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Re: OT: P!$#ed of at ebay.com.au
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Fri, 6 Oct 2000 14:44:37 GMT
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In lugnet.org.au, Todd Lehman writes:
> I just remembered the fouth dumbest thing: it's 12-hour clocks with a.m. and
> p.m. instead of 24-hour clocks -- especially digital alarm clocks. I wonder
> if anyone has ever -not- accidentally set their alarm for 8 p.m. thinking they
> were setting it for 8 a.m. because they were too exhausted at the end of the
> day to remember whether the a.m./p.m. indicator light meant a.m. or p.m. :-)
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> --Todd
I'll nominate a fifth dumbest thing: contemporary use of QWERTY keyboards that
were originally designed to make typing slower and more difficult.
John
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| (...) And the sixth dumbest thing is how vi makes a big deal about "all the most import keys are right on the home row", and then a) foolishly has your right hand shifted one key to the left of where it should be and b) makes you hit ESC a lot, even (...) (24 years ago, 6-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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