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That giant sucking sound you hear is 30% of the world's productivity being sucked away:
In what is no doubt a sign that humanity as we know it is coming to a swift, unproductive end, Microsoft has announced that King's notoriously moreish Candy Crush Saga will come pre-installed with Windows 10. That's right, pre-installed. In what appears to be an entirely non-ironic post over at Xbox Wire, Microsoft says that "as an added bonus, Candy Crush Saga will automatically be installed for customers that upgrade to or download Windows 10 for periods of time following the game launch."
There's no word on whether you'll be able to opt out of the automatic install, although it's likely King will want to get as many people as possible hooked on Candy Crush given its recent financial struggles. Earlier today, the company's shares fell as much as 14 percent in after-hours trading after it issued a profit warning. It noted in its first quarter financials that revenue was lower than expected due to slowing Candy Crush sales, and players moving to "more mature games."
I dropped Candy Crush a year ago when they got cute with roadblocks that force you to spend money, but maybe this will be the Minesweeper of Win10?
(Score: 3, Funny) by isostatic on Saturday May 16 2015, @11:34AM
Minesweeper Consultant and Solitaire Expert. What next, Candy Crush Navigation Authority?
(Score: 4, Interesting) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday May 16 2015, @01:00PM
In Canada, you cannot advertise yourself as an "Engineer" of any sort unless you're the Canadian equivalent of an American Professional Engineer. That goes for Software Engineers; a CS degree does not count, you need a Software Engineering degree, which is quite a different thing. You have to serve an apprenticeship, you need to pass an exam and I expect you have to be recommended by some licensed engineers.
Guess what the OSE does whenever a new MCSE certification school turns up in the great white north?
The OSE sues them, and they always win.
I once worked for an industrial control systems firm. The "engineers" worked on physical mechanisms, mostly ladder logic programs for PLCs. I was among the "Computer Programmers". I repeatedly referred to my colleagues as "The Engineers"; always they corrected me and said "No, the programmers".
If your industrial control systems product includes a half-million lines of source code, then the people who write that code are engineers, even if they don't want to be, and even if they are bad ones.
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