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Welcome to the Wonderful World of Microsoft Product Testing.
The rules are simple:
1) Ignore existing bug reports - added features are much more profitable. It costs money to fix bugs!
2) Ignore beta tester comments - they didn't pay for the product, so what do they know?
3) All release categories are at least one step to the left of those in the rest of the world.
MS Name Real world name
Beta It compiles!
RC Alpha
RTM Beta
SP1 RTM
It's been this way since the DOS days, and they never listen.
I sometimes think their QA department consists of two copies of ELIZA and a tree sloth...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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[Re MS QA department]
What does the tree sloth do?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Hits "Reset" when ELIZA crashes.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Joe Woodbury wrote: How did this product ever get released? It got released so that some people could test for any remaining bugs and feed this back to Microsoft so that the wise ones who wait six months get a product with very few bugs.
I just upgraded to 2013 a few days back and it's a great product now that the bugs have been ironed out.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Don'T you dare frighten me guy, just wanted to download the VS 2015 to check how it is, now im not sure what to do... instructions unclear
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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Download and install side-by-side with your current VS installation.
No biggie.
I've been playing with VS2015 fro a few days (C++/MFC) and found no real issues other than the compiler being a lot better and generating a lot more warning.
We cannot use it for production yet, because our 3rd party libraries do not yet support VS2015; and their headers barfs our warning with the new compiler.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Just try to program in Delphi XE8 for a few hours. You'll go running and screaming back to VS2015 before you're even able to get your project to compile.
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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.. are holidays holy days?
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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You should try searches on the etymology of words: etymology holiday[^]
Cheers!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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I'm too lazy for that sorry. But anyway thank you for that
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Clicked it once again and recognized it is not that much. Pretty cool link, thanks.
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Some, but not all. July 4th is a holiday for just about everyone in the States, but not a holy day (unless worshipping wieners and fireworks counts). Christmas - on the other hand - is considered pretty holy.
TTFN - Kent
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Thank you Sir Kent Sharkey. Or is it Mr. ... English is hard for me
Thanks
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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You're very welcome. Mr. is fine - Sir is usually reserved for very formal occasions (or when someone has been knighted).
Or as the old saying goes, "Call me whatever you want, just don't call me late for dinner."
TTFN - Kent
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Gobball ?
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Tangential skid past Leslie there, dude.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Why my soapbox message is deleted "immediately"? It was only a link to deep purple....
Not a big issue, simply not clear.
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Sorry, I don't have any idea. I'd think links to Deep Purple would go over well here.
TTFN - Kent
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No problem, this time not. But I have them still in my earphones. Yeah
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Possibly got caught by the spam filter and some eager beaver kicked it into touch.
Re your question about titles, a Swiss friend explained it to me many years ago:
"My name is Johann Schmidt, my friends call me Johann, you may call me Herr Schmidt."
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Non native to where, Earth?
If so, welcome to the planet, how're you finding it so far?
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Any day off work is holy to me
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They would match exactly only if you use the string concatenation operator.
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A coworker sent me this[^] about 20 minutes ago. So far I'm at 28/40 (14 title/artist pairs). A lot of them are rather obvious, but I'm stuck on a few.
EDIT: I'm up to 17 (34/40) now.
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
modified 23-Jul-15 13:45pm.
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