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Yes, he is getting really good at this. This answer will keep me from entering QA for an at least a month 
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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There's a button that allows you to edit or improve the "solution".
I was so tempted to strike the whole "solution" out (like this), then comment "There, that's an improvement".
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Nice to see Ballmer (the OP) still engaging with the community, isn't it? 
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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In another moment ... previously, or, in the future ... this voice was, or will be, yours, or mine.
This is the voice that utters the wondrous exclamation: Ἐγὼ φωνὴ boōntos ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ ... I am the voice crying out [1] in the wilderness.
Too bad English doesn't have a more onomatopoeic word for "crying out" that compares with the Greek "boontos." Perhaps "wailing" comes close ... or even the slang "hollering" ? Well, no, slang just won't do for hagiography.
[1] variously translated as "shouting," "crying," "calling," "calling out," etc.
« I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief » Immanuel Kant
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I'd have gone with "lamenting".
Or "bitching", maybe?
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BillWoodruff wrote: Too bad English doesn't have a more onomatopoeic word for "crying out"
shriek is the best I could think of - although Roar would be close, without the proverbial Cuban.
I wonder why onomatopoeic doesn't sound like what it is?
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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_Maxxx_ wrote: I wonder why onomatopoeic doesn't sound like what it is?
It does -- haven't you ever heard an onomatopoeia from up close?
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_Maxxx_ wrote: onomatopoeic doesn't sound like what it is
And why is "monosyllabic" such a long word?
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And why is their only one monopolies commision?
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Too bad, _Maxxx_, that post has now been closed, and those immortal words lost to posterity.
Or, should I say: "posteriority" ?
« I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief » Immanuel Kant
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It's a sad thing to think that, even today with all of the quintillions of bytes of information freely available to so many millions of us, that something can still be lost, perhaps forever.
Although in some cases it is, perhaps, a blessing!
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Le'ssee, now...
You can influence metals with electromagnetic forces...
OK.
Big news, that.
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Has anyone told them Terminator was not a specification?
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We're going to need the T-1000s to fight the Planet of the Apes monkeys that some other scientists are breeding.
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I just read that Microsoft is shutting down R&D in a number of departments. The article commented about the short-sightedness of not doing R&D.
About 40 years ago, George Rotsky (at that time editor of the Electronic Engineering Times newspaper) published an editorial titled "Teaching the horse not to eat". I wish that I could find the text of that article, because it was a wonderful statement about the perils of cutting R&D.
In the article, he drew a parallel between cutting R&D and the farmer that taught his horse not to eat to cut down on expenses. Predictably the farmer's costs diminished up to the point when the unfortunate horse died. Such is the fate of companies that abandon R&D.
Perhaps Microsoft could learn something from this editorial.
Fletcher Glenn
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When all you look for is the bottom line you miss all the beautiful verse leading up to it!
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0 Beta
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
I'm not crazy, my reality is just different than yours!
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Is that yours? Can I steal it? +5
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As far as I know it's mine and you're welcome to it.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0 Beta
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
I'm not crazy, my reality is just different than yours!
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Not having read the article, I can't comment on Microsoft's reasoning. All I can think of is universities that fund research. Some of it truly has value; some of it is utter balderdash, but, because of tenure and policy, the crap is allowed to ferment further.
Since you said Microsoft is shutting down R&D in a number of departments, not all, that implies some of it was deemed worthy to proceed. Can you reference what was cut, what was left and why? I'd like to read the article myself.
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R&D for the sake of R&D is usually a waste of money. Like any large company, I'm sure Microsoft has several departments which have been unprofitable for years and show no signs of changing. Even if a department has some promising R&D, it may be best to move it elsewhere.
(My father was a research scientist for GE. I recall a few projects which were shut down when they determined that a technology was a dead end for various reasons. In at least one case, the technology was awesome, but no matter how they approached the manufacturing, they couldn't make it remotely cost effective.)
EDIT: The only articles I could find is of Microsoft following through on it's plans to reorganize and consolidate. As part of that, they shut down an R&D lab in San Jose. They still have eleven world wide. Why anyone keeps developers in San Jose is a mystery to me.
Also note that as of July 2014, Microsoft was spending $3.1 billion per quarter on R&D. Reducing that by even 10% isn't much. So beating your horse metaphor to death, it's like the farmer with 10 horses buying enough feed for 50 horses instead of 60.
modified 23-Sep-14 19:49pm.
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Well said, and very true.
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I found only this:
http://itnewscast.com/teaching-horse-not-eat[^]
"Cars are getting better at avoiding collisions"
That brings to mind that if you build cars that don't have collisions, you'll sell fewer and fewer cars. It's the opposite of the Shoe Event Horizon.
Maybe stopping R&D and sticking with the status quo is a good course of action? ![Badger | [badger,badger,badger,badger...]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/badger.gif)
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