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Re: Welcome Golnaz to Channel 9

DouglasH — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 21:03:26 GMT

Welcome to Channel 9,

Thanks for bringing up the "dark" ages, where parties were word of mouth. or tied to the dorm room phone. Generally more planned out though if it was going to be a larger party.

My main request is make it easier to find content. .

Douglas

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Re: Dean Hachamovitch: IE9 - Questions and Answers

DouglasH — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 16:56:02 GMT

Considering that the HTML working group is dropping the Version aspects. after the full ratification of the spec known as HTML 5, and it will just be known as HTML at that point. and given the Editor of HTML 5 is expecting final ratification of html 5 sometime around 2020.

Please explain your point sialivi.

Most of the items from the HTML 5 spec that have been implemented are at least in the stable state and already implemented (sometimes poorly) in other browsers. (some areas IE still needs help)

The HTML working group is already to start splitting the spec much the way that CSS 3 has split. after the base of HTML 5 is complete.

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Re: TWC9 - ASP.NET Fix, Xamalot, MVC tools Embed PPT

DouglasH — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 11:24:48 GMT

@exoteric: Really?? given that was Douglas Purdy's baby and the announcement he made that he left to go to Facebook??

Kinda irritated with MS. have been waiting for a store based technology since Oh. Cairo.

Really I would Like to see technology that can Support Graph Mathmatics in a scale base. Or the Relationship is actually as important or in some cases more important, than the data. current rdbms really suxors at this. (WinFS in its original design actually supported graphs fairly well, albeit a little slow and for those that cared, was one of the MAJOR aspects that was very much overlooked.)

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Re: TWC9: C9 Live at PDC, Teamprise, SDKs galore,

DouglasH — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:15:09 GMT

Dragon Age rules, slight correction in the vid though. Bioware Made Neverwinter Nights, at least the awsome version with the toolset. Neverwinter Nights 2 was made by Obsidian Games, (if memory serves me correct, through a license from Bioware) this is before the sell off of the computer licenseing of DnD to infrogames AKA Atari, which has basically sat on the license since then.

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Re: Testing the Audio issue with XP

DouglasH — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:12:54 GMT

Audio is very low in the silverlight stream, I have to turn the speakers to 100% and the silverlight volume to 100% to even get a chance to hear it. and I am on windows 7, on silverlight 3. same as the original, audio is slightly louder in this encoding though. Douglas

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Re: The Visual Studio Documentary: Part Two (In celebration of the 2010 Launch)

DouglasH — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 01:21:47 GMT

Audio was really low I had to turn my speakers to 100 percent to get a low sound. that would normally blast me out of the room in other vids.

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Re: The Visual Studio Documentary: Part One (In celebration of the 2010 Launch)

DouglasH — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:47:40 GMT

Hmm, wondering why the timeline leaves out the History of C and other programming langauages that eventually led to Visual Studio.

While Basic did basically make Microsoft,. C, C++, 0.Fortran, Foxpro, etc played roles in that timeline.

I think My first programming language package I bought was Quick C. Did get some of the early Microsoft Foxpro, both dos and windows version.

BTW Excellent video looking forward to the full interviews. brings back some fond and not so fond memories.

DouglasH

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Re: Expert to Expert: Brian Beckman and Erik Meijer - Inside the .NET Reactive Framework (Rx)

DouglasH — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 07:38:44 GMT

I think they were implying the work done around co and contravariance in C# 4.0. Could be wrong though.

Douglas

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Re: This Week C9: Revolution 9 - The Future of Channel 9

DouglasH — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:36:20 GMT

Sounds like great things. Yes discoverability has become an issue, especially PDC videos etc.

I personally would like to see more screen casts Especially with new areas, both in the realm of Dev but also in usability in areas such as Office and other programs.

It is good to hear that the different sites are coming under one platform. But in that light, PDC imo should get the treatment of Mix as a conference type site that bubbles into Channel 9. Perhaps even getting screen casts and feature reviews specific to the conference and as the stuff productizes more into the mainstream.

Can also ask for More WPF content: especially moving into a MVVM with MEF point of view. perhaps a series of screen casts in architeching and implementing such an ap.

Agree with the point of missing the Scoble/Rory type of interviews. although the Going Deep interviews are the most interesting for me. Well those and the Tina history of MS have been simply amazing from a nostalgia point of view.

And yes I did watch the entire video, shame on those that don't:) Shout out to Duncan. He needs to be in more videos:)

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Re: .NET Framework++: Moving Forward and Staying Compatible with the Past

DouglasH — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:52:02 GMT

workflow foundation=wf

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Re: Ian Carmichael: The History and Future of the CLR

DouglasH — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 06:44:41 GMT

I am hopeing that is what was implied when Ian stated the math/science area. There are a lot of areas where performance and be explicitly improved with SSE and GPGPU support. I don't believe there would be much involved to add that support, the JIT engine would have to be smart enough to understand the underlying hardware that is available to choose level of sse support for example or go the safe way and choose the lowest common denominator between amd and intel.

GPGPU gets more interesting, dx11 introduces compute shaders, but to be honest, it is a subset of what is available in the GPGPU area on both nvidia and amd, and then you have Intel embedded video which throws an interesting aspect to that area. (or the other video card oem's) Open CL imo is a more robust platform on the outset but I don't see dx resting on its morals going forward either.

The question then becomes how to support on downlevel machines?? Talking cells phones etc.

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Re: 10-4 Episode 20: Downloading and Installing Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1

DouglasH — Tue, 26 May 2009 00:16:02 GMT

thanks for that after about an hour trying to figure out what needed to be removed from the sql server to reinstall got everything installed. still can't find where tfsreports/defaultcollections is located at. so just made a new collection.

Douglas

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Re: 10-4 Episode 20: Downloading and Installing Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1

DouglasH — Sat, 23 May 2009 20:29:42 GMT

just a note, tfs 2010 will fail to load share point services on windows server 2008 r2.

Douglas

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Re: Vance Morrison: CLR Through the Years

DouglasH — Wed, 20 May 2009 16:14:39 GMT

I seriously doubt we will actually see 100 core x86-64.

I see a lot of specialization to start occuring. larebee and fusion are a couple of examples.

We may see up to 64 cores at the server level but memory contraints would be a huge issue in such a platform. especially the way that intel chips are currently designed with need for memory bandwidth for performance.

at the consumer level specialization will be much more prominant. 8 cores with 4 graphic cores and 4 gpgpu cores. as an example.

excel would benifit on some calculations with simd support so perhaps an expansion of simd processors.

The constraint really is going to be how to connect memory to those all those cores(unless we build memory onto the CPU itself.

douglas

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Re: The History of Microsoft - 1986

DouglasH — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 01:47:43 GMT

the year I graduated High School. and joined the Navy in the Nuclear Program. Chernobyl was a Big Discussion. funny thing is, visited the Ukraine 14 years later.

Douglas

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Re: Windows 7 New Taskbar - An Overview

DouglasH — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:31:32 GMT

At least if you are going to compare it to OS/x make sure you get it in order who borrowed what from whom.

Spotlight was borrowed from desktop search. Gadgets oh have been around since OS/2 days. way before konfabulator etc were even thought of. and came to windows first. (desktop x stardock) Calendar I'll give you ya. games I don't count as they typically are removed from business installs anyway.

Current taskbar imo is an evolution of the current task bar. that aside, there have been plenty of other ideas out there that both apple and ms have borrowed from;)

Douglas

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Re: Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 Week!

DouglasH — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:38:12 GMT

Any chance we can get the Pex and the contract guys from research.

While the PDC conference made it fairly clear that Contract would be available as a library in 10, it wasn't clear if pex is still going to be a download or part of the install.

Thanks

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Re: Inside C# 4.0: dynamic typing, optional parameters, covariance and contravariance

DouglasH — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 01:38:29 GMT

Hmm, ok I know we had the new language at .net 1.0, C# 1.0, and added generics in .net 2.0 C#2.0. extended Generics and added lamdas and extension methods in .net 3.5 C# 3.0.

Enlighten me on Language additions in .net 3.0??

Each addition to the langauge so far has added little complexity in the return on productivity.

As a matter of fact the co contra varient stuff should have been there in 2.0.

The no pia enhancements is just a no brainer given the fact that .net has to interact with Com code.

I will take any language enhancement that simplefies that impedance missmatch. Or for that matter interacting with win32.

I further Hope Pray, Jump Up and Down Screaming Waving my arms Please please PLEASE implement compiler features to take advantage of the Recursion optimizations offered and .net 4.0 CLR.

Douglas

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Re: This Week on C9 – Hell No! Countdown to PDC2008 Ambush Dan and Brian, Taking Over their Show for 10 Groovy Minutes

DouglasH — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 01:26:23 GMT

Please Please. Please Live stream Don and Chris Keynote.

Those guys always put on a good show:)

nuff said, douglas

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Re: Countdown to PDC2008: Technical Fellow John Shewchuk Talks About His Talk at PDC2008

DouglasH — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:47:14 GMT

That is the format of the show. A timer is set when it rings the show is over. no matter where they are in the discussion.

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Re: Erik Meijer, Gilad Bracha, Mads Torgersen: Perspectives on Programming Language Design and Evolution

DouglasH — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 11:56:46 GMT

I didn't find Gilad arrogant at all. I did find him to be Blunt and to the point.

Most in the language design world have pointed out the weaknesses in the CLR design. Even MS has acknowledged some of them. And it has been pointed out in earlier Video's.

Even C# was created as a better Java than Java.

The only way a Language improves is when the weakness is pointed out. sometimes the only way that is found is from the outside looking in.

On that point Newspeak is interesting with the "lack of a type system". and here is why.

A formalized type system can never module all the domains all the time.

To further that statement. If the type system in the framework was more flexable we wouldn't have to worry about the different domains that Linq is trying to solve.

On the other matter it does solve most of the common problems with pain points when interfacing into other domains.

douglas

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Re: Everything you wanted to know about VC++ deployment but were afraid to ask

DouglasH — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 20:45:19 GMT

FluffyDevilBunny wrote:

MacOS does use dlls or sos. It gives the appearance that they don't exist because the application you are clicking on is actually a directory with an extension of .app. Everything the application depends on is in the directory so when you drag it around places, everything goes with it. As for shared dlls, they are stored in the library directory. The application contains a manifest that tells it which libraries it relies on. Its all very simple.

so in theory MacOS can still suffer from dll hell unless the library directory stores multiple versions of the Library.

Douglash

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Re: The new Outlook Express: Windows Mail demoed

DouglasH — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 03:58:10 GMT

How come this looks very simuliar to the idea presented for the mail client with WinFS as the store.

I appears to me that Everything is being setup so that it can be easily imported onto a winFS store at a later date. With .eml, .contact and .nws as the file backed store with a schematized store.
Or more basically the Jet store currently readily available. and in wide use in current windows. (on the server side. Active directory, Exchange, client side, Outlook I believe is or was on jet store) Will be phased out and moved to a sql based storage engine that is more integrated at the FS level. WinFS.

Would that be a fair assesment or is it too early for that to be talked about.

Basically to me Jet is being used as a place holder for some of the common store concepts with file backed systems until WinFS can be delivered.

I havn't heard the full story on how RSS is being stored in the common stoarage platform but I imagine it will have the same story. and then be easily movable to the WinFS platform.

The reason I ask, is that one of the dev's pm's ?? on the search team asks or questions if WinFS is needed at this point. And states that most of the items shown in the WinFS video is achievable in the current vista platform.

I personally believe that it is, and that is because WinFS extends the current db idea with composable ojects. The best way to look at that is that the System can start to understand the domain it is in.

A contact for example can be a client. and based on the system understanding what a client is. can be modified to prevent simple mistakes. as breaking attorny client privaledge etc.

Relationships is another thing that WinFS brings in that is very strong. with that I wonder what new paradyme that will be introduced into the UI to handle that in the future.

All in All, most everything that I have hoped for has started to show up in the client. now just add RSS aggregation that reads from the common store and you have it made.

Douglas

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Re: Steve Ballmer - Quick chat with Microsoft's CEO

DouglasH — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 05:01:30 GMT

Tyler Brown wrote:

scobleizer wrote: DownUnderGeek: it only looks the same if you ignore the Tablet PC and the Media Center (not to mention XPSP1).

We have to get Longhorn out first. Then we'll talk about what we'll do in the future.

I thought Longhorn was the future...

Blackcomb is the future. LH was always a stepping stone to it when it was announced.

LH just kept getting more and more of the blackcomb features.

There will be some interesting announcements at PDC.

Whistler combined the consumer and business code base.

LH starts the transistion based on that code base. (almost had v1 of most of the tech. WinFS was delayed for good reason again PDC)

Blackcomb will be the first version that fully implements the vision. layed out in a platform called cairo in 1995 although it has greatly expanded from that time.

Not to belittle LH, it is like the middle film in a trilogy:) It has alot to keep people interested enough to make it to the third movie. And will be compelling. Even more so when the WinFS api is added to it. but it is still a lead in to a more complete platform known code name blackcomb.

douglas

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Re: Steve Ballmer - Quick chat with Microsoft's CEO

DouglasH — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 03:07:34 GMT

LarryOsterman wrote:

Orbit86 wrote: Monad is copying Unix\Linux.

Umm You haven't been paying attention to Adam's blog, have you...

Monad's a totally different paradigm for a shell than anyone's ever seen - yeah, it's vaguely like the various *nix shells but its ability to composite complex structures is totally new.

If someone built a shell out of mock-lisp, it might be similar...

Having played with Monad since way before beta1. MONAD is in no way like any existing shell.

Here is a secret though. LH will include most of the Unix based shells. which are all text based by the way and cannot work with objects.

Monad is a new beast built on top of a Object based platform not the text based platform of Unix.

douglas

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