As Douglas Rushkoff writes in his brilliant manifesto, Program or Be Programmed, the hacker ethos that led to all of this digital technology is no longer present for most users.
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Somewhat magically, two books (and their writers), popped up just as I needed them, Mind Amplifiers by Howard Rheingold and Program, or Be Programmed by Douglas Rushkoff.
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Professors Charlie Trevor and Anthony Nyberg from the University of Wisconsin-Madison decided to examine who could get away with a downsizing programmed or, put differently, what sort of companies did not suffer from a surge in voluntary turnover following a downsizing programmed.
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Or malware can be programmed to phone home to a particular domain which can change on a pre-determined schedule.
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Throw it, and its motor engages, setting it to fly a pre-programmed route or a path guided by remote control.
The keyboard includes 18 dedicated macro keys that can be programmed via software or on-the-fly and both macros and lighting profiles can be stored in onboard flash memory.
The software lists every website visited by users and monitors text in every application - on or offline, saved or not - having been programmed to pick up on key words and phrases.
They seem to range from some slightly more sophisticated handsets with cameras to phones with just four buttons programmed to call family or summon help.
Their mission is to facilitate collaborative tasks such as problem solving, exception handling, consensus building, and innovative brainstorming, tasks that cannot be pre-programmed into structured processes or workflows.
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Or you unveil an innovative executive training programmed and boardroom colleagues question its net present value and pay-back time calculation.
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The device can be programmed through either an Android or iPhone app and lets you disconnect your smartphone once you've got your settings dialed in.
In addition to the small display, the board can be programmed to send text message or email alerts, and in the future could tie into venting or heating systems for completely automated control.
In addition to LEGO's famous bricks, the LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 set contains a multitude of parts-including motors, infrared sensors and a programmable microcomputer-that allow children to create robots that walk, move or take whatever action they're programmed to do.
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In some cases, she says, companies that have used chatbots to handle online queries have found that when confronted by verbal abuse or sexual innuendo, the chatbots were programmed to respond inappropriately in kind, with insults of their own.
As with the second generation the vehicle can be pre-cooled or pre-heated as required for a programmed departure time when it is connected to the power network.
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The adjustable lights can be programmed for red and green at Christmas or orange at Halloween, Empire State Building-style.
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We can believe real-world climate data or we can believe alarmist computer models that are programmed by alarmists, exist purely in cyberspace, and are consistently contradicted by real-world observations.
Secondly, there is a strong genetic component to weight and metabolism (studies suggest that this can be anywhere from 30 to 70 percent) so you may be genetically programmed to carry a bit more weight or have more difficulty losing excess weight.
But if children can't handle competition when it's necessary, or take some criticism, or never strive to be better because their parents inadvertently programmed them to believe they are already the best even when they're not, then they are in for some serious shocks and bumps down the road.
It adjusts the temperature to match user habits and can be programmed remotely over wi-fi using a smartphone or laptop.
They can be programmed to automatically dim the lights on sunny days or switch on the a.c. for an employee's cubicle when he swipes his ID badge at the front door.
The build-it-yourself (and eerily human-proportioned) construction can react to pre-programmed actions, text-to-speech conversion or live control, ranging from basics like the eyes and jaw to the eyelids, eyebrows, lips and neck of an Advanced Fritz.
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The officers monitoring images aren't allowed to bring cameras, cell phones or any recording device into the room, and the computers have been programmed so they have "zero storage capability" and images are "automatically deleted, " she added.
The designs Villareal created and programmed to flicker across the bridge don't include any images or text, and the sequence won't ever repeat itself.
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Three of my four grandparents were tailors, so Ray was genetically programmed to quickly master the basics, like mending a split seam or refastening a button.
Pre-programmed cleaning cycles allow consumers to choose between floor-only cleaning or floor, wall and waterline cleaning, a necessary chore that many pool owners just don't want to do manually.
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The patches are also pre-programmed to recognize whether they are configured as a bag, a scarf or a pair of curtains and to execute functions accordingly.
The Letter Logger can be programmed to check its position every few minutes, over longer intervals, or only when a built-in motion detector senses movement, says Jude Daggett, of TrackingTheWorld.
It uses IR, Bluetooth or RF (to the Hub) to control up to 15 devices, and is programmed using Logitech's software for PCs that pulls settings from a database of 225, 000 home entertainment products.
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