FreeFalling123 wrote:Well, I did just start a Freestyle Usergroup yesterday with 45 members.
And man I DB another Gdmn speeder! I set it up, forgot, closed my laptop and when I opened it back up 3 hours later "Speed Game Started"... That's good to know now that it has been over for 4 hours and the other guy already has my 40 points...
I have been involved in over 8k games and close to 2% of those will fall into the speeder game that I missed... or I had 5 speeders going and lost 3 of them because I was too dumb to drop them. When some of them I would have said okay enough... 3 games is enough.. but you have to host a ton of games or you'll host the wrong setting and nobody will join the whole night.
It's blowing my mind. I WON 7 of my last 8 games and I'm down now 80 points... because I deadbeat 4 of those unintentionally ... I mean for the 15 minutes I was on my computer it would have been nice if the game had started. I never log off, so I'm going to keep having this same thing happen... I am completely losing in this situation... the other guy isn't exactly winning either... I mean maybe he will join 4 of my games now because he's so happy he found a dumbass who gives away free points... but I'm willing to bet most of these people don't want to take the game.. it was a waste of their time and it was a waste of mine waiting for 15 minutes.
This just makes me shake my head. This is something that could only happen to someone of your generation, with your insane excessive multitasking and your ten thousand open windows all over the place. Why, oh why, when you finish playing, do you not log off? Jesus H. Christ!
When you're done with a window, CLOSE IT! When you're done playing on a site, LOG OFF! If you have no reasonable expectation of browsing anything in the next five minutes, shut the fucking browser down and let the buffers reset! Live in the moment. Do one thing and FOCUS on that one thing, and when you're done doing that one thing, come to a full stop, turn it off, and go on to something else.
Live in the moment.
http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/how-todays-computers-weaken-our-brainhttp://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-myth-of-multitaskingIn one of the many letters he wrote to his son in the 1740s, Lord Chesterfield offered the following advice: “There is time enough for everything in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once, but there is not time enough in the year, if you will do two things at a time.” To Chesterfield, singular focus was not merely a practical way to structure one’s time; it was a mark of intelligence. “This steady and undissipated attention to one object, is a sure mark of a superior genius; as hurry, bustle, and agitation, are the never-failing symptoms of a weak and frivolous mind.”
In modern times, hurry, bustle, and agitation have become a regular way of life for many people — so much so that we have embraced a word to describe our efforts to respond to the many pressing demands on our time: multitasking. Used for decades to describe the parallel processing abilities of computers, multitasking is now shorthand for the human attempt to do simultaneously as many things as possible, as quickly as possible, preferably marshalling the power of as many technologies as possible.
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, one sensed a kind of exuberance about the possibilities of multitasking. Advertisements for new electronic gadgets — particularly the first generation of handheld digital devices — celebrated the notion of using technology to accomplish several things at once. The word multitasking began appearing in the “skills” sections of résumés, as office workers restyled themselves as high-tech, high-performing team players. “We have always multitasked — inability to walk and chew gum is a time-honored cause for derision — but never so intensely or self-consciously as now,” James Gleick wrote in his 1999 book Faster. “We are multitasking connoisseurs — experts in crowding, pressing, packing, and overlapping distinct activities in our all-too-finite moments.” An article in the New York Times Magazine in 2001 asked, “Who can remember life before multitasking? These days we all do it.” The article offered advice on “How to Multitask” with suggestions about giving your brain’s “multitasking hot spot” an appropriate workout.
But more recently, challenges to the ethos of multitasking have begun to emerge. Numerous studies have shown the sometimes-fatal danger of using cell phones and other electronic devices while driving, for example, and several states have now made that particular form of multitasking illegal. In the business world, where concerns about time-management are perennial, warnings about workplace distractions spawned by a multitasking culture are on the rise. In 2005, the BBC reported on a research study, funded by Hewlett-Packard and conducted by the Institute of Psychiatry at the University of London, that found, “Workers distracted by e-mail and phone calls suffer a fall in IQ more than twice that found in marijuana smokers.” The psychologist who led the study called this new “infomania” a serious threat to workplace productivity. One of the Harvard Business Review’s “Breakthrough Ideas” for 2007 was Linda Stone’s notion of “continuous partial attention,” which might be understood as a subspecies of multitasking: using mobile computing power and the Internet, we are “constantly scanning for opportunities and staying on top of contacts, events, and activities in an effort to miss nothing.”
Dr. Edward Hallowell, a Massachusetts-based psychiatrist who specializes in the treatment of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder and has written a book with the self-explanatory title CrazyBusy, has been offering therapies to combat extreme multitasking for years; in his book he calls multitasking a “mythical activity in which people believe they can perform two or more tasks simultaneously.” In a 2005 article, he described a new condition, “Attention Deficit Trait,” which he claims is rampant in the business world. ADT is “purely a response to the hyperkinetic environment in which we live,” writes Hallowell, and its hallmark symptoms mimic those of ADD. “Never in history has the human brain been asked to track so many data points,” Hallowell argues, and this challenge “can be controlled only by creatively engineering one’s environment and one’s emotional and physical health.” Limiting multitasking is essential. Best-selling business advice author Timothy Ferriss also extols the virtues of “single-tasking” in his book, The 4-Hour Workweek.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2747164/Chronic media multitasking is quickly becoming ubiquitous, although processing multiple incoming streams of information is considered a challenge for human cognition. A series of experiments addressed whether there are systematic differences in information processing styles between chronically heavy and light media multitaskers. A trait media multitasking index was developed to identify groups of heavy and light media multitaskers. These two groups were then compared along established cognitive control dimensions. Results showed that heavy media multitaskers are more susceptible to interference from irrelevant environmental stimuli and from irrelevant representations in memory. This led to the surprising result that heavy media multitaskers performed worse on a test of task-switching ability, likely due to reduced ability to filter out interference from the irrelevant task set. These results demonstrate that media multitasking, a rapidly growing societal trend, is associated with a distinct approach to fundamental information processing.
