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Originally Posted by Fetish Gimp
Oh and as for using video games as an example of not multi-tasking, first there's the obvious one: when you're playing a videogame your attention is focused on well, playing the game.
Watching a video on the other hand is a passive activity, which means you can have the video playing in the background, listening to it while doing other things.
And there's the fact that most videogames are resource-intensive (I'm generalizing here, if you're playing angry birds you sure as fuck can do other things) which makes comparing playing videogames and watching videos two totally different experiences.
And finally, here's another example of a company trying to cripple a device and the market going ape-shit over it 
http://www.businessweek.com/articles...e-restrictions |
First you jump to the wild conclusion that the app I suggested would embed itself into a PC like a malware.
Then you jump to another wild conclusion that the app is going to freeze up every other process.
Then you make a big deal about the user not being able leave the video playing in a minimized window while he chats with his friends about Justin Bieber or whatever.
Now you are harping about DRM on a totally seperate hardware idea I proposed.
It's like having a conversation with a leaping dolphin with ADD.
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Approach the mirrored reflection saying his name three times : "Butcher .... Butcher .... Butcher ....."
and wait to see if this Bogeyman urban legend manifests in the background, looming over shoulder
While your neighbors were busy killing off everyone in the neighborhood
with your own butcher knife in hand concealed behind your back
you stood for
ever before the window saying
nothing