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The Atlantic -- The Autumn of the Multitaskers by Walter Kirn
A commonsense: 'Neuroscience is confirming what we all suspect: Multitasking is dumbing us down and driving us crazy. -- The Multitasking Crash. The Attention-Deficit Recession. -- Our freedom to stay busy at all hours, at the task—and then the many tasks, and ultimately the multitask—of trying to be free. This is the great irony of multitasking—that its overall goal, getting more done in less time, turns out to be chimerical. In reality, multitasking slows our thinking. It forces us to chop competing tasks into pieces, set them in different piles, then hunt for the pile we’re interested in, pick up its pieces, review the rules for putting the pieces back together, and then attempt to do so, often quite awkwardly. ...What has the madness of multitasking cost us? (Six hundred and fifty billion dollars...) The better question might be: What hasn’t it?' -- Hehe. NO BAILOUTS FOR THE ATTENTION ECONOMY!
Maybe I'm missing something, but the Univerity Of Phoenix Inc. is the top recipent of federal assistance.. at a grand total of $2,810,085,079!
Seriously: WTF?
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Uploading file in Blackboard - Page 2 - Ubuntu Forums
In linux, it will not let you upload a file to assignments, so you have to switch users agents to a mac. It thinks you are on a windows filesystem so it will not allow for unix paths. Good info. And the fix.
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I had the same problem that you describe. Here is the problem in my case:
There is client-side validation that checks to make sure that the path to the file that you gave it is valid. It looks like this: -
Basically what this is doing is saying "Are you a Mac?"
If the answer is "Yes" then it says "fine, Macs don't let you manually type a path so whatever you have must be fine. Approved."
If the answer is "No" then it must assume that you are a Windows machine and checks to see if your path conforms to Windows norms. A path like "/home/wedge/mydoc.doc" looks to be invalid so it refuses to take it.
The key to the workaround that I found is that it doesn't even check the path if it thinks you are a Mac. To detirmine if you are a Mac it just checks for the presense of the string "mac" (not case sensitive) in the user agent string that your browser sends. So you can get a user agent switcher (available here for Firefox, should be just a couple clicks to get it installed). Now just create a new user agent and just put the word "mac" on the line for user agent. Then when you go to upload your file just switch to that custom one and it will think you are a mac and accept your file.
Amazing Teacher Facts - WSJ.com
It seems that Teach for America offers smart young people something even better than money – the chance to avoid the vast education bureaucracy.
A Bone to Pick with Education: Jumping Through Hoops vs. Making a Difference While Learning
Wow, this guy couldnt have said it better.
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