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Dave Kreskowiak wrote: Probably because Microsoft fired nearly the entire QA team a couple years ago and tore down the testing environment.
Wow, I didn't know that. But, it makes sense in relation to all the challenges they are having now.
Dave Kreskowiak wrote: It relies almost exclusively on telemetry for feedback on the impacts of various hardware on the code.
This is very interesting too, because I remember when the telemetry stuff just started taking over and doing a lot of i/o. It may be related to what we're seeing my other recent post (SSD wear level and read/writes)[^] -- related to a lot of reads/writes going on.
Very interesting. Thanks for chiming in on this.
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M$?
Grow up.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I got an email from BitsDuJour, including AOMEI Backupper Pro for free.
I'm on my Surface, so I quickly checked if I had it installed - yes, but ... the freeware version.
Odd, I thought - I'll check the desktop. Boot it up, and yes, it's the full version.
"Great!" I think to myself. "I'll update to Pro". Off I go.
Hang on a mo though ... check my Password store ... and yes, I have a fully-paid-for-including-unlimited -updates two PC license for the full version already. I just forgot to install the licence on the Surface
Am I the only person who forgets what software he's already paid for?
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I don't pay for software.
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I take it the company pays for you?
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Not to worry. As long as you don't forget that you have a wife that you've already paid for, your double spending will be epsilon by comparison.
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Thanks for posting that! It made me go and check my license, and it is the same as yours. A couple of weeks ago I had installed the free version on my entertainment laptop - a 19" screen multi-media thingy, my previous main machine - as I have started to digitize some of my vinyl collection and so needed to do proper backups, and also wanted a clone of C: in case a planned upgrade to Win 10 went pear-shaped. Now I shall install it on that machine as well.
I used to just use that machine just for streaming video to a TV so left it on a Win 7 Home Premium clean install, but when it became more central to my music listening I decided to check out upgrading to Win 10. When this was my main machine I had used MSDN to upgrade to 7 Pro, so when MS ran the Win 10 free upgrade program I got Win 10 Pro. When I replaced the laptop with a new machine, I just did a clean install of Win 7 Home from the original CDs, and left it at that. When I went to see if I could still get a free upgrade to Win 10 Home two weeks ago, not only did I get that - I also got 10 Pro back again, not by choice, but by default!
I was going to post here about it, but decided to keep a low profile in case it should suddenly revert, but it hasn't so far, so I thought I would just tack the story onto the end of this reply. I first got the tip from the 'How to geek' website. Obviously MS kept the data relating to my original upgrade, and tied it back to this machine.
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Other than my steam library and visual studio (also windows if you count it when it ships with a PC) I don't really pay for software. The software I do pay for is usually big ticket ($500 USD or thereabouts) like Visual Studio so I'm not likely to forget.
But I just don't find the need to purchase a lot of little software things. Most of what I need to do can be done with free software or a little bit of code or even a script. The last thing that wasn't a game, and wasn't visual studio or windows, that i purchased was a $10 MP4/TMDB tagging tool i can't remember the name of though - because i don't use it anymore and it has been years.
Real programmers use butterflies
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... Everybody makes mistakes[^] ...
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Don't get it. You have ordered some stuff that is in the containers?
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... A Venn diagram[^]
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The canal is the root of the problem!
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You've got a nerve!
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Here's one. What others don't you remember hearing? (A trick question for a Saturday night.)
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It seems to be about "Love bubbles", in the states the song might be different:
Quote: What do you get when you fall in love?
A guy with a pin to burst your bubble
That's what you get for all your trouble
I'll never fall in love again
I'll never fall in love again
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I remember hearing it. Very beautiful song!
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That's a trick question alright.
Here's another one: a song you remember hearing but haven't heard.
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I give up - any clues?
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I actually had something in mind but didn't think anyone would be interested in it as a riddle.
A hint is that an American wrote it in 1952.
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Well, song might be misleading, though it could be argued the term is as appropriate as any.
It ain't on that page.
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I never did tell you what song I was thinking of when I made that comment. Then again, you didn't ask. But now I'm reminded to, because OG mentioned it in a post [^] today!
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