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Greetings from… Sponsored by:The Greek Islands Restaurant
3821 Center St.Omaha
Nebraska Football!
NGo B
ig Blue!
Tailgate Parties!
And then, the Big Game!
Typical Nebraska Food!
Runza!
Hot Pockets!
Old West Heritage!Old West Heritage!
What’s Wrong With This Information?
Obsolete Biased Commercially-driven Screened for:
• Price
• Accessibility
• Etc.
Sensorial Interfaces
Provide an “easy” way to get information—albeit limited information—about the world.• Disneyland
• Windows
• Oriental Chicken McNuggets
• Sedona…
Kokopelli
Sedona
Sedona Vortex
Freaky Vortex Stuff
Crystals
Why Do We Rely on Interfaces?
Why Do We Rely on Interfaces?
Because understanding and making our own decisions is hard.
It takes too much time. There is too much information out there
—we all have to make decisions about what to learn about.
The Time Machine
One way to tell the story:
The Time Machine
Another way to tell the story:
But Who Has the Power?
But Who Has the Power?
“Morlocks” decide:• what people know
• what people believe
• what people understand
Meteorology Morlocks
Well, you can decide who these people are and what these people do.
Meteorology Eloi
Well, you can decide who these people are and what these people do.
What Does This Tell Us About Computers?
We all have to make decisions about what we are and are not going to understand deeply.
Word Processing
MS Word is easy—• You don’t have to
know ANYTHING about creation of documents to make pretty good looking stuff.
• Is this how professionals create documents?
LaTeX (lay TECH)
For typesetting fancy technical documents.
FrameMaker
For brochures, posters, etc.
Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop
For professional image processing
So Why Do We All Use Word?
So Why Do We All Use Word?
Because it is easy. Because it does things we need to do
well enough to get by. We’re not professional typesetters.
Good Enough
What does this say about what kind of meteorological software we should be using?
• If you are not a professional, who is?