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The brick itself won't need a fan if it's built in, but if it was built in the heat from the brick would add to the heat of the system so the system itself might need a (bigger/extra) fan.

It only works for selected sites. So depending on the size and adaptability of the whitelist it remains to be seen how useful this is.

My download links are for PDF, ePub and Mobi. They're DRM free, so you can technically do whatever you want, but I'm not sure how that works legally.

I don't know how long this has been in place, but I just wanted to say that I like the thing that happens when you mouse over people's display pictures. The filling background was a nice touch, it prevents massive boxes from popping up all over the place when you inadvertently move your cursor down over the display pics.

I suppose I should work on my MSDN achievements now.

Awesome, thanks for the heads up Ian. And thanks to ZippyV for that coupon code. $10 for the full edition was a steal but $8 is even better.

13 hours ago, spivonious wrote

*snip*

Wait, doesn't WinMo 6.x still have more marketshare than WP7?

And while Win7 and Office 2010 are successful products, they didn't exactly "excite" consumers the way the iPad did. Microsoft hasn't been exciting in that way since Windows 95.

Depending on how you would define "excite", the Xbox 360 and certainly Kinect have apparently been exciting if measured in number of sales.

1 hour ago, elmer wrote

Forums tend to suffer the 'loudest drunk in the bar' syndrome, and lose audience as a result.

I'd find an 'ignore' feature to be useful.

I could nominate posters I wish to ignore.

Threads started by them would not be displayed to me.

Replies made by them would not be displayed to me.

To hide posts made by people you want to ignore, add

[data-author=DeathByVisualStudio]{display:none;}

to the user CSS in your profile for each person you tire of.

Quotes and threads in the list of threads don't get hidden though, nor do replies made to their posts. Maybe someone who enjoys playing with CSS more than I do will be able to provide a way.

Of course, this doesn't stop people like Beer who register a new username every week and it doesn't help this place looking like the worst community in the world to newcomers who don't have any custom CSS yet.

1 hour ago, Bass wrote

I don't know if I should take that as a compliment or an insult.

As an insult.

@evildictaitor: I feel exactly the same way as Dr. Herbie. The sad thing is that last night I was actually thinking how there were finally some fun technology threads to follow again, The C++ Extension Methods thread, MasterPie's Kinect event board thread, the Win8 XAML/JS thread... But it's just a temporary flash in endless amounts of noise from the usual handful of suspects.

The - at first - obvious solution to this is for the rest (and for any lurking MS employees) to post lots of stuff that is interesting, but this isn't going to work. For every good thread on this forum people like WastingTimewithForums and DeathByVisualStudio wil post ten saying the exact same thing they've been saying for the past couple of months. Say what you will about Beer but at least he's varied.

Could be... Again, it seems obvious but who knows what comes up with user testing.

That's quite surprising, even with the caveats in mind.

If they made more deals with content providers internationally (read: if Microsoft over here stopped doing absolutely nothing in this field and started making deals with Ziggo and UPC and whatever other cable providers there are over here) and if it was easier to play different types of videos (.MKV for instance), I'd have no more need for Media Center. Make it so!