And therein lies the rub. Platform specific API's, system calls, platform specific code all has to be removed and rewritten and even got called something entirely new in some cases. Why change the name of the function if it acts the same on both systems? Why not rewrite the API's so that they work the same on both platforms?
These are classic engineering mistakes that they made that would have MADE MONO cross platform. This was the original idea behind MONO. But it's not cross platform. If I write code for a LINUX API, the functions don't tranlate to Windows API's. They should have been generic regardless of the platform. But they aren't and so it's not compatible or cross platform.
Factually Innacurate? Excellent. Go start running all those MONO programs on WINDOWS under.NET then if they are so compatible. They should all work perfectly fine. Feel free to remain indignantly silent when you discover you are wrong though.
"implement a multimedia framework compatible with Silverlight as a free software alternative to Flash" - CHECK.
Number of Silverlight users - zero
Number of Moonlight users - less than zero
"have a.NET and C# implementation compatible with Microsoft's" - CHECK.
Compatible? Great. Start running ALL MONO code on Windows and vice versa. Oh, you mean it doesn't quite work that way. Then it's not compatible then is it?
"write desktop applications in C#" - CHECK.
For whose desktop? Windows people don't use MONO. Windows people have never HEARD of MONO (unless they happen to have caught it). And as to compatibility, see my previous answer as to running MONO code on Windows operating systems (because nobody is running it on Linux or MacOS).
I meant track record in terms of technical achievement
Well golly gee whiz... good for him. He reinvented something else that no one is using and that the initial vendor won't help support (even with his lips tightly wrapped around their ass). What a great technical achievement. Lets all stand up and clap for him shall we. Then maybe he'll shut up and move on to something USEFUL.
Awesome track record? I'm sorry, I must be living in an alternate reality. So MONO is now being used interchangeably on Linux and Microsoft platforms like Java is? Like he planned all along? So MONO has gained mass adoption and mass acceptance and has been embraced by Microsoft and they are now allowing them to.NET conferences where they were continually denying them from showing?
Wow. This new reality you live in smells vaguely of that new fragrance... DeNial. You and Migual must shop at the same store.
Oops.. sorry. Was thinking of SWS. Still lighttpd's market share is marginal if you look at Netcrafts figures and it's mostly their forking of the Google web serve stats that affected Apache's drop. Since Google doesn't resell or redistribute (and it still is labelled as Apache in the headers), I don't see the point of calling it something else... especially if the market cannot get their hands on it and start using it for themselves.
As Mark Twain said 'There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.' These stats are INCREDIBLY slanted as Microsoft paid several domain parkers to move to IIS thus making it look like alot of people use IIS when in fact they do not. Also, they forked their stats: Googles web server is actually a custom build of Apache (not for resale), lighttpd is a custom build of apache as well. Add these stats back in, take into consideration that Microsoft paid off domain parkers and you actually get a stat more like this.
One line in can be covered via several different methods. Sattelite, T1, microwaves, etc. but you have to get that initial pipe. That cost cannot be avoided but the method can be cheaper depending on what you want. Also, since it IS the Navajo nation, their land will cover a wide area and they can bring in the pipe from any part of their border so there is a good chance there will be a military base, business district or (even more likely) Casino or Large Scale Bingo hall where existing infrastructure was needed before hand that they can run from.
No... it runs ON Windows or OSX but not IN Firefox. If it did, it would work as a plugin and would run on all operating systems that Firefox ran on. As of so far, it has been severely problematic to use Firefox with in on any OS.
Hmmm... yes. The smog polluted, politically overshadowed, internet blocked media olympics. That will draw LOTS of people to Silverlight. Especially when Firefox is 35% of the market in several countries now (20-25% in the US) and Silverlight has yet to work with Firefox. Of course, they could always just watch it on Youtube... which is what most people will do anyway if they REALLY want to see something. That way they can see related videos and search for other videos of the olympic events as well.
Yes... you just need one location to get a T1 line in (or some other major pipe). The grab a bunch of wireless trasmitter boxes from someplace like these guys (http://www.ubnt.com/). They all run Linux and you can connect to them wirelessly. Plus they have 3-5 mile trasmissions on some of the high end models. Do it right and you have a Navajo nation connected wirelessly on one T1 line.:)
My brother is a high up in the military and complains of this 'seal of approval' constantly. Microsoft salespeople and other constantly will send their products to get 'evaluated' and get the seal of approval the next day as if someone can evaluate their product in 24 hours. Whereas other products that are open source or actually supply the source code can take MONTHS!
It's totally arbitrary and has very little to do with security.
Which is why I recommended the Apple Human Interface Guidelines. They seem to be more comprehensive, better written and cover even the finer details to give a complete experience. And considering how they now have 45% a commanding share of the laptop market plus the iphone and the ipod, it's not a bad idea to just learn the interface in the longrun.
Heh, thats a cute hack. Yeah if it thinks it wrote it's own boot sector, then it won't think there is a problem. And if you are loading the other drive from bios first with it's own boot sector but write a boot loader for VISTA, that would solve the problem too I would assume.
Dual boot systems generally aren't a pain to setup (unless you load Windows second and it overwrites your boot sector). Dual boots are well documented and many people know to load Windows first and then load Linux second and replace the boot sector with LILO or GRUB so you can boot into your choice. It's only Windows that doesn't give choice (as per usual).
Correct and how many of those patents are hardware innovations NOT software? I keep mentioning this but you seem to gloss over it.
Second, until patent reform takes place, this is the best IBM can do. Offer their patents to others wishing patent reform on software patents while at the same time making sure they are protected
I think your research must be extremely selective because their have been several from various vendors and several that they don't acknowledge. And Apache hasn't had CRITICAL vulnerabilities while IIS has. And their patch time is averages about 1 week whereas IIS averages 6 months.
Well that is true in a world of closed source code but not in the open source world where security reviewers and amateurs are always looking at your code. When the whole world has access to your code all the time, you always have to be improving it and working on it.
When it is closed (such as IE was) you can sit on it and not develop for years. Keeping things open causes more people to force you to stay on your game or else they will eventually fork it. Thats kind of what happened with Mozilla and Firefox; Mozilla wasn't really doing things right so Firefox was created. Lucky for them he was willing to work WITH them.
Well to use an analogy, if Apache and IIS were car companies, one is manufacturing cars that get 200 MPG, with keyless entry security systems that are highly customizable and can be purchased for $10. The other company makes a car that runs on baby kittens, can be hijacked everytime you go under 30 MPH (and whose top speed is 35 MPH) and can be purchased for $100,000.
Who do you think deserves the market in this case?
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And therein lies the rub. Platform specific API's, system calls, platform specific code all has to be removed and rewritten and even got called something entirely new in some cases. Why change the name of the function if it acts the same on both systems? Why not rewrite the API's so that they work the same on both platforms?
These are classic engineering mistakes that they made that would have MADE MONO cross platform. This was the original idea behind MONO. But it's not cross platform. If I write code for a LINUX API, the functions don't tranlate to Windows API's. They should have been generic regardless of the platform. But they aren't and so it's not compatible or cross platform.
Factually Innacurate? Excellent. Go start running all those MONO programs on WINDOWS under .NET then if they are so compatible. They should all work perfectly fine. Feel free to remain indignantly silent when you discover you are wrong though.
Number of Silverlight users - zero
Number of Moonlight users - less than zero
Compatible? Great. Start running ALL MONO code on Windows and vice versa. Oh, you mean it doesn't quite work that way. Then it's not compatible then is it?
For whose desktop? Windows people don't use MONO. Windows people have never HEARD of MONO (unless they happen to have caught it). And as to compatibility, see my previous answer as to running MONO code on Windows operating systems (because nobody is running it on Linux or MacOS).
Well golly gee whiz... good for him. He reinvented something else that no one is using and that the initial vendor won't help support (even with his lips tightly wrapped around their ass). What a great technical achievement. Lets all stand up and clap for him shall we. Then maybe he'll shut up and move on to something USEFUL.
Awesome track record? I'm sorry, I must be living in an alternate reality. So MONO is now being used interchangeably on Linux and Microsoft platforms like Java is? Like he planned all along? So MONO has gained mass adoption and mass acceptance and has been embraced by Microsoft and they are now allowing them to .NET conferences where they were continually denying them from showing?
... DeNial. You and Migual must shop at the same store.
Wow. This new reality you live in smells vaguely of that new fragrance
Oops.. sorry. Was thinking of SWS. Still lighttpd's market share is marginal if you look at Netcrafts figures and it's mostly their forking of the Google web serve stats that affected Apache's drop. Since Google doesn't resell or redistribute (and it still is labelled as Apache in the headers), I don't see the point of calling it something else... especially if the market cannot get their hands on it and start using it for themselves.
As Mark Twain said 'There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.' These stats are INCREDIBLY slanted as Microsoft paid several domain parkers to move to IIS thus making it look like alot of people use IIS when in fact they do not. Also, they forked their stats: Googles web server is actually a custom build of Apache (not for resale), lighttpd is a custom build of apache as well. Add these stats back in, take into consideration that Microsoft paid off domain parkers and you actually get a stat more like this.
One line in can be covered via several different methods. Sattelite, T1, microwaves, etc. but you have to get that initial pipe. That cost cannot be avoided but the method can be cheaper depending on what you want. Also, since it IS the Navajo nation, their land will cover a wide area and they can bring in the pipe from any part of their border so there is a good chance there will be a military base, business district or (even more likely) Casino or Large Scale Bingo hall where existing infrastructure was needed before hand that they can run from.
No... it runs ON Windows or OSX but not IN Firefox. If it did, it would work as a plugin and would run on all operating systems that Firefox ran on. As of so far, it has been severely problematic to use Firefox with in on any OS.
Hmmm... yes. The smog polluted, politically overshadowed, internet blocked media olympics. That will draw LOTS of people to Silverlight. Especially when Firefox is 35% of the market in several countries now (20-25% in the US) and Silverlight has yet to work with Firefox. Of course, they could always just watch it on Youtube... which is what most people will do anyway if they REALLY want to see something. That way they can see related videos and search for other videos of the olympic events as well.
Yes... you just need one location to get a T1 line in (or some other major pipe). The grab a bunch of wireless trasmitter boxes from someplace like these guys (http://www.ubnt.com/). They all run Linux and you can connect to them wirelessly. Plus they have 3-5 mile trasmissions on some of the high end models. Do it right and you have a Navajo nation connected wirelessly on one T1 line. :)
So... how's that Silverlight plugin working out for you?
My brother is a high up in the military and complains of this 'seal of approval' constantly. Microsoft salespeople and other constantly will send their products to get 'evaluated' and get the seal of approval the next day as if someone can evaluate their product in 24 hours. Whereas other products that are open source or actually supply the source code can take MONTHS!
It's totally arbitrary and has very little to do with security.
Well my wife and I have long said that SSN's should be replaced with IP's
Which is why I recommended the Apple Human Interface Guidelines. They seem to be more comprehensive, better written and cover even the finer details to give a complete experience. And considering how they now have 45% a commanding share of the laptop market plus the iphone and the ipod, it's not a bad idea to just learn the interface in the longrun.
Heh, thats a cute hack. Yeah if it thinks it wrote it's own boot sector, then it won't think there is a problem. And if you are loading the other drive from bios first with it's own boot sector but write a boot loader for VISTA, that would solve the problem too I would assume.
Dual boot systems generally aren't a pain to setup (unless you load Windows second and it overwrites your boot sector). Dual boots are well documented and many people know to load Windows first and then load Linux second and replace the boot sector with LILO or GRUB so you can boot into your choice. It's only Windows that doesn't give choice (as per usual).
Considering how well VISTA worked out, I wouldn't even say that Windows guidelines is even good for Windows.
Perhaps the most comprehensive guide out there. Not a GUI but if you want a GUI, use Xcode. http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/AppleHIGuidelines/XHIGIntro/chapter_1_section_1.html
Correct and how many of those patents are hardware innovations NOT software? I keep mentioning this but you seem to gloss over it.
Second, until patent reform takes place, this is the best IBM can do. Offer their patents to others wishing patent reform on software patents while at the same time making sure they are protected
I think your research must be extremely selective because their have been several from various vendors and several that they don't acknowledge. And Apache hasn't had CRITICAL vulnerabilities while IIS has. And their patch time is averages about 1 week whereas IIS averages 6 months.
Again... not a stellar security track record.
And compared to Apache, it's still lacking. It's only secure in comparison to its HORRIBLE past track record.
Well that is true in a world of closed source code but not in the open source world where security reviewers and amateurs are always looking at your code. When the whole world has access to your code all the time, you always have to be improving it and working on it.
When it is closed (such as IE was) you can sit on it and not develop for years. Keeping things open causes more people to force you to stay on your game or else they will eventually fork it. Thats kind of what happened with Mozilla and Firefox; Mozilla wasn't really doing things right so Firefox was created. Lucky for them he was willing to work WITH them.
Well to use an analogy, if Apache and IIS were car companies, one is manufacturing cars that get 200 MPG, with keyless entry security systems that are highly customizable and can be purchased for $10. The other company makes a car that runs on baby kittens, can be hijacked everytime you go under 30 MPH (and whose top speed is 35 MPH) and can be purchased for $100,000.
Who do you think deserves the market in this case?
So we are in agreeance then. Open source IS better! :)