Re: Win8 Release Preview

2012-06-07 Thread Scott Barnes
t;... "IE7 too cold, IE8 too hot, IE9 ...just right..but i'm on a diet, so no thanks" :) --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Bill McCarthy < bill.mccarthy.li...@live.com.au> wrote: > It is the initial shock that is the probl

Re: Win8 Release Preview

2012-06-07 Thread Scott Barnes
ace holder (Silverlight) found in wp7 has to shift back into the work they are doing with Win8 for maybe wp8 or wp9 (specifically IE10 work)? Won't this also create another issue on the horizon around API forking(s) and misalignment (much like Android). --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagen

Re: Win8 Release Preview

2012-06-07 Thread Scott Barnes
mpany" .. ie see PhoneGap etc and how its tracking. --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Nick Randolph wrote: > Scott – design tool it may not be, but Blend is light years ahead of other > platforms. > > ** ** > > w.r.t. wp

Re: Win8 Release Preview

2012-06-07 Thread Scott Barnes
you could potentially see a surge of 8-25year olds adopting as a casual gaming platform ... *maybe*. --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Bill McCarthy < bill.mccarthy.li...@live.com.au> wrote: > In today’s age : > > ** ** > >

Re: Win8 Release Preview

2012-06-07 Thread Scott Barnes
uch healthier position to talk about .NET future(s). --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Nick Randolph wrote: > What’s HTML and why do I care… only kidding. But on a serious note I was > referring primarily to other mobile platforms where iOS

Re: Win8 Release Preview

2012-06-07 Thread Scott Barnes
h. I mean if you're going to pick a fight you pick a fight and with the combination of Win8 anti-Win-UI-look-alike they have going is one shock to the system but then to follow through with a removal of the start button haymaker? ... Heir Steve.S has das some ballz. --- Regards, Scott Barnes

Re: Win8 Release Preview

2012-06-07 Thread Scott Barnes
One in five housewives found that "apps" wasn't as good as "search". Nine out of ten developers on this sampled agreed that I made up those stats. :) --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 10:46 AM, David Richards < ausdot.

Re: Win8 Release Preview (addendum)

2012-06-09 Thread Scott Barnes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome :P --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Greg Keogh wrote: > FYI > > > http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/final-thoughts-on-windows-8-a-design-disaster/20706 > > > *

Re: Win8 Release Preview (addendum)

2012-06-11 Thread Scott Barnes
☑ Authentically Digital ☑ Alive in Motion (kind of) ☑ Content Not Chrome ☑ Clean, Open and Fast etc.. Win 3.11 in its day could have easily been passed off as "metro" under the design principles. So did we move forward or backwards... *burp* --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.ri

Re: Windows Phone 8 announced

2012-06-20 Thread Scott Barnes
you truly want to gamble away, I'd buy Nokia stock as of now as if they can hold out long enough to get some Windows Phone 8 traction - and - Windows Phone 8 actually becomes a consumer hit, then now would be a good price :D ($2.50 a share compared to it used to being $58.00

Re: Windows Phone 8 announced

2012-06-21 Thread Scott Barnes
One of my old Microsoft bosses used to say - "The dogs may bark at the train, but the train keeps going"... whenever we faced criticism like blog posts etc. As Nick stated, what's done is done, now its either bend over and accept it or throw some punches ;) hehehe --- Regards, Sc

Re: Windows Phone 8 announced

2012-06-21 Thread Scott Barnes
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 10:40 AM, Nick Randolph wrote: > Yeh but you’re working on the assumption the phone team is stupid. They’re > not, they understand the trade offs, they recognise this will piss certain > people off, they look at the market and the majority _*just don’t care!!!*_ > It’s as s

Re: Windows Phone 8 announced

2012-06-27 Thread Scott Barnes
No you're face is a chicken. --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 8:28 PM, Stephen Price wrote: > Why don't you two get a room? :) > > In an attempt to throw petrol onto a cooling fire, Microsoft don't > have to make new devi

Re: Windows Phone 8 announced

2012-06-27 Thread Scott Barnes
you're face is a chicken :) --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 9:06 PM, mike smith wrote: > your, not you're :) > > Mike > > > On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Scott Barnes wrote: > >> No you're face is a c

Re: Windows Phone 8 announced

2012-06-27 Thread Scott Barnes
bathurst track arguing over Ford vs Holden. It doesn't matter which is right, you just can't but help stare at the mullets. --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 2:51 AM, Ken Schaefer wrote: > I thought this was ozdotnet, not ozdotpolitics. >

Re: Windows Phone 8 announced

2012-06-27 Thread Scott Barnes
t). All the below is academic version of "potential" vs "reality" I have a joke about that somewhere... :D --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Chris Walsh wrote: > Bill, > > "There's a huge differenc

Re: [OT] It's not Friday, but I've had a tough last 3 weeks ...

2012-06-29 Thread Scott Barnes
I laughed at the fact of owning a computer for each of the week. Nicely played. --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 8:05 PM, Ian Thomas wrote: > ** ** ** > > I’ve had several calls like this in the last couple of years (and my wife >

Re: Win8 Tiles, Shortcuts and multi-program applications.

2012-08-23 Thread Scott Barnes
..and I dont like change..now get off my lawn). --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Glen Harvy wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks Ian. Things are certainly hotting up in the new/updated MS program > world. > > So far two people have explain

Re: Opinions of TypeScript?

2012-10-04 Thread Scott Barnes
JavaScript is dead to me.. I bow before the typescript ecma 6 overlords .. Now to convert CSS to resource dictionaries and I may actually high five HTML again On 05/10/2012, at 9:24 AM, "Michael Ridland" wrote: > > Recently I spent 9 months full time doing Javascript building a large > applic

Re: Skywards (Emirates) sent me my password back in clear text

2013-03-26 Thread Scott Barnes
I knew your password was RED ... just knew it.. --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 8:28 AM, mike smith wrote: > Exactly. Or if you're too lazy for that, use a third-party authentication > - OpenID, or Google, or Facebook. It tends toward SPO

Re: [OT] Surface RT or Surface Pro?

2013-04-07 Thread Scott Barnes
door for the "old" .. but had the RT have a stylus that actually works like the PRO... ok.. i'm listening is what i'd say :D --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Williams, Thomas wrote: > Wow Tony – great quote! >

Re: [OT] Surface RT or Surface Pro?

2013-04-08 Thread Scott Barnes
ew ideas around next bets. That's not to say a new project isnt created every 5secs in WPF/SL today... it's just not advertised and creates this whole "is it alive or isnt it" question. --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 2:55 AM, Katherine M

Re: [OT] Surface RT or Surface Pro?

2013-04-16 Thread Scott Barnes
s a weak data point but if that's the mantra internally at the time then who's to say it hasn't upgraded, mutated or died? :) as if people believe that at the "strategy" level :D --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 1

Re: [OT] Surface RT or Surface Pro?

2013-04-17 Thread Scott Barnes
ec) . oh yes despite their being a built-in Virus scanner in Windows 8 my 2c. --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 5:39 PM, wrote: > Yeah, I’ve also heard on various podcasts that while there are a good deal > of HTML/JS apps in the store

Re: [OT] Surface RT or Surface Pro?

2013-04-17 Thread Scott Barnes
REALLY?.. Had not known that... I mean in all honesty if there was one UI theme that you could make accessible cheaply it would be the metro/modern design theme.. its freaking wireframes coloured in ffs? ... I'd love to know more about that now... --- Regards, Scott Barnes

Re: [OT] Surface RT or Surface Pro?

2013-04-18 Thread Scott Barnes
Is it just the Apps in Metro store are you talking about the store itself and the OS? --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 6:20 AM, Katherine Moss wrote: > So, did anyone try what I suggested? Run a screen reader against a > metro application? S

Re: [OT] Surface RT or Surface Pro?

2013-04-18 Thread Scott Barnes
I'm trying to seperate "Dev" vs "Microsoft" here.. in that if a dev writes an App that isn't "accessible" ..different punch-up ... if Microsoft do that... thats cause for concern (lead by example etc). --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On

Re: [OT] Surface RT or Surface Pro?

2013-04-18 Thread Scott Barnes
g in the 60s+... I think the end was that the Windows 8 didn't cover off all virus's given that most of the virus's that aren't being covered dont "exist" anymore or have not shown any signs of reappearing or rely on old ways to breach the OS ... --- Regards, Scott Bar

Re: [OT] Surface RT or Surface Pro?

2013-04-18 Thread Scott Barnes
I would have thought by now virus / security for mainstream issues has been streamlined given companies also are opting in for the "BYOD" scenarios? --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Ken Schaefer wrote: > No enterprise I’ve ever

Re: Is Surface really failing?

2013-05-08 Thread Scott Barnes
re that sells them. At JB HiFi its just placed on a shelf with all the others that compete for your individual attention amongst a sea of black clones. --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 1:23 AM, mike smith wrote: > It isn't the order that counts,

Re: Is Surface really failing? (tangent # 99)

2013-06-02 Thread Scott Barnes
a case of you making your own way through that technical challenge alone. With Win8 came new namespaces on a lot of existing IP :) so with that all roads point to new namespaces or bust. --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Ian Thomas wrote: > This

Re: VS2012 hacks

2013-06-15 Thread Scott Barnes
VS2012 design could have been worse.. Apple could have designed it :) http://d3j5vwomefv46c.cloudfront.net/photos/large/780667831.jpg?1371031013 --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 3:29 PM, Ian Thomas wrote: > Greg, Greg – I put it down to the UIX g

Re: VS2012 hacks

2013-06-20 Thread Scott Barnes
80's iOS ..it's the mullet Steve would have wanted. --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 12:29 PM, mike smith wrote: > I don't get Apple design. How could the designers of OSX have come up > with a dog like iOS? > > Mike > &

Re: Tablets - WinRT and Android

2013-06-21 Thread Scott Barnes
rosoft to much lately or Android is winning me over ever so slowly... --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 4:33 PM, mike smith wrote: > Which is why I have the n7 3G myself. (In my defense, I also have a > TouchPad) > > Mike > >

Re: Tablets - WinRT and Android

2013-06-25 Thread Scott Barnes
that developer momentum if all we keep seeing is "rumors" of someone buy WinRT or Surface pro... --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 12:48 PM, David Connors wrote: > On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Ian Thomas wrote: > >> I’m not s

Re: Estimate Time and Cost before signing a contract

2013-08-04 Thread Scott Barnes
an charge the client for the discovery phase as well as delivery. It also is a good milestone PRIOR to doing any "Agile" ... as that "feature" list doesn't make itself :) My 2c. --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at

Re: Future of .NET

2013-08-21 Thread Scott Barnes
e outcome given they have a lot more to win/loose around this entire uncertainty (given device/desktop/console buying power is massive). That's where a lot of start-ups occupy today - gaming/kickstarter style space. --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at

Re: Future of .NET

2013-08-22 Thread Scott Barnes
s to the web I find *that* to be the most annoying part - hence i went with Silverlight .. --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Tony Wright wrote: > I put in Objective Programmer and that’s shot up 682%. > > ** ** > > Couldn’t qu

Re: Silverlight on Windows 8

2013-08-27 Thread Scott Barnes
uot;why do i feel alone in my adoption choices more and more..." Australia once had the highest SAT levels for .NET adoption.. i'd be curious to see what that data looks like today :D --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 1:16 PM, David Kean

Re: Silverlight on Windows 8

2013-08-27 Thread Scott Barnes
n (is it a game engine or a UX SDK?) --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Katherine Moss wrote: > If .NET dies, then I’m leaving. See you over at Novell HQ. LOL > > ** ** > > *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: > o

Re: Silverlight on Windows 8

2013-08-28 Thread Scott Barnes
are_petition He won't stop the boats but he'll stop the bloat... i want to be this campaign manager ever so badly.. i have 3 word slogans waiting and ready. --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 4:44 PM, mike smith wrote: > The answer is appoint

Re: Expression Blend 4

2013-08-29 Thread Scott Barnes
You have to get Service Pack 3 for VS2012 to make it work ... Yes... that just happened. --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Greg Keogh wrote: > Folks, I haven't used Expression Blend 4 for perhaps a year or so, but I > have to

Re: Expression Blend 4

2013-08-30 Thread Scott Barnes
It works (Well did for me so "Works on my machine" badges apply) Next.. you get to play a game of "Was that a bug in my code or in Blend 5?"... Which is making me think i should probably resurrect fixwpf.org --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Fri, Aug

Re: [OT] Nokia sells smartphone business to Microsoft

2013-09-02 Thread Scott Barnes
e to Everyone but developers... :D --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Ian Thomas wrote: > Announced yesterday. It will be all over the Australian ICT press in a > couple of days L > > ** ** >

Re: [OT] Nokia sells smartphone business to Microsoft

2013-09-03 Thread Scott Barnes
is dang gruel... gruel be fine food damnz it be is.." That or that old woman yelling "you boy, back to your place" :) --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Stephen Price wrote: > No, I said it. You added your own meaning. :) >

Re: [OT] NBN revisited

2013-09-03 Thread Scott Barnes
r 1-2 elections (depending on current NBN roll out they are likely have to convince us with 1-2 more federal elections so if you think this one has put pressure on the idea, can you imagine the next election?). Big call. --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 1

[OT] FixWPF err.. FixUXPlat?

2013-09-03 Thread Scott Barnes
from Microsoft today and i'm not convinced so far we will unless its "adopt win8 or get lost" mentality (5-10yrs from now may hold some water assuming ubiquity occurs in win8 and projects being built today start sunsetting whilst at the same time developers adopt and secure their futures through Win8 learning(s)). Agree? have better idea? --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com

Re: [OT] NBN revisited

2013-09-03 Thread Scott Barnes
To be fair a lot of teams/companies do often run their projects from the "solution" first approach Awkward moment. --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Ken Schaefer wrote: > ** ** > > ** ** > > *From:* ozdotnet-bou

Re: [OT] NBN revisited

2013-09-03 Thread Scott Barnes
#x27;s got this locked. So while you guys fight over Copper Good/Bad I'l continue to download on my FTTH :D --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Ken Schaefer wrote: > Sure. But how do those turn out (compared to starting from requiremen

Re: [OT] NBN revisited

2013-09-03 Thread Scott Barnes
Same.. I have NBNCo teams outside my house today putting shit on the ground only i'm confused as I have Fibre Optic to my house via OptiComm ..so i'm a little puzzled as to what they are *installing* moreover why i'm higher on the priority list :) --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://w

Re: [OT] NBN revisited

2013-09-04 Thread Scott Barnes
beral Candidate for > Greenway<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrQPXXHUilU> > this is pretty funny and disturbing video! > > ** ** > > This guy is pretty useless..this politick has no idea about anything…its > just a job he is going for…how do these people get into such roles… > > -- --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com

Re: [OT] FixWPF err.. FixUXPlat?

2013-09-04 Thread Scott Barnes
l the platforms, > including windows phone > Step 3. -> every time something ships on iOS/Android it ships for WP8 and > maybe Win8 too > > we could call it 'write once, run anywhere'. > > > On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 11:52 AM, Scott Barnes > > > wrote

Re: [OT] FixWPF err.. FixUXPlat?

2013-09-04 Thread Scott Barnes
n adoption? On Thursday, September 5, 2013, David Connors wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 10:50 PM, Scott Barnes > > > wrote: > >> Unity3d does just that today its scary how close they are from achieving >> the actual true cross platform write once use everywhere

Re: [OT] FixWPF err.. FixUXPlat?

2013-09-04 Thread Scott Barnes
n adoption? On Thursday, September 5, 2013, David Connors wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 10:50 PM, Scott Barnes > > > wrote: > >> Unity3d does just that today its scary how close they are from achieving >> the actual true cross platform write once use everywhere

Re: [OT] FixWPF err.. FixUXPlat?

2013-09-04 Thread Scott Barnes
y trying to achieve ...and what are your backup plans should this brilliant strategy fail..." As without those answers Microsoft can buy all the Nokia's they want in the world but all data internal/external point to the reality of "No developer, No party... or...developer

Re: [OT] NBN revisited

2013-09-04 Thread Scott Barnes
more energetic to watch..." :) --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 9:25 AM, Ken Schaefer wrote: > There are multiple ways to cook an egg. Clive’s policy platform isn’t > necessarily the best one. > > ** ** > > Pro “free market” (

Re: [OT] NBN revisited

2013-09-04 Thread Scott Barnes
Maybe but see attached :) --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 10:09 AM, Nathan Chere wrote: > What, you mean the fat rich pricks we’ve already got aren’t fat, rich or > prickly enough? > > ** ** > > *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@oz

Re: [OT] NBN revisited

2013-09-04 Thread Scott Barnes
but.. never quarrel with the man who eats ink by the barrel wait.. :D --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Joseph Cooney wrote: > Re: taking Murdoch to court..."never quarrel with a man who buys ink by > the barrel." >

Re: [OT] FixWPF err.. FixUXPlat?

2013-09-04 Thread Scott Barnes
agreed it does beat "write once IF conditionX == conditionY THEN debug here ELSE IF X!=Z debug here .. 200 IF/ELSE statements later... debug everywhere" :) --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 10:31 AM, mike smith wrote: > I call that

Re: [OT] NBN revisited

2013-09-04 Thread Scott Barnes
ss whilst feeding off that to pander to our concerns around "economy management". No doubt in 4yrs we'll be seeing ALP using the NBNCo as yet another whipping post to highlight "see told you we were onto something.." and this topic will agree or disagree with what is said

Re: [OT] Surface Pro 2

2013-09-05 Thread Scott Barnes
ent to stimulate a re-up or revisit but if they are just making iPad like adjustments to the specs then its kind of a weird place to occupy for them given its success today? --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Ian Thomas wrote: > Yes, it does see

Re: [OT] Coalition to filter internet, smartphones

2013-09-05 Thread Scott Barnes
There goes all the great memes we could have had should the filter had gone through http://weknowmemes.com/generator/uploads/generated/g1366630401502462085.jpg and worst proof reading ever... --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 8:22 PM, Ian Thomas wrote

Re: [OT] FixWPF err.. FixUXPlat?

2013-09-05 Thread Scott Barnes
n adoption? On Thursday, September 5, 2013, David Connors wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 10:50 PM, Scott Barnes > > > wrote: > >> Unity3d does just that today its scary how close they are from achieving >> the actual true cross platform write once use everywhere

Re: [OT] FixWPF err.. FixUXPlat?

2013-09-05 Thread Scott Barnes
*grumble* htmlt5 ..*grumble*... --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 9:53 AM, David Connors wrote: > On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Scott Barnes wrote: > >> As without those answers Microsoft can buy all the Nokia's they want in >>

Re: Mocking up a designer surface

2013-09-10 Thread Scott Barnes
having to go through some hacky JSON form of retardation or react until AFTER (not during) the data comes into place... hence why most sites seem to always feel as if they are stalling when you do anything with progressive data prediction. My point is this... HTML5 is like a hooker turne

Re: Expression Web

2013-09-14 Thread Scott Barnes
out due to Sharepoint Designer or whatever that has now mutated into and there was no point competing with Sharepoint Designer + VS Express as it just created way to much internal bad blood. just 2c. --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 7:39 PM, Stephen Price

Re: Expression Web

2013-09-15 Thread Scott Barnes
but i've not heard much in the way of difference... if anything its a little more crazy given the companies in this weird SteveB is out caretaker mode). --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 7:00 PM, Sam Lai wrote: > I think they saw/foresaw th

Re: Expression Web

2013-09-15 Thread Scott Barnes
only thing that ruined Expression Web was the ass hats who control GPL codes for the company and devdiv vs Windows stupidity spilling over. --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 7:55 PM, Scott Barnes wrote: > Moreover Adobe won.. really the core issue w

Re: Expression Web

2013-09-15 Thread Scott Barnes
I've not heard anything that indicates yes, the true marker for this will be Nov when VS2013 RTW's (if that date is even still current) if after that its not released then doubtful it will leave that state. --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 11:

Re: Unity Learning Curve

2013-09-22 Thread Scott Barnes
open your C++ skills and go deeper into that realm. You can easily make Angry Birds with this thing and not break a sweat (other than the actual 2D designs). You could in theory even get pretty close to GTA5 with this thing aswell, but that would be a massive undertaking and lastly you could build M

Re: Mark II

2013-09-23 Thread Scott Barnes
igate a massive internal culture shock while trying to disrupt the Tablet & Laptop marketing categories in retail / consumer minds - people dancing around clicking keyboards isn't the ad that will do that :D) --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 11:

Re: Mark II

2013-09-23 Thread Scott Barnes
ncentive to adopt the new by constantly telling them their current adoption is wrong (vicious replenishment cycle that benefits Microsoft and less the developer). --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Nathan Chere wrote: > The crux of what I’m

Re: Mark II

2013-09-23 Thread Scott Barnes
3 products... all with the same name.. nope nothing wrong with the marketing here :D --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 2:47 PM, mike smith wrote: > On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Ken Schaefer wrote: > >> Are you talking about the Surfac

Re: Mark II

2013-09-23 Thread Scott Barnes
yes but apple have your attention so they can afford to tinker with the branding because its no longer a question of "what is an iPad vs Macbook pro" etc.. its really a case of "whats new on something i already know" Surface is "Ok...so wtf is that.."

Re: Mark II

2013-09-23 Thread Scott Barnes
People compare Surface to iPads because thats the conditioned response ... go to any website that sells the Surface Pro /RT and look at what category its placed under... I call this "breaking into jail" (very easy to get in, hard to get out). --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.ri

Re: Mark II

2013-09-24 Thread Scott Barnes
less with Microsoft in mind given they have broken a lot of faith / trust blah blah.. so its really an awkward time for them and given more and more solutions are popping up each year by Apple, Google, Sony, Oracle, Steam etc they are fighting a lot of front line fires at once. --- Regard

Re: Mark II

2013-09-24 Thread Scott Barnes
lly gave the problem an actual original thought then actual Store would look like something you'd buy from. They have XBOX Store as an example, Zune Marketplace as another example so it's not like they haven't actually had success here.. in the case of Windows 8 they simply just gav

Re: Mark II

2013-09-24 Thread Scott Barnes
given funnily enough Coldfusion had Query of Query before C# had it (syntax different but concept is same). --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Stephen Price wrote: > Vaguely on topic, I installed iOS7 on one of my wife's work phones a

Re: [OT] Your "hero" - Steve Jobs or Dennis Ritchie?

2013-09-25 Thread Scott Barnes
I think we should he's done more in a life time than I will likely do, so that has to count for something... the cure for cancer could have been written in a language based on C as a source inspiration butterfly effect thinking :) --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Wed

Re: Mark II

2013-09-25 Thread Scott Barnes
; on" :) I'd sell my ARM stock(s) :) --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 7:44 AM, David Connors wrote: > Regarding RT ... > http://mobile.theverge.com/2013/9/25/4769492/dell-drops-windows-rt-xps-10-tablet > > ... and then there was one

Re: Au dev hashtags?

2013-09-26 Thread Scott Barnes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57dzaMaouXA #hashtaglolololololol --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 11:20 AM, wrote: > There’s some awesome dev talent in Australia, on Twitter I sometimes use > > #win8devAU for win 8 apps > > #wp8devAU

Re: In praise of WPF Binding.IsAsync

2013-09-26 Thread Scott Barnes
eally doesn't apply .. as typically is a problem for Background Thread workers etc to manage. I still remember the day we announced that we would only support Async with Silverlight .. over a million developers lost their minds over it and send rage quit emails to the teams... --- Regards, Sc

Re: In praise of WPF Binding.IsAsync

2013-09-26 Thread Scott Barnes
In windows 8 it gets easy to work with Async code. --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Greg Keogh wrote: > I still remember the day we announced that we would only support Async >> with Silverlight .. over a million developers lost th

Re: MSDN mag

2013-09-28 Thread Scott Barnes
not a "magazine" for sustaining existing adoption(s) its really a marketing tool to get you move over to whatever next.. --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Greg Keogh wrote: > MSDN mag was once something I read cover to cover. Now, I

Re: MSDN mag

2013-09-30 Thread Scott Barnes
I once worked on a project that had Deep Zoom and Playboy archives... :D --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 10:23 AM, Greg Keogh wrote: > I buy it for the articles. >> > > That's what I tell my wife about Playboy magazine -- Greg >

Re: MSDN mag

2013-09-30 Thread Scott Barnes
tion / strategies. To me MSDN should be a bout new and old even if they have to separate the magazine into two sections. --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 2:33 AM, David Kean wrote: > To a degree, but I think that’s more of a factor of what people

Re: [OT] FTP client problems

2013-10-16 Thread Scott Barnes
*blink blink* ... Jorke... says to wireshark the giglyhertz so the megatwatts can access the mother fruggles... :) :D --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 8:44 AM, Jorke Odolphi wrote: > Are you using ISA or some other firewall/proxy? That’s genera

Re: NBN Petition

2013-11-04 Thread Scott Barnes
Petitions are pre-internet way of saying "We care" ..today Petitions have been depreciated for "YouTube Views" "Facebook Mockery" blah blah. --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 6:18 AM, David Connors wrote: > They ran a

Re: NBN Petition

2013-11-04 Thread Scott Barnes
+Like... Wait sorry Google -... Google+ ..wait..sorry... #hashTagAwesome...wait...ahh screw it --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 8:45 AM, David Connors wrote: > On 5 November 2013 08:14, Scott Barnes wrote: > >> Petitions are pre-int

Re: NBN Petition

2013-11-06 Thread Scott Barnes
ause I have so much speed/broadband that I don't even remember what it was like to have porn buffer.. Yup..that just happened. --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 2:07 PM, David Connors wrote: > On 6 November 2013 13:26, Ken Schaefer wrote: > >

Re: NBN Petition

2013-11-06 Thread Scott Barnes
http://www.fernbrookeridge.com.au/ And now I wait for the Ipswich jokes or that "oh you live in Ipswich" poor people look of pitty ... to which I say ... I just downloaded 3gb in 10mins from a crappy server... --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Wed, Nov 6, 2013

Re: NBN Petition

2013-11-06 Thread Scott Barnes
Well that killed the mood didn't it ;) ..but fair pts. --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 8:57 PM, Ken Schaefer wrote: > Well, Google has been on record as saying that they prefer a more > forward-thinking broadband strategy (aka FTTP):

Re: NBN Petition

2013-11-11 Thread Scott Barnes
o the internode darkside that day :0 --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 10:54 AM, David Connors wrote: > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/12/nbnco_appoints_simon_hackett_justin_milne_and_patrick_flannigan_to_board/ > > Heaven forbid. T

Re: NBN Petition

2013-11-12 Thread Scott Barnes
Adding Simon Hackett given there seems to be a lot of speculation as to his input here .. :) On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 5:50 PM, Tony Wright wrote: > “The price in other countries seems irrelevant. Those conditions don't > exist here, otherwise the service would exist already, and we wouldn't be

Re: Is it time to open source Silverlight?

2013-11-22 Thread Scott Barnes
I'll manage it if it does i have references... --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 5:25 PM, David Burela wrote: > > http://davidburela.wordpress.com/2013/11/22/is-it-time-to-open-source-silverlight/ > > While I was at the MVP summit

Re: Is it time to open source Silverlight?

2013-11-23 Thread Scott Barnes
ual ASP.NET rhetoric. Microsoft seems to be a services/hardware business now so unless the OSS benefits those two levers... it's just simply a case of waiting for the corpse to decay now *sadly*. --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 5:29 AM, Miguel Madero

Re: NBN Petition

2013-12-15 Thread Scott Barnes
.. and watched both sides argue with one another for over a year. --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 8:35 PM, wrote: > Not sure if anyone is aware or already using it..but i do not have NBN but > found that a company called opticomm can install

Re: [OT] Taking iiNet to TIO

2013-12-17 Thread Scott Barnes
d when that happens, they usually respond. --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 11:15 AM, Greg Harris < g...@harrisconsultinggroup.com> wrote: > I am pleased to hear that the TIO has some teeth now. > > In the mid 1990's I worked fo

Re: Download BizSpark Older Licences Software

2014-01-14 Thread Scott Barnes
27;m now in the MSDN cold and now i'm writing Java... WILL CODE .NET FOR FOOD.. :0 - that and I had to mooch off my works MSDN access. --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Jiri Kosar wrote: > Oh ok, sorry, I misunderstood. If I’m reading

Re: [OT] 43°C here

2014-01-16 Thread Scott Barnes
I grew up in a town SW QLD callled "Cunnamulla" ... it used to get so hot that the road tar used to bubble.. we'd put our feet as kids into the liquid tar to help insulate it as we ran on the hot surface to the river... So harden up ;) --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagen

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