Mutexes and semaphores doth not make a program buggy.
Some things are simply hard to use. Hard to use means hard to get correct. Hard to get correct means that, with a finite effort available to invest, there will be more bugs in threaded code than in non-threaded code.
The other big issue is a lack of threading support.
Threading is the spawn of the Solaris. Oops, I mean the devil. Forking was so slow on Solaris that they had to invent threading to have multiple contexts run at any speed. The whole point behind a microkernel is to HIDE information. Threading EXPOSES information between separately running processes, so you need to have mutexes, semaphores, and all of that synchronization crap that makes for buggy code.
Threading is bad. Don't use it. When you have to use code that uses it, refactor the code to use processes or a state machine. It can be done. Don't whine. But don't use threads either.
Sony is terminally stupid. The problem is that they are of two minds about everything. One part of the company makes bit-copying hardware, and the other part sells bits. There's nothing they can do that will please themselves, so everything they do is a bad compromise between making it easy to copy bits and making it hard.
I'd call seven brain tumours in one building a heck of a link...
Actually, no. Enough people get cancer that you'll see groups of people with cancer from time to time. Doesn't mean that anything about the building caused the cancers. As Freeman Dyson points out, you can expect something with a one in a million chance to happen to you every year. See, miracles *do* happen!
Why would anyone settle for this kind of service while the rest of the world gets 100Mbps ethernet to their premise or even better fiber at gigabit/sec rates?
Ambient Corporation does 200Mbps on its new X2 product, with gig fiber or Ethernet or Wifi drops to the house.
This radio signal radiates from the power line on most HF and low VHF frequencies causing severe and harmful interference to other radio services.
Ambient's product notches out the HF and VHF bands.
I understand that you're hostile to BPL, but that doesn't excuse ignorance.
Ambient Corporation is shipping its new X2 system. Runs at 200Mbps on the backbone. Has gig fiber, Ethernet, and Wifi interfaces. Runs Linux. Oh, and a few dozen of them would make a great Beowulf cluster.
They're saving makeready costs. They just put all-dialectric fiber closer to the electric wires, rather than having to pay the telephone and cable companies to move their stuff around.
(Dang. I surrounded that with a <speculation> tag, and slashdot just deleted it, rather than presenting it as plain text.)
Socialism is the system in which the means of production are owned collectively by the citizenry of a country, not by a single individual.
Um.... would you like a clue? Nobody (except perhaps you) has used that meaning in, oh, say, the last sixty five years; ever since the Austrians won the calculation debate.
True! However, what mechanism do you think unions used to gain their monopoly over labor? Do you think it was freely arranged through voluntary peaceful measures such as a free market encourages? Or do you think that union thugs beat the crap out of anybody who refused to join? Nahhhhh, that's never happened. Or, if it did, nobody ever wrote a folk song about it.
Yes! Paradoxically, if it's easier to fire workers, employers will be more willing to hire them. So yes, the French reform of the rules restricting firing of young workers were a job creation measure. They would have succeeded had the young workers not fucked themselves.
You are making an error in logic. It's called post hoc ergo propter hoc. Just because unions were present when these benefits became available, that doesn't imply that unions actually caused them.
how long until they use this information for the "War on Drugs?"
They've been using this type of information for the WoD for decades. I expect that most of the impetus for this program came from drug warriors -- who, after three decades of constant war against the American populace, have gotten pretty good at spying on Americans.
What, is EMusic down today? Haven't ever been to YouTube? Never downloaded an ISO of Linux? It's so easy to become informed and yet you remain ignorant. Sad, so sad.
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Microsoft has authored original works and put them under an open source license. So how can saying the opposite be moderated "Insightful"? Sheesh.
Mutexes and semaphores doth not make a program buggy.
Some things are simply hard to use. Hard to use means hard to get correct. Hard to get correct means that, with a finite effort available to invest, there will be more bugs in threaded code than in non-threaded code.
I have a mole in the corporation.
Oh, please, don't remind me how old I am!
The other big issue is a lack of threading support.
Threading is the spawn of the Solaris. Oops, I mean the devil. Forking was so slow on Solaris that they had to invent threading to have multiple contexts run at any speed. The whole point behind a microkernel is to HIDE information. Threading EXPOSES information between separately running processes, so you need to have mutexes, semaphores, and all of that synchronization crap that makes for buggy code.
Threading is bad. Don't use it. When you have to use code that uses it, refactor the code to use processes or a state machine. It can be done. Don't whine. But don't use threads either.
Sony is terminally stupid. The problem is that they are of two minds about everything. One part of the company makes bit-copying hardware, and the other part sells bits. There's nothing they can do that will please themselves, so everything they do is a bad compromise between making it easy to copy bits and making it hard.
I'd call seven brain tumours in one building a heck of a link...
Actually, no. Enough people get cancer that you'll see groups of people with cancer from time to time. Doesn't mean that anything about the building caused the cancers. As Freeman Dyson points out, you can expect something with a one in a million chance to happen to you every year. See, miracles *do* happen!
Nobody is saying that SarbOx has no benefits. Everybody is saying that SarbOx is too expensive for the benefits it returns.
Why would anyone settle for this kind of service while the rest of the world gets 100Mbps ethernet to their premise or even better fiber at gigabit/sec rates?
Ambient Corporation does 200Mbps on its new X2 product, with gig fiber or Ethernet or Wifi drops to the house.
This radio signal radiates from the power line on most HF and low VHF frequencies causing severe and harmful interference to other radio services.
Ambient's product notches out the HF and VHF bands.
I understand that you're hostile to BPL, but that doesn't excuse ignorance.
Ambient Corporation is shipping its new X2 system. Runs at 200Mbps on the backbone. Has gig fiber, Ethernet, and Wifi interfaces. Runs Linux. Oh, and a few dozen of them would make a great Beowulf cluster.
They're saving makeready costs. They just put all-dialectric fiber closer to the electric wires, rather than having to pay the telephone and cable companies to move their stuff around.
(Dang. I surrounded that with a <speculation> tag, and slashdot just deleted it, rather than presenting it as plain text.)
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Socialism is the system in which the means of production are owned collectively by the citizenry of a country, not by a single individual.
.... would you like a clue? Nobody (except perhaps you) has used that meaning in, oh, say, the last sixty five years; ever since the Austrians won the calculation debate.
Um
True! However, what mechanism do you think unions used to gain their monopoly over labor? Do you think it was freely arranged through voluntary peaceful measures such as a free market encourages? Or do you think that union thugs beat the crap out of anybody who refused to join? Nahhhhh, that's never happened. Or, if it did, nobody ever wrote a folk song about it.
Yes! Paradoxically, if it's easier to fire workers, employers will be more willing to hire them. So yes, the French reform of the rules restricting firing of young workers were a job creation measure. They would have succeeded had the young workers not fucked themselves.
historic effects of the labor movement,
You are making an error in logic. It's called post hoc ergo propter hoc. Just because unions were present when these benefits became available, that doesn't imply that unions actually caused them.
Gasp! You don't mean to imply that unions gain their monopoly over labor using VIOLENCE, you you??
One of the better high schools on Long Island is the Baldwin Union-Free School District. No teachers union to protect bad teachers.
The workers control the means of production! It's the fricking socialist dream! You want that and free doughnuts too?
That deserves to go in somebody's file of wise quotations.
And whose fault is this? Take responsibility for your position in life. If life deals you shit, pile it up and make fertilizer.
I want the word free taken off all anthems, pledges, etc.
We've already taken Liberty off our coins, and replaced her with pictures of pretty politicians. Bad idea.
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they hate us because of our freedoms!
Who does? The U.S. Government? First, let's confiscate all the guns. Killing the lawyers can wait.
how long until they use this information for the "War on Drugs?"
They've been using this type of information for the WoD for decades. I expect that most of the impetus for this program came from drug warriors -- who, after three decades of constant war against the American populace, have gotten pretty good at spying on Americans.
What, is EMusic down today? Haven't ever been to YouTube? Never downloaded an ISO of Linux? It's so easy to become informed and yet you remain ignorant. Sad, so sad.