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The poll options seem to be using double quotes instead of apostrophes.
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It is really irritating having to keep installing Silverlight when the versions change even slightly... it should update itself just like other Microsoft products.
You know, it really is a great technology, far better for developers than Flash, but if MS doesn't get their act together vis a vis deployment, Flash will continue to lead.
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Do you have Windows Update set to automatically install updates? Then Silverlight can be configured to check for updates automatically.
"Listen, and listen well. I really like the band N-Sync. My favorite member is Harpo. I think there's a Harpo. If not there should be. I will write their next hit, maybe 'A boom-boom chiky chiky boom-boom a boom-boom chiky chaka chaka cho cho.' By the way, you must beware of Betty's iron claw. They are sharp, and they hurt. And beware his song about big butts, he beats people up while he plays it! " - Master Tang (from Kung Pow: Enter the Fist)
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...CListCtrlLight. 
"Listen, and listen well. I really like the band N-Sync. My favorite member is Harpo. I think there's a Harpo. If not there should be. I will write their next hit, maybe 'A boom-boom chiky chiky boom-boom a boom-boom chiky chaka chaka cho cho.' By the way, you must beware of Betty's iron claw. They are sharp, and they hurt. And beware his song about big butts, he beats people up while he plays it! " - Master Tang (from Kung Pow: Enter the Fist)
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The versions 0.9, 1.x, 2.0, ... are not compatible with each other... So even if I have installed a version, I may not be able to run a Silverlight-application.
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Signed in... website still says "you must sign in to vote". Is there a separate sign-in for voting?
Paul.
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I don't have it installed and I do not plan to do it
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I agree with that, especially when you've already got like 50 media playing software systems installed on the computer, taking up hundreds of Meg, and making the computer run slow......
The worst thing about the darkness is the light at the end - DX-MON
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Silverlight is not just a media player. All the cool stuff you can do in Flash, as well as all the productive stuff you can do in WPF and WinForms you can do now in the browser. Additionally, you now can run your .Net code (most of it) on Mac and Linux!
It totally expands your horizons!
Richard
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R2B2 wrote: Additionally, you now can run your .Net code (most of it) on Mac and Linux!
I would not want to run .Net code on my computer considering how buggy most of it is, not to mention the fact you can write viruses 10 times more easily using .Net..... oh and I keep my Ubuntu installation clean of Microsoft code, it tends to have a bad effect when running M$ code.
I can code up applications in Java, JavaScript and Flash if I really wanted to use this kind of content, I just see a buggy, fairly un-tested product from M$ and I just see more content that can't fit down my 2Mb/s pipeline as it is just too intensive.
R2B2 wrote: All the cool stuff you can do in Flash, as well as all the productive stuff you can do in WPF and WinForms you can do now in the browser.
I also wouldn't want to run WinForms code and WPF code on my computer without having read reviews and descriptions for the product first, this is one of the most common ways people get viruses. (Running stuff they have no idea what it does and how good it is)
The worst thing about the darkness is the light at the end - DX-MON
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The misuse/abuse of something is not a valid arguement against the use of anything. A hammer can be used to build a house, or to tear it down. It is what you do with it.
To me, Silverlight is another tool that I can use to create apps. It allows me to have a .Net framework client so I can work with data feeds (XML not video/audio) in a type-save manner as well as have a rich architecture for displaying it.
Silverlight uses the same laguages and base classes that I am currently using, so I don't have to relearn everything. If Java and Flash are what work fastest for you, great. My point is that Silverlight is more than just videos. Silverlight actually enables you to REDUCE the traffic between you and the server and gives you the tools to create compelling interfaces.
My 2 cents,
Richard
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I was trying to point out that with every new piece of technology comes dangers, and the dangers with such powerful APIs being exposed over the web, to me, out-way the benefits as a website using silver-light can bypass my web-browsers security features and install viruses to my computer without my consent, or download explicit images without my consent, and I would not even know, being how transparent you can make software with things like WinForms.
I do agree that it is a good piece of technology, I'm just saying that until it's been THOROUGHLY tested, and all holes created by exposing the deepest APIs of Windows to people on the web have been filled, I would not want to touch it because the risk associated with it is too high, even as a home user.
The worst thing about the darkness is the light at the end - DX-MON
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I agree it needs to be tested THOROUGHLY as well. I tend to be an early adopter. I respect your position. It is a very valid one. I more was resonding to the view that Silverlight is for videos only.
Richard
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Ok, understood. Though I still don't want another media-player for my computer (I see silverlight's primary purpose of that of a media system), what I want is a media player that combines all the formats of the current ones into 1 product, and for a relatively low cost, (I'm making a media player at the moment).
The worst thing about the darkness is the light at the end - DX-MON
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I dont have  it installed
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I know I have it installed on most machines I run, but I'm not sure on which 
At least one runs the silverlight 2.0 SDK that's for sure as visual studio runs kind of bad on that machine.
WM.
What about weapons of mass-construction?
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...because it shows up in Firefox's plugins list. Version 1.0.something.
Presumably a newer version would take care of the annoying pleas of MSDN, but i just can't be bothered. I'm guessing that by the time i actually need it for anything there'll be two or three new versions out anyway, so i might as well just wait.
Citizen 20.1.01 'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.'
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Shog9 wrote: because it shows up in Firefox's plugins list
That's weird. I've defiantly got it installed because Silverlight pages work, but it doesn't show up in the plug ins list. (FF3)
Simon
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I have FF3 and it is shown in my plug-ins fine.
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Yeah, but you could add "Silverlight (all versions)" to your resumé 
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I have it installed by it does not show on FF3. I hate the nagging MS SilverLight install message box 
Yusuf
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How about "I already uninstalled Silverlight" or "How do I completely uninstall Silverlight?!"
--Taf
P.E.B.C.A.K.
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Another other side...
I tried installing SilverLight and the install failed. It doesn't appear as uninstallable, but now SilverLight sites think I have it so I don't get the option to install it.
Brian
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Taf Greenstreet wrote: How do I completely uninstall Silverlight?
yea, I'd like to know that too...
Yusuf
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Does Silverlight exist under linux?
John
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