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The annual awards for quirky scientific research were given out this week, and as usual, they blended the bizarre, humorous, and unexpectedly insightful. Go ahead and lick a fossil (for science!), but please don't do that to the corpse nose hairs
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Kent Sharkey wrote: The annual awards for quirky scientific research were given out this week, and as usual, they blended the bizarre, humorous, and unexpectedly insightful.
Is money waste not a cathegory? 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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It’s always The category 
TTFN - Kent
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One of the ideas behind Ig Nobel is to make you think: "Well, it may seen like a money waste at first glance, but then again: Maybe there is something to it."
Also, lots of the prize winners through the years really spent Ig-norable money resources on their research. They made some observations during other, 'serious' research, and spent an afternoon writing down their observations as a 'paper'. Professionals have done similar things for ages. We used to have 'Journal of Irreproducible Research' (did Ig Nobel grow out of JIR? I suspect so.) Or you can look at the RFCs published at April 1st for many years. Look at the 'esoteric' programming languages. You've got lots of stuff like that in the professional world.
Some of us think that lots of it is good use of money. We need a little laugh every now and then.
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Microsoft stopped supporting Edge on Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 in January 2023, which means Edge 109 was the final browser update available for those operating systems. What part of 'unsupported' did they not get?
Although I guess they could use this as proof that Edge "isn't part of the OS"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: they could use this as proof that Edge "isn't part of the OS"
Until the update...
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Effective January 1, 2024, we will introduce a new Unity Runtime Fee that’s based on game installs. We will also add cloud-based asset storage, Unity DevOps tools, and AI at runtime at no extra cost to Unity subscription plans this November.
The free ride is over ...
Graeme
"I fear not the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks one time, but I fear the man that has practiced one kick ten thousand times!" - Bruce Lee
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In a completely unrelated move, Unity board members sold stock beforehand. Completely unrelated. Not related at all. No sirree, as unrelated as unrelated could be.
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Never![^]
Graeme
"I fear not the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks one time, but I fear the man that has practiced one kick ten thousand times!" - Bruce Lee
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This release brings additional tools to help you improve your productivity, debug your code, as well as some additional C++ and Game Dev enhancements. Another little peek
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I wonder what they'll break with this one. I am going to refrain from being an early adopter.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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When they label it "Preview", noone should expect it to be 100% stable with everything working perfectly.
If you expect anything like that, you most certainly should not even think of being an early adopter. Go for Long Term Support versions.
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Quote: When they label it "Preview" "Release", noone should expect it to be 100% stable with everything working perfectly.
There, FTFY.
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Except that in this case, your fix is contrafactual.
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Oh, no. As someone who has been dealing with Microsoft products since way back in the MS-DOS 2.0 days, I can assure you it's not.
If MS didn't make everything a pain in the ass to setup, use, and broken, we wouldn't have jobs and lifetime prescriptions for anxiety medications.
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So you completely reject the concept of "In this case".
OK, that's fine with me. I'll try to keep in mind in reading future posts from you that we cannot expect you to have an understanding of basic concept such as "In this case" that corresponds to the (otherwise) commonly understood understanding.
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And you're going down as someone who can't take a joke.
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There's a difference between a joke and spitting at someone.
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Where did I "spit at you"? At no time did I attack you at all.
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Not at me, but at Visual Studio and MS.
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You can't be serious. Wow.
Now I'm going to be serious. Since Microsoft completely shutdown their testing department their quality of releases, especially Windows patches, has fallen, precipitously.
They are now using their "Insider" program and corporate customers as the "test it in production" guinea pigs, moving the cost of finding these bugs from MS itself to their customers. When patches go bad, and there's at least one almost every month(!), be it in Windows, Office, Visual Studio, or some other product, that puts a lot of cost in time and money tracing down these problems on their customers. Some patches have been so bad, there are either no fixes for them for months or they end up pulling back the "fixed" patch, over and over again. I think there was one patch that was pulled back and reworked FOUR TIMES over 6 months before they finally got it right.
Microsoft current idea of internal testing is for the developers of the patches to superficially "dog food test" them on their own machines. Hardly and extensive testing environment.
Go to your leadership and suggest to them to use a product that's barely tested when it goes out the door, can cost your company more money in increased support costs, and lost productivity and revenue because of downtime and workarounds.
Like I said, if it wasn't for Microsoft skipping testing and screwing sh*t up all the time, we wouldn't have jobs and anxiety.
Get a grip man.
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As another point of reference, this native English speaker/user didn't see any 'spitting.' I don't remember where you are located, but maybe it is a translation error that came across wrong? To me, it was just a humorous jab with no malice intended.
Best wishes!
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Insisting on throwing sh*t on a manufacturer and his products without any reason, insisting on twisting conditions around just to be able to throw that sh*t, with no arguments or justification other that "It is just bad", that is equivalent to spitting at someone.
If you have no arguments but throwing sh*t, you have nothing to say. So say nothing.
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I'm sorry you are so upset about things in your life that you react this way. I hope you feel better soon. Make love, walk a beach, something...
Best wishes.
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Programming language that only consists of bird emojis What the {Cluck}?
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