Agree 100%. I have not read Playboy since the early 90-es, but 12 years ago it was having brilliant political essays (amidst all the tits of course) that were giving Bush senior a shelling that was way heavier than any of the conventional press. It was a very good read and it was worth every single penny you payed for it.
Similarly another "entertainment" magazine at the time, namely Rolling Stones had the best anti-gulf war analysis I have seen. AFAIK they are not stoked by public libraries in the US either.
Dunno about now though. I stopped reading it after Hafner's daughter took over in mid 90-es because one of the first things she did was to cut down on such material. As well as go for more "motherly" model shapes and methinks that I do not suffer from Aedipus sindrome.
Or phrambesia and a few other similar tropical relatives of the common syphilis. They do eat flash
Actually syphilis did eat flesh 7 senturies ago as well. It just got "softer" as a result of natural selection. People whose genitalia were destroyed could not spread it around any more.
In btw any article on these drives any censorware I have seen off the scale.
First, they are trying to do a full ECMA certification for NET and make it standard. In order to do what you are saying they will have to withdraw from the certification standard which immediately gives them a serious disadvantage in the war against java which is what this shit is about.
Second, deciding to apply for the certification process they have taken into account that making the language a standard will create alternative implementations. Not just GNU. There will be commercial ones as well. And that is the idea. Because there is something that makes.NET always faster then java if implemented properly on intel architecture. It is the fact that it is a little endian standard while java is big endian. Assuming everything else equal.NET will always win. That is besides the fact that many third llparty developers will actually prefer to deal with an ECMA standard language then with a Sun standard.
This is the idea of.NET. Sink Java. And so far it is proceeding very well on target and on schedule with the help of the GNU community. Nothing bad about it, I hate java so any means of killing it should be cherished and supported. The problem is that after sinking java MSFT can deal with competitors on their own turf exactly as you describe and we will be back to square one where we began. To perl and python as the only "portable" languages.
You should never be sure. I saw the Phantom Shit the week it was released in the US in one well known "fifth" world country available on DVD. At a price of course. That was before it even got to Europe, not even talking about the country in question.
We all know how anal is George Lucas about his franchise. Also, the movie was exactly as in the cinema form, no DVD shit and it was three days after a reel was stolen in California from one of the cinemas in the first wave to show it.
The interesting bit is that at least in that case it had nothing to do with the MPAA, RIAA or download leaks. It had something to do with organised crime. Which for some reason MPAA and RIAA do not seem to be violently opposed to... I wonder why...
They will not. US Navy is traditionally slanted heavily towards MSFT despite all the blunders with ships going out of control and so on. MSFT is the primary contractor on Navy's programme for the coastal assault fregates, continued ad naseum.
I have no doubts who will win this contract and what the solution will be.
Took the words out of my mouth. Though cable is better because you have a valid broadcast address and you have to loop only across the broadcast addresses. The cablecos usually help you by assigning only/24s no matter what the actual need is. Yum... You can walk an entire cableco in several seconds while walking the DSLs IP by IP will take some time.
Unfortunately some spoilsport ISPs filter the porst in question and have been doing this for up to 5 years now since the days of winnuke.
I think it is you who needs to get his head out of his a...:
1. Fortran will not die until someone rewrites all those scientific computation code into C. And this will not happen anytime in the immediate future. On top of it (the last time I tried) the fortran source generated by some popular symbolic computation packages (like Mapple) was usable (after hacking) and the C was not. C++ - not even f... close.
2. Cobol - no comment.
3. Pascal. I have been watching C++ programmers take a month what used to take me a day or so with TP for Windows or early Delphy. I know - neither of them is suitable for big projects but they will still blow away C++ for RAD even now. And I do not care anymore typing away in perl anyway;-)
So get a grip on reality and learn a bit about these "supposedly dead" programming languages before opening your a...e (err... mouth).
They are pro-linux as long as it sells the more expensive hardware.
They are not pro-linux as far as their cheap and commodity hardware is concerned. A good example for this is the Epson proprietary laser printer langauge which is the only way to drive their cheap laser printers (the N subversions of EPL -5800 and 5900).
If you notice on their site they offer a gs driver for these but it supports only the more expensive variety which is HPGL (and some versions even postscript) capable.
If you are trying it on the 5800N and 5900N you are basically screweed. Been there, been burned by that, payed 100 more dollars to swap a 5900N for for the real thing.
Besides the article it has also been broadcasted in BBC series on global warming.
Few notes:
1. It is not frozen - it is gaz-hidrate. Which is natural under the pressure+temperature conditions in question. It is though that there is a humongous quantity of methane tied in gas-hidrate on the ocean floor especially where rivers bring out organic matter into the ocean.
2. If you look into the global warming models - half of them do not account for this methane and methane has higher greenhouse effect than carbon dioxide. The ones that take into account this methane in general predict hell on earth. Basically once the ocean has warmed up enough the methane starts to come out which speeds up global warming and more methane comes out. Classic chain reaction.
3. There is some geological evidence that these methane eruption global warming events have happened in the past. It was presented on the BBC program in question.
4. Forgot how the show was called but it is possible that you may find some of the data on bbc web site (not news, the proper www.bbc.co.uk).
To the moderator: do not jump to moderate as flamebait until you have read it till the end please.
As a person who have worked both in Academia (in more than one country) and in Corp (once again in more than one country) I have to say that you are deeply mistaken.
Excuse me for the engineering language but current academic CS is mostly full of shit. It is mostly a collection of people who excel in vendor and sponsor nasoanal relationships. Especially the latter.
What you describe is not CS. It is good old MATH. And what makes most programmers write shitty code is lack of solid background in mathematics. The subjects you have mentioned like set theory are just a scratch on surface. Game theory, optimisation, numerical methods, to be continued ad naseum.
I will also disagree with some of your conclusions on selftaught as synonimous with lacking. A selftaught programmer coming from a mathematical, physical or even chemical background is often a better programmer then the surrogate CS engineers printed in some countries which have cut down their math requirements for CS to almost nothing. And which do not have any of the subjects mentioned in their BSc programmes for most colleges.
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At which point you start loving some of the wireless vendors who do not have this setting easily available. You love the older linux Prism drivers even more. The only love that shines greater is the love to driver authors who always scan for all APs before offering you a choice and overflow a fixed limit in the dialogs (there is one like that out there).
To be continued ad naseum... Grghh....
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Excuse me for being picky.
Your history knowledge is definitely a result of complete brainwash. Like most of the history which taught to american kids (and russian for that matter). It has been edited to suit propaganda and political agendas.
The british fleet was ancored in NY harbour for the first several weeks or so. After that it disappeared because there were two fleets to match it. The french expeditionary and russian first baltic. Also the brits did not expect this development and were present only with an expeditionary fleet which was outgunned by a considerable margin by either of the "guests".
And logically enough the brits lost the war. If those two fleets were not patrolling the US coast throughout the rest of the war god knows what would have happened.
This was edited out from both the russian and the american history text books during McCarthy and the cold war.
Otherwise I agree with you. If 9/11 did not happen the B administration would have invented it. The same way it invented research that shows that there is much more oil and there is no need of fuel economy and there is no global warming either. It was on their agenda to cut civil rights and they are jolly good proceeding to do so on the crest of the wave of histeria. And they are doing a bloody good job at it.
This is blaming sucky peering points on an ISP. Which is actually a reasonable thing to do. You should complain about sucky peerings or sucky uplink to the upstream (if the ISP is not tier1). But you have to remember:
1. Your ISP cannot fix the entire internet.
2. If you are downloading across the globe without specifically tuning the tcp stack you are not going to get 192Kbytes. Ever. Your TCP window will not open enough.
So all you can do is chose an ISP with good connectivity in first place and follow up to make sure they keep it so. Bitch immediately if any peering links suck. Bitch immediately if you notice congestion anywhere on their own backbone. Bitch if they are routing traffic to the next village through a point on the other end of the globe (the way psi.com europe do). Ad naseum...
If everyone did that and made it public the Internet would have been much faster reliable.
So what are you going to measure with it? Your dick or your bollocks?
Which variable exactly will tell you that the link is congested or not?
And the anwer is none. Ain't such variable. You may still get full T1 even if the upstream is congested. You may as well fail to get T1 even if the upstream is not congested.
The only way to determine the level of congestion between two sites is to run a jitter and packet loss test. If you have high jitter - there is congestion somewhere. If jitter stays put around 10-20 ms for a 40 ms rtt link is virtually idle.
The primary problem with this is that you need a place where you can run the remote end of the app. Running ping and calculating jitter based on rtt usually does not work. You have to collect statistics both ends.
This is the old statement that the moment something goes into computerland all laws change. It is being continuously abused to revoke various rights we have as consumers, customers and simply humans.
Sorry, but I find this argument completely fallacious. There is no frigging difference between a computer, a pen, a company watercooler (forgot those didn't you?), a company microwave in the company kitchen and the company toilet in the company bathroom.
All of those are company property. As an employee you are entitled to use every single one of them as long as you follow a certain set of rules. The company has no justifiable right whatsoever to violate your rights when formulating any of the rules dealing with these.
And more to it in most civilised countries these rights are unforfeightable. So even if the company has imagined that it has the right, the court will quickly teach them of the opposite. Even if you have signed a contract forfeighting them.
A typical example is one unnamed big american corporation in Germany. For whatever reasons it found out that employee X during the lunch break did his weekly shopping and had the boot of the car fool of beer on the premises. Fired on the spot of course. Two months later the court awarded the employee half a million DM and reinstated him. Because according to German law the company had no right to search the car, had no right to manifest any interest in what is in the car and the employee had a right to privacy.
Same stands for private email and private phone calls from work. Once again giving germany as an example. The employer is entitled to ask the employee to pay for private phone calls but cannot state in any document any details about them that disclose the exact destinations. Which usually means cannot question those destinations. Similar rules stand for snooping the network.
Let's take another country to make the list full. Let's take the country with the second worst employment rights record after US - the UK. Every employee is entitled at any time to ask the company to hand him every bit of data being kept on them. Ask and make a reasonable scandal of the fact that IT or other people have read communication with your wife. After you have done it two or three times urge to snoop disappears very fast. Pity brits do not have the habit to behave this way.
So this problem is localised completely to a certain world region. And it is quite time for this region to start learning the value of human rights instead of trying to teach the rest of the world about them.
Armed persons charged with defense of the airplane.
Have you ever seen what happens when you blow a hole in the airplane wall at 6 miles up in the air.
Do not be silly. The only alternative is to rebuild _all_ planes so that the cabin can be isolated. This plan surfaced after sep 11 and disappeared because this will cost too much money to the boys from Seattle (and they have contributed quite well to some people's capmaign funds ya know).
Who is the cretinous idiot who moded this as funny. Think. What happens exactly if you run a train at 100 mph into the station? With several hundred people waiting to board it, walking around the concourse, etc.
The carnage will be as big as the WTC (if it is done in a country which actually uses trains like somewhere in EU).
These are not normalised versus flight hours. Which makes them rather meaningless. If you normalise it versus flight hours you get the following interesting stats for all planes manufactured in quantities above 50 pcs (apparently):
Worst: Boeing 737 early models (up to -300) closely followed by Airbus (current). Best: Tupolev 154M closely followed buy some of the larger Fokker jets that are commonly used for tourist charter in Europe (these have only one or two accidents ever versus some ungodly number of flight hours shipping fat bavarians to Majorca and back).
Any plane flying at hypersonic has multiple sonic cones - plane, engines, etc. These can be placed so that they extinguish each other due to interference patterns. This means that from another viewpoint they will amplify each other. If the "another" point in question is above the plane it is a "who cares about the dead fish" case.
On a different note, Concorde is hellishly noisy when subsonic. It is the bigger problem (most of the flight is above water). Unfortunately this problem is quite hard to solve as all recent development into noise efficient engine shapes (new boeings, new airbus, new engines on russian jets) has gone into subsonic turbofans. The knowledge from these cannot be applied into hypersonic engines right away.
On a second thought. You are right. Wings are not visible in all precrash shots (you can see them only at launch). In all further shots you can clearly see a cilindrical object that looks like the booster flying solo. So I guess the booster lost the vehicle somewhere on the way up long before it crashed.
Picture 15. Wings clearly visible. The other interesting bit here is that loads of people have posted that the vehicle was larger then the booster. In this shot you can clearly see (assuming the slidware on the japanese site is correct) that the booster is larger then the vehicle.
Which leads me to think that if there was any problem it should have been with the booster.
So what is exactly keeping these mines from getting cleaned up?
You need to find them first. Most of these minefields are layed out "blanket" style and there are no maps where the mines have been put in. As a result it becomes a task of combing the entire surface of the conflict zone. Including woods, swamps, mountain ranges, etc. It took more then 40 years to clear the ex-WWII minefields in former USSR. Kids were getting themnselves blown up palying in the Belorussian woods as recent as 1980-es
Back to this device. With this device you have to see them to clear them. This is good for exploading UXO and disarming bombs put by nuts of various origin. Basically it is the same market as the current police force UK and israeli made robots, which use a pump action shotgun to detonate the bomb. Unfortunately they often get blasted into bits while doing this as they have to do it from under 20m range. And they are b*** expensive.
So I guess that police forces around the world especially in UK, Middle East, Greece, etc will happlily buy this truck. I do not see it getting any wide military deployment. The reason for this is that it is not very useful on a properly layed minefield where you cannot see the mines. A tank rolling a reinforced plough or the solid fuel propelled one-time use ploughs will be of much better use.
Even better, if it is one of the old thermal print faxes printing a roll of black paper can irreversibly damage it. Unfortunately on modern ink ones you just waste all the ink.
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Agree 100%. I have not read Playboy since the early 90-es, but 12 years ago it was having brilliant political essays (amidst all the tits of course) that were giving Bush senior a shelling that was way heavier than any of the conventional press. It was a very good read and it was worth every single penny you payed for it.
Similarly another "entertainment" magazine at the time, namely Rolling Stones had the best anti-gulf war analysis I have seen. AFAIK they are not stoked by public libraries in the US either.
Dunno about now though. I stopped reading it after Hafner's daughter took over in mid 90-es because one of the first things she did was to cut down on such material. As well as go for more "motherly" model shapes and methinks that I do not suffer from Aedipus sindrome.
Or phrambesia and a few other similar tropical relatives of the common syphilis. They do eat flash Actually syphilis did eat flesh 7 senturies ago as well. It just got "softer" as a result of natural selection. People whose genitalia were destroyed could not spread it around any more. In btw any article on these drives any censorware I have seen off the scale.
Nope.
.NET always faster then java if implemented properly on intel architecture. It is the fact that it is a little endian standard while java is big endian. Assuming everything else equal .NET will always win. That is besides the fact that many third llparty developers will actually prefer to deal with an ECMA standard language then with a Sun standard.
.NET. Sink Java. And so far it is proceeding very well on target and on schedule with the help of the GNU community. Nothing bad about it, I hate java so any means of killing it should be cherished and supported. The problem is that after sinking java MSFT can deal with competitors on their own turf exactly as you describe and we will be back to square one where we began. To perl and python as the only "portable" languages.
First, they are trying to do a full ECMA certification for NET and make it standard. In order to do what you are saying they will have to withdraw from the certification standard which immediately gives them a serious disadvantage in the war against java which is what this shit is about.
Second, deciding to apply for the certification process they have taken into account that making the language a standard will create alternative implementations. Not just GNU. There will be commercial ones as well. And that is the idea. Because there is something that makes
This is the idea of
You should never be sure. I saw the Phantom Shit the week it was released in the US in one well known "fifth" world country available on DVD. At a price of course. That was before it even got to Europe, not even talking about the country in question.
We all know how anal is George Lucas about his franchise. Also, the movie was exactly as in the cinema form, no DVD shit and it was three days after a reel was stolen in California from one of the cinemas in the first wave to show it.
The interesting bit is that at least in that case it had nothing to do with the MPAA, RIAA or download leaks. It had something to do with organised crime. Which for some reason MPAA and RIAA do not seem to be violently opposed to... I wonder why...
So it is a "who knows"...
Ask IBM. They have had it in their reasearch center in Zurich since mid-60es. This is just reinventing the wheel.
They will not. US Navy is traditionally slanted heavily towards MSFT despite all the blunders with ships going out of control and so on. MSFT is the primary contractor on Navy's programme for the coastal assault fregates, continued ad naseum.
I have no doubts who will win this contract and what the solution will be.
Took the words out of my mouth. Though cable is better because you have a valid broadcast address and you have to loop only across the broadcast addresses. The cablecos usually help you by assigning only /24s no matter what the actual need is. Yum... You can walk an entire cableco in several seconds while walking the DSLs IP by IP will take some time.
Unfortunately some spoilsport ISPs filter the porst in question and have been doing this for up to 5 years now since the days of winnuke.
I think it is you who needs to get his head out of his a...:
;-)
1. Fortran will not die until someone rewrites all those scientific computation code into C. And this will not happen anytime in the immediate future. On top of it (the last time I tried) the fortran source generated by some popular symbolic computation packages (like Mapple) was usable (after hacking) and the C was not. C++ - not even f... close.
2. Cobol - no comment.
3. Pascal. I have been watching C++ programmers take a month what used to take me a day or so with TP for Windows or early Delphy. I know - neither of them is suitable for big projects but they will still blow away C++ for RAD even now. And I do not care anymore typing away in perl anyway
So get a grip on reality and learn a bit about these "supposedly dead" programming languages before opening your a...e (err... mouth).
Objection!!!
They are pro-linux as long as it sells the more expensive hardware.
They are not pro-linux as far as their cheap and commodity hardware is concerned. A good example for this is the Epson proprietary laser printer langauge which is the only way to drive their cheap laser printers (the N subversions of EPL -5800 and 5900).
If you notice on their site they offer a gs driver for these but it supports only the more expensive variety which is HPGL (and some versions even postscript) capable.
If you are trying it on the 5800N and 5900N you are basically screweed. Been there, been burned by that, payed 100 more dollars to swap a 5900N for for the real thing.
Besides the article it has also been broadcasted in BBC series on global warming. Few notes: 1. It is not frozen - it is gaz-hidrate. Which is natural under the pressure+temperature conditions in question. It is though that there is a humongous quantity of methane tied in gas-hidrate on the ocean floor especially where rivers bring out organic matter into the ocean. 2. If you look into the global warming models - half of them do not account for this methane and methane has higher greenhouse effect than carbon dioxide. The ones that take into account this methane in general predict hell on earth. Basically once the ocean has warmed up enough the methane starts to come out which speeds up global warming and more methane comes out. Classic chain reaction. 3. There is some geological evidence that these methane eruption global warming events have happened in the past. It was presented on the BBC program in question. 4. Forgot how the show was called but it is possible that you may find some of the data on bbc web site (not news, the proper www.bbc.co.uk).
To the moderator: do not jump to moderate as flamebait until you have read it till the end please. As a person who have worked both in Academia (in more than one country) and in Corp (once again in more than one country) I have to say that you are deeply mistaken.
Excuse me for the engineering language but current academic CS is mostly full of shit. It is mostly a collection of people who excel in vendor and sponsor nasoanal relationships. Especially the latter.
What you describe is not CS. It is good old MATH. And what makes most programmers write shitty code is lack of solid background in mathematics. The subjects you have mentioned like set theory are just a scratch on surface. Game theory, optimisation, numerical methods, to be continued ad naseum.
I will also disagree with some of your conclusions on selftaught as synonimous with lacking. A selftaught programmer coming from a mathematical, physical or even chemical background is often a better programmer then the surrogate CS engineers printed in some countries which have cut down their math requirements for CS to almost nothing. And which do not have any of the subjects mentioned in their BSc programmes for most colleges.
At which point you start loving some of the wireless vendors who do not have this setting easily available. You love the older linux Prism drivers even more. The only love that shines greater is the love to driver authors who always scan for all APs before offering you a choice and overflow a fixed limit in the dialogs (there is one like that out there).
To be continued ad naseum... Grghh....
Excuse me for being picky.
Your history knowledge is definitely a result of complete brainwash. Like most of the history which taught to american kids (and russian for that matter). It has been edited to suit propaganda and political agendas.
The british fleet was ancored in NY harbour for the first several weeks or so. After that it disappeared because there were two fleets to match it. The french expeditionary and russian first baltic. Also the brits did not expect this development and were present only with an expeditionary fleet which was outgunned by a considerable margin by either of the "guests".
And logically enough the brits lost the war. If those two fleets were not patrolling the US coast throughout the rest of the war god knows what would have happened.
This was edited out from both the russian and the american history text books during McCarthy and the cold war.
Otherwise I agree with you. If 9/11 did not happen the B administration would have invented it. The same way it invented research that shows that there is much more oil and there is no need of fuel economy and there is no global warming either. It was on their agenda to cut civil rights and they are jolly good proceeding to do so on the crest of the wave of histeria. And they are doing a bloody good job at it.
This is blaming sucky peering points on an ISP. Which is actually a reasonable thing to do. You should complain about sucky peerings or sucky uplink to the upstream (if the ISP is not tier1). But you have to remember:
1. Your ISP cannot fix the entire internet.
2. If you are downloading across the globe without specifically tuning the tcp stack you are not going to get 192Kbytes. Ever. Your TCP window will not open enough.
So all you can do is chose an ISP with good connectivity in first place and follow up to make sure they keep it so. Bitch immediately if any peering links suck. Bitch immediately if you notice congestion anywhere on their own backbone. Bitch if they are routing traffic to the next village through a point on the other end of the globe (the way psi.com europe do). Ad naseum...
If everyone did that and made it public the Internet would have been much faster reliable.
So what are you going to measure with it? Your dick or your bollocks?
Which variable exactly will tell you that the link is congested or not?
And the anwer is none. Ain't such variable. You may still get full T1 even if the upstream is congested. You may as well fail to get T1 even if the upstream is not congested.
The only way to determine the level of congestion between two sites is to run a jitter and packet loss test. If you have high jitter - there is congestion somewhere. If jitter stays put around 10-20 ms for a 40 ms rtt link is virtually idle.
The primary problem with this is that you need a place where you can run the remote end of the app. Running ping and calculating jitter based on rtt usually does not work. You have to collect statistics both ends.
P.S. Been there, done that, plotted it with MRTG
This is the old statement that the moment something goes into computerland all laws change. It is being continuously abused to revoke various rights we have as consumers, customers and simply humans.
Sorry, but I find this argument completely fallacious. There is no frigging difference between a computer, a pen, a company watercooler (forgot those didn't you?), a company microwave in the company kitchen and the company toilet in the company bathroom.
All of those are company property. As an employee you are entitled to use every single one of them as long as you follow a certain set of rules. The company has no justifiable right whatsoever to violate your rights when formulating any of the rules dealing with these.
And more to it in most civilised countries these rights are unforfeightable. So even if the company has imagined that it has the right, the court will quickly teach them of the opposite. Even if you have signed a contract forfeighting them.
A typical example is one unnamed big american corporation in Germany. For whatever reasons it found out that employee X during the lunch break did his weekly shopping and had the boot of the car fool of beer on the premises. Fired on the spot of course. Two months later the court awarded the employee half a million DM and reinstated him. Because according to German law the company had no right to search the car, had no right to manifest any interest in what is in the car and the employee had a right to privacy.
Same stands for private email and private phone calls from work. Once again giving germany as an example. The employer is entitled to ask the employee to pay for private phone calls but cannot state in any document any details about them that disclose the exact destinations. Which usually means cannot question those destinations. Similar rules stand for snooping the network.
Let's take another country to make the list full. Let's take the country with the second worst employment rights record after US - the UK. Every employee is entitled at any time to ask the company to hand him every bit of data being kept on them. Ask and make a reasonable scandal of the fact that IT or other people have read communication with your wife. After you have done it two or three times urge to snoop disappears very fast. Pity brits do not have the habit to behave this way.
So this problem is localised completely to a certain world region. And it is quite time for this region to start learning the value of human rights instead of trying to teach the rest of the world about them.
Have you ever seen what happens when you blow a hole in the airplane wall at 6 miles up in the air.
Do not be silly. The only alternative is to rebuild _all_ planes so that the cabin can be isolated. This plan surfaced after sep 11 and disappeared because this will cost too much money to the boys from Seattle (and they have contributed quite well to some people's capmaign funds ya know).
Who is the cretinous idiot who moded this as funny. Think. What happens exactly if you run a train at 100 mph into the station? With several hundred people waiting to board it, walking around the concourse, etc.
The carnage will be as big as the WTC (if it is done in a country which actually uses trains like somewhere in EU).
These are not normalised versus flight hours. Which makes them rather meaningless. If you normalise it versus flight hours you get the following interesting stats for all planes manufactured in quantities above 50 pcs (apparently):
Worst: Boeing 737 early models (up to -300) closely followed by Airbus (current).
Best: Tupolev 154M closely followed buy some of the larger Fokker jets that are commonly used for tourist charter in Europe (these have only one or two accidents ever versus some ungodly number of flight hours shipping fat bavarians to Majorca and back).
Funny... Isn't it?
Any plane flying at hypersonic has multiple sonic cones - plane, engines, etc. These can be placed so that they extinguish each other due to interference patterns. This means that from another viewpoint they will amplify each other. If the "another" point in question is above the plane it is a "who cares about the dead fish" case.
On a different note, Concorde is hellishly noisy when subsonic. It is the bigger problem (most of the flight is above water). Unfortunately this problem is quite hard to solve as all recent development into noise efficient engine shapes (new boeings, new airbus, new engines on russian jets) has gone into subsonic turbofans. The knowledge from these cannot be applied into hypersonic engines right away.
On a second thought. You are right. Wings are not visible in all precrash shots (you can see them only at launch). In all further shots you can clearly see a cilindrical object that looks like the booster flying solo. So I guess the booster lost the vehicle somewhere on the way up long before it crashed.
Picture 15. Wings clearly visible. The other interesting bit here is that loads of people have posted that the vehicle was larger then the booster. In this shot you can clearly see (assuming the slidware on the japanese site is correct) that the booster is larger then the vehicle.
Which leads me to think that if there was any problem it should have been with the booster.
Did you read the story? Actually can you read?
Not a single component of the jet model failed. What failed was the solid fuel booster rocket that was supposed to bring it into position for testing.
Which is a pity.
You need to find them first. Most of these minefields are layed out "blanket" style and there are no maps where the mines have been put in. As a result it becomes a task of combing the entire surface of the conflict zone. Including woods, swamps, mountain ranges, etc. It took more then 40 years to clear the ex-WWII minefields in former USSR. Kids were getting themnselves blown up palying in the Belorussian woods as recent as 1980-es
Back to this device. With this device you have to see them to clear them. This is good for exploading UXO and disarming bombs put by nuts of various origin. Basically it is the same market as the current police force UK and israeli made robots, which use a pump action shotgun to detonate the bomb. Unfortunately they often get blasted into bits while doing this as they have to do it from under 20m range. And they are b*** expensive.
So I guess that police forces around the world especially in UK, Middle East, Greece, etc will happlily buy this truck. I do not see it getting any wide military deployment. The reason for this is that it is not very useful on a properly layed minefield where you cannot see the mines. A tank rolling a reinforced plough or the solid fuel propelled one-time use ploughs will be of much better use.
Even better, if it is one of the old thermal print faxes printing a roll of black paper can irreversibly damage it. Unfortunately on modern ink ones you just waste all the ink.