18 hours ago, Dirtbagg wrote

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That would be the great way to do it.

And is apparently what Sony is going to do for PS3 games with their Gakai service.

33 minutes ago, elmer wrote

But there appears to be 2 processor boards -  'Computing'

I think those are the GPU boards with the x shaped brackets. The CPU board has a single rectangular bracket. (look at "Processor" and "Graphics")

8 minutes ago, Ion Todirel wrote

I'm wondering how does it compare in size to my boxes built around Silverstone SG05.

It's 9.9"x 6.6"

But back on the original topic: It seemed that, last I looked (which is admittedly quite a while ago) half the apps on the Windows 8 App Store were unit converters. Now that MS is bundling one in the OS, what are all those developers going to dooo? And think of the anti-trust issues!

Again,

Well, I guess MS wants a piece of that action too:

"New apps in 8.1 include a plethora of small utilities include an alarm, timer, stopwatch, calculator and unit converter."

10 minutes ago, MasterPie wrote

@DCMonkey: Wait..I've only read that they're allowing you to set the start screen background to your desktop wallpaper, not that the screen overlays your desktop.

I was just going off of Sven's interpretation of the feature. But just being able to set the background to your desktop wallpaper should have an effect similar to what I described; the clutter of windows and icons will dissappear and the tiles will fade in. They probably won't leave the taskbar showing though.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh464917

I suppose we'll find out soon enough in the coming weeks or at Build.

3 hours ago, Sven Groot wrote

The option to show the desktop behind the live tiles also sounds interesting (though I'll have to see if that's not too visually noisy). It does seem like MS is trying to improve the integration between the two worlds, which is a good thing imo.

If they do it like Mac OS's Launchpad, they can hide open windows and desktop icons when the tiles fly in. Launchpad also applies a blur to the desktop and keeps the dock visible, so that you can drag app icons to it.

It does sound like an improvement though.

But if you are trying to do the calculation on the fly, I'd gather the input (keystrokes or button presses) at the form/window level and use the textbox or a label only to display numbers entered and interim results of your calculation.

3 hours ago, evildictait​or wrote

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Because the default answer to "does it do ...?" or "has it got feature ...?" is "no".

That's not "no - it'll never be there, that's a stupid idea, stop asking". It's more a "holy crap, man, have you any idea how few people are working on this, and how hard they're working to get it to even ship on time?"

Maybe one day XBox One or a future Xbox will run WinRTs apps. But its not going to at launch, and people buy Xboxes for games and media. And getting the Xbox to have a good experience with most WinRT apps would be hard, and frankly not all that great for customers - at least, compared with having say some exclusive titles, faster performance, or $30 off the asking price.

Core features are going to come first. Other features are secondary.

Or its already in there, called WinXRT internally at MS, and will have its own store with a more limited invite only selection of apps that support XBox's UI and input methods.

24 minutes ago, evildictait​or wrote

@fanbaby: 

I think perhaps we're talking cross-purposes. Microsoft's (and Google's, and Facebook's) servers are built out of commodity components. They aren't boxes like you'd buy in a store and put under your desk - that's for sure, but they aren't built by Google or Microsoft either. For one, neither Microsoft nor Google has the machinery, or the inclination to build custom RAM chips, processors, hard disks, racks etc etc etc. These are all off-the-shelf components.

Microsoft's and Google's datafarms compete primarily on software and the configuration of the components, not on the components themselves, which are all bog-standard off-the-shelf components.

 

I'm pretty sure you're the only one in this thread that thought he meant they forge their own chips. 

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?

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?

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