Maxim Fridental

Eric Schmidt in his presentation about Microsoft Silerlight Media has demoed a cool smooth streaming quality monitor. At Axinom, we have our own inhouse tool for debugging Silverlight video delivery and playback problems, so I thought why not sharing it too?

• “Did it also happen to You: you love somebody, but he doesn’t even look at you? Olya, 3rd grade” M.Dymov, Children write to God #
• Bei Lufthansa wird am Bord gefüttert. #fine #old-skool L: http://tr.im/SQ5J #
• “May I come to you sometimes in your dreams? Valera, 3rd grade” M.Dymov, Children write to God #
• Kebab in Schaarbeek dissapoints. But hotel is ideal – it’s a fitness center with wi-fi and couple of rooms upstairs. L: http://tr.im/SUbl #
• “Give me my mommy back. Roman, 1st grade” M.Dymov, Children write to God #
• Von oben sehen die Lichter wie Schmuck aus. Endlich wieder in Franken. L: http://tr.im/T2OJ #
• Am I the only one who didn’t know about the msconfig command line utility? #
• “When I die, I want neither to hell nor to paradise. I want to live with You. Vera, 3rd grade” M.Dymov, Children write to God #
• München + heute = Sommer N 48°7′ 0” / E 11°36′ 0” #
• Nürnberg + heute = auch Sommer. N 48°56′ 0” / E 11°27′ 0” #
• “Don’t save people from sins, save them from loneliness. Sergei, 3rd grade” M.Dymov, Children write to God #
• Today in the train, some 2nd grade children talking: “2Gb is enough, but 0.5Gb is too little, it’s nothing.” #OMG i’m #ANCIENT #
• “We learn, learn, learn, but why all this pain, if we die and lose the knowledge. Fedya, 3rd grade” M.Dymov, Children write to God #
• RT @Damir Never let a computer know you’re in a hurry.. #

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• "Why there is no tenderness in the world? Lena, 1st grade" M.Dymov, Children write to God #
• @FMaria #
• Forgot my mobile phone at home. Feel myself helpless and disconnected. #
• Cool! Next goal to target: SL deployment in big enterprises RT @Damir: Silverlight deployment is now 60% worldwide and growing #MIX10 #
• Wow, pretty cool UI, eBay Silverlight app #MIX10 #
• Back button is very important, I miss it on iPhone #WP7 #MIX10 #
• Liking Smart deletion UI #WP7 #MIX10 #
• WP7 app development is: easy #MIX10 #
• Hehehe, WP7 emulator supports multitouch on W7. Nice #MIX10 #
• iPhone's touch-scrolling is still smoother than on Android, WP7 #
• "How is your living in the Heaven? Do you have everything you need? Can I help somehow? Zina, 3rd grade" M.Dymov, Children write to God #
• I rated a YouTube video (5 out of 5 stars) — Embrace Life – always wear your seat belt http://youtu.be/h-8PBx7isoM?a #
• IE9's Chakra is multi-core compliled JavaScript. #MIX10 #
• Hachamovich loves HTML5. Strange taste. #MIX10 #
• "Lord, do you want to be my friend? Fedya, 1st grade" M.Dymov, Children write to God #
• Also playable on Android RT @Damir #MIX10 session recordings http://bit.ly/9XwBNa via @Ritzy #
• NetworkInterface.GetIsNetworkAvailable() is probably most useless part of SL runtime ever. Can't imagine any scenario using it. #wtf #
• RT @mtnygard: We say "I love that song" but we often mean "I like who I was when that song was big." #
• Och, ich würd' lieber n Buch lesen @jskoeln Wollt ihr das Internet auf dem TV Gerät konsumieren? Oder lieber Fernsehen mit Notebook? #
• Hopefully, emphasis on typography in Metro will improve its support in SL4 #
• Huge difference btwn. WP7 and WinMobile is that now Microsoft really "owns" most of it (UX, Hardware and Customers) #
• SL4 parser has been changed, devs should learn new features. #
• "How should I live, so that everybody in the world will be happy? Lisa, 2nd grade" M.Dymov, Children write to God #
• RT @mtnygard I increasingly believe that organizations structured around job function inevitably lead to corporate paralysis. #
• "What life is needed for, and if it is needed for something, why do people die? Kostya, 2nd grade" M.Dymov, Children write to God #
• My bank has an iPhone app now supporting online-banking. I DO REALLY HOPE THEY DON'T USE TWITTER AS A BUS FOR WIRE TRANSFERS. #shocked #
• Microsoft's RemoteFX sounds very interesting. Video, Silverlight and 3D over RDP. #
• Confused by ppl pretending to embrace smth. w/o actually embracing it. Why don't they have guts to say "No" aloud? #
• "Password" in Dutch is "wachtwoord". Pretty nice and historical. #
• "Why so many people are so not sunny? Arina, 3rd grade" M.Dymov, Children write to God #
• "Are you happy? Evelina, 1st grade" M.Dymov, Children write to God #
• Shocked. SL is quickly becoming another HTML RT @DotNetExpert Mhhh.. no Socket support in the current Windows Phone 7 Silverlight runtime. #

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In Silverlight4 RC, Microsoft has added a few important new features enabling some interesting scenarios related to PlayReady support.

Continue reading ‘New Features in Silverlight4 PlayReady DRM’ »

My completely unofficial MDBG Accelerator stopped to work due to a domain name change on mdbg.net. Here is a working update:
Add ‘Translate with MDBG’ to IE8

NP: Installing Android development environment

Have just read a hillarious blog post by Eldar Musayev. If you can Russian, go read it.

Here’s a short version, the way I’ve understood it:

Old-skool Capitalism: the manager kicks asses of his workers and tells them what to do.

Economy of Knowledge: the manager is still kicking the asses, but only his workers know what to do.

Now we’re experiencing shift to Economy of Invention: even the workers don’t know what to do. The economy is making money by starting a project and inventing a solution at it goes.

Managers are still kicking asses (what else can they do?)

Früher habe ich gedacht, dass meine Freunde möglichst ähnlich wie ich sein sollen: sich für IT interessieren, romantische Filme verachten und Sport nur im Fernsehen mit erleben. Wir werden gemeinsame Interessen haben und einander nicht nerven. Und unsere Freundschaft hält lange.

Dann… dann habe ich mich verändert.

Continue reading ‘Freundschaft’ »

• "Lord, have you listened to your mom, when you was a child? Nina, 2nd grade" M.Dymov, Children write to God #
• H.264 SVC as alternative to Smooth Streaming http://is.gd/9Xi0L. They promise format backward compatibility, which is a huge advantage. #
• Added 32h worth of sessions into my #MIX10 planner http://is.gd/9XCmR #
• "I love You, of course, but I love my mom and dad stronger. Is that OK? Zoya, 3rd grade" M.Dymov, Children write to God #
• From a customer mail: "I expect an absolute final, tested, bugfree release. When bugs will be found, I expect you will fix them." #
• "I don't want to die, please. May I? Yulya, 1st grade" M.Dymov, Children write to God #
• "Everybody says 2000 will be apocalypse. And what will happen afterwards? Maxim, 3rd grade" M.Dymov, Children write to God #
• HttpWebResponse.ContentLength < 0 when the length > 4Gb, even though this property is declared as long. Yet another static typing wtf. #
• "Lord, how old are you? Valya, 2nd grade" M.Dymov, Children write to God #
• "Don't you hear when they shoot? Valera, 2nd grade" M.Dymov, Children write to God #
• "Why people first fall in love, and then cry quietly? Andrei, 4th grade" M.Dymov, Children write to God #
• And they'll hurt you every time, but it's for good RT @rands People you trust will tell you the things you do not want to hear. #

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• Looking at family photos, live seemingly consists only from parties, sun, scenery, laughing, romance and success. And then, a funeral. #
• This is how Internet is making our society post-democratic RT @TechCrunch http://tcrn.ch/cUzBxa #
• Average == beautiful http://www.faceresearch.org/demos/average #
• Душа заплакала, сидя у него на руках. http://j.mp/cKJcsI #
• Learned useful ChildWindow control in Silverlight (thanks, Agu). Technology should be all like that: intuitive and just working. #
• breaking news: bobuk увольняется из Яндекса и переходит на работу в Старлайт RT @bobuk: Еду в Старлайт, работать. #
• Very good news: Microsoft is open-sourcing U-Prove, the framework behind "Geneva". Go use it! http://arst.ch/g1n #
• I rated a YouTube video (5 out of 5 stars) — Мульт — Моя жизнь.Стёбно http://youtu.be/Tm90UJHFWg4?a #
• PlayReady finally comes to Smooth Streaming RT @XaocCPS IIS Smooth Streaming Format SDK Beta 1 released http://tinyurl.com/yb7mpm5 #
• "Hello dear God, what's up, how is your health? Zhenya, 2nd grade" M.Dymov, Children write to God #
• "People grieve so much on the Earth, can it be worse in your Hell? Radik, 4th grade" M.Dymov, Children write to God #

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