The top speed of a vessel is defined by its length at water line unless the vessel "planes" (flies above the water on a "wing") - water resistance increases with the fourth power of speed and it is futile to try and break this limit.
Sailing ships require one highly trained person and several numbsculls. Generally, numbsculls are cheap. A modern rig can be sailed by a single person most of the time, and only requires extra crew members when the sails need adjusting (probably 30 minutes once or twice a day while out at sea). All sea-going ships require at least one person nominally awake and alert 24 hours a day (not pissed out of their heads - the more common case in reality).
The economics of sail mean more ships is better than bigger ones above a certain point - don't put all your eggs in Bernie Madoff. Long enough for 20 - 25 knotts is big enough. One huge ship is a Victorian solution to the need to minimise fuel consumption. If you are not using consumable fuel, there is more to be gained by minimising risk, improving manoeverability, reducing the cost of terminal facilities, and speeding loading and unloading.
This reminds me of the good old days, when, what ever you searched for, the result was "Banes and Noble" and "Alamo car rentals", unless you used Google.
It's just like Kubuntu, without the ubuntu in the name and things seem slightly more polished.
So I heard but it isn't true: I tried it on my Thinkpad T61 when Unity first appeared, and Mint would not even install, despite Ubuntu having run fine since the T61 was manufactured. Fortunately I discovered
> apt-get install gnome-fallback-shell
and all is well (Not quite: the bastard that failed to make Unity/Gnome/Kde an option during the install process should still redeem his one-way ticket to the Gulag).
I have no dispute with your figures - but I was referring specifically to the computer industry. Mrs Thatcher and her ministers frequently proclaimed how we were behind the Americans, even though we had more advanced hardware (transputer) and software in many areas. The public proclamations wrecked our comuter industy's image, and made funding impossible to get - even privately - because the perception was that the government did not want a British computer industry - so why invest in it?
EDSAC was inspired by a trip to the US and a lot of what was developed came from the US originally.
Not exactly the whole truth: During the war, computing ideas were shared between Bletchley Park, whose interest was in language relatied stuff, and Los Alamos, whoe interest was Numerical Computing. There were many transatlantic trips, and knowledge was shared.
After the war, the UK hid all its knowledge for security reasons. In the US, the knowledge was used for commercial profit. Its a cultural difference. The UK was ahead of the US in many ersoects in computing until the Thatcher era, wnen all the industry was trashed, morally and physically.
You are so 2012 - these days people (here in the UK) increasingly are deliberately asking for Android, because their friend was sold a Windows phone and there were no upgrades at all! (or apps). Everyone in the real workd knows the SGS4 is awesome, and those that cant afford it, get a Samsung Galaxy &*%$ instead, which is OK but not great.
Also: plastic or aluminium backs are irrelevant - people put the phone in a fake leather case anyway.
The vast majority of Android phones are Samsung, and here in the UK we often get monthly os upgrades from our carriers (I am on 3, but I have friends on other carriers get upgrades too). The lack of upgrades in the USA is a US problem, not an Android problem.
My 3 year old HTC runs the latest Cyanogenmod the hardware supports (bloatware drove me crazy), and I also have a Symbian phone with the latest Symbian 60 it supports (upgraded automatically by PC suite - the only reason I boot Windows).
In summary: If your Android phone is not running the latest version - dont sign with the carrier when upgrade time comes - and if you actually care, go Cyanogenmod and remove the bloatware.
Most Apps for any OS are diabolical crap - I have paid (or donated) for stuff I wanted, that worked, but I wont pay for stuff I dont want, or stuff that wont work! 95% of crap developers target Android because the barriers to creating crap are low.
Always check the app does not have permission to send premium rate text messages before you install it
How, exactly, do you expect to identify "child porn"? - do you think emplying millions of minimum wage types in a third world country to deep-packet inspect your IP connections will achieve anything useful? (I guess it might work as an anti-poverty measure!
Or maybe you want to block all jpgs with more than 8 pixels? Or "all videos will too much flesh colour" (suggested on talk radio recently) - how do you define skin colour exactly?. What about ASCII porn?
To people that are not teenagers, 12 is not old - some of us drive cars a lot older than that - and cars sit outside in the rain all the year round, whereas a PC is in a nice warm dry place.
I occasionally work for a cash and carry depot whose computers are almost all over 11 years old. They probably don't know what the Internet is, I think their POS software is well named (POS meaning something other than point of sale in this case).
If you will pay for it, I will be happy to build you a fluidic computer that uses water as its computational medium and executes the PDP8s instruction set (PDP8E if you cna afford it). I think a clock speed of 50-100 Hz is probably feasible for a Mk1, and, with considerably greater funds, several kHz might be possible eventually. (1 MHz is not impossible, theoretically - faster than a real PDP8s, but it is definitely beyond my skill level).
I can make it steam powered for about double the cost.
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Trash all your tables when you edit them?
I'm a troll, fol-de-rol ...
Dont think of the children - it will land you in jail!
Sailing ships require one highly trained person and several numbsculls. Generally, numbsculls are cheap. A modern rig can be sailed by a single person most of the time, and only requires extra crew members when the sails need adjusting (probably 30 minutes once or twice a day while out at sea). All sea-going ships require at least one person nominally awake and alert 24 hours a day (not pissed out of their heads - the more common case in reality).
The economics of sail mean more ships is better than bigger ones above a certain point - don't put all your eggs in Bernie Madoff. Long enough for 20 - 25 knotts is big enough. One huge ship is a Victorian solution to the need to minimise fuel consumption. If you are not using consumable fuel, there is more to be gained by minimising risk, improving manoeverability, reducing the cost of terminal facilities, and speeding loading and unloading.
And they were solar powered too! (Sailing boats rely on the Sun to power the wind).
We have far superior sailing technology now, and it does not require lithium batteries. This is a giant leap into stupidity.
This reminds me of the good old days, when, what ever you searched for, the result was "Banes and Noble" and "Alamo car rentals", unless you used Google.
So what happened to the punch line where you sell your tape backup solution?
So I heard but it isn't true: I tried it on my Thinkpad T61 when Unity first appeared, and Mint would not even install, despite Ubuntu having run fine since the T61 was manufactured. Fortunately I discovered
> apt-get install gnome-fallback-shell
and all is well (Not quite: the bastard that failed to make Unity/Gnome/Kde an option during the install process should still redeem his one-way ticket to the Gulag).
I notice you omitted "Bug-free" - presumably your sarcasm containment vessel is not all-powerful.
1) Eliminate the candidates with bad luck: shuffle the CVs and cut the deck on two, and discard one half (they were unluck, by definition)
2) Fire all the candidates from a cannon applying a powerful side draft, so candidates fall in a two-dimensional array.
3) Select the candidate(s) closest to the centre of the fallout.
It may be that the cost of shipping to America made it uneconomic to ship to a country that had a native computer industry.
In the 60's and 70's selling from one country to another was not a widespread activity generally. People just did not expect to do it.
I have no dispute with your figures - but I was referring specifically to the computer industry. Mrs Thatcher and her ministers frequently proclaimed how we were behind the Americans, even though we had more advanced hardware (transputer) and software in many areas. The public proclamations wrecked our comuter industy's image, and made funding impossible to get - even privately - because the perception was that the government did not want a British computer industry - so why invest in it?
Not exactly the whole truth: During the war, computing ideas were shared between Bletchley Park, whose interest was in language relatied stuff, and Los Alamos, whoe interest was Numerical Computing. There were many transatlantic trips, and knowledge was shared.
After the war, the UK hid all its knowledge for security reasons. In the US, the knowledge was used for commercial profit. Its a cultural difference. The UK was ahead of the US in many ersoects in computing until the Thatcher era, wnen all the industry was trashed, morally and physically.
Also: plastic or aluminium backs are irrelevant - people put the phone in a fake leather case anyway.
My 3 year old HTC runs the latest Cyanogenmod the hardware supports (bloatware drove me crazy), and I also have a Symbian phone with the latest Symbian 60 it supports (upgraded automatically by PC suite - the only reason I boot Windows).
In summary: If your Android phone is not running the latest version - dont sign with the carrier when upgrade time comes - and if you actually care, go Cyanogenmod and remove the bloatware.
Most Apps for any OS are diabolical crap - I have paid (or donated) for stuff I wanted, that worked, but I wont pay for stuff I dont want, or stuff that wont work! 95% of crap developers target Android because the barriers to creating crap are low.
Always check the app does not have permission to send premium rate text messages before you install it
If my Samsung phone can do this, I want to known how to disable it!
oh, wait ... you are not running Unix on your 11/70?
Or maybe you want to block all jpgs with more than 8 pixels? Or "all videos will too much flesh colour" (suggested on talk radio recently) - how do you define skin colour exactly?. What about ASCII porn?
I occasionally work for a cash and carry depot whose computers are almost all over 11 years old. They probably don't know what the Internet is, I think their POS software is well named (POS meaning something other than point of sale in this case).
You probably have not heard that "XP only" is secret code for "Wine compatible".
What kind of cretin thinks all computers are networked, let alone on the internet?
But does it require all their computers to be networked?
Try giving him Ubuntu "instead"
I can make it steam powered for about double the cost.
This alone justifies the entire research budget!