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We get nice weather tomorrow, below freezing over the weekend, then snow starting Monday. I am so thrilled. 
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I feel for ya bud, I've lived in the north and know how bad winters can be...never never never again!
Along with Antimatter and Dark Matter they've discovered the existence of Doesn't Matter which appears to have no effect on the universe whatsoever!
Rich Tennant 5th Wave
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Hooray for Spring! I also live in the SE US, a little farther south than you. It's amazing just how fast the colors change from brown to green. I'm actually looking forward to cutting the grass this weekend!
As an aside, my wife and I will be making a trip out to ABQ this summer. (her mother lives there) We are renting a car and going up to Durango, CO. Have a safe trip! 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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I love CO it's a beautiful state.
kmoorevs wrote: Have a safe trip!
Thanks I will and y'all have a safe trip also that's a long haul.
Along with Antimatter and Dark Matter they've discovered the existence of Doesn't Matter which appears to have no effect on the universe whatsoever!
Rich Tennant 5th Wave
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For the rest of the world, SC?
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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SC = South Carolina
Along with Antimatter and Dark Matter they've discovered the existence of Doesn't Matter which appears to have no effect on the universe whatsoever!
Rich Tennant 5th Wave
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Happy Equinox, Mike!
It was 97°F here Monday, but down to 87 today... Brrrr. I'm ready for Spring, by golly! 
Will Rogers never met me.
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Roger Wright wrote: but down to 87 today... Brrrr. I'm ready for Spring, by golly!
That arctic front moving through, be sure to wear your scarf. 
Along with Antimatter and Dark Matter they've discovered the existence of Doesn't Matter which appears to have no effect on the universe whatsoever!
Rich Tennant 5th Wave
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I thought the equinox was the 21st? That's certainly the traditional 'first day of spring', at any rate.
We've had something approaching spring weather here in England for about a week. Hopefully it sticks around. We didn't really get a proper winter this year, and the endless weeks of 2-5C and rain-bearing depressions every 3 days has been pretty grim, so I'm happy to see the back of it.
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BobJanova wrote: We've had something approaching spring weather here in England for about a week.
That was your usual week of summer. 
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
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JimmyRopes
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Solargraphy Analemmas[^]
This picture uses a technique called solargraphy. It is a rather old method using a pinhole camera and slow reacting photographic paper: this allows the photographer to record the motion of the sun. This particular image was made by taking three one-minute exposures every day for a year, resulting in an analemma[^] at mid-morning, noon and mid-afternoon.
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Nice APOD, thanks.
It lifted my spirits this day.
(Maybe I should go lift some, myself, later today.)
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I opened up my SQL Server Management Studio 2008 and the "Help Make SQL Server Better..." message popped up. It got me thinking. Does feedback from this actually improve later versions?
Then I got thinking do any programmers out there employ something similar in their software? Do you find the information obtained helpful? If so, would you encourage other developers to employ it in their programs? Does it depend upon the software?
Was curious to see what everyone's thoughts are.
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I have never noticed anything I say to Microsoft actually having any effect on a product, including bug reports on DOS versions in Beta Testing. 
Hence: I don't bother anymore...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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That was my thought. I also don't bother selecting to "Help" give them feedback.
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I've submitted a couple of issues on Connect related to Visual Studio bugs. One was closed immediately and marked "not an issue", and the other was deleted with no comment.
F*** you very much, Microsoft.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Well, MS did take some of my Beta Testing reports to heart and fixed those problems. but just in the next version of the product, not a fix for the current version, at the same time, it introduced several other problems in the new version of the product. The specific product is a little used module called MASM! Go figure!
Dave.
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Well, that's how Windows 8 UX came to the scene. Power users never care to submit feedback and telemetry and as a result MS starts to think that things like omnibox search are not used by end users 
Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies. T.Jefferson
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I've had a bug report I sent to MS acknowledged and fixed in the cl.exe C compiler - but this was back in the 90's
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I assume this is similar to how they collect exception information in WP8 and W8 apps, and yes, I have found both to be very useful. I was able to diagnose and fix an unreported exception that was crashing my WP8 app about 1% of the time based solely on the information collected. I didn't get my first bug report from a user until the update was already in the store awaiting approval
On the down side, I think this is also how they determine what features are actually used by the masses, and they use that information to justify changes to the UI.
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That's at least good to know that you found some use from that information.
I think your right that they do use it for Win8 apps and such. But it seems to me that it does not seem like it is crucial information for them. Do you get what I mean?
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Many years ago, I found a for loop bug in VB, and worked with Microsoft to recreate it, they eventually fixed it... The only one.
As for collecting this data. Yes, we have done it in the past. We were tracking feature usage patterns, and determining hot-key vs. tool-bar vs. Menu invocations.
The funny part is that the results were just so predictable. Complex features were rarely used by any method. While things like Copy were most often accessed via keyboard shortcuts. In the end we proved that nobody read the "What's New" documents when releases were published, but were willing to look apparently when they got bored or felt the program had not been updated in a while. LOL.
I do not submit this information.
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