"We must continue to add new features and functionality, or else no one is going to want our product."
This kind of mentality bothers me about MS. It shows beautifully the "Upgrade early, upgrade often" kind of mind-set that Microsoft loves. Instead of putting out a product that is known for stability and scalability, something that can last you ten years, they go for "bells and whistles" above all else. Sure, it makes them rich, and they are, after all, a profit-making business, but it still feels wrong...
Just great... The day that I finish writing HelloWorld.java version 1.07.3, I find 23 different licenses I can publish it under... How will I ever decide?
Perhaps if the professor didn't require 1500 words on topics that require less than a few hundred to explain, you would see a lot less of the copy-and-paste "filler" that is rife with opportunity for "cheating". The "busy-work" element of a set-word-limit paper does nothing except make it more difficult to grade. For this particular class, a nicely drawn diagram with arrows and lines is all that is really needed to expess a perfect understanding of these simple concepts (lift, drag, gravity, force, whatever).
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"We must continue to add new features and functionality, or else no one is going to want our product."
This kind of mentality bothers me about MS. It shows beautifully the "Upgrade early, upgrade often" kind of mind-set that Microsoft loves. Instead of putting out a product that is known for stability and scalability, something that can last you ten years, they go for "bells and whistles" above all else. Sure, it makes them rich, and they are, after all, a profit-making business, but it still feels wrong...
...says it all.
Exactly right... er. I mean. HEY!
Oh, come on, it isn't a troll, it is humor! :)
Just great... The day that I finish writing HelloWorld.java version 1.07.3, I find 23 different licenses I can publish it under... How will I ever decide?
Perhaps if the professor didn't require 1500 words on topics that require less than a few hundred to explain, you would see a lot less of the copy-and-paste "filler" that is rife with opportunity for "cheating". The "busy-work" element of a set-word-limit paper does nothing except make it more difficult to grade. For this particular class, a nicely drawn diagram with arrows and lines is all that is really needed to expess a perfect understanding of these simple concepts (lift, drag, gravity, force, whatever).
:)
Fight busy work!