NoClue is AzureFast!

arh

http://www.meetwindowsazure.com/fast

tchize

don't have sliver lights, anything interesting in the video?

ASheridan

I don't have SilverLight either, but I think it's referring to the text that appears when you hover your cursor over that big box at the top.

Don't you just love it when the OP is in a hurry and misses out the key details, like why the thing they've brought to our attention is a WTF in their eyes?

arh

I didn't think anybody would be afraid to install such a common plugin. Anyway... The front image says it all:

boomzilla

@ASheridan said:

Don't you just love it when the OP is in a hurry and misses out the key details, like why the thing they've brought to our attention is a WTF in their eyes?

Or can't even be bothered to put a real link? No. That's not love.

Lorne Kates

@arh said:

I didn't think anybody would be afraid to install such a common plugin.

Or, can't be arsed to worry about another useless plugin fucking up the system with its unnecessarily redundant Bing-itdue.

@Shizlight Ad said:

What does the world's fastest rapper have to say about Windows Azure?

{World's fastest rapper gives a nod, gets into the groove, takes a deep breath-- then says, as slow as Snoop}

Ah shit, man, I gots no fucking clue about this dumbass Micro cloud shit. iMac, yo. iMac.

{In a bizarre combination of self-destruction and resignation to their fate, the Azure team posts the video, anyways}

ASheridan

@arh said:

I didn't think anybody would be afraid to install such a common plugin.

I haven't installed it because it serves no purpose that I can see. Maybe if there was no Flash, this might be useful, or if you could get this on devices where Flash was unavailable, but this is available for less platforms.

Oh, and it's a sodding video. We can play these now without 3rd party plugins these days, do we really need to install Silverlight just to watch a video? I think this is the realWTF.

arh

@ASheridan said:

@arh said:
I didn't think anybody would be afraid to install such a common plugin.
I haven't installed it because it serves no purpose that I can see. Maybe if there was no Flash, this might be useful, or if you could get this on devices where Flash was unavailable, but this is available for less platforms.
Oh, and it's a sodding video. We can play these now without 3rd party plugins these days, do we really need to install Silverlight just to watch a video? I think this is the realWTF.

Can't disagree on that. But maybe that's the real agenda; getting people to install Silverlight at the promise of an unbelievably silly video. At least I did!

pkmnfrk

@arh said:

I didn't think anybody would be afraid to install such a common plugin. Anyway... The front image says it all:

Pick a reason:

Security lockdown on domain PC
No value-add over flash/native HTML technology
Mac
Can't be arsed
Nothing I care about uses it

ASheridan

@pkmnfrk said:

Security lockdown on domain PC

No value-add over flash/native HTML technology

~~Mac~~
Linux

Can't be arsed

Nothing I care about uses it

ftfy

powerlord

@boomzilla said:

@ASheridan said:
Don't you just love it when the OP is in a hurry and misses out the key details, like why the thing they've brought to our attention is a WTF in their eyes?

Or can't even be bothered to put a real link? No. That's not love.

What is love?

dhromed

@powerlord said:

don't hurt me no more, baby don't hurt me

You could have left this for the next poster, but noooo you just had to steal all that thunder for yourself.

Cassidy

@powerlord said:

don't hurt me no more, baby don't hurt me

I have that tune in my head now, you bastid.

Die in a horrible packet-related injury whilst attempting to hack your neighbour's WiFi.

@ASheridan said:

@pkmnfrk said:
Security lockdown on domain PC

No value-add over flash/native HTML technology

~~Mac~~
Linux

Can't be arsed

Nothing I care about uses it

ftfy

All but the first, in particular the second and the last.

As for the third, there's Moonlight, which goes to show there are people with a lot of free time.

ASheridan

@Zecc said:

As for the third, there's Moonlight, which goes to show there are people with a lot of free time.

I've not actually tried using Moonlight, but as I understand it, it tends to be a version behind. This doesn't usually matter for most Silverlight stuff out there (I've yet to see Silverlight in the wild that wasn't on the Microsoft site) but anything that requires the latest version of Silverlight is gonna throw a tantrum.

TwelveBaud1

@ASheridan said:

@pkmnfrk said:
Security lockdown on domain PC

No value-add over flash/native HTML technology

~~Mac~~
~~Linux~~

Can't be arsed

Nothing I care about uses it
ftfy

FTFY.

alegr

I was hoping Microsoft fired hipsters from marketing and hired people who actually know what they're doing.

Looks like it didn't happen. "Heroes Happen Here" lives on.

Kyanar

@ASheridan said:

(I've yet to see Silverlight in the wild that wasn't on the Microsoft site)

You somehow managed to completely miss Netflix?

Ben L.

@Kyanar said:

@ASheridan said:
(I've yet to see Silverlight in the wild that wasn't on the Microsoft site)

You somehow managed to completely miss Netflix?

You silly. Netflix no exist.

arh

Ok then, this should suffice for everyone. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQyatIpkHvM <-- see? It's a URL that's also a link to a YouTube video that only requires HTML5 to load.

ASheridan

@Kyanar said:

@ASheridan said:
(I've yet to see Silverlight in the wild that wasn't on the Microsoft site)

You somehow managed to completely miss Netflix?

I missed it because I didn't have any interest in Netflix, so I'd not seen what technologies they use. On paper Netflix sounds great, in practice they're too limited because of the studios not wanting to relinquish their absolute control over film distribution, so limiting the films Netflix can deliver.

ASheridan

@arh said:

Ok then, this should suffice for everyone. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQyatIpkHvM <-- see? It's a URL that's also a link to a YouTube video that only requires HTML5 to load.

Damn you! You owe me 1½ minutes of my life back.

dhromed

@Kyanar said:

@ASheridan said:
(I've yet to see Silverlight in the wild that wasn't on the Microsoft site)

You somehow managed to completely miss Netflix?

There's no netflix for my country. The dumbasses just completly deny access to me.

Nexzus

OK, T-Bone, time for some serious crunching. (fast forward to about 2:15)

You're welcome.

blakeyrat

Ok 1: if you you want people to see 2:15 in the video, make the fucking link go to 2:15. Duh.

2: why the fuck would anybody upload a video to YouTube that only has a LEFT audio channel? What happened to the right channel? Or if it' not in stereo, why isn't it 50-50 left-right? WTF random person who uploaded this.

MiffTheFox

@arh said:

Ok then, this should suffice for everyone. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQyatIpkHvM <-- see? It's a URL that's also a link to a YouTube video that only requires HTML5 to load.

HTML5 with MP4 support. Maybe WebM support too if YouTube finally started using their own standard, but I doubt it.

MiffTheFox

@blakeyrat said:

2: why the fuck would anybody upload a video to YouTube that only has a LEFT audio channel? What happened to the right channel? Or if it' not in stereo, why isn't it 50-50 left-right? WTF random person who uploaded this.

Sadly a lot of people think it "sounds good" on speakers and then neglect to worry about stuff like users with headphones.

arh

@blakeyrat said:

Ok 1: if you you want people to see 2:15 in the video, make the fucking link go to 2:15. Duh.
2: why the fuck would anybody upload a video to YouTube that only has a LEFT audio channel? What happened to the right channel? Or if it' not in stereo, why isn't it 50-50 left-right? WTF random person who uploaded this.

My guess is that the right channel had audio in another language. Did you never play Hong Kong VCDs in the 90's?

ender

@MiffTheFox said:

HTML5 with MP4 support. Maybe WebM support too if YouTube finally started using their own standard, but I doubt it.

YouTube switched me to their HTML5 beta a long time ago (not sure why or when, I just realized that suddenly the videos started playing as soon as the page loaded instead of waiting for me to activate Flash), and since I'm using Opera I'd say that yes, they do support WebM.

mott555

@ASheridan said:

@Zecc said:
As for the third, there's Moonlight, which goes to show there are people with a lot of free time.
I've not actually tried using Moonlight, but as I understand it, it tends to be a version behind. This doesn't usually matter for most Silverlight stuff out there (I've yet to see Silverlight in the wild that wasn't on the Microsoft site) but anything that requires the latest version of Silverlight is gonna throw a tantrum.

Not that anyone here cares, but Moonlight is 3 versions behind. Last I knew it was considered an abandoned project.