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Hence "not all".
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Your first mistake was assuming Microsoft cared.
Your second mistake was assuming the person you were talking to actually knows anything besides "how to (fill in blank) for dummies".
Did he ask you to reboot? 
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Corporal Agarn wrote: Did he ask you to reboot?
I love that one... Imagine calling your doctor, telling him about chest pains (Or some other random thing), and getting the reply, "Have you tried turning it off and on?"
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I remember someone on here a few years ago saying they had been in hospital after their heart started beating ridiculously fast and they had to stop his heart and start it again to make it beat properly again. As he put it they effectively turned him off and on again.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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So the ol' three-finger salute works in medicine too! Excellent!
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Actually that is more common than you would think.
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Paul Hooper wrote: Serves me right for trying to help.
Serves you right for trying to help. 
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
I would agree with you but then we both would be wrong.
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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Shirley it's "unless otherwise noted, all dimensions are in 'impreial units'". (But you can't pay with imperial credits.)
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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That's one case where Twitter is actually useful:
Thanks for pointing that out.  Surface Pro 3's dimensions are 292.1mm x 201.4mm x 9.1mm
They still haven't fixed the original page, though.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Since dwarf-tossing was outlawed in Australia, they have all gone to work for Microsoft Au.
They have been given Windows Phones made to look like Surface Pros in order to help them feel height-enabled.
“I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot: They amount to 14.” Abd-Ar Rahman III, Caliph of Cordoba, circa 950CE.
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Now who says that natural selection doesn't work?
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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I say take the warning labels off everything and let nature take it's course!
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
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Either a Darwin Award[^] or Evolution in Action.
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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Waddayou think Griff: People stopped making stupid mistakes in the middle of 2011, or that there website ran out of available space? 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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I seem to remember that she stopped doing it for some reason - but I can't recall where I saw that.
Possibly the competition for morons got too large with YouTube, Twatter, and Farcebook... 
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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Definitely a Darwin Award.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I heard about that on the news. What a f*ckin retard. Someone should walked up and put a few more holes in him out of spite.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Exactly what I am thinking...
Really people, would you treat a plugged in power saw with this level of respect? No?
I get really careful around anything sharp and moving fast. A firearm is nothing more than a tool. Other than being an idiot, let's see what else he did wrong:
a) Pointed it at something he did not intend to shoot 
b) had his finger on the trigger
c) didn't even check to see if it was loaded
Darwin award indeed.
I killed some brain cells last night and finally caught SHARKNADO! It was so bad, my wife was laughing. The part that made me cringe was the sexy chick with the pump shotgun... waving it around, finger on the trigger, scanning past the other people. I know it's a movie and a silly one at that, but....
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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charlieg wrote: I killed some brain cells last night and finally caught SHARKNADO! It was so
bad, my wife was laughing. The part that made me cringe was the sexy chick with
the pump shotgun... waving it around, finger on the trigger, scanning past the
other people. I know it's a movie and a silly one at that, but....
I haven't seen the movie, but I think the chick as Tara Ried, an ex porn star. She should stick to blowjobs and anal fisting. 
Did you see the another crap-tastic "original" movie that was on scifi this weekend? Sharktopus vs Pteracuda - I'm surprised SciFi still as any viewers.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Okay, I guess I never would have known that . The best part is when the hero happens to be eaten by the shark that ate her. After this movie, I didn't have the stomach for the next one - Sharktopus vs. Pteracuda....
It's okay to have a couple of these shows, but when your material is so weak that this is a hit, that's a warning sign. Got to go club another developer here. Not allows to bring in devices that go bang bang, but they didn't say anything about a two by four.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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You're worrying about nothing. Even if JSOP did create a Farsebook account, he knows better than to point a gun at anything he doesn't want to destroy...
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: Even if JSOP did create a Farsebook account, he knows better than to point a gun
at anything he doesn't want to destroy...
But I want to destroy everything.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Also from the BBC[^]
So, do you get lumped with all the extra work, are you avoiding work, are you just doing your job and doing it well.
I must admit that I apparently intimidate people, and find it an excellent way of avoiding extra work as the article says.
But I find the best way to free up time whilst at the office is just to be very, very good at your job. If you can do everything quicker than everyone else and then don't shout about it no-one will give you extra work because they don't realise that you are free, and no-one gets worried by your lack of productivity because it is just as high as everyone else.
Indeed I would say that those struggling under more work look less efficient and less competent than those successfully completing less.
And as the article says, there is rarely any increased reward for an increased workload.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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I always found that if you are good at what you do and don't complain you get piled with more and more work because they know you are good and won't complain. I didn't get mad but when I felt I was getting overloaded I just told them to give it to someone else or prioritize the work they had given me. Simple!
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
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