Because you can run and validate it your self. Don't trust your self? Don't run it. Know someone you do trust? Have them run it.
Now, there is no excuse to say you don't trust the results because the suite of tools are readily available for you to run your own tests. It's as simple as that.
Does this mean you should trust any result quoting OSDL TCP results? Of course not. Does that mean you might be able to validate them for a change? Absolutely!
Agreed. However, that would still make them idiots. You can buy surplus explosives from old land mines for about $1 per charge (per TV). I've betting the explosive power far exceeds what you you're going to get from an toy rocket motor. Not to mention is much cheaper. Plus, because of the charge sizes, I can't imagine they would be that hard to smuggle. Certainly easier than many drugs. Heck, even buying nitro race fuel and distilling it makes more sense.
Long story short, only an idiot wold attempt to use these things when better means are readily available.
I'm assuming this was a joke. Much more capable delivery systems exist in the form of r/c planes, light aircraft, needles in a crowd, etc.
The chances of a model rocket, which is capable of lifting grams, actually becoming a preferred delivery system for any terrorist is nearly nil. To say they are inaccurate is an understatment. To say they have a short range (couple thousand feet at best), is an understatement.
Larger rockets can be created by means of combining many motors together but this is more complex to launch, harder to construct so that it will survive launch, and quickly becomes very expensive. Even if multiple motors are used, it still becomes a tradeoff of payload versus range. If you any sizable payload, your range is significantly going to suffer. These things are just not designed for heavy lifting. They certainly are not military grade and they leave a rather noteworthy exhaust trail behind. Not like you can hide and launch these things.
Long story short, only an idiot would attempt to use these things for any form of terrorism.
Please place my comments back into context. Notice that I specifically said American's. Go look and see the percent of obese Americans. Stereotypes or not, I'm willing to bet a somewhat higher percent of the obese population are Slashdot readers. Just the same, such a task really is beyond the typical (average) American.
Agreed. IIRC, 3mph is the typical walking speed. 5mps is a brisk walk and maintaining that for hours, non-stop, is beyond the average American's abilities.
I have to agree that Office Space is the most accurate that I know of. The only thing that's not accurate is that the employees in the movie were treated far better than most are in reality.
You mean you think it's ironic that people would be using the software that they hate that's more or less been forced on them? Especially if they are currently at work?
Many times I've pointed out that something like this was going to happen and the Mono guys were quick to point out that I was crazy; as were many of the Slashdot population.
On one side, you have exactly what has been expected and follows a long historical ethic from Microsoft. On the other side, you have a bunch or people in denial. Hmmm...wonder who's crazy now.
Anyone that's surprised by this strikes me as exactly the same as a battered-wife. How many times do you have to beaten over the head before you figure out the relationship is never going to be good for you? When are you going to learn?
Long story short, people who can't wait to line up to do business with Microsoft are fools.
Well, from what little I know of it, it's designed to primarily be an indirect fire shell (aka, nade), however, it also is supposed to allow for direct fire of more hardened targets too.
Example, the 30mm cannon on an Apache is designed to be an indirect fire weapon (HEAP, HE, TP rounds, IIRC). Having said that, the pilots are required to train and use it as a direct fire weapon (accuracy rated and scored accordingly). Why? Well, even though they generally use HE rounds, direct fire from the weapon can penetrate APC's and probably even disable main battle tanks (with even a possibility of destroying main battle tanks).
In other words, unlike a simple nade round, it shouldn't be bouncing off of lightly armored targets.;)
It's not a nade lancher AFAIK. It's 20mm HE shell which has a programable fuse. Distances is acquired via laser range finder. The intent is to allow a squad to kill around corners, behind fox-hole, through walls and lightly armored targets, as well as over the top of hills (range to top...shoot above it -- targets on top get unpleasant surprise).
The REALLY cool thing is, it sorta looks like something like one of the Aliens movies. Very futuristic indeed.
Few batteries every experience any type of "memory" issues with them unless they are improperly used or have some type of "smart charge" brains built into the battery pack.
But, I kept getting burned in three areas: docs, dependencies, and bugs. Hmm. That's odd, all of the documentation is available via HTML, PDF, and PS. The HTML docs are available online and mirrored all over the place. Dependency issues? WTF? Every distro I've compiled wx on, had everything installed already. This includes Windows. Bugs? You must of tried this 5-years ago or been trying to use unstable-dev versions.
Their docs are horrible. Hmm. Not really sure what you expect. The docs seem to explain everything rather plainly and clearly. The vast majority of minor gaps are filled in via the samples and demos. Which is to say, unless you're trying to do something really obtuse, you have pretty much everything you need.
Finally, just about everytime I went to use some widget, I found some bug or limitation that made it unusable. Hmm. Sounds like a design or user issue. Chances are you used a VERY old version (5+ years old, or older) or, for whatever reason, decided that a development version was what you needed to use. The stable releases tend to be just that, very stable and usually bug free.
In wxWindows, I spent the better part of a week just trying to get one simple delegation design working and couldn't do it despite lots of help from people on various IRC channels. This does seem to support the notion that perhaps there is a bit of a user-issue here.
You also forgot that the Python (wxPython: http://www.wxpython.org) bindings are excellent (getting better all the time) and that there are also Perl bindings to boot.
Some quotes from the wxPython site:
"Why the hell hasn't wxPython become the standard GUI for Python yet?"
-- Eric S. Raymond
"Tkinter is dead, Java is dead, wxPython rules! That's all there is to say."
-- Robert Roebling
"I've written some rather involved applications with Python/Tkinter. wxPython beats it hands down... The widgets are better (being based on GTK for Linux) and the class setup is immediately useable. wxPython gives me a good reason to never even worry about using Java."
-- Aaron Rhodes
"The Python community needs to give up on Tcl and come join us. wxPython is wonderful stuff."
-- David Priest
"BTW, great work! I've definitively switched from Tk. I work on Win32, anybody who works on Win32 should switch!"
-- Michel Orengo
I have just picked myself up off the floor having looked at the wxHTML stuff in the new beta! wxPython is moving from excellent to completely awesome very quickly indeed.
-- Sean McGrath
Thanks for such fantastic work on wxPython. As a newcomer to Python the power of this GUI library blows me away. I will never use anything else.
-- Mark Evans
Plus, many other wxPython users truely enjoy using it. If wxWindows were anywhere as bad as you seem to imply it is, it's doubtful that wxPython would be anywhere near as well received. Not to mention the army of happy wxWindows users.
I would highly recommend you check it out again or simply not comment on wxWindows as I don't think your comments are accurate or truly reflective of wxWindows or a typical developer's experience that may seek to try it.
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Because you can run and validate it your self. Don't trust your self? Don't run it. Know someone you do trust? Have them run it.
Now, there is no excuse to say you don't trust the results because the suite of tools are readily available for you to run your own tests. It's as simple as that.
Does this mean you should trust any result quoting OSDL TCP results? Of course not. Does that mean you might be able to validate them for a change? Absolutely!
I think he's saying they do use MSVSS...which is probably why they can't recreate a previous release. ;)
Agreed. However, that would still make them idiots. You can buy surplus explosives from old land mines for about $1 per charge (per TV). I've betting the explosive power far exceeds what you you're going to get from an toy rocket motor. Not to mention is much cheaper. Plus, because of the charge sizes, I can't imagine they would be that hard to smuggle. Certainly easier than many drugs. Heck, even buying nitro race fuel and distilling it makes more sense.
Long story short, only an idiot wold attempt to use these things when better means are readily available.
I'm assuming this was a joke. Much more capable delivery systems exist in the form of r/c planes, light aircraft, needles in a crowd, etc.
The chances of a model rocket, which is capable of lifting grams, actually becoming a preferred delivery system for any terrorist is nearly nil. To say they are inaccurate is an understatment. To say they have a short range (couple thousand feet at best), is an understatement.
Larger rockets can be created by means of combining many motors together but this is more complex to launch, harder to construct so that it will survive launch, and quickly becomes very expensive. Even if multiple motors are used, it still becomes a tradeoff of payload versus range. If you any sizable payload, your range is significantly going to suffer. These things are just not designed for heavy lifting. They certainly are not military grade and they leave a rather noteworthy exhaust trail behind. Not like you can hide and launch these things.
Long story short, only an idiot would attempt to use these things for any form of terrorism.
Please place my comments back into context. Notice that I specifically said American's. Go look and see the percent of obese Americans. Stereotypes or not, I'm willing to bet a somewhat higher percent of the obese population are Slashdot readers. Just the same, such a task really is beyond the typical (average) American.
Agreed. IIRC, 3mph is the typical walking speed. 5mps is a brisk walk and maintaining that for hours, non-stop, is beyond the average American's abilities.
And virtually every modern Bond film includes an impossible or close-to-impossible helicopter stunt.
Pfft. Next you'll try to tell us that Air Wolf was fake too. Shesh..
Do cop shows accurately depict cops?
;)
Mostly.
Do westerns accurately depict cowboys?
Nope. The ones on TV almost always are far smarter and more worldly than they are in reality.
Do war movies accurately depict soldiers?
Depends on the movie. In some cases, yes.
Does pr0n accurately depict sex?
If you're lucky!
I have to agree that Office Space is the most accurate that I know of. The only thing that's not accurate is that the employees in the movie were treated far better than most are in reality.
I would guess that 70-80% of my calls are from telemarketers. It's at the point where I rarely bother to answer. I simply shiver anymore.
Regardless, nobody's forcing anything on anyone.
You're obviously one of the ones that your quote, "You're assuming the average Slashdotter is employed", applies to. Acknowledged.
You mean you think it's ironic that people would be using the software that they hate that's more or less been forced on them? Especially if they are currently at work?
Wow...
It's even worse for non-software engineers. After all, we all know those are the guys driving the train.
Choooo...Chooooo.....
Many times I've pointed out that something like this was going to happen and the Mono guys were quick to point out that I was crazy; as were many of the Slashdot population.
On one side, you have exactly what has been expected and follows a long historical ethic from Microsoft. On the other side, you have a bunch or people in denial. Hmmm...wonder who's crazy now.
Anyone that's surprised by this strikes me as exactly the same as a battered-wife. How many times do you have to beaten over the head before you figure out the relationship is never going to be good for you? When are you going to learn?
Long story short, people who can't wait to line up to do business with Microsoft are fools.
Is there a PostgreSQL driver for it?
Oddly enough, I just had 3-caps replaced in my power supply for my 8-port Linksys hub. They died exactly as described.
Hmmm....
Data's head will be found and attached to Lore's body or some such crap.
As long as the algorithm truly allows for a random distribution, drift should be kept absolutely to a minimum.
;)
Law of averages is such a wonderful thing.
Well, from what little I know of it, it's designed to primarily be an indirect fire shell (aka, nade), however, it also is supposed to allow for direct fire of more hardened targets too.
;)
Example, the 30mm cannon on an Apache is designed to be an indirect fire weapon (HEAP, HE, TP rounds, IIRC). Having said that, the pilots are required to train and use it as a direct fire weapon (accuracy rated and scored accordingly). Why? Well, even though they generally use HE rounds, direct fire from the weapon can penetrate APC's and probably even disable main battle tanks (with even a possibility of destroying main battle tanks).
In other words, unlike a simple nade round, it shouldn't be bouncing off of lightly armored targets.
Thanks for sharing that. Very informative. Had I the points, I would mod it accordingly
Youch!
AIOC or something like that.
It's not a nade lancher AFAIK. It's 20mm HE shell which has a programable fuse. Distances is acquired via laser range finder. The intent is to allow a squad to kill around corners, behind fox-hole, through walls and lightly armored targets, as well as over the top of hills (range to top...shoot above it -- targets on top get unpleasant surprise).
The REALLY cool thing is, it sorta looks like something like one of the Aliens movies. Very futuristic indeed.
Who has an estimate on how long it will take for the Army to outfit its troops with anti-personnel rocket launchers?
;)
It's called an M203, law, vlaw, and rpg.
I immediately thought of that episode when I read the article. I personally think that was one of the best shows Outer Limits ever made.
"...things had to be balanced out...", or something like that was the phrase they used.
Few batteries every experience any type of "memory" issues with them unless they are improperly used or have some type of "smart charge" brains built into the battery pack.
Hmm. That's odd, all of the documentation is available via HTML, PDF, and PS. The HTML docs are available online and mirrored all over the place. Dependency issues? WTF? Every distro I've compiled wx on, had everything installed already. This includes Windows. Bugs? You must of tried this 5-years ago or been trying to use unstable-dev versions.
Their docs are horrible.
Hmm. Not really sure what you expect. The docs seem to explain everything rather plainly and clearly. The vast majority of minor gaps are filled in via the samples and demos. Which is to say, unless you're trying to do something really obtuse, you have pretty much everything you need.
Finally, just about everytime I went to use some widget, I found some bug or limitation that made it unusable.
Hmm. Sounds like a design or user issue. Chances are you used a VERY old version (5+ years old, or older) or, for whatever reason, decided that a development version was what you needed to use. The stable releases tend to be just that, very stable and usually bug free.
In wxWindows, I spent the better part of a week just trying to get one simple delegation design working and couldn't do it despite lots of help from people on various IRC channels.
This does seem to support the notion that perhaps there is a bit of a user-issue here.
You also forgot that the Python (wxPython: http://www.wxpython.org) bindings are excellent (getting better all the time) and that there are also Perl bindings to boot.
Some quotes from the wxPython site:
Plus, many other wxPython users truely enjoy using it. If wxWindows were anywhere as bad as you seem to imply it is, it's doubtful that wxPython would be anywhere near as well received. Not to mention the army of happy wxWindows users.
I would highly recommend you check it out again or simply not comment on wxWindows as I don't think your comments are accurate or truly reflective of wxWindows or a typical developer's experience that may seek to try it.