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Re: Doubts about the HR departments that require knowledge of technology that does not exist.

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From: Charlie Gibbs
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 05:05
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On 2018-02-14, J  Clarke <jclarke...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 13 Feb 2018 18:24:17 GMT, Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid>
> wrote:
>
>> On 2018-02-13, J  Clarke <jclarke...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 13 Feb 2018 05:25:14 GMT, Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2018-02-12, Walter Bushell <pr...@panix.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> jmfbahciv <See....@aol.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Are you kidding?  They would have to know enough to talk to the
>>>>>> experts who do the work.  Chemistry and physics in the real
>>>>>> world have rules, no matter how the software is written.
>>>>>> If the software messes up just a little bit w.r.t. the
>>>>>> chemistry of cement, the entire batch has to be dumped.
>>>>
>>>> Sort of like Windows: re-boot, re-format, re-install.
>>>> And people accept it.
>>>
>>> And we have another one who hasn't used Windows in 20 years.
>>
>> I wish.
>
> If "reboot, reformat, reinstall" is part of your regular Windows
> experience you really don't have much recent Windows experience.

OK, I admit that they have improved that part somewhat.  After all,
downtime interferes with surveillance.

On the other hand, newer versions of Windows have come up with
enough new ways to piss me off that I'm content to stay with XP
during the times I'm forced to use Windows.

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From: Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Doubts about the HR departments that require knowledge of technology that does not exist.
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