If you let yourself forget, sure.

I've been using electric arcs to start gas grills for a long time now, but I still know how to use a match.

And why was that? Because WHQL certification costs money, and they knew they couldn't pass. So they give you a shitty bare-bones driver to be able to put the badge on the box, and if you want all the functionality, you have to run a shitty crashy driver that can't pass even the barest of quality tests.

Back in the day, it used to be said that if you are running a signed driver, you're running an old driver. That changed when Microsoft started making it harder to install unsigned drivers, and organizations built the infrastructure to do their own WHQL testing and just send the results + driver binary to Microsoft for signing. That's when it became a part of the release process, and all the drivers you start installing no longer give you the nastygrams about being unsigned and unverified.

Exactly. Why would I buy a shload of these when I can create ephemeral VMs for automated testing and such, and can define them to the specs I need with better performance for cheaper?

The second thing you do is bitch about crashes that wouldn't happen if you use drivers that pass even the mediocre quality standards represented by WHQL certification.

Bzzt! Wrong!

Not a USC grad. Never even stepped on their campus. But good job using your advanced degree from whatever institution you figure to be superior to USC to make bad incorrect assumptions and look foolish.

You know there's more than one distribution of Linux, yes?

You know that there's more than one window environment on Linux, yes?

If you don't like the roadmap that a particular distro has, find another one that you do like.

And a shitload cheaper.

Have you seen RAM and SSD prices recently?

$1.4m might get you a single rack these days.

Sounds like those 10,000 can be replaced by a crontab.

Why are they only laying off 5%?

I think you have that inverted. When the job market is shitty, that's when more people are looking for work. People that are serious about looking for work are more likely to spend on professional services that accelerate them finding their next job.

When I was briefly unemployed for a couple months, I subscribed to LinkedIn to get the useful bells and whistles for job searching. And when I accepted a position, I immediately cancelled the subscription.

Higher unemployment means better revenue for LinkedIn.

And yet they're still showing people the door.

Revenue != profit.

WHQL signing was a huge leap forward from the shitty old days of driver installation Russian roulette.

For some reason it's not doing as good a job as it used to though. Maybe they should look into why that is instead of bolting on a band-aid?

Instead of just having quality control on drivers that get applied by Windows Update, they've decided to tack on a bunch of bullshit to remediate shitty drivers being auto-installed by Windows Update.

And then they wonder why everyone hates Windows.

Why are you lumping USC in with a for-profit chain school and a court-proven scam / fraudulent business?

Seems rather unfair to an actually accredited university in many fields including medical sciences.

Sorry, I guess I'm still of the mind that grades are earned based on the number of things you answer correctly.

Why should my mastery be diminished because other people also answer correctly? Why should my grade be effected by other students in any way, when it's meant to mark personal achievement?

This is fucking stupid.

So If I get every answer right, and so does 20% of the class, someone's getting a B because of some ridiculous quota policy?

What the fuck is that supposed to be? Why does my demonstration of knowledge somehow get diminished by a bunch of other people showing the same mastery?

I mean, I'm no Harvard grad, but can one explain how that makes any sense at all?