Foreclosure Fraud – Fighting Foreclosure Fraud by Sharing the Knowledge EMC Blueprint: Transform Enterprise Storage to Create Business Value Planning for Successful User Adoption Definition: Capability and technology transition strategies are intended to increase the likelihood that users will adopt a new application. The methods underpinning these strategies derive from the disciplines of usability engineering and organizational change management. Usability measures how intuitive, efficient, and task-enabling an application is from the user perspective. Usability engineering refers to the structured methods applied to achieve usability in user interface design during all phases of the application development life cycle. Keywords: organizational change, transition strategies, usability engineering, user adoption MITRE SE Roles & Expectations: MITRE systems engineers (SEs) are expected to develop and recommend strategies to eliminate, reduce, and manage end-user reluctance to use newly deployed capabilities or technology or outright reject them. Background Everyone agrees that users and developers need to work together to build systems. Scope Bottom Line
Top 10 Common Faults In Human Thought Humans The human mind is a wonderful thing. Cognition, the act or process of thinking, enables us to process vast amounts of information quickly. For example, every time your eyes are open, you brain is constantly being bombarded with stimuli. You may be consciously thinking about one specific thing, but you brain is processing thousands of subconscious ideas. Unfortunately, our cognition is not perfect, and there are certain judgment errors that we are prone to making, known in the field of psychology as cognitive biases. The Gambler’s fallacy is the tendency to think that future probabilities are altered by past events, when in reality, they are not. Reactivity is the tendency of people to act or appear differently when they know that they are being observed. Pareidolia is when random images or sounds are perceived as significant. Interesting Fact: the Rorschach Inkblot test was developed to use pareidolia to tap into people’s mental states. Self-fulfilling Prophecy
Why information technology is so dominating WORLD RANKINGS-TOTAL DEATHS 1. Cause of Death Column to the left is in World Rank Order. 2. Select a Country from the list on the right. Click on it to place it in the Grid. Once you click on a country it will move to the top of the list and will be highlighted in yellow as it enters the Grid. 3. 4. 5. 6. Entering a Country into the Grid will cause these instructions to disappear. 3D displays Keigo lizuka Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering 35 St. George Street University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A4 Contents Abstract 1. Abstract We present a novel, inexpensive, stereoscopic technique for generating 3D images from cellophane on a liquid crystal displays which are most typically used for a laptop screen or a camera phone screen. A distinct advantage of our technique is its simplicity; either a laptop screen or a camera phone screen can be converted into a 3D display with minimal knowledge of optics. 1. Let us begin by examining the properties of cellophane. As a result, the component polarized in the x direction propagates through the medium faster than the component polarized in the y direction. One of the most important functions of a half-waveplate is its ability to rotate the direction of polarization of the transmitted light. 2. Figure 1 explains the basic principle of a 3D display based upon the parallax effect1. 3. 4. 4.1 Using a laptop computer
Man survives 300 days with knife, pig | The Daily Telegraph WITH just two knives for cutting and a baby pig for company, Xavier Rosset sat solo on an uninhabited Pacific island for 300 lonely days. But unlike Robinson Crusoe, the young Swiss adventurer made a choice to isolate himself totally, surviving on food and shelter got by his own hand to challenge the modern way of life. "It was hard, yes, very hard," Mr Rosset said, freshly arrived back in Europe after ending his 10-month stint in Tonga. His island of choice was Tofua, a 64-square-kilometre volcanic isle home to nothing except "some pigs, lots of coconuts, a lake and tropical forest". His luggage consisted of just a Swiss army knife, machete and a video camera to record his adventure for a documentary to be aired later this year. The mission was to try to relearn the natural survival skills which urban men have long forgotten, but Mr Rosset said it was far from easy. "At the beginning I had to try hard to survive," the former professional snowboarder said. "She was exactly like a dog.