Then you know absolutely nothing about software development, let alone one that affects more desktops than anything else on the planet. Its hard to imagine you've been using a computer for any length of time at all with such an ignorant statement.
Microsoft does not actually have EVERY single PC configuration and software combination on the planet in their test labs.
I can't fathom how slashdot fall to the point where people with ignorance on your level get modded up instead of into oblivion. Whats better is that you're claiming that Windows 8 drivers that don't work on Windows 7 caused the same problem for you. This is an ID10T or PBKAC error I think.
that assumes that the total real wealth (like mass and energy) of the Earth is constant
Which is also an entirely wrong assumption:)
The Earth gains energy from the Sun, and thus mass. It also loses mass via radiation. I'm not sure which direction the net is moving in, but there is no way its constant.
Bitcoin is a social movement dedicated to the elimination of central banks by providing a superior alternative.
Except it isn't a superior alternative in any way and it just changes who the 'central banks' are to the ones who buy the most mining power.
(see the transformation of Occupy the Fed into Occupy Wall Street into irrelevance)
Oh, you're one of those morons. The Occupy WhatTheFuckEver failed because it was a bunch of idiots who utterly fail to understand how the world works. The 'movement' was a bunch of 1%ers too stupid to realize they were part of the one percent showing up in with Northface tents and backpacks bought with daddy's money acting all uppity while they shit in sinks in restaurant bathrooms and got in the way of people actually trying to get work done.
Nothing about the 'movement' was useful in any way, it was just a bunch of lazy ignorant fucks complaining that someone who got off their asses and did things with their lives and that they weren't giving it all to them while they sit on the street complaining rather than doing something to actually change their place in the world.
Bums who live on the street have more credibility than any Occupy moron.
I don't think you understand what an ASIC is, even though you tried to define it.
There is no such thing as an 'ASIC proof algorithm' because you simply design the ASIC to handle that situation. Doesn't matter what you put into it, the ASIC gets designed to deal with that problem and does it more efficiently than any generic circuit can. Theres nothing a GPU or GPCPU can do that an ASIC can't. The term 'ASIC' doesn't define a specific type of circuit. GPUs are ASICs who's application is graphics processing, for example. An Intel CPU is an ASIC who's application is general purpose computing!
If you change the algorithm then you aren't making it 'ASIC proof', you're just making it not work for a specific type of ASIC or making it not work well. Its no different than saying BitCoin is 'ASIC proof' because the routing chips in Cisco routers can't do BitCoin hashes efficiently.
Had we finished the job, we'd have helped stabilize two countries that needed it badly and ended up with a few more with 'ethnic hatred' towards America... and a whole lot more that were thankful to America.
Instead, people like yourself demanded that an ignorant president rush the exit because... well I don't have any fucking idea why other than your own ignorance about the way the world works. God forbid we actually stuck around and helped them deal with the fact they've years of hatred against each other that needs to be quelled.
Neither Iraq nor Afghanistan need to be in the state they are in, our leaving his why the are, we could have helped them.
But hey, now you get to be a smug asshole, which is way more important, right?
Yes, you can, because your head isn't perfectly still and your mind can use that information to pick up the location of the sound using only two ears and a handful of other sensory information.
You're sadly confused. The 3 largest email providers are larger than Facebook, and that ignores all the other providers and corporations, and doesn't include services that are more popular then the big 3 outside the US.
Most people don't have a Facebook account, most of the ones who do, don't use it, fewer still actually bother to login ever, and even fewer still 'prefer' it.
EVERY Facebook user has an email address, as does EVERY twitter user... you know how they find out about Facebook posts?
EVERY mobile device and OS that matters comes with an email client, do ANY of them come with a Facebook or twitter client out of the box?
Facebook is already past its peak and no longer where the cool kids go as even the kids have realized how shitty it is.
The young ones have already quit using it to communicate with friends.
No they haven't. Facebook was a fad that was growing with young ones until they realized it sucks and its no longer the place they go. They still send email though. Moving to twitter for some things? Sure... except when they want to keep things private.
Newer businesses use newer protocols like RSS to distribute their news feeds.
RSS has been waning for a while, no one outside the techie community watches RSS feeds.
I'd have already ditched email entirely, except that too many people assume that an email address is something everyone has, and so without one you're a second-class citizen on the internet, barred from participating in online forums and from making online purchases.
And there you've just contradicted every point you were trying to make.
Email is almost dead.
Except that every alternative you've claiming to it... assumes you use email. Do you not realize how silly that sounds?
I know too many people who, while they have an email account, it really isn't something they check every day.
Me too, but they aren't checking Facebook or twitter every day either.
because it just isn't the best solution for anything it does
Thats about the most ignorant statement I've ever seen.
making it worthless for anything besides communicating with people who haven't yet figured that out
Which would be pretty much everyone else on the planet except fad following teenagers. Once you get out of high school you'll realize how silly you sound.
On the other hand, a voice conversation allows me to talk and work on the actual task at the same time, instead of switching between the task and typing in IM.
No it doesn't, and I'm sure when you think you're doing that, people find you utterly obnoxious and just want to strangle you.
... with a proper sys admin, the employee doesn't have a choice about what his company does and doesn't see on company time, company equipment, and company networks.
The company simply doesn't allow any one but their own, and logs their own... just like email.
I'd expect someone with a low UID like yours would show that they have a little real world experience, yet you don't seem to. You seem to think like kids who've never worked at a real business who think they get to dictate terms to their employer.
Yes, the 0.33 billion Americans should get all uppity and force China to change because the 1 BILLION chinese citizens can't be bothered/don't care enough to overthrow the 0.0000001 billion people that are forcing this on them.
If they don't care, why should I? Is it REALLY making their lives horrible? No. They really don't give a shit that they can't view some dissidents blog in Taiwan or Tibet.
Do you see them fighting their government? No. Are they really suffering? No. Is it anything more than you forcing your viewpoint and culture on people who could give a shit what you think? No.
If they want change and it bothers them, they can start working on the process. Governments can be overthrown, every single one of them. They depend on the citizens to produce the required components needed for the government to function. When the citizens want to get rid of the government and are willing to make the required sacrifices the government doesn't stand a chance in hell. All the citizens have to do is stop producing.
If you are going faster than light then you can escape from a black hole.
There is no part of physics that says speed has anything to do with escaping a black hole. If you could produce enough thrust to travel at just one meter per billion years, you could escape a black hole... assuming you could keep that speed while inside the event horizon of the black hole. Unfortunately, from a mathematical perspective this appears to be impossible.
After a certain point (the event horizon) light simply bends two quickly back on itself to escape a black hole and stays inside the radius of the event horizon. It doesn't slow down, it changes directions, because space is all sorts of fubar inside the event horizon of a black hole.
What they've proved mathematically as that at the event horizon of a black hole the math fails. It falls apart and no longer makes any sense because the numbers get too large on one side of the equation.
In reality, this doesn't mean 'nothing can escape a black hole'. It means 'nothing we've observed can escape a black hole'. Well, except it can. Hawking radiation escapes a black hole as it evaporates, but all the explanations for why are just silly as they are pretty arbitrary compared to 'light' not escaping.
Another obvious but often overlooked theory is that our universe IS a black hole inside a larger universe. It explains a great many aspects that don't make sense... but then it also introduces a whole bunch of aspects that don't make sense without making a bunch of assumptions about what is outside our universe, and these assumptions are so absurd from our view point that we just assume they are false.
The truth of the matter is... science knows a lot less than they claim to about black holes, the big bang, and the nature of the universe. Many scientist treat theories with holes the size of the planet in them as obvious fact when they are no such thing. They have no fucking clue why the universe exists in the state it exists today, but many of them refuse to acknowledge that FACT to anyone. The good ones do. Einstein as an example, had no problem admitting his theories were nothing more than theories and that they were often wrong because they were simply based on the little bits of the universe we can observe.
So basically this is an article about the intelligence agencies using the same tricks criminals and security specialists in the industry have been using for years?
Perhaps you've heard of virtual machines? VPC on Windows isn't even very heavy weight.
Working 'at a good sized ISP' with 'at least 4 different environments' that you need to access and test regularly, its mind numbing that you don't already use VMs for this purpose.
Perhaps you should top pretending to be some senior engineer/architect and start learning how to be one.
Perhaps the shitty choice of names has something to do with that... (which is the point he's making) or the fact that Google has tried its damnedest to make it as confusing as possible by trying to make it seem as if they are one and the same?
Because the author is calling asset management 'version control'.
The author really doesn't know what he's talking about and if you look at the full article, it shows.
Another example would be that they basically rewrote the game, with no art and assets... and then claim it looks better because of the Unreal engine, and not the fact that they changed the textures.
Unity isn't the problem. The project management and developers are.
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Then you know absolutely nothing about software development, let alone one that affects more desktops than anything else on the planet. Its hard to imagine you've been using a computer for any length of time at all with such an ignorant statement.
Microsoft does not actually have EVERY single PC configuration and software combination on the planet in their test labs.
I can't fathom how slashdot fall to the point where people with ignorance on your level get modded up instead of into oblivion. Whats better is that you're claiming that Windows 8 drivers that don't work on Windows 7 caused the same problem for you. This is an ID10T or PBKAC error I think.
that assumes that the total real wealth (like mass and energy) of the Earth is constant
Which is also an entirely wrong assumption :)
The Earth gains energy from the Sun, and thus mass. It also loses mass via radiation. I'm not sure which direction the net is moving in, but there is no way its constant.
Bitcoin is a social movement dedicated to the elimination of central banks by providing a superior alternative.
Except it isn't a superior alternative in any way and it just changes who the 'central banks' are to the ones who buy the most mining power.
(see the transformation of Occupy the Fed into Occupy Wall Street into irrelevance)
Oh, you're one of those morons. The Occupy WhatTheFuckEver failed because it was a bunch of idiots who utterly fail to understand how the world works. The 'movement' was a bunch of 1%ers too stupid to realize they were part of the one percent showing up in with Northface tents and backpacks bought with daddy's money acting all uppity while they shit in sinks in restaurant bathrooms and got in the way of people actually trying to get work done.
Nothing about the 'movement' was useful in any way, it was just a bunch of lazy ignorant fucks complaining that someone who got off their asses and did things with their lives and that they weren't giving it all to them while they sit on the street complaining rather than doing something to actually change their place in the world.
Bums who live on the street have more credibility than any Occupy moron.
I don't think you understand what an ASIC is, even though you tried to define it.
There is no such thing as an 'ASIC proof algorithm' because you simply design the ASIC to handle that situation. Doesn't matter what you put into it, the ASIC gets designed to deal with that problem and does it more efficiently than any generic circuit can. Theres nothing a GPU or GPCPU can do that an ASIC can't. The term 'ASIC' doesn't define a specific type of circuit. GPUs are ASICs who's application is graphics processing, for example. An Intel CPU is an ASIC who's application is general purpose computing!
If you change the algorithm then you aren't making it 'ASIC proof', you're just making it not work for a specific type of ASIC or making it not work well. Its no different than saying BitCoin is 'ASIC proof' because the routing chips in Cisco routers can't do BitCoin hashes efficiently.
Had we finished the job, we'd have helped stabilize two countries that needed it badly and ended up with a few more with 'ethnic hatred' towards America ... and a whole lot more that were thankful to America.
Instead, people like yourself demanded that an ignorant president rush the exit because ... well I don't have any fucking idea why other than your own ignorance about the way the world works. God forbid we actually stuck around and helped them deal with the fact they've years of hatred against each other that needs to be quelled.
Neither Iraq nor Afghanistan need to be in the state they are in, our leaving his why the are, we could have helped them.
But hey, now you get to be a smug asshole, which is way more important, right?
Stopping a bulldozer or other heavy vehicle stolen by some mentally ill person on a suicide binge.
When was that exactly?
Yes, you can, because your head isn't perfectly still and your mind can use that information to pick up the location of the sound using only two ears and a handful of other sensory information.
Considering DKIM and SPF are controlled by the domain admin, how do they force centralization?
Theres always S/MIME for actual authentication of a user.
You're sadly confused. The 3 largest email providers are larger than Facebook, and that ignores all the other providers and corporations, and doesn't include services that are more popular then the big 3 outside the US.
Most people don't have a Facebook account, most of the ones who do, don't use it, fewer still actually bother to login ever, and even fewer still 'prefer' it.
EVERY Facebook user has an email address, as does EVERY twitter user ... you know how they find out about Facebook posts?
EVERY mobile device and OS that matters comes with an email client, do ANY of them come with a Facebook or twitter client out of the box?
Facebook is already past its peak and no longer where the cool kids go as even the kids have realized how shitty it is.
In case you haven't noticed, the fad is ending.
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Wrong.
SPF, DNSSEC and DomainKeys, and digital certificates have entirely solved the problem of authenticity better than anything before it ever.
Just because you are unaware of the solution doesn't mean it doesn't exist and doesn't get used.
The young ones have already quit using it to communicate with friends.
No they haven't. Facebook was a fad that was growing with young ones until they realized it sucks and its no longer the place they go. They still send email though. Moving to twitter for some things? Sure ... except when they want to keep things private.
Newer businesses use newer protocols like RSS to distribute their news feeds.
RSS has been waning for a while, no one outside the techie community watches RSS feeds.
I'd have already ditched email entirely, except that too many people assume that an email address is something everyone has, and so without one you're a second-class citizen on the internet, barred from participating in online forums and from making online purchases.
And there you've just contradicted every point you were trying to make.
Email is almost dead.
Except that every alternative you've claiming to it ... assumes you use email. Do you not realize how silly that sounds?
I know too many people who, while they have an email account, it really isn't something they check every day.
Me too, but they aren't checking Facebook or twitter every day either.
because it just isn't the best solution for anything it does
Thats about the most ignorant statement I've ever seen.
making it worthless for anything besides communicating with people who haven't yet figured that out
Which would be pretty much everyone else on the planet except fad following teenagers. Once you get out of high school you'll realize how silly you sound.
And some people 'only communicate via twitter' ... that doesn't make it any less silly than only using AOL chat rooms.
On the other hand, a voice conversation allows me to talk and work on the actual task at the same time, instead of switching between the task and typing in IM.
No it doesn't, and I'm sure when you think you're doing that, people find you utterly obnoxious and just want to strangle you.
... with a proper sys admin, the employee doesn't have a choice about what his company does and doesn't see on company time, company equipment, and company networks.
The company simply doesn't allow any one but their own, and logs their own ... just like email.
I'd expect someone with a low UID like yours would show that they have a little real world experience, yet you don't seem to. You seem to think like kids who've never worked at a real business who think they get to dictate terms to their employer.
Yes, the 0.33 billion Americans should get all uppity and force China to change because the 1 BILLION chinese citizens can't be bothered/don't care enough to overthrow the 0.0000001 billion people that are forcing this on them.
If they don't care, why should I? Is it REALLY making their lives horrible? No. They really don't give a shit that they can't view some dissidents blog in Taiwan or Tibet.
Do you see them fighting their government? No. Are they really suffering? No. Is it anything more than you forcing your viewpoint and culture on people who could give a shit what you think? No.
If they want change and it bothers them, they can start working on the process. Governments can be overthrown, every single one of them. They depend on the citizens to produce the required components needed for the government to function. When the citizens want to get rid of the government and are willing to make the required sacrifices the government doesn't stand a chance in hell. All the citizens have to do is stop producing.
If you are going faster than light then you can escape from a black hole.
There is no part of physics that says speed has anything to do with escaping a black hole. If you could produce enough thrust to travel at just one meter per billion years, you could escape a black hole ... assuming you could keep that speed while inside the event horizon of the black hole. Unfortunately, from a mathematical perspective this appears to be impossible.
After a certain point (the event horizon) light simply bends two quickly back on itself to escape a black hole and stays inside the radius of the event horizon. It doesn't slow down, it changes directions, because space is all sorts of fubar inside the event horizon of a black hole.
What they've proved mathematically as that at the event horizon of a black hole the math fails. It falls apart and no longer makes any sense because the numbers get too large on one side of the equation.
In reality, this doesn't mean 'nothing can escape a black hole'. It means 'nothing we've observed can escape a black hole'. Well, except it can. Hawking radiation escapes a black hole as it evaporates, but all the explanations for why are just silly as they are pretty arbitrary compared to 'light' not escaping.
Another obvious but often overlooked theory is that our universe IS a black hole inside a larger universe. It explains a great many aspects that don't make sense ... but then it also introduces a whole bunch of aspects that don't make sense without making a bunch of assumptions about what is outside our universe, and these assumptions are so absurd from our view point that we just assume they are false.
The truth of the matter is ... science knows a lot less than they claim to about black holes, the big bang, and the nature of the universe. Many scientist treat theories with holes the size of the planet in them as obvious fact when they are no such thing. They have no fucking clue why the universe exists in the state it exists today, but many of them refuse to acknowledge that FACT to anyone. The good ones do. Einstein as an example, had no problem admitting his theories were nothing more than theories and that they were often wrong because they were simply based on the little bits of the universe we can observe.
So basically this is an article about the intelligence agencies using the same tricks criminals and security specialists in the industry have been using for years?
Let me show you my shocked face ... :|
Perhaps you've heard of virtual machines? VPC on Windows isn't even very heavy weight.
Working 'at a good sized ISP' with 'at least 4 different environments' that you need to access and test regularly, its mind numbing that you don't already use VMs for this purpose.
Perhaps you should top pretending to be some senior engineer/architect and start learning how to be one.
Yea, its as if no one actually left standing understand why we stopped doing that.
Perhaps the shitty choice of names has something to do with that ... (which is the point he's making) or the fact that Google has tried its damnedest to make it as confusing as possible by trying to make it seem as if they are one and the same?
You're 100% right, its all about the money.
NASA is a research organization, its goal is not to make money, thats not in its charter.
SpaceX is a company out to make profit. Making a profit IS in its charter, as sworn to congress.
SpaceX may seem awesome today, but the reality of it is that in a very short period of time you can safely expect that things will change at SpaceX.
Right now SpaceX is still trying to look trendy and sap engineers from elsewhere, its like Google from 10 years ago.
Because the author is calling asset management 'version control'.
The author really doesn't know what he's talking about and if you look at the full article, it shows.
Another example would be that they basically rewrote the game, with no art and assets ... and then claim it looks better because of the Unreal engine, and not the fact that they changed the textures.
Unity isn't the problem. The project management and developers are.
Which sounds like their using unit on Windows Mobile devices or they've done something entirely retarded with their asset management workflow.