Re: presented without comment

2010-12-23 Thread Walt Mankowski
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 07:11:51PM -0500, Cory Myers wrote: > “A capital W takes up 10 times the space of a period,” he said. > “If a student writes 163 characters that include lots of Ws and > m’s and g’s and capital letters, their 163 characters are going to > take many more inches of space tha

Re: presented without comment

2010-12-23 Thread Michael G Schwern
On 2010.12.24 11:11 AM, Cory Myers wrote: On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 02:19:03PM -0600, Eli Naeher wrote: With Common Application, Many Find a Technical Difficulty in Common, Too http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/23/education/23college.html --- When he would follow the program’s instructions to execut

Re: presented without comment

2010-12-23 Thread Cory Myers
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 02:19:03PM -0600, Eli Naeher wrote: With Common Application, Many Find a Technical Difficulty in Common, Too http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/23/education/23college.html --- When he would follow the program’s instructions to execute a “print preview” of his answers — which

presented without comment

2010-12-23 Thread Eli Naeher
With Common Application, Many Find a Technical Difficulty in Common, Too http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/23/education/23college.html --- When he would follow the program’s instructions to execute a “print preview” of his answers — which would show him the actual version that an admissions officer

Re: This is why I gave up on Linux desktops

2010-12-23 Thread Peter Corlett
On 22 Dec 2010, at 17:31, Joshua Rodman wrote: [...] What sucks about this? There's no clear boundary between left and right, so it guesses wrong about what I wanted all the time. [...] There's nothing here to feel, in fact no positional tactile cues at all. Go and find some hole reinforcers

Re: This is why I gave up on Linux desktops

2010-12-23 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 04:35:07PM -0500, Numien wrote: > Some programs (I'm looking at you, nano) Oh the hate. Gentoo's install CDs ship nano, but no vi. WTF? gert -- USENET is *not* the non-clickable part of WWW! //www.muc.de/~

Re: This is why I gave up on Linux desktops

2010-12-23 Thread Tony Finch
On Tue, 21 Dec 2010, Joshua Juran wrote: > > The original error has already been repeated in HFS+, in the form of forced > Unicode normalization in filenames. Also, special Apple normalization algorithm for the lose! Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finchhttp://dotat.at/ HUMBER THAMES DOVER WIGHT PORTLA