Multitasking is bad for you....

[AntiVirus]

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060320-6417.html

I have seen this article everywhere.. I saw it on the internet, I saw it on time magazine's front page, and I saw it on T.V..  What do you guys think about this?

[GameSnake]

condemns the youth of the nation as gadget-obsessed, perennially multitasking, social failures who can't really get into anything important or even relax.

I know ALOT of people who are like that. I might ask what they define as "social failure", though:

The article notes that notebooks in college classrooms (now WiFi enabled more often than not) aren't used for notetaking anymore, but for IMing your friends about how boring the lecture is and for collecting Keira Knightley pics in your blog.

When class rings out, a roomful of teens reach for their cell phones to call or SMS buddies down the hall, or even in the same room.

Why do they admit most teenagers connect to other teenagers while multitasking, but say that this is what leads to "social failure"?!

[Newby]

I don't consider socializing on the internet socializing at all. :p

[Joe]

You must not be a very social person then, Nooby.

[iago]

I don't consider socializing on the internet socializing at all. :p

I definitely consider it socializing.  I'm definitely closer to real-life friends, but I don't consider it much different. 

But yeah, I have trouble multitasking.  If I have Gaim open while trying to do homework, one of them totally suffers. 

[ZeroX]

I don't consider socializing on the internet socializing at all. :p

I definitely consider it socializing.  I'm definitely closer to real-life friends, but I don't consider it much different. 

But yeah, I have trouble multitasking.  If I have Gaim open while trying to do homework, one of them totally suffers. 

Same. But only instead of gaim its WoW. Then I usally just toss my homework aside and go to AV.

[iago]

I don't consider socializing on the internet socializing at all. :p

I definitely consider it socializing.  I'm definitely closer to real-life friends, but I don't consider it much different. 

But yeah, I have trouble multitasking.  If I have Gaim open while trying to do homework, one of them totally suffers. 

Same. But only instead of gaim its WoW. Then I usally just toss my homework aside and go to AV.

I don't know what AV is.  But that's an advantage to using Linux -- very few games to distract me here

[ZeroX]

I don't consider socializing on the internet socializing at all. :p

I definitely consider it socializing.  I'm definitely closer to real-life friends, but I don't consider it much different. 

But yeah, I have trouble multitasking.  If I have Gaim open while trying to do homework, one of them totally suffers. 

Same. But only instead of gaim its WoW. Then I usally just toss my homework aside and go to AV.

I don't know what AV is.  But that's an advantage to using Linux -- very few games to distract me here

Jesus. I forgot >.> Your one of the lucky few that havent caught the WoW virus. I say you buy a $100 hand crank laptop and start playing.

[iago]

Jesus. I forgot >.> Your one of the lucky few that havent caught the WoW virus. I say you buy a $100 hand crank laptop and start playing.

You obviously don't know much about the $100 laptop.  They come with Linux, which is the same problem!

[GameSnake]

Jesus. I forgot >.> Your one of the lucky few that havent caught the WoW virus. I say you buy a $100 hand crank laptop and start playing.

You obviously don't know much about the $100 laptop.  They come with Linux, which is the same problem!

Yeah, or else the OS would cost more than the hardware, LOL.

[ZeroX]

Jesus. I forgot >.> Your one of the lucky few that havent caught the WoW virus. I say you buy a $100 hand crank laptop and start playing.

You obviously don't know much about the $100 laptop.  They come with Linux, which is the same problem!

When Vista comes out do you plan on installing it? I mean your going to have to give in one of these years. Dont buy it right away, Probally after Patch 5.0 comes out. >.>

I want to try Linux but I see no use. Unless your going to use it for projects that your never going to finsh "Raises hand" I dont see the point. IF you could iago sir give me 5 reason to get Linux over Vista. (After about 4 patchs come out to fix the bugs)

[iago]

Jesus. I forgot >.> Your one of the lucky few that havent caught the WoW virus. I say you buy a $100 hand crank laptop and start playing.

You obviously don't know much about the $100 laptop.  They come with Linux, which is the same problem!

When Vista comes out do you plan on installing it? I mean your going to have to give in one of these years. Dont buy it right away, Probally after Patch 5.0 comes out. >.>

I want to try Linux but I see no use. Unless your going to use it for projects that your never going to finsh "Raises hand" I dont see the point. IF you could iago sir give me 5 reason to get Linux over Vista. (After about 4 patchs come out to fix the bugs)

Unless Vista totally flops, I'll have to learn how to use it.  I don't have a choice, unfortunately. 

I can name plenty of reasons, and I have, but this isn't really the place. 

[d&q]

Freaky. I just came home and finished reading the Time article, then decide to mazeltov around forum, and come upon the exact same topic!

[MyndFyre]

Yeah, or else the OS would cost more than the hardware, LOL.

At least, until Windows Starter Edition comes out this fall, which is geared towards the same markets as this laptop.

[iago]

Yeah, or else the OS would cost more than the hardware, LOL.

At least, until Windows Starter Edition comes out this fall, which is geared towards the same markets as this laptop.

If that's part of Vista, then it got pushed back to January.