Yes, actually, numerous courses. I almost TA'd the operating systems course here this semester. I merely picked music as an example. I sort of regretted picking it when I said it for just the reasons that you mention, but at the time I wasn't thinking about the fact that music is handled by a sound card (I know, an odd thing to say).
All I really meant to say is 1) Threads are useful, I know that I use them a lot, and 2) The OS can provide threading capabilities, so PROBABLY what they meant is no hardware SMT/SMP support, not that there was no threading API.
I should have settled for just saying that, rather than trying to name an example in a problem domain about which I know little.
Ahh, I thought that the post meant that there was no threading at all. Obviously in this scenario there exist other threads to handle this stuff.
If there is a threading API for the OS, why not one that is visible to programmers.
I took the meaning of all of this to mean that the there is not multithreading across the cores, but that there is probably a threading substrate available to the programmers. This makes a lot more sense, since the OS would already have to provide context switching functionality. Exposing it through an API would be a no brainer.
So, what you're saying is that you don't want real time operations like playing music to be run in a separate thread from things like the rest of the logic of the game.
That way, we get nice, choppy noise in the background, rather than simple, clean, sound.
Nobody would put up with single threaded development in 2005. Simple fact of the matter, everyone is developing in C++, and someone has probably implemented a threading API for XBox360. It's not like programmers hack this stuff in differently for every title.
What probably is true is that it's not multithreading in hardware, across the processors, which is a completely different issue. Again, software houses probably wouldn't deal with this, since MS would release and API for it. Not having release one with the initial development kits seems a bit backwards though. There probably is a threading substrate, however, provided with the development kits that at least implements some variety of software threading.
IE, "the XBox360 is tricky to program for" is kind of a silly statement to begin with. Most people writing this software are not dealing with the underlying hardware.
Ok. Well, lets just say that I consider firebombing buildings to be terrorism, and I don't support that. There are more constructive ways to express your opinion than blowing things up, and I'm more likely to take them seriously, as are most people.
Which is why most people don't take you folks very seriously.
You may consider yourself a freedom fighter, but I consider you an arsonist, a criminal, and a terrorist.
LSD breaks down in chlorine, such as would be found in drinking water. That conspiracy theory about LSD in the drinking water could never work. Anybody doing a feasability study would have seen that at the start.
As long as you're not one of those nuts who kills people over this issue, then you're fine with me. If you're one of those ALF terrorists though, I hope that the politicians stop politicking, and throw you and your murderous brethren in maximum security prison, where you belong.
1) It's a joke 2) Insulting my use of the word "God" doesn't make you any more intelligent. See other posts/replies. Simply put. I don't insult my the religions of those around me. I don't see others as inferior for their faith. Lets add that you're a biggot to the list of things that are wrong with you.
You've probably seen it on bumper stickers near your headquarters if you've ever actually been down there.
Making fun of a person's faith is an indication of pseudointellectualism. I never insult the faiths of my Indian colleagues, though I don't hold it as my own.
You are a closed-minded person, trying to push his views on others. You view all others as unenlightened. I'm sure that eventually you'll see the light.
What you've said is completely non-germaine. I was merely pointing out that some political group that I've never heard of before (had you?), serving their agenda release some political info. The guy said that he trusted such groups more than the Navy.
I was merely pointing out that the Christian Coalition and PETA aren't going to start handing out facts that don't serve their purposes. What I was saying is, these groups aren't exactly doing surveys or anything, and providing you with the results. If the Navy was doing a great job, we wouldn't hear anything.
What we heard was distilled political mumbo-jumbo, and you accept it as if it was published in Nature.
That's all that I was saying. It has nothing to do with whether or not I eat animals, though, I would submit that if God didn't want us eating animals, he wouldn't have made them out of meat.
As for your issue of trust in the military vs the nrdc, I challenge that you have no well known track record on either entity in making your claim, and that you only do so because your political stance dictates your opinion on this.
As a general rule I believe the nonprofits on these kind of questions a lot more then the Navy
Groups like the Christian Coalition and PETA really are more about getting the facts out to the public, than pushing a political agenda. That's what you're saying, right?
It's called grad school. You don't have sleep either. I think that most of the scientists aboard such space missions are quite used to not getting laid, and the adaptation to life without sleep is probably beneficial in space as well.
Also, to add insult to injury... I got modded troll for this. This guy hopped up on his soapbox to America-bash. All that I did is say that I disliked the sentiment that people dislike me because I'm American. Just because you dislike Americans too doesn't make you any less of a biggot.
The reason that I don't like you is because you is because you don't like me.
By the way, plenty of non-Americans like me, so I don't know what you're on about. Perhaps if you turned off your television and did something with your life, you'd realize that politicians are politicians and that politicians in other countries do stupid things too. I didn't propose the change in DST, but you've decided that you dislike me because of my country of origin, and decided to hop on your soapbox and insult me over this issue.
Last year, I spent a lot of time thinking about this. Why do high UID losers on Slashdot hate me because of my American origin?
How about this one for stupid... Why do Slashdotters post about boycotting all things American... then view Slashdot (an American revenue stream), and buy junk from ThinkGeek (another American revenue stream). How about, you don't believe a word of what you say, or at least have no convictions so strong that you're actually willing to stand up for them insofar as that they might actually inconvenience you.
You're a biggot. If I went around spouting off about how I hate the French and Germans, that's what I'd be called. It's no different just because you're Canadian, and I'm an American.
At my old job, I had a coworker (more senior than I) who would interrupt constantly. This coworker was sure that whatever he said was of such great importance, that no matter what it was, it should take precidence above all else, and become my central focus.
This coworker would always ask me why I wasn't logged into AIM, and instruct me to log in. I would always leave AIM off, unless I was asked to turn it on. Many coworkers wondered why this was the case.
The answer was simple. This coworker would task me with meaningless, useless junk that would get in the way of my actual work. If it wasn't important enough to walk by my cubicle, call, or email about (especially since email left a paper trail, and people could hear him talking at my cube or phone), then it certainly wasn't important enough for me to do. With AIM turned off, I had a low pass filter on just how pointless the tasking I was willing to take on was.
Sometimes, I'd turn this policy. After all, having an instant message log certainly can be a useful thing... but that's a story for another day.
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Yes, actually, numerous courses. I almost TA'd the operating systems course here this semester. I merely picked music as an example. I sort of regretted picking it when I said it for just the reasons that you mention, but at the time I wasn't thinking about the fact that music is handled by a sound card (I know, an odd thing to say).
All I really meant to say is 1) Threads are useful, I know that I use them a lot, and 2) The OS can provide threading capabilities, so PROBABLY what they meant is no hardware SMT/SMP support, not that there was no threading API.
I should have settled for just saying that, rather than trying to name an example in a problem domain about which I know little.
Ahh, I thought that the post meant that there was no threading at all. Obviously in this scenario there exist other threads to handle this stuff.
If there is a threading API for the OS, why not one that is visible to programmers.
I took the meaning of all of this to mean that the there is not multithreading across the cores, but that there is probably a threading substrate available to the programmers. This makes a lot more sense, since the OS would already have to provide context switching functionality. Exposing it through an API would be a no brainer.
So, what you're saying is that you don't want real time operations like playing music to be run in a separate thread from things like the rest of the logic of the game.
That way, we get nice, choppy noise in the background, rather than simple, clean, sound.
Nobody would put up with single threaded development in 2005. Simple fact of the matter, everyone is developing in C++, and someone has probably implemented a threading API for XBox360. It's not like programmers hack this stuff in differently for every title.
What probably is true is that it's not multithreading in hardware, across the processors, which is a completely different issue. Again, software houses probably wouldn't deal with this, since MS would release and API for it. Not having release one with the initial development kits seems a bit backwards though. There probably is a threading substrate, however, provided with the development kits that at least implements some variety of software threading.
IE, "the XBox360 is tricky to program for" is kind of a silly statement to begin with. Most people writing this software are not dealing with the underlying hardware.
You've won me over. I want to join the ALF.
Ok. Well, lets just say that I consider firebombing buildings to be terrorism, and I don't support that. There are more constructive ways to express your opinion than blowing things up, and I'm more likely to take them seriously, as are most people.
Which is why most people don't take you folks very seriously.
You may consider yourself a freedom fighter, but I consider you an arsonist, a criminal, and a terrorist.
You're off the hook. The other guy posting in this thread IS one though.
http://www.answers.com/topic/animal-liberation-fro nt
Reference Penn & Teller's Series Bullshit. Available from Amazon.com.
Thanks.
PETA funds the ALF. The ALF blows up labs, killing people to free test animals.
Your linked site is a PETA site.
You support terrorists.
Have a nice day.
A thing about the LSD in the drinking water bit.
LSD breaks down in chlorine, such as would be found in drinking water. That conspiracy theory about LSD in the drinking water could never work. Anybody doing a feasability study would have seen that at the start.
Eh, ok.
As long as you're not one of those nuts who kills people over this issue, then you're fine with me. If you're one of those ALF terrorists though, I hope that the politicians stop politicking, and throw you and your murderous brethren in maximum security prison, where you belong.
1) It's a joke
2) Insulting my use of the word "God" doesn't make you any more intelligent. See other posts/replies. Simply put. I don't insult my the religions of those around me. I don't see others as inferior for their faith. Lets add that you're a biggot to the list of things that are wrong with you.
It's a joke. You're the second person that I've explained it to.
It's called a joke.
You've probably seen it on bumper stickers near your headquarters if you've ever actually been down there.
Making fun of a person's faith is an indication of pseudointellectualism. I never insult the faiths of my Indian colleagues, though I don't hold it as my own.
You are a closed-minded person, trying to push his views on others. You view all others as unenlightened. I'm sure that eventually you'll see the light.
Uhmm, yeah. Warning everyone replying to this guy... He's the next Unabomber.
Hi,
What you've said is completely non-germaine. I was merely pointing out that some political group that I've never heard of before (had you?), serving their agenda release some political info. The guy said that he trusted such groups more than the Navy.
I was merely pointing out that the Christian Coalition and PETA aren't going to start handing out facts that don't serve their purposes. What I was saying is, these groups aren't exactly doing surveys or anything, and providing you with the results. If the Navy was doing a great job, we wouldn't hear anything.
What we heard was distilled political mumbo-jumbo, and you accept it as if it was published in Nature.
That's all that I was saying. It has nothing to do with whether or not I eat animals, though, I would submit that if God didn't want us eating animals, he wouldn't have made them out of meat.
Hi,
I didn't say that PETA was at all involved.
As for your issue of trust in the military vs the nrdc, I challenge that you have no well known track record on either entity in making your claim, and that you only do so because your political stance dictates your opinion on this.
IE, thanks for your opinion.
As a general rule I believe the nonprofits on these kind of questions a lot more then the Navy
Groups like the Christian Coalition and PETA really are more about getting the facts out to the public, than pushing a political agenda. That's what you're saying, right?
60 months with out sex.
It's called grad school. You don't have sleep either. I think that most of the scientists aboard such space missions are quite used to not getting laid, and the adaptation to life without sleep is probably beneficial in space as well.
These are the first salvos of the EU's attack on the Internet, since the US wouldn't give in to their demands.
Good job guys. Now that incredibly fragile IP protocol is completely screwed, along with any chances of my getting onto match.com tonight.
Also, to add insult to injury... I got modded troll for this. This guy hopped up on his soapbox to America-bash. All that I did is say that I disliked the sentiment that people dislike me because I'm American. Just because you dislike Americans too doesn't make you any less of a biggot.
The reason that I don't like you is because you is because you don't like me.
By the way, plenty of non-Americans like me, so I don't know what you're on about. Perhaps if you turned off your television and did something with your life, you'd realize that politicians are politicians and that politicians in other countries do stupid things too. I didn't propose the change in DST, but you've decided that you dislike me because of my country of origin, and decided to hop on your soapbox and insult me over this issue.
Last year, I spent a lot of time thinking about this. Why do high UID losers on Slashdot hate me because of my American origin?
How about this one for stupid... Why do Slashdotters post about boycotting all things American... then view Slashdot (an American revenue stream), and buy junk from ThinkGeek (another American revenue stream). How about, you don't believe a word of what you say, or at least have no convictions so strong that you're actually willing to stand up for them insofar as that they might actually inconvenience you.
You're a biggot. If I went around spouting off about how I hate the French and Germans, that's what I'd be called. It's no different just because you're Canadian, and I'm an American.
It's Fermat's Last Theorem...
At my old job, I had a coworker (more senior than I) who would interrupt constantly. This coworker was sure that whatever he said was of such great importance, that no matter what it was, it should take precidence above all else, and become my central focus.
This coworker would always ask me why I wasn't logged into AIM, and instruct me to log in. I would always leave AIM off, unless I was asked to turn it on. Many coworkers wondered why this was the case.
The answer was simple. This coworker would task me with meaningless, useless junk that would get in the way of my actual work. If it wasn't important enough to walk by my cubicle, call, or email about (especially since email left a paper trail, and people could hear him talking at my cube or phone), then it certainly wasn't important enough for me to do. With AIM turned off, I had a low pass filter on just how pointless the tasking I was willing to take on was.
Sometimes, I'd turn this policy. After all, having an instant message log certainly can be a useful thing... but that's a story for another day.
Oy. What a late night does to the brain.
As stated, it is not true. Now, I get it! It's a juxtaposition of Fermat's Last Theorem.