Channel 9 - Discussions by jonathansampson http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Channel 9 - Discussions by jonathansampson http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/jonathansampson/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/jonathansampson/Discussions en Sun, 26 May 2013 00:46:05 GMT Sun, 26 May 2013 00:46:05 GMT Rev9 0 0 0 Coffeehouse - Windows 8 and older versions of IE I would encourage your son to not attempt this. If he's a developer and needs to test Internet Explorer 8, have him check out http://browserstack.com. Aside from that, Internet Explorer 10 is going to give him a better experience online as developers move towards adopting use of the latest APIs, and standards.

If he wants the web to be useful and enjoyable, don't move backwards. If he wants his browser to be identified as Internet Explorer 8, he can change the Browser Mode by pressing F12. It will, by default, be in Internet Explorer 10, but he can easily change it to 8. This will modify the userAgent string provided by the browser, as well as much of its behavior.

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HumanCompiler said:
An idea that's been popping around in my head for a while...

Would anyone be interested in the Coffeehouse moving to an open source project (initially built by us) that anyone here could contribute to?

I can't make any promises, but thought I'd throw the idea out there to see if anyone would bite.
I agree with the others, that would definitely boost MS's image int he Open Source world. I'd love to see a project like that Smiley

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Bas said:
Dr Herbie said:
*snip*

So you are, in fact, getting your facts from the media? Tongue Out

Not all media are created equal Smiley Sure, they all have their problems, but I tend to trust New Scientist more so than Teen Glamour Smiley Likely what Herb is saying is that he doesn't get his facts from what the general-public considers "Media."

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Dr Herbie said:
GoddersUK said:
*snip*
++

My interpretation of the NASA article was that they were more open the geological source than the biological source, it's only the uninformed tabloid press that are looking for sensationalism here.

Unfortunately, a lot of people get their 'facts' from the media. Sad


Herbie
C'mon now - doesn't it sound cooler to suggest that brain-sucking martian trimmers are migrating in herds, colonies, whatever, just beneath the surface of Mars!? Big Smile

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GoddersUK said:
jonathansampson said:
*snip*
Nobody was saying that.

What their saying is that C (Methane) is usually only formed by either A (life) or B (geology). Hence if C is present it is VERY VERY likely that either A or B is.

Neither of witch were thought to be particularly exciting on mars. So either way it's big news.

That and the fact that something was replenishing the methane.
I would agree with you there. Sorry, it seemed that Charles suggest If A then B, B therefore A in his response to BlackTiger. My apologies if that wasn't the case.

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Erisan said:
> Why do we need to demonstrate that we are not special?

Personally I think that the question "are we here (in universe) alone?" extremely interesting. Don't you?

> And Another Perspective.

The tone of that article is a ... well, a bit lame Sad. Writer seems to be offended.
> Personally I think that the question "are we here (in universe) alone?"
> extremely interesting. Don't you?

Yes. It is an interesting question. But that isn't the same as, "I can't wait until we prove we're not alone."

> The tone of that article is a ... well, a bit lame Sad. Writer
> seems to be offended.

What part communicated offense? I didn't see any. Only thing I saw was an admission that spectacular claims about life are not foreign. And the common trend is that they typically fizzle out with time. Other than that, they reaffirmed what nasa stated regarding the geologic activities that produce methane as well - something that must be noted when discussing this issue.

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littleguru said:
Charles said:
*snip*
Yeah. It kind of comes late. That's also making me wonder if it is really something to be excited about. Also, I think it really has to do with the geologic stuff that's going on and not with little green people that life on the Mars... but I might be wrong.

It would be cool do find life outside of earth. That might finally proof that we are not the center of the universe and it would be also very cool to see what excatly lifes on other planets.
littleguru said:
It would be cool do find life outside of earth. That might finally proof that we are not the center of the universe...

I don't understand the motivation behind this thinking. Why do we need to demonstrate that we are not special? What advantage would that give us? It reminds me of an opinion column in Discover Magazine recently that suggested the Universe was created by a superior intelligence that exists within the Universe, rather than outside of it. It was suggested that this would finally remove any hint of the supernatural. But I've got to ask, why is it our goal to remove the supernatural? Isn't Science supposed to be about gaining understanding in an unbiased manner? Seems like everybody has a goal they want to see Science achieve. They want it to dethrone God apparently. Whatever happened to following the data wherever it leads?

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Charles said:
BlackTiger said:
*snip*
Umm... Earth is chalk full of organisms of all shapes and sizes that produce methane as a result of metabolic acitivity. Humans are among them...

The proof is everywhere.
C
Not to be a nuisance, but that's affirming the consequent. If A (life) then B (methane), B therefore A isn't a valid argument. Sure, it makes life probable, but doesn't exactly constitute as proof.

That's all I'll say Smiley Well, that, and "Cool! Methane!" Smiley

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Here's another view:


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DCMonkey said:
W3bbo said:
*snip*
If you put a media player (flash, SL whatever) in a web slice, will it keep playing when not displayed? That's what I was thinking about for idea #1. Of course this would require support from the web site to implement. And so would web slices. I think whatever Apple call their web slice-like feature in Safari works off of arbitrary divs of web pages though.
Fireclip is playing the embedded hanselminutes show just fine - as suspected. It's just the same flash player in a new tab for this example. The path to the flash player is sick:

id('aspnetForm')/DIV[2]/TABLE/TBODY/TR[3]/TD/TABLE/TBODY/TR/TD/TABLE/TBODY/TR/TD/TABLE/TBODY/TR/TD/TABLE/TBODY/TR/TD/TABLE/TBODY/TR/TD[2]

That makes me very nervous Smiley

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Minh said:
For #1, you might want to check out http://www.foxytunes.com/ It really is a media control panel in FireFox for an external media player, but I'm not if it's smart enough to see that you're using a Flash player. Maybe open up HanselMinutes in an external app... probably not worth the trouble...
In an ideal world, I could drag my embedded flash player out to my windows sidebar, and control it from there Smiley

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W3bbo said:
The first one isn't so simple since any code loaded into the browser can access the audio capabilities of the system. It is possible to isolate running instances of plugins, but don't expect anything like Windows' per-application audio settings. Maybe make a proposal to the maintainers of the NS plugin API?

The second one seems doable, but might fall victim to the same problem that Excel has when you tell it to work with "web data": the structure of a page is volatile. That's why RSS is so popular for syndication.
W3bbo said:
The second one seems doable, but might fall victim to the same problem that Excel has when you tell it to work with "web data": the structure of a page is volatile.


Yeah; this could be a problem. But most things I would use it for would be portions of pages that have a typically concrete structure. It would break, eventually, when the site structure changes but many (if not all) of the pages I would use it on have a rather concrete structure.

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DCMonkey said:
Web. Slices.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/beta/features/web-slices.aspx?tabid=1&catid=1
Yeah; not 10 seconds after posting this I found the firefox addon "Fireclip." Dang. Sweet stuff Smiley The internet is getting better and better everyday Wink

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Both are rather similar, but slightly different.

1) Bubbled Media Elements:
So I'm sitting here with Firefox opened and about 8 tabs opened along with it. One of the tabs is HanselMinutes, where I'm listening to his latest show. Somebody walks into my office, and I have to scan my screen for hanselminutes, find it, click the tab, find the player on the page, and then pause the player.

What if the player was instead vieweable in a collapsing panel at the bottom of the browser, along with important items from other pages? Shoot, it could even tell me which tab it's getting the media from, but allowing me immediate access without having to hunt down the parent tab in an instant.

2) Eagle-Eye Element Watching:
This is a slight RSS-ish Page-Element tracking idea. Includes a bottom panel as well, but this one keeps up updated on specific parts of websites that get updated frequently. "Show me the contents of div.latestMovie on channel9.msdn.com when the content is updated." At the bottom of the screen, I see a small preview that is updated every 10 minutes or so. This would allow ad-hoc subscriptions to just about anything there is online.

What do you guys think?

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GoddersUK said:
esoteric said:
*snip*
I was here first Wink Tongue Out

Anyway, that's given me an idea. No doubt this has already been thought about and discussed before. Probably even partially implemented. But a GUI that monitors and analyses the users actions that customises itself based upon this. A kind of evolving GUI.

Then again it could just end up being a horrible mess. Smiley
That would be interesting - I wonder how it would react to a devigner like myself who spends a week in Photoshop, and then a week in MySQL, and then a week in my favorite Text Editor Smiley Not to mention the movie Click, with Adam Sandler, demonstrated how evil technology that learns your ways can be Smiley

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phreaks said:
Has anyone tested any of the media apps, like Media Center, iTunes and WMP.

If someone could verify that sharing music to extenders via WMP still works that would be awesome.
I tried playing an .avi over the network in WMP - but the entire system froze immediately after the video started playing. I don't know if this was due to any OS issue relating to media, or the network, so I couldn't charge this as an issue with Windows7. It may very well be that the problem was a result of installing this OS on a crappy old laptop. However, it should be noted that this laptop previously ran Vista Business and played media just fine.

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I liked Windows 7, but I won't make any comments about it just yet, since I didn't get to test it in an environment that enables all of the functionality. The good news is, XP is really fast on my laptop Smiley I had forgotten what it felt like to have a laptop working that fast!

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Dr Herbie said:
It's 50%.

The sex of the second child is not affected at all by the sex of the first child; knowing that one of the children is a girl is irrelevant in detemining the sex of the other.

Trust me, I'm a Doctor (of biology) Big Smile

Herbie
Dr Herbie said:
...The sex of the second child is not affected at all by the sex of the first child...


Well, unless they are monozygotic twins, then the sex of the second is determined by the sex of the first and the probability of the second being a girl is, for all practical purposes, 100% Smiley

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I would like to start developing a small .net application that can output video identified as a webcam stream, and originating from a directory or list of files. That being said, I'm not sure where to begin. Is it natively possible to mimic a webcam with .net, or do I need to go and seek 3rd party projects to allow this?

Any input would be appreciated. Thanks.

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jonathansampson said:
W3bbo said:
*snip*
Heck if I know. I would say do what America did and leave, but it certainly didn't make any real difference - America is equally pissing on our rights as the UK is yours. Screw all organized government. You put people in office, pay them ridiculous salaries, and watch as they crap all over the nation - and then the next term, we do it again. People are considerably retarded, but the condition is so wide-spread nobody notices.
Meanwhile, in America.

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W3bbo said:
jonathansampson said:
*snip*
What do you suggest we do?

  • Write to your MP?
    • I already do that and get fobbed off with excuses or a fake air of concern
  • Government petition?
    • Hard to find 1000 people to care enough or can comprehend the implications. Most people just espouse whatever their blacktop tabloids tell them to think
  • Demonstrations
    • Almost always get ignored. See the protests against the Iraq war for example
  • Exercise my right to bear arms? (assuming we had that right)
    • How will shooting anyone help my movement?
Heck if I know. I would say do what America did and leave, but it certainly didn't make any real difference - America is equally pissing on our rights as the UK is yours. Screw all organized government. You put people in office, pay them ridiculous salaries, and watch as they crap all over the nation - and then the next term, we do it again. People are considerably retarded, but the condition is so wide-spread nobody notices.

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Minh said:
Bas said:
*snip*
See? I knew I don't like the spam button for a reason...

But I do like this PayPal button!!! Boo Yah!


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hipnominh...
Bwahaha! It works!


P.S.
Thanks Jonathan Sampson!
No problem, man. Thank you for caring enough to do something for these people - need more acts of selflessness like this in the world.

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