Of course it's not symmetric if there's only one processor. If you have a mac with two processors (like some 9500s) then interfacing the MP library will result in symmetric multiprocessing. I'm no Win32 or Linux expert, but my understanding was that preemptive threads on any platform couldn't directly interact with GUI processes anyway, unless they use things like deferred or remote calls or semaphores, etc.
I agree with the prior author's point though, MP and MacOS X aren't joined at the hip. MP is available for any system back to OS 8.6. What MacOS X will add is that it will run each application task in their own separate threads, rather than grouping all application tasks under one "MacOS" task. That doesn't mean that it's not already possible to create preemptive tasks outside of this MacOS task.
In my opinion, part of the fault lies with the browsers, which poorly handle caching dyanmic content, regardless of whether it is on a remote webserver or a local drive. I for example am forced to add a useless query string to the end of local file URLs so that all browsers will work. Browsers are notorious for ignoring no-cache pragmas and expiration dates.
The most common way though people find out about worthy dynamic content sites I think is word of mouth. We could use more forums and link referrals to share websites we have found useful. This has the very distinct advantage over search engines of providing a better filter of QUALITY of information. After reading someone's recommendation of slashdot or an article elsewhere, I won't have to hurdle 19 irrelevant hits to get there.
> Can you imagine if everyone had at least a 4 > year degree? Who would pump the gas? Who would > swing the hammers? Who would mow the lawns? Who > would snake the sewers? Who would mop the > floors? Who would ask, "Would you like fries > with that?"
We already do all those ourselves, or else automated systems do them.
> High-school educated, dropouts, they all have a > necessary part to play in society.
Remember that society and education and learning are constantly evolving. Nowadays, getting a college degree is equivalent to a high school degree 20-30 years ago. This isn't freakin' China. I do think though that more education and training should be offloaded to the workplace (actually, it already is - ask most companies which hire college grads). There should be more of a mixture rather than a separation between school activities and coop/work activities. And conversely, more education should be infused in out of school activities. All I ever learned from cub scouts was how to tie a square knot.
In addition to the physics/mathematics archive mentioned by several others, there is a cognitive science archive: http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/
There is no place for real discussions or peer reviews, however. Most online journals I've seen are pretty weak, just copying what a paper journal does except with lower quality and funding.
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Of course it's not symmetric if there's only one processor. If you have a mac with two processors (like some 9500s) then interfacing the MP library will result in symmetric multiprocessing.
I'm no Win32 or Linux expert, but my understanding was that preemptive threads on any platform couldn't directly interact with GUI processes anyway, unless they use things like deferred or remote calls or semaphores, etc.
I agree with the prior author's point though, MP and MacOS X aren't joined at the hip. MP is available for any system back to OS 8.6. What MacOS X will add is that it will run each application task in their own separate threads, rather than grouping all application tasks under one "MacOS" task. That doesn't mean that it's not already possible to create preemptive tasks outside of this MacOS task.
In my opinion, part of the fault lies with the browsers, which poorly handle caching dyanmic content, regardless of whether it is on a remote webserver or a local drive. I for example am forced to add a useless query string to the end of local file URLs so that all browsers will work. Browsers are notorious for ignoring no-cache pragmas and expiration dates.
The most common way though people find out about worthy dynamic content sites I think is word of mouth. We could use more forums and link referrals to share websites we have found useful. This has the very distinct advantage over search engines of providing a better filter of QUALITY of information. After reading someone's recommendation of slashdot or an article elsewhere, I won't have to hurdle 19 irrelevant hits to get there.
> Can you imagine if everyone had at least a 4
> year degree? Who would pump the gas? Who would
> swing the hammers? Who would mow the lawns? Who
> would snake the sewers? Who would mop the
> floors? Who would ask, "Would you like fries
> with that?"
We already do all those ourselves, or else automated systems do them.
> High-school educated, dropouts, they all have a > necessary part to play in society.
Remember that society and education and learning are constantly evolving. Nowadays, getting a college degree is equivalent to a high school degree 20-30 years ago. This isn't freakin' China.
I do think though that more education and training should be offloaded to the workplace (actually, it already is - ask most companies which hire college grads). There should be more of a mixture rather than a separation between school activities and coop/work activities. And conversely, more education should be infused in out of school activities. All I ever learned from cub scouts was how to tie a square knot.
http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/
There is no place for real discussions or peer reviews, however. Most online journals I've seen are pretty weak, just copying what a paper journal does except with lower quality and funding.
The physics archive is at http://xxx.lanl.gov/
lin ked here...
See here:
http://www2.shore.net/~sek/STontheBrain.html
There appear to be many other viruses written by the person(s) responsible for Melissa, including an Excel version. See the list here:
http://users.skynet.be/somnus/virshop.html