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Reply 40

Piggsil

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IlexAquifolium

I'm sorry, that was me, I assumed the thread would explode if it went over a thousand :o:

. I didn't count on lots of silly mods coming in and making it not explode :p:

I totally wasn't paying attention to what posts we were on. :colondollar:

Reply 41

Acaila

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It won't explode at ten k, it's just that dealing with big threads puts a strain on the server and at that length nobody is really reading through the whole thing :smile:

Reply 42

Socrates

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New thread :mad:

Ilex: many :hugs:

for you. It sounds pretty awful, and hope it all gets better. Sorry can't be more helpful :frown:

Reply 43

hermaphrodite

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Morbo

Late from the old thread, but I just feel I have to say that the $\LaTeX$ font pwns all your other crappy fonts :yy:

I have windows 2007. I send my CV (via e mail) in RTF to someone. They open it on their computer - windows 2003.

Say, if I have written my CV in a typoface that's new to 2007, (and isn't on windows 2003) - eg traditional arabic - will they open it to find it's not in the original format which I sent it in ....i.e the margins aren't the same?

Reply 44

wes

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hermaphrodite

I have windows 2007. I send my CV (via e mail) in RTF to someone. They open it on their computer - windows 2003.

Say, if I have written my CV in a typoface that's new to 2007, (and isn't on windows 2003) - eg traditional arabic - will they open it to find it's not in the original format which I sent it in ....i.e the margins aren't the same?

Yes - you're best off using one of the olde-worlde fonts.

Reply 45

Alasdair

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hermaphrodite

I have windows 2007. I send my CV (via e mail) in RTF to someone. They open it on their computer - windows 2003.

Say, if I have written my CV in a typoface that's new to 2007, (and isn't on windows 2003) - eg traditional arabic - will they open it to find it's not in the original format which I sent it in ....i.e the margins aren't the same?

It'll default to an original font. I don't know what that might be for traditional arabic...

Reply 46

Socrates

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Alasdair

It'll default to an original font. I don't know what that might be for traditional arabic...

Times New Roman, I believe. Which would be rather problematic I would imagine.

Reply 47

Alasdair

14

Lots little squares!

Reply 48

hermaphrodite

15

wes

Yes - you're best off using one of the olde-worlde fonts.

So, if I use any of these will that be ok? Or have I got the wrong ones?

Reply 49

apotoftea

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Loads of :hug: for Ilex - sounds rubbish :frown:

Does your uni lib hire out laptops? Just a thought as they may well not use Vista being old and crappy etc.

Reply 50

Alasdair

14

Wah. I've been moved around in the office, and my Feng Shui's all funny. And I've been given an ergonomic keyboard which I'm not sure I'm a fan of...

Reply 51

Kitty Pimms

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apotoftea

Loads of :hug: for Ilex - sounds rubbish :frown:

Does your uni lib hire out laptops? Just a thought as they may well not use Vista being old and crappy etc.

I don't think so - but I can't really trek up there today. Either way I wouldn't be allowed to install new software on them, which is ze problem.

Anyway, funniest phishing email ever:

' Your Co-perative account has been violated!'

:rofl:

Reply 52

Socrates

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Alasdair

Wah. I've been moved around in the office, and my Feng Shui's all funny. And I've been given an ergonomic keyboard which I'm not sure I'm a fan of...

yeah ergonomic keyboard are rather strange and try to be too intuiative.

Reply 53

apotoftea

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IlexAquifolium

I don't think so - but I can't really trek up there today. Either way I wouldn't be allowed to install new software on them, which is ze problem.

Anyway, funniest phishing email ever:

' Your Co-perative account has been violated!'

:rofl:

Install than uninstall? :wink:

Love the email!

Reply 54

wes

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hermaphrodite

So, if I use any of these will that be ok? Or have I got the wrong ones?

Yep, although to be really sure you could use one of these : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_fonts_for_the_Web#Included_fonts

Reply 55

hermaphrodite

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wes

Yep, although to be really sure you could use one of these : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_fonts_for_the_Web#Included_fonts

I'm hardly spoilt for choice. LOL

Reply 56

Kitty Pimms

17

In the spirit of 'grad students aren't bad people, they just make terrible life choices' I thought I'd have a bit of an anti-GOG (positive thinking :yy:

). What do you folks enjoy about being a postgraduate?

For me:

1. Having regular slots of time to read books and pootle about doing not a lot
2. Having fewer deadlines stacked on top of each other so less of an essay crunch
3. When slacking off the work I'm meant to be doing, having the freedom to just pick up books and articles for interest without any pressing reason
4. Not being a finalist, for whom failure actually matters rather a lot

Reply 57

Da Bachtopus

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IlexAquifolium

1. Having regular slots of time to read books and pootle about doing not a lot
2. Having fewer deadlines stacked on top of each other so less of an essay crunch
3. When slacking off the work I'm meant to be doing, having the freedom to just pick up books and articles for interest without any pressing reason
4. Not being a finalist, for whom failure actually matters rather a lot

I can't think of any more :wink:

But TBH this is what keeps me going.

Actually, at least where I am, I like the fact that when I've not got pressing deadlines I can do language work. The chance to read more freely and genreally not be miserable all the time (only some of it) is great. I don't think I could do undergrad at Cambridge again. I can't work like that any more. I am now slow, sure and methodical as opposed to antsy and stressed and sophistical (or rather, reduced against my will to sophistry). I can read books properly from beginning to end, even big difficult books I'm not supposed to read till I'm much older, and work far more on my own terms.

And whilst this is not necessarily distnict from humanities undergrad, the lack of contact-time/teaching affords, even if only (and tragically) hypothetically, the opportunity to have sex in the afternoon.

Reply 58

randdom

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IlexAquifolium

Sorted - I copied and pasted from two pages, I'm guessing she appeared on both for some frankly bizarre reason.

I'm not sure why I appear twice :s-smilie:

It appeared twice in my societies not sure if it still does though :s-smilie:

Edit: apparently it does not :p:

Reply 59

Kitty Pimms

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Da Bachtopus

I can't think of any more :wink:

But TBH this is what keeps me going.

What keeps me going is the fact that all of this is part of the faustian bargain of not being thrust into an unwelcoming job market. And the prospect of having teh monies end if I don't do anything/produce really bad work, rather than sympathetic talks about setting unattainably high standards, sounds bad also.

I'm currently watching figureskating rather than writing this portfolio. I know nothing at all about figureskating. It's quite exciting.

*procrastinates*

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