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re: Microsoft Touchwall

sidyk — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:09:20 GMT

Imagine having touchwall or surface to play minesweeper :D WooHoo!!! big mine explosion man!

better yet if the surface or touchwall does not have to be on a horizontal plane, why not have the touchwall in a cylindrical form (perhaps 1m in diameter), then one can be in that cylinder and play a FPS game such as counterstrike or battlefield. That way you got a 360 degrees gaming experience man..... that will really give meaning to the 360 in xbox 360 !!!

If bill gates keep blocking the view of the audience as shown in the clip, perhaps they could come up with a see-through touchwall, whereby the presenter is controlling on one side and the audience on the other. With a transparency, the presenter will still manage to have visual contact with his/her audience which is impt...

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re: Database normalisation

usoup — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 03:55:02 GMT

No, I'm not worried about them replacing us. I'm just worried that by that time, my company will have promoted me to be manager of telented people like them (Typically, when we goes up, it's management line... :( ). Tell me, should we even "manage" them? Or should we just let their soul roam freely and let them build the next huge software? :D

re: Database normalisation

cruizer — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:14:44 GMT

i don't think anyone should be worried about it, we should all be glad :) imagine if even just ten of these hundreds would be excellent in their craft, that would translate to less bugs and higher quality software in the future :)

re: Next Datetime, please

usoup — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 04:55:58 GMT

There is universal consensus, the ISO 8601. But, who follows?

And btw, your keyword on the "SET DATEFORMAT" is:

"to force the datetime variables to conform to what you want"

Do we have a choice here?

re: Next Datetime, please

sidyk — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 04:35:36 GMT

Good insightful write up, much appreciated.

When it comes to datetime, it is Unfortunate practically noone is willing to adhere to any guidelines. As long as there is no universal consensus, programmers will FOREVER be pulling their hair follicles over the simple datetime conversions.....

heres my 2cents tip, although you must have already known this, in your t-sql:

SET DATEFORMAT dmy;

to force the datetime variables to conform to what you want...

and in sql2008:

chk out the new data types at our disposal date, time and datetime2 ....

well with increasing complexity, i am expecting more hairs coming off our scalp.....sigh

Back to BizTalk 2006 R2 RFID

Soup Recipes — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 15:51:40 GMT

Have been trying out the BizTalk 2006 R2 RFID for the past 2 days, I find that it &quot;could&quot; be

re: Windows Mobile Web Server in .Net CF

usoup — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 12:25:15 GMT

Well, I wasn't imagining along the realistic or pragmatic line, of course, especially on the battery life. (That's why we called it imagination :p) The battery life is what we need to live with, until some company managed to pull lots of power out of thin air (pun intended). :D

But this popped into my mind when I read that blog (please correct me if i got the possibilities wrong here): given Lego Mindstorm NXT, Microsoft Robotics Studio, Windows mobile capable device, and .net CF, we can build a remote controlled robot. And I really meant remote, as far as the internet can reach. Think of something like iRobot movie (starring Will Smith), where we have a central server that pushes updates (or intelligences) to bots throughout the country. The power in this is that, the robot is contactable as long as internet connection is detected (wiFi?, GPRS?), compared to Bluetooth range of max 100 metres. Imagine asking your robot to deliver a Visual Studio 2008 Team Systems Beta 2 DVD to your colleague at the next block, or buy you a snack from a vending machine or canteen within the company premise, all controlled from your pc (speaking of which, you may need camera attached to your robot).

And yes, you may need lots of power juices, so why not considering these alternatives (I like the solar panel, better if it can store more power quickly):

- various power supplies, as compiled by Chan Wei Min a.k.a Marauderz. (The kinetic supply from Nintendo is interesting though. Similar to what Loke Uei mentioned in his blog.)

- Wind powered phone charger, found in Geekologie (and found from Loke Uei's blog)

re: Windows Mobile Web Server in .Net CF

Softwaremaker — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 08:30:37 GMT

ok. hmmm. >> Just imagine the possibilities then.

Share with us the possibilities (realistic and pragmatic of course) that a web server running on a Mobile device brings, bearing in mind that:

1) Power consumption will really su** when you run a "always-listening" tcp socket

2) Mobile Device is not always on

3) You are NOT on Wi-Fi all the time. And if you are, refer to point [1]

re: Windows Bluescreen

usoup — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 01:55:07 GMT

Hi icelava, perhaps your that laptop is too powerful that it doesn't support 640x480, 256 colors anymore? :D

re: Windows Bluescreen

icelava — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:44:24 GMT

Doesn't appear to activate for one of my laptops.... just goes blank screen despite my power settings configured to shut down monitor long after screen saver's timing.

re: Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 denied access to Silverlight 1.1 Alpha project template

usoup — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 03:08:32 GMT

Hi chuawenching: well, it happens only when AVG antivirus is installed in the machine. AVG antivirus is smart enough to detect hidden script extension (in this case, testpage.html.js), and block it. I used AVG free edition, so I don't have the exception list feature as found in the paid editions. :">

And apparently, my friend encountered the similar situation when he tried to load up Visual Studio 2005 Silverlight 1.0 project template too. So, the process of renaming remains the same, but the project template path may be different.

re: Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 denied access to Silverlight 1.1 Alpha project template

chuawenching — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 13:30:15 GMT

I got it working though. I am not sure why you will see an error. Yeah, I don't have any antivirus in that image :P

Thanks anyway.

re: Windows Bluescreen

kitkai — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:04:28 GMT

Will definitely hit your power button the next time i see your screensaver! :p

re: Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 denied access to Silverlight 1.1 Alpha project template

sidyk — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 01:38:02 GMT

Just learnt that theres a tool called findstr in windows from your post, I used to think that only the linux and unix world have such luxury in the grep command and that windows are limited to graphical file explorer search and does not seem have a dos equivalent.

If I have known this eariler in the past....