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Trouble Beside the Bay - NYTimes.com
JEAN QUAN may be the first in many categories — the first Asian-American and first woman to be mayor of Oakland — but she is far from the city’s first chief executive to face off with its police force. While dozens of mayors around the country have had to deal with Occupy movements, only Ms. Quan has seen the initially peaceful protests turn into street violence and even a general strike — a turn almost wholly attributable to the brutality of the city police.
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A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design
As it happens, designing Future Interfaces For The Future used to be my line of work. I had the opportunity to design with real working prototypes, not green screens and After Effects, so there certainly are some interactions in the video which I'm a little skeptical of, given that I've actually tried them and the animators presumably haven't. But that's not my problem with the video.
My problem is the opposite, really — this vision, from an interaction perspective, is not visionary. It's a timid increment from the status quo, and the status quo, from an interaction perspective, is actually rather terrible.
This matters, because visions matter. Visions give people a direction and inspire people to act, and a group of inspired people is the most powerful force in the world. If you're a young person setting off to realize a vision, or an old person setting off to fund one, I really want it to be something worthwhile. Something that genuinely improves how we interact.
This little rant isn't going to lay out any grand vision or anything. I just hope to suggest some places to look.
"Are we really going to accept an Interface Of The Future that is less expressive than a sandwich?" (worrydream.com)submitted 15 hours ago by interfect434 commentssharesavehidereport -
Get Started Managing Multiple PCs with Windows Intune - Computerworld
PC World - Microsoft's Windows Intune, which launched in March, lets you remotely secure, monitor, manage, and assist PCs via the Internet. One of the first cloud-based PC management systems available, it's basically a streamlined, less-expensive variant of Microsoft's long-lived Systems Management Server (SMS).
Intune is a great value for smaller organizations that don't already have a PC management tool. But larger organizations can use it to help manage the mobile workers' laptops. IT providers can use it to manage corporate clients.
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