I especially liked the part of the Seattle guy's drag-n-drop, don't worry about security because it's all built in speech, where a lot of people began leaving out of boredom and he begged them not to leave and then tried to bribe them back into the room by mentioning he'd soon be raffling off the x-box's. There were only 2 x-box's, hardly a chance to win unlike the AMD giveaway odds. Too bad, because Microsoft could easily afford to give away more x-box units. They are about the same cost as the motherboard kit AMD was giving away. Plus, everyone knows they don't make money on the console's, the profits are all in the games so it's not like they'd loose in the end.
The Seattle event must've been quite different from the Boulder one. The speaker was quite good, the audience seemed genuinely interested, and the room was packed right up until the Xbox was raffled. I'm really glad I went (love free WinXP pro)
HeavyB
HeavyB
The Seattle presentation was kinda like being in CS class. It was interesting, but a little more than I wanted to learn.
Do they have a different speaker for each event? I went to the nyc one, and we had Borg and some other guy. They were at Boulder too. The presentation was great except the screen they had, sucked. Spent sometime trying to get it to work and really set back the presentation. The webservices presentation was really cool and I'm gonna try to do it on my computer and being able to mix and compile different languages back and forth was also a cool presentation but I dunno how many students are gonna use it now, usually schools teach 1 language only, but that's sort of the purpose of academic .NET, to allow schools to use multiple languages in the same IDE and reuse code from any language that can conform the the CLS. Anyways, having a legit copy of winxp and .net is always cool. They teshirt and mint box is pretty cool too. I think only 1/3 of the people had chairs and it sucked sitting on the floor for 2.5 hrs. But it's great that M$ came to nYc =), I think the speakers liked it too.
And the band sucked.
And the band sucked.
dajeepster
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do they send a responce saying that your registration for the event is accepted or do you just show up?
well, when I signed up online, I got an automated email reply, and the day before the event I got an automated email reply. you bring your edu identification and show, they check your ID and then your name against a list of registered users. If you don't have an ID or you're not on the list, you get put on the waiting list.
I went to the NYC one today. The food was good 
So was the band, despite what HJB417 said. The presentation was good till the problem with the screen occured. I got bored and left. On my way out they were at the point were they were no longer going to let anymore people in. At that point all people had to do was come in and show a school ID. Of the two ladies at the desk, one was not even checking against the list, so I showed her my ID and got a 2nd bag. Thank you Microsoft. I hope they did not call my ticket number for the X-Box (I got entered twice into the raffle). Ah well, didn't want an X-Box anyway. I would have E-gayed it.
So was the band, despite what HJB417 said. The presentation was good till the problem with the screen occured. I got bored and left. On my way out they were at the point were they were no longer going to let anymore people in. At that point all people had to do was come in and show a school ID. Of the two ladies at the desk, one was not even checking against the list, so I showed her my ID and got a 2nd bag. Thank you Microsoft. I hope they did not call my ticket number for the X-Box (I got entered twice into the raffle). Ah well, didn't want an X-Box anyway. I would have E-gayed it.I was at the NYC event earler.
The food sucked.
The band really sucked.
The presentation, albeit a bit interesting and with good content, was dull.
At least I got my freebies, so there's an upside. My friend was one of the lucky guys who won the digital camera. That bastard.
Askani:
You might have been one of the X-Box winners. She called a number, but nobody claimed. wah waaah waaaaaaah
The food sucked.
The band really sucked.
The presentation, albeit a bit interesting and with good content, was dull.
At least I got my freebies, so there's an upside. My friend was one of the lucky guys who won the digital camera. That bastard.
Askani:
You might have been one of the X-Box winners. She called a number, but nobody claimed. wah waaah waaaaaaah
<< I bet Askani was the guy dancing to the music before the presentation =p
j/k >>
LOL!! I saw that guy too. What a jackass.
Thanks for the speaker info. I couldn't remember the Author's name.
Well my system must have been ill last night and this morning because on the third installation attempt it finally made it through :- )
Beside the AOL incident, the speaker was throwing out vs.net rubber spider-balls and he had to throw one a good distance, so he put a lot of force into his throw. Well the person at the receiving end wasn't paying attention and got pelted in the eye :Q !
Well my system must have been ill last night and this morning because on the third installation attempt it finally made it through :- )
Beside the AOL incident, the speaker was throwing out vs.net rubber spider-balls and he had to throw one a good distance, so he put a lot of force into his throw. Well the person at the receiving end wasn't paying attention and got pelted in the eye :Q !
Went to NYC event.
The venue sucks - no seating at all except for those who got to the balcony. I'm not gonna sit around on the floor.
The food sucks - can't M$ afford some paper plates? Saw some people double-dipping into the sauce and salad dressing :disgust:
The band sucks - can't hear what they're singing
The software is cool, but I really doubt you can sell them since they have "UNLICENSED SOFTWARE - Illegal w/o license" written all over it
M$ should have organized the seminar in a much more professional way. Fun to see a bunch of geeks bringing along their Girlfriends to grab an extra bag. Some people started dancing to the music with their chicks and ugh.... that is too lame. Left right away.
The venue sucks - no seating at all except for those who got to the balcony. I'm not gonna sit around on the floor.
The food sucks - can't M$ afford some paper plates? Saw some people double-dipping into the sauce and salad dressing :disgust:
The band sucks - can't hear what they're singing
The software is cool, but I really doubt you can sell them since they have "UNLICENSED SOFTWARE - Illegal w/o license" written all over it
M$ should have organized the seminar in a much more professional way. Fun to see a bunch of geeks bringing along their Girlfriends to grab an extra bag. Some people started dancing to the music with their chicks and ugh.... that is too lame. Left right away.
man, you missed a pretty cool presentation. I thought they were gonna have some g33ky people, but the guy turned out to be a people's person. Too bad there weren't any hardcore linux people. Wanted to hear them say "BOOT TO LINUX" or "You forgot to install readhat" something =)
Don't know whether it's already answered, but I assume the Windows XP Pro obtained here needs to be activated, right?
Unfortunately I wasn't the loser of a guy dancing. I was too busy stuffing my face with food. Those mini burgers were nice. I liked the chicken as well. I doubt that I was the winning number, though I had two entries in the drawing. If I had won all I would have done was egay the x-box. I'm a dreamcast man, 100 games and counting. All an all it was a pretty cool event. On my way out, I heard the Project Manager (older looking dude) complaining about the screen problems. Though he and the rest of the MS people commented on the good job the speaker was doing, which I had to agree with. Anyway, who cares about MS, Linux, or Apple. What matters is that free is FREE!
How many of each prizes do they give out?
I have to wait another week before it gets here to sjsu.
They list they are contests for Mp3 players, 500 gift certificate and xbox.
I have to wait another week before it gets here to sjsu.
They list they are contests for Mp3 players, 500 gift certificate and xbox.
The event in NYC wasn't bad. Those mini burger are quite good i think. There were alot of people there. I didn't register, but still managed to get in. You just got to wait on stand by. Just show up and bring your Campus ID and you should be good!
As for prizes: 5 $100 AMEX gift cards, 2 Mp3 player, 2 Fuji Digital Camera, 1 external Iomega CDRW Drive, 2 X box.
As for prizes: 5 $100 AMEX gift cards, 2 Mp3 player, 2 Fuji Digital Camera, 1 external Iomega CDRW Drive, 2 X box.
For anybody who has installed the XP Pro....
Somewhere I heard that XP Pro academic doesn't require activation. Is this true? If so think i could put it on every computer in my house without a problem?
If you don't have XP Pro academic installed, please don't waiste my time with your answer based purely on speculation. let someone running the XP Pro academic answer. That way we won't see all the confusing back and forth contradictory answers.
Somewhere I heard that XP Pro academic doesn't require activation. Is this true? If so think i could put it on every computer in my house without a problem?
If you don't have XP Pro academic installed, please don't waiste my time with your answer based purely on speculation. let someone running the XP Pro academic answer. That way we won't see all the confusing back and forth contradictory answers.
The XP Pro given out at the launch event does not say its an academic version and you do have to activate it. I've heard (from a very reliable source) that the XP pro upgrade given out at some universities doen't need to be activated though.
HeavyB
HeavyB
Can anyone else confirm that VS.Net Academic allows you to compile stand-alone .EXEs that can be run on other computers that don't have VS.net?
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