But there is. If it's predicted that the sea level will rise this much by the end of the century, and given how log it's going to take to actually shut down and clear a nuclear power plant site to a level it's safe to let it flood, the time to start is now for those plants we believe to be effected by such a oceanic rise.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) states clearly that these numbers are not predictions, and are little more than what-if scenarios to get policy makers thinking about what needs to be done. The figures quoted for sea level rise shouldn't be confused with scientific fact.
This report provides scenarios to help assessment experts and their stakeholders analyze the vulnerabilities and impacts associated with possible, uncertain futures.
Probabilistic projections of future conditions are another form of scenarios not used in this report because this method remains an area of active research. No widely accepted method is currently available for producing probabilistic projections of sea level rise at actionable scales (i.e. regional and local). Coastal management decisions based solely on a most probable or likely outcome can lead to vulnerable assets resulting from inaction or maladaptation. Given the range of uncertainty in future global SLR, using multiple scenarios encourages experts and decision makers to consider multiple future conditions and to
develop multiple response options.
We are looking at 99% incoming data, 10-12 fields, 1000-2000 per session per week, X as many users as we can get.
Our company's accounting system uses Mongo on the backend. With about 30 users, and a database that is 7 GB Mongo performs well and sounds like it would fit your application.
Having said that I agree with other posters who have suggested that if you want to plan for future growth you would be wise to consider a real database from the start. We are planning a migration to PostgreSQL this year.
Since you are looking for an open source GPS application take a look a My Tracks android application for tracking, location, speed, altitude over time.
I can't speak to how well it's coded, but the application design is simple, and elegant
You are completely incorrect.
The FAA does not agree with Sabri's points at all.
Sabri's basic point was:
"The only things I care about are engine, airspeed and altititude."
Everything else Sabri said supports his view of the basics of flight
Flight 447 was at 38,000 feet when it stalled. 7 miles up provides plenty of safety room to trade altitude for airspeed, and recover from a stall. Instead the co-pilot pulled the stick back, held the stick back, and continued to hold it back the entire time. This basic pilot error contributed to the FAA's 200 page report and their support is mentioned in the first line of the article:
"Commercial airline pilots rely too much on automation in the cockpit and are losing basic flying skills, warns a new Federal Aviation Administration report due out this week."
The FAA agreed with Sabri's general point. The instruments were giving bad information. If the co-pilot had reverted to the basics of flight and set thrust and pitch to normal levels then flight 447 would not have crashed. Instead the co-pilot followed the computers instructions...kept pulling back and trying to climb. By the time the Pilot figured out what the co-pilot was doing it was too late.
Here are the final words from flight 447's black box:
02:13:40 (Co-pilot1) Mais je suis à fond à cabrer depuis tout à l'heure!
At last, Co-pilot1 tells the others the crucial fact whose import he has so grievously failed to understand himself.(But I've had the stick back the whole time!)
02:13:42 (Captain) Non, non, non... Ne remonte pas... non, non.
(No, no, no... Don't climb... no, no.)
02:13:43 (Robert) Alors descends... Alors, donne-moi les commandes... Ã moi les commandes!
(Descend, then... Give me the controls... Give me the controls!)
Bonin yields the controls, and Robert finally puts the nose down. The plane begins to regain speed. But it is still descending at a precipitous angle. As they near 2000 feet, the aircraft's sensors detect the fast-approaching surface and trigger a new alarm. There is no time left to build up speed by pushing the plane's nose forward into a dive. At any rate, without warning his colleagues, Bonin once again takes back the controls and pulls his side stick all the way back.
02:14:23 (Robert) Putain, on va taper... C'est pas vrai!
(Damn it, we're going to crash... This isn't true!)
My old routine of reading the newspaper has been completely replaced with eating cerial and reading the news on my tablet...however I like having my lunch outside in the sun (weather permitting) and reading a magazine is much easier on the eyes than a tablet.
Somebody has to actually answer the question for there to be good pages for google to find. This sort of thing also ages pretty quickly, so I think it's worth reanswering at least yearly. Finally, this guy seems to want something that will teach him interesting stuff - not just something that has working flash etc.
I'm not sure the question has a straight answer. It reminds me a little of when I asked my dad about how to evaluate a good wine (about 20 years ago) I expected him to educate me about legs, tanin, body and other quantifiable methods for evaluating a wine. Instead he said it's quite simple really....you drink a lot of them and after a while you start to develop preferences.
In the late '90s and early 2000's I took the same approach to Linux and installed nearly every distribution I could get my hands on. Back in the day they were varietes of Red Hat, Mandrake, Corel, Slackware, Gentoo, Debian...after a while you develop preferences and one distro doesn't fit all needs. To this day I prefere slackware servers, ubuntu desktops, and ipcop for routers/firewalls. But everybody will have their own preferences./P
It's been years since I used it but the free version used to work on both Linux and Windows. The website says it works on Mac,Solaris, and HP.
http://www.realvnc.com/
Does iOS have a useable file system yet? I bought an iPad2 to use for some simple spreadsheets (user just had to enter yes or no in a column) in our warehouse but syncronizing files back and forth between the iPad and workstation was such a hassle that we are back to using a laptop on a rolling cart and the iPad sits in my credenza unused.
Samba is absolutely still important. We just take SAMBA for granted now more than ever because it is pre-installed everywhere in almost every appliance. For example buy a $20 internet 'router' from Best Buy that can share a connected USB drive over a LAN and it probably uses SAMBA for functionality.
That together with this would mean Samsung only violated the 3 design patents (the, uh, "rounded corners and color" and "rounded edges on icons" design patents, I'll leave the validity of a patent on those up to the reader).
And Judge Koh has suggested that those design patents are not valid either:
"However, Apple’s evidence does not establish that any of Apple’s three design patents covers a particular feature that actually drives consumer demand....First, though more specific than the general “design” allegations, they are still not specific enough to clearly identify actual patented designs. Instead, they refer to such isolated characteristics as glossiness, reinforced glass, black color, metal edges, and reflective screen. Id. Apple does not have a patent on, for example, glossiness, or on black color." -- Judge Koh
Still haven't seen any signs that the judge is likely to overturn the jury's findings though
You have no idea how excited I was to see this headline on the front page. It seems like only articles about Apple and Android are able to start a good flame war. I miss the days when Slashdot was filled with heated discussions about Java vs C, or Postgres vs MS SQL.
The most capable, and underrated database out there IMHO is firebird. Excellent for small to medium sized projects where full ACID compliance was necessary. Fast performance on modest hardware, small memory footprint (for a feature complete database server), can be embedded in an app, business friendly open source licence.
While shopping for a new phone during the summer nearly every store tried to talk me out of HTC
I had researched extensively and found the HTC One V had the best camera on the market for a phone under $200 (with no contract), and was small in size (contrary to the current trend I prefer small phones) and had Android 4 out of the box.
I walked out of one store because the pushed samsung so hard, and out of another store since they no longer carried HTC. Only at the third store did I find the phone.
Incidentally this phone's camera is amazing if you're a photographer and like to tinker. It gives you true autofocus. Exposure control to plus or minus two stops, and a mode that brackets exposure (-1, 0, +1) and puts the three images together to give high contrast scenes beautifully smooth detail.
Where's the rounded rectangle phone YOU invented, huh bub? To say that it was easy suggests that it could have been done 10 years prior. Was it? Nope. Clearly Apple put a lot of time and money (two things they need to protect) into that product.
LG Prada had rounded corners before the iPhone was released
Fully agree.
I liked to get up have a shower, get dressed, then step out of the apartment walk up the street and grab a coffee, then walk home...and start work. The process of stepping out the door had a psychological effect of getting me ready for work.
By being closer to the average height of traffic, you're not just making yourself safer. You're also making everyone around you safer because you can react more quickly to problems up ahead. In larger vehicles, you are also more easily seen by other vehicles because of your larger overall footprint, which, again, makes everyone safer.
That would be true if the drivers of pickups were taking advantage of their improved visibility and paying attention but many drivers in pickups seem to be in their own little world with the radio on, and coffee in hand. They feel safe, and in fact they are safe, but they make everybody else less safe by their inattention.
I ride a motorcycle during the summer. . . . Drivers who pay attention make other drivers safer.
Considering most OS's out there support IPv6 (Vista, 7, Linux, Mac OS X) and most have it defaulted ON out of the box, why not add the capability? I don't know how many of the Linksys routers still run a version of linux out of the box, but it wouldn't be hard to add in, and allow the home network to run on IPv6 (or drop back to IPv4 if need be). Not that it's a huge deal, but it's not so much future proofing as it is something already in your home, on your network, just under/not utilized.
Exactly. Maybe they are building planned obsolescence into their products. Soon people will need to turn in replace their old routers and replace them with new IPv6 routers but the strategy could backfire since D-Link and others already support IPv6 on their inexpensive wireless N home routers
Or my favourite...UI's designed by graphic designers. I used to work with a fantastic designer. He had a real talent for creating visually appealing designs for our web apps that were simple and could be elegantly built with CSS but he insisted on putting menus and buttons in non-standard locations. The result was users had to relearn every interface and hunt for buttons. If we simply had OK, and Close buttons at the bottom right of dialogs, and the menus near the top right our programs would have been easier for new users.
Why are you hoping they're successful? What's wrong with a copyright holder going after the people infringing on its copyright? In fact, Slashdotters suggested that copyright holders to do this very thing 10 years ago during the Napster lawsuit.
I have no problem with copyright holders seeking damages for infringing. The problem occurs when RIAA and others seek damages far in excess of what is reasonable. In this case they are asking $150,000 per download. These groups have unlimited legal funding that almost guarantee the downloader will go bankrupt simply by being accused. Even if they are innocent the legal fees to defend yourself could send a person into bankruptcy. This seems way out of proportion of the crime. A person who went to Best Buy and stole 50 blue ray disks might get a week of community service but get caught downloading 50 movies and you could owe $7.5 million dollars.
The laws are broken.
Not everybody who uses DeCSS is a pirate....some of us just want to watch our legally obtained DVD's from our linux laptops. As a side note does one need DeCSS to read a VOB file then convert to AVI (I've never tried). Or can it be done on a windows computer using a legally obtained DVD codec?
Even the wiki article suggests the reason for the crash is still unknown but the following facts are known:
On 2 July 2009, the BEA released an intermediate report, which described all known facts, and a summary of the visual examination of the rudder and the other parts of the aircraft that had been recovered at that time.[7] According to the BEA, this examination showed that:
the aircraft was likely to have struck the surface of the sea in a normal flight attitude, with a high rate of descent;[Note 3][7][106]
there were no signs of fire or explosion;
the aircraft did not break up in flight. The report also stresses that the BEA had not had access to the post-mortem reports at the time of its production, some of which suggest differently.[7][107]
The current working theory is that a thunderstorm in the area reached as high as 50,000 feet and could have disrupted the plane. Normally a pilot would fly around such a system but a smaller storm in front might have obscured the thunder storm from the flight's radar system and the crew didn't see it.
I don't know how it is in the states but here in Canada setting up a corporation can help you regulate the timing of your income but not avoid paying taxes on it altogether. If you set up a not-really-a-company limited company, and it makes a profit you will still want to transfer those profits into your personal account at some point...and when that happens the individual will be taxed on the income. (I'm not an accountant, but do have a limited company)
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) states clearly that these numbers are not predictions, and are little more than what-if scenarios to get policy makers thinking about what needs to be done. The figures quoted for sea level rise shouldn't be confused with scientific fact.
Quote from the original climate study published by NOAA publication :
Our company's accounting system uses Mongo on the backend. With about 30 users, and a database that is 7 GB Mongo performs well and sounds like it would fit your application.
Having said that I agree with other posters who have suggested that if you want to plan for future growth you would be wise to consider a real database from the start. We are planning a migration to PostgreSQL this year.
Since you are looking for an open source GPS application take a look a My Tracks android application for tracking, location, speed, altitude over time.
I can't speak to how well it's coded, but the application design is simple, and elegant
Sabri's basic point was:
Everything else Sabri said supports his view of the basics of flight
Flight 447 was at 38,000 feet when it stalled. 7 miles up provides plenty of safety room to trade altitude for airspeed, and recover from a stall. Instead the co-pilot pulled the stick back, held the stick back, and continued to hold it back the entire time. This basic pilot error contributed to the FAA's 200 page report and their support is mentioned in the first line of the article:
The FAA agreed with Sabri's general point. The instruments were giving bad information. If the co-pilot had reverted to the basics of flight and set thrust and pitch to normal levels then flight 447 would not have crashed. Instead the co-pilot followed the computers instructions ...kept pulling back and trying to climb. By the time the Pilot figured out what the co-pilot was doing it was too late.
Here are the final words from flight 447's black box:
02:13:40 (Co-pilot1) Mais je suis à fond à cabrer depuis tout à l'heure! At last, Co-pilot1 tells the others the crucial fact whose import he has so grievously failed to understand himself. (But I've had the stick back the whole time!)
02:13:42 (Captain) Non, non, non... Ne remonte pas... non, non. (No, no, no... Don't climb... no, no.)
02:13:43 (Robert) Alors descends... Alors, donne-moi les commandes... Ã moi les commandes! (Descend, then... Give me the controls... Give me the controls!)
Bonin yields the controls, and Robert finally puts the nose down. The plane begins to regain speed. But it is still descending at a precipitous angle. As they near 2000 feet, the aircraft's sensors detect the fast-approaching surface and trigger a new alarm. There is no time left to build up speed by pushing the plane's nose forward into a dive. At any rate, without warning his colleagues, Bonin once again takes back the controls and pulls his side stick all the way back.
02:14:23 (Robert) Putain, on va taper... C'est pas vrai! (Damn it, we're going to crash... This isn't true!)
Or you might be thinking of a recent court or appeals case in Ontario Canada that was discussed on Slashdot
My old routine of reading the newspaper has been completely replaced with eating cerial and reading the news on my tablet...however I like having my lunch outside in the sun (weather permitting) and reading a magazine is much easier on the eyes than a tablet.
So to answer the original question Canadian Biker magazine.
I'm not sure the question has a straight answer. It reminds me a little of when I asked my dad about how to evaluate a good wine (about 20 years ago) I expected him to educate me about legs, tanin, body and other quantifiable methods for evaluating a wine. Instead he said it's quite simple really....you drink a lot of them and after a while you start to develop preferences.
In the late '90s and early 2000's I took the same approach to Linux and installed nearly every distribution I could get my hands on. Back in the day they were varietes of Red Hat, Mandrake, Corel, Slackware, Gentoo, Debian...after a while you develop preferences and one distro doesn't fit all needs. To this day I prefere slackware servers, ubuntu desktops, and ipcop for routers/firewalls. But everybody will have their own preferences./P
Wouldn't Hoth have been a better choice anyway? Vulcan was hot.
It's been years since I used it but the free version used to work on both Linux and Windows. The website says it works on Mac ,Solaris, and HP.
http://www.realvnc.com/
Does iOS have a useable file system yet? I bought an iPad2 to use for some simple spreadsheets (user just had to enter yes or no in a column) in our warehouse but syncronizing files back and forth between the iPad and workstation was such a hassle that we are back to using a laptop on a rolling cart and the iPad sits in my credenza unused.
Samba is absolutely still important. We just take SAMBA for granted now more than ever because it is pre-installed everywhere in almost every appliance. For example buy a $20 internet 'router' from Best Buy that can share a connected USB drive over a LAN and it probably uses SAMBA for functionality.
Agreed...this is a win for google: U.S. antitrust regulators added that they have found no evidence to claims that Google unfairly favors its own services in search results.
That together with this would mean Samsung only violated the 3 design patents (the, uh, "rounded corners and color" and "rounded edges on icons" design patents, I'll leave the validity of a patent on those up to the reader).
And Judge Koh has suggested that those design patents are not valid either:
"However, Apple’s evidence does not establish that any of Apple’s three design patents covers a particular feature that actually drives consumer demand. ...First, though more specific than the general “design” allegations, they are still not specific enough to clearly identify actual patented designs. Instead, they refer to such isolated characteristics as glossiness, reinforced glass, black color, metal edges, and reflective screen. Id. Apple does not have a patent on, for example, glossiness, or on black color." -- Judge Koh
Still haven't seen any signs that the judge is likely to overturn the jury's findings though
You have no idea how excited I was to see this headline on the front page. It seems like only articles about Apple and Android are able to start a good flame war. I miss the days when Slashdot was filled with heated discussions about Java vs C, or Postgres vs MS SQL. The most capable, and underrated database out there IMHO is firebird. Excellent for small to medium sized projects where full ACID compliance was necessary. Fast performance on modest hardware, small memory footprint (for a feature complete database server), can be embedded in an app, business friendly open source licence.
While shopping for a new phone during the summer nearly every store tried to talk me out of HTC
I had researched extensively and found the HTC One V had the best camera on the market for a phone under $200 (with no contract), and was small in size (contrary to the current trend I prefer small phones) and had Android 4 out of the box.
I walked out of one store because the pushed samsung so hard, and out of another store since they no longer carried HTC. Only at the third store did I find the phone.
Incidentally this phone's camera is amazing if you're a photographer and like to tinker. It gives you true autofocus. Exposure control to plus or minus two stops, and a mode that brackets exposure (-1, 0, +1) and puts the three images together to give high contrast scenes beautifully smooth detail.
Where's the rounded rectangle phone YOU invented, huh bub? To say that it was easy suggests that it could have been done 10 years prior. Was it? Nope. Clearly Apple put a lot of time and money (two things they need to protect) into that product.
LG Prada had rounded corners before the iPhone was released
Fully agree. I liked to get up have a shower, get dressed, then step out of the apartment walk up the street and grab a coffee, then walk home...and start work. The process of stepping out the door had a psychological effect of getting me ready for work.
That would be true if the drivers of pickups were taking advantage of their improved visibility and paying attention but many drivers in pickups seem to be in their own little world with the radio on, and coffee in hand. They feel safe, and in fact they are safe, but they make everybody else less safe by their inattention.
I ride a motorcycle during the summer. . . . Drivers who pay attention make other drivers safer.
Considering most OS's out there support IPv6 (Vista, 7, Linux, Mac OS X) and most have it defaulted ON out of the box, why not add the capability? I don't know how many of the Linksys routers still run a version of linux out of the box, but it wouldn't be hard to add in, and allow the home network to run on IPv6 (or drop back to IPv4 if need be). Not that it's a huge deal, but it's not so much future proofing as it is something already in your home, on your network, just under/not utilized.
Exactly. Maybe they are building planned obsolescence into their products. Soon people will need to turn in replace their old routers and replace them with new IPv6 routers but the strategy could backfire since D-Link and others already support IPv6 on their inexpensive wireless N home routers
UI designed by programmer.
Yes: I'm looking at you, FOSS.
Or my favourite...UI's designed by graphic designers. I used to work with a fantastic designer. He had a real talent for creating visually appealing designs for our web apps that were simple and could be elegantly built with CSS but he insisted on putting menus and buttons in non-standard locations. The result was users had to relearn every interface and hunt for buttons. If we simply had OK, and Close buttons at the bottom right of dialogs, and the menus near the top right our programs would have been easier for new users.
Why are you hoping they're successful? What's wrong with a copyright holder going after the people infringing on its copyright? In fact, Slashdotters suggested that copyright holders to do this very thing 10 years ago during the Napster lawsuit.
I have no problem with copyright holders seeking damages for infringing. The problem occurs when RIAA and others seek damages far in excess of what is reasonable. In this case they are asking $150,000 per download. These groups have unlimited legal funding that almost guarantee the downloader will go bankrupt simply by being accused. Even if they are innocent the legal fees to defend yourself could send a person into bankruptcy. This seems way out of proportion of the crime. A person who went to Best Buy and stole 50 blue ray disks might get a week of community service but get caught downloading 50 movies and you could owe $7.5 million dollars. The laws are broken.
Not everybody who uses DeCSS is a pirate....some of us just want to watch our legally obtained DVD's from our linux laptops. As a side note does one need DeCSS to read a VOB file then convert to AVI (I've never tried). Or can it be done on a windows computer using a legally obtained DVD codec?
What makes you think that flight 447 fell apart in the sky? Reports I read suggest that the crash investigators believe the plane was in tact and flying in a normal attitude when it hit the water: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1282367/Air-France-crash-The-truth-disaster-killed-228-people.html
Even the wiki article suggests the reason for the crash is still unknown but the following facts are known:
The current working theory is that a thunderstorm in the area reached as high as 50,000 feet and could have disrupted the plane. Normally a pilot would fly around such a system but a smaller storm in front might have obscured the thunder storm from the flight's radar system and the crew didn't see it.
I don't know how it is in the states but here in Canada setting up a corporation can help you regulate the timing of your income but not avoid paying taxes on it altogether. If you set up a not-really-a-company limited company, and it makes a profit you will still want to transfer those profits into your personal account at some point...and when that happens the individual will be taxed on the income. (I'm not an accountant, but do have a limited company)