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Optimum != Maximum

NB: 36,000 feet in 3 minutes is 12,000 feet/min. Max climb rate for the Lightning was 50,000 feet/min, but it got there by basically pumping fuel into the afterburners with a fire hose.

(The Lightning had two main defects as an air defense interceptor: insane fuel burn rate at max thrust, and limited armament. The longest ever recorded sortie without in-flight refueling was 1h56m, but it was common for them to be running low on gas and need to tank up 20 minutes after a hot scramble.)
Even if it's not passed in the request it's still in the app so isn't it vulnerable to reverse-engineering?
Cool concept. But I think showing beautiful concept art is a big no when the actual gameplay looks like this: http://www.planets-cube.com/img/website/FR/ScreenIG_full_rez...

Now people will be disappointed.
could solutions to this be used for settlement purposes I.e bank transfers etc.
We use quite a few flags to issue warnings for our code[1]. The linked autoconf macro will detect whether or not the flags are supported on the detected compiler, and automatically add the flags to the build. It works for clang, gcc, g++, and helps us spot errors that would otherwise be hard to detect and fix.

[1] https://github.com/rescrv/HyperDex/blob/master/m4/anal_warni...
I get your point, but I'm sure you'll still find a number of libraries on Hackage depending on non-Lens packages. This is not a desirable state of affairs.

That's an issue of package curation. It has nothing to do with the merits or demerits of a language. When outdated/broken/abandoned software sits around it's always going to be a problem for beginners who don't know the difference.
CLOD is the underlying mesh/LOD technology used in Frostbite (BF3/4). There is a formal paper for it [1]. My coworker is currently making a toy CLOD renderer in C++ and the technology speaks for itself - he's rendering 8K x 8K worth of height-map data at some 200 FPS on some laptop NVidia chip (he will be open-sourcing it in a few months time, so watch this space).

Frostbite goes a bit further (they stream in the height-map etc.) but the bare method used is this. His reaction to me sharing this was quite funny:

> Cool! But… Javascript??! It’s like writing the bible (or your religious equivalent) in glitter and kids crayons… Loses something.

You just can't get oldschool developers away from their beloved languages :).

[1]: http://dice.se/wp-content/uploads/GDC12_Terrain_in_Battlefie...
That'd be clicky, but it's on the right lines.

A better way would be to come up with a smart grouping profile for apps that want reasonable common combinations. For example, "Standard application that can access your INTERNET". Give it a nice screen. "Standard application application that can USE YOUR CAMERA and access your INTERNET" would get a big question mark icon.

For any app that wants any weird combination outside the standards, make it opt in like you say - one permission at a time. With each requiring a screaming skull and crossbones.

If you did that, you could integrate more fine-grained permissions into a small number of supported profiles, and developers would be strongly discouraged from choosing anything outside that combination.
You might like http://www.ergoemacs.org/
Anyways there's probably tons of plugins that would change key bindings to something that you'd like more.
Might also want to look into cua-mode.

Maybe you can tell us why you need it to work in a console. Do you only want to edit files over there? Could try sshfs.
If you're able to use X11 on your servers you might look into X11 forwarding through ssh to use Sublime too.
It's unclear for me how observers can be sure that the differences they see are actually originated far far away, and not result of local interference: cloud or dark matter or whatever else. As far as I know, we have only 1 point of perspective, our Earth. Of course I have no idea how exactly they observe stuff, but that's the question I immediately have.
The first amendment covers more than freedom of speech, and Russia isn't exactly great at any of the other things it covers.
Well, if you're going to go to a cartridge style format, the competition is hard disks, which can store three or four terabytes each in a highly reliable form; sure, they cost more per disc, but the upfront costs are very low; I suspect the volume at which cartridges would become cheaper is larger than the market would support.
Yeah, if I'm running a fast fix (like pull a battery, ect.) I'll usually arrange the screws in an orientation to how I pulled them out, but long fixes like the op had (or when your waiting for parts)... I put the back in.

Not a bad idea with the masking tape, guess a magnet would work too.
Ha someone beat me to posting my own thing. I wondered why it had a little jump in exposure.
Autotranlation: http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=...
This surprises me as it works on my Android devices. I'll take a look.
That's a very easy question. It's usually made of green, white, red and black.
Details here: http://ncusar.org/email_graphics/images/gcc-flags.gif
Probably is - I was astonished when I first saw this raymarched procedural terrain at shadertoy: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/4slGD4
http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-04-17/news...

One does not have to look far.
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That's the funny thing about Google abysmal failure in most products outside search and gmail, their subpar competition doesn't even rank in most people's mind unless they force it on you.
Thanks. So far it works in all the browsers I've used that support use of CSS3 animations.
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"There is no known way to disable Skype SuperNode on Macintosh" http://help.igb.illinois.edu/Disable_Skype_SuperNode
No, he's talking about "evidence-collecting computers in the cockpit". I know that because that's a quote from the article. You can tell that because I used "quote marks".

He also says that there should be a permanent data link to ground. At which point you say (paraphrased), "there is one, except there isn't".
That's gonna be interesting to see how well it does in the market. when they started they wanted to raise 150M and now down to 100.
100 units of time, 100 Conway's Games of Life
> If sustained for a full year, that would be 154 times the maximum possible dose of 1 millisievert per year recommended for public exposure by the International Commission on Radiological Protection.

Note that this limit has no real meaning. There is no clear data indicating that x amount of millisieverts per year is harmful. We know radioactivity clearly kills at high doses, but the effects of low doses are largely undetermined. And people fly all the time and take CT scans in hospitals without realizing that they get more radioactivity exposure this way.
So, I guess that everybody has seen that documentary about nuclear power then?

It must be ok...I saw a documentary about it! (You fucking simpleton's.)
It's a great trick. I've managed to image a couple of drives that had failed with the help of some long SATA/power cables and a nice chilly freezer.
-pedantic-errors is also a very useful flag.

-Wstrict-aliasing=1/-Wsuggest-attribute= can give good suggestions during development.

Probably not useful for Ag: But I do a lot of numeric stuff so -Wfloat-equal is handy for me. For code using float this should be mandatory: -Wdouble-promotion.
"No, you see, it was your identity ... they said they were you."

"And you believed them?"

"Yes they stole your identity."

"Well, I don't know because I think I have my identity, whereas you seemed to have lost several thousands of pounds..."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9ptA3Ya9E
The Holographic Versatile Disc format has existed since 2004 and can store up to 6 TB vs Archival Disc format capacity of only 300 GB - 1 TB. Any idea what advantage ADs have over HVDs?
find -Werror on every line invocation in a Makefile

If it's on every line and not kept in one place in $(CFLAGS), you have bigger problems.
Just for reference, the parent is a reference to a lyric from Psy's (the Korean artist responsible for Gangnam Style) song 'Gentleman', wherein he parodies the expression 'Westsiiiiiide' (not that this necessarily makes it any funnier).
The accident occured in minutes, there was no time for a potential operator to do anything about it anyway. Too many "if" in your scenario to make it sound plausible.
No thanks. Promising company sold out to Google.
The time to read the complete tape might be longer than the time to read a blu-ray, but in terms of data rates modern tapes are still about a factor of 3 ahead of optical disks (160MB/s for Ultrium 6 vs 54MB/s for Blu-ray 12x).
Imagine in general the bikeshed problem, or more recently the "midnight evaluates to false" saga on the python mailing list, then add in the fact that every person on the committee is an expert (in fact, the world's best expert) on the entire list of issues being discussed.
I'm sure it wasn't a great idea but we used to microwave things for the effect. At one point there were no lightbulbs left in our house because they'd all gone in the microwave. Your very own Aurora Microwavas from the comfort of your own kitchen.
That looks amazing. Would you mind sharing any links you have on how to get started? How did you accomplish the voice control?
If you have any questions about the game, feel free to ask. I'm working the publicity side of the title, so more than happy to answer any Qs you may have.
Copeland–Erdos constant
Right or wrong, he is afraid of something, something that is clearly journalism. He might be over-blowing an non-issue (out of cluelessness, or possibly intentionally: I see Franck Underwood of House of Cards fame doing that very well) but Snowden tends to focus on actually issues, not who slept with whom politics.
Aaha! So THAT is how they made dotnetfiddle. I've got to get into this.
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Fantastic, I have been looking for good example in modern opengl for a while. Thank you!
I do consulting under my own name, http://macgregorindustries.com, but with naming as there's little science to it, use whatever feels right.
Only one problem -- archiving is mostly a big business use case. Therefore, the technology will only have big business price tags. Remember when you could back up a home hard drive onto a single tape, and the media cost was only a fraction of your hard drive cost? And the tape drive was no more expensive than the hard drive? (i.e., those mini QIC cartridges).
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i would like to know how NASA received the data from the Space Shuttle Columbia in 2003. Can we use the same technology for commercial aircraft ?
Not sure if that is the whole problem, but Skype is bad everywhere battery wise. I switch it on only when I have a meeting. It's a shame the competitors are not moving faster ; there is definitely an opportunity for this. I see Skype taking far too many resources on Android, iOS, Mac and Win. Best behaviour seems to be iOS so far for me.
Plug for my own project:
https://github.com/callesg/dns-tunnler
I don't understand why forming a company and using your own name are mutually exclusive. You should incorporate; if you don't, some of your clients will withhold taxes for you as if you were an employee. It'll also be harder to get insurance. And, of course, you get protection from contract liability. Incorporation is extremely inexpensive and does not really involve much paperwork.

Call the company whatever you want.
See this LWN article: http://lwn.net/Articles/192624/
This could be caused by two issues:

Popping: it "naturally" happens with all dynamic LOD systems (back in '98 it would have been Real-time Adaptive Optimized Meshes). It happens when something changes from one detail level to another (and hence more details "pops" into view). If you spend more time on your renderer you will generally morph those vertices between the lower detail position and the higher over a very small amount of time. This means that the pop happens over a longer duration and humans are bad at noticing stuff like that.

Incorrect Heuristics: a heuristic is used to determine how far away from the camera you need to be in order to not see the difference between four triangles and two (this has a lot to do with Nyquist-associated theorems) because "the difference is less than a pixel." If you get it wrong you could present too little detail for a pixel and change the apparent shape of the terrain (obviously intentionally presenting too little detail increases framerate).
This is a bug specific to android devices that is caused when the camera is used. Skype accesses the camera often so it can cause the bug to appear more, it's not Skype itself causing the issue
Aye, but if the attacker is local and can see the pool directly, then they may be able to circumvent your attempts to reseed so you can't escape the situation that way. Once someone has that level of access all is lost: turn it off and build a new one!

Of course if the attacker is not that far in and has derived the PRNG state by other means (and you can stop them just relearning the state by the same means) then reseeding would work.
Are you trying to say that those parts are equivalent to a Nest? That's like saying some wheels, an engine, 4 doors == BMW.
"Recall this batch immediately! These disks have a defect that will make them last 80, 90 years tops!"
The competition is not subpar, the apps just benefit from network economies, and the best does not always win. Just look at Whatsapp.
It's not a legal claim.
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Like anybody's going to care if the congressman approves of the interview.

It's sad to hear that the opinions of the leaders are so off from the opinions of the citizens but that's precisely the reason for the leaks.
Actually, a lot of electronics from this era failed because they manufacturers were still experimenting with RoHS (read: no lead) electronics production, especially lead-free solder.

While heating a RoHS PCB in a food oven might still be kinda toxic, at least it's lead-free ;).
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"that lived in a dodgy part of town."

^ How is this relevant to your story?
It’s a pet peeve, and I shouldn’t care that much but… Could we kill ‘virtual’ when used as ‘mediated’? Virtual is about not being real: it applies to stories, dreams, projects. Skype (or whatever cryptographically more relevant version Snowden will use) is as real as a phone, or a TV interview, and I don’t remember anyone describing a phone call or radio as ‘virtual’.
Python code that does the same. Keeps the order of the file chunks too: http://16s.us/docs/dns.txt
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I experienced issues with this flag being used by an open source library in autotools (specifically the AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE option in the configure.ac file). The actual C code also used -Werror, and compiled perfectly, but "./configure" wouldn't complete because of minor "this is a GNU extension" and similar errors during automake.

Not being an autotools guru this was incredibly frustrating. I had no idea why the damn thing wasn't working until I noticed "warnings are treated as errors".

Please don't use -Werror in any context if your project is open source.
Why is Skype accessing the camera often, when there's "0 actual skyping done"?
To reiterate: Any user of an app can look at the passwords of any user created with that app.
People in every sphere of activity (business, etc.) will find every way to exploit the government (and thus other people), and do so.

Two options:

(1) End independent spheres of activity

(2) Fix the exploits

Option #1 is an authoritarian state, option #2 is a state that recognizes individual rights (i.e. non-aggression) in principle on every issue.
There are a few issues I think.

1. The imagery you see on Google Earth where you see features (such as floating luggage) is actually taken from aeroplanes travelling up and down. It takes a lot of time as you can guess to do that and processing time, and the area to cover is huge.

2. There are satellites that can be used, and tasked for (e.g.. using the Space Charter), if we wanted to identify pieces of floating luggage. However the window that these satellites can view upon the world is quite small, and the search area is very very large. It also depends on where the satellites are pointed at if geostationary, and if they move, what path at which time can be got (I'd imagine several passes across the globe would be needed to cover the area).

There are other satellites that could be used, and have done in cases of disasters - here they can find roads and destroyed houses for example. They might not be able to spot floating luggage, but they should be able to help identify large chunks. Even with this case, I think the huge surface area is going to be prohibitive in this case also.

3. Weather. For both aerial imagery and satellite imagery - the weather, cloud cover is important. I'm not sure of the cloud cover there at the moment, but I've read reports of thunderstorms in the vicinity.

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>is there a software platform that can then take these images and distribute them to individual

Yep

Folks may remember the 2007 search for the missing pilot Steve Fossett http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/news/2007/11/fossett_search

The number of individual images are going to be much much more - but in our case the number of online volunteers is going to be high also. I think the lessons learnt may be the same though.
This used Amazon Turk.

For the recent Hurricane Sandy - the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team used something called MapMill to do the same kind of thing. http://irevolution.net/2012/11/01/crowdsourcing-sandy-buildi... http://opengov.newschallenge.org/open/open-government/submis...
This used imagery from the civil air patrol.
Why else would you need to hide your laptop in the oven?
Hard disks are also bad for backup because they rely on a magnetic charge being retained on the platters. Eventually, this charge becomes to weak to be read reliably, so it is unsuitable for long-term storage. Pressed disks (as in, those not burnt with a consumer drive) can last a lifetime if you take proper care of them, and are not as vulnerable to light, heat or humidity as the typical DVD-R.
It's quite an interesting battle. There's a lot of personal hate between Ackman and Icahn. While I think Ackman is on the side of good I'm not sure he'll win.
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Hard disks are also not very good at long term storage, I believe most aren't designed to hold their magnetic charge for decades without being powered and rewritten.
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The same 'legit' uses as for any other form of communication.
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> Source: apple forums and http://mbp2011.com

Wow: “The problem might be on the GPU” Said the “Genius”. That’s exactly what I was hoping to hear (he didn’t mentioned this until I pushed them this far.) So I replied, “You all knew exactly what’s going on here and you intentionally kept this from the customers, right?” Right this moment, the “Genius” has left.

That's insane.
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> anything else Noogle Now related.

I like Noogle so much I might write up a quick chrome extension that turns Google into Noogle everywhere.
Their should be a guide about how to write modern and unclutered C++ without the 90% of it.
> they don't require the crazy processor thrashing that is bitcoin mining, either

How do you verify someone did something worth of getting the coin?
Sure, but that kind of absurdity is nothing new. Most people just take the older absurdities for granted because it's all they know.
'guarantee' is the wrong word here, more description would be 'how likely' with a response of very likely.
*descriptive
Sounds like a business plan to me. Migration software to move data from MongoDB back to Oracle (or PostgreSQL, or SQL Server, or whatever)
I read that as an explanation for the "hide notebooks in the oven" thing.
I use Skype almost every other minute, and never witnessed any huge battery drains either from my Windows Phone or Windows RT tablet or even in an iPhone. Guess its an android issue
I think the main advantage is that ADs are relatively less vaporware than HVDs [1].

> Standards for 100 GB read-only holographic discs and 200 GB recordable cartridges were published by ECMA in 2007, but no holographic disc product has appeared in the market.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_Versatile_Disc
In what jurisdiction in the US is it a crime to lie to about going to a strip club, whether or not the strip club is the target of an investigation, to someone who has not identified themselves as a police officer?

In Illinois, where I live, it's not even a crime to lie if you know they're a police officer, so long as you aren't knowingly disrupting the investigation. The state needs to prove not just deception, but intent regarding the police officer's actual effort.

Where's the statute that you're thinking of? I'm sure it exists; our union includes places like Kansas and Utah.
This is a fascinating anomaly, and totally worth studying. But my perspective as a physicist in a different but somewhat related field has always been to tentatively assume it's just a statistical fluctuation.

If you look at the graph at the bottom of the first page of this article, have a look at the error bars on those data points: every one of them is at least borderline consistent with the smooth theoretical curve. (Or, alternately, look at the light green region around the curve: that shows the unavoidable uncertainties that we expect based on our finite view of the universe. The points they're interested in almost all lie within that range.)

So yeah: it's a neat possibility, and it's great that people are looking into models to explain this (and to search for related predictions they can test). But it's not significant at a level that should get non-cosmologists tremendously excited at this point.
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...and the next s/keyboard/leopard / cloud2butt is born.
How does that mean it isn't Skype causing the issue? On my Windows desktop I recently uninstalled Skype because it would frequently saturate a core for long periods of time while doing absolutely nothing of relevance.
Very roughly speaking there are at least three ways to measure distances.

For "near by "objects on can use parallax: look at the object on a given date then again 6 months later and see how much it shifts against the back ground stars. Simply triangulate using the known distance from earth to sun as half the side of a triangle.

For "moderate" distances one can rely on certain variable stars that always have a known brightness. Then when you locate such a star, note how dim it is and calculate how far away it would have to be to have that brightness level.

For "far" distances one can measure the red shift. That is to say, on the large scale everything in the universe appears to be moving away from us. Further away object move faster than nearby objects. Thus if you can measure how fast something is receding from us you can tell how far it is. The technique for measuring speed like this is to measure the Doppler red shift.
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