The "funniest" part is that he means individuals - as opposed to corporations. Not as opposed to military or police, as one would normally assume. He wants to protect his rights as an official of one of the most powerful companies in the world, at the expense of freedoms we already have. What ever happened to "don't be evil"?
The 500 ft/1000 over urban applies to FAR Pt 103 Ultralights - not drones. If they are not manned, they do not need to meet these reqs. They are treated the same as R/C aircraft, in which case, the only law is "Don't fly it into people or things, or you'll have a bad day."
This is also true. I can't count how many copies of DirectX 9.0c I had to install...for reasons I have never really ascertained. I started to say 'no' when it asked if I wanted to install DX, and the games ran fine. Guess it was just precautionary? Limit of the older Windows Installer systems?
I think the comparison is quite interesting. DirectX has DirectSound, DirectInput, and other OS-tied and platform-specific functions within it. OpenGL has....graphics.
As DX handles everything from keyboard and joystick input to sound management, it seems like this comparison and article should be focusing on Direct3D instead of DX as a whole.
Do you program anything using OpenGL? Because it's pretty game-friendly if there ever was a game-friendly graphics API. CAD and games use largely the same type of code to get their objects on the screen. It's how you're able to manipulate those objects (which is actually in data/memory, not in the graphics API) which makes CAD or gaming unique.
When you create a sphere in Blender, it's drawing to the screen the same way it would if you created a sphere in an OGL game and rendered it. If you build(or find) yourself a decent wrapper, you can interact with it in whatever way is comfortable or 'more game-friendly' to you.
developing your own graphical/physics engine is dead
Interesting. So I should stop coding this new OGL-based engine from scratch because it's easier to use a pre-made engine? Because you think it's 'dead'? Let alone your coding ability going down the toilet because all you do is drag-and-drop 'component blocks' in your engine of choice, what do you do when you hit the looming brick wall that is the engine's limitations?
"Hey guys, let's pack it up. This random dude on the 'net says the custom and one-off engines we've been making for years are dead, and we should just use Unity or Unreal."
I HOPE there's no directx12 because directx 9 -11 aren't worth upgrading hardware for
This is so true it hurts. Even though my graphics card is DX11-ready, I still only use at most DX9.0c as I am loving my XP experience until they unfuck newer editions of Windows.
Actually, if you're going to give credit to someone for OGL, Apple is about the LAST company you should be thanking. Other than the fact that OGL was the only graphics API that worked on Mac, Apple has done ZERO to help promote, regulate, or stabilize OpenGL in the market. They have not contributed useful code, or participated in the ARB in any meaningful way.
Only Microsoft uses DirectX, everyone else on the planet uses OpenGL.
Except, you know, most top-selling games and other 3D applications on the market which all use DirectX - even if some also use OpenGL.
Even if the numbers don't keep ticking up, as long as it is the preferred graphics/multimedia API for Windows and XBox, it will stay relevant. Discounting it and saying the other common option 'won' is only demonstrating your lack of understanding and versatility as a developer.
When it comes down to it, OGL and DX are about the same thing, just with different platform-specific options. At some point, both will inevitably cease to progress. Given MS's propensity to push toward tablet-style computing and discontinue functional, widely-loved software, I am not surprised they cut out of the race first.
Yes, but does it actually WORK? The previous versions I have used were all steaming piles of dung. Is this a new, better-functioning release, or is this just another "Hey, look at us linux folk, we can do what the rest of you can, too"?
That is what these usually turn out to be, and it's annoying to download/test a new release to realize it's the same shitty package with a new number tacked on.
A 747-400 has an empty weight of right around 400,000 lbs, or 200 tons. It carries about 57,000 gallons of fuel, which at about 6.75lbs per US Gallon, is another 384,750 lbs or 190-ish tons. At about 390 tons, this doesn't even begin to factor in passengers.
The idea that they somehow need to charge more for heavy passengers (who weight ~50 to 200lbs more than an average passenger) is ludicrous. Even multiplied by the entire 416 passengers it can carry, this only adds up to a max of 83,200 lbs or another 40-ish tons of difference. With a max takeoff weight of about 437.5 tons, the average planeload of obese people still won't tip the scales beyond this point.
Seems like a purely profit driven move, considering 90% of the weight they are moving is their own plane and materials.
I should also mention that the trip I am describing happened over 4th of July weekend, and again over Thanksgiving...eat your heart out airline travelers.
I took a 21h train from Chicago to Boston. If I factor in travel to and from the stations, it was a total of 27 hours. I liked it enough to take it on the way back, too. I would do that every trip I could over ever stepping foot in an airport again.
Don't get me wrong, I love flying, and as a pilot I think GA and private aircraft are wonderful. The airlines are just so shit at providing anything resembling 'service' and the government is so retardedly set on backing the ever-invasive Theatrical Security Agency(at Boston's South Station there was a single cop on the platform, chatting with passengers, with a really friendly dog) that I just won't deal with it anymore.
I'd much rather spend an entire day in a large comfortable seat, with huge windows, tons of leg room, and proper 120v outlets, in a place I can (as far as I can tell) always use my cell phone(even as a tether if the train doesn't have WiFi of its own). If you have trouble working on a train, with its whole cars full of tables, and enormous seatback desks, you are broken as an employee and should probably be fired.
Let's not forget to mention that there are enormous bathrooms, entire dining cars with cheap and normal-sized food, hour-long stops at stations with awesome cafes and restaurants, BEDS(sleeper cars FTW), and even SHOWERS on the train. Flying has become a joke, and if you can afford the time and somewhat higher fare, trains are ALWAYS going to be a better travel experience.
"Unless the last 200 years of science were all some incredible mistake, we will never find a way to prove the Earth is round." ~15th Century AD "Unless the last 200 years of science were all some incredible mistake, we will never find a way to prove that the Earth orbits the Sun." ~16th Century AD
Science is always evolving and incorporating discoveries. When we start ignoring things science has not already proven, we have already failed.
I think the simplest solution to this entire mess is that relativity is not always correct. There are already certain areas of physics and sciences where relativity breaks down at certain points.
Progress and scientific advancement means adapting existing theories to encompass new discoveries: until we actually can use something like this, it's all theoretical.
I can explain dimensions 4 through 10(or even 11...maybe) to people, but I can't understand those diagrams. Didn't anyone ever teach that scientist to label his axes? Jeez.
If I could figure out a way to reach through the internet and face-blast you, trust me, I would.
I would also then be the inventor of the most popular feature the world has ever seen: if there is someone out there who wouldn't like to reach through the tubes and punch someone, they're not using the internet.
Perhaps you play by this "has to happen before noon" rule, but this year is the first I have ever heard of that, in 30 years of living in this country and fucking with people's head on April 1st. I'd say this is a stupid and not widely-followed rule for this pseudo-holiday. I don't even go in to work until noon: How am I going to offend and torment my coworkers if I can't prank them during our normal office hours?
Failure. That's what your post and arrogant attitude reek of. Stay home and practice, and perhaps you can have something interesting to prank people with next year instead of crying over timing and being butthurt about AM vs PM(which nobody on Slashdot has trouble understanding, despite your condescending snarkyballs comment).
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"Gaaaaah hot hot hot hot. AAAAAh woooooaaaaaah"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0pdFXygoRY
Whoosh much?
The "funniest" part is that he means individuals - as opposed to corporations. Not as opposed to military or police, as one would normally assume. He wants to protect his rights as an official of one of the most powerful companies in the world, at the expense of freedoms we already have. What ever happened to "don't be evil"?
The 500 ft/1000 over urban applies to FAR Pt 103 Ultralights - not drones. If they are not manned, they do not need to meet these reqs. They are treated the same as R/C aircraft, in which case, the only law is "Don't fly it into people or things, or you'll have a bad day."
In case he didn't, instead of being a snarky dick, you should have mentioned it means 60,000 Feet.
This is also true. I can't count how many copies of DirectX 9.0c I had to install...for reasons I have never really ascertained. I started to say 'no' when it asked if I wanted to install DX, and the games ran fine. Guess it was just precautionary? Limit of the older Windows Installer systems?
I think the comparison is quite interesting. DirectX has DirectSound, DirectInput, and other OS-tied and platform-specific functions within it. OpenGL has....graphics.
As DX handles everything from keyboard and joystick input to sound management, it seems like this comparison and article should be focusing on Direct3D instead of DX as a whole.
Do you program anything using OpenGL? Because it's pretty game-friendly if there ever was a game-friendly graphics API. CAD and games use largely the same type of code to get their objects on the screen. It's how you're able to manipulate those objects (which is actually in data/memory, not in the graphics API) which makes CAD or gaming unique.
When you create a sphere in Blender, it's drawing to the screen the same way it would if you created a sphere in an OGL game and rendered it. If you build(or find) yourself a decent wrapper, you can interact with it in whatever way is comfortable or 'more game-friendly' to you.
developing your own graphical/physics engine is dead
Interesting. So I should stop coding this new OGL-based engine from scratch because it's easier to use a pre-made engine? Because you think it's 'dead'? Let alone your coding ability going down the toilet because all you do is drag-and-drop 'component blocks' in your engine of choice, what do you do when you hit the looming brick wall that is the engine's limitations?
"Hey guys, let's pack it up. This random dude on the 'net says the custom and one-off engines we've been making for years are dead, and we should just use Unity or Unreal."
I HOPE there's no directx12 because directx 9 -11 aren't worth upgrading hardware for
This is so true it hurts. Even though my graphics card is DX11-ready, I still only use at most DX9.0c as I am loving my XP experience until they unfuck newer editions of Windows.
Looks like Microsoft bought one of those Iranian 'future-looking' boxes.
more gamers use OpenGL today then Direct X
[citation needed]
Actually, if you're going to give credit to someone for OGL, Apple is about the LAST company you should be thanking. Other than the fact that OGL was the only graphics API that worked on Mac, Apple has done ZERO to help promote, regulate, or stabilize OpenGL in the market. They have not contributed useful code, or participated in the ARB in any meaningful way.
Only Microsoft uses DirectX, everyone else on the planet uses OpenGL.
Except, you know, most top-selling games and other 3D applications on the market which all use DirectX - even if some also use OpenGL.
Even if the numbers don't keep ticking up, as long as it is the preferred graphics/multimedia API for Windows and XBox, it will stay relevant. Discounting it and saying the other common option 'won' is only demonstrating your lack of understanding and versatility as a developer.
When it comes down to it, OGL and DX are about the same thing, just with different platform-specific options. At some point, both will inevitably cease to progress. Given MS's propensity to push toward tablet-style computing and discontinue functional, widely-loved software, I am not surprised they cut out of the race first.
Sony is beginning a push toward Mac software, and I don't see it taking an enormous leap for that to run on other linux-based systems.
Yes, but does it actually WORK? The previous versions I have used were all steaming piles of dung. Is this a new, better-functioning release, or is this just another "Hey, look at us linux folk, we can do what the rest of you can, too"?
That is what these usually turn out to be, and it's annoying to download/test a new release to realize it's the same shitty package with a new number tacked on.
A 747-400 has an empty weight of right around 400,000 lbs, or 200 tons. It carries about 57,000 gallons of fuel, which at about 6.75lbs per US Gallon, is another 384,750 lbs or 190-ish tons. At about 390 tons, this doesn't even begin to factor in passengers.
The idea that they somehow need to charge more for heavy passengers (who weight ~50 to 200lbs more than an average passenger) is ludicrous. Even multiplied by the entire 416 passengers it can carry, this only adds up to a max of 83,200 lbs or another 40-ish tons of difference. With a max takeoff weight of about 437.5 tons, the average planeload of obese people still won't tip the scales beyond this point.
Seems like a purely profit driven move, considering 90% of the weight they are moving is their own plane and materials.
I should also mention that the trip I am describing happened over 4th of July weekend, and again over Thanksgiving...eat your heart out airline travelers.
I took a 21h train from Chicago to Boston. If I factor in travel to and from the stations, it was a total of 27 hours. I liked it enough to take it on the way back, too. I would do that every trip I could over ever stepping foot in an airport again.
Don't get me wrong, I love flying, and as a pilot I think GA and private aircraft are wonderful. The airlines are just so shit at providing anything resembling 'service' and the government is so retardedly set on backing the ever-invasive Theatrical Security Agency(at Boston's South Station there was a single cop on the platform, chatting with passengers, with a really friendly dog) that I just won't deal with it anymore.
I'd much rather spend an entire day in a large comfortable seat, with huge windows, tons of leg room, and proper 120v outlets, in a place I can (as far as I can tell) always use my cell phone(even as a tether if the train doesn't have WiFi of its own). If you have trouble working on a train, with its whole cars full of tables, and enormous seatback desks, you are broken as an employee and should probably be fired.
Let's not forget to mention that there are enormous bathrooms, entire dining cars with cheap and normal-sized food, hour-long stops at stations with awesome cafes and restaurants, BEDS(sleeper cars FTW), and even SHOWERS on the train. Flying has become a joke, and if you can afford the time and somewhat higher fare, trains are ALWAYS going to be a better travel experience.
Clearly, all we need is an Ansible...
"Unless the last 200 years of science were all some incredible mistake, we will never find a way to prove the Earth is round." ~15th Century AD
"Unless the last 200 years of science were all some incredible mistake, we will never find a way to prove that the Earth orbits the Sun." ~16th Century AD
Science is always evolving and incorporating discoveries. When we start ignoring things science has not already proven, we have already failed.
I think the simplest solution to this entire mess is that relativity is not always correct. There are already certain areas of physics and sciences where relativity breaks down at certain points.
Progress and scientific advancement means adapting existing theories to encompass new discoveries: until we actually can use something like this, it's all theoretical.
I can explain dimensions 4 through 10(or even 11...maybe) to people, but I can't understand those diagrams. Didn't anyone ever teach that scientist to label his axes? Jeez.
If I could figure out a way to reach through the internet and face-blast you, trust me, I would.
I would also then be the inventor of the most popular feature the world has ever seen: if there is someone out there who wouldn't like to reach through the tubes and punch someone, they're not using the internet.
Perhaps you play by this "has to happen before noon" rule, but this year is the first I have ever heard of that, in 30 years of living in this country and fucking with people's head on April 1st. I'd say this is a stupid and not widely-followed rule for this pseudo-holiday. I don't even go in to work until noon: How am I going to offend and torment my coworkers if I can't prank them during our normal office hours?
Failure. That's what your post and arrogant attitude reek of. Stay home and practice, and perhaps you can have something interesting to prank people with next year instead of crying over timing and being butthurt about AM vs PM(which nobody on Slashdot has trouble understanding, despite your condescending snarkyballs comment).
Who told you about baconnaise? That's supposed to be top secret.