fedora 14 & compiz

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Fri Jan 7 08:34:18 UTC 2011


On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 10:39 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote:
> A friend of mine and I came up with a good reason for this once: 
> standard filing practice (for dead-tree files) is to put the most
> recent item at the front so that everything is in
> reverse-chronological order. 

Mostly because it's more difficult to add a page to the back of a file,
rather than because it was convenient for any other reason.

>   Once you get used to that, top posting becomes the natural way to do
> things.

It's still an annoying habit, and difficult to read through, in the
first place.  Simply perpetuating a strange practice doesn't really make
it natural.

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