"Give me a good reason why someone shouldn't be using DNS instead of direct IP address, other than lazy programmers."
I'll give you a number of good reasons - manpower , deadlines, simplicity. When you get a proper job instead of playing around at college you might understand.
Oh , and programmers generally don't set up DNS. Just FYI.
We have so many test VMs appearing and disappearing on our network that we don't bother putting them in DNS, we just give out the IP4 192.168... address for the testers and devs. I dread to think what would happen if we had to give them the line noise that is an IP6 address. Whatever other merits IP6 has, the designers REALLY didn't think it through at the manual address entry level.
"and that there were once considerable quantities of free flowing water for a long period."
No , there nothings showing it was there for a long period. All the signs of water could have been made by flash floods and lakes that lasted for a few decades at most.
"were working with the best information they had. (Unlike you.)"
People seem to forget that after its formation the sun was somewhat LESS bright than it is now so Mars would have been even colder in its current orbit. If there ever was large amounts of water on Mars I suspect that it would have spent most of its time locked up as ice sheets with the occasional melting due to impacts. Pretty much the way it is today.
All this warm wet life on mars stuff strikes me as nothing more than wish fulfillment - the same way people used to imagine Venus was a tropical paradise. Until the probes went there and proved those predictions to be some of the worst ever made in astronomical science.
"We were hit with a large amount of completely unexpected network activity during the morning of the 25th of December. In association with the local police we are currently investigating a hacker called Mr S. Claus and will post an update shortly."
"but I guess that's what the women of today are going for"
No , its what the gay men running the fashion industry are going for. Most women I know would run a mile from the sort of metrosexual ponces who are parading in the press and on TV as some sort of ideal male "look".
... that they'd have a potent toxin injected in them just to make them look a few years younger. Female vanity apparently has no bounds. Or at least we haven't found them yet.
"Make one change - this month divide that daily food intake into 8 equal parts and have 8 small meals at even intervals throughout the day. Same energy in, same energy out, and you WILL lose weight."
No necessarily. Smaller meals are digested better so you're more likely to absorb even more calories. Plenty of weightlifters use the small meals but often approach to bulk up.
Thats certainly true, but until its as good as the alternatives there's no point in using it on a battlefield. Horses were still being used long after the internal combustion engine was invented simply because they were far better in muddy fields than anything mechanised until the tank came along and even then it couldn't do everything a horse could do with the equipment of the day. Once equipment started being designed around the tank however that was another matter.
Unless you're Bruce Lee then a punch to the face or throat is the quickest way to put someone down. There's no point going - for example - a kidney punch if you only have a vague clue where to hit and if the person is fat or muscular it might not work anyway.
On here - if its not a tech solution its not a solution. The fact that the afghans are still using donkeys very effectively and cheaply should tell the US military something , but then they wouldn't be able to waste a few billion quid on a something that is to a donkey what a water pistol is to an AK47.
"Then how does my analog TV set do progressive when my NES, Genesis, Super NES, original PlayStation, or Nintendo 64 is connected to it? Question mark?"
They're connected through the RF input which simply inputs a PAL or NTSC signal. It'll be interlaced.
Rubbish. The hardware is built for interlaced - it has no way of knowing that it shouldn't skip a scanline line because its a progressive signal. All you'll see with a progressive signal is the screen flicking between each half of the picture spread across the whole screen with single line blank gaps.
Fine, I didn't read it properly - but how do you do progressive when the hardware is built for interlaced? We're talking analogue TV sets here - they DON'T DO progressive. Period.
They became #1 and got complacent and lazy with only half hearted efforts to push and market anything that wasn't a feature phone and with half finished OS's running on them. They could have been Samsung if they weren't too busy counting their money when Apple brought out the iPhone and had pulled their fingers out and produced a serious competitor.
"Old-style arcade games and every game console prior to the Dreamcast forced the interlaced CRTs into a non-standard progressive mode called 240p"
240 frames progessive? I doubt that - the CRT hardware couldn't have done it. Did you mean 24 frames? Even if you did , CRT TV sets receiving a signal through the RF input would have still have been doing 50/60hz refresh.
"Interstellar travel is an Hollywood game. We are locked down here in our solar system."
There might be some as yet undreamt of physics that could get us very quickly to (or even beyond) light speed but I suspect thats unlikely and that sadly you are right.
Though even just exploring out solar system is a fantastic voyage in its own right. Imagine flying through the clouds in Jupiter or sailing on a methane lake on Titan? If we could get solar system traversal time down to a few weeks or months rather than decades imagine the possibilities....
I disagree. A language is simply a means to an end - if you can learn another language quicker because its more like your own then I think you should do it. Leaning something totally foreign might be intellectually interesting but if it takes 5 years to get to even basic conversational level then its not going to be much use in a career progression scenario.
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C network programming isn't really your strong point is it?
"Give me a good reason why someone shouldn't be using DNS instead of direct IP address, other than lazy programmers."
I'll give you a number of good reasons - manpower , deadlines, simplicity. When you get a proper job instead of playing around at college you might understand.
Oh , and programmers generally don't set up DNS. Just FYI.
We have so many test VMs appearing and disappearing on our network that we don't bother putting them in DNS, we just give out the IP4 192.168... address for the testers and devs. I dread to think what would happen if we had to give them the line noise that is an IP6 address. Whatever other merits IP6 has, the designers REALLY didn't think it through at the manual address entry level.
"and that there were once considerable quantities of free flowing water for a long period."
No , there nothings showing it was there for a long period. All the signs of water could have been made by flash floods and lakes that lasted for a few decades at most.
"were working with the best information they had. (Unlike you.)"
Ooo, get you. Careful with that handbag!
People seem to forget that after its formation the sun was somewhat LESS bright than it is now so Mars would have been even colder in its current orbit. If there ever was large amounts of water on Mars I suspect that it would have spent most of its time locked up as ice sheets with the occasional melting due to impacts. Pretty much the way it is today.
All this warm wet life on mars stuff strikes me as nothing more than wish fulfillment - the same way people used to imagine Venus was a tropical paradise. Until the probes went there and proved those predictions to be some of the worst ever made in astronomical science.
"We were hit with a large amount of completely unexpected network activity during the morning of the 25th of December. In association with the local police we are currently investigating a hacker called Mr S. Claus and will post an update shortly."
Your reading comprehension needs some work my friend.
"but I guess that's what the women of today are going for"
No , its what the gay men running the fashion industry are going for. Most women I know would run a mile from the sort of metrosexual ponces who are parading in the press and on TV as some sort of ideal male "look".
I think you're speaking for yourself there pal.
... that they'd have a potent toxin injected in them just to make them look a few years younger. Female vanity apparently has no bounds. Or at least we haven't found them yet.
"Make one change - this month divide that daily food intake into 8 equal parts and have 8 small meals at even intervals throughout the day. Same energy in, same energy out, and you WILL lose weight."
No necessarily. Smaller meals are digested better so you're more likely to absorb even more calories. Plenty of weightlifters use the small meals but often approach to bulk up.
Thats certainly true, but until its as good as the alternatives there's no point in using it on a battlefield. Horses were still being used long after the internal combustion engine was invented simply because they were far better in muddy fields than anything mechanised until the tank came along and even then it couldn't do everything a horse could do with the equipment of the day. Once equipment started being designed around the tank however that was another matter.
Unless you're Bruce Lee then a punch to the face or throat is the quickest way to put someone down. There's no point going - for example - a kidney punch if you only have a vague clue where to hit and if the person is fat or muscular it might not work anyway.
On here - if its not a tech solution its not a solution. The fact that the afghans are still using donkeys very effectively and cheaply should tell the US military something , but then they wouldn't be able to waste a few billion quid on a something that is to a donkey what a water pistol is to an AK47.
Or maybe its all down to pressure by PETA.
Or a forest with no roads or a rocky slope or 101 other types of terrain where wheels are useless.
The point is that for some things animals are still better than mechanised vehicles, even ones with tracks or artificial legs.
Yeah , right. I would say its you who has no idea what interlaced and progressive means.
"Then how does my analog TV set do progressive when my NES, Genesis, Super NES, original PlayStation, or Nintendo 64 is connected to it? Question mark?"
They're connected through the RF input which simply inputs a PAL or NTSC signal. It'll be interlaced.
"You can pretend Symbian phones are 'feature' phones, they aren't, they're full smartphones"
A smartphone these days means touchscreen , not just the ability to install apps. You've been able to do that on feature phones for at least 10 years.
Rubbish. The hardware is built for interlaced - it has no way of knowing that it shouldn't skip a scanline line because its a progressive signal. All you'll see with a progressive signal is the screen flicking between each half of the picture spread across the whole screen with single line blank gaps.
Fine, I didn't read it properly - but how do you do progressive when the hardware is built for interlaced? We're talking analogue TV sets here - they DON'T DO progressive. Period.
They became #1 and got complacent and lazy with only half hearted efforts to push and market anything that wasn't a feature phone and with half finished OS's running on them. They could have been Samsung if they weren't too busy counting their money when Apple brought out the iPhone and had pulled their fingers out and produced a serious competitor.
"Old-style arcade games and every game console prior to the Dreamcast forced the interlaced CRTs into a non-standard progressive mode called 240p"
240 frames progessive? I doubt that - the CRT hardware couldn't have done it. Did you mean 24 frames? Even if you did , CRT TV sets receiving a signal through the RF input would have still have been doing 50/60hz refresh.
"Interstellar travel is an Hollywood game. We are locked down here in our solar system."
There might be some as yet undreamt of physics that could get us very quickly to (or even beyond) light speed but I suspect thats unlikely and that sadly you are right.
Though even just exploring out solar system is a fantastic voyage in its own right. Imagine flying through the clouds in Jupiter or sailing on a methane lake on Titan? If we could get solar system traversal time down to a few weeks or months rather than decades imagine the possibilities....
... how old style arcade games running on 50/60Hz interlaced CRTs managed to produce smooth flicker free motion?
"Pick a language mostly-unrelated to your own."
I disagree. A language is simply a means to an end - if you can learn another language quicker because its more like your own then I think you should do it. Leaning something totally foreign might be intellectually interesting but if it takes 5 years to get to even basic conversational level then its not going to be much use in a career progression scenario.