Word: hacker
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Print your way to term paper heaven'--the words kept ringing in my ears like that awful music whick assaults the occupant of the dentist's chair. Last week the Happy Hacker promised to write about ways to print out high-quality looking papers by using various printers located in and around campus...
...happen in one week. Like the Red Sox--they happened in a big way. Writing this column last Tuesday afternoon, the Sox were up by two and the Mets would be playing in Sox home territory. The Happy Hacker's computer simulator was predicting the Sox in five...and plenty of time for him to finish his course work by Sunday...
Alas, computer simulations are never like the real game. Any hacker who writes a baseball program that would allow any team--two runs back in the bottom of the ninth inning with two outs and two strikes against the batter--to go on to victory would be called an idiot. Probability and statistics said the Mets were losers...
After the Happy Hacker finally got over the incredible blow dealt to his with-probability-anything-can-be-accurately-simula ted mentality, he decided not to write about 'printing your way to term-paper heaven'. (Tune in next week for that.) Meanwhile, the Happy Hacker feels like digressing about several computer sports programs that reflect reality better than the aforementioned World Series. On TV, a game is just a game, but on your computer screen, it can truly be an adventure...
Next week, after recovering from several more '86 series simulations, we can talk about 'printing your way to term-paper heaven'. Until then, the Happy Hacker will be busy trying to convince his bookie that the real series took place on a computer, not at a ball park. On second thought, maybe the bookie will take a nicely printed term-paper as payment in-kind...