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Why Microsoft Word must Die
Why Microsoft Word must Die azspot: Nor is Microsoft Word easy to use. Its interface is convoluted, baroque, making the easy difficult and the difficult nearly impossible to achieve. It guarantees job security for the guru, not transparency for the zen adept who wishes to focus on the task in hand, not the tool with…
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What ought to happen is that everything I’ve described so far should be put in reverse. College should become free or very cheap. It should be heavily subsidized by the states, and robust competition from excellent state U’s should in turn bring down the price of college across the board. Pointless money-drains like a vast…
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mfortki: ENgendering Gender Changers Connections for Disconnections from Queer Technology (at the Eyebeam store) ENgenderingGenderChangers is a “solution” to Gender Adaptersʼ male/female binary, offering a wider array of gender adapters for the ever increasing complexity and demands of the Information Technology workforce. By expanding serial adapters beyond male and female configurations, ENgenderingGenderChangers allow for new and unforeseen…
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forgethowtotalk: //leap_131013a import com.leapmotion.leap.*;import com.leapmotion.leap.processing.LeapMotion; LeapMotion leapMotion;ArrayList<FingerPosition> fingerPosition = new ArrayList(); void setup() { size(16*50, 9*50); background(255); ellipseMode(CENTER); rectMode(CENTER); leapMotion = new LeapMotion(this);} void draw() {} void onFrame(final Controller controller) { Frame frame = controller.frame(); for (Finger finger : frame.fingers()) { FingerPosition f = new FingerPosition(); f.tpos.x = leapMotion.leapToSketchX(finger.tipPosition().getX()); f.tpos.y = leapMotion.leapToSketchY(finger.tipPosition().getY()); f.trad = leapMotion.leapToSketchX(finger.tipPosition().getZ()); fingerPosition.add(f); …
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The Five Laws of the Curation Economy The First Law: People don’t want more content, they want less. We’re overwhelmed in raw, unfiltered, context-free data. Humans want it to stop. The Second Law: Curators come in three shapes. There are Curation Experts — people whose background and depth of understanding makes their curatorial choices valid.…
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It is useful to think in terms of the viscosity of data — its ability to travel in the project team, amongst stakeholders and in the client organisation. The atomistic unit that has the highest signal-to-noise ratio, and is mostly widely shared is typically one photo + one observation, where the insight is relatively obvious…