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From: George Kerby on 19 Apr 2010 10:33 On 4/18/10 11:29 PM, in article 4bcbdc12$0$1646$742ec2ed(a)news.sonic.net, "Ray Fischer" <rfischer(a)sonic.net> wrote: > George Kerby <ghost_topper(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> "Ray Fischer" <rfischer(a)sonic.net> wrote: >>> sobriquet <dohduhdah(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >>>> On 9 apr, 01:09, RichA <rander3...(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> Wait for HP to release its version. �No USB port Apple? �Are you THAT >>>>> paranoid about content control?? >>>> >>>> Avoid Apple like the plague. >>> >>> Avoid irrational bigots. >>> >>>> Those poor iPhone users are still waiting for multitasking to be >>> >>> And there is an example of how the irrational bigot "thinks": latch >>> onto one aspect that you don't understand and then use it to justify >>> your bigotry. >> >> Somehow, I'm beginning to like you. God help me... > > Now I feel dirty. Put that down!
From: Savageduck on 19 Apr 2010 10:34 On 2010-04-19 07:28:24 -0700, George Kerby <ghost_topper(a)hotmail.com> said: > > > > On 4/18/10 8:20 PM, in article > 2010041818204628635-savageduck1(a)REMOVESPAMmecom, "Savageduck" > <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> wrote: > >> On 2010-04-18 18:03:48 -0700, sobriquet <dohduhdah(a)yahoo.com> said: >> >>> On 19 apr, 01:06, rfisc...(a)sonic.net (Ray Fischer) wrote: >>>> sobriquet �<dohduh...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >>>>> On 18 apr, 22:47, nospam <nos...(a)nospam.invalid> wrote: >>>>>> In article >>>>>> <77e58fae-b9b7-4c74-8ef9-f46f6188c...(a)z7g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>, >>>> >>>>>> sobriquet <dohduh...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >>>>>>> http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19512_7-10467752-233.html >>>> >>>>>>> Multitasking is about as basic as functionality gets on a computer. >>>> >>>>>> it's a phone, not a computer, and it has multitasked since day one. it >>>>>> can play music, check email, make and receive calls and quite a bit >>>>>> more, all at the same time. >>>> >>>>>> what's coming to iphone os 4 is the ability for third party apps to ru >>> n >>>>>> in the background, which a lot of people mistakenly call multitasking, >>>>>> and it will do so in a way that doesn't murder battery life. >>>> >>>>> Well, that's the kind of multitasking I've been enjoying for a long >>>>> time on my HTC.. >>>> >>>> And how many 3rd party apps does it run? >>> >>> http://thepiratebay.org/search/windows%20mobile/0/99/0 >>> >>>> >>>>> Multitasking is multitasking.. >>>> >>>> Stop. �Do not make any more claims about computers. �You don't know >>>> the subject and you're just making a fool of yourself. >>> >>> I used to study computer science. >> >> Until somebody dangled a bright shiny thing in front of you. >> > Thanks. I just spewed coffee on my keyboard! Sorry! Here is a cyber-wipe. -- Regards, Savageduck
From: George Kerby on 19 Apr 2010 10:35 On 4/19/10 2:44 AM, in article jd2os51an084d2qghassbob5iisvnfg9ba(a)4ax.com, "John A." <john(a)nowhere.invalid> wrote: > On 19 Apr 2010 04:21:19 GMT, rfischer(a)sonic.net (Ray Fischer) wrote: > >> John A. <john(a)nowhere.invalid> wrote: >>> nospam <nospam(a)nospam.invalid> >> >>>>> Multitasking on the computer is something people do all the time. >>>>> Just because you have a mobile version of a computer, that's no reason >>>>> to stop multitasking. >>>> >>>> actually no. most people use one application at a time. if you are >>>> watching a movie, are you also reading an ebook? if you are playing a >>>> game are you also editing images in photoshop? >>>> >>>> you might have an email app running in the background and if it beeps >>>> for new email, you *switch* to it, read the email, then switch back to >>>> photoshop or whatever and continue working. >>> >>> And if you have true multitasking you can set a complex filter working >>> on your image in the background while you switch over to checking >>> email while you wait for it to finish. >> >> On a PHONE?!? > > The thread's about the iPad, right? At one time long ago. On a planet far far away...
From: Alan LeHun on 20 Apr 2010 10:39 In article <hqk6rs$mm$1(a)qmul>, whisky-dave(a)final.front.ear says... > No, that's still time slicing. > One of the basic laws of physics is that two things can not occur at the > same instance in time. In the same place. And even then, only for baryonic matter. > One of the reasons you have a clock frequency in electronic devices is to > make sure everything > has it's own time slot and is 'clocked properly. > This has no relevance whatsoever to the human brain which does true multitasking for a whole multitude of subconscious tasks. You don't have to stop thinking so you can blink. On the conscious level, the brain can multitask up to two tasks as both hemispheres are independent and capable of independent thought. That is not to say that it can do it well (as each hemisphere constantly interrupts the other), or that all people can do it to the same competence, only that it can and does. -- Alan LeHun
From: Allen on 20 Apr 2010 11:03
whisky-dave wrote: > "Alan LeHun" <try(a)reply.to> wrote in message > news:MPG.2636697fa8d00f879897d3(a)news.x-privat.org... >> In article <hqhk2p$qum$1(a)qmul>, whisky-dave(a)final.front.ear says... >>> There's little proof that the human brain can mulititask, what is does is >>> ignore whatever other inmut is present, it's more time slicing than >>> multitasking. >>> >>> >> There is plenty proof that the human brain can multi-task on two tasks. >> This is due in no small part to the fact that our brain is in fact a >> pair of brains. > > No, that's still time slicing. > One of the basic laws of physics is that two things can not occur at the > same instance in time. > One of the reasons you have a clock frequency in electronic devices is to > make sure everything > has it's own time slot and is 'clocked properly. > > In the human world magicians use this 'trick' as the human eye can not see > everything at the same time i.e it can;t multitask, humans can't multitask. > They just think they can because they aren't clever enough to realise they > can't. > > > You mean no one can ride a bicycle and chew gum at the same time? Allen |