Show r 11 rf l U The i RAW I Stuff S 10 n i i r 1 0 r J I V 0 I r ISk i t ii i 1 I f 4 X C i Walter Valter Yates r Opinion Editor I was once again was reminded of my dependency on computers It happened while I 1 was putting together this page The Raw Stuff was done and ready for print I went to save and came o out ot t with it erased off my disk Who has not had something like this happen to them Computers are not always that reliable In fact there are many things more reliable than computers such as pets I can always expect my friends friend's dog to stick its dirty claws on my new pants while it drools onto my shoes The Salt Lake Tribune or its printer have recently had computer y v f. f problems Readers would turn the i t j page to continue the story to find 7 blank sections oops Even here at atthe l' l the Horizon we ha have e been plagued The schools computer server Amelia named after a lunch lady went down for a few days causing bL the Horizon to be postponed No complaints were voiced by students Computers have taken the place of books as an obsession of nerds Instead of reading all day nerds program all day This has resulted in inthe inthe inthe the new nerd pranks such as computer computer computer com com- puter viruses A more mild prank while I was still in high school This computer geek who went to BYU printed out The Three Stooges and places it on a mural that was over 20 ft ft tall His April fools joke landed him on the front page of the metro section The funny thing is that it took over three hours just to print everything Besides the computer nerds there are chat room addicts whose only social life is on the web This is just a hypothesis but maybe these addicts arent aren't what you'd call At least in my observations observations observations I 1 find the women at a spa more attractive than the girls chat- chat ing on-line on in the library And then there are the idiots who cant can't work a computer program to save their life It really su sucks ks to here the question question question ques ques- tion how do you save in college While computers cause a lot of grief they do allow us students another excuse While I have never used th the computer as an excuse I have seen others accomplish accomplish accomplish this and getting extending their due dates You tell your sor you dont don't have a printer and have to bring in the disk to print So you bring in the disk having it saved under some wierd file It just happens happens happens hap hap- pens the computer cant can't open that file their you go an extra day or two |