scott wrote:
>>> In 2004 2.6 million new cars were sold in the UK.  There's 60 million 
>>> people in the UK.
>>
>> Dude, how do you know all this??
> 
> Google?

Interesting. Never works for me... [At least, not for statistics.]

>> Mmm, interesting. I was told for example that some large freight train 
>> used electric motors because if they used diesel motors they would 
>> need a gearbox, and it would be impossible to make one strong enough...
> 
> Maybe for trains the air-drag is small compared to the other sources of 
> friction that are constant wrt speed.

Mmm, maybe.

>> Well no, the generator cuts in when the batteries get down to 80% or 
>> something, charge them back up to 100%, then stop. [Unless you run out 
>> of fuel. Don't do that! In ANY car...]
> 
> But if you're driving long-distance at high speed, there is no way the 
> generator could refill the batteries as you would be using the 
> electricity much faster than it could refill them!

Really? I thought electric motors were more efficient than internal 
combustion engines, and hence should use power more slowly...

>> Er, actually... when I spoke to the nice lady at the recruitment 
>> agency, she said "three MONTHS?! Jesus Christ!... Why so long?"
> 
> She obviously doesn't have much experience with people in proper jobs 
> then - 3 months is quite common, as it would take that long to find a 
> replacement.

Hmm, that's not a good sign... heh.

>> I don't like being the support guy. Almost all problems that occur are 
>> beyond my ability to fix, so everybody just hates me... Even when I 
>> fix it, everybody is still pissed that I didn't prevent it from 
>> happening in the first place. :-(
> 
> Why don't you try and learn some more (books, training courses) so that 
> you can start to fix some of the problems that are beyond you?  I'm sure 
> the IT directors of large companies (who are earning 6 or 7 figure 
> salaries) started off somewhere like you.

I doubt there's any book that can tell you how to make Word stop crashing...

[And I don't care how many figures you pay me, I don't *want* to be the 
director of anything! Far too much pressure...]

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