Channel 9 - Discussions by l33tn00b http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Channel 9 - Discussions by l33tn00b http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/l33tn00b/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/l33tn00b/Discussions en Thu, 23 May 2013 03:57:51 GMT Thu, 23 May 2013 03:57:51 GMT Rev9 0 0 0 Coffeehouse - Windows Vista, insignificant? Unimportant?
Beer28 wrote:
And I never want to pay the bloated price of MSDN tools and MSVStudio again either. Anjuta, Eclipse, Netbeans, Monodevelop are all free. GIMP is free. Blender is free. Kino, and cinerella is free too. And so is perl-dvd ripp and libdvdcss.

Right...Microsoft could try to give you tools like those for free(like the express product), but then they'd be really successful. We all know what happened last time- oppressive laws and a lousy AG tried to prosecute Microsoft for the inclusion of Internet Explorer and success.

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rjdohnert wrote:
They have alot of producst but they all mostly suck.  Desktop Search is ugly, Their Google Earth takes up too many resources, the only thing decent is their IM.

Actually, I think that their IM is somewhat lacking in any new or innovative features and is substandard. It really doesn't give me a huge incentive to switch to it when MSN has been satisfying me(AND is capable of things like video, though I've never tried it). The GUI is somewhat cool but once you're in a conversation it is pretty dull......just text.
 Also, as Karim pointed out, there's not much synergy between the google products. For instance, the sidebar and IM client  BOTH inform you when you get e-mail. There is no significant interaction between the two.  Instead of ensuring that the products work well together, it seems that they have thrown the same feature into different products. This is irritating.
And now for a brief Google Desktop rant:
It's significantly slower than MSN desktop. I guess it's supposed to stop when your computer is idle, but mine didn't. And when you try to pause it, the software only allows you to do so for a few minutes.
They have done some things right, though.
Gmail, IMO, is excellent, with very little clutter and a generous amount of space. In addition, I find their search engine to be of high quality with, again, a clean UI.

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hey...nice to have you here. Welcome!

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jamie wrote:
..and one day shorter of breath"

gotta love roger waters
anyway

cmon wheres the harm? add a birthday field?

* if i was programming a community site - all birthday posters would go to top of cofeehouse for the day ( most recent posts etc) or a "birthdays today are: __ " something anyway


Sounds good...perhaps for now we can have a birthday wiki  Wink

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Aber wrote:
We voted him in we live with it. I am by no means a Bush supporter but give it up.

Yeah I agree. You can't just arbitrarily impeach a president.

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 Congress would certainly never vote to impeach him.

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blowdart wrote:
rjdohnert wrote: Its a french layout keyboard. 


<joke type="obvious">
Was it the surrender button that gave it away?
</joke>


LOL....
I cannot believe that apple could be that stupid.

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BTW anybody heard of "men without hats"?

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Wells wrote:
So what happens when she actually wants to use the control key?

good question...don't you sometimes need it(like CTRL+ALT+DEL)?

EDIT: i forgot  you can probably just switch shift and ctrl through sharpkeys.

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btw- i was pretty young and computer illiterate at the time, and the only other computers i had experience with were a commodore 64 and  a win 3.11 for workgroups. so yeah, 95 seemed cool to me(then).

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rjdohnert wrote:
I feel like starting a "Committee against Andy Martin"

Go for it.
Martin is absolutely nuts. why doesnt he join the CPUSA?

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Perhaps( and i don't know if this is practical) another forum could be created for discussion of Microsoft products only(not as dev-oriented as the Techoff) Or maybe another forum for general discussion, and leave this one for MS products/services and comments regarding them.

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Sabot wrote:
Cairo wrote:
jamie wrote: im going to sit around making silly graphic ideas


Best feature on C9!


Well thats an example of C9 being used positively!

This isn't.

Catch my drift now?


Jamie, I hear what you say about my list. I live in London and trival stuff doesn't seem important around here at the moment. Perhaps I should take a chill pill and lighten up.


It's ok, IMO to talk about politics openly in the coffeehouse, but let's excercise some restraint. For instance, the example you linked to is titled "Bush is a moron." You are right. that is not constructive. But polite constructive criticism of politics is not out of place at C9.

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lars wrote:
 Another clueless fanboy. “What has Microsoft given us? It has given us Windows”

Yeah, it’s not like we had to pay for it or anything. Why should I love someone for making an expensive product and selling it to me? Sometimes even forcing it on me through OEM-deals (like Dell).

Microsoft loves my money, not me. More so than any other company I know. Microsoft can maximize their profit and make me pay as much as possible as often as possible. But I’ll keep my love, thank you very much. Not that I think Microsoft really wants it anyway, unless of course, it comes with more money though increased sales.


what's wrong with wanting to make money? it's the american way.

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