Channel 9 - Discussions by Detroit Muscle http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Channel 9 - Discussions by Detroit Muscle http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Detroit Muscle/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/Detroit Muscle/Discussions en Sat, 18 May 2013 22:44:46 GMT Sat, 18 May 2013 22:44:46 GMT Rev9 0 0 0 Coffeehouse - Make integrated Vista SP2 iso's available The Pirate Bay offers ISOs for all Microsoft products free of charge. In fact, there are multiple Vista SP2 ISOs available.

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Detroit Muscle said:
The copy of Win XP that I'm typing this from came from the pirate bay.

I guess the right thing to do would be to send a check in the amount of a real Win XP license to TPB guys to help with their legal defense.

I have a legal copy of OEM Win XP, before any service packs were released (2002).

I have a used PC with no OS installed, and it has an SATA hard drive.

Obviously I cant use my legal XP disk to install to an SATA hard disk.

If there is a legal solution to the above conundrum, I would love to hear it. Otherwise, I'm turning to TPB.

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I guess the right thing to do would be to send a check in the amount of a real Win XP license to TPB guys to help with their legal defense.

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Also, the Altivec vector unit introduced with the PowerPC G4 beat the pants off of the equivalent vector units in the x86 world for years after Altivec was released.

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zian said:

General Tips:
1. Get a library card and find out how interlibrary loan works.
2. Start collecting lists of books to read (like you're doing here)


Some of my favorite computer-related books (besides Code Complete and Don't Make me Think):
The Design of Everyday Things
Toward Zero-Defect Programming
Building The Perfect PC (if you're at all interested in the hardware inside)
The New Way Things Work (slightly dated but still a highly accurate depiction of how things work at a slightly lower level)


find out how interlibrary loan works.


QFT. Interlibrary load helped me out immensely in grad school. Also 2 more things: my school provided free subscriptions to both IEEE Xplore and O'Reilly Safari, but didn't advertise this anywhere.

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WillemM said:
Listening to a couple of coldplay CD's at the moment. Just got their new Viva la Vida CD.
Great music!
<quote>
Listening to a couple of coldplay CD's at the moment. Just got their new Viva la Vida CD.
Great music!
</quote>


Wanna know how I know you're gay? Because you like Coldplay.

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Bas said:
I thought the conclusion of the Mythbusters episode about Tesla's earthquake machine was that it was actually possible given enough tuning? As far as I recall, they managed to shake that bridge up somewhat with a pretty measly device.
<quote>
I thought the conclusion of the Mythbusters episode about Tesla's earthquake machine was that it was actually possible given enough tuning? As far as I recall, they managed to shake that bridge up somewhat with a pretty measly device.
</quote>

I'm pretty sure a modern bridge engineer would remember to place their poles on the left hand side of the s-plane.

<quote>
the wireless power myth
</quote>

Isn't solar power wireless?

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I know Nintendo owns a patent on the perfect D-pad, but somehow Sega and Sony figured out how to ship D-pads that don't suck while avoiding N's patents.

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phreaks wrote:

I know there's a simpler way to do this..


If you are only dealing with integers, the operation is flip the bits and add one. Modern computers store integers in what's known as "twos compliment" notation.

The CPU you are targeting probably has a "compliment" instruction to flip the bits and an "increment" instruction to add 1. Two clock cycles is about as good as your going to get on most modern CPUs.

Although, I've seen some CISC machines with a "negate" instruction, which has the effect of the combined two instructions mentioned above.

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vesuvius wrote:
It is this new way of doing things that interests me most.


The technologies you listed all still involve writing code by hand. This is a rather stone-age way to create computer programs, don't you think?

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TimP wrote:
SATA and EFI are steps in the right direction. Modern x86 processors have a lot of obsolete baggage, though. I'm curious if x86 will still be the dominant architecture in 25 years.


x86 is not the dominant architecture today, ARM is.

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Sabot wrote:

I also phoned a good friend who is a manager in a large UK recruitment firm and he confirmed that next to no one is asking for VB.Net skills.


Aren't Vb.net skills and C#.net skills the exact same skills? I thought that was the whole point of .net.

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While Oracle, Cisco, Microsoft, etc. are all shipping jobs to India and China, - Panasonic, Sony, Toyotta, Fijitsu etc. are all shipping jobs to the U.S. The Japanese Execs also tend to thing long term, while US execs are notorious for thinking short term.

*Disclaimaer: I work for a Japanese company.

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If you're a programmer, make a short demo.

Nobody is going to give you any attention unless you show some initiative.

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Minh wrote:

It makes sense under this scenario:

MS owns the name "Bungie" of course, and everything Bungie has made up to this point of note, ie, "Halo". But MS doesn't own the people working there


See: Rare/Free Radical


doombringer wrote:
Sure, but how likely would a real critical mass of people leaving all at once be?


You don't need a mass of people to leave, just the top talent. Compare the crap Rare developed under MS's ownership to what they did on the N64.


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Ray6 wrote:

Lacks all the bells and whistles of MS Mitsubishi Surface; it'll be interesting to see if it also lacks the hefty price tag.



Fixed that for you.


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Harlequin wrote:
Makes you wonder why Microsoft Surface is going to take 3 to 5 years to get commercial.

I'll say it again, MS didn't invent surface computing, they copied it from Mitsubishi.

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TimP wrote:
he gives them several weeks to complete it.

Several weeks is plenty of time for your competition to snatch up the best talent.

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