Posted on 04/15/2008 5:53:02 AM PDT by shove_it
Omnius will be pleased.............
Would using your bluetooth connected phone, while surfing the Internet from the beach in your swim wear, enjoying the sun, be considered omnibasking?
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There has been a lot of research on this multitasking thing recently. It turns out that we are shortchanging ourselves in many ways when we attempt to multitask. If our reason for multitasking is that we want to save time, we might want to rethink that. Research is pointing to the fact that we really can’t put out attention on more than one thing at a time, but, like the computer, we can flip from one thing to another rapidly. The cost, however, is that, unlike the computer, our brains need to have time to refocus on each task each time we turn to it. This refocusing time, actually costs us time in the long run. We may feel like we are getting more done, but the time wasted on refocusing really adds up in the course of a day. Not only does it take longer to complete tasks, but research is also saying that the results we get on all of our tasks are not nearly as good as they would be if we had focused on each of them exclusively.
from the beach in your swim wear, enjoying the sun,
SisiphusTasking.. <<- said with a San Fransicko lisp...
Sure. But so is some metro...whatever relating how they do the very same thing from Starbucks, their car, or wherever. So, my question stands. Is it omnibasking?
We were talking to a friend of ours who is an airline pilot. My wife was going on about how good women are at multitasking. He looked her in the eye and said with all seriousness - there is no such think as multitasking. A guy responsible for 300 lives and his own should know.
What ever. I gotta go shovel snow.
You left out the girl watching and drinking tasking.
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Multitasking?
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LOL and TMI! :-)
I did, didn't I. How could I leave those out :)
“The cost, however, is that, unlike the computer, our brains need to have time to refocus on each task each time we turn to it.”
The author of the piece you cite is apparently blissfully unaware that computers also take time to ‘refocus’ on each task as they switch. Stacks and other low-level system registers have to be saved and restored so that each process can be handled seamlessly.
Unlike us, the computer doesn’t get confused and forget where it put that piece of paper just a minute ago.
“Unlike us, the computer doesn’t get confused and forget where it put that piece of paper just a minute ago.”
True! I multitask all the time, and here I thought I was just getting off on rabit trails. There is a funny short little diatribe about going to get a Dr. Pepper and the route the person took throughout the day before they ever went back to the DP. Wish I knew where to find it because it is so true.
Reminds me...
We had a guy do “the trip to Sweden surgery” thing...and now he is a she (or at least he thinks so). Which, how he got so gender “confused” that he figured the BEST solution was to whack his **** off...well that logic completely fails me...but on to the the point...
So after the “trip to Sweden”...the employer had to make a special accomodation for him...her...whatever. So the employer built a WHOLE NEW BATHROOM, with shower and everything (no urinal...just the throne).
And it is now called the UNI-sex bathroom.
This has always bothered me on a number of levels.
I know what a UNIcorn is....one horn.
I know what a UNIform is...one attire that is the same for all.
But a Uni-sex bathroom? It can be used by anyone.
I mentioned to the boss (who was NOT to happy with the whole darn mess to begin with...leave it to me to stink up an already stinky situation!) that it really shouldn’t be called a unisex bathroom, as it isn’t limited to use by only one sex.
Actually, it should be called an omnisex bathroom...multisex bathroom...or a polysex bathroom.
...he wasn’t too delighted with the idea.
He told me to go back to work.
*sigh*
Heck, I forget where I put my car keys, my credit card, etc.
Guess, this multi and omni are way over my head. I cannot find my reading glasses now.
Taotasking”
The master, doing nothing, leaves nothing undone.
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