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Tom's Guide: Microsoft's botched Windows updates have become a running joke without a punchline, and every update creates a series of new problems for Windows 10 users. I suppose he has come to CP and seen the comments here and in the lounge...
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The 66% raise that Satya just got would have been much better used re-hiring the testing team and rebuilding the physical machine lab they had.
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I don't care about the actual cost or using what you appear to be implying, "every dime of his raise", for just this purpose. I know he got a crap-ton of money/stock.
I was just saying that this department is sorely missed and desperately needed. My evidence for such is the rise in severely botched updates and feature roll-outs over the last few years. Relying on virtual machines and user testing (i.e.: Insiders) may be giving their bottom line a boost and make shareholders happy, but it's also giving them a black eye in the user community.
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Dave Kreskowiak wrote: I know he got a crap-ton of money/stock. That would mean he got a bonus... not a raise.
Dave Kreskowiak wrote: Relying on virtual machines and user testing (i.e.: Insiders) may be giving their bottom line a boost and make shareholders happy, but it's also giving them a black eye in the user community. Totally agree with you. And when they at the end realize it, might be a bit too late
Their biggest luck is that the alternatives are much more complicated for the average Joe than their less-qualitative-than-before-and-giving-surprise-problems version of Windows
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California Governor Gavin Newsom just signed a new bill into law letting drivers who run over animals with their vehicles keep the meat — as long as they use a new app to log the crash. Windows Phone already registered as roadkill, so I guess they won't be porting it
OK, not strictly "Science and Technology", but they do mention an app...
Also: because California
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Cannibal who runs over a human can now rejoice !
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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As long as they remember to tag it!
TTFN - Kent
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I think they should game-ify it. 10 points for a squirrel, 30 for a raccoon, 100 for a bear, 200 for a salmon etc. with people being allowed to trade points for driving and/or cookery lessons.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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5G will enable a number of use cases, such as IoT communications, but in order to reap the benefits, developers will need to learn to develop for 5G. "Well, it's one louder, isn't it?"
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Gartner revealed its top 10 strategic technology trends for the next year at its IT Symposium/Xpo 2019 conference in Orlando. Your guess is as good as theirs
But they make more money off of theirs
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Your guess is as good as theirs And both are probably wrong
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People-centric is the basic theme for 2020 then
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So after blockchain last year, they're now aiming for "practical" blockchain.
Because, despite the hype, it's still not very practical
Stop trying to make blockchain happen. It's not going to happen.
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staff received emails indicating there will soon be layoffs at the company; according to another report from the Wall Street Journal, sources say that thousands of people are slated to lose jobs but that the decision had been delayed because WeWork has only “weeks” of money left and can’t afford to pay severance.
I think the last time I saw a fail trajectory this steep was during the dot-bomb nearly 20 years ago. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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That money should be used to pay all the other things. But sadly it won't...
Many bad examples of these managers getting boni while the company is having problems and the workers are paying the consequences
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Does that mean that in the US legal system the company may **** their workers by not laying them off and keeping them "employed" instead, without being able to pay them?
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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Probably not.
But the workers will have to sue the company for wages, arrears, etc. The company will in the meantime go bankrupt, and they will probably get pennies on the dollar, after the taxmen (and possibly the banksters) have gotten their bites off the top.
There should be a 10th circle of Hell for managers who do this.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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As C++11 did it, C++20 will change the way we program modern C++. C++++
One could almost re-arrange all those '+' characters into something else...
Ah, sure enough - Anders did say it publicly[^]:
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Kent Sharkey wrote: C++++
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Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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Extra marks for artistry!
TTFN - Kent
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Face Unlock bug lets someone unlock you're Pixel 4 phone while you're asleep or out cold. That is how most people get their photo taken, isn't it?
Or is that just me?
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And they still wonder, why I still prefer to use passwords
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In a recent interview Bjarne Stroustrup advocates learning C++, the language he started to create while a PhD student in 1979. It might just be going somewhere
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