Word: users
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...USER ILLUSION: CUTTING CONSCIOUSNESS DOWN TO SIZE...
...define the value conferred by a bit of information such as a single letter? Are we aware that we constantly discard gargantuan volumes of information without recognizing their worth? In The User Illusion, a didactic tome employing examples from physics to poker, Danish author Tor Norretranders addresses these questions and explores their relationship to human consciousness within the context of a booming Information...
...comes as no surprise that The User Illusion is also user-friendly. First published in 1991, the Danish version sold more than 100,000 copies, a number equivalent to 2% of the population of Denmark. Even so, Norretranders' book possesses a motive more noble than self-help and survival in the new millenium; its nobility is supplemented by his elegant use of principles drawn from mathematics and physics...
...offenses cited by the Ad Board were lyingto an officer of the University and damage toproperty, both listed as offenses leading toprobation in the Ad Board's "User's Guide forStudents," which is distributed to allundergraduates. Because they had committed bothcrimes, their senior tutors told the students toexpect either probation or a request to withdraw...
...User's Guide says that "restrictions(sometimes called "adding teeth" toprobation)...might forbid a student to participatein an extracurricular activity that was thecontext of the misconduct...