The Like/Hate Thread

[Saz]

I hate when there's something I kinda want to watch but not enough to give it my full attention, so I decide to do something else while watching (eg, go online, or play on my psp) and then when the show ends I realise I can barely remember anything that happened... so it's like I might as well have not watched it in the first place. I guess I must just be really bad at focusing on two things at once.

[Milk Bubble]

I hate when there's something I kinda want to watch but not enough to give it my full attention, so I decide to do something else while watching (eg, go online, or play on my psp) and then when the show ends I realise I can barely remember anything that happened... so it's like I might as well have not watched it in the first place. I guess I must just be really bad at focusing on two things at once.

It's because you're not a woman.

True or False: Women are better at multitasking, while men are better when concentrating on a single task from beginning to completion.

True. Ruben Gur, PhD, and Raquel Gur, MD, PhD, at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, measured blood flow and activity in men's and women's brains, and they found repeatedly that women use more parts of their brains when given a wide variety of verbal and spatial tasks. They believe that this may contribute to women's ability to focus on a number of different things at one time.

A new study has raised an important question: Women may be better at multitasking, but is multitasking really the most efficient way to work? Newer research shows that switching back and forth from one task to another takes precious seconds of reevaluation, and those seconds add up. As the researchers point out, in the best-case scenario, this makes you only slightly less efficient—but in the case of someone talking on a cell phone and driving, that fraction of a second may make the difference between life and death.

The conclusion I personally have come to is this: Multitasking is certainly helpful when you don't have any options, when your assistant is out sick or when you're trying to put dinner on the table while at the same time making sure your children are entertained and safe. But I find that when I need to concentrate on writing, it's helpful for me to turn off my phone and my e-mail program, with its constant "new mail" alerts, so that I can better and more purely concentrate on the task at hand.

http://www.enotalone.com/article/4893.html

[Vad]

We multi task when it comes to sex, video games, sex, or food.

[Kaden]

I hate "studies" like that.

See how I respond to a previous post and keep it relative to the thread I'm posting in?

[Rem-13]

I am a woman apparently, because if I don't have five things happening at once I am completely ineffectual.

[Saz]

Well I don't know if it's because I'm a man or if it's just a personal thing, but I definately have difficulty multitasking. Like, I can't even talk to someone on AIM and play poker at the same time because I know my concentration will plummet and I'll start making mistakes. Also after a while I'll get really mentally fatigued, as if my brain just overloads from trying to juggle the different tasks. It's weird.

[Dehan]

Hate I am having the urge to be a playa...from the Himalayas!

Like dinner.

[Sage]

I have to multitask, like Rem said. Or I just... lose focus. Even if the second/third/fourth/whateverth task is just listening to music; there has to be something.

[Dehan]

I love South Park.

[Josh]

http://games.venturebeat.com/2010/03/30/...mer-babes/

[Sage]

http://games.venturebeat.com/2010/03/30/...mer-babes/

A friend linked that on Facebook.

Honestly? Pretty depressing that such a thing is even viable.

[Pinky]

A better topic: A quick guide to comparing things to Hitler

[Alura]

I like that I'll be an E-4 tomorrow morning

[Jack]

That means he's getting a pay raise, for all you non-military people. Talking to this girl in the hallway and she's talking about herself and I'm just listening and it's great.

[Kole T. Merr]

I hate "studies" like that.

See how I respond to a previous post and keep it relative to the thread I'm posting in?

The true multi-tasker at work.

I've decided to watch Battlestar Galactica (the newer one), because I'm a giant nerd and I felt like watching something that was like Star Wars, but without magic. I just finished watching the miniseries that kicked the series off, and I'm fairly impressed.

On a sad note, the math teacher that was the basis for the movie "Stand and Deliver" died. He's got to reach those keeds.

[Kaden]

There's still magic is Battlestar, they just call it "science" instead.

[Kole T. Merr]

I often prefer magic disguised as science, or magic that is blatantly called magic. Although, I'm a little tired of the "human-created machine goes evil" cliché (Terminator, Wargames, Stealth, etc). Oh well. It probably won't stop me from watching it.

[Kaden]

I miss the days when it was totally acceptable to have a mad scientist as a legitimate antagonist.

[Kami]

Like: Green Zone


Evil sentient robots are always awesome.

[Ashe]

I've actually got B:G on my Netflix queue waiting. I hear a lot of people telling me to watch it.