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...only gift was Microsoft's recent announcement that they would no longer copy-protect any non-game disks (so much for getting an illegal copy of flight simulator). Gone are the days when the Happy Hacker, after trekking many a mile to the Office of Information Technology, prepares to laser-print a paper only to remember the need for a $%?&*! Word master disk in order to read in the file...
Messages can also be conveniently changed. Thus it is possible to modify old versions of Microsoft Word to display "Time to trek back to the Quad for the $%?&*! master disk" instead of "Please insert the Word master disk...
...Happy Hacker frequently likes to use a bold type style when writing papers in Word. Before ResEditing his Word disk, however, switching to bold took several keystrokes (not to mention a lunge for the mouse); the menu had to be chosen and then the Hacker had to click on bold. ResEdit has allowed the Hacker to define the command-1 key (i.e. pressing the little squiggly key simultaneously with the 1 key) as performing the same function as selecting Bold on the Character menu; no more grasping for that non-teflon paded mouse...
...Floppy disks for personal computers generally come in bare-bones cardboard cases; the imagination all goes into the programming. For the Ability software package, though, Toronto's Spencer/Francey Group has designed a clever casing in black mat plastic that alludes to the injection-molding process itself: the shapes of computer keys and a disk stand in relief, as if actually slipped into the mold. Going to a decorative extreme, Sava Cvek Associates has designed a lamp that seems more like a sculpture than a functional object. Dauntingly tall (6 ft. 4 in.), their light is a lush, glowing monolith...
...clear that disease risk due to inhalation of tobacco smoke is not solely limited to the individual who is smoking," said Koop, who recently had a cervical disk removed and wore a massive neck brace as he announced the study. "The right of the smoker to smoke stops at the point where his or her smoking increases the disease risk of those occupying the same environment." While no hard estimate of the number of lung cancers or other diseases caused by involuntary smoking is yet available, the National Academy of Sciences suggests that it may be responsible...