OT: more PC insanity

Quite.

For me it's not quite as bad as that as I'm generally ok with anything that is phonetic.

But then I guess that the focus (on technical content) may distract from 'checking' for spelling (if they don't pop out at you). A classic one seen here is 'teh' instead of 'the'?

I think I can, again if I'm not preoccupied on the content (like when reading the instructions trying to get something working that I need working quickly).

Agreed.

Good. ;-)

Yes. When I've seen that sort of presentation before that's exactly what they have done where anything above the base offering is '+£xxx extra' for each 'upgrade'.

The thing that makes it even more 'strange' there is that the onboard RAM isn't changeable, the PSU is ok as that's just a country thing but you *can* run it from SSD but can't buy the bundle without an eMMC?

I guess the bundle means the unit, inc PSU and HA installed on the eMMC of your choice, as opposed to buying the unit, PSU, eMMC with a base OS and you having to install HA yourself:

And when young my parents corrected me if I ever said 'we was' and why it seems so strange that so many people also seem to get that wrong?

Cheers, T i m

I haven't seen the "Chemical Rubber Company" handbook in many a long year. It was a remarkable source of chemical and physical information

If they can't write a decent CV they won't even get a job interview to show how smart they might be, (by decent I mean not full of grammatical or spelling errors).

At interview they will also be judged on their ability to communicate effectively, which means a decent standard of spoken english (or other language relevant to the county they are in).

For someone who says they don't care about animal welfare during the animals life I assume what you are posting is irony.

If you want to improve animal welfare standards there is plenty of opportunity, but of course in reality you just want to stop us eating meat as a healthy balanced diet.

Pigs are not intelligent.

If you want to improve animal welfare standards there is plenty of opportunity, but of course in reality you just want to stop us eating meat as a healthy balanced diet.

Earlier you lied and said you didn't have a killfile, let's see......

I have read doctor's letters (specifically one copied to my partner about her then recent appointment) in which the consultant completely confused hyper- and hypo-.

Indeed, I often see that mistake being made by many doctors - GPs, registrars, and consultants - where the meaning really, really matters. Sometimes it is the patient mis-copying but sometimes a scan of the letter demonstrates that it was a mistake by the qualified medical person.

Possibly sometimes it is the medical secretary but the doctor is the person who signed it and is responsible.

I wonder if that is down to the brain being faster than being able to type. Don;t forget that the keyboard is designed to slow typing down.

And while I'm here could you try the link below.

anyway let me know what you see.

The other thing I noticed was the annoying "UR" usage guess that will annoy you roo.

If I heard that I'd write it as anyfink.

Yes that is weird.

Err, would that be Geordie, Yorkshire, Cornish ... ?

-sorry, I couldn't resist ;-)

As long as you get the subject matter correct it doesn't really matter whether you spell colour or color. There are times when wrong spelling can be misleading though, but an inteligent person can usually work it out for themselves.

Yes they will as you can employ someone to write a CV. Writing a CV is more of an art, and it also depends on who's reading it. Some only want single page CVs while others expect multipage listing everything, while others aren't really intestesd in 11+ results.

Yes but that will vary depending on the job that needs doing.

nah it's lundun init !

AKA 'The Rubber Bible'. I have the 65th edition, 1985. Our company lab library used to get a new edition every few years, and sold the previous edition for a fiver. Irresistible, especially at the price.

I also have Lange's Handbook of Chemistry, Eighth Edition 1952 on my bookshelf. I much prefer it!

But at some point you have top specialise in your area of interest I doubt many rocket scientists are experts in shakespeare.

One of our academics wants the department to employ a super-technician one that knows everything about electronics and computer science, to help out in all areas of teaching and research, she's been wanting such a person for a few years now. Be interesting to see the job description with a starting salery of around £25K and who applies.

The UK tax guide is over 21,000 pages.

even more have died or received poor treatment because the doctor or surgeon made a simple mistake.

These days everything is digitised, including most if not all GP prescriptions

An endless supply of bullshitters and hopeless hopefuls, people who don't have the right to seek work in the UK , and those with no experience at all and just want to get their first job.

didn't the bouncing Czech Robert Maxwell make his money initially by buying up and translating thousands of technical papers from Russian, Polish, ... into English ?.

And curries

lun'non . Surely the 'd' is missing from estuary 'english' ?

Those will be easily weeded out, as they won;t even get an interview.

we don't get many like that, if anything we get those that are over qualified that's what happened last time we put a post up.

Here's a list which would you be qualified to do ?

Plus automatic membership of a nice juicy final salary pension scheme (that is probably massively in deficit) ??