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Comment Re:Phillipines? Open source? (Score 1) 95

by mangwills on Saturday August 09, 2008 @09:32PM (#24541729) Attached to: Microsoft Investing In "Open Source" Lab In Philippines

Perhaps, they're doing this precisely because Philippines' open source awareness is relatively weak. That way, they have better chances or curbing or controlling the movement. They want to be seen as the "leader" in open source where they can.

Multitasking Considered Detrimental 371

Posted by kdawson on Monday June 23, 2008 @02:20AM from the but-we-knew-this dept.

djvaselaar sends along an article from The New Atlantis that summarizes recent research indicating that multitasking may be detrimental to work and learning. It begins, "In 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... E-mails pouring in, cell phones ringing, televisions blaring, podcasts streaming--all this may become background noise, like the 'din of a foundry or factory' that [William] James observed workers could scarcely avoid at first, but which eventually became just another part of their daily routine. For the younger generation of multitaskers, the great electronic din is an expected part of everyday life. And given what neuroscience and anecdotal evidence have shown us, this state of constant intentional self-distraction could well be of profound detriment to individual and cultural well-being."

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