Couldn't agree more. Mr Gettys is an X Consortium veteran. He saw that die, and from his postings, he's learned a bit from it; he has strong opinions on how the gnome foundation ought to be run.
Also, he has all kinds of technical stuff going for him. He was one of the original authors behind X, for example.
At some point (maybe on the 25th birthday) someone asked Ritchie what he would change if he could, and he said something to the tune of "creat(2) should have had the 'e'."
As for me, the most ununixy thing in there is probably the way network interfaces aren't real devices (=files) like all the others, but exist in some kind of magic manespace of their own.
I'm talking about the "Amiriya" (spelling varies)
facility, which was one out of two really bad events where a lot of civilians got killed.
(The other one was the brits aiming for a bridge but hitting some kind of market, IIRC, but I'm not sure.)
I figured I'd research this some more but I couldn't find the old documents, and google is down. Hmm, there's some stuff on www.fas.org, but it's not really conclusive. The best one is probably this one but do search around.
I guess we won't really know until in a few years when they declassify the signals intelligence they claim to have.
Also, it does seem in line with the other propaganda that came out of baghdad during the war. Remember the recycled footage of civilian casualties from the Iran-Iraq war, and the dismanteled mosque that they claimed had been bombed (and that one I'm sure I've seen pictures of.)
I'm pretty sure.50 (12.7mm) is allowed against indiviuals.
We (sweden) certainly plan to use them in that role if we ever go to war.
I think the soviet/russian 14.5 is OK too, but 20mm isn't. I'm not 100% sure though, it's been a while...
I'm curious as to what the rules say about the M203 launchers though, they're 40mm, but maybe they count differently since you arguably shouldn't be shooting a a single target with it.
It's pretty well documented. The facility was military, and the fact that it had civiliand in it means that iraq broke several important rules of war.
Also, that behavior is consistent with the iraqi way of using captured soldiers as "human shields", and with the placement of military assets right next to important archeological sites.
Look it up. I'm sure it's on www.fas.org somewhere.
No, actually a ramjet is way more efficient than a rocket.
A really good rocket motor gets an Isp of just over 400. (A little more if you feel like using F2 or ClF5 or other really nasty stuff, but nothing that dramatic.)
A ramjet gets around 3000. It's a lot simpler than the rocket, and it doesn't have to carry it's own oxisizer, so it stands to reason.
On the other hand, it doesn't work in space, and it needs to move a a pretty good speed before it starts working at all./August.
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Also, he has all kinds of technical stuff going for him. He was one of the original authors behind X, for example.
He also has a lot of (IMHO) good opinions on design. A short piece on that.
I believe he can (continue to) do a lot of good for Gnome.
At some point (maybe on the 25th birthday) someone asked Ritchie what he would change if he could, and he said something to the tune of "creat(2) should have had the 'e'."
As for me, the most ununixy thing in there is probably the way network interfaces aren't real devices (=files) like all the others, but exist in some kind of magic manespace of their own.
Oh, and the ioctl interface is a bit of a hack.
/August.
(The other one was the brits aiming for a bridge but hitting some kind of market, IIRC, but I'm not sure.)
I figured I'd research this some more but I couldn't find the old documents, and google is down. Hmm, there's some stuff on www.fas.org, but it's not really conclusive. The best one is probably this one but do search around.
I guess we won't really know until in a few years when they declassify the signals intelligence they claim to have.
Also, it does seem in line with the other propaganda that came out of baghdad during the war. Remember the recycled footage of civilian casualties from the Iran-Iraq war, and the dismanteled mosque that they claimed had been bombed (and that one I'm sure I've seen pictures of.)
I'm pretty sure .50 (12.7mm) is allowed against indiviuals.
We (sweden) certainly plan to use them in that role if we ever go to war.
I think the soviet/russian 14.5 is OK too, but 20mm isn't. I'm not 100% sure though, it's been a while...
I'm curious as to what the rules say about the M203 launchers though, they're 40mm, but maybe they count differently since you arguably shouldn't be shooting a a single target with it.
/August.
I can't speak for him, but I believe it.
It's pretty well documented. The facility was military, and the fact that it had civiliand in it means that iraq broke several important rules of war.
Also, that behavior is consistent with the iraqi way of using captured soldiers as "human shields", and with the placement of military assets right next to important archeological sites.
Look it up. I'm sure it's on www.fas.org somewhere.
/August.
No, actually a ramjet is way more efficient than a rocket. A really good rocket motor gets an Isp of just over 400. (A little more if you feel like using F2 or ClF5 or other really nasty stuff, but nothing that dramatic.) A ramjet gets around 3000. It's a lot simpler than the rocket, and it doesn't have to carry it's own oxisizer, so it stands to reason. On the other hand, it doesn't work in space, and it needs to move a a pretty good speed before it starts working at all. /August.