Word: textual
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...graphical interface is pretty much useless for the blind. How does a computer tell a blind person to move the mouse pointer over an icon and double-click? One way the ATL has dealt with this problem has been to suggest that students use older programs with textual rather than graphical interfaces...
...popular interest in miracles, it turns out, comes along just as a generation of Bible scholars is dedicated to disproving them. From both seminaries and secular institutions, scholars are drawing on science, archaeology and modern textual criticism to write a chapter of Christianity that makes little mention of miracles except to reject them. They believe the teachings of Jesus are more important than the teachings about Jesus. In this book there is no virgin birth, no walking on water; the healings amount to parlor tricks, and the Resurrection never happened...
Heidegger, Heidegger, and more Heidegger drones on, while video images flash by in lively contrast to the deadpan textual underpinning. Philosophical discourse takes such an incredible amount of concentration and linear, logical thinking, that the flashing images and spatial nature of the cinematic form disrupts Heidegger's text more than they complement it. This brings one of the exhibit's main conflicts to light. We are a society torn between discourses, one written and one visual, and our own delight in the visual is juxtaposed with our own delight in the visual is juxtaposed with our guilt-laden tendency...
Most Harvard students use the e-mail program PINE ("Program for Internet News and E-mail"), developed at the University of Washington. This program supports Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME), a specification for including non-textual information in e-mail...
...term "non-textual" should sound some alarms when it comes to virus protection, as viruses typically come in the form of non-textual information like system file additions...