Sir, your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

I don't know of a single ABS system that is engaged by monitoring brake fluid. They all are driven by the ABS ring (a sprocket) on the rotor, unit bearing or hub bearing, at the wheels. if low brake fluid is screwing with your ABS unit you have a much bigger problem than low fluid level.

Defensive, much? Maybe something like tradeable sports cards, a lathe and furnace for smelting, screen printing tools, golf clubs? The list of cool stuff a kid could get geeked on is endless, but I enjoyed how you went straight to possibilities that carry to some serious negative connotations. For the record, I see nothing wrong with bringing a gun home if you show the children to respect it. I would encourage this practice, actually.

got a link to back this stat up?

Let's string him up!

What's really sad is even with a Depression no one cares enough to do that.

I worked at MS for over a year and it was just painful. I watched amazingly talented people get ignored and shut down while complete idiots kept getting to ship stupid products riddled with bugs. Test teams would cry 'show stopper' because a p1 bug wasn't fixed but a PM would ignore this serious flaw and make their ship date (or 2nd ship date).

I'm not trying to speak maliciously; I have nothing against the people I worked with. They're nice, intelligent people but they are not high quality coders or testers, or PMs. That is why you get such god awful products being released.

Just look @ the new version of Messenger - they do a lazy fetch for contact pictures even right after installing it. Who in their right mind would ship such an obvious flaw if the fix takes 10 minutes?

Great excuse to get rid of dead weight but it will be damn tough to carve them out.

Fixed that for you. Remember, using American longshoreman to unload.

As an American let me say - please, go berzerk on your neighbors! We could use the opportunity to improve our global image doing what we do best - freeing the shit out of people!

Wow, that took even less time than it did for us Americans!

It's generally a good idea to spell check something before you copy and paste it.

I agree! Shoot the poor!

1/3 of the that company is a lethargic, inept test department. If you can actually do testing well they push you to be a dev. Test managers get no respect and find the ladder doesn't reach as high as a dev or pm's ladder. It frustrated me to no end to work with the testers there. Having to explain what my code does everytime I submit a patch, explaining something in a meeting and then two more times in person, the ridiculous amount of redundant emails that you have to forward to the same people over, and over...ugh. Until MS fixes it's test department (part of this will be getting devs and pms to respect test) your question will ring loudly to me and many other ex-employees, as well as those who remained.

I so very wish I had mod points. Good catch, I feel less the patriot for not having noticed myself.