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32 seconds ago, spivonious wrote

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It's very frightening that I live in a world where people can get so livid over a machine made to waste time.

The host of the Angry Joe Show gets angry. Who woulda thunk it?

@DeathByVisualStudio:

There's a MORE DEVELOPER CENTERS (!) link on the first page. ASP.Net is buried in there.

Also, I suppose Windows Azure could imply ASP.Net to some extent.

But yeah, it seems like an odd omission from the front page.

PS: Silverlight and Windows Desktop Apps have dev centers too (though WPF is buried deeply enough that I can't find it under the later or .Net). So I guess they aren't dead after all

8 minutes ago, cheong wrote

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Yup. When I left my last company, we still have clients who using DOS based stock trading system and dutifully pay our support fee even when they've not contacted us for support for a long time.

Who knows how long will they keep living as long as they can serve a purpose.

We have a DOS app we still use too on XP. We run it in XP Mode on the few Win7 64-bit machines we now have. Unfortunately Windows 8 dropped XP Mode so we'd have to cobble something together with Client Hyper-V and whatever non-OEM XP licenses we have around (or does the Win8 Pro license let you install a 2nd 32-bit copy in a VM?).

1 day ago, kettch wrote

It also looks like they've relaxed on their "16:9 all the things" stance. That should make it somewhat easier to hang on to and read.

Does that mean it won't support snapped apps on such devices?

R.I.B Jeff...

Well, not everyone relying on in-app ad revenue for Windows 8 Store and Phone apps seems to be happy:

http://www.itworld.com/mobile-wireless/354457/windows-8-developers-wonder-wheres-ad-revenue

Note it leaves out the iPhone as well. Since its a game guide I assume its one of those large format books with lots of graphics. It probably would be unreadable on a phone sized display. And it wouldn't work on e-ink Kindle either.

4 hours ago, ScanIAm wrote

If you look at the visual layout of a modern CPU, you'll see literal centimeters between the processor and the cache, so you'll never get faster than that.

You could always go vertical.

That study doesn't actually say what the Surface market share is. The 7.5% number is for all Windows tablets.

And there's no breakdown of RT vs 8 tablets, so it's hard to tell whether wanting a "real" OS is a factor. 

And you conveniently forget that most complaints about 8 are about Metro on non-touch desktop PCs. It still makes for a fine (but not perfect) tablet UI.

34 minutes ago, DylanThe​Soldier wrote

@kettch: ADSP-BF606 is the board I'm looking into.

I'm wondering what makes the board compatible with the .net micro framework? Do they have the CLR already embedded? Is it done when I'm programming the code into the board. It's stated the blackfin architecture is already supported. So do i have to do anything other than connect The board and program it with the default .net micro framework installation on visual studio 2012?

I don't know any more than I've just read in the Interwebs, but it looks to me like you'd be on your own writing drivers for your particular board (note. The BF606 is a CPU, not a board). And I imagine you'd have to then write your port of NetMF to flash memory on said board. I'd look for a board/CPU with better out of the box support

.http://www.netmf.com/netmf-porting-kit-41-data-sheet.aspx