Word: users
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...business that relies so heavily on memory chips, the computer industry is surprisingly forgetful. That trait was on display last week in the hoopla over the unveiling of Microsoft Windows 3.0, a $149 program that its maker claims will give IBM-compatible computers the look and feel of a user-friendly Apple Macintosh. What most everyone failed to recall, however, was that Microsoft has been making the same claim about earlier versions of Windows for the past seven years...
Even so, the federal statute has been used to score some noticeable gains against merchants who deal in everything from "bongs" (water pipes for marijuana) to the spoons used to shovel cocaine into a user's nostrils. One such businessman, Stephen Pesce, is essentially a vile version of a Horatio Alger hero. Pesce, now 34, apparently made pot pipes as a teenager in the 1970s for a Long Island, N.Y., paraphernalia distributor now known as Main Street. He eventually took charge and built the business into one of the largest head-shop suppliers in the U.S., grossing more than...
...beggars' right to free speech. But last week the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reinstated the ban, ruling that far from being a form of speech, begging seems an "assault" and a "detriment" to the common good. That's bound to cheer many a subway user, but it leaves the panhandlers without much to be thankful...
...education: to draw out, to teach children not what they know but what they do not know; to rescue them, as Cicero had it, from the tyranny of the present. The problem with visuals is not just that they bombard us with images and information only of a user-friendly kind but also that they give us no help in telling image from illusion, information from real wisdom. Reducing everything to one dimension, they prepare us for everything except our daily lives. Nintendo, unlike stickball, leaves one unschooled in surprise; TV, unlike books, tells us when to stop and think...
...there is trouble in paradise. A severe drought has plunged the city into a water crisis for the fourth consecutive year. City officials have hiked water-user fees as much...