GPS relies on clocks, but it's still not true. You can use any fixed point of reference and triangulation to determine longitude.
You just can't use the stars or the sun because the Earth rotates and you'd need to now what time it was in order to know what their position would be.
You can use just about any continent or any large island if you have accurate maps. You can also use the moon if you carefully watch it change to its fullest or wait for the tiniest sliver to vanish, for example. The phases of the moon serve as your clock. Hard to accurately measure, but if you're stuck at sea with nothing else to do you it can change being 1000 miles off course to being 100 miles off course.
It isn't easy, but it's one of the many ways ancient navigators navigated. We're talking about clocks in the 1700s, yet by that time voyages to the new world were getting to be fairly routine. Accurate maps, measuring speed (with the knot method for example), learning the currents and weather patterns, etc. made such voyages possible. Clocks made it easy enough for the Brits to send everyone and their dog over on anything that would float.
It is engineering - they're operating, maintaining, and modifying machines with engines. There's a handful of clowns out on a "we need REAL engineers" campaign on Slashdot, yet they don't know WTF a real engineer is.
Saudis like to flash their cash, not spend it. I bet the "negotiation" went like this:
Said! What's the internet? Do I need to control it? Go buy me someone who can control the internet for me, then buy me the internet.
OK BOSS! Hey, Hacking Team, I'm Said a friend of the royal Saudi family. The king dickshit wants to buy you!
How much? What do we have to do?
King dickshit has very many billions of dollars and will pay you any price! All you have to do is be our slaves, essentially.
How many billions, exactly?
Boss! They want to know how many billions you'll give them!
What? Are you still talking about that internet thing? I'm bored of that, go buy me another solid gold horse, I have a formal engagement tonight and I need to look fashionable!
Nah, just tie on some of those mylar party balloon filled with helium. They'll make your pack much lighter, and they come in bright festive colors to boot!
My ISP does change my address occasionally, for no reason. It's not a question of "why" (because they're stupid, that's why everybody does everything), but a question of "when".
Using a private range is the "solution", but to be externally reachable, you need to employ some sort of translation of the network addresses, and poke holes as appropriate. I propose will call this "Translation for Addresses on Networks", or TAN.
Fuck you. If there were an abundance of good jobs available people wouldn't have to put up with that shit in the first place. Software development is hell for 99% of the people doing it because the only competition is between the employees and the H1Bs.
There's nothing wrong with GOTO statements, and there never was. This is a rather popular misconception.
Sixth, never ever use exception handlers. You have a non-deterministic path through the program and therefore no means of knowing if the state of the program is valid. You also want the program to crash if it encounters a situation that it shouldn't, it means there's a catastrophic fault in the machine or the software. There are no exceptions to this rule. Exception handling is one of the worst mistakes ever made in software engineering.
Bullshit. They won't go to you, they'll go to Joe's cubicle. Joe's out for the day and has an active Ethernet port.
Did you encase Joe's entire PC in a locked steel box that's drilled into a hard wall covering the Ethernet port? No? Joe has an unattended, unsecured Dell sitting under his desk, connected by an aging, crusty Ethernet cable to a wall plate attached to a flimsy cubicle partition?
Supporting it doesn't mean they want it to succeed. The engine developers need to support everything and they don't much care what wins.
MS obviously wants DX12 to win, as does nVidia because they're neck deep in DX "optimization" programs with devs (to the detriment of performance on AMD hardware).
Valve wants DX to fail because they want to make sure the MS Store never takes off, because they want to remain the dominant storefront for PC games so they can keep taking 30% for hosting downloads.
No one else gives a shit about who wins, they just give a shit about having to support it and thus want to be able to vote on its development track and want to know what changes are coming ahead of time. They're not playing the same fanboy game you are, and you really shouldn't pin your hopes on them based on their membership in a working group.
If by "major players" you're excluding all the AA publishers and dev houses, MS, and nVidia, sure. These players are all about DX. Being part of the group doesn't mean you want it to succeed, it means you need to know what's going on and to have your input to be heard in the event that it does.
I for one would love DX12 (and Windows 10) to flop, or at least for OpenGL Whatever They Call It Now to succeed as a viable alternative, but I'm not so naive as to believe it will happen.
7-Zip isn't slow unless you tell it to be slow. You can tell it to be fast if you want to. You can tell it to use a specific algorithm with whatever parameters you want.
Besides, all static content is compress once, deliver many. Dynamic content only needs to be compressed as often as it is updated.
Anytime anyone touts their new lossless compression algorithm, I immediately ask "Yeah but does it beat my 7-Zip profile?". The answer is either "no" or "yes but only in very specific cases" (and in those cases I could write a filter for 7-Zip to compress those specific cases with a better algorithm) or "yes, it is WinRAR".
7-Zip recently added ( http://www.7-zip.org/history.t... ) support for decompressing the new RAR format, so go ahead and compare them yourself. They're pretty much neck and neck. I believe WinRAR's archives offer better resilience to damage, as well.
It's not, moron. I don't post AC like you do, and I haven't mooed in a long time because I got bored of it. Feel free to peruse my history - I've mooed many times under my name, yet you keep linking to one example as if it were a slip up you "caught".
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Say hello to the penguins for me!
GPS relies on clocks, but it's still not true.
You can use any fixed point of reference and triangulation to determine longitude.
You just can't use the stars or the sun because the Earth rotates and you'd need to now what time it was in order to know what their position would be.
You can use just about any continent or any large island if you have accurate maps.
You can also use the moon if you carefully watch it change to its fullest or wait for the tiniest sliver to vanish, for example. The phases of the moon serve as your clock. Hard to accurately measure, but if you're stuck at sea with nothing else to do you it can change being 1000 miles off course to being 100 miles off course.
It isn't easy, but it's one of the many ways ancient navigators navigated. We're talking about clocks in the 1700s, yet by that time voyages to the new world were getting to be fairly routine. Accurate maps, measuring speed (with the knot method for example), learning the currents and weather patterns, etc. made such voyages possible. Clocks made it easy enough for the Brits to send everyone and their dog over on anything that would float.
You think OS X and Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10 are bad?
Ubuntu and Android release name are like Game of Thrones.
It is engineering - they're operating, maintaining, and modifying machines with engines.
There's a handful of clowns out on a "we need REAL engineers" campaign on Slashdot, yet they don't know WTF a real engineer is.
Saudis like to flash their cash, not spend it.
I bet the "negotiation" went like this:
Said! What's the internet? Do I need to control it? Go buy me someone who can control the internet for me, then buy me the internet.
OK BOSS!
Hey, Hacking Team, I'm Said a friend of the royal Saudi family. The king dickshit wants to buy you!
How much? What do we have to do?
King dickshit has very many billions of dollars and will pay you any price! All you have to do is be our slaves, essentially.
How many billions, exactly?
Boss! They want to know how many billions you'll give them!
What? Are you still talking about that internet thing? I'm bored of that, go buy me another solid gold horse, I have a formal engagement tonight and I need to look fashionable!
Nah, just tie on some of those mylar party balloon filled with helium.
They'll make your pack much lighter, and they come in bright festive colors to boot!
For those who don't believe you, see eggs.
My ISP does change my address occasionally, for no reason.
It's not a question of "why" (because they're stupid, that's why everybody does everything), but a question of "when".
Using a private range is the "solution", but to be externally reachable, you need to employ some sort of translation of the network addresses, and poke holes as appropriate. I propose will call this "Translation for Addresses on Networks", or TAN.
Fun fact - that checkbox doesn't prevent the ads, and hasn't in about a decade.
I don't understand why.
I click and eat up their bandwidth and server resources. They get nothing from me.
So what happens when your ISP changes your 2a00:7660:349 to something else?
All your shit like 2a00:7660:349::2 is fucked.
Every "engineer" not working with an actual engine does not deserve to be called an "engineer".
There is a MASSIVE abundance of open recs for good engineers in Silicon Valley right now. It's such an employee market
Another fuck you to you, buddy.
You're talking about the same Silicon Valley where all the big players are guilty of colluding to artificially keep employee pay low.
Fuck you.
If there were an abundance of good jobs available people wouldn't have to put up with that shit in the first place.
Software development is hell for 99% of the people doing it because the only competition is between the employees and the H1Bs.
never use gotos,
There's nothing wrong with GOTO statements, and there never was. This is a rather popular misconception.
Sixth, never ever use exception handlers. You have a non-deterministic path through the program and therefore no means of knowing if the state of the program is valid. You also want the program to crash if it encounters a situation that it shouldn't, it means there's a catastrophic fault in the machine or the software. There are no exceptions to this rule. Exception handling is one of the worst mistakes ever made in software engineering.
Oh, so you're trolling.
Bullshit. They won't go to you, they'll go to Joe's cubicle.
Joe's out for the day and has an active Ethernet port.
Did you encase Joe's entire PC in a locked steel box that's drilled into a hard wall covering the Ethernet port?
No? Joe has an unattended, unsecured Dell sitting under his desk, connected by an aging, crusty Ethernet cable to a wall plate attached to a flimsy cubicle partition?
Welcome to the real world.
Our poop (and the related gases that are released after death) smells different because we eat so much trash.
Supporting it doesn't mean they want it to succeed.
The engine developers need to support everything and they don't much care what wins.
MS obviously wants DX12 to win, as does nVidia because they're neck deep in DX "optimization" programs with devs (to the detriment of performance on AMD hardware).
Valve wants DX to fail because they want to make sure the MS Store never takes off, because they want to remain the dominant storefront for PC games so they can keep taking 30% for hosting downloads.
No one else gives a shit about who wins, they just give a shit about having to support it and thus want to be able to vote on its development track and want to know what changes are coming ahead of time. They're not playing the same fanboy game you are, and you really shouldn't pin your hopes on them based on their membership in a working group.
If by "major players" you're excluding all the AA publishers and dev houses, MS, and nVidia, sure. These players are all about DX.
Being part of the group doesn't mean you want it to succeed, it means you need to know what's going on and to have your input to be heard in the event that it does.
I for one would love DX12 (and Windows 10) to flop, or at least for OpenGL Whatever They Call It Now to succeed as a viable alternative, but I'm not so naive as to believe it will happen.
IDK, my BFF Jill?
7-Zip isn't slow unless you tell it to be slow. You can tell it to be fast if you want to. You can tell it to use a specific algorithm with whatever parameters you want.
Besides, all static content is compress once, deliver many.
Dynamic content only needs to be compressed as often as it is updated.
Stabbing the fucks who bankrupted you and your family on your way to the grave?
Anytime anyone touts their new lossless compression algorithm, I immediately ask "Yeah but does it beat my 7-Zip profile?".
The answer is either "no" or "yes but only in very specific cases" (and in those cases I could write a filter for 7-Zip to compress those specific cases with a better algorithm) or "yes, it is WinRAR".
7-Zip recently added ( http://www.7-zip.org/history.t... ) support for decompressing the new RAR format, so go ahead and compare them yourself.
They're pretty much neck and neck. I believe WinRAR's archives offer better resilience to damage, as well.
You are all cows. Cows need open source compression algorithms too! Compress cows, compress! COMPRESS you open source cows!
It's not, moron. I don't post AC like you do, and I haven't mooed in a long time because I got bored of it.
Feel free to peruse my history - I've mooed many times under my name, yet you keep linking to one example as if it were a slip up you "caught".