Come on now Microsoft........

[SierraHotel 974]

.........A Worldwide quarantine, what an excellent chance to get all your alpha testing done. So just send out the invitations and we will get straight to work🤩🛫✈️🛬  

[andyjohnston.net 617]

You don't think there are more important considerations?

[Amon1973 1,421]

We don't even know if the dev teams are in the office or at home, they might have even put work on the sim on hold..... time will tell.

Edited March 16, 2020 by eaim

[DavidP 1,408]

10 minutes ago, andyjohnston.net said:

You don't think there are more important considerations?

Lighten up Dude - it was an attempt at humour.

[Ron Attwood 3,464]

5 minutes ago, DavidP said:

Lighten up Dude - it was an attempt at humour.

Dangerous ground, humour. Remember, this is 2020 you should be 'virtue signalling'. Much more appropriate wouldn't you say?  

[shivers9 1,174]

1 hour ago, andyjohnston.net said:

You don't think there are more important considerations?

I was going to say thank you for your moral guidance but then I remembered that I need to go to the big box store and get 6 more cases of toilet paper.

[Quasimodo 505]

I'm Alpha testing Prepar3D V4.5hf2

[DavidP 1,408]

1 hour ago, Ron Attwood said:

Dangerous ground, humour. Remember, this is 2020 you should be 'virtue signalling'. Much more appropriate wouldn't you say?  

Quite true - Unfortunately humour was the first casualty of virtue signalling. 

[Quasimodo 505]

If it's signalled its not virtue.😒

Edited March 16, 2020 by Quasimodo

[Concodroid 84]

3 hours ago, Ron Attwood said:

Remember, this is 2020 you should be 'virtue signalling'. 

Agreed.

 

"OH MY GOSH GUYS CAN WE GET A LIKE GUYS EVERY LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE IS ONE PRAYER AND ONE RIP FOR EVERY CORONAVIRUS PATIENT GUYS"

 

Anyone have a bar of soap? I need it for my mouth.

[Chock 17,769]

Actually, he is right, there are more important considerations. Let me see, there's...Cake, that's important, I mean everyone likes cake, don't they? Oh and steak, that's very important too. Mmmmm, steak. Tea, that's really important, with two sugar's please, and perhaps a biscuit, if you don't mind too much. Oooh, Jaffa Cakes, technically not a biscuit, but don't mind if I do. A beer you say? Well, go on then, I'll have a Corona...

Edited March 17, 2020 by Chock

[Mgard78 141]

7 hours ago, eaim said:

We don't even know if the dev teams are in the office or at home, they might have even put work on the sim on hold..... time will tell.

And why on earth would that happen? If there is a field where everyone can just work from home, this is one...

[Chock 17,769]

2 hours ago, Mgard78 said:

And why on earth would that happen? If there is a field where everyone can just work from home, this is one...

True, in many  respects, however, there might be a bit more to it than simply people staying at home and firing up a laptop.

For example, in many ad agencies, design studios and places like that where I've often worked - and trained people - companies will have 'site licences' for software such as Adobe's Creative Suite (i.e. Photoshop, Illustrator etc), and they'll have a physically wired server system for collective projects, so you can work with art directors etc. It is often easier with creative projects to just wander over to someone's computer to collaborate on matters and discuss stuff.

I've trained people on software remotely from my home on a few occasions - ironically on occasion teaching collaborative presentation applications such as Adobe's Captivate - and whilst I did get it done, using the training company's specialist classroom software with drop boxes, audio connection and screen sharing capabilities etc, there were occasions where it would have been far easier to just get a bit of paper and scribble a rough sketch, or point at the trainee's screen to clarify something, rather than doing it with all the fancy scratchpad tools in the training suite of software.

So when you have that kind of set up, it's not as easy or as smooth as one might imagine to have people work at home on a collaborative project. Not saying it's impossible, but it might take a bit of a shift in logistics for them to have it work and it's unlikely to be as speedy and smooth.

Any one of the literally thousands of people who's ever been on one of my training courses over the years, would be able to confirm that the trainer (i.e. me) having a big white board or a flip pad and some marker pens where one can scribble quick drawings to explain stuff is, something that I would frequently make use of, despite the fact that I'd be training people on the fanciest computers there are, on how to create high end CGI, graphics, movies etc. I won't say there's no substitute for being in the same room, but I do know it comes as a definite poor second in comparison to being in the same room with people when it comes to effective communication on creative processes.

[Victoroos 205]

11 hours ago, shivers9 said:

I was going to say thank you for your moral guidance but then I remembered that I need to go to the big box store and get 6 more cases of toilet paper.

you can never have enough paper..apparently/ I don't get those people

[Chock 17,769]

If you are running short of toilet paper, just remember that Rupert Murdoch makes and distributes loads of it, so no problem.