to get them under control. pcp users, for one.
Maybe where you grew up... but there are people that would fight back. This isn't a cop, but its pretty damn close... dog
I never said that trees won't grow again. It just takes much longer for nutrients to replenish... case studies
If you go from 0 trees to 1 tree that you harvest every time it is fully grown and use the wood in building a house or some other permanent structure and keep replanting that tree every 10-15 years then you are removing 1 tree's worth of carbon from the atmosphere every 10-15 years.
Yea, but every time you take a tree, you don't restore the nutrients in the ground. So its unlikely the cycle will continue to be 10-15 years. It will grow to be longer and longer as it takes more time to replenish the nitrogen in the ground.
Additionally, producing plants is the only way we have of creating a net decrease in carbon while producing energy. Of course, this excludes damages done by irrigation, fertilizer runoff pollution, or whatever other bad things happen when we try to grow large quantities of plants where they wouldn't normally grow
thats an interesting concept. i was under the impression you wanted it as a recruiting tool like what america's army is. however, i think that learning the concepts of dog fighting, or even just intense acrobatic flying, requires an intensive classroom lesson in physics and the dynamics of flight. if they could somehow fit that into the game, i'd be all for it. i'd definitely d/l that game and play it. i've always wanted to learn to fly.
The airforce is hardly having difficulty with recruitment. In fact, they're so overwhelmed with requests that you can barely enlist for the airforce anymore. I enlisted in July and I went to MEPS 32 times after enlisting and everytime, the Airforce recruitment office in the LA MEPS (biggest in the nation) was closed. They're going to focus their developers working on top secret software and other related projects and thats exactly what they should be doing.
They can find out EXACTLY how many copies of EACH unauthorized song were sold
AWESOME!!! I'm going to start buying a ton of music from Canada now. Of course, I'm going to choose pending music from my favorite CRIA label
How stupid are these people?! Adobe even has a feature to redact (not draw black boxes) text from documents