Longbows could sometimes penetrate plate, but only at close range and it also depended a lot on the quality of the plate mail and of the arrow.
The effectiveness of the longbow was pretty much English propaganda. An eastern or middle eastern composite bow was lighter and could shoot farther. So why did the English use longbows? Because they were cheap, quick, and easy to make. A composite bow takes over a year to make with multiple layers of different material glued together over time. The English were lucky enough to have an abundance of yew trees which had the required properties of flexibility, until they chopped them all down.
So the English used victories like Agincourt to spread the word of their fearsome longbowmen. Meanwhile most of the rest of Europe was switching to crossbows, which while slow firing, took a lot less training to use effectively.
The problem is when you have talented researchers spending their time teaching instead of researching. They don't want to do it, they're not any good at it, and the students are just as well off learning from the book. Send the prof back to the lab where his valuable skills won't go to waste.
That depends on what you are planning to get out of college. The problem with most IT and engineering students in general is that their education is geared toward getting a high paying job in the industry, and anything that distracts from that learning is a waste of time.
A lot of us went to college for a very different reason, and that is to learn from the greats in their fields, and if you are very dedicated, maybe even work with them in a tiny way with their research. All research professors need to teach. All classes should be tough by research professors, NOT professional "instructors," and especially not TA's.
Perhaps you're forgetting the fundamental law of free markets: The customer is always right. If the bulk of customers want X and you offer Y, then don't be surprised when some other vendor comes along offering X and winds up with all the customers. As the vendor, you either offer what the customer wants, at the price they want it, or you go out of business.
Unless you are a monopoly. Unless you get the laws changed in your favor. Unless you use strong arm tactics to buy out your competition or put them out of business. Unless you steal all your competition's employees. Unless your marketing is so strong the consumer cannot make an educated decision. Unless you undercut all other stores until you are the only one left. Etc. Etc.
Of course, in order for NASA to do that sort of stuff, it needs a lot more money than it has now. Personally, I'd like to see NASA get at least 2% of the total budget, which is more than 3 times what it gets now, but I seem to be in the minority on that one.
Yeah, way too small. There's no reason that we are not spending at least 10% of the GLOBAL budget on space exploration.
Not only is it trivial to skip commercials for a shifted show, but it can do it automatically.
There's your mistake. Most people don't watch TV like you do. As a matter of fact, their brains are hardly engaged at all. TV is a way for them to turn OFF their minds. That's why they don't even notice when a commercial break starts.
It is well that war is so terrible -- lest we should grow too fond of it.
What? That's the opposite of what you want to hear. R. E. Lee is saying that he enjoys battle, the excitement of leading his troops to their potential deaths. It's great. Everyone should do it! Oh wait, there's dead bodies. I guess we shouldn't do this too much.
in the Information Technology field? This might go some way to explain it.
Did Yahoo not think that women engineers would be present at this event? They make up roughly ten percent of engineers as a whole. Furthermore, did they think that there was some way that women attendees would be perfectly comfortable watching other women objectified on a stage?
It's not that I mind women being objectified for money -- the women involved are handsomely rewarded for their parts in this business deal. I do mind people in my field saying that they do everything they can to make women comfortable in our field, then turning around and saying that they don't understand why anyone would be offended by this.
I find this very presumptuous. There are plenty of women who enjoy other women, and men who enjoy other men, and people who enjoy both, and people who enjoy neither. The person's genitalia has little to do with it.
Everyone here is going to talk about how outrageous it is for a supermarket to be charged for playing the radio, but the fact of the matter is that they use the radio to create a pleasant environment for their customers, which makes it a tool of commerce.
Do the customers also hear the commercials? Yes. Therefor they are already paying to hear the radio station.
When you get down to it, the radio stations should be paying the stores to play their broadcasts.
Yes, because I obviously bought my PS3 for the great internet browser...
That's not really the point.
"Bricked" came from the idea that the piece of hardware is "as useful as a brick" because it's unable to operate *at all*.
Now, obviously this sort of thing greatly reduces the usefulness of the device, but your statement itself shows that the device is *not*bricked*. Just broken.
I was at traffic court once in Cook County many years ago. There was a person trying to get out of a parking ticket. She explained that she should not have gotten the ticket because her car was only one inch into the designated no-parking zone, and had a picture to prove it. The judge asked her to repeat her statement. "One inch over?" "Yes, one inch over." He then said defendant admits guilt. Case closed. Pay your ticket on the way out.
Considering most of them are in their for minor drug charges and are no more evil than you or me...
Oddly enough, when I start googling for statistics to support your statement, I find things that say that there are fewer Drug offenders in prison that people convicted of Property crimes, and fewer of both those groups combined than people convicted of Violent crimes.
In other words, drug charges, major or minor, account for about 22% of the prison population in the USA.
Oh, and 55% of the prison population are in for violent crimes, and the remainder for property crimes.
So did I, and I found very different numbers:
Federal prisons were estimated to hold 179,204 sentenced inmates as of Sept. 30, 2007. Of these, 15,647 were incarcerated for violent offenses, including 2,915 for homicide, 8,966 for robbery, and 3,939 for other violent crimes. In addition, 10,345 inmates were serving time for property crimes, including 504 for burglary, 7,834 for fraud, and 2,006 for other property offenses. A total of 95,446 were incarcerated for drug offenses. Also, 56,237 were incarcerated for public-order offenses, including 19,528 for immigration offenses and 24,435 for weapons offenses. Source: Sabol, William J., PhD, and West, Heather C., Bureau of Justice Statistics, Prisoners in 2007 (Washington, DC: US Department of Justice, December 2008), NCJ224280, p. 22, Appendix Table 12.
Just goes to show that you can always find statistics to prove/disprove any point. The smart person, however, takes each one with a grain of salt.
This is just a proof of concept project. Honda encourages engineers to pursue "pet" projects in mobility. The ones with promise are given more resources. Sometimes they even become actual products, like Honda Jet.
Exactly. This vehicle is not practical for real world travel. It suffers from K9 mobility syndrome, which is worse than Dalek mobility syndrome. K9 could only travel on studio flooring or plywood laid on the ground. This thing would not be able to navigate gravel or curbs, and probably not even carpet.
If they are criminals. Remember in the U.S. that is determined by a court of law, not bozos like us reading summaries of news reports.
Replace "court of law" with "corporate lobbyists and corrupt judges," and you'll be correct. Every law should be criticized and scrutinized. Every arrest should be investigated. Remember innocent before proven guilty?
On the contrary... they would not go to jail for that. It's their own ignorance and stupidity which cause them to be so easily bought -- and to believe that they won't go to jail because they won't get caught. Criminals are not exactly known for their brains.
Criminals that you know about are not known for their brains. The ones that are never caught are usually quite clever.
Plus, I already wear a silly headset when playing Xbox. You could pretty much put my head in a fishbowl if that made anything cooler, I'm not trying to impress anyone in my living room. -Taylor
Girls in glasses are hot. I don't know where the idea that glasses make you ugly comes from. Maybe the contact lens manufacturers.
They are the ones who sometimes stop crimes before the police arrive. They are the ones who have CCW permits and stop deranged sociopaths who are going on public murder sprees before they can kill or before they can kill as many people as they'd like to.
The fantasy land of the gun proponent. There's a boogie man behind every corner out to get you, and the gun toting everyman hero saves the day. Sadly, nothing could be further from the truth. Legal gun ownership leads to nothing more than more guns in the wild for the bad guys to get their hands on and more gun accidents in general. The number of crimes foiled by gun carrying good guys is so small in comparison that it can barely be counted.
Come on, I'm tired of seeing crap network shows that my great-aunt watches in the top ten and the shows *I* like getting shitcanned for "low ratings." I would even be willing to "opt-in" to a DVR viewing log system if it meant that my viewing habits could save a few decent shows.
Nielsen is NOT about how many people watch a show. It's about how many people watch the COMMERCIALS. DVR folks generally skip past those. People who watch broadcast TV cannot. Although they can get up and make a sandwich, or whatever.
Watch for the day when large-scale solar, wind or tidal power becomes practical and economical. That is the day the environmentalists will find fault with these types of energy generators. "Solar panels screw up the desert ecosystem". "Birds fly into the rotors". "Changing tides mess up the clam colonies". Like true Calvinists they think that everything should carry either guilt or sacrifice.
I am truly saddened by this being (currently) modded to 5 insightful.
I'm mean seriously, a star exploding is a star exploding.
Nova and Super Nova are completely different phenomena. It is confusing that they are both called Nova, but that's the name they were given when they were just lights in the sky, and we didn't have proper models for what we were looking at.
A nova is a white dwarf in a binary system that collects gas from the neighbor and occasionally blows it top. A supernova is a huge star collapsing down to a neutron star and releasing a lot of energy in the process.
I've been working as a contractor for Aircell, the company behind the network, and it is not satellite, except for a few points. The network is 100 cell phone towers to T1 to internet. Max bandwidth is 3Mb. And yes VoIP is blocked for obvious reasons.
Any enterprise class server has no local disk, or system disk at most. All data is stored on SAN disk. It would be hilarious if they grabbed all the servers but left the storage array.
"I'm fairly sure that E=MC^2 should've been outlawed before they used that formula to bomb the hell out of 2 Japanese cities..."
Hey...it was war.
Not to mention...in the long run..it saved many more lives that would have been lost on a normal assault of the Japanese mainland. It brought a quick end to the war, it served its purpose.
That is a terrible misconception. Conventional bombing was already doing more damage and killing more people than we could do with our two little atom bombs. Japan had already started the peace negotiations before we dropped the bombs. The bomb was probably dropped for two reasons, neither of which was to force Japan to surrender. First, the emperor could use this new super bomb as an excuse to surrender. And second, the cold war was already starting in post war Germany, and we wanted to show the Russians to not mess with us. It worked for a few years, until they detonated their own bomb.
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Longbows could sometimes penetrate plate, but only at close range and it also depended a lot on the quality of the plate mail and of the arrow.
The effectiveness of the longbow was pretty much English propaganda. An eastern or middle eastern composite bow was lighter and could shoot farther. So why did the English use longbows? Because they were cheap, quick, and easy to make. A composite bow takes over a year to make with multiple layers of different material glued together over time. The English were lucky enough to have an abundance of yew trees which had the required properties of flexibility, until they chopped them all down.
So the English used victories like Agincourt to spread the word of their fearsome longbowmen. Meanwhile most of the rest of Europe was switching to crossbows, which while slow firing, took a lot less training to use effectively.
The problem is when you have talented researchers spending their time teaching instead of researching. They don't want to do it, they're not any good at it, and the students are just as well off learning from the book. Send the prof back to the lab where his valuable skills won't go to waste.
That depends on what you are planning to get out of college. The problem with most IT and engineering students in general is that their education is geared toward getting a high paying job in the industry, and anything that distracts from that learning is a waste of time.
A lot of us went to college for a very different reason, and that is to learn from the greats in their fields, and if you are very dedicated, maybe even work with them in a tiny way with their research. All research professors need to teach. All classes should be tough by research professors, NOT professional "instructors," and especially not TA's.
Perhaps you're forgetting the fundamental law of free markets: The customer is always right. If the bulk of customers want X and you offer Y, then don't be surprised when some other vendor comes along offering X and winds up with all the customers. As the vendor, you either offer what the customer wants, at the price they want it, or you go out of business.
Unless you are a monopoly. Unless you get the laws changed in your favor. Unless you use strong arm tactics to buy out your competition or put them out of business. Unless you steal all your competition's employees. Unless your marketing is so strong the consumer cannot make an educated decision. Unless you undercut all other stores until you are the only one left. Etc. Etc.
Of course, in order for NASA to do that sort of stuff, it needs a lot more money than it has now. Personally, I'd like to see NASA get at least 2% of the total budget, which is more than 3 times what it gets now, but I seem to be in the minority on that one.
Yeah, way too small. There's no reason that we are not spending at least 10% of the GLOBAL budget on space exploration.
Not only is it trivial to skip commercials for a shifted show, but it can do it automatically.
There's your mistake. Most people don't watch TV like you do. As a matter of fact, their brains are hardly engaged at all. TV is a way for them to turn OFF their minds. That's why they don't even notice when a commercial break starts.
Not to mention that my old eyes are going. It's getting hard to tell a pikachu apart from an electabuzz.
the words of Robert E. Lee:
What? That's the opposite of what you want to hear. R. E. Lee is saying that he enjoys battle, the excitement of leading his troops to their potential deaths. It's great. Everyone should do it! Oh wait, there's dead bodies. I guess we shouldn't do this too much.
in the Information Technology field? This might go some way to explain it.
Did Yahoo not think that women engineers would be present at this event? They make up roughly ten percent of engineers as a whole. Furthermore, did they think that there was some way that women attendees would be perfectly comfortable watching other women objectified on a stage?
It's not that I mind women being objectified for money -- the women involved are handsomely rewarded for their parts in this business deal. I do mind people in my field saying that they do everything they can to make women comfortable in our field, then turning around and saying that they don't understand why anyone would be offended by this.
I find this very presumptuous. There are plenty of women who enjoy other women, and men who enjoy other men, and people who enjoy both, and people who enjoy neither. The person's genitalia has little to do with it.
Everyone here is going to talk about how outrageous it is for a supermarket to be charged for playing the radio, but the fact of the matter is that they use the radio to create a pleasant environment for their customers, which makes it a tool of commerce.
Do the customers also hear the commercials? Yes. Therefor they are already paying to hear the radio station.
When you get down to it, the radio stations should be paying the stores to play their broadcasts.
The question then becomes, how much does that amount of energy weigh?
In free space? It weighs nothing. But it does have mass.
Yes, because I obviously bought my PS3 for the great internet browser...
That's not really the point.
"Bricked" came from the idea that the piece of hardware is "as useful as a brick" because it's unable to operate *at all*.
Now, obviously this sort of thing greatly reduces the usefulness of the device, but your statement itself shows that the device is *not*bricked*. Just broken.
I was at traffic court once in Cook County many years ago. There was a person trying to get out of a parking ticket. She explained that she should not have gotten the ticket because her car was only one inch into the designated no-parking zone, and had a picture to prove it. The judge asked her to repeat her statement. "One inch over?" "Yes, one inch over." He then said defendant admits guilt. Case closed. Pay your ticket on the way out.
Oddly enough, when I start googling for statistics to support your statement, I find things that say that there are fewer Drug offenders in prison that people convicted of Property crimes, and fewer of both those groups combined than people convicted of Violent crimes.
In other words, drug charges, major or minor, account for about 22% of the prison population in the USA.
Oh, and 55% of the prison population are in for violent crimes, and the remainder for property crimes.
So did I, and I found very different numbers:
Federal prisons were estimated to hold 179,204 sentenced inmates as of Sept. 30, 2007. Of these, 15,647 were incarcerated for violent offenses, including 2,915 for homicide, 8,966 for robbery, and 3,939 for other violent crimes. In addition, 10,345 inmates were serving time for property crimes, including 504 for burglary, 7,834 for fraud, and 2,006 for other property offenses. A total of 95,446 were incarcerated for drug offenses. Also, 56,237 were incarcerated for public-order offenses, including 19,528 for immigration offenses and 24,435 for weapons offenses.
Source:
Sabol, William J., PhD, and West, Heather C., Bureau of Justice Statistics, Prisoners in 2007 (Washington, DC: US Department of Justice, December 2008), NCJ224280, p. 22, Appendix Table 12.
Just goes to show that you can always find statistics to prove/disprove any point. The smart person, however, takes each one with a grain of salt.
This is just a proof of concept project. Honda encourages engineers to pursue "pet" projects in mobility. The ones with promise are given more resources. Sometimes they even become actual products, like Honda Jet.
Exactly. This vehicle is not practical for real world travel. It suffers from K9 mobility syndrome, which is worse than Dalek mobility syndrome. K9 could only travel on studio flooring or plywood laid on the ground. This thing would not be able to navigate gravel or curbs, and probably not even carpet.
If they are criminals. Remember in the U.S. that is determined by a court of law, not bozos like us reading summaries of news reports.
Replace "court of law" with "corporate lobbyists and corrupt judges," and you'll be correct. Every law should be criticized and scrutinized. Every arrest should be investigated. Remember innocent before proven guilty?
On the contrary... they would not go to jail for that. It's their own ignorance and stupidity which cause them to be so easily bought -- and to believe that they won't go to jail because they won't get caught. Criminals are not exactly known for their brains.
Criminals that you know about are not known for their brains. The ones that are never caught are usually quite clever.
Plus, I already wear a silly headset when playing Xbox. You could pretty much put my head in a fishbowl if that made anything cooler, I'm not trying to impress anyone in my living room.
-Taylor
Girls in glasses are hot. I don't know where the idea that glasses make you ugly comes from. Maybe the contact lens manufacturers.
on a MacBookPro... .....
Firefox is perfectly stable, and I have no problems with it at all.
Safari however blows it away for speed, reliability, and features.
Strange how one person's experiences can be diametrically opposed to another's.
They are the ones who sometimes stop crimes before the police arrive. They are the ones who have CCW permits and stop deranged sociopaths who are going on public murder sprees before they can kill or before they can kill as many people as they'd like to.
The fantasy land of the gun proponent. There's a boogie man behind every corner out to get you, and the gun toting everyman hero saves the day. Sadly, nothing could be further from the truth. Legal gun ownership leads to nothing more than more guns in the wild for the bad guys to get their hands on and more gun accidents in general. The number of crimes foiled by gun carrying good guys is so small in comparison that it can barely be counted.
Come on, I'm tired of seeing crap network shows that my great-aunt watches in the top ten and the shows *I* like getting shitcanned for "low ratings." I would even be willing to "opt-in" to a DVR viewing log system if it meant that my viewing habits could save a few decent shows.
Nielsen is NOT about how many people watch a show. It's about how many people watch the COMMERCIALS. DVR folks generally skip past those. People who watch broadcast TV cannot. Although they can get up and make a sandwich, or whatever.
Watch for the day when large-scale solar, wind or tidal power becomes practical and economical. That is the day the environmentalists will find fault with these types of energy generators. "Solar panels screw up the desert ecosystem". "Birds fly into the rotors". "Changing tides mess up the clam colonies". Like true Calvinists they think that everything should carry either guilt or sacrifice.
I am truly saddened by this being (currently) modded to 5 insightful.
What about artists who don't want to charge money for their work?
You have no choice. MSN charges to host the song, so they will want their money. Same for Harmonix. I suppose you can give your cut to charity.
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Weakest Supernova or STRONGEST NOVA?
I'm mean seriously, a star exploding is a star exploding.
Nova and Super Nova are completely different phenomena. It is confusing that they are both called Nova, but that's the name they were given when they were just lights in the sky, and we didn't have proper models for what we were looking at.
A nova is a white dwarf in a binary system that collects gas from the neighbor and occasionally blows it top. A supernova is a huge star collapsing down to a neutron star and releasing a lot of energy in the process.
I've been working as a contractor for Aircell, the company behind the network, and it is not satellite, except for a few points. The network is 100 cell phone towers to T1 to internet. Max bandwidth is 3Mb. And yes VoIP is blocked for obvious reasons.
For more info, check out aircell.com.
Any enterprise class server has no local disk, or system disk at most. All data is stored on SAN disk. It would be hilarious if they grabbed all the servers but left the storage array.
"I'm fairly sure that E=MC^2 should've been outlawed before they used that formula to bomb the hell out of 2 Japanese cities..."
Hey...it was war.
Not to mention...in the long run..it saved many more lives that would have been lost on a normal assault of the Japanese mainland. It brought a quick end to the war, it served its purpose.
That is a terrible misconception. Conventional bombing was already doing more damage and killing more people than we could do with our two little atom bombs. Japan had already started the peace negotiations before we dropped the bombs. The bomb was probably dropped for two reasons, neither of which was to force Japan to surrender. First, the emperor could use this new super bomb as an excuse to surrender. And second, the cold war was already starting in post war Germany, and we wanted to show the Russians to not mess with us. It worked for a few years, until they detonated their own bomb.