It's been what, about 10 years and I haven't found a word processor since which lets me get the job done faster. Nothing on Linux, nothing on Windows, nothing on Mac. They all get in the way with how clever they are trying to be.
The world is more than able to feed itself with current crops.
The problem is political instability; wars, local conflicts, corruption, ethnic genocide etc etc. If there were stable governments everywhere using conventional crops, starvation would be eliminated completely.
Genetically modified crops will make absolutely no difference to famines because yield is not the problem.
.TH Who understands troff, or postscript now?.B Maybe if there were nice WYSIWYM troff editors it would be a different matter, with XML you have something easily parsable and transformable with easy availability of good programming language parsing and manipulation libraries, which is a dream to integrate with RDBMSs.
You want to make troff useful? Write a GUI or TUI editor which uses it as it's default format. Then write a set of free to use libraries for use with all of the major languages which make it a doddle to parse, generate, manipulate troff data.
Solaris is SVR4 Unix, with CDE and now Gnome. HP-UX is SVR4 Unix with CDE and maybe Gnome. There's no significant lock in to the OS, Solaris is already compatible and interchangable with Linux, HP-UX, AIX and the rest.
Unlike Apple, you do not buy Sun systems for the operating system, you buy Sun systems and HP systems for the system as a whole particularly the performance and scalability of the hardware and in the HP case, you just have to live with the OS.
If Sun decide that Linux will do the job and is taking their market they will change.
I once spent 2 weeks with no food, water only. After a couple of days I simply didn't get hunger pangs any more.
It was nice to eat again mind you, the food tasted better but I could do it again very easily. A very low calorie diet is no bother at all, my biggest problem with it was working out what to do with the extra time it gave me.
200 miles, 150 miles at 70mph with a 2 minute refill is the minimum people have come to expect.
Electric motors are known to have a nice linear torque curve. Getting good performance out of an electric car is more a problem of energy storage, it's the range that's unacceptable.
I'd have an electric vehicle in a second if it could do 250 miles at 70mph and was comparable purchase price to an internal combustion vehicle.
Money acretes money, if you have some it earns interest just by sitting there in a bank account, never mind the higher performing investments so at what point would you have a financial event horizon?
So much money that it acts as a big black hole sucking everything else in.
Bad drivers kill many many more people than speeding does. Speeding causes or contributes to only 7% of accidents. That includes both exceeding the limit and inappropriate speed - going too fast for the conditions.
Cos there's a lot of them around. Sunday was it? A couple of the benefits a car gives you is that it's much easier to drive than a bike and you're not as likely to die when you crash.
There are thousands of weekend warrior riders who dress up like Power Rangers on colour co-ordinated bikes but who do run-in annual milages and can't ride for toffee. Hell, I leave them for dead giving away 100bhp on my current bike.
I ride at maybe 70% on the road cos unlike the track I don't know that over the hill or the blind corner there isn't a tractor sitting in the middle of the road spreading muck.
It's like saying that someone was electrocuted by 100,000 volts. It's the current which does the damage, I get electrocuted by 50,000 volts quite regularly switching off my TV.
BHP[1] gives a very general indication on just how quickly something will accelerate. It's the force on the road given by the torque which pushes you, the bhp tells you approximately how long it can keep pushing and how fast you might be going at the end of it. It's the level of acceleration which needs handling rather than the resulting speed.
I've seen 125cc engines push out 75bhp but they were slow compared to larger and torqier 75bhp engines because you had to rev them to ridiculous levels to make the power and then try to gear them to make use of it.
Interesting you say that, cos round a track, bikes win against everything but high downforce vehicles. And in a straight line, bikes win against well, pretty much everything.
So, in essence, you'll be able to beat a bog standard $10,000 road going sportsbike if you've got a few hundred thousand to spend on sealed off aerodynamics, 2 inches of ground clearance, large spoilers, slick tyres and 30 miles of completely straight road to get that extra 15mph of top speed over the ~200mph that a Hayabusa or ZX12R will do.
But hey, those are every day circumstances, aren't they?
I don't think there's a single day that speed limits aren't ignored completely by hundreds of thousands of road users.
Ironically, the fastest roads are also the safest. 30mph urban roads are far far more dangerous than 70mph motorways and speeding only causes or contributes to a tiny minority of road accidents, some 7%. The other 93% of accidents are cause by incompetent drivers.
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Grid Engine is free, available on most of the Unix platforms, easy to set up and allows you to scale your processing pretty much linearly.
If you want to know more, I'd be happy to consult at $300/hour.
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It's been what, about 10 years and I haven't found a word processor since which lets me get the job done faster. Nothing on Linux, nothing on Windows, nothing on Mac. They all get in the way with how clever they are trying to be.
The world is more than able to feed itself with current crops.
The problem is political instability; wars, local conflicts, corruption, ethnic genocide etc etc. If there were stable governments everywhere using conventional crops, starvation would be eliminated completely.
Genetically modified crops will make absolutely no difference to famines because yield is not the problem.
.TH Who understands troff, or postscript now? .B Maybe if there were nice WYSIWYM troff editors it would be a different matter, with XML you have something easily parsable and transformable with easy availability of good programming language parsing and manipulation libraries, which is a dream to integrate with RDBMSs.
You want to make troff useful? Write a GUI or TUI editor which uses it as it's default format. Then write a set of free to use libraries for use with all of the major languages which make it a doddle to parse, generate, manipulate troff data.
The Internet can survive a nuclear attack, it met it's design criteria.
You seem to have mistaken the World Wide Web for the internet and are clearly a complete numpty. It'd be nice if Slashdot had killfiles.
You are being so naive.
Try to find a software supplier who will accept liability for losses caused by the use of their systems.
Solaris is SVR4 Unix, with CDE and now Gnome. HP-UX is SVR4 Unix with CDE and maybe Gnome. There's no significant lock in to the OS, Solaris is already compatible and interchangable with Linux, HP-UX, AIX and the rest.
Unlike Apple, you do not buy Sun systems for the operating system, you buy Sun systems and HP systems for the system as a whole particularly the performance and scalability of the hardware and in the HP case, you just have to live with the OS.
If Sun decide that Linux will do the job and is taking their market they will change.
And it isn't corporate profits.
The reason is that the levels of support are incomparable.
Sun will debug down to the driver level and on to the hardware if needed in order to support their customers.
The Intel based vendors will tell you to reboot and then that sorry, X isn't supported with Y.
Of course, you needn't buy a top end support contract if you don't want it.
They'll do it again in a second if it looks like Linux is eating Solaris's lunch.
So, no. Linux is no threat to Sun. It's simply a transition challenge.
No? Chop off the root and you'd have something very similar to the Dewey Decimal system but not.
In fact, more chow = lower quality of life.
If you have food in your stomach, your body needs to process it, haven't you noticed how you feel lethargic after a meal?
More calories only increases your quality of life if your life is nothing but watching TV.
I once spent 2 weeks with no food, water only. After a couple of days I simply didn't get hunger pangs any more.
It was nice to eat again mind you, the food tasted better but I could do it again very easily. A very low calorie diet is no bother at all, my biggest problem with it was working out what to do with the extra time it gave me.
200 miles, 150 miles at 70mph with a 2 minute refill is the minimum people have come to expect.
Electric motors are known to have a nice linear torque curve. Getting good performance out of an electric car is more a problem of energy storage, it's the range that's unacceptable.
I'd have an electric vehicle in a second if it could do 250 miles at 70mph and was comparable purchase price to an internal combustion vehicle.
Money acretes money, if you have some it earns interest just by sitting there in a bank account, never mind the higher performing investments so at what point would you have a financial event horizon?
So much money that it acts as a big black hole sucking everything else in.
Unlike the thousands of tonnes of domestic rubbish we throw into huge steaming pits every day.
We have some highly CPU intensive applications which could make use of it.
Bad drivers do.
Bad drivers kill many many more people than speeding does. Speeding causes or contributes to only 7% of accidents. That includes both exceeding the limit and inappropriate speed - going too fast for the conditions.
Cos there's a lot of them around. Sunday was it? A couple of the benefits a car gives you is that it's much easier to drive than a bike and you're not as likely to die when you crash.
There are thousands of weekend warrior riders who dress up like Power Rangers on colour co-ordinated bikes but who do run-in annual milages and can't ride for toffee. Hell, I leave them for dead giving away 100bhp on my current bike.
I ride at maybe 70% on the road cos unlike the track I don't know that over the hill or the blind corner there isn't a tractor sitting in the middle of the road spreading muck.
It's like saying that someone was electrocuted by 100,000 volts. It's the current which does the damage, I get electrocuted by 50,000 volts quite regularly switching off my TV.
BHP[1] gives a very general indication on just how quickly something will accelerate. It's the force on the road given by the torque which pushes you, the bhp tells you approximately how long it can keep pushing and how fast you might be going at the end of it. It's the level of acceleration which needs handling rather than the resulting speed.
I've seen 125cc engines push out 75bhp but they were slow compared to larger and torqier 75bhp engines because you had to rev them to ridiculous levels to make the power and then try to gear them to make use of it.
[1] What's wrong with kW anyway?
Interesting you say that, cos round a track, bikes win against everything but high downforce vehicles. And in a straight line, bikes win against well, pretty much everything.
So, in essence, you'll be able to beat a bog standard $10,000 road going sportsbike if you've got a few hundred thousand to spend on sealed off aerodynamics, 2 inches of ground clearance, large spoilers, slick tyres and 30 miles of completely straight road to get that extra 15mph of top speed over the ~200mph that a Hayabusa or ZX12R will do.
But hey, those are every day circumstances, aren't they?
I don't think there's a single day that speed limits aren't ignored completely by hundreds of thousands of road users.
Ironically, the fastest roads are also the safest. 30mph urban roads are far far more dangerous than 70mph motorways and speeding only causes or contributes to a tiny minority of road accidents, some 7%. The other 93% of accidents are cause by incompetent drivers.
Grid Engine is free, available on most of the Unix platforms, easy to set up and allows you to scale your processing pretty much linearly.
If you want to know more, I'd be happy to consult at $300/hour.
80 odd percent conversion efficiencies from panels and tubes, and, heat is much easier to store than electricity.
I'm drunk and can't be arsed. Does that make you feel better?
That's the only conclusion I can come to after reading this thread. America is a country of scaredy cats.
No wonder the Iraqi's are kicking your arses now that it's down to the nitty gritty.
Though that's Imperial gallons which are of course, bigger than American gallons.
And a 250cc bike is *not* big enough.