I don't understand what the economic status of one's grandparents has to do with academic achievement.

This whole SVG versus XAML thing never made sense to me. The two seem incredibly similar.

Consider SVG:

path d="M153 334 C153 334 151 334 151 334 C151 339 153 344 156 344 C164 344 171 339 171 334 C171 322 164 314 156 314 C142 314 131 322 131 334 C131 350 142 364 156 364 C175 364 191 350 191 334 C191 311 175 294 156 294 C131 294 111 311 111 334 C111 361 131 384 156 384 C186 384 211 361 211 334 C211 300 186 274 156 274" style="fill:white;stroke:red;stroke-width:2" /

and the equivalent XAML:

Path Data="M153 334 C153 334 151 334 151 334 C151 339 153 344 156 344 C164 344 171 339 171 334 C171 322 164 314 156 314 C142 314 131 322 131 334 C131 350 142 364 156 364 C175 364 191 350 191 334 C191 311 175 294 156 294 C131 294 111 311 111 334 C111 361 131 384 156 384 C186 384 211 361 211 334 C211 300 186 274 156 274" Fill="White" Stroke="Red" StrokeThickness="2" /

The two are so similar a simple Perl script could easily do the conversion. So why the resistance to support SVG by Microsoft? (Certainly the implementation is trivial given the Silverlight codebase). And why the hating on XAML? It seems obvious that its feature set was heavily influenced by SVG.

Let's merge the two (or not) and move on to more important things.

Oh man! You wouldn't believe the absolutely amazing incredible movies they have waiting for distribution... once, of course, they can ensure that they won't be pirated. Because once you see the fantastic shit they got waiting for us, you're going to want a copy. Hell, everyone is going to want a copy -- it's that good! But of course, we first have to make sure that everyone who worked on the projects (from the actors to the janitors) get properly compensated. It will all be worth it! Honest! Trust them.

My God! It's full of stars!

Just recently had to edit the Host file. (Local DNS file). Could not save it because of UAC, and didn't get a UAC prompt either, had to give up and disable UAC first.

No need to do that. Right click on the editor program of choice and choose Run As Administrator. You can now edit (and save!) your hosts file.

If this is something you do often you can create a shortcut (click Advanced on the Shortcut tab to set run as admin).

for Microsoft marketing... Yahoo! gives developers lap dances, but what do they get from Microsoft? They get Steve Balmer prancing around the stage yelling "developers, developers, developers". I guess it could have been worse -- MS could have given them lap dances... from Steve Balmer!

"If you have the solarbonite, you have nothing!"

I'm not sure how you get from "a lot of things that resemble SVG" to "trivial for MS to support". Just because the output has similar features doesn't mean the back-end is anything alike.

Except that you can take SVG data, change the formatting slightly (e.g. with a Perl script), feed it into XamlPad and get your vector output displayed. I'd say that was fairly trivial.

If you look at Silverlight (or XAML or XPS) you'll see a lot of things that resemble SVG. It would be trivial for MS to support SVG, but they choose not too. The probably don't want anything to compete with Silverlight adoption.

Wow. Suggesting a Windows solution on Slashdot. Brave man (excuse the assumption that you are male, but I like my odds). You're also right on the money. It's pretty much configure and forget. The best part is that the restore is pretty fast and painless. Backing up is easy... backing up in such a way that you can easily and reliably restore is the trick and WHS succeeds at this.

Using it to produce 3D video seems gimmicky and, as someone pointed out, who wants to look at everybody wearing 3D glasses? I think a better use would be to use the two cameras to allow calculation of distances and then replace everything beyond a certain distance. Sort of a green screen effect but without the green screen. Now that would be useful (and cool).

Oh come off it... denying evolution, given the overwhelming evidence supporting it, is no better than denying that the holocaust ever happened. And it's time we treated it as such.

Um.. yeah it's pretty obvious to me now... I plead lack of caffeine...

I once believed in creationism, but slowly, over time, I changed.

It's time we stopped referring to them as creationist and start calling them what they really are: evolution deniers.

Congratulations on your enlightenment by the way. It takes an open mind to weigh the evidence and change your point of view. You are to be commended.

... the developer is finished ...

Next time they might want to consider putting two developers on the project.