I was surprised by the salaries so she explained that junior people with a degree from a prestigious school started higher on the salary scale to recognize their investment and possible better education
That's ridiculous. I don't know why it should be the company's function to do that.
Do they pay extra if someone came to the interview wearing $500 shoes? If you called a cab and a Rolls-Royce turned up would you expect to pay twice as much per mile to "recognize their investment"?
If these people are really better they'll demonstrate it on the job and get promoted quicker.
I wish. Actually sometimes it's useful to have small hands.
on a German keyboard it is faster to type begin and end than a curly brace.
They gave priority to the letters with squiggles like the French? Even so I'd be surprised if it's more than two presses each, even if one of them is the devil's own AltGr.
Thinking about this, I had similar problems when XP SP2 or 3 came out. My home connection was slow and flaky so I tried to download it at work, except my work machine was on W2K...
IIRC I eventually found some masonic sysadmin page with direct ftp:// links. Anybody remember those?
This website does not offer updates for the operating system on this computer. [no shit, Sherlock] This website only provides updates for computers running Windows 2000 Sp3, Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 and later. If you prefer to use a different Windows operating system, you can obtain updates from the Microsoft Download Center."
Thanks for your interest in getting updates from us.
To use this site, you must be running Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 or later.
To upgrade to the latest version of the browser, go to the Internet Explorer Downloads website.
If you prefer to use a different web browser, you can obtain updates from the Microsoft Download Center or you can stay up to date with the latest critical and security updates by using Automatic Updates. [...]
I do indeed prefer to use a different web browser. So I click the link and it takes me to
So this means you have to connect the unpatched install to the internet to download the patches while just hoping you don't get hacked? Sheer genius. I mean, it would be absolute madness to download a patch on one machine to use on another (or several others).
Nigel Farage: We will negotiate exactly how we orbit the earth on a sovereign basis, rather than being ordered to do so by barmy Belgian bureaucrats. And the Polacks can all fuck off.
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That's ridiculous. I don't know why it should be the company's function to do that.
Do they pay extra if someone came to the interview wearing $500 shoes? If you called a cab and a Rolls-Royce turned up would you expect to pay twice as much per mile to "recognize their investment"?
If these people are really better they'll demonstrate it on the job and get promoted quicker.
I wish. Actually sometimes it's useful to have small hands.
They gave priority to the letters with squiggles like the French? Even so I'd be surprised if it's more than two presses each, even if one of them is the devil's own AltGr.
It's the police, not the Air force.
That's an exponentially high proportion. Does it literally make your blood boil?
Did someone say DeVry?
Thinking about this, I had similar problems when XP SP2 or 3 came out. My home connection was slow and flaky so I tried to download it at work, except my work machine was on W2K...
IIRC I eventually found some masonic sysadmin page with direct ftp:// links. Anybody remember those?
Either is equally proable.
Have a few Win7 installs that I use rarely, so I tried to download it on Linux.
https://support.microsoft.com/...
sends you to
http://catalog.update.microsof...
which says
So I click the link for the download center ...
go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=10678
And from there
https://www.microsoft.com/en-u...
And then the link labelled "Microsoft Update"
http://www.update.microsoft.co...
I do indeed prefer to use a different web browser. So I click the link and it takes me to
https://www.microsoft.com/en-u...
Think I've been there before.
So this means you have to connect the unpatched install to the internet to download the patches while just hoping you don't get hacked? Sheer genius. I mean, it would be absolute madness to download a patch on one machine to use on another (or several others).
Alternative hypothesis: it's fucking difficult to fall off the floor.
Indeed. The words "yo" and "dawg" spring to mind.
No, you just need to wear your fingers out. 7 (seven) extra characters! I can barely span four frets as it is.
Nigel Farage: We will negotiate exactly how we orbit the earth on a sovereign basis, rather than being ordered to do so by barmy Belgian bureaucrats. And the Polacks can all fuck off.
They waved weasels around?
Sounds like a bank. Or maybe a payment processor.
So they've got a liquidity problem and a fluidity problem?
That word doesn't mean what you think it does.
P.S. is "with" really that hard to type?
IoSTWRC.
Internet of shiny things with rounded corners.
Is there some Hollywood accounting going on? Last I heard Bezos isn't exactly skint.
I can spell. I just can't type today.
They probably made more than that in the time it took to write that post.
International trade has existed since nations have. I think there's a reason for it.
Maybe it's a a scam to keep shipbuilders in business and it can be traced right back Og and Ug who founded the guild of log diggerouterers.
# service sharing stop
# service needful do
Printouts of Hilary's emails?
Right footed vicars have been allowed to marry since Elizabethan times. And I don't mean Frau Battenburg Von Schleswig-Holsten Pilsner.
Pound pastrami
can kraut
six bagels - brig home for Emma