[PDF] Taming Your Computer eBook

Author : Barb Walker
Publisher : My Computer Lady Inc.
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 46,15 MB
Release : 2003-12
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780974350400

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Computer how-to book designed for older adults and senior citizens. Easy-to-understand with many diagrams to make learning easier. Written for the advanced beginner to intermediate computer user.

Author : Barb Walker
Publisher : My Computer Lady Inc.
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 17,47 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Internet
ISBN : 9780974350417

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This is a MUST HAVE computer manual for beginning and intermediate computer users, especially senior citizens. It's written in very simple, step-by-step instructions with numerous diagrams to make the steps easy to follow.

Author : Michael Bremer
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,20 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic Digital Computers
ISBN : 9780966994926

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Taming the Electronic Beast is the absolute first place to start if you want to learn about computers. The truth is, computers can be annoying, frustrating, intimidating pains in the behind. But they can be useful once you learn to accept them for what they are -- and what they aren't. Taming the Electronic Beast helps people get over the fear, fight the nervousness and obtain the right attitude to take advantage of today's technology.Written for absolute beginners and dedicated to everyone who wants or needs to use a computer for personal or professional reasons, but is held back by fear, anxiety, frustration or annoyance.

Author : Ralph Hertwig
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 29,47 MB
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0262353148

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An examination of the cognitive tools that the mind uses to grapple with uncertainty in the real world. How do humans navigate uncertainty, continuously making near-effortless decisions and predictions even under conditions of imperfect knowledge, high complexity, and extreme time pressure? Taming Uncertainty argues that the human mind has developed tools to grapple with uncertainty. Unlike much previous scholarship in psychology and economics, this approach is rooted in what is known about what real minds can do. Rather than reducing the human response to uncertainty to an act of juggling probabilities, the authors propose that the human cognitive system has specific tools for dealing with different forms of uncertainty. They identify three types of tools: simple heuristics, tools for information search, and tools for harnessing the wisdom of others. This set of strategies for making predictions, inferences, and decisions constitute the mind's adaptive toolbox. The authors show how these three dimensions of human decision making are integrated and they argue that the toolbox, its cognitive foundation, and the environment are in constant flux and subject to developmental change. They demonstrate that each cognitive tool can be analyzed through the concept of ecological rationality—that is, the fit between specific tools and specific environments. Chapters deal with such specific instances of decision making as food choice architecture, intertemporal choice, financial uncertainty, pedestrian navigation, and adolescent behavior.

Author : Eser Kandogan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 48,24 MB
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0195374126

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Information technology is at the center of modern life. It supports most day-to-day activities: talking on the phone, getting money from an ATM, or working in the office. Whether for work, commerce, or fun, we interact with computers, networks, and databases — all sorts of information technology. How does it work? Certainly, technological advances helped create this world. But what keeps it running? The answer is people. These people — computer system administrators — are the unsung heroes of the modern age. This book, ten years in the making, is the result. It tells the story of system administration through the narratives of real system administrators. It documents dynamic systems of people and machines, of specialists working together to tame hugely complex information technology infrastructures, developing and adapting their own tools and practices over time to create productive work environments. The authors hope Taming Information Technology will lead the way to a future in which the important work of these IT workers is better appreciated, better understood, and better supported.

Author : Asaf Degani
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 34,94 MB
Release : 2004-01-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780312295745

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Machines dominate our lives, from alarm clocks that wake us up in the morning to radios that lull us to sleep. Most of our interactions with automated machines and computers are problem-free, but more often than we would like, they can be irritating and confusing. This is frequently harmless, such as a VCR recording the wrong show, but when it involves a critical system like an autopilot or medical device it can be a matter of life or death. Taming HAL seeks to explain these miscommunications between humans and machines by exploring user interfaces of everyday devices. Degani examines thirty different systems for human use, including watches, consumer electronic products, Internet applications, cars, medical equipment, navigation systems onboard cruise ships, and autopilots of commercial aircraft. Readers will discover why interfaces between people and machines all too often do not work and what needs to be done to avoid potential tragedies.

Author : Susan Anderson
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 20,98 MB
Release : 2011-01-25
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 0345524403

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FINALLY, THE BREAKTHROUGH BOOK THAT PUTS YOU BACK IN CONTROL OF YOUR LIFE Most of us have met our Outer Child once too often. The self-sabotaging, bungling, and impulsive part of the personality. This misguided, hidden nemesis—the devil on your shoulder—blows your diet, overspends, and ruins your love life. A menacing older sibling to your emotionally needy Inner Child, your Outer Child acts out and fulfills your legitimate childlike needs and wants in the wrong place, at the wrong time, and in counterproductive ways: It goes for immediate gratification and the quick fix in spite of your best-laid plans. Food, attention, emotional release—your Outer Child usually gets what it wants, and your Adult self can feel powerless to stop it. Now, in a revolutionary rethinking of the link between emotion and behavior, veteran psychotherapist and theoretician Susan Anderson offers a three-step, paradigm-shifting program to tame your Outer Child’s destructive behavior. This dynamic, transformational set of strategies—action steps that act like physical therapy for the brain—calms your Inner Child, strengthens your Adult Self and releases you from the self-blame and shame that are the root of Outer Child issues, and paves new neural pathways that can lead to more productive behavior. Discover • the common Outer Child personality types, including the Drama Queen; the Master of Disguise; My Way or No Way; and Love the Getting, not the Having • proven techniques to resolve underlying sources of self-sabotage • insights that will allow you to stop blaming your supposed “lack of willpower” for your problems • key strategies for healing the painful issues of your past • mental exercises that effectively deal with Outer Child challenges around food, procrastination, love, debt, depression, and more As your head, heart, and behavior come together and learn to help, not hurt, one another, your strong Adult Self, contented Inner child, and tamed Outer child will become a reality. The result is happiness and fulfillment, self-mastery, and self-love. From the Hardcover edition.