Linux? Even if you've got the right driver (and what is the right driver? e.g. if you have an nVidia card, there's nVidia's driver, nouveau, and is Gallium3D one of those too? oh, and vesa "works" too - your distro might have selected that and you may never know unless you checked xorg.conf...), you're still likely to have a ton of other problems with this and that layers of middleware.
I haven't really experienced that issue on any distro but Gentoo in the recent years. Most distros I've used will have an opensource nvidia/ati driver setup and offer to automatically install the proprietary driver for "increased performance" at the chance there might be some "instability", leaving the option up to the user.
Why hasn't there been an open source video conferencing package that beats it in terms of market penetration?
Because there isn't a large movement behind it for one. Many people who use Linux are satisfied using Skype, despite the fact it is proprietary.
That is a weakness on FOSS's side.
This is annecdotal, but, the people I know who use Linux distros don't generally use it because it's FOSS to begin with, it does what they want. So, FOSS may not even need to be part of this equasion when it comes to Linux offerings.
Considering Mono supports C#, VB.Net and not J# would be reason for that.
That's compilation, I'm talking about supporting the MSIL, what every Microsoft.NET language is transformed to before converted into bytecode. A proper.net runtime/interpreter wouldn't have these problems, regardless. By the way, MSIL is a supported language of Mono, since it has to use it to begin with.
Besides... only a loser would use J#
The loser here is Mono and.NET.
People like you mention migrating to.NET from Java is better, but then it's attempted and cross platform support completely sucks in comparison to Java. Why are you trying to miss lead people into making obviously flawed decisions?
Now, getting back on topic.
The poor MSIL support isn't mentioned on that page, is it?
try looking at the freaking link moron. Very little is missed in Mono.
That link doesn't really reveal how much isn't implemented. For example, none of my J# applications work in Mono, no matter what version of.net it's compiled for. The poor MSIL support isn't mentioned on that page, is it?
Oh I dunno, but think for a moment why half the web servers in the world run apps written in a scripting language.
That's easy, live editing of programs without compilation. Interesting to note, many large scale systems are using asp, jsp etc. and even scripting languages that end up in large scale systems, end up with special "cached" pre-compiled code on systems that deal with scaling up.
In reality, from the way I understand it, it's just from ease of use to program live/edit rather than the actual language it self. But I don't think this answers at all what the grand parent wanted to know, so... I don't really get your point either.
Mono is pretty much caught up. will all features of.net
There are a few exceptions, but nothing that can't be worked around quickly.
None of my J# applications work in Mono and after repeated queries for help on the matter on forums, IRC channels, I gave up. I don't see this "work around quickly" method you speak of.
A neat idea, back in the mid 90s of "write once, run anywhere" that ended up so horribly broken that it became "write once, debug/rewrite everywhere" only with shittier performance than native, recompiled code.
But that does raise the question of why all the systems aren't networked except the vulnerable ones. Is there seriously some reason why they couldn't network the non-vulnerable systems?
They were networked to specific terminals, but the terminals despite being next to each other, never linked together due to the risk of one system being effected could effect all other systems which would be a pain in the ass to deal with.
I feel the same way about Cyber Sex. It's just sex, nothing cyber about it (except for the fact of the person having sex can just turn off the computer if the partner sucks).
No, you insert the latest openbsd disc and choose upgrade instead at boot up. Upgrading while the system is running (like with apt-get) is unfortunately, a very manual process and I wouldn't recommend it due to the many mistakes one can do.
What the heck. The Internet has already pretty much jumped the shark as far as I'm concerned so if I can't beat this I can save a few bucks a month and cancel my service.
And yes that kind of GUI tool exists, albeit running only on mac os x. it's called Automator, and I would gladly pay to get something like that under Ubuntu.
Out of curiosity, why didn't sikuli and gnee work for you?
I don't profess to be super knowledgeable in this field, but even I know that Nokia doesn't produce the majority of their phones in China and it wouldn't surprise me to find other mobile manufacturers that don't either.
True. But the non-VAT registered business (only legally possible if its very small) will have had to pay VAT on the stuff it buys
If they're buying from VAT registered companies.
and unlike a VAT registered business, won't have been able to claim that back
Assuming they bought products from a VAT registered company to begin with. When I was living in Poland, I was well aware of a few businesses that were not VAT registered and had their prices slightly cheaper and achieved greater profit by not being VAT registered.
Why can't you explain to me why I am not seeing these problems?
You were so eager to prove me wrong, which you failed to do but you still didn't have the courtesy to even answer my only question. Why don't I see these problems?
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Reading your comment, it's like you haven't even tried to use major distributions like Ubuntu or OpenSuSE within the recent years.
I haven't really experienced that issue on any distro but Gentoo in the recent years. Most distros I've used will have an opensource nvidia/ati driver setup and offer to automatically install the proprietary driver for "increased performance" at the chance there might be some "instability", leaving the option up to the user.
Because there isn't a large movement behind it for one. Many people who use Linux are satisfied using Skype, despite the fact it is proprietary.
This is annecdotal, but, the people I know who use Linux distros don't generally use it because it's FOSS to begin with, it does what they want. So, FOSS may not even need to be part of this equasion when it comes to Linux offerings.
Done!
That's compilation, I'm talking about supporting the MSIL, what every Microsoft .NET language is transformed to before converted into bytecode. A proper .net runtime/interpreter wouldn't have these problems, regardless. By the way, MSIL is a supported language of Mono, since it has to use it to begin with.
The loser here is Mono and .NET.
People like you mention migrating to .NET from Java is better, but then it's attempted and cross platform support completely sucks in comparison to Java. Why are you trying to miss lead people into making obviously flawed decisions?
Now, getting back on topic.
The poor MSIL support isn't mentioned on that page, is it?
That link doesn't really reveal how much isn't implemented. For example, none of my J# applications work in Mono, no matter what version of .net it's compiled for. The poor MSIL support isn't mentioned on that page, is it?
That's easy, live editing of programs without compilation. Interesting to note, many large scale systems are using asp, jsp etc. and even scripting languages that end up in large scale systems, end up with special "cached" pre-compiled code on systems that deal with scaling up.
In reality, from the way I understand it, it's just from ease of use to program live/edit rather than the actual language it self. But I don't think this answers at all what the grand parent wanted to know, so... I don't really get your point either.
None of my J# applications work in Mono and after repeated queries for help on the matter on forums, IRC channels, I gave up. I don't see this "work around quickly" method you speak of.
As long as I can remember, it's always been like that with JRockit and HotSpot. How is it dead now?
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I'm pretty sure you're supposed to use ssh -Y on Ubuntu, not -X.
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They were networked to specific terminals, but the terminals despite being next to each other, never linked together due to the risk of one system being effected could effect all other systems which would be a pain in the ass to deal with.
Mine craft.
Fixed that comment for you.
No, you insert the latest openbsd disc and choose upgrade instead at boot up. Upgrading while the system is running (like with apt-get) is unfortunately, a very manual process and I wouldn't recommend it due to the many mistakes one can do.
Why don't you really like Slashdot?
Who are you again?
I can't think of a single opensource platform I've used (various Linux distriubtions, BSDs, Solaris etc) where daylight savings failed for me.
Out of curiosity, why didn't sikuli and gnee work for you?
Most common complaints I've heard recently with regards to Firefox: It works in Firefox, but won't work in opera/safari!!!
(Javascript related)
I don't profess to be super knowledgeable in this field, but even I know that Nokia doesn't produce the majority of their phones in China and it wouldn't surprise me to find other mobile manufacturers that don't either.
If they're buying from VAT registered companies.
Assuming they bought products from a VAT registered company to begin with. When I was living in Poland, I was well aware of a few businesses that were not VAT registered and had their prices slightly cheaper and achieved greater profit by not being VAT registered.
That's only the case if the business is VAT registered. If it's not VAT registered business, then the person doesn't have to pay VAT.
I'm still waiting for a response. Why haven't you responded?
Why can't you explain to me why I am not seeing these problems?
You were so eager to prove me wrong, which you failed to do but you still didn't have the courtesy to even answer my only question. Why don't I see these problems?
Looks like old versions that don't even have the plugin wrapper, judging from the task manager process lists. I'm not really seeing it?
Anyway, you didn't answer my question.
Can you explain why I am not seeing this issue please?