What you saw were Syrian auxiliaries with their typical bows. These exact archers are depicted on Trajan's (beginning of 2nd century AD) column. Shorter bows (the ones that you mistakenly call Mongol) were in use at least in the 6th century BC (that's right, almost a millennium earlier) by the Scythians.
This is roughly equivalent to Mel Gibson using a machinegun in Braveheart.
I wanted to let this comment stand in all its singular glory. Feeling good about yourself yet?
The Roman Legions used javelins.
During the Roman empire (as opposed to republic), soldiers became less dependable and therefore less likely to use the sword to good effect. The spaces between cohorts lessened and the battle line again evolved to a phalanx. Pila (which is what you are thinking of) evolved to longer and sturdier spears, appropriate in a phalanx type formation.
12th century ballistas in the 3rd century AD.
The same evolution required more artillery for the defense of camps and for softening up the enemy's line of battle. This is perfectly illustrated in Gladiator. What you assume to be 12th century was in fact in widespread use in the 4th century BC.
The stirrup, allowing effective cavalry, also had not been invented.
I did not notice stirrups. OTOH, I was not looking for them, as you were with your expert eye for such things. I was amused, however, by your implication that effective cavalry did not exist since there were no stirrups. Go tell Alexander's Companions, or Attila.
an EMPEROR challenging a SLAVE to a duel?!?!?
Commodus, Caligula and a couple of others fought in the arena while emperor. Sue your history teacher.
Check out this frighteningly inaccurate description of the conflict
While you're at it, check out this story on/. where someone says CNN is misrepresenting the facts, but neglects to provide any background or sources for "the real story". If you want to hold CNN to a high standard, fine, but don't forget to uphold that standard yourself.
That's when I submitted the Borland jobs posting for Delphi for Linux to Slashdot. Delphi apparently wasn't C or Perl enough to be of interest to the/. community.
I think eSpeak from HP seems to stand more chances and I like it better because: [snip] Not "financial" oriented
FpML is not about brokerage between bid and offer, as eSpeak seems to be. Rather, it addresses an urgent need for banks to speak a common and extensible language when exchanging data with other departments or banks.
Data in this context means trade details, counterparty information, etc. New financial instruments are born every day, and different applications (e.g. front office system vs. risk management application vs. settlement system) need different parts of that data. XML is extremely applicable to the financial industry, and FpML was just a thing waiting to happen.
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Roman Legion was using Mongol recurve bows
What you saw were Syrian auxiliaries with their typical bows. These exact archers are depicted on Trajan's (beginning of 2nd century AD) column. Shorter bows (the ones that you mistakenly call Mongol) were in use at least in the 6th century BC (that's right, almost a millennium earlier) by the Scythians.
This is roughly equivalent to Mel Gibson using a machinegun in Braveheart.
I wanted to let this comment stand in all its singular glory. Feeling good about yourself yet?
The Roman Legions used javelins.
During the Roman empire (as opposed to republic), soldiers became less dependable and therefore less likely to use the sword to good effect. The spaces between cohorts lessened and the battle line again evolved to a phalanx. Pila (which is what you are thinking of) evolved to longer and sturdier spears, appropriate in a phalanx type formation.
12th century ballistas in the 3rd century AD.
The same evolution required more artillery for the defense of camps and for softening up the enemy's line of battle. This is perfectly illustrated in Gladiator. What you assume to be 12th century was in fact in widespread use in the 4th century BC.
The stirrup, allowing effective cavalry, also had not been invented.
I did not notice stirrups. OTOH, I was not looking for them, as you were with your expert eye for such things. I was amused, however, by your implication that effective cavalry did not exist since there were no stirrups. Go tell Alexander's Companions, or Attila.
an EMPEROR challenging a SLAVE to a duel?!?!?
Commodus, Caligula and a couple of others fought in the arena while emperor. Sue your history teacher.
I could not be the first one to come up with this name, right?
Amazing what a UDP against @Home can do!
Check out this frighteningly inaccurate description of the conflict
While you're at it, check out this story onSo Linux is chosen because it needs a less powerful machine to run a legacy app, is this right?
I'd much rather see the ERP vendors port.
-Luk-
pff. Delphi as a language sucks rocks.
:-P
English as a language sucks rocks. It doesn't have a word for hottentottententententoonstelling and like Delphi it has no container classes.
Next time try to distinguish between language and product. Oh, and sign your name.
That's when I submitted the Borland jobs posting for Delphi for Linux to Slashdot. Delphi apparently wasn't C or Perl enough to be of interest to the /. community.
I think eSpeak from HP seems to stand more chances and I like it better because: [snip] Not "financial" oriented
FpML is not about brokerage between bid and offer, as eSpeak seems to be. Rather, it addresses an urgent need for banks to speak a common and extensible language when exchanging data with other departments or banks.
Data in this context means trade details, counterparty information, etc. New financial instruments are born every day, and different applications (e.g. front office system vs. risk management application vs. settlement system) need different parts of that data. XML is extremely applicable to the financial industry, and FpML was just a thing waiting to happen.