Word: printout
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...program displays opponents' formations, a hit chart (where the ball was run or thrown), opponents' plays from different field positions, and downs and distances. From these raw statistics fed into the computer comes a printout displaying opponents' tendencies under certain circumstances. Says Defensive Coordinator Clemens. "We try to produce a program that can be manipulated, one that coaches can use to communicate with the players...
Computers! Bah! But you have made me see the printout on the wall. I will have to learn to use the contraptions...
...computer has been compromised once before. In 1975 an employee gave Consumer Reports a printout of bank interest charges, which the magazine subsequently printed. Ironically, Langevin stood little chance of profiting from his purloined data. Since last October, the Fed has been giving much less weight to the money supply in formulating policy. When Langevin was performing his electronic theft, the information was worth less than at any time in the past three years...
...office. Secretaries are often suspicious of new equipment, particularly if it appears to threaten their jobs, and so are executives. Some senior officials resist using a keyboard on the ground that such work is demeaning. Two executives in a large firm reportedly refuse to read any computer printout until their secretaries have retyped it into the form of a standard memo. "The biggest problem in introducing computers into an office is management itself," says Ted Stout of National Systems Inc., an office design firm in Atlanta. "They don't understand it, and they are scared to death...
...generally applies to anything so bad that the computerist cries out, "Bletch!" (the equivalent of the layman's "Yecch!"). This and much else can be learned from a remarkable work called The Hacker's Dictionary, which, as might be expected, is not a book but a computer printout that can be acquired only by accessing the right data base. The term hacker is itself an example, for underground languages like to reverse the connotations of words; in black English, for instance, bad means good. So hacker, a term of contempt in ordinary English, becomes high praise when computer...