Poor guy, he (Bill) acts like this is something kinda new. Sure, there is real evidence that he wrote this but it's still just so surprising that he would waste so much time. He says he does that sort of thing everyday? Geez, don't they have TESTERS? I just can't help thinking that if I were Bill (or any software CEO type for that matter) and I started having trouble with my company's download or product, I was just pawn it off to a real tester and say "hey, this is your job, please succinctly report the steps...". Also, Bill was wasting his time by reporting nothing more than the SYMPTOMS of major problems at Microsoft (and he must know that). Honestly, the whole thing smells like an email that would be written by a CEO at a small-to-midsize software company. Perhaps Bill had a deeper strategy that none of us really understand?
Yes, f2f (face to face) is obviously impractical but it would work well, I think.
What about good old fashioned consequences? You know, as in "consequences for your actions". It's what is missing from the justice system and it's what is missing from much of the parenting these days. I wonder if countries or universities that employ stiff penalties for plagiarism have as large of a problem as those that don't.
BTW, the article cited in the original post is well supplemented by, yet again, Wikipedia ==> www.wiki-surf.com/Contract_cheating
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You may be interested in some software that addresses your problem directly and specializes in virtual locking - it's at www.arcs.us
This has already existed in a very unbiased way - http://www.wiki-surf.com/ links wiki articles to youtube videos.
Poor guy, he (Bill) acts like this is something kinda new. Sure, there is real evidence that he wrote this but it's still just so surprising that he would waste so much time. He says he does that sort of thing everyday? Geez, don't they have TESTERS? I just can't help thinking that if I were Bill (or any software CEO type for that matter) and I started having trouble with my company's download or product, I was just pawn it off to a real tester and say "hey, this is your job, please succinctly report the steps...". Also, Bill was wasting his time by reporting nothing more than the SYMPTOMS of major problems at Microsoft (and he must know that). Honestly, the whole thing smells like an email that would be written by a CEO at a small-to-midsize software company. Perhaps Bill had a deeper strategy that none of us really understand?
Yes, f2f (face to face) is obviously impractical but it would work well, I think. What about good old fashioned consequences? You know, as in "consequences for your actions". It's what is missing from the justice system and it's what is missing from much of the parenting these days. I wonder if countries or universities that employ stiff penalties for plagiarism have as large of a problem as those that don't. BTW, the article cited in the original post is well supplemented by, yet again, Wikipedia ==> www.wiki-surf.com/Contract_cheating