A Strange but true phenomenon!!!

A strange phenomenon happened with me today... While watching a video in my XP machine through Windows Media Player 10, i thought of taking a screenshot of a particular screen in that video.. what i did was, i navigated to that particular screen and pressed ALT+PRT SCR to take the screen shot, opened up MS Paint, and pasted the screenshot.. to make it lossless i saved it in png format.. continued watching the rest of the video, after sometime, i paused the video and thought of opening the picture and to my surprise the picture showed the screen which was paused on the Windows Media Player 10 rather than what was saved onto it..

haha i am very much surprised .. thats not all ... i resumed the video and simultaneously opened up the pic in windows pic and fax viewer, again to my surprise, the windows pic and fax viewer was playing the entire video in sync with the Windows Media Player 10 (only the border of the player and the timestamp was static (ie it was showing me the details of when i took the screenshot ))

Wow does this happen often??.. YES

I will explain the phenomenon...

1> Open up windows media player, maximise it and take a screen shot.. save the screen shot thru mspaint.

2> Open any video thru windows media player

3> Open the pic using any ms product (pic&fax viewer or mspaint or ms picture manager) .. i havent seen using any other product cos i havent any

4> Make sure that u r overlapping the pic window with that of windows media player ie with the same x and y coordinates and same size of the 2 windows, make the z index of pic viewer higher than that of media player..

5> Now u can see the underlying video thru the pic

now i am .. as to whether this is a feature or is it a bug...

Has anyone seen this phenomenon?? ... please respond ur views and experience about the same :)

I am in a state of

Ready Launch Tour 2005 - Mumbai 13/12/2005

My Experience at the LAUNCH...

Reached Grand Hyatt at 10:20... At the entrance a person greeted me .. it was by mistake, he thought that am someone else ..

*Inside the Lobby*

Went inside (downstairs) and registered for the event... i had the printout of the confirmation that made my registration quicker ) .. after the registration, they asked me the seminar i wished to attend, i said SQL Server 2005 ..

Had a cup of coffee (didnt have the cake and biscuits .. was preparing myself for the bigger event *haha u guessed it rt* )

After having the coffee, visited the AMD, INTEL, HP etc stalls (got bored and then proceeded to see whats happening at the AAC - Asian Aerosol Conference, which was being conducted in a nearby adjacent hall .. stared at some chinese girls and came back to MS event )

*At the Hands-on LAB*

Then a lady came and asked me to attend the "Hands On" Lab session till the seminar begins (she might have seen me wandering around ) .. went to hands on lab and seated myself in front of a pc( intel 3.something Ghz, 2 GB Ram)..b4 i could do anything, a lady came in and announced that the seminar has begun and requested everyone to attend it

*Inside the Seminar Hall*

->11:10 - 11:20

Seated myself in the front rows, and saw some opening videos (Theme: Get Ready To Rock)…

->11:20 - 12:15

Sanjay Parthasarthy (IDC head) walked in to deliver "keynote by microsoft", he started with the Cricket Score

Then there was a demo by Ashutosh and Gaurav Khanna which was *ditto* to demo shown in the webcast..

->12:15 - 13:30

There were some more keynotes and conversations, which was not interesting for me ;) so didnt pay attention :)

->13:30 - 13:35

Host announced the respective boardrooms for the further tracks (SQL Server(DBA Track) & VS2005 (Developer Track) and requested everyone to proceed for lunch.

*Lunch & Dessert*

->13:35 - 14:40

Wow it was fantastic!! Ate till my eyes bulged out

*SQL Seminar* - DBA Track

->14:40 - 16:00

Ramkumar K walked in to speak on "Building Mission Critical databases with SQL server 2005" … was interesting and learned some new techniques and enhancements... one thing that annoyed me in this session was the use of shortcut keys..

->16:00 - 17:40

It was Govind Khansi's turn to speak on "Delivering Business insights(BI)" .. Govind Introduced Shivakumar H, who was amongst the audience as an expert in BI (currently writing 2 books on the same).. Couldnt listen to much of the seminar, was in deep sleep from 16:15 to 17:30 .. woke up at 17:30 and hurriedly filled in the Feedback form. Govind Khansi finished and announced a QA session with Shivakumar…

*The QA - a wonderful experience*

The QA session started with very few having the queries.. Those who asked good (relevant) questions were given a T-Shirt (Rockstar, MVP T-shirt).. i too wanted a T-Shirt , but didnt have any queries regarding SQL Server. Eventually when only 2 Shirts were left, i stood up, walked near shiva and said "Shiva , i am being frank with you, can i have one of those T-Shirts??"... he laughed and handed me over one , "Mission Accomplished" *that was the most happiest moment of the day* ... talked with him a bit more about his new book.. and came back a happy man :)

Thats all folks...