You can hook the 1541 up directly to the PC if you have a cable. I made such a cable for the Amiga and even wrote a program for it to read whole disks block by block off the 1541. (I actually reverse engineered the disk routines in the C64 ROM to do it.) There are several programs to do this on the PC, and the cable schematics should be easily available.
If there's only one mode available at a time, you couldn't run two scripts concurrently anyway. Even in a non-multithreaded environment you'd have to be careful that the mode is what you expect it to be.
In a multithreaded environment you could still use this library, you'd just have to keep the lock longer -- you need to keep it as long as you rely on the mode being what it is, to prevent another thread from changing it underneath you.
This makes it more complicated since you may have to use other locks within the same scope, so you need to be more careful. However, it's really no different. Locking the library will still work.
Unless you're using synchronous I/O and handling only one connection at a time, such a library will be a pain to use even if you only have one thread.
It does help if the only way that state is changed is through library calls (which is likely if it's not thread safe -- if they're using threads internally they should lock the state data). If you always make the calls in the context of a lock there's no way another thread could call another function and modify the state at the same time.
I'm sorry, but at that salary you are definitely a good example of cheap H1B labor. While that may be good compared to UK salaries, $36k is horrible in Seattle. The average starting salaries for graduating computer science students in the US is about $50k. With the cost of living in Seattle you'll have a hard time on that salary.
I'm also a European on an H1B visa, and I'm thankfully getting paid much more than average. I am definitely not cheaper than an American, and my company pays me well (and hired me originally) because I have a specialized skill set that they couldn't find elsewhere. That's a better example of good use of the H1B program, IMHO.
The source code is opened in order for MVPs, who are people who have been given that award for helping others, to help others more effectively. I'm an MVP, and I have access to the source code. It helps me figure out what is going on behind the scenes, and I can pass that knowledge on to those I am helping.
Of course, I can also submit bug reports when I find problems in the source code. Another benefit of being an MVP is that you have pretty much a direct line to Microsoft developers, and I've submitted multiple bug reports directly to them. Several bugs have been fixed because of it.
But no, it's not open source. I can't upload patches or compile my own versions of things. That's not what this is about, and they never claimed that it was.
I'm an MVP, and I've taken every opportunity I've gotten to speak up about MS practices, products, or technologies I don't like. I was given an MVP award despite this, and I have continued to do so after I got the award.
I was a bit hasty, I am of course aware that Seamaster chronos were made back in the day as well as now.
Incidentally, I have two Seamasters myself (one vintage and one new black/black). Great watches, even if I'm not a big fan of modern Omegas. (Especially their horrible advertising.)
Once you go mechanical, there's no going back.:) I have several mechanical watches, and there's no way I'd go back to quartz. Life is too short to wear boring watches.
That's a very common problem with the Kinetics, and fixing it is damn expensive.
And in case you didn't know, watches didn't require batteries before the Accutron, either. In fact, none of my modern nor vintage watches require batteries. (And no, they're not Kinetics.)
Rolexes are mass produced. Jaeger-LeCoultre, Patek, Blancpain, Audemars Piguet et al are examples of manufacturers that don't churn out watches on an assembly line.
That's why I mentioned that I am in Texas. Since there was no other reason for me mentioning it than to draw the connection between their being based in Texas and lots of people wearing them here, do you think I am surprised that many people here wear Fossils? I think not.
There's nothing wrong with Fossil if you're looking for a cheap watch, and there's also nothing wrong with a Volkswagen if you're looking for a cheap car. That doesn't mean that as someone interested in cars, you don't want to see a Ferrari or Lamborghini now and then.
I live in the middle of Texas, where everybody wears Fossils. Watches are a hobby of mine (I know it must be hard to imagine, but trust me -- there are a lot of us), and it would be nice to see a little variety on people's wrists.
It's like being a car nut and living in a place where everybody drives Volkswagens. Not that they're bad cars, but if that's all you see you'll be bored to tears. I am a car nut too, but luckily people drive more exciting cars.:)
First, it's too small to be useful as a PDA. Second, it's too big to look good on your wrist. (Not that any Fossil ever looked good.)
Reminds me of this quote from "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy":
"Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descent life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea."
But at least they don't break three times in three years, like my #@$% JLC.
You should, though. At least to some extent. At my last job I had to run a couple of fairly memory-hungry programs concurrently. Lotus Notes, database programs, development stuff, servers. It adds up fairly quickly, and the system starts struggling _really_ hard when it starts swapping. And of course big programs = sloooow startup times, because hard drives are just slow as hell. It doesn't matter if today's hard drives are big, they're still not fast enough.
I also had to run several Java programs. Each with a virtual machine sucking 64MB, most of them using Swing. If you had been through that ordeal, you wouldn't have said that bloat doesn't matter.
That would be nice, but whenever I try to actually get some work done (in Vim) my emacs-using colleagues keep looking over my shoulder and asking me "how the hell did you do that?"
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Tim O'Reilly converted from emacs to vi.. OK, a master he may not be, but I have no clue what other people use. All I know is that apparently, both Stallman and Gosling have carpal tunnel syndrome.:)
No, it doesn't. How can they justify spending time on this crap? What could it possibly be used for that would justify the development of something like this?
I'm starting to dislike the tech sector more and more because of all the flawed or useless technologies floating around. Not least because clueless leaders buy into them, forcing me to use them.
Sigh.. I'm as much a geek as the next guy, but I feel more and more like just moving out into the wilderness and get away from all the hype and stupidity.
I write enterprise software in Java. If you think that's the pinnacle of computing, you don't know what you're talking about. Most enterprise software work is grunt work, and Java is used because it has some properties that are useful (being able to go cross-platform easily means a lot), not because the language as a whole is necessarily good. Many think so, of course. I don't agree.
I take offense at the ignorance people display when they say that Java is finally fast enough for desktop use. That is simply not true. I use a number of Java applications on a daily basis, and even though I have a decently powerful machine it can only take so many bloated VMs before everything (everything) grinds to a fucking halt. And don't get me started on Swing. God, what a mess.
In my mind, the work I do as an enterprise software programmer is not real programming. You can do real stuff in Java, but I leave that to someone else. I'm looking to get away from Java completely. I can't stand the language.
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You can hook the 1541 up directly to the PC if you have a cable. I made such a cable for the Amiga and even wrote a program for it to read whole disks block by block off the 1541. (I actually reverse engineered the disk routines in the C64 ROM to do it.) There are several programs to do this on the PC, and the cable schematics should be easily available.
If there's only one mode available at a time, you couldn't run two scripts concurrently anyway. Even in a non-multithreaded environment you'd have to be careful that the mode is what you expect it to be.
In a multithreaded environment you could still use this library, you'd just have to keep the lock longer -- you need to keep it as long as you rely on the mode being what it is, to prevent another thread from changing it underneath you.
This makes it more complicated since you may have to use other locks within the same scope, so you need to be more careful. However, it's really no different. Locking the library will still work.
Unless you're using synchronous I/O and handling only one connection at a time, such a library will be a pain to use even if you only have one thread.
Of course it's not automatic, but it would work fine. There's nothing to it, it's just tedious.
It does help if the only way that state is changed is through library calls (which is likely if it's not thread safe -- if they're using threads internally they should lock the state data). If you always make the calls in the context of a lock there's no way another thread could call another function and modify the state at the same time.
I'm sorry, but at that salary you are definitely a good example of cheap H1B labor. While that may be good compared to UK salaries, $36k is horrible in Seattle. The average starting salaries for graduating computer science students in the US is about $50k. With the cost of living in Seattle you'll have a hard time on that salary.
I'm also a European on an H1B visa, and I'm thankfully getting paid much more than average. I am definitely not cheaper than an American, and my company pays me well (and hired me originally) because I have a specialized skill set that they couldn't find elsewhere. That's a better example of good use of the H1B program, IMHO.
The source code is opened in order for MVPs, who are people who have been given that award for helping others, to help others more effectively. I'm an MVP, and I have access to the source code. It helps me figure out what is going on behind the scenes, and I can pass that knowledge on to those I am helping.
Of course, I can also submit bug reports when I find problems in the source code. Another benefit of being an MVP is that you have pretty much a direct line to Microsoft developers, and I've submitted multiple bug reports directly to them. Several bugs have been fixed because of it.
But no, it's not open source. I can't upload patches or compile my own versions of things. That's not what this is about, and they never claimed that it was.
They'll find you..
I'm an MVP, and I've taken every opportunity I've gotten to speak up about MS practices, products, or technologies I don't like. I was given an MVP award despite this, and I have continued to do so after I got the award.
4 hard drives in a small tower, with a USB 2.0 connection. That's close to a terabyte with commonly available hard drives today.
I was a bit hasty, I am of course aware that Seamaster chronos were made back in the day as well as now.
Incidentally, I have two Seamasters myself (one vintage and one new black/black). Great watches, even if I'm not a big fan of modern Omegas. (Especially their horrible advertising.)
Once you go mechanical, there's no going back. :) I have several mechanical watches, and there's no way I'd go back to quartz. Life is too short to wear boring watches.
They were Speedmasters. The Seamaster is a diver's watch, the Speedmaster is a chronograph.
Search for "Omega Speedmaster" to see which watch was approved by NASA for use on the moon.
The Accutron movement was used in some instrumentation, if I recall correctly. The watches weren't approved for use on the moon.
That's a very common problem with the Kinetics, and fixing it is damn expensive.
And in case you didn't know, watches didn't require batteries before the Accutron, either. In fact, none of my modern nor vintage watches require batteries. (And no, they're not Kinetics.)
Tetris Attack is the best game ever, bar none. I've played through it countless times on Snes9x.
On Windows, Puzzle Station comes damn close, although it is no Tetris Attack.
Rolexes are mass produced. Jaeger-LeCoultre, Patek, Blancpain, Audemars Piguet et al are examples of manufacturers that don't churn out watches on an assembly line.
Wow.
I think you should spend some of that emergency fund on some professional help. I don't know what you've got, but it sure can't be healthy.
There's nothing wrong with Fossil if you're looking for a cheap watch, and there's also nothing wrong with a Volkswagen if you're looking for a cheap car. That doesn't mean that as someone interested in cars, you don't want to see a Ferrari or Lamborghini now and then.
It's like being a car nut and living in a place where everybody drives Volkswagens. Not that they're bad cars, but if that's all you see you'll be bored to tears. I am a car nut too, but luckily people drive more exciting cars. :)
Reminds me of this quote from "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy":
"Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descent life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea."
But at least they don't break three times in three years, like my #@$% JLC.
I also had to run several Java programs. Each with a virtual machine sucking 64MB, most of them using Swing. If you had been through that ordeal, you wouldn't have said that bloat doesn't matter.
:w
Tim O'Reilly converted from emacs to vi.. OK, a master he may not be, but I have no clue what other people use. All I know is that apparently, both Stallman and Gosling have carpal tunnel syndrome. :)
I'm starting to dislike the tech sector more and more because of all the flawed or useless technologies floating around. Not least because clueless leaders buy into them, forcing me to use them.
Sigh.. I'm as much a geek as the next guy, but I feel more and more like just moving out into the wilderness and get away from all the hype and stupidity.
I take offense at the ignorance people display when they say that Java is finally fast enough for desktop use. That is simply not true. I use a number of Java applications on a daily basis, and even though I have a decently powerful machine it can only take so many bloated VMs before everything (everything) grinds to a fucking halt. And don't get me started on Swing. God, what a mess.
In my mind, the work I do as an enterprise software programmer is not real programming. You can do real stuff in Java, but I leave that to someone else. I'm looking to get away from Java completely. I can't stand the language.