Great Gift in return for my beta testing
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I did some beta testing for Visual studio and today I got an email with a link from where I can download Visual Studio Express 2010 for free. In the past, I was given some small items such as paper weight, glass balls, or t-shirts. This is the first time I got the actual software I helped to test. Gestures like these are what make you continue to help companies test their beta products.
modified on Sunday, June 13, 2010 12:00 PM
Oh no you didn't!
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” Why do programmers often confuse Halloween and Christmas? - Because 31 Oct = 25 Dec. Business Myths of the Geek #4 'What you think matters.'
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AFAIK, express editions are free. Still, when you "volunteer" for some testing you are not entitled for something in return.
Dude, way to miss the joke! :-D
Regards, Nish
Blog: blog.voidnish.com Most recent article: An MVVM friendly approach to adding system menu entries in a WPF application
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Isn't Express free anyway? The 2008 express was.
The OP's joking, the user-id itself is purely used for humorous takes on Lounge issues :-D
Regards, Nish
Blog: blog.voidnish.com Most recent article: An MVVM friendly approach to adding system menu entries in a WPF application
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Oh no you didn't!
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” Why do programmers often confuse Halloween and Christmas? - Because 31 Oct = 25 Dec. Business Myths of the Geek #4 'What you think matters.'
Not really a troll, though that could be one interpretation. See the user-id's message history.
Regards, Nish
Blog: blog.voidnish.com Most recent article: An MVVM friendly approach to adding system menu entries in a WPF application
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Dude, way to miss the joke! :-D
Regards, Nish
Blog: blog.voidnish.com Most recent article: An MVVM friendly approach to adding system menu entries in a WPF application
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Even without the icon, the user's posting history, and his reference to the recent rants we've seen from beta testers expecting licenses as gifts should have been a dead giveaway. The nicotine withdrawals are probably slowing you down :rolleyes:
Regards, Nish
Blog: blog.voidnish.com Most recent article: An MVVM friendly approach to adding system menu entries in a WPF application
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Even without the icon, the user's posting history, and his reference to the recent rants we've seen from beta testers expecting licenses as gifts should have been a dead giveaway. The nicotine withdrawals are probably slowing you down :rolleyes:
Regards, Nish
Blog: blog.voidnish.com Most recent article: An MVVM friendly approach to adding system menu entries in a WPF application
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
The nicotine withdrawals are probably slowing you down
You are one cruel gentleman.
d@nish wrote:
You are one cruel gentleman.
Sorry - couldn't resist! :-D
Regards, Nish
Blog: blog.voidnish.com Most recent article: An MVVM friendly approach to adding system menu entries in a WPF application
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Not really a troll, though that could be one interpretation. See the user-id's message history.
Regards, Nish
Blog: blog.voidnish.com Most recent article: An MVVM friendly approach to adding system menu entries in a WPF application
Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
See the user-id's message history.
I did before posting. I vaguely remembered his post about concert tickets, taking the p*ss out of CG and as this thread is obviously doing the same on Joe Woodbury's message earlier today here[^], I checked first to make sure it was the same guy. Unlike you young whizz-kids, I only know a few of the appropriate terms and Troll was as near as I could get to describing this kind of activity. Do you have a better term?
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” Why do programmers often confuse Halloween and Christmas? - Because 31 Oct = 25 Dec. Business Myths of the Geek #4 'What you think matters.'
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
See the user-id's message history.
I did before posting. I vaguely remembered his post about concert tickets, taking the p*ss out of CG and as this thread is obviously doing the same on Joe Woodbury's message earlier today here[^], I checked first to make sure it was the same guy. Unlike you young whizz-kids, I only know a few of the appropriate terms and Troll was as near as I could get to describing this kind of activity. Do you have a better term?
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” Why do programmers often confuse Halloween and Christmas? - Because 31 Oct = 25 Dec. Business Myths of the Geek #4 'What you think matters.'
Henry Minute wrote:
Do you have a better term?
Henry, what I am getting at is that the guy's probably a regular CPian, who's quite likely to be really friendly with a good number of active CPians :-) It's not trolling if he's family. That's my perspective anyway.
Regards, Nish
Blog: blog.voidnish.com Most recent article: An MVVM friendly approach to adding system menu entries in a WPF application
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Henry Minute wrote:
Do you have a better term?
Henry, what I am getting at is that the guy's probably a regular CPian, who's quite likely to be really friendly with a good number of active CPians :-) It's not trolling if he's family. That's my perspective anyway.
Regards, Nish
Blog: blog.voidnish.com Most recent article: An MVVM friendly approach to adding system menu entries in a WPF application
I was going to post before d@nish et al fell for the line but was unsure about the 'Troll' thing. When they fell for it I thought I would warn others. I was quite serious about not knowing a better term, maybe [wind-up alert] would have been better, unless you have something more pithy. :)
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” Why do programmers often confuse Halloween and Christmas? - Because 31 Oct = 25 Dec. Business Myths of the Geek #4 'What you think matters.'
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I was going to post before d@nish et al fell for the line but was unsure about the 'Troll' thing. When they fell for it I thought I would warn others. I was quite serious about not knowing a better term, maybe [wind-up alert] would have been better, unless you have something more pithy. :)
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” Why do programmers often confuse Halloween and Christmas? - Because 31 Oct = 25 Dec. Business Myths of the Geek #4 'What you think matters.'
Henry Minute wrote:
I was going to post before d@nish et al fell for the line
Yeah that surprised me - that he fell for it that fast :-)
Henry Minute wrote:
I was quite serious about not knowing a better term, maybe [wind-up alert] would have been better
Wind-up Alert gets my vote :thumbsup:
Regards, Nish
Blog: blog.voidnish.com Most recent article: An MVVM friendly approach to adding system menu entries in a WPF application
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I did some beta testing for Visual studio and today I got an email with a link from where I can download Visual Studio Express 2010 for free. In the past, I was given some small items such as paper weight, glass balls, or t-shirts. This is the first time I got the actual software I helped to test. Gestures like these are what make you continue to help companies test their beta products.
modified on Sunday, June 13, 2010 12:00 PM
Lucky you! I got a certificate for a 50% discount off of VS Express 2010 (and a fabulous magic paper weight.)