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Realising that just because you can does NOT mean you must! 

If it helps here is the current UK price breakdowns

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2010/10/11/windows-phone-7-the-uk-handset-lineup/

As usual in the UK the launch market has been sliced up with "exclusives"  

Ian2 said:

spivonious said:

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Thanks for the feedback. 

 

 I have put up a version of the new scoring system, it took me a little time as there are some quirks to scoring in this game  (when you get 3 in a bed the other player gets the next point). 

 

I've also added scrollbar support (my HTML is a bit rusty)

 

A side effect of the new scoring system is the removal of the alert windows.

Whilst I appreciate you are keeping to the pure form of the game the win condition does seem to take a long time. 

It would also be a big help to be able to identify which side was in play. A moments distraction and you can lose who is to play. This may be removed if there is an "against the computer" mode.

For beginners it would also help if there was some indication of when the calculations indicated the coin was in a bed.

spivonious said:

TommyCarlier said:

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I always wondered why they chose a minus sign. Now I know that they didn't! lol

 

If the system menu is there for mouse-less window manipulation, then I think it can safely be removed. What computer doesn't have a mouse these days?

In fact I had to use this just the other day. The Cisco VPN client window was open on my second monitor. When I disconnected that monitor it still believed that was where it was and was therefore invisible.

I had to do a Shift + Right click on the task bar then use the arrow keys to move it back onto my laptop screen.

qwert231 said:

figuerres said:

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figuerres, this sounds like part of what I'm looking for... but I'm still not sure where to look. What do you mean by 'lookup the help on it'?

 

For my SQL reports, I use visual studio, and post them to the SQL Report Server we host. Our users aren't going to use Visual Studio...

I think the tool you are after for the SQL Server Reporting Services stack is the SQL Server Report Builder. It is a Click Once application that lets users build reports based on a defined data model and then either publish them to a users area in Reporting Services or, if permissions allow to the public reports area.

You can find links to the standalone CTP build of version 3 in the sidebar here

As with ALL tools that I have come across for user report building this does need a data model to make the underlying database accessable but as a "free" tool it works as well as the competition.

Ok This gets my +++1

I have to demo solutions to clients such as SharePoint, Exchange  and Dynamics CRM, all of which are either 64bit only or are moving that way. The ability to connect to remote machines from boardrooms is rarely an option so I have to rely on virtual machines running on my laptop.

Microsoft desperately need to give a clear statement of direction on how they see their virtualisation platforms going. Otherwise we will be forced to abandon the very good VM demo decks they provide in favour of building our own on other platforms.

Bass said:

Dexter said:

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A modern DB (eg: Drizzle) is going to delegate as much responsibility to the kernel as possible. This makes the code simpler, and this easier to optimize. That's just how it is.

I recall that major enterprise database engines like SQL Server have the ability, and for very high end specific performance , the desirability to store their data on unformatted raw disks. However, the lack of OS support means that this is not a recommended except where every ounce of performance is required. Otherwise it is easier and cheeper to throw a couple of Gb ram at the problem.

Well @BillGates has been listed by Twiter as a verified account. But he does seem to have a slightly eccentric set of people he follows. I wonder if his daughters had an input to the list!

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And Channel 9 is on the list that he follows - No pressure then guys

W3bbo said:

figuerres said:

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I don't get why Ch9 is even in a webfarm. I know plenty of massively high-traffic websites (we're talking top-1000 sites) that don't employ any kind of load-balancing, they just run a single (but high-powered) server for running PHP/whatever and another server for static content and the database (which might be on a third server if DB load is high enough).

 

So why is Channel9 overengineered?

I am also in this camp. I refer you to Dr Herbies ignored thread on the Feedback forum.

I can't comment on the posting bug as I am not smart enough to pass coment on most of the threads. However, I would note that the poor alignment of the sign in/log out links and the fact that the video controls are largely hidden does not reflect well on a site that is supposed to be a flagship developer forum.

On the video note, I often want to to watch the videos to remind myself just how dumb I am, but if I want to watch a video I need to start it, wait for the first word and then pause it for 30 mins so that it caches enough to watch. I dont believe this is just my bandwidth as videos from www.TED.com etc stream just fine.

Life back in 2004 seemed to be much easier!

Dr Herbie said:

31 Dec 2009 - 08:15 to 10:00 GMT  1 hour 45 minutes of timeout responses.

 

Herbie

 

Same from here