Microsofts profit model is to waste OUR time and not theirs

So, I work in the IT industry. I'm a developer, in C# mainly for my sins (which to be fair is a decent language with alot of good things to say for it). What annoys me is this:

Whenever you build in Visual Studio, when the compliation hits an error it cannot resolve it continues to compile. Now, this behaviour is pointless, the compiler KNOWS it's going to fail because its had a hard error. An error in compilation means that some part of the whole has failed. This, in all situations that matter, will mean the entire build failed. 

Now, there is some small advantage in continuing anyway on an error, the reasons to continue are:

1. To assertain the extent of the error (is this just an isolated error or is something seriously out of wack, like wrong toolset).
2. Collect ALL the known errors ahead of time so they can be worked on as a batch instead of individually

So next I'm going to tell  you why neither of these reasons are valid:

1. Firstly, at the point you hit an error your 100% going to have to resolve THAT error in the end anyway. Your not going to be able to look at any subsequent errors before hand realistically. 
2. Secondly, every error after the first one is increasingly unlikley to be a real error and is more likely to be the result of the first not being resolved. This is of course not 100% of the time, though usually even if you need to fix all the errors the first error's context is enough to figure out the rest.

What's the problem here? The problem here is that EVERY build Microsoft is spinning our wheels waiting for pointless compilation either telling us what we already know at worst or at best telling us about something we aren't yet concerned with.

Now, bring in distributed compilation in the form of TFS and other solutions. Everytime, as a developer, I finish my work locally I need to push it to a build server to make it production ready. Now, the build server hits an error in the first 30 seconds, so I know my build has failed. YET, it still continues to process 20 minutes of bullshit work!

Now, Microsoft have an error limit in their code, its set to 100 compile errors. The problem is, usually when submitting a build to a build server their are one to five errors, also typically their are THOUSANDS of lines of code.

In 10+ years, people have queried Microsoft about allowing this build error limit to be configured, Microsoft ignored that. Now, with the drive through of open source (and underpaid software developers) people have made their own solutions to this issue. The problem is Microsoft are deliberately not solving it because millions of customers delayed by long build encourages more investment in software and hardware to try to mitigate this simple problem.

Tron Original vs Tron Classic

I watched Tron on TV as a child in the 1980's and loved it to peices. It was the embodyment of my own dreams of a oncoming computer age. It was to me a perfect movie.

Fastfoward to the future where I have a job and enough money spare to buy the DVD's I love and I am recalled to Tron. I go out to buy a copy on DVD and by accident aquire the new Tron, but I am not upset, hurray a sequel! First though I wanted to watch the original classic, so I went out looking to find a DVD entitled just that.

Watching, I was thinking to myself "I feel like I remember this movie looking much better?" at first I worried my childish mind watching then was primary to its past visual enjoyment, but then I saw later sceens and I felt it has been messed about with?

The classic tanks, which I felt sure where the solid ploygon style of the era? where now these awful modern computer tanks and all the charm was GONE. I tried Googling around, because I did wonder if I had remembered the tanks out of the video game Tanks and misremembered them into Tron (where they would belong perfectly):

I felt the original Tron tanks looked lik the above but with just filled polygon surfaces. I still feel convined this is what I saw as a child. I found these online which report to be storyboards for the original Tron:

The tanks shown there more match my memory. Also given the film was made in 1980's where Pologon filled graphics where the pincal of CGI at the time, I suspect the tanks seen in the movie copy I hold aren't original:

 

I found this picture which is maybe an original?

It certainky feels closer to what I remember as a child, though I felt sure the whole tank was pologon with few to none rounded edges?

For me, this mismatch of memory to actual a little mared the movie, fortunately though many parts felt unchanged and like they hadn't given the "must modernise" attention to and where still lovely.

Tron is a movie which is beautifully placed in the era it was made. The Polgyon tanks and other computer sceens (was I imagining it?) made it feel totally believable for that era. Also, it recalled many fine and happy hours playing games with similar graphics and linking the movie into real life experiences.

Now, the version I watched on DVD, makes it feel stupid (or maybe I just miss the version I remember over what was?). The low grade graphics felt accurate back then for a representation of an internal computer make up. Internally a computer isn't all glossy and smart, its all bits, pixels and polygons; Sure the end result on a modern computer is a sharp, believable 3D image, but the mobie is showing the insides of a very early PC/Mainframe.

So the new graphics always pull me out of the action and make me hanker for watching the REAL original movie. Still, enjoyed it and went to the sequel.

Now Tron Legacy felt perfect, its exactly what it should be, not a remake but featuring updated CGI in a really good way to go with the theme of the movie being many years on. The movie and the soundtrack are a complete success.

I just hope that in 20 or 30 years they don't remake Tron Legacy using the latest holographic leaving confused children now adults wondering if they didn't imaginge the better movie lol.

Would sure love to hear from anyone who has pictures of a classic Tron tank, even if I was dreaming.