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exoteric said:

Clint said:

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So the problem is cost of analysis rather than quality of existing analyses? In that case the user's own machines should be enlisted to help compute positives, SETI-style.

You loose the instant speed of email since it has to go to primary server to you then back to server to me.  IM style email is useful.

And it raise privacy issues having someone else having your email on their computer.

And you'd have to have the up to date to verify is this spam or not.

I could go on with issues on that.

W3bbo said:

Clint said:

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VMs aren't good for games because the range of hardware they implement is limited (or just poorly emulated). Even with games developed 15 years ago running on today's hardware there's still things that just don't feel right: there's no substitute for running things natively.

 

How hard would it be to virtualise a graphics chipset, realistically? I don't get why they have to be emulated in software. I know that OGL/D3D can be virtualised to an extent, but what of 2D things?

you're telling me a VM can't properly simulate a game that was created before the dawn of 3d accellerated graphic? 

I beg to differ there my friend.  A VM can totally rock Oregon Trail just fine.

Are you sure you're on the RTM version?  I did a test WPF project and it never pulled up a .Net 4.0 only item.  I used the System.Threading.Task lib on a 4.0 project, then downgraded it to 3.5.  Soon as I downgraded, it failed to compile.

Shining Arcanine said:

Duncanma said:

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I suggest that your hosting company examine traffic and routing queues leaving their data center. This seems to be affecting some people more than others. Right now, I can say that I cannot reproduce these issues on my system, while others can, so I think that suggests that the issue is local to certain connections leaving the data center. Of course, I do not expect your hosting company to be honest about this.

 

Also, what keeps you from hosting channel9.msdn.com locally on Microsoft's campus? Surely, you guys have plenty of capacity to host it in-house. I imagine that the cloud computing infrastructure used for Bing would also be an option, as I cannot imagine Microsoft has not explored the possibility of using their infrastructure in a way similar to how Amazon is using its infrastructure.

It is called Azure   http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/

Windows has a legacy of having applications run for a very long time.  I'm assuming there was a large sum of data that supported this move.  Eventually you have to cut support to move forward.  Windows 3.1 was 18+ years ago ...

Plus what about XP mode in Win7 ultimate or the Compatibility mode where even in Win7x64 you can select "Windows 95".  You also have VMs.

tools and hardware are cheap, people are expensive. 

Also you can develop very nice looking apps in Visual Studio 2010 without Blend.  I will say Blend does make life easier for certain tasks but you can do everything by hand.  You can make great looking applications without Blend.

FYI:  Adobe Flash just by itself is the same price as the entire Expression Suite.

the hard part is attempting to track fake emails VS real emails.  I've gotten legit emails from people that I've had to do double takes on since they just read as spam.  I've also gotten spam that from a glance looks like a real email.  Filters are good will never be perfect.

Also you have to figure for systems such as Hotmail and Gmail the load of spam they get.  They have finite computing resources and have to make a extremely fast decision and move on to the next email to keep up with the flood.

TommyCarlier said:

figuerres said:

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Our company has created a system that could replace e-mail, that is secure by default, that uses a white-list system to eliminate spam, but apparently people are not interested in such a system.

whitelist systems have been done and in my opinion are extremely annoying.  They force an extra step that semi defeats the ease of email.

Roeland said:

First 10 seconds are not so good, then it starts getting better. Good stuf, keep going!

part of adaptive smooth streaming.  You have trade offs.  It ramps up the quality but this ramp up allows for instant playback and zero buffering.

I have a Linksys WUSB600N Dual-Band Wireless-N USB Network Adapter which runs fine under Win7 x64