Channel 9 - Discussions by Soviut

Coffeehouse - Vista Free Edition?

Soviut — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:42:44 GMT

jedimasterk wrote:

And everyone hear is thinking "What give away an operating system that Microsoft spent millions to develop". Well Linux developers gives theirs away for free "Ubuntu etc.". And it beat it hands down in security!. It wasn't CRACKED!!. Vista was!. So much for millions spent he he!.

Linux isn't free. If you're a corporation you still have to pay for it. Just its open source doesn't mean it isn't part of a business model.

Coffeehouse - Vista Free Edition?

Soviut — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:24:44 GMT

RandyRants wrote:

Why wouldn't they offer it for free? The biggest reason I see is that of customer service, specifically the cost of CS.

That's where the "free" could end though. In the same sense that you'd get the OS for free but pay for the software, you'd also still pay for the support.

This idea follows the disposable razor blade paradigm. Get the razor for pratically nothing, then spend the rest of your life buying blades for it.

Coffeehouse - It's All Relative

Soviut — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:48:34 GMT

Incest is relative.

Coffeehouse - Hi Ho Hi Ho its off to court I go

Soviut — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 21:56:42 GMT

rjdohnert wrote:

...I get back in my truck...

Well that about sums it up right there.

Coffeehouse - What would it take?

Soviut — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 19:29:19 GMT

theshadguy wrote:

Okay, I've been polling people recently about this and I figured C9 would be a good spot to get some feedback...

Okay, so everyone here probably has their favorite operating system. I’d say that’s a given. Mine is Mac OS X. I know some of you love Linux, and there's obviously lots of you here on Windows. So my first question is Why do you love your choice so much? What makes it so much better than MY choice or someone else’s choice? Why won’t you use anything else? Is it cost, or support, or morals or more obviously form and functionality?

And my second question would be what would it take for you to drop your current choice for something else? What features in an operating system could possibly make you want it so bad that you’d switch and never come back?

I started on a PC. Why switch. My needs are met and there's not a single compelling reason to bother. In terms of concerns in my day to day, an operating system is practically non-existant. I find that if people have "favourites" its usually because they don't have much else to do but latch on to something and desperatly try to convince themselves that they're part of a movement or something.

Coffeehouse - executables bigger than 4gb can't be deleted on vista?

Soviut — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:37:18 GMT

I guess you could always open the archive, delete stuff from it until its small enough, then delete the file itself.

Sucks if you have to do this frequently though.

Coffeehouse - Do you pray?

Soviut — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:55:47 GMT

I pray every time I deploy. hehe

Coffeehouse - 1080p Movie Creation

Soviut — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:20:21 GMT

1080p resolution is 1920 x 1080. Make sure you're using square pixels when you encode it. DO NOT use NTSC settings to encode HD footage as it will interlace and the pixels are rectangular.

Tech Off - Hardware virtualization ?

Soviut — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 19:04:21 GMT

Probably something to do with compatibility. If you had really new or really old hardware it might have trouble virtualizing it and crash. Then you'd be on here asking "why is this virtualize hardware option on by default? It keeps crashing everything".

Coffeehouse - Everytime I see this line of config code...

Soviut — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 17:59:13 GMT

You'll find out when you're older

Coffeehouse - New MVC framework, what do you think?

Soviut — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:07:25 GMT

Seems like a more "official" version of MonoRails. Either way, choice is good.

Coffeehouse - Universal Translator

Soviut — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 06:11:29 GMT

Full-on Star Trek.

I must admit, it would be very impressive. If it could actually resynthesize your voice formants to make it sounds like you, yourself, were speaking another language, that would be even better. That in itself would be a huge leap forward in voice analysis and synthesis.

Coffeehouse - Win32 vs. MFC vs. .NET

Soviut — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 14:46:29 GMT

Stebet wrote:

.NET has JIT costs and overhead because of it's automatic memory management for example but it is however a lot more productive to write stuff in .NET (much fewer lines of code required) and as the .NET runtime and BCL matures the performance difference between it and C/C++ is becoming less and less.

In recent video interviews on C9 with the designer of the garbage collector in .NET, he discussed the fact that the GC can actually optimize itself on the fly. Tuning itself to suit different types of operations, memory structures, and volumes.

In many cases, the GC can now outperform most C++ application memory management that was done by hand because of the amount of work to do dynamic load balancing and performance metering inside an application.

Coffeehouse - Linux browser overtake Windows

Soviut — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 21:06:46 GMT

I'm sure glad I play for the winning team! I also love pissing contests!

Coffeehouse - 7 Reasons why Microsoft is Doomed. DOOOOOOOOOMED!!!!

Soviut — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 05:46:43 GMT

Chinmay007 wrote:

Microsoft is not doomed, but I think Microsoft's monopoly is. There is very little need for Windows and Office anymore for many people.

Right, and just as soon as my dad learns how to install a linux flavour; configure, compile and deploy wifi drivers for his wireless hardware;
install an office clone; etc. He'll have no need at all for windows or office.

Coffeehouse - will "ringing" phones become obsolete?

Soviut — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 15:05:33 GMT

shrtcrt wrote:

I get annoyed by the ring tones. People have them on the loudest setting and half the time ignore them. If you don't want to answer it, press the button on the phone to turn off the ringer. I love technology, bu people and their bluetooth headsets need a lesson in manners. Do you need to wear it all the time, NO! Take it off at restaurants, movie theaters, etc. When I see grandpa with one, that just cracks me up. I can not stand Nextels. For the love of all that is good and just, I don't want to hear both sides of the conversation in in the grocery store! That walkie talkie feature is annoying.

Cool things are invented, but them some people need to respect others around them. Vibrate is the best feature on a phone!

It drives me nuts that phones have "broadcast" or "boom box" features to play their tinny grainy ringtones or mp3s out loud. Sorry kid, but you're neither a playah nor a gangsta sitting on the bus behind me playing akon rings.

I once got so pissed off that i turned around and told the kid to "please answer your phone" and then gestured with my hands as if i was snapping a pencil in half, indicating that I'd be doing that to his clamshell in a few seconds if he didn't comply.

Coffeehouse - will "ringing" phones become obsolete?

Soviut — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 15:02:04 GMT

W3bbo wrote:

Soviut wrote:
Ironically, I think you CAN be discerning if you use the default. In the case of cell phones, most people change their ring immediatly. In order to be unique, I've left mine with the default Nokia ring.

This is my point.

Said crass consumers feel the need to "express themselves" through the procurement of ringtones embodying elements and figures from today's popular culture.

By keeping the default (or something utilitarian and does the job, i.e. a simple ringing and/or vibrate as your needs entail) you're having a kind of passive-aggressive protest against the capitalist establishment where products are advertised to you everywhere. You're saying "no!", you won't allow your phone to be used as a marketing tool for celebrities or other consumer products.

I believe its from the same vein as "You non-conformists are all the same". Its tough being an individual when everyone's doing it, hehe.

Tech Off - NetTiers, Subsonic, DLINQ, CSLA, NHibernate etc etc ... which one?

Soviut — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 14:51:46 GMT

NHibernate is the one I've used most. It takes some time to configure, but once its working the lazy loading, cascading, etc. really speed up the development process. I highly recommend you couple it with ActiveRecord since it will handle a good deal of your fetching and saving needs without having to write extraneous mappings and such.

Coffeehouse - will "ringing" phones become obsolete?

Soviut — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 15:00:41 GMT

Yggdrasil wrote:

W3bbo wrote:
The rest of us, the discerning percentile of the human race, just use the default.

That sentence just... feels wrong. You can't be a discerning connoisseur when using the default for ANYTHING. The default is for the masses, doncha know?

Me, I've found that the Cure's "Boys Don't Cry" makes for a good ringtone, even on a non-polyphonic sound chip.

Ironically, I think you CAN be discerning if you use the default. In the case of cell phones, most people change their ring immediatly. In order to be unique, I've left mine with the default Nokia ring.

Coffeehouse - will "ringing" phones become obsolete?

Soviut — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 20:09:12 GMT

I work at an animation studio. I'm one of about 2 and a half developers in a company of 100 people or so. We don't get many calls, people usually just walk over and ask us questions or give us requests.

So when the phone rang just now I joked out loud "what the hell was that?! Did you guys hear something? It sounded like some kind of ringtone".

It got me wondering. With all the new music ringtones and different tone sequences that cells have today, is the traditional "ring" going to become obsolete. I mean, I already kind of associate a phone call with the default Nokia ring now.

Junk food for thought.

Coffeehouse - WMP sucks. Winamp rocks.

Soviut — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:31:11 GMT

I still use WinAMP, but I wouldn't exactly call it "wicked". It gets the job done, supports a lot of formats and stays out of my way. But its actually really bloated at this point and, as you said, the media library is pretty dated. Not really a problem for me since I don't tend to use media libraries.

Coffeehouse - Engadget: How would you change Vista?

Soviut — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:57:00 GMT

Chinmay007 wrote:

If C# was clearly much more innovative (and indeed, different) then Java, I would assume Java would be dead and unused by now. I don't think anyone here would seriously contend that Java is an dead language.

Haha, right. Just like nobody uses Fortran anymore. Or ASP 3, or PHP, or DB2, or IE6, right? There's no such thing as a singularity. Just because someone thinks something is better doesn't mean that other people don't already rely on the so-called "inferior" product or service.

Just because something is perceived better (or even if it IS better) doesn't mean everyone just instantly can afford to migrate to it.

Coffeehouse - Engadget: How would you change Vista?

Soviut — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:51:38 GMT

Chinmay007 wrote:

It's really not even a compliant. I just don't find C#/.NET that innovative. Nice? Yes. Innovative? Hell no.

I dunno man. One of the first managed languages with JIT compiling (Java has recently sort of caught up). Multiple languages all got to the same IL (Sure, C# looks a lot like Java, but they've done the same methodologies with VB and C++). ASP.NET was a really innovative way of dealing with the web with a control and event based architecture. Generics were incredibly innovative. Sure, generics are based on C++ templates, but they were the first to do it in a managed environment (Java has since sort of caught up). LINQ is a major deal, whether people realize it or not, and guess who announced that they're making their own version...

PS: I'm not slagging on Java, just trying to make a point about innovation.

Coffeehouse - JLINQ - WTF?!?

Soviut — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:00:27 GMT

Maybe its to keep the confusion to a minimum. LINQ, like SQL, has the possiblity of becoming ambiguous with OR mapping. Perhaps this is just an attempt at doing just that.

Coffeehouse - Vista 9 months in - PC Mag Editor "throws in the towel"

Soviut — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 00:40:20 GMT

cornelius wrote:

bashing microsoft is popular because it brings in traffic to click on adverts...

Ian isn't bashing, he's just calling it as he sees it. While I'm not really suffering from any of it, I can see where he's getting overwhelmed with all the different releases, versions, betas, etc. There seems to be a lot of different packages and platforms all being released at once; Longhorn (WPF, etc.), .NET 3.5 (LINQ, etc.), Orcas (Which ties in to the WPF and LINQ stuff rather heavily), etc.

Couple all this with the fact that some of these are in beta, others are just released, etc. What are customers using, what are developers using, when can things be expected to level off, and when is it safe to start relying on these new tools? That's the impression I'm getting from this thread.