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Re: Drawbridge: A new form of virtualization for application sandboxing

giovanni — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 20:10:10 GMT

@Charles: Perfect, thank you!

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Re: Drawbridge: A new form of virtualization for application sandboxing

giovanni — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 16:56:47 GMT

16 hours ago, Charles wrote
@Minh:Weird. Republishing.
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Still not working here either. other videos work fine...

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Re: John Platt: Introduction to Sho - A Playground for Data

giovanni — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 15:22:47 GMT

6 hours ago, Novox wrote
Are the plotting capabilities comparable to that of Gnuplot/Matplotlib? Does it support exporting plots to, say, SVG or PDF? Or is it currently aimed at at interactive visualization only?
Python is certainly a nice language, but personally I'd prefer a nice and clean, functional, F# interface. If I find some time, I got to play around a little bit to see what that could look like.

I would like to see support for DrawingML (given that most of the plotting I do ends up in Office anyway), but I also haven't had the time to play with it yet.

Thanks to the .NET integration you should be able to use it with F# very easily, but I am also confused at why they choose Python instead of F#.

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Re: Microsoft Campus Tours - Microsoft Research Part 2 - Manual Deskterity

giovanni — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 15:25:57 GMT

1 day ago, v1r0n wrote
Pen manipulation on a display surface is OLD technology. Unless a new innovative way of handling the pen input is produced, there will be no user excitement about pen and mobile devices.
This video was boring (not because of the people), and exciting technology is not boring.

Pen is very good for graphics and writing. Personally, I could never use a touch only device to get actual work done, only browsing (try taking notes and making sketches on a touch only device). When they mention that touch is for manipulating and pen is for input, that, I think, was the key of it.

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Re: CES 2010: Blio with Ray Kurzweil

giovanni — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:36:25 GMT

Finally a fine use of the XPS format. I wonder which kind of tools will be available to publishers to make the content (particularly interactive ones).

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Re: The Labs of Microsoft Hardware 5 of 6

giovanni — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:07:46 GMT

Unless number 1 was number 5

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Re: This Week on C9: Live Wave 3, Coding4Fun - the book, Johnny Chung Lee, and Rise

giovanni — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 08:44:45 GMT

That works, thanks! I really need to learn some XML...

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Re: This Week on C9: Live Wave 3, Coding4Fun - the book, Johnny Chung Lee, and Rise

giovanni — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:40:06 GMT

Dan, Enjoy the read... and thank you for your help.

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Re: This Week on C9: Live Wave 3, Coding4Fun - the book, Johnny Chung Lee, and Rise

giovanni — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 12:10:58 GMT

Hi Dan,

Thank you for helping out. I am using VS Express 2008. I added the SmartThread dll (v 1.0) and since I don't have (or want) an iTune library, I commented out its references. InnerTube seems to compile fine. I can launch it and it looks I can add feeds as needed, but when I click on refresh feeds the apps stops working (I get the Windows message "InnerTube has stopped working") and it exits. I could probably try debugging it, but my debugging skills are very basics.

Edit: i tried debugging and the code stops on file InnerTubeService.cs at line 202:

XmlTextReader xr = new XmlTextReader(wc.OpenRead(youTubeUrl));

The debugger says:

System.Net.WebException was unhandled by user code
Message="The remote server returned an error: (400) Bad Request."
Source="System"
StackTrace:
       at System.Net.WebClient.OpenRead(Uri address)
       at SharedUtilities.InnerTubeService.ConvertYouTubeXmlToObjects(Uri youTubeUrl, Setting setting) in C:\Users\giovanni\Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\InnerTube-7380\CSharpBookVersion\InnerTube\SharedUtilities\InnerTubeService.cs:line 202
       at SharedUtilities.InnerTubeFeedWorker.UpdateFeeds(Object state) in C:\Users\giovanni\Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\InnerTube-7380\CSharpBookVersion\InnerTube\SharedUtilities\InnerTubeFeedWorker.cs:line 302
       at Amib.Threading.Internal.WorkItem.ExecuteWorkItem()
InnerException:

Thanks for your help

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Re: This Week on C9: Live Wave 3, Coding4Fun - the book, Johnny Chung Lee, and Rise

giovanni — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:13:42 GMT

Cool video. BTW, I downloaded InnerTube and after a little bit of tewaking I was able to compile it, but can't get it to work. Anyone succeeded?

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Re: Windows 7: Find and Organize Part 1 - The User Experience

giovanni — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:39:40 GMT

Just remember to click the "Apply Media Information Changes" and step 3 will be carried out immediately...

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Re: Tom Raftery: On Blogging, Green Computing and other interesting topics

giovanni — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:07:28 GMT

TomRaftery wrote:

Hydrogen is not particularly efficient however either and while it may have its place, better options for now appear to be using cooling and heating as energy stores (think refrigeration plants, swimming pools, etc.).

Another interesting option will be the ability to use plug-in hybrids as an energy store. If there is a high uptake of plug-in hybrids, they could make a real difference for uptake of renewables. A real win-win.

Do you refer to the efficiency of fuel cells (which are made of not so eco friendly elements)? How about using hydrogen in combustion engines (like the BMW 7H), is efficiency higher?

The problem with hybrids in general are batteries, which are improving a lot, but still are not perfect. As the owner of a Prius I know how much these things are far from ideal.

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Re: Tom Raftery: On Blogging, Green Computing and other interesting topics

giovanni — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 08:47:21 GMT

Regarding the problem of energy sources which produce a variable amount of energy during the day (Tom mentions wind which I think is a good example), could hydrogen be a good way of storing that energy for later use? Shouldn't be easier to store hydrogen in pressure vessels than electric energy in aging batteries? Just a thought.

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

giovanni — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 20:56:49 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.

Well, it does not look substantially different from Windows...

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

giovanni — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 15:15:58 GMT

Just out of curiosity, what approach deos Mac OS X uses (I know they don't have dlls, but they still heave lilbraries, etc.)?

Do they link everything in the binaries? How are updates taken care of in that case?

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