Word: users
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Republican solution over the last decade has concentrated on the drug user, bursting the seams of the nation's jails with people from the low, or user, end of the drug trade. At the same time, the Nancy Reagans and William Bennetts (the former drug czar) berated the citizenry over its appetite for narcotics: Just...
...BEGINNING WAS THE BEEP -- simple, utilitarian and sufficient to alert a computer user that his machine had been turned on or that a floppy disk had failed. Then came the Macintosh, with its built-in sound chips and an onscreen control panel that enabled Mac enthusiasts to replace the beep with a boing, a clink-clank or a monkey's chirp. Finally, last spring Microsoft put sound- control software in the latest version of its Windows program, extending the power to customize a computer's noises to the 90 million owners of IBM PCs and compatible machines...
...other computer networks (a $15 contribution for the programmer is encouraged). SoundMaster can instruct a computer to cough whenever the machine requests a floppy disk, burp when it ejects a disk or bark when it launches a program. Soon after it was released, a lively trade sprang up at user-group meetings for bootleg sounds tape-recorded from the TV and digitized in home computers, from Bart Simpson saying, "Thanks, man" to Porky Pig stuttering, "That's all, folks...
...matter, I thought. I can handle Harvard, voice or no voice. It's a user-friendly campus, after all. I'd write notes to friends on a pad of paper. I'd use gestures and nonverbal communication. I'd polite. I'd smile. People would accommodate...
...past, some students have been willing to stop playing games when people are waiting, but others have refused to leave, according to user assistants Matthew J. Paschke '96 and John J. Immel...