Sometimes, We All Need an Economics 101 Refresher

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Sometimes, We All Need an Economics 101 Refresher

Some days we are so deep in what we are doing that we lose sight of the basics. I was recently engaged in a conversation with the President of a consulting company who reminded me of one of the most basic tenets of Finance.  He took time to remind me that for every dollar you

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Will Technology Help Humans Thrive in the Stars or Force Our Extinction?

Absolutely fascinating (and harrowing) essay by Ross Anderson interviewing Nick Bostrom, the director of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute, about what lies ahead for humanity. Specifically, the role technology could play if things go, well, badly: No rational human community would hand over the reins of its civilisation to an AI. Nor would many build a

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Tracking is Knowing: The Fitbit

Last week we talked about the notion of tracking is knowing as it relates to understanding the food you eat (in terms of caloric value and macronutrient breakdown). As I said, it’s probably the biggest step you can take to getting a handle on your health and fitness, because very few people understand how much

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Google Glass

Check out Google Glass. It’s the next big thing: wearable, context-aware computing. Google’s doing this with Glass, Apple is chasing the same goal with its rumored smartwatch. This is quite literally the next web, surpassing the semantic web. It’s contextual computing, and everything’s headed here. If post-PC computing (iPads, tablets) was the last gold rush,

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When It Comes to Health and Fitness, Tracking Is Knowing

The Taking Control of Your Health series thus far, in case you missed earlier posts: The First Step Towards Better Health: Bloodwork as Your State of the Union Understanding What ‘Real Food’ Is, Part I Understanding Food: What Are Fats Besides a Bad Word? Understanding Food: Proteins Understanding Food: Carbohydrates Controlling Stress: The Part of

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By All Accounts

By All Accounts By: Steven Brenner and Shannon Roche   In the world of banking, the ability to track the movement of funds into systems has always been a top priority. While computers have exponentially increased tracking and monitoring capabilities, the digital world has also introduced a great deal of additional complexity into the banking

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[HOW-TO] PeopleSoft Strategic Sourcing: Creating the Sourcing Event

Now that we have discussed an overview of Strategic Sourcing, bid factors and scoring, let’s focus on creating the sourcing event. There are three types of events in PeopleSoft Strategic Sourcing: A sell event: the sale of goods that you own (equivalent to a forward auction). A buy event: the purchase of goods or services

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Higher Ed Facilities Maintenance Webinar

Webinar:  Adding Facilities Management to your PeopleSoft Solution   MIPRO Consulting and Oracle would like to invite you to a webinar entitled Adding Facilities Management to your PeopleSoft Solution   For years, when you talked to people about a “full suite” PeopleSoft solution, they would tell you that the solution had three elements – Human

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