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...that's just a simple mouse: Apple has waged similar battles with each of its product lines. 2000's G4 Cube desktop computer was released with a touch-sensitive area to turn on the computer, eschewing the power button. The latest MacBook laptops remove buttons from the trackpad entirely; users click either with a tap of the finger or by pressing the entire trackpad down. The first iPod had five buttons; the current iPod Touch and iPhone have just two. Apple's even expanding the battlefield to its stores - the elevator in the Tokyo Apple Store has no buttons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War on Buttons | 3/19/2009 | See Source »

...said Drazen Prelec ’78, a professor of management science at MIT, later redeeming the postulates behind economics by saying that “without those false assumptions, we could not have been making the progress we have been making.” Others voiced similar criticisms of economics. Harvard Economics Professor David I. Laibson ’88 noted that economics reduces individuals into simple decision-makers instead of acknowledging that people have several competing mental processes. Brown Neurobiology Professor Peter E. Politser argued that economics ignores the nuances of decision making. “To understand...

Author: By Naveen N. Srivatsa, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Event Tackles Decision Making Theory | 3/18/2009 | See Source »

...words at the graffiti party expressed similar sentiments, but they were especially hurtful due to their simplicity. They took misconceptions and stereotypes like those of the New York Times and boiled them down to their most black and white expression. The starkness of those messages that “Chinese people suck” and “Chinese people perform genocides”—their immediacy and lack of any attempt at explanation or qualification—are what we find so provocative...

Author: By Marion Liu | Title: Only the First Step | 3/18/2009 | See Source »

...freshman and was initially put off by the lack of diversity in its forums. “There was basically a feeling when you came to an IOP event that there were a bunch of men,” she said. “They were all very similar and knew everything about politics.”Eventually drawn back to the IOP by the strength of its fellows program. Cox became Fellows Chair in her sophomore year and began contemplating the presidency. Despite her motivation, Cox said she lacked a role model for how to run a campaign because...

Author: By Eric P. Newcomer and Evan T. R. Rosenman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Women in Charge: Lam, Cox, Flores | 3/18/2009 | See Source »

...Golden Shield, as the Internet was kept largely unfettered during the games. Restrictions have tightened again, however, especially since December, when democracy supporters used the Internet to circulate the "Charter 08" petition challenging the government. That crackdown, in part, has fed the grass-mud horse craze and similar online double entendres designed to flout the government's role as Big Brother. As one Chinese blogger told the Times, even with the most modern technology trying to hold them back, people will find a way to express themselves. "It is like a water flow - if you block one direction, it flows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chinese Internet Censorship | 3/18/2009 | See Source »

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