Posts by Yag

Re: Spell it phonetically

You don't remember your password. It's your password manager that remembers them for you.

No need for justification, it's fine you know...

Re: why we use Russian stuff

Just go and watch "pentagon wars" for a (very dramatized) example...

Re: "The project ran late and over budget. "

Seems like the problem was before the engine themselves.

“contradictory instructions” from the flight control system... Off to nag some coworkers :)

Re: Anon CVs

The anonymous CVs were tested in France a few years ago*.

It went quite poorly : The chances to get an interview was roughly the same for women and seniors**, but it actually went down for ethnic minorities (slashed by half, from 10% to 5%).

Seems like there were more sympathetic people willing to give a chance than racist a****les in those places of power...

** "roughly" because the anonymous CV changed the "same sex/same age bracket" bias of the recruiters. One of the ironic note was that women recruiter favored men over women when using anonymous CVs...

* full report of the study, in french : http://www.crest.fr/images/CVanonyme/rapport.pdf)

Re: Office 2007 is fine

My bad, I didn't tried myself, I was assuming op's informations were accurate. (and we all know what "assume" makes of U and especially me :))

Re: impressive effort

Same can be said for Opportunity,the little rover that could.

Or the crazy awesome Voyager probes, leaving the solar system every couple of monthes.

Re: When I was a kid

Watching that in Germany a couple of years back - drinks also had, as I understand it, a small return charge on the bottle, and the polite thing to do seemed to be *not* to reclaim it but to dispose in roadside refuse bins, thus allowing the more unfortunate members of the society to benefit. Don't know if that still applies.

The Pfand was still there last year.

Re: Perfectly clear who is responsible.

The informations about the flight plan may be mission critical, but they are not safety critical.

In airborne embedded software, safety is paramount and according to the definition of the main aerospace software certification standard (DO178b/ED12b), this should probably be classified as a level D software* - a very low level of criticity, used for example for the cockpit's ground maintenance software. As I have an habit of being overprotective, I would classify it as a level C Software*

Sure, if it happens in flight (which seems not to be the case here), it would be a bother for the crew, and even worse to the ATC** which will have to handle a herd of lost planes looking for directions, but it would not impair the plane ability to fly and safely land (the landing informations are provided by safety-critical application, thanks you)

* For reference, level D is defined as "Minor: Failure conditions which would not significantly reduce aircraft safety, and which would involve crew actions that are well within their capabilities. Minor failure conditions may include, for example, a slight reduction in safety margins or functional capabilities, a slight increase in crew workload, such as, routine flight plan changes, or some inconvenience to occupants."

Level C is defined as "Major: Failure conditions which would reduce the capability of the aircraft or the ability of the crew to cope with adverse operating conditions to the extent that there would be, for example, a significant reduction in safety margins or functional capabilities, a significant increase in crew workload or in conditions impairing crew efficiency, or discomfort to occupants, possibly including injuries." - Might be overkill in such a case.

** ATC : Air Traffic Control

Re: Hypocricy

Probably because most people that criticize Google on those topics still uses their products, but won't even touch a iFad with a ten foot pole.

In my case, the lack of complaints about Apple is more due to a mix of "beating a dead horse" and "shooting an ambulance" feeling.

"if you're worried about longevity in overpriced consumer tech, you're in the wrong market."

Indeed, but we were talking about good ol' fashioned watches and their lack of upgradibility mainly due to the fact that you don't need to upgrade them to keep on being useful.

I'm torn... should I upvote or downvote?

This is a legitimate rant, but a bit irrelevant to the subject of the article (the economic value of data)

Re: So as a rule...

... And if it's under 3 years old, it's still a beta veta version with neither support nor responsibility taken.

Re: re: And that this would be extortion

"Unfortunately even though I suspect many companies buying advertising space understand this they can't stop easily, since they need their competitors to stop too. So loads of money, time and energy gets wasted on achieving nothing except lining the pockets of the people selling ad space."

Reminds me of an economy course about "game theory". Quite interesting actually...

Re : You don't have millions of people at an individual voting district, you have maybe 5000 people.

In France, each of those district is divided in several voting stations. The local station only have 500 registered voters, and you can expect half of them turning in on the good days.

250 votes takes roughly 1h to process for a 4 people team.

Re: As someone from the con / geek community

Probably because of the almost total lack of coal miners in the countries they usually parasite.

I know of a few woman working in construction however...