Word: users
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Unfortunately, FAS Computer Services no longer supports nor offers student group accounts," read the message, which was signed by user services. "Therefore, your group account will have to be removed from our systems...
...accounts will expire on December 7 and will be deleted on December 31, according to the message from user services...
...work as a writer takes me almost daily into the Yard, where I am a regular user of the libraries. So, like everybody else who is here summer as well as winter, I have watched the systematic renovation of all the dormitories and a couple of the other buildings. I don't know how many millions the University has spent on this ambitious project, but I doubt that much of it has found its way into the pockets of the black citizens of Boston and Cambridge...
Still other services run off menu-driven interfaces, or off text-based systems which are as unfriendly and cryptic as they are powerful. In each case the user gains a certain proprietary familiarity with the system. It forms the lens through which he sees the cyber-world; it gives her the hands with which to manipulate objects and perform tasks. It is the mind's extension and tool...
...seem a small matter, the user interface and operating system of a computer or a network service. After all, who cares what one uses to get to one's destination, just as long as one gets there? Analogously, who cares what language one speaks, just as long as one is able to convey one's point? Of course, the point here is that the language influences the message, just as Orwell wrote. One language is a monopoly on the method of thought...