[...], and Gripen proving that it was better at strike missions in Libya.
Err... no.
In Libya the Gripen has only been used for recognition, not for strike.
Why ? Political choice, so they do not risk to kill civilians, and here Carl Bildt said the Gripen was not suitable for strike (which is BS, but an excuse for not to strike).
About Dassault writing the report, I'm interested in anything backing this idea (fact,quotes,...). To me it doesn't look like so.
They just can't afford the best plane, they bought the cheap one, and cheaper to operate.
The Swiss Army also has chosen the Gripen, despite its worst rank among the three candidates!
See this confidential flight test report about Rafale, Eurofighter and Gripen evaluation: http://files.newsnetz.ch/upload//1/2/12332.pdf
OVERALL CONCLUSION
Among the three NFA candidates,Rafale was the aircraft with the best effectiveness and suitability for the accomplishment of a typical Air Policing mission.
It also demonstrated better capabilities than the F/A-18C/D equiped with OFP-19C(S) and in addition in the accomplishment of Air Policing tasks it made the best impression on the pilots.
For Air Policing missions, the Gripen was the only candidate which did not achieve the threshold of "meets minimum expected capabilities".
The Gripen has been rated unsatisfactory in the accomplishment for Air-to-Air and Strike missions. The Gripen obtained the 3rd rank in the evaluation of the effectiveness.
Based on flight test results, the Rafale is the candidate which fulfil all Swiss Air Force requirements and ended with the best score recommended as new fighter for the Swiss Air Force.
Now every worker can be fully stressed out doing routine work. As you become better at your task, your task gets faster. You'll never be on top of it.
It's worse than it apears in the summary: The Video also shows that the system highlights the item on the shelf with a laser, and a light tells the picker in which box this item goes.
The pickers now really has a robot job: See the laser beam, take the item, see the light, put in the box below.
He does not even need to read the order.
Illiterate people could do this job, maybe it's good news for them.
I'm afraid that pumping this water will lead to the same phenomenon in Libya:
As they pump the fossil water of deep aquifers in the desert, the dwells all around get dry or have now a much lower water level.
See the GMMR project: huge pipe to provide fresh water to the coastal cities, pumped from deep fossil aquifers of the desert that may not get resplenish any time soon. This is maybe not as simple as communicating vessels, but the people think the dwells dry out are link to this project.
e-ink display lasts even not powered, so one day you may have something personal/compromising/secret displayed there and if a bug freeze the phone you won't be able to erase that quickly by shutting it off, as one can do with LCD or OLED display.
Is there any problem with this brand/model of somestuff ?
This is much more important than any performance review.
Last time I bought a printer, I almost went for a 5 star review model and I changed my mind after looking for problem reports about this model. I decided to buy an other brand, a model for which there was much fewer problems, yet a good amount of positive feedbacks.
Usually reviews are based on a few days test of new products, maybe sent by the maker itself. They don't report anything that happen after a few weeks or months.
My advice:
1- read any review for technical characteristics ( amongst the top 10 search of "review" + brand / model )
2- thoroughly search "problem" + brand / model in discussions and feedbacks
None of my recent "improvements" have been accepted even when they are 1 low possible impact, and 2 fixing some edge case the maintainer doesn't care about. Lots of NIH syndrome going on.
I would like to know what are those edge cases about, if you don't mind. (just curious, and willing to understand)
Regarding those statistics, I think we should rule out some brand and model well known for failure, because, as soon as the information goes public, we need to replace them with some other brand/model.
With such strategy we can achieve a lower effective failure rate.
In those "best linux distros" I just discovered Qubes OS which achieves security (and privacy) through strong isolation.
See what kind of activities can be isolated, in a picture.
I think they got it right.
Not very portable: one need to run it on bare metal (along with 4GB minimum), nomads will bring along their laptop, at least (also: secure boot optional).
Backups must be fully automatic, otherwise you'll stop doing them regularly.
Backups should be rotated. A midnight backup is useless if you are hacked at 11:55 PM, or discover a problem 2 days later. You must have access to older backups.
Rotated, with galvanic isolation, and fully automatic : how do you manage this ?
Backups are rotated on two drives at least, and they shouldn't be both online at any time, in case of power surge or lightning, or even hacking of the backup server.
The only way I see to achieve this, with one backup site, is to have backup drive B physically disconnected while backup drive A is plugged.
How could it be fully automated ?
Of course one solution is to have two backup sites, far enough from each other, with two different server software (otherwise they are much likely to be both compromised with the same vulnerability).
This is an expensive solution for private use.
[...] you could clap your hands (or click your tongue) and hear the location of the echoes in the room. With practice you can identify the rough shape of the room and even location of large objects.
I suggest the/.ers to try this experiment, it's fun.
Best results in the dark, during a quiet night so you won't hear much background noise, yet close your eyes.
Snap your fingers while walking slowly (short whistle also works).
If you do this walking down a corridor, then you will guess where are the doors, the coats hanging, the turns and crossing very easily.
No credit card required to create an Apple ID if you don't have one: tip 1
No Snow Leopard upgrade from Leopard (however you should have a Snow L. licence for this Mac): tip 2
One still needs a Snow Leopard at least to use the new App Store and download the Maverick files.
Maybe you can go to a friend's and use your new ID to download your Maverick copy... or wait for a tip 3 someone may post here !
I'm looking for a multipurpose B&W printer, laser, for home.
My current choice is the Brother MFC-7460DN , also good for SOHO.
It's a multipurpose B&W laser printer, 26ppm print; 35-sheet Auto Document Feeder; Duplex print, Fax, colour scanner.
It looks like people have less problems with this brand/model than some others, so I think I buy it
I've seen many news web sites, in France, that shut down the comment feature in advance for articles about subjects usually prone to racist or antisemitic comments.
I have mixed feelings about this kind of limitations, they look like full preventive cencoreship.
Sometimes they can resort to manual comment moderation for this type of subject.
new.google.com - not a reference site per se but sometimes news can be reported from less mainstream media. Chose a national edition (/?ned=xx in url) for other languages, spanish speaking world has quite a different coverage.
Al Jazeera, as many pointed out here. Many subjects are covered with much less biased point of view than in western media. Pretty good and quality journalism. Some in-depth coverage samples: BP disaster and one year later.
Slashdot... again not a reference site per, but I don't have time to read much more than those three sites.
In French: Mediapart and Rue89 for some alternative views.
I'll have a look at the crowd advice here, nice thread.
the top-down approach results in code which is easily understood, elegant, efficient, robust, and maintainable
I often used (or resort to) down-top approach with good result and - maybe surprisingly - elegant and maintainable code.
My last code was a Python puzzle solving program.
I tried first the top-down analytical approach, and it seemed quite complicated and convoluted. I though of a complex data structure, to be refined.
Then I decided to code with down-top approach, build from small efficient task that I would need later for the job to be done, along with some test functions.
The data structure boiled down to a very simple one when I figured out that I could use recursion instead of managing a heap.
Finaly I had all the bricks I wanted, to finish the program. I just needed to figure out the main algorithm, I was worrying that it could be the tough part, but a miracle happened: the main function was a mere 4 lines, very clear and consise. They just popped out of my mind. What ? Is that all ? And guess what ? Yes, the puzzle solving was working right on the first time I ran it.
So I would rather say that when you have some good practices in programming, don't look upon Down-Top approach with contempt.
That's often a good way to go.
Cooking using the biolite leaves a lot to be desired, IMHO. It's a nice novelty product, but it's not as practical as thought it would be.
Well, I used Biolite for 6 weeks (total), drawbacks are:
- need *dry* wood (using not so dry wood pieces needs full power position and dry pieces mix)
- need *small* pieces of wood (set up a workshop aside the kitchen to cut wood)
- need to be fed constantly, 30s-45s intervals is a good timing, each time lift the saucepan to drop the wood
- can't simmer, power is medium or high, not low
- efficient mobile phone charging can be optimized but this is tricky
However I'm fine with that and I continue to use it, it's still fun and usefull.
From now I'll try this way to teach fractions, let see that this evening on a 9yo.
(a child who doesn't understand why a fraction is smaller with higher numbers)
There's so much water in those jellyfish that they can be processed through a mixer / blender to make a jellymilk.
The cooling pumps and tubes could be adapted to this fluid a little bit thicker than water.
Slashdot Mirror
[...], and Gripen proving that it was better at strike missions in Libya.
Err... no.
In Libya the Gripen has only been used for recognition, not for strike.
Why ? Political choice, so they do not risk to kill civilians, and here Carl Bildt said the Gripen was not suitable for strike (which is BS, but an excuse for not to strike).
About Dassault writing the report, I'm interested in anything backing this idea (fact,quotes,...). To me it doesn't look like so.
They just can't afford the best plane, they bought the cheap one, and cheaper to operate.
The Swiss Army also has chosen the Gripen, despite its worst rank among the three candidates!
See this confidential flight test report about Rafale, Eurofighter and Gripen evaluation:
http://files.newsnetz.ch/upload//1/2/12332.pdf
OVERALL CONCLUSION
Among the three NFA candidates,Rafale was the aircraft with the best effectiveness and suitability for the accomplishment of a typical Air Policing mission.
It also demonstrated better capabilities than the F/A-18C/D equiped with OFP-19C(S) and in addition in the accomplishment of Air Policing tasks it made the best impression on the pilots.
For Air Policing missions, the Gripen was the only candidate which did not achieve the threshold of "meets minimum expected capabilities".
Just for info : they have decided for the better plane.
You forget the Rafale which is by far superior to the Gripen.
See Switzerland: they also have chosen the Gripen for political and price reason, even if it doesn't meet the military requirements!
End of page 2:
The Gripen has been rated unsatisfactory in the accomplishment for Air-to-Air and Strike missions.
The Gripen obtained the 3rd rank in the evaluation of the effectiveness.
Based on flight test results, the Rafale is the candidate which fulfil all Swiss Air Force requirements and ended with the best score recommended as new fighter for the Swiss Air Force.
Now every worker can be fully stressed out doing routine work. As you become better at your task, your task gets faster. You'll never be on top of it.
It's worse than it apears in the summary: The Video also shows that the system highlights the item on the shelf with a laser, and a light tells the picker in which box this item goes.
The pickers now really has a robot job: See the laser beam, take the item, see the light, put in the box below.
He does not even need to read the order.
Illiterate people could do this job, maybe it's good news for them.
According to TFA, some offshore aquifers can be reached by drilling in mainland.
I'm afraid that pumping this water will lead to the same phenomenon in Libya :
As they pump the fossil water of deep aquifers in the desert, the dwells all around get dry or have now a much lower water level.
See the GMMR project: huge pipe to provide fresh water to the coastal cities, pumped from deep fossil aquifers of the desert that may not get resplenish any time soon. This is maybe not as simple as communicating vessels, but the people think the dwells dry out are link to this project.
e-ink display lasts even not powered, so one day you may have something personal/compromising/secret displayed there and if a bug freeze the phone you won't be able to erase that quickly by shutting it off, as one can do with LCD or OLED display.
Due to its mathematical design, bitcoins are similar to a comodity, not a fiat currency.
Is there any problem with this brand/model of somestuff ?
This is much more important than any performance review.
Last time I bought a printer, I almost went for a 5 star review model and I changed my mind after looking for problem reports about this model.
I decided to buy an other brand, a model for which there was much fewer problems, yet a good amount of positive feedbacks.
Usually reviews are based on a few days test of new products, maybe sent by the maker itself. They don't report anything that happen after a few weeks or months.
My advice:
1- read any review for technical characteristics ( amongst the top 10 search of "review" + brand / model )
2- thoroughly search "problem" + brand / model in discussions and feedbacks
Numbering items with an index starting from zero isn't counting. It's just numbering.
Teach this first, along with counting continguous elements by index substraction + 1.
None of my recent "improvements" have been accepted even when they are 1 low possible impact, and 2 fixing some edge case the maintainer doesn't care about. Lots of NIH syndrome going on.
I would like to know what are those edge cases about, if you don't mind.
(just curious, and willing to understand)
I remember that all my Deskstar drives failed after each other very soon...
Regarding those statistics, I think we should rule out some brand and model well known for failure, because, as soon as the information goes public, we need to replace them with some other brand/model.
With such strategy we can achieve a lower effective failure rate.
In those "best linux distros" I just discovered Qubes OS which achieves security (and privacy) through strong isolation.
See what kind of activities can be isolated, in a picture.
I think they got it right.
Not very portable: one need to run it on bare metal (along with 4GB minimum), nomads will bring along their laptop, at least (also: secure boot optional).
Backups must be fully automatic, otherwise you'll stop doing them regularly.
Backups should be rotated. A midnight backup is useless if you are hacked at 11:55 PM, or discover a problem 2 days later. You must have access to older backups.
Rotated, with galvanic isolation, and fully automatic : how do you manage this ?
Backups are rotated on two drives at least, and they shouldn't be both online at any time, in case of power surge or lightning, or even hacking of the backup server.
The only way I see to achieve this, with one backup site, is to have backup drive B physically disconnected while backup drive A is plugged.
How could it be fully automated ?
Of course one solution is to have two backup sites, far enough from each other, with two different server software (otherwise they are much likely to be both compromised with the same vulnerability).
This is an expensive solution for private use.
[...] you could clap your hands (or click your tongue) and hear the location of the echoes in the room. With practice you can identify the rough shape of the room and even location of large objects.
I suggest the /.ers to try this experiment, it's fun.
Best results in the dark, during a quiet night so you won't hear much background noise, yet close your eyes.
Snap your fingers while walking slowly (short whistle also works).
If you do this walking down a corridor, then you will guess where are the doors, the coats hanging, the turns and crossing very easily.
Thank you for your post, I have the old sparc based NAS and started to wonder if I need to patch.
(however I still have emails to remind me to install the lastest firmware 4.1.12 for sparc based NAS - security issues and DLNA features.)
Let me share those tips I've found:
No credit card required to create an Apple ID if you don't have one: tip 1
No Snow Leopard upgrade from Leopard (however you should have a Snow L. licence for this Mac): tip 2
One still needs a Snow Leopard at least to use the new App Store and download the Maverick files.
Maybe you can go to a friend's and use your new ID to download your Maverick copy... or wait for a tip 3 someone may post here !
I'm looking for a multipurpose B&W printer, laser, for home.
My current choice is the Brother MFC-7460DN , also good for SOHO.
It's a multipurpose B&W laser printer, 26ppm print; 35-sheet Auto Document Feeder; Duplex print, Fax, colour scanner.
It looks like people have less problems with this brand/model than some others, so I think I buy it
I've seen many news web sites, in France, that shut down the comment feature in advance for articles about subjects usually prone to racist or antisemitic comments.
I have mixed feelings about this kind of limitations, they look like full preventive cencoreship.
Sometimes they can resort to manual comment moderation for this type of subject.
My three daily readings are :
new.google.com - not a reference site per se but sometimes news can be reported from less mainstream media. Chose a national edition (/?ned=xx in url) for other languages, spanish speaking world has quite a different coverage.
Al Jazeera , as many pointed out here. Many subjects are covered with much less biased point of view than in western media. Pretty good and quality journalism. Some in-depth coverage samples: BP disaster and one year later.
Slashdot ... again not a reference site per, but I don't have time to read much more than those three sites.
In French: Mediapart and Rue89 for some alternative views.
I'll have a look at the crowd advice here, nice thread.
the top-down approach results in code which is easily understood, elegant, efficient, robust, and maintainable
I often used (or resort to) down-top approach with good result and - maybe surprisingly - elegant and maintainable code.
My last code was a Python puzzle solving program.
I tried first the top-down analytical approach, and it seemed quite complicated and convoluted. I though of a complex data structure, to be refined.
Then I decided to code with down-top approach, build from small efficient task that I would need later for the job to be done, along with some test functions.
The data structure boiled down to a very simple one when I figured out that I could use recursion instead of managing a heap.
Finaly I had all the bricks I wanted, to finish the program. I just needed to figure out the main algorithm, I was worrying that it could be the tough part, but a miracle happened: the main function was a mere 4 lines, very clear and consise. They just popped out of my mind. What ? Is that all ? And guess what ? Yes, the puzzle solving was working right on the first time I ran it.
So I would rather say that when you have some good practices in programming, don't look upon Down-Top approach with contempt.
That's often a good way to go.
Cooking using the biolite leaves a lot to be desired, IMHO. It's a nice novelty product, but it's not as practical as thought it would be.
Well, I used Biolite for 6 weeks (total), drawbacks are :
- need *dry* wood (using not so dry wood pieces needs full power position and dry pieces mix)
- need *small* pieces of wood (set up a workshop aside the kitchen to cut wood)
- need to be fed constantly, 30s-45s intervals is a good timing, each time lift the saucepan to drop the wood
- can't simmer, power is medium or high, not low
- efficient mobile phone charging can be optimized but this is tricky
However I'm fine with that and I continue to use it, it's still fun and usefull.
We already talked about that on /. a few weeks ago.
From now I'll try this way to teach fractions, let see that this evening on a 9yo.
(a child who doesn't understand why a fraction is smaller with higher numbers)
There's so much water in those jellyfish that they can be processed through a mixer / blender to make a jellymilk.
The cooling pumps and tubes could be adapted to this fluid a little bit thicker than water.
This story remind me that in Egypt some clerics were mocked on the web after a story about cut tomatoes showing a cross.
I hope their next move will give birth to an hilarious meme :) Let see... in which country do we also have good candidates ?