Tech help needed.

I am home, and once again working on the desktop. I have a major problem on the laptop. I get the newsgroups through free.teranews.com via Mozilla Thunderbird. Problem: Every time I click on one of the groups, I get a box which asks if I would like to subscribe to e.g r.c.t.n. I click on yes and get the messages, but it adds another group, with the result that I now appear to have over 3,000 groups there (the same six, over and over and over.) This means that every time I sign on, I get all the old messages over and over and cannot distinguish the new ones. I tried to unsubscribe, but I cannot find a way of doing this without presing the "unsubscribe" button 3,000 separate times.

Can anyone help?

going back to bed now, wiped out.

Olwyn Mary.

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Olwyn Mary
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What's the e.g. for?

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LizardGumbo

for instance.

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Olwyn Mary

I believe it stands for: "for example"

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Lucille

Oh, I see. I read it wrong. I thought you were trying to get to a GROUP called e.g.r.c.t.n.

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LizardGumbo

Latin, esempli gratii But examplum gratium for plural IIRC my elementary school grammar....

FWIW, this differs from i.e. Which means "that is" or in Latin "id est"

ellice

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ellice

Now we have that cleared up, can anyone help me sort out this 'ere machine? Right now, it says I have 3,534 groups to which I subscribe. (There are actually six.) I HATE having a "dirty" computer.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

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Olwyn Mary

Very close. It's exempli gratia. Exempli is from exemplum (genitive case, "of example"), and gratia is from gratia, but is in the ablative case ("For the sake of"). To go plural (though I'm not sure "for the sakes of examples" makes sense) would be exemplorum gratiis. Sorry to pick nits ;-)

Best wishes, Ericka

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Ericka Kammerer

This conversation makes me chuckle...bringing to mind the "how many stitchers does it take to change a light bulb?" thread.

So how many stitchers does it take to delete a bunch of unwanted newsgroups?

Sorry Olwyn Mary...I have no ideas for you other than opening a new account and starting from scratch. (I guess I'm one of the "and a dozen more to scratch their heads but offer hugs.")

d & r & chuckling, Sue

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Susan Hartman

I so wish I'd studied Latin. It's not only handy for needlework, but i could read my doctor's diploma, too! Louisa

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Louisa.Duck

Lol - if you listen to Radio Finland sometimes they do a news cast in Latin. Typically Finnish I feel, proving a dead language is not dead lol

I did Latin at school and though I did not particularly care for it at the time, I feel it has been a good aid for spelling and for deciphering the meaning of many unknown words.

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lucretia borgia

I'll take the nits. I remembered the exemplum grati??? And then looked and found the typical exempli gratii somewhere, but I could've mistyped. Hey - it's been years since I learned that.....knocking some cobwebs around to come close.........

ellice

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ellice

I took Latin in college to fulfill the language requirement. My cousin's Mom kept bragging about her GPA and honors and had the (in Latin) the diploma out for all to see. Well, as I could read it, I did. There for those of us who could, was the fact she was in the rank and file (not graduated with honors). Never did let on I could read the whole dang thing. C

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Cheryl Isaak

LOL - although I do have language credits, for the engineering majors, a computer programming language way back when would fulfill the language requirement. Besides the other lit, tech writing, and social sciences/humanities requirements.

ellice

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ellice

I had to have my major courses, and credits in written English, literature, two "soft sciences" (psych, soc, anthro), one literature other than English (Russian, French....), 2 credits in history, 2 years language, one philosophy plus one year of "directed study" in subject. Add that I had an advisor that insisted I take Art History and got me invited to several seminar courses. Non-science majors had to have 2 credits (1 full year) each in science and math.

I recently looked at the required course work at the same school and about cried.

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Cheryl Isaak

On 6/19/07 6:47 AM, "Cheryl Isaak" wrote:

Well, things do change. I have other friends that work as engineers but with physics or other science degrees (IIRC your situation). For engineering degrees, the ABET requirements haven't changed much - certain amount of math, chemistry, physics, drafting (now CAD) and a core of engineering courses across the disciplines (like statics, thermodynamics, the first electrical engineering circuits course, fluid dynamics) and after that it's the requirements for the major - with how the electives balance within some limits dictated by the school & department. Hence, most schools an engineering degree is tight for 4 years, they're usually a 5 year, or an extra term degree. What our close friend that is in a Sys Eng dept says is the big issue the last few years is the lack of students in the hard-core (key word hard) engineering sciences. Given the option, many will go into the Info Sys depts, which doesn't have the difficulty across the subject area. A few years ago when they started offering an Info Sys degree, in addition to the EE/Comp engineering or Mech Eng, or even sys engineering (which is pretty much an Ops Research type degree) they had a huge switch, literally hundreds of students suddenly applied into that program, and the apps into the engineering degreees dropped severely. Consequently, across the US, and to some extent in the world, there will be coming the time of lots of people that can program in the Web languages, or run networks, but don't actually know how to make them work, let alone any of the other things that have to work. People able to read directions to turn things on, but not to actually understand what goes into getting there. Big crisis in the engineering education area. At least there's been some steady amount of people going into the biologic sciences.

Well, got to do some morning work. Off the soapbox.

ellice

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ellice

What I was so amazed (and distraught over) was the nearly complete absence of credits needed outside major. You could literally never have go to the science buildings for a class. Or leave the sciences for (pure) philosophy or history..... But (and I think it changed recently) you did need to take 1 course in "women's studies".

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Cheryl Isaak

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