While you are quite correct about needing someones permission to publicly display their correspondence, aren't (most|all) pieces of documentation in a lawsuite considered public anyway? IADNAL*, but this seems to be the way I remember it working (of course, my mind is like a steel trap, rusty and little used in todays society...).
heheh. now THAT would provide 'safety' on flights...
Reminds me of hte George Carlin line from back when planes were exploding in mid-air all over the place (it seemed) [paraphrasing, as I can't remember the exact words]: The chances are a million-to-one that there is a bomb on the plane you will be on - reduce the odds, bringe your own.
... pay your bills or more branches of the government besides the IRS will be after you.
But... the IRS isn't a branch of the gov't. Its a civilian company contracted to handle the collection of the Federal Income Tax. (Have you ever looked at paperwork from the IRS? I found it very interesting that the letterhead says its from the 'Department of the Treasury' and not the 'US Department of the Treasury'...)
yeah, yeah... so my post is OT. So report me to the... oh, wait...
I suppose short amounts of time could be compaired to 'New York Minutes'. A NY Minute is the time between when the light turns green and the taxi driver behind you hits his horn to get you to move.;)
They probably left some obvious bugs so the Chinese feel like they are securing the plane. You know, leave some to be found, so the *real* bugs aren't messed with.
Personally, I think the giant squid is the mythical Kraken, especially as an 80' specimen was found on a California beach a few years ago (late '80s? early '90s?... mind like a steele sieve...)
Although the GUI is normally faster, as you state, the CLI commands almost always provide much more robust capabilities than their GUI equivalents, allowing complex tasks to be performed more efficiently.
(been in Austin for not quite a year, and that's exactly what I discovered when I got here. I did find something, but it took about six months. ):
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It would have been worse if he had created teh screenshot, made the url a link, and made teh img a link to itself.;)
[yeah, i had teh same moment of "but I wanted to see a screenshot, not the/. article";) ]
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again - shouldn't corporations be doing business rather then suing?
Whadaya mean? Aren't lawsuits considered a form of revenue? (From the actions of various companies/persons lately, I'd have thought everyone was trying to earn money that way.)
This is why movies 30 years ago have flying cars 30 years in the future...people like to dream.
For the most part, I agree with you on the (on topic) subject. However, I have to point out that flying cars actually exist, despite Capt Sisko's IBM commercial.
Boy, the last time I checked "God-fearing Christian youth" weren't monotheistic either.... 3-in-1 god and a plethora of worship-able saints and angels, etc.;-)
It's not a 3-in-1 god, it's a buy-one-get-two-free god!;)
And, how many of you have sent bills to the spammers and then taken them to small claims court when they didn't pay?
Exactly what are you talking about here? What are you billing them for and what law compels a spammer to honor the bill?
One thing would be to charge the spammer for your editing services. Say 500$ per message to point out the gramatical and spelling errors that were included. Perhaps charge more for actually testing the links that are usually included for accuracy. (Hopefully charging more than the co. would get for you clicking on them:)
Yep, that the one. Of course, I was referring more to the material that the inventor came up with that the suit he has been testing itself. Using that material, I'm fairly certain that some nice lightweight armour could be constructed.
Did any society use clubs to impel projectile weapons?
There's the atl-alt. It's a piece of wood about 2 or 3 feet long with a groove running the length, and a handle at one end. you hold the handle, place an arrow in the groove with the point by the handle (the other end has a piece to keep the arrow from sliding off that way). To "fire" this, you hold it behind you and swing it rapidly forward(overhand works best) which launches the arrow at your target. Basically, you are throwing the arrow by hand, and the atl-alt just extends the length of the lever (your arm) used to propel it.
Remember that Katanas have a significantly different philosophy of use than European swords. The katana is light, (a stainless one doesn't count, that's just a big knife, IMHO,) because it can be. It's a lot more about finesse, and when you have a sword that is that sharp, it doesn't matter if it is not heavy, because it will do more damage, and be easier to use than the heavier ones, anyways.
This lead to a number of interesting things, for instance, Japanese armor is often times more of a decorative nature than for protection.
Actually, the reason Japanese weapons tend to be lightweight, and the armour to be wood, leather, or cloth, is because the Japanese Islands have very limited metalic resources. Lacking iron/steel in sufficient quantities, they made due with what they had available (thus the wooden banded armour of the classic samurai in full armour).
European armor (and weapons) on the other-hand, evolved together, in a bigger-armor, bigger-sword kind of way, until the advent of gun-powder, at which time you could take down a knight no matter what he was wearing, so he might as well be able to move around. A huge sword is not nearly as effective when you are worried about getting hit, and so came the rapier.
The Europeans did not have the limited iron availability, and thus were not limited in what they could produce. Because they did not have to make the absolute best use of a limited resource, their weapons and armour tended to be of a relatively lower quality (though as you say, until the development of the musket were more than effective for the job:).
The rapier was an idea that never really took hold with anyone that had to use his sword for a living (professional soldiers, et cetera) due to its low strength. It looked nice, and was very swift, but just couldn't stand up to the rigors of combat. Anyone that tried to use on in real battle quickly realised their mistake (and if they were lucky were able to correct it).
I'm getting the feeling that the posters stating swords weigh in the 20-40lb range have either never held a real sword, or never actually weighed the swords they did.
I guess it has its advantages in pitched battle. But if you want a quality sword, a rapier (or longsword, or smallsword) is the way to go. I would dare to say that it requires even more skill than a broadsword, though they are different types of skill. I'd take a simple, lightweight, flexible rapier over a broadsword any day.
The problem is that your "simple, lightweight, flexible rapier" would get broken fairly rapidly by any normal sword. During the period of actual use, the rapier was only useful for dueling, because in a (hand-to-hand) melee situation the rapier did not have the strength to stand up to anything but another rapier.
I didn't see this in the article, but I wonder if they are planning on making it weigh 40 - 50 lbs the way a traditional broadsword would, or plan on using the technology available to cut the weight down to 5-10lbs or even less.
Uh, one handed or hand-and-a-half swords normaly weigh between 2.5 and 5 pounds (this is for blades from 2.5 to 4 feet in length). Even two-handed swords at 4.5 to 7 feet only weigh in at something like 8 to 15 pounds.
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While you are quite correct about needing someones permission to publicly display their correspondence, aren't (most|all) pieces of documentation in a lawsuite considered public anyway? IADNAL*, but this seems to be the way I remember it working (of course, my mind is like a steel trap, rusty and little used in todays society ...).
*I Am Definitely Not A Lawyer.
heheh. now THAT would provide 'safety' on flights ...
Reminds me of hte George Carlin line from back when planes were exploding in mid-air all over the place (it seemed) [paraphrasing, as I can't remember the exact words]: The chances are a million-to-one that there is a bomb on the plane you will be on - reduce the odds, bringe your own.
But
yeah, yeah
But what happens when win98 forces you to reboot after installation? ... and Gods help you if you have to (add|remove) any (hard|soft)ware!
2 million times smaller *is* 2000 thousand times smaller ... ;)
And when they improve the technology, and make it even smaller ... would that make your Beowulf cluster look like an Ewok?
I suppose short amounts of time could be compaired to 'New York Minutes'. A NY Minute is the time between when the light turns green and the taxi driver behind you hits his horn to get you to move. ;)
They probably left some obvious bugs so the Chinese feel like they are securing the plane. You know, leave some to be found, so the *real* bugs aren't messed with.
Personally, I think the giant squid is the mythical Kraken, especially as an 80' specimen was found on a California beach a few years ago (late '80s? early '90s? ... mind like a steele sieve ...)
Although the GUI is normally faster, as you state, the CLI commands almost always provide much more robust capabilities than their GUI equivalents, allowing complex tasks to be performed more efficiently.
Oh, NOW you tell me! ;)
(been in Austin for not quite a year, and that's exactly what I discovered when I got here. I did find something, but it took about six months. ):
krenshala
It would have been worse if he had created teh screenshot, made the url a link, and made teh img a link to itself. ;)
[yeah, i had teh same moment of "but I wanted to see a screenshot, not the /. article" ;) ]
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Whadaya mean? Aren't lawsuits considered a form of revenue? (From the actions of various companies/persons lately, I'd have thought everyone was trying to earn money that way.)
krenshala
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For the most part, I agree with you on the (on topic) subject. However, I have to point out that flying cars actually exist, despite Capt Sisko's IBM commercial.
It's not a 3-in-1 god, it's a buy-one-get-two-free god! ;)
krenshala
One thing would be to charge the spammer for your editing services. Say 500$ per message to point out the gramatical and spelling errors that were included. Perhaps charge more for actually testing the links that are usually included for accuracy. (Hopefully charging more than the co. would get for you clicking on them :)
krenshala
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Remember: The difference between ignorance and stupidity is that the ignorant can learn. ;)
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There's the atl-alt. It's a piece of wood about 2 or 3 feet long with a groove running the length, and a handle at one end. you hold the handle, place an arrow in the groove with the point by the handle (the other end has a piece to keep the arrow from sliding off that way). To "fire" this, you hold it behind you and swing it rapidly forward(overhand works best) which launches the arrow at your target. Basically, you are throwing the arrow by hand, and the atl-alt just extends the length of the lever (your arm) used to propel it.
krenshala
Actually, the reason Japanese weapons tend to be lightweight, and the armour to be wood, leather, or cloth, is because the Japanese Islands have very limited metalic resources. Lacking iron/steel in sufficient quantities, they made due with what they had available (thus the wooden banded armour of the classic samurai in full armour).
The Europeans did not have the limited iron availability, and thus were not limited in what they could produce. Because they did not have to make the absolute best use of a limited resource, their weapons and armour tended to be of a relatively lower quality (though as you say, until the development of the musket were more than effective for the job :).
The rapier was an idea that never really took hold with anyone that had to use his sword for a living (professional soldiers, et cetera) due to its low strength. It looked nice, and was very swift, but just couldn't stand up to the rigors of combat. Anyone that tried to use on in real battle quickly realised their mistake (and if they were lucky were able to correct it).
krenshala
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The problem is that your "simple, lightweight, flexible rapier" would get broken fairly rapidly by any normal sword. During the period of actual use, the rapier was only useful for dueling, because in a (hand-to-hand) melee situation the rapier did not have the strength to stand up to anything but another rapier.
krenshala
Well, there was the bear armour from a few months ago.
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Uh, one handed or hand-and-a-half swords normaly weigh between 2.5 and 5 pounds (this is for blades from 2.5 to 4 feet in length). Even two-handed swords at 4.5 to 7 feet only weigh in at something like 8 to 15 pounds.
Checking the Museum Replicas Limited website, I find they list a 16th century Broad Sword w/Double Ring Guard that is "Overall-46 inches * Blade-36 inches long, 1 inches wide * Wt.-3 lbs. 6 oz."
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