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  1. Posted

    A more dra-

    matic example occurred in 1987 when a pilot flying an F-117 Nighthawk, which is
    the twin-tailed aircraft known as the stealth ï¬ghter, encountered bad weather during
    a training mission. He lost one of his tail assemblies but proceeded back and landed
    his plane without ever knowing that he was missing part of the tail. The robustness of
    the control system in this case had the beneï¬cial effect of enabling the pilot to return
    safely. However, it also had the effect that the pilot did not realize that his aircraft
    had reduced capability and that the plane would not have performed correctly if a
    high-speed maneuver was required.

     

    This quote from a book about failures [1] (without references) sounds interesting but I couldn't google any more info about it. Do you know any interesting read (military history) about it?

     

    [1] Auxiliary Signal Design for Failure Detection, page 2

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    Since there is NOT a single 100% DX12 GFX card available out there, and since Vulkan is not released in any sort of form, i really don't get how you can make a comparison, or why do you have such a blind faith in Vulkan without a single piece of evidence.  

     

    That's false. Again, it's not something that does the work. It's just an rendering API. You only need the support in the driver. It's known that the Vulkan has the ability to directly issue commands in GPU similar to DX12. There's no point for having faith in or disdain for either as it's quite opposite of something magical. You do need faith in BI making use of it. And there's simply no point in choosing proprietary implementation over standard one of the same thing and close doors to many market areas like Android or SteamOS[1].

     

    https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/689440925500571648

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    These DirectX benchmarks are mostly pointless. It's the game and the hardware that is responsible for moar framez. The rendering API and drivers should have as little overhead as possible. That review misses the main newsworthy of DirectX 12 (and Vulkan) which is the low-level interface, which should greatly reduce this overhead, but the game needs to be vastly redesigned for it first. Hopefully these DirectX benchmarks will become even more pointless in future.

     

    Also, AMD donated Mantle to Khronos, which, along with major players in the industry (except Microsoft), turned it into Vulkan. So it's better to wait for its release and forget about Mantle.

  5. Posted

    Tomorrow is Khronos Vulkan meetup http://www.meetup.com/Khronos-Paris-Chapter/events/227540099/. Perhaps someone there will finally announce when they plan to release the damn thing.

     

    Android will use it and Oculus most probably too.

    http://android-developers.blogspot.cz/2015/08/low-overhead-rendering-with-vulkan.html

     
    Some more reading:

    https://www.khronos.org/assets/uploads/developers/library/overview/vulkan-overview.pdf

    https://developer.nvidia.com/engaging-voyage-vulkan

     

    It'd be sad if BI chose another vendor lock-in for another 5 years. Wait, evaluate, incline to standards. <3

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    I would like to believe that it is only your opinion but not prevailing point of view among European society.

     

    I can confirm it's prevailing point of view here in the center of EU. Freedom of speech should be absolute until nobody is harmed. Your little feelings or prophet don't count. What you regard as acceptable may be regarded unacceptable by other person. Go watch some Richard Dawkins to get the point. I enjoy and value controversial satire and black comedy. It's good eye opener sometimes.

     

    This is exactly what I expected:

     

    https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=cs&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fnarodnidemokracie.cz%2Fakcni-plan-pro-reseni-migracni-krize-v-cr%2F&edit-text=&act=url&act=url

     

    National "Democracy" hahaha... Hopefully, elections were shortly before migration crisis.

  9. Posted

    :confused: :cool: :D :ok: :292: FPDR

    But it is Russian. Or do you seriously believe that citizens of Crimea would voluntarily choose current UA government? Don't bother with international rules (blah blah no country recognized it blah blah) and try to use common sense.

  10. Posted

    Long-range missiles are known to be unprecise and any long-range forcing is pointless. That's why the West is using AMRAAM (Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air) missiles which have a good chance of hitting their targets. Russian extreme-range missiles perhaps are great for C-130, galaxy and other huge planes hunting, but I doubt that modern fighters couldn't out-maneuver them. For close combat there are short-range missiles such as AIM-9 series that are capable of tracking fast fighters in maneuvers.

    I don't see much into technology of long-range AA missiles but why can't such missile have two stages where one is activated on close range that is capable of same maneuvers as Sidewinder or AMRAAM? What you say sounds so last century. I predict long-range carriers for multiple (3-5) short range missiles. And lasers!

  13. Posted

    You don't know much of them, do you ? All muslims i know are against it, they want to comply with the secular law because they have understood that the law is protecting them, some of them have fled their country in order to avoid sharia. Lot's of confusion and commonly held belief in this topic.

    Confusion indeed. I find these half-believers most illogical though I disdain them less than fundamentalists. Anyway, the muslims you know are not all the muslims in Western Europe. I saw videos and photos from protests crowded with hardcore believers who demanded Sharia law, restriction of free speech and probably some other downright idiotic ideas.

  14. Posted

    Do you realize that the Muslim immigrants that demand the Sharia in Western Europe, are less than 1%, right?

    Not trying to spread fears and whatnot but I assume this 1% represent only those muslims openly demanding it. I'd say that muslims demanding Sharia in Western Europe are 99.9% and if they get a chance they won't let it slip by.

    And it's the first time in my life that I've heard about "Islamic gangs".

    Never heard of Sharia Police in UK?

  15. Posted

    Just your personal relationship to the country in general (all in combination, foreign policy, government, history, culture, etc.), simple like or dislike.

    Why is there only Europe? What if I dislike government, like culture, dislike earlier history, but like later history? Should I just average it? What are the weights for particular criteria? I feel really sorry for you for disliking Ukraine that much (don't you put too much weight on current government criteria?). What's the point of this utter non-sense anyway? Here's my version:

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  17. Posted

    but we are not equal, one race has bigger average IQ, while other race has better sport skills and music skills, men are logical, women are illogical, etc. etc. etc.

    Non-sense. The differences, if there are any, are so tiny compared to what training and experience can give. The Wikipedia says that this is highly debatable and controversial topic and you can't draw such general conclusions only from statistics. We may not have equal intelligence on birth, but in civilized society all humans, blacks, whites, females, males, ... should have equal rights to increase their intelligence. If modern feminism was about this, that'd be perfectly OK! But sadly it's mostly about hatred.

  18. Posted

    Something unbelievable happened to Tim Hunt.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Hunt

    Sir Richard Timothy "Tim" Hunt FRS, FMedSci (born 19 February 1943) is a British biochemist.[4] He was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Paul Nurse and Leland H. Hartwell for their discoveries of protein molecules that control the division (duplication) of cells.[5][6][7][8]

    He made some jokes involving females at some conference. How dare he?! Feminist, led by Connie St. Louis, charged their hashtags and ruined his career:

    Hunt said his comments were meant to be "ironic" and "jocular".[15][20] University College London announced the next day that Hunt had resigned from his position as Honorary Professor with the UCL Faculty of Life Sciences.[21] On the same day, he also resigned from the Royal Society's Biological Sciences Awards Committee.[22] His wife Mary Collins, UCL Professor of immunology, said she "was told by a senior [at UCL] that Tim had to resign immediately or be sacked".[15] Hunt said the European Research Council (ERC) had also forced him to resign.

    Details are here: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3141158/A-flawed-accuser-Investigation-academic-hounded-Nobel-Prize-winning-scientist-job-reveals-troubling-questions-testimony.html

    While reading Connie's heartbreaking story about how "women had enough" I realized that she and her minions don't even care about the (flawed) idea of feminism. Of all sexism occurrences, be it rap music or movies, they pick this! They're simply seeking easy waves of publicity on which they can surf. In other words, this is great example of pure attention whoring. The saddest thing is that in civilized world a bunch of 100% disposable and harmful (sub-)human beings have the power to sack a person from useful research from which we all would benefit. This is so ridiculous it's not even funny.

  20. Posted · Edited by batto

    His documents were encrypted but they weren't completely secure and we have now seen our agents and assets being targeted

    What a load of bullshit. I may be overly skeptical sometimes, but in this case I'm sure 99.999% it's bullshit. First of all, who has the files and how did they get them? If they got it then to decrypt it they'd have to either 1) get they key, 2) brute force the key or 3) find a flaw in the algorithm. 2) is out of question because Edward lectured journalists to whom he handed the files on strong cryptography, 3) would mean that some algorithms recommended by NIST on which even US military relies are now useless. So 1) is the only realistic option but that's not really what he's saying, is it? That'd mean that some journalist gave it away or they managed to steal it from her computer. I doubt that.

    IIRC Edward didn't even intend to stay in Russia and traveling with such burden seems pretty stupid when it's in hand of journalists already. So I don't think he could exchange it for his asylum. But again, that's not what the source is saying.

  23. Posted · Edited by batto

    No. It's not any democratic government's role to lie to its citizens.
    So you think that the democratic gov's role is to lie to its citizens? Interesting... :j:

    No one said that. It was said that role of government is not telling the truth to its citizens. It's kinda obvious. In case of US think CIA/NSA for instance. OK, it's time to let this go =).

    What I find most unbelievable on Hersh's story is the huge risk associated with whole operation. The lever US had on Pakistan wouldn't help in case of accidental and unwanted leak from any side which would expose Obama as liar before elections.

  24. Posted

    Hersh's creative story doesn't make any sense

    Where? Makes perfect sense to me.

    it's completely different from the information in the public SEAL's autobiographic accounts

    His story explains that.

    or the documents leaked by WikiLeaks and Edward Snowden.

    Stop referring to these. WikiLeaks is most famous for diplomatic cable leaks and Ed leaked NSA documents. If they actually leaked CIA documents now that would be some fun read =)).

    I wonder what's Hersh's final agenda.

    I don't know and I don't assert that his story is true or not but I wonder what makes the government story more credible than his. I mean the same government that has been caught lying many many times before and the same government that pays one agency to do (illegal) stuff covertly and lie about it. Government role is not telling the truth to its citizens.

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