Channel 9 - Discussions by jcfiala http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Channel 9 - Discussions by jcfiala http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/jcfiala/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/jcfiala/Discussions en Wed, 22 May 2013 06:26:54 GMT Wed, 22 May 2013 06:26:54 GMT Rev9 0 0 0 Coffeehouse - P2P and technology lose in our nation’s highest court
Programous wrote:


Apparently someone didn’t learn there lesion from the DMCA. The DMCA was designed to stop people from creating copying devices for copy protected content. It has currently been used to sue manufactures of generic ink cartages (thought they lost that case), and by Blizzard to sue BNet. That wording can denote anything when you have an army of lawyers.


I don't think this is a loss for anyone really.  Grokster was apparently openly asking people to use them to steal things - and the Supreme Court acknowledged that.  Something like Bittorrent, which is only intended to help copy large files, is still fine under this ruling.  Really, if the Supreme Court hadn't found for the RIAA/Motion Pictures, then they would have gone off into congress and bought themself a more stringent law.  Instead, the current law just got a little nudge.

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Michael McCarthy wrote:

Any way of getting vs2005 beta without having to be an MSDN subscriber or having it sent to you via some sort of message in a bottle, aka snail-mail?


Well, if there's a '2005 Betas Unleashed' event in your area, you can show up and attend that and they'll give you a copy in person.  (and it's not a bad idea in general).

John Fiala

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ngb wrote:
why do so many people want tabs? isnt that what the taskbar is? why do we want two taskbars?


I'm on Firefox, and I've currently got five tabs open in here, and another 5 windows open in the taskbar.  Quite frankly, given the number of different windows I open and close for web browsing, I'd rather not crowd the taskbar.  (Yes, I'm aware I can set the taskbar to consolidate like icons together, but I don't like how that works.)

You know what I want from the taskbar?  I'd like to be able to rearrange items in it so that they were in the order I like.

I look forward to seeing what IE7 will have, but it's going to have to wow me pretty good to make me give up Firefox now.

John
http://www.livejournal.com/users/fiala_tech/

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Someday, sooner or later, Namco will find them (if you did, they will) and will slap 'em with a cease & desist letter, I'm sure.

John
http://www.livejournal.com/users/fiala_tech/


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Klaus Enevoldsen wrote:
I have a DataGridView that data binds to an ArrayList (Generics of MyClass1). I have added colums and the objects that already are in the ArrayList are shown just fine.

Problem 1) I cannot seem to add new rows to the grid. There is proberbly som event I have to respond to or something...


I've just started playing around with the DataGridView control myself.  How are you trying to add new rows to the grid?  Programatically?  Or by clicking on the empty row of the grid and typing?

If the latter, you need to look at the settings for what keystrokes begins a row add.  I fiddled with that (code not in front of me) and it started working.  Also note that the 'AddRows' event fires as soon as you start adding a new row- not when you finish.

John

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Dr Herbie wrote:
Hi,
    I don't have the book, but I just looked at the amazon reviews.  One reader did not like that it missed out the compiler, but the rest seemed to love it.


It seems that on Amazon, no matter how good the book, one person doesn't like it.  It's when two people don't like it that I start looking more carefully.  (I don't actually buy too much from Amazon tech-book-wise, but it's a great way to keep track of books I'm interested in and to check out reviews.)

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Here's my entry - I clicked through on the graphic, but just to be sure:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/fiala_tech/10229.html
I hope I win!

John

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John Fiala
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I started out as a programmer with BASIC on the PCjr - the first computer my parents bought.  My mother's a programmer - she entertained us at dinner with tales of people who didn't back up their data at work.  This, along with piano lessons, prepared me fairly well for my life, as I have never lost anything important to a computer problem and have never had to deal with Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.

I've mostly been on PCs all my life, except for while at CMU - when I was there they were focused entirely on andrew (their flavor of unix) and Macintoshes.  That's the only time I've owned a mac, and it was at least partially because it was cheap to get internet access in the dorm for a Mac, but you had to spend extra for a Token Ring card for a PC.  Plus, there just weren't many useful PCs available free on campus, but Macs were plentiful.

Programming wise, I was doing Pascal and C at college.  When I graduated I found myself thrown into Access and VB without any real training, but was able to quickly get up to speed.  I followed along with VB and started to learn VB.NET at work until I was told they would use C# - I then started learning C# until I was laid off.

I've studied Java on my own, a little, so C# actually is coming fairly well to me.  I've been studying it since I was laid off and plan to take my first test towards a C# MCSD in a month.  A lot of jobs show up for C# in Denver, but they all require experience.  I'm hoping certification will help me get my foot in the door somewhere, as VB jobs are scarce.  I've also been doing a little studying of perl - at first in an attempt to get a job that required it, but now because I find it so interesting.  I'm also getting into game programming and DirectX, but slowly.

Other major interests are Lego (thus the logo) and rpgs, and have a slim adventure published for the Silver Age Sentinels rpg.

I enjoy Channel 9 a lot, and hope it keeps going strong.

-john

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-john

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