the_corona wrote:

Am I the only one that finds silverlight completely unusable? It uses way too much CPU, enough in fact to have the audio go completely out of sync with the video.

For instance I was watching (well trying, but gave up) this:


Watching it in the windows, gives me about 80-90% CPU usage, but audio already goes out of sync. If I double click to go to fullscreen, than its at 100% all the time and I get like 10-15 fps on the video or something. I tested this on FF and IE7 on Vista 64, as well as on FF in XP SP2. CPU is an athlon 64 3200+ for the vista system and a sempron 3000+ for xp.

Is there something I can do, or is that just the way it is? Surely that can't be, I can playback 1080i video on the vista machine with less cpu usage

Please help

Edit: fixed long URL

mawcc wrote:

So we have all these new videos from REMIX07 Boston in the Screencasts section, and they are pretty much worthless, because the resolution is so bad that you can't see anything.

If it's not possible to provide them in better quality, it would be better to remove them completely. They just obscure the more interesting ones with good quality, e.g. from Beth Massi

Cybermagellan wrote:



Female counsellor had sex with girl

Lloyd_Humph wrote:



Sabot wrote: Personally I bought a very fast SD card and that works much better than the USB.

++ IMO they're cheaper. you can pick up a 4gb for about £30 these days, you'd end up paying quite a bit for a 2gb memory stick these days.

phreaks wrote:

apparantly I can use either an SD card OR a USB stick?

Is one type of media better than the other?

BlackTiger wrote:

Nope (for me).

If system has 1024+ of RAM, than xxxBoost is worthless. No improvement.

Dr Herbie wrote:



Good effort Darth, you managed to pretent to be a Microsoft advocate for almost a whole year!

I wondered how long it would take before the 'I have seen the light, Linux is better' post, but I never imagined it would take you so long to get to it.

harumscarum wrote:



jb43081 wrote:  Randolpho wrote:  Harlequin wrote: http://www.ftponline.com/conferences/vslive/2007/lasvegas/ I haven't been to the VSLive! in Vegas, but the one in Orlando was pretty good. Really? A co-worker of mine went to the Orlando VSLive and described is at "a worthless waste of time and money." Actually, PDC being delayed helps me. It was going to be a fight-and-a-half getting it approved this fiscal year since I went to Tech Ed last year. If it happens next year I should be able to get it approved quite easily.

I went to the one in San Fran a while back and can somewhat agree however the fact that it is in Vegas would make it worthwhile.

Randolpho wrote:



Harlequin wrote: http://www.ftponline.com/conferences/vslive/2007/lasvegas/

I haven't been to the VSLive! in Vegas, but the one in Orlando was pretty good.

Sampy wrote:



Still working on the future of this.

Don't worry, there are lots of people on DPE (the group the nine team is a part of) who care a lot about making PDC rock the house and they'll be shouting from the rooftops when they have more info to share.

In a way, rescheduling PDC because all the awesome stuff is getting here soon is a good thing! Real bits beat betas anyday

I'm already loving Silverlight, Expression Media Encoder, and Blend 2. David Shadle working in Expression Design and exporting to Silverlight XAML is hot.

MSDN Events wrote:

We are currently in the process of rescheduling this fall’s Professional Developer Conference. As the PDC is the definitive developer event focused on the future of the Microsoft platform, we try to align it to be in front of major platform milestones. By this fall, however, upcoming platform technologies including Windows Server 2008, SQL Server codenamed “Katmai,” Visual Studio codenamed “Orcas” and Silverlight will already be in developers’ hands and approaching launch, which is where we’ll focus our developer engagement in the near term. We will update this site when we have a new date for the PDC that is better timed with the next wave of platform technologies.

wkempf wrote:

I doubt there will ever be another update to that.  You'll want to, instead, run Orcas for this.  http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa700831.aspx

Cybermagellan wrote:

So me and a few other engineers moved workstations today...just thought I would post some pictures.



Left Side                                   Right Side

It's really bright cause.....I GOT A WINDOW SEAT!!!

And with my stuff in it...

SecretSoftware wrote:



Yggdrasil wrote:  SecretSoftware wrote: The prompt of UAC, really does suck and its useless. Do you feel the same way? No, we don't. Didn't we already have a 5-page thread where you said the UAC is useless, we explained why it isn't, and you consistently refused to acknowledge any points or claims made in it?

Well, yes. But this is not about UAC, per se, its about the whole Windows Vista experience.

I watch that video, and I can't help but laugh. Its kind of funny.


PS: plus, UAC on vista is an ongoing ordeal. So people will continue to talk about it. Its the human nature

fdisk wrote:

Who do you admire most as a developer? Have you ever met this person? What would you say to them if you did?

I'll start.

Anders Hejlsberg, no, and what do you consider to be your greatest technical achievement and why? Do you ever mess around in Turbo Pascal just for the fun of it?

corona_coder wrote:

In a few short months you will read the headlines:  "Dell reports Linux PC's outsell Windows PC's"

We won.  2007 goes down as the year of the Linux desktop.  2008 marks the death of windows and the decline of Microsoft.  All you Microsoft employees and Microsoft customers you better brush up on your Linux skills.  Windows is a legacy system and its been replaced.

DoomBringer wrote:



JKelley wrote:  But I can't find my chicken and snorkel, how is this plan ever going to work without the chicken and snorkel????

That is plan Delta Zeta.  Those items would have already been distributed to you already if DZ was in effect.

Sampy wrote:

Well, we had a good run.

Anyone need some Perl CGI written?

the_sombrero_kid wrote:

i know it's a stupid question but did you make sure you switched off the autofill my ipod and all the other random filling bollocks?

i've had some bad experiences with mp3 players with vista too, basically since i've not made a full switch it's my secondary os just now, my solution is to boot into xp most of the time. :/

raymond wrote:

Working on it.

earnshaw wrote:



Microsoft is a garden of Earthly Delights.   Slight problem:  the curators neglected to put proper labels on the plants and there is no taxonomy.  The museum gift shop has books on plants, but out in the garden there is no reference to the books.  And, in the gift shop, there are just shelves with books on them in no particular order.  Most of plants are named Microsoft Blah Blah Blah, where Blah Blah Blah is everything visitors get to inform them about what the thing is.  I'm sure the term SharePoint, to pick a random example, means a great deal to a great many people.  To me, it may as well be in Klingon.  And I don't sprechen zee Klingon.  I know Avalon and Monad, but not the corporate names they became.  Not that I'm complaining, mind you.  I'd never stoop to complain.  These are all happy problems.

W3bbo wrote:

I was thinking of the "Gang of Four" original, but it's written for C++ and Smalltalk, but I've been told there's a version for C#