Mod parent down, uninformed bullshit. Yeomanry shares no etymology with Yew just to start, the rest of your "facts" are equally questionable. Slashdot intellectualism at its finest.
Horse manure. "The Art of Archyere" (Gervaise) - a 15th century book, copy of which is on my bookshelf now - describes various woods for a bow, and refers to one's bow by the wood it's made of, as in "take and bend thy Yew" and makes references to Yew-man and Yew-men, alternate spelling "Ye-man". Etymology fail? I don't think so.
This book went into fine detail to the level of describing which wing of the goose from which you should take your fletching, and how to cut your bow.
English technique bent the bow, rather than draw it, by the way -- that is, started with the string at the cheek and pressed the bow outward, rather than drawing the string back. I've used this technique in combat archery myself, and it allows you to aim while readying the arrow. And much of plate armour, such as Styrian half-armour, was quite thin -- 1/8 " thick or less. I have first-hand experience of shooting a clothyard shaft through 1/8" mild steel in safety tests, and will stand behind what I said. Yes, I am - or was - a medieval re-enactor, and a bloody good one thanks. Ran the Melbourne SCA Barony for four years, and we did a lot of research. Bona-fides on file.
I will finish off with a generous but uncharitable "up yours".
A 50lb draw longbow can throw a clothyard shaft straight through 1/8" mild steel plate 10 out of 10, and through maille as if it were gauze.
Crossbows weren't really required at Agincourt. A long-established culture of longbow use (mandated by the Crown) had more of an effect. You can see the effect today by looking at the window sills of small English churches -- worn to a catenary by yeomen (yew-man, a bow user) who believed sharpening their arrowheads on a church window brought good luck.
Medieval armour supports it all over the body, causing body-wide muscle fatigue.
Not so. Medieval armour up to the 14th century had hip belts that supported the weight of the leg armour on the pelvis.
The amount of effort you spend wearing armour is way more dependent upon the fit than the total weight.
There's been a huge study of this in various groups of the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA). Possibly the best proponent of this study that I know of is a gent known as His Majesty Cornelius von Beck, current king of Lochac (Australia). (www.sca.org.au). He's an armourer himself, and has studied - and worn - original 14th century plate. Serious students only can contact him via the SCA.
The SCA is the only organisation I know that chooses its leaders by rite of combat...
ultimately there will be war between the space people and the earth people
Which will last approximately 2 months and end when the groundlubbers stop the launch of the next Progress/Verne capsule full of food, oxygen and water, and the skydogs realise that their station is filling up with lots of bottles of unrecycled pee.
....
"I don't think we should drop any more rocks on Cheyanne Mountain" said Mycroft.
"Why not?"
"It isn't there any more."
-- "The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress" (R.A.Heinlein).
Read it. The ballistics and physics involved were computed by an Annapolis graduate from the age of battleships in the navy. Expertise that could drop a shell the size of a Corolla across Tasmania into any tennis court you named. The politics in the book named above cover just that sort of conflict.
Exactly. The act is "to burgle". A "burglar" is the person that does the burgling. "burglarize" is the action of that person, so you could describe them as a burglarizer, I suppose. Next time I get burglarizerized, I won't know what to think.
Indeed. In the same manner with which a butler "buttles", rather than "butlers".
I regard this as a positive move. I'm much happier having EA own PopCap than the previous owner, who should be buried face down with a stake through its heart.
Who might that be? Take a wild guess.
a solar panel on a starlit night probably can't even light a fart.
I think that depends. If you adjust the oxygen pressure carefully, a very tiny spark could light it. A high-voltage/very low amperage current could probably be stepped up from the solar cell's output in such a way that you could achieve the spark you need.
Of course, you could probably get the same result by rubbing a cat on a dry day, but you get the point.
What about my intuition stat? I prefer my unconscious mind to do my work for me, I find it's far better at it than my conscious mind:P
Pay that! I'm a lazy thinker too. Set up the question and go log on to EVE or WoW. Or maybe both. Get the answer in the morning, gift-wrapped by the subsystems in my meat computer.
If Japan is any example to go by, China may end up selling on the basis of quality, rather than price. That's because they'll have more experience at manufacturing goods than others. This of course will ramp up the price, making them less competitive, and they'll start rattling on about "transitioning to a service-oriented business model" when they can no longer sell their goods at the prices they want.
What's more interesting is how fast they'll mine out the resources of good people, such as what's happening in Indonesia and India now. (The sheer number of trained technologists needed is no longer being met. Training infrastructure has to rise too, guys!)
All the above notes seem to focus on the cosmetic aspects of the design. MouseR, are you putting together an attractive static site, or are you trying to expose a view of a database to the world? If the latter, I've had good luck with IronSpeed this past year, put together a couple of dozen sites with it.
I'm a DBA, not a web designer, so cosmetics take second place behind functionality. IronSpeed Designer has its quirks, but I've not found a faster way to get a few tables up and running on our intranet. It's basically an ASPX code generator, and it's all Microsofty, but the guys behind the product were the Amazon.com web designers and it just sort of works. V7.0.1 seems to work better than V8.0 though, so see if you can get that version first. Costs about $2k per named developer iirc.
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Mod parent down, uninformed bullshit. Yeomanry shares no etymology with Yew just to start, the rest of your "facts" are equally questionable. Slashdot intellectualism at its finest.
Horse manure. "The Art of Archyere" (Gervaise) - a 15th century book, copy of which is on my bookshelf now - describes various woods for a bow, and refers to one's bow by the wood it's made of, as in "take and bend thy Yew" and makes references to Yew-man and Yew-men, alternate spelling "Ye-man". Etymology fail? I don't think so.
This book went into fine detail to the level of describing which wing of the goose from which you should take your fletching, and how to cut your bow.
English technique bent the bow, rather than draw it, by the way -- that is, started with the string at the cheek and pressed the bow outward, rather than drawing the string back. I've used this technique in combat archery myself, and it allows you to aim while readying the arrow. And much of plate armour, such as Styrian half-armour, was quite thin -- 1/8 " thick or less. I have first-hand experience of shooting a clothyard shaft through 1/8" mild steel in safety tests, and will stand behind what I said. Yes, I am - or was - a medieval re-enactor, and a bloody good one thanks. Ran the Melbourne SCA Barony for four years, and we did a lot of research. Bona-fides on file.
I will finish off with a generous but uncharitable "up yours".
Except that China will manufacture it.
Crossbows weren't really required at Agincourt. A long-established culture of longbow use (mandated by the Crown) had more of an effect. You can see the effect today by looking at the window sills of small English churches -- worn to a catenary by yeomen (yew-man, a bow user) who believed sharpening their arrowheads on a church window brought good luck.
Medieval armour supports it all over the body, causing body-wide muscle fatigue.
Not so. Medieval armour up to the 14th century had hip belts that supported the weight of the leg armour on the pelvis.
The amount of effort you spend wearing armour is way more dependent upon the fit than the total weight.
There's been a huge study of this in various groups of the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA). Possibly the best proponent of this study that I know of is a gent known as His Majesty Cornelius von Beck, current king of Lochac (Australia). (www.sca.org.au). He's an armourer himself, and has studied - and worn - original 14th century plate. Serious students only can contact him via the SCA.
The SCA is the only organisation I know that chooses its leaders by rite of combat...
ultimately there will be war between the space people and the earth people
Which will last approximately 2 months and end when the groundlubbers stop the launch of the next Progress/Verne capsule full of food, oxygen and water, and the skydogs realise that their station is filling up with lots of bottles of unrecycled pee.
....
"I don't think we should drop any more rocks on Cheyanne Mountain" said Mycroft.
"Why not?"
"It isn't there any more."
-- "The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress" (R.A.Heinlein).
Read it. The ballistics and physics involved were computed by an Annapolis graduate from the age of battleships in the navy. Expertise that could drop a shell the size of a Corolla across Tasmania into any tennis court you named. The politics in the book named above cover just that sort of conflict.
Exactly. The act is "to burgle". A "burglar" is the person that does the burgling. "burglarize" is the action of that person, so you could describe them as a burglarizer, I suppose. Next time I get burglarizerized, I won't know what to think.
Indeed. In the same manner with which a butler "buttles", rather than "butlers".
"Cloud" exists because the MBA's wanted their own word for Internet.
I regard this as a positive move. I'm much happier having EA own PopCap than the previous owner, who should be buried face down with a stake through its heart. Who might that be? Take a wild guess.
"You can't transmit magnetism down a wire" -- maybe you should look at racetrack memory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racetrack_memory).
Or perhaps this old thing ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_memory
Leaping into the 1970's here. Should we have another academic to "invent" plated-wire memory next?
a solar panel on a starlit night probably can't even light a fart.
I think that depends. If you adjust the oxygen pressure carefully, a very tiny spark could light it. A high-voltage/very low amperage current could probably be stepped up from the solar cell's output in such a way that you could achieve the spark you need.
Of course, you could probably get the same result by rubbing a cat on a dry day, but you get the point.
http://xkcd.com/378/
Word meanings do drift, don't they? I believe the OED defined "Cute" as "Ugly, but interesting".
What about my intuition stat? I prefer my unconscious mind to do my work for me, I find it's far better at it than my conscious mind :P
Pay that! I'm a lazy thinker too. Set up the question and go log on to EVE or WoW. Or maybe both. Get the answer in the morning, gift-wrapped by the subsystems in my meat computer.
-- Michael Crichton, Andromeda Strain
Control over others is a drug. Governments everywhere are addicted.
"Of course I inhaled. That was the whole point!" - Barack Obama.
Question is, will he sign from his heart, or sign for the control-mongers?
Duct tape will shatter at that temperature, however.
Yup. Strategy will usually trump tactics.
If Japan is any example to go by, China may end up selling on the basis of quality, rather than price. That's because they'll have more experience at manufacturing goods than others. This of course will ramp up the price, making them less competitive, and they'll start rattling on about "transitioning to a service-oriented business model" when they can no longer sell their goods at the prices they want.
What's more interesting is how fast they'll mine out the resources of good people, such as what's happening in Indonesia and India now. (The sheer number of trained technologists needed is no longer being met. Training infrastructure has to rise too, guys!)
...take that bullshit material DOWN! I knew I fired you for a reason.
Umm, can you come and reboot the servers.
That made me laugh so hard I think I wet myself. Thanks ;-)
Oh and if you need an editor, TextPad is pretty good. Macros work way better than Notepad++.
All the above notes seem to focus on the cosmetic aspects of the design. MouseR, are you putting together an attractive static site, or are you trying to expose a view of a database to the world? If the latter, I've had good luck with IronSpeed this past year, put together a couple of dozen sites with it.
I'm a DBA, not a web designer, so cosmetics take second place behind functionality. IronSpeed Designer has its quirks, but I've not found a faster way to get a few tables up and running on our intranet. It's basically an ASPX code generator, and it's all Microsofty, but the guys behind the product were the Amazon.com web designers and it just sort of works. V7.0.1 seems to work better than V8.0 though, so see if you can get that version first. Costs about $2k per named developer iirc.
Building a fission reactor on top of the San Onofre Fault has always struck me as being a bit risky. Middle of Nevada? Perhaps not so much.
"God made an idiot for practice." said Mark Twain, "Then He made the School Board."
A power tool does not a builder make.
Meant to mention that little NAS box wasn't requiring a delay between attempts.