Channel 9 - Discussions by BinaryBoy http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Channel 9 - Discussions by BinaryBoy http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/BinaryBoy/Discussions Channel 9 keeps you up to date with the latest news and behind the scenes info from Microsoft that developers love to keep up with. From LINQ to SilverLight – Watch videos and hear about all the cool technologies coming and the people behind them. http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/BinaryBoy/Discussions en Sat, 25 May 2013 18:01:30 GMT Sat, 25 May 2013 18:01:30 GMT Rev9 0 0 0 Coffeehouse - MSFT destroying its own PR
SPExperts wrote:
Pardon me for feeding the trolls, but would you mind explaining why this patent "threw [you] a staggering sucker punch"?


It creates a forced incompatibility between map sites that will cause frustration for users.  It can also prevent third party client apps from encoding compatible URLs.  That eliminates competition through legal means rather than competing on quality.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/38627-MSFT-destroying-its-own-PR/404441bf41a4496bb55a9dec002af649#404441bf41a4496bb55a9dec002af649 Sun, 06 Feb 2005 21:56:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/38627-MSFT-destroying-its-own-PR/404441bf41a4496bb55a9dec002af649#404441bf41a4496bb55a9dec002af649 BinaryBoy 8 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/BinaryBoy/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - MSFT destroying its own PR Channel9 is great.  You've been achieving your apparent goals of informing developers and generating a more positive image for the company.  I genuinely have a more favorable view of MS after seeing and hearing the individual workers in the videos and occasionally dealing with a few of them one on one. 

Unfortunately reality came along and threw me a staggering sucker punch with the following story regarding MS attempting to patent a representation of longitude and latitude. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/06/1437236&tid=155&tid=109

This type of behavior overwhelms any warm, fuzzy feelings generated by channel 9.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/38627-MSFT-destroying-its-own-PR/38627#38627 Sun, 06 Feb 2005 19:05:20 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/38627-MSFT-destroying-its-own-PR/38627#38627 BinaryBoy 8 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/BinaryBoy/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - The Channel 9 guy's apartment Um.... Ok.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/23888-The-Channel-9-guys-apartment/78e1496c65cb4215a0ad9dea012f06f4#78e1496c65cb4215a0ad9dea012f06f4 Sat, 09 Oct 2004 02:06:30 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/23888-The-Channel-9-guys-apartment/78e1496c65cb4215a0ad9dea012f06f4#78e1496c65cb4215a0ad9dea012f06f4 BinaryBoy 12 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/BinaryBoy/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - What sucks about multimedia on your PC? Ah. This hits home. My software finds and downloads movies and other files from Usenet and one thing that really burns people up is when they download a 100MB avi file only to find that Windows Media Player can't find the codec. Has WMP ever found any codec for anyone ever? I've never seen it happen.

Second problem is the ever so fragile avi format itself. Unlike with mpeg files, if just one part of the avi file is damaged or missing, the entire thing becomes unplayable. With mpegs, users are able to download the first part of the file, play it to preview it and then decide whether they want to download the whole thing. The mpeg format can be as torn up as a block of swiss cheese blasted by shotgun and it will continue to work as long as the first part exists. 

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/7376-What-sucks-about-multimedia-on-your-PC/e356ca6f8656420299009dea011b036c#e356ca6f8656420299009dea011b036c Sat, 29 May 2004 09:20:21 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/7376-What-sucks-about-multimedia-on-your-PC/e356ca6f8656420299009dea011b036c#e356ca6f8656420299009dea011b036c BinaryBoy 63 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/BinaryBoy/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Internal Channel 9 Team Email Thread on Content Planning I'd lean toward posting more videos.  It's easy to skip the ones that aren't relevant.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/7177-Internal-Channel-9-Team-Email-Thread-on-Content-Planning/30251f2372f442e296569dea011aaca1#30251f2372f442e296569dea011aaca1 Wed, 19 May 2004 14:46:35 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/7177-Internal-Channel-9-Team-Email-Thread-on-Content-Planning/30251f2372f442e296569dea011aaca1#30251f2372f442e296569dea011aaca1 BinaryBoy 25 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/BinaryBoy/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Any C++ guys out there? I use C++ for the desktop and PHP for the web.

It's too difficult to keep up with the various technologies that come in and out of favor (Win32, MFC, COM, .Net) so in my current project my app is separated into a core lib and a GUI.  The lib is written as much as possible in pure, unmanaged C++, even keeping Win32 calls to a minimum.  This increases portability and doesn't require many updates when the technology changes.

The GUI will have no restrictions and will use whatever whizbang, platform specific technology is available.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/1820-Any-C-guys-out-there/4288318bb3bb4911807f9dea011345e0#4288318bb3bb4911807f9dea011345e0 Sun, 11 Apr 2004 16:16:03 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/1820-Any-C-guys-out-there/4288318bb3bb4911807f9dea011345e0#4288318bb3bb4911807f9dea011345e0 BinaryBoy 13 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/BinaryBoy/Discussions/RSS