How would that work if air pressure is the only thing that can push them anywhere in such updraft? Either moving air will not be dense enough to push birds upward, or there will be enough pressure for them to breathe.
once every 2-3 months I see some bug I fixed come back, and I can only assume it's because we don't have a formal test suite
No, it's because you didn't fix it. "Bug" is usually described as a set of symptoms. A very simple test can determine if the changes you made altered the behavior of a program that was recognized as a bug, however it's your responsibility to have understanding of a product that allows you to recognize and fix problems. Tests merely help to determine if some known aspect of product's behavior is unaltered (if tests could find bugs, products would never be released with them).
The owner doesn't want to invest time or money in getting one set up, but I'm sure that in the long run it would save time and money.
You are on a fixed salary, you idiot! No one spends money or saves money depending on what you do -- it all depends on what product does (and how poorly) because it affects sales. Unless you are asking them to buy some software (what would be a wrong approach), there is nothing he is supposed to do -- it's your job to implement everything you need to do your job properly.
MSR work goes into a *lot* of Microsoft products. Everything from little improvements to crypto techniques (which are still often huge news in the relevant community), to significant features like grammar checking,
lol problems solved decades ago.
to full-fledged products (Surface is the best-known at present,
Surface is not a product, it's a marketing demo -- no one who was not paid by Microsoft ever bought it.
for example MSR also delevoped the game Allegiance which was somewhat before its time but open-sourced when it wasn't a commercial success).
So they tried to pretend that it is a product, and still failed.
Also, if MS is "only interested in product crap" then why does so much of MSR's work end up in use? Why do they release cool new stuff like Kinect?
Kinect is exactly a kind of "cool technology" that sounds cool in descriptions but consists of primitive hacks, and provides functionality that no one actually wants or needs.
If MS is "maintaining a monopoly at any cost" then why do they support projects like Mono or develop ways to run Linux better inside their hypervisor?
This is what they do to maintain monopoly -- stuff their inferior products into places where no one wants them, and push that as some kind of progress until competition is destroyed.
There is absolutely no excuse for existence of Mono in the face of Qt. There is no point of running a superior OS in VM that requires an inferior one. All those things exist to make people buy into Microsoft way of doing things.
Why would they bother with things like Bing, when they don't have anywhere near a monopoly on search?
Because they believe, they can obtain monopoly on advertising before their monopoly on consumer OS will be destroyed. And because Ballmer is delusional.
Not to mention the share holders would tear them to pieces for such an insane waste of money.
Why? This is Microsoft's core business -- maintaining a monopoly at any cost.
MS research has produced a LOT of highly regarded research in many fields ranging from robotics to graphics, many of which do find there way into products eventually.
That's my whole point, you dumbass! They will rather work on turning chalk into cheese than on anything Microsoft can use, because Microsoft is only interested in producing crap.
Microsoft keeps a "research team" for the sole purpose of paying people to not work for Microsoft's enemies (what at this point is pretty much everyone else). Microsoft's own interests are so far at odds with any kind of progress in technology, they can't give those "researchers" any projects that Microsoft itself can use in its own products, and this is the fact that I am going to bring to attention every time Microsoft Research is mentioned here.
Who cares about quality? The first result from that expensive human zoo called Microsoft Research is going to end up in a Microsoft product! That's the real news here.
The big deal is strong democratic bias in the geek community, who equate "liberalism" with "freedom" and "freedom" with.. well, just about everything most Slashdot submitters stand for;
I literally hate freedom. Why would I want anything that my enemies can use better against me than I can use for any purpose at all?
In what possible way are "conservatives" (used in the same way you use "liberals") any different? When are conservatives super open-minded and willing to believe liberal sources, etc, etc?
They are Social Conservatives. The guys that want to bring feudalism back, as that was last time when they were "conserving" their favorite social order.
The whole point is that people won't go to the ER for non-emergencies, they will go to a normal doctor for a normal non-emergency visit. THAT COSTS LESS.
Now please tell me, why did you jump into discussion about things, you know abolutely nothing about? What did you do significant in your life other than opening your mouth and vomiting a piece of Social Conservative bullshit? How many years of your work would compensate the damage to society that you have caused by participating in their propaganda campaign?
Do you even produce anything positive that can compensate for this crap? Would it be easier if you just killed yourself so society won't have to spend resources and effort on you, a person whose greatest accomplishment so far was regurgitating lies as a part of the most foul Conservative scheme in the history of US? That, of course, counting their resistance and sabotage of each and every government healthcare program starting from Medicare and Medicaid as one unbroken chain of campaigns against public health, what should be a proper context for understanding their efforts.
Me and billions of other people do not believe that the rich are entitled to what they believe to be their "property". Nothing they, or you can do to convince us, and there are more of us.
And guess what? I get paid more than you, and produce more useful things than you can ever hope for. I just realize that things do not work like your Social Conservative fantasy world.
Fuck you, fuck your masters, and most of all fuck their ideologues who stuff pre-made thoughts into the brains of the worthless scum such as yourself.
Again, how is that relevant? I have claimed that there is no way to prove that Windows source code is clean and cross-platform that Microsoft fans believe it to be. The fact that someone had seen it under NDA and published something else, has no effect on this.
There are many thousands of industrial workers who would willingly forfeit their pointless, politics based office jobs managing Chinese imports; and return to the industry of actual manufacturing. But, the minimum wage will have to be decreased to match the actual skill set of a minimum wage employee [and not the fictitious cost to support a family of four].
If people do not get money sufficient to support themselves in a society where they live, they die. If they did not die, it means that they got those money from somewhere.
So unless you support mass executions of the poor, you have to face the fact that whatever they did not got from legitimate work (that likely produces something useful) they got from crime. If minimum wage is sufficient to support someone's life, that person may be dissatisfied but not desperate. Take this away, and he is desperate and knows that no legitimate activity can save him.
Guess how would your living conditions change if tens of millions of desperate people will have to literally hunt you so they will not die tomorrow?
Yes, I know you would like a pony, too. But, if the US does not delay too long, the US manufacturing base could be restored rather quickly by those of us previously disenfranchised and abused. But, you won't fool use twice.
No one is fooling anyone twice. It's enough to just wait for last generation of qualified workers ("you") to die off. The outsourcing became noticeable at the end of 80's, we are one generation away from it already.
I am talking about US, not the world. US has 5% of the world population and consumes 20% of energy, at large extent thanks to the above mentioning 100 miles drive to a nonproductive office job.
Because even if it was true (what is extremely unlikely), any confirmation of this would encourage idiots at Pentagon and similar places to write idiotic viruses and trojan horses that will end up doing nothing but creating massive epidemies among completely unrelated Windows computers.
So no it is.
Oh, and to Iranian nuclear engineers: keep all information about your facilities secret. What kind of kindergarten are you runnung there?
Wrong. There were no restrictions on publishing the research. Only the Windows source code was under NDA. MS was merely granted a license in the event the research was patented or otherwise restricted.
How does publishing of things other than source code affect the fact that they can't publish any of that source code?
Actually there's still a lot of good stuff that's made in the US. It's just the labor-intensive jobs - whatever tasks that can't be easily automated - that've been exported to Mexico, Central America, and China.
The only reason they "can't be easily automated" is because US companies can easier send them abroad forever rather than pay engineers once to develop technology for it. Currently all development of technology in US is limited to military, entertainment and occasionally stuffing Internet into office ("enterprise") automation.
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WTF are you talking about?
How would that work if air pressure is the only thing that can push them anywhere in such updraft? Either moving air will not be dense enough to push birds upward, or there will be enough pressure for them to breathe.
once every 2-3 months I see some bug I fixed come back, and I can only assume it's because we don't have a formal test suite
No, it's because you didn't fix it. "Bug" is usually described as a set of symptoms. A very simple test can determine if the changes you made altered the behavior of a program that was recognized as a bug, however it's your responsibility to have understanding of a product that allows you to recognize and fix problems. Tests merely help to determine if some known aspect of product's behavior is unaltered (if tests could find bugs, products would never be released with them).
The owner doesn't want to invest time or money in getting one set up, but I'm sure that in the long run it would save time and money.
You are on a fixed salary, you idiot! No one spends money or saves money depending on what you do -- it all depends on what product does (and how poorly) because it affects sales. Unless you are asking them to buy some software (what would be a wrong approach), there is nothing he is supposed to do -- it's your job to implement everything you need to do your job properly.
Wasn't it supposed to act as a demo of Microsoft no longer being the crappiest platform around?
How many "nines" did Microsoft promise with their supposed reliability?
MSR work goes into a *lot* of Microsoft products. Everything from little improvements to crypto techniques (which are still often huge news in the relevant community), to significant features like grammar checking,
lol problems solved decades ago.
to full-fledged products (Surface is the best-known at present,
Surface is not a product, it's a marketing demo -- no one who was not paid by Microsoft ever bought it.
for example MSR also delevoped the game Allegiance which was somewhat before its time but open-sourced when it wasn't a commercial success).
So they tried to pretend that it is a product, and still failed.
Also, if MS is "only interested in product crap" then why does so much of MSR's work end up in use? Why do they release cool new stuff like Kinect?
Kinect is exactly a kind of "cool technology" that sounds cool in descriptions but consists of primitive hacks, and provides functionality that no one actually wants or needs.
If MS is "maintaining a monopoly at any cost" then why do they support projects like Mono or develop ways to run Linux better inside their hypervisor?
This is what they do to maintain monopoly -- stuff their inferior products into places where no one wants them, and push that as some kind of progress until competition is destroyed.
There is absolutely no excuse for existence of Mono in the face of Qt. There is no point of running a superior OS in VM that requires an inferior one. All those things exist to make people buy into Microsoft way of doing things.
Why would they bother with things like Bing, when they don't have anywhere near a monopoly on search?
Because they believe, they can obtain monopoly on advertising before their monopoly on consumer OS will be destroyed. And because Ballmer is delusional.
Not to mention the share holders would tear them to pieces for such an insane waste of money.
Why? This is Microsoft's core business -- maintaining a monopoly at any cost.
MS research has produced a LOT of highly regarded research in many fields ranging from robotics to graphics, many of which do find there way into products eventually.
That's my whole point, you dumbass! They will rather work on turning chalk into cheese than on anything Microsoft can use, because Microsoft is only interested in producing crap.
People use Adobe Reader?
Microsoft keeps a "research team" for the sole purpose of paying people to not work for Microsoft's enemies (what at this point is pretty much everyone else). Microsoft's own interests are so far at odds with any kind of progress in technology, they can't give those "researchers" any projects that Microsoft itself can use in its own products, and this is the fact that I am going to bring to attention every time Microsoft Research is mentioned here.
Who cares about quality? The first result from that expensive human zoo called Microsoft Research is going to end up in a Microsoft product! That's the real news here.
Hint: the word I used is not "federalism".
Learn to read.
The big deal is strong democratic bias in the geek community, who equate "liberalism" with "freedom" and "freedom" with.. well, just about everything most Slashdot submitters stand for;
I literally hate freedom. Why would I want anything that my enemies can use better against me than I can use for any purpose at all?
In what possible way are "conservatives" (used in the same way you use "liberals") any different? When are conservatives super open-minded and willing to believe liberal sources, etc, etc?
They are Social Conservatives. The guys that want to bring feudalism back, as that was last time when they were "conserving" their favorite social order.
No, he recommends believing in his imaginary friend.
The whole point is that people won't go to the ER for non-emergencies, they will go to a normal doctor for a normal non-emergency visit. THAT COSTS LESS.
Now please tell me, why did you jump into discussion about things, you know abolutely nothing about? What did you do significant in your life other than opening your mouth and vomiting a piece of Social Conservative bullshit? How many years of your work would compensate the damage to society that you have caused by participating in their propaganda campaign?
Do you even produce anything positive that can compensate for this crap? Would it be easier if you just killed yourself so society won't have to spend resources and effort on you, a person whose greatest accomplishment so far was regurgitating lies as a part of the most foul Conservative scheme in the history of US? That, of course, counting their resistance and sabotage of each and every government healthcare program starting from Medicare and Medicaid as one unbroken chain of campaigns against public health, what should be a proper context for understanding their efforts.
Why? Because you say so?
Me and billions of other people do not believe that the rich are entitled to what they believe to be their "property". Nothing they, or you can do to convince us, and there are more of us.
And guess what? I get paid more than you, and produce more useful things than you can ever hope for. I just realize that things do not work like your Social Conservative fantasy world.
Fuck you, fuck your masters, and most of all fuck their ideologues who stuff pre-made thoughts into the brains of the worthless scum such as yourself.
If they are so isolated from you, why do you care enough about them to post that diatribe?
Again, how is that relevant? I have claimed that there is no way to prove that Windows source code is clean and cross-platform that Microsoft fans believe it to be. The fact that someone had seen it under NDA and published something else, has no effect on this.
There are many thousands of industrial workers who would willingly forfeit their pointless, politics based office jobs managing Chinese imports; and return to the industry of actual manufacturing. But, the minimum wage will have to be decreased to match the actual skill set of a minimum wage employee [and not the fictitious cost to support a family of four] .
If people do not get money sufficient to support themselves in a society where they live, they die. If they did not die, it means that they got those money from somewhere.
So unless you support mass executions of the poor, you have to face the fact that whatever they did not got from legitimate work (that likely produces something useful) they got from crime. If minimum wage is sufficient to support someone's life, that person may be dissatisfied but not desperate. Take this away, and he is desperate and knows that no legitimate activity can save him.
Guess how would your living conditions change if tens of millions of desperate people will have to literally hunt you so they will not die tomorrow?
Yes, I know you would like a pony, too. But, if the US does not delay too long, the US manufacturing base could be restored rather quickly by those of us previously disenfranchised and abused. But, you won't fool use twice.
No one is fooling anyone twice. It's enough to just wait for last generation of qualified workers ("you") to die off. The outsourcing became noticeable at the end of 80's, we are one generation away from it already.
I am talking about US, not the world. US has 5% of the world population and consumes 20% of energy, at large extent thanks to the above mentioning 100 miles drive to a nonproductive office job.
and probably some trolls?
Trolls are not fantasy, you have just responded to one.
The answer is no.
Because even if it was true (what is extremely unlikely), any confirmation of this would encourage idiots at Pentagon and similar places to write idiotic viruses and trojan horses that will end up doing nothing but creating massive epidemies among completely unrelated Windows computers.
So no it is.
Oh, and to Iranian nuclear engineers: keep all information about your facilities secret. What kind of kindergarten are you runnung there?
Wrong. There were no restrictions on publishing the research. Only the Windows source code was under NDA. MS was merely granted a license in the event the research was patented or otherwise restricted.
How does publishing of things other than source code affect the fact that they can't publish any of that source code?
Actually there's still a lot of good stuff that's made in the US. It's just the labor-intensive jobs - whatever tasks that can't be easily automated - that've been exported to Mexico, Central America, and China.
The only reason they "can't be easily automated" is because US companies can easier send them abroad forever rather than pay engineers once to develop technology for it. Currently all development of technology in US is limited to military, entertainment and occasionally stuffing Internet into office ("enterprise") automation.