This video was posted by my friends Josie, and this video is pure gold!
If you have ever been a business to business service provider, this should all seem far too familiar.
You know… It might be terrifying but it happens to be wild enough to be true. We respond to points and rewards. Some people really are working to give us points and rewards for things that are good for us, society, and the planet. Most are just trying to make a few dollars. The thing is, this really matters, because behavior can be shaped by series of inconsequential events into very different modes of not just behavior but thinking.
The video may run a bit longer than your attention span, but it is well worth it.
Found at Fox @ Fury via StumbleUpon
I have talked about this video from TED more often than I care to remember (and probably some of my friends who have heard about it many times). However, I could never remember who the talk was by. Well I finally found it, and this is a talk by Jill Bolte Taylor about the brain, and more specifically it is a blow by blow account of her own experience having a stroke.
Hearing this talk certainly gave me a new and valuable insight to the brain, strokes, and just how malleable perception is when things go wrong in the brain. I hope everyone who watches this is able to take something positive, informative, and interesting from this talk.
To preface, I am indeed a Zune user and had been lamenting the horrible slowness of the Zune marketplace. So after a brief search, I managed to find a solution which seems a bit odd that it works, but it does… dear lord does it work!
The solutions was found here – and the post on that site includes screenshots if you need them. However, here is the text of the fix which should suffice for the majority of people:
This is a fix for slow Zune marketplace on Win 7, I have tested this on my Win 7 64 bit. Marketplace works fine on my Vista 32 bit and xp 32 bit. You can try this for your Vista 64 bit too. You can find users reporting on this forum http://forums.zune.net/2/8/526815/ShowPost.aspx
The Fix
Turn off Automatically detect LAN settings in your IE.
Steps
- Open IE
- Click on Tools–> Internet Options
- Click on “Connections” Tab
- Click button “Lan Settings”
- Un-Check ” Automatically detect settings” (this is/was set by default in my Win 7 installation)
- Restart IE and Zune (if you had it open)
I found an article for slow saving of documents in SharePoint from Windows 7 client and this was the fix and thought these were related.
So go forth, and have a blazing fast marketplace, just the way it ought to be!
There are many ways to tell that you play to many video games. My favorite ways are those that manifest in how we perceive reality. And by that I mean, wishing that or thinking of things in real life that would be more awesome if it were in a video game.
Example from work. I work as a customer service rep (seasonal position) for Enstrom’s Candies. We happen to ship exclusively through FedEx, which is an interesting story if you have a love for the world of shipping, so naturally we get a lot of their trucks coming and going. However, the occasional UPS truck shows up, and here is where the game world intervenes…
You see, we had a bit of a falling out with UPS. Thus I sometimes imagine that rather than delivering packages to us one day an armed riot squad will leap out in order to lay siege to us for our impudence at rejecting their services. This is probably a result of too many hours of playing F.E.A.R. where your average jaunt through a parking garage would likely be interrupted 15 times by trucks full of people intent on ruining your day.
Of course, all of this probably related back to the image I posted about how after enough driving games everything in life becomes a bit of a race.
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