Word: users
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have a secret to share. For the past five months, I have been living a lie. I have consistently sent over 500 e-mail messages per month. I have faithfully imparted my wisdom through this column. I have continued to work as a user assistant, helping people with their computer problems. But all this time, I have not had a working computer myself...
Where does that leave me? I had been relegated to the status of a lab-user. I got e-mail only three times a day and actually waited in line to use a computer in the Science Center. Well, I never...
...really aren't sure what to do," says Larry Lieberman, a savvy Web user who happens to be the guy at Comedy Central charged with handling this situation. "We do want to protect our property, but we don't want to alienate our fans." Lieberman understands why South Park is ripe for the stealing: its surprise success caught Comedy Central in short supply. Fewer than a dozen episodes have been produced, and they are getting heavily recycled. "With a new episode every week, the itch gets scratched on television," says Lieberman. "But we can't create episodes fast enough...
...that, I told the patient secretary at the Public Works Department, was why I had called. I wanted them to build a stairway into the hillside that would turn a questionable shortcut into a user-friendly thoroughfare, and I was wondering who had control over that sort of decision. She told me that all the bridges in the state were owned by the Massachusetts Highway Department, especially one on the Alewife Brook Parkway, which moonlights as State Route...
...December, a colleague remarked to me after seeing the three-inch-thick binder that I called my life: "Baratunde, I thought you were a PDA man." By PDA, he meant personal digital assistant. And he was right. Why shouldn't I, Mr. User assistant, Tech Talk computer friend, be using something electronic to organize my life instead of primitive paper products...