Alas, in the real world where 32 parallel application hardware threads might be churning away day and night, threads are the way working people handle this kind of parallellism, where one thread might know of the context of work arriving, but nothing of the content, as threads are just as transparent as the tools we handle them with allow them to be.
So I ask again: what size of real world parallel applications do you usually design and implement?
When you use threads, you're continuing the use of a workaround.
Because sharing resources between computational threads in a defined and controlled way is just so wrong. Who cares if it makes the system faster by orders of magnitude and makes maintenance work much easier?
Indeed. I'd ask what the Python and Ruby counterparts to, say java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap or java.util.concurrent.SynchronousQueue are, if I didn't know about the Global Interpreter Lock which quite effectively limits any serious adult use, outside of the sandbox where wild imaginations roam free and little shovels and sand cakes seem to do anything anyone might ever want.
Maybe that's because you're biased, haven't done much research, and happy people don't make a fuss: they're busy playing.
How was a flippant, content-free post like this modded to +4 Insightful?
Just log in to SWG, there are practically no people about, compared to crowds before.
Those people you're speaking of must be playing some other game, then.
The problem with MMORPG communities is that there are so many children around who just buy whatever flippant PR line happens to float their way, and go repeat it without understanding any real issues, or how people interact by trading criticism and thoughts to make the world a better place.
The extra controls weren't added on a whim, but because they are necessary. The game has fundamentally changed from something simple to control something considerably more complex.
You're describing exactly the opposite of what Sony did.
Let's say that these changes make the game experience better for 99.5% of subscription-paying players, and shut out entirely the remaining 0.5% comprised by the disabled players. Is this a problem?
I think you have your numbers turned around. 99.5% of their customers dislike the changes, while 0.5% like them.
A good friend of mine, who was suffering of adult onset leukemia, played SWG for quite a while because it was both fun and accessible, if pretty buggy. If she were around still, I shudder when I think what would happen to Sony.
As it is, fuck Sony, I will not knowingly pay them a penny for as long as I live. Fuck Sony right in the ass.
Just how, exactly, does quite plainly dishonest bullshit like this get moderated +5 Insightful?
theGreater, uid 596196, took one part truth and two parts distortion, and presented it as an actual argument.
What kind of an argument, accusation, judgement or pertinent comment is to reveal that the guy referred to fundamentalists as fundies? It has no other possible relevancy, but to present a convenient facade for the two parts of distortion.
Right now, Sun has control of internet apps/coding.
Schwartz came right out and said it in the press briefing audiocast: they believe that they will get the most value by controlling the integrated platform (excluding other providers from creating integrated offerings including Sun components, or setting the terms of entry to the field) which in their view consists of: Hardware, Solaris, J2EE server, various enterprise management products such as identity management, and (provisionally) the thin desktop. By entering the "free" market on the ancillary value software products, and keeping control of the heart of their platform (Java,) they are in their view achieving just this.
Sun: the smarter, more mature Microsoft? Microsoft which has learned to live and let live?
Are you familiar with the concept of change management, and the modern tools RHEL, SLES, Debian, and for that matter, Windows 2003 server, provide? As far as I know, Gentoo doesn't give the same kinds of guarantees, simply because it's meant to be an answer to a completely different question.
Why would anyone try to use Gentoo or LFS for production server use is completely beyond me. That's as wrong as trying to use Windows 98 on a production server (although Gentoo/LFS and Windows 98 don't share many characteristics, I was merely pointing out that the writer picked a clearly wrong tool for the job, to represent "Linux".)
RHEL, SLES or Debian Stable are the distributions I know of which have a change process geared to a corporate (or SMB) server environment. How someone could choose Gentoo as a representative of the Linux product family in this kind of comparison is totally beyond me. What were you thinking?
Actually, this is one of the things the rest of the world laughs at Americans for: willfully buying into the crudest sort of political propaganda, then turning around and creating a one-party system.
Even the Russians, under the Soviet rule, had the brains to see through the propaganda.
Crafting and the economy were the only things that actually rocked in SWG.
I enjoyed playing a Master Chef even while most of the foods were bugged because the design was good even if the implementation was sub-optimal because the developers were focusing on combat.
Did Yahoo accidentally swap "win" and "lose" in their new dictionary? That can happen when database keys get mixed up!
To win (in Yahooneese):
fall back: retreat
fail to make money in a business; make a loss or fail to profit; "I lost thousands of dollars on that bad investment!"; "The company turned a loss after the first year"
allow to go out of sight; "The detective lost the man he was shadowing after he had to stop at a red light"
fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense; "She lost her purse when she left it unattended on her seat"
suffer the loss of a person through death or removal; "She lost her husband in the war"; "The couple that wanted to adopt the child lost her when the biological parents claimed her"
misplace: place (something) where one cannot find it again; "I misplaced my eyeglasses"
miss from one's possessions; lose sight of; "I've lost my glasses again!"
fail to get or obtain; "I lost the opportunity to spend a year abroad"
miss: fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind; "I missed that remark"; "She missed his point"; "We lost part of what he said"
suffer: be set at a disadvantage; "This author really suffers in translation"
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Alas, in the real world where 32 parallel application hardware threads might be churning away day and night, threads are the way working people handle this kind of parallellism, where one thread might know of the context of work arriving, but nothing of the content, as threads are just as transparent as the tools we handle them with allow them to be.
So I ask again: what size of real world parallel applications do you usually design and implement?
The only use of threads is to extract every last bit of computational power from SMP machines.
What are you smoking?
Did you look at the examples I just mentioned above?
What size of a parallel software application do you normally design and implement?
Python error prone? How? Care to cite specific cases?
Zope. 'nuff said.
When you use threads, you're continuing the use of a workaround.
Because sharing resources between computational threads in a defined and controlled way is just so wrong. Who cares if it makes the system faster by orders of magnitude and makes maintenance work much easier?
I never understood why CS departments started switching to Java.
Not everyone can be a professor. Some people need to do actual work.
What sort of errors is python prone to that ruby avoids?
Global Interpreter Lock? Monkey patching?
Indeed. I'd ask what the Python and Ruby counterparts to, say java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap or java.util.concurrent.SynchronousQueue are, if I didn't know about the Global Interpreter Lock which quite effectively limits any serious adult use, outside of the sandbox where wild imaginations roam free and little shovels and sand cakes seem to do anything anyone might ever want.
/usr/bin/gnome-theme-manager
Maybe that's because you're biased, haven't done much research, and happy people don't make a fuss: they're busy playing.
How was a flippant, content-free post like this modded to +4 Insightful?
Just log in to SWG, there are practically no people about, compared to crowds before.
Those people you're speaking of must be playing some other game, then.
The problem with MMORPG communities is that there are so many children around who just buy whatever flippant PR line happens to float their way, and go repeat it without understanding any real issues, or how people interact by trading criticism and thoughts to make the world a better place.
The extra controls weren't added on a whim, but because they are necessary. The game has fundamentally changed from something simple to control something considerably more complex.
You're describing exactly the opposite of what Sony did.
He said "shut out entirely".
He also spoke of making the game a better experience, which is the task that Sony botched and their customers are so dissatisfied about.
To put it in simpler terms: they screwed disabled players with no compensation to anyone else.
Let's say that these changes make the game experience better for 99.5% of subscription-paying players, and shut out entirely the remaining 0.5% comprised by the disabled players. Is this a problem?
I think you have your numbers turned around. 99.5% of their customers dislike the changes, while 0.5% like them.
A good friend of mine, who was suffering of adult onset leukemia, played SWG for quite a while because it was both fun and accessible, if pretty buggy. If she were around still, I shudder when I think what would happen to Sony.
As it is, fuck Sony, I will not knowingly pay them a penny for as long as I live. Fuck Sony right in the ass.
I'm curious, why is he anti-creationist rather than pro-evolutionist?
Quite possibly he's anti-stupidity and pro-honesty and this covers the intellectual subset of anti-creationism?
Just how, exactly, does quite plainly dishonest bullshit like this get moderated +5 Insightful?
theGreater, uid 596196, took one part truth and two parts distortion, and presented it as an actual argument.
What kind of an argument, accusation, judgement or pertinent comment is to reveal that the guy referred to fundamentalists as fundies? It has no other possible relevancy, but to present a convenient facade for the two parts of distortion.
I say, good day to you, sir!
Anyone know if there is a gentoo package for this?
This isn't a toy, it's an actual useful enterprise software package people use on production servers.
Hence, probably not very high priority to Gentoo packagers.
Right now, Sun has control of internet apps/coding.
Schwartz came right out and said it in the press briefing audiocast: they believe that they will get the most value by controlling the integrated platform (excluding other providers from creating integrated offerings including Sun components, or setting the terms of entry to the field) which in their view consists of: Hardware, Solaris, J2EE server, various enterprise management products such as identity management, and (provisionally) the thin desktop. By entering the "free" market on the ancillary value software products, and keeping control of the heart of their platform (Java,) they are in their view achieving just this.
Sun: the smarter, more mature Microsoft? Microsoft which has learned to live and let live?
See the license for the new offering:
4. Your Service Provider Use is limited to a ratio of two hundred non-Employees for each Employee (200:1) accessing the Software.
If only someone from Sun would clarify the language, we'd know they're not pulling a MySQL on us.
The differences between oracle & db2 for transactional apps are mostly:
- db2 is about 1/3rd the cost of oracle
Do they have a free-as-beer freely distributable Express edition like Oracle XE and Microsoft SQL Server Express Edition?
Are you familiar with the concept of change management, and the modern tools RHEL, SLES, Debian, and for that matter, Windows 2003 server, provide? As far as I know, Gentoo doesn't give the same kinds of guarantees, simply because it's meant to be an answer to a completely different question.
Why would anyone try to use Gentoo or LFS for production server use is completely beyond me. That's as wrong as trying to use Windows 98 on a production server (although Gentoo/LFS and Windows 98 don't share many characteristics, I was merely pointing out that the writer picked a clearly wrong tool for the job, to represent "Linux".)
RHEL, SLES or Debian Stable are the distributions I know of which have a change process geared to a corporate (or SMB) server environment. How someone could choose Gentoo as a representative of the Linux product family in this kind of comparison is totally beyond me. What were you thinking?
Actually, this is one of the things the rest of the world laughs at Americans for: willfully buying into the crudest sort of political propaganda, then turning around and creating a one-party system.
Even the Russians, under the Soviet rule, had the brains to see through the propaganda.
Crafting and the economy were the only things that actually rocked in SWG.
I enjoyed playing a Master Chef even while most of the foods were bugged because the design was good even if the implementation was sub-optimal because the developers were focusing on combat.
To win (in Yahooneese):
You are NOT entitled to privacy in the workplace.
There are laws protecting my privacy in the workplace, so I certainly am entitled to privacy in the workplace.
Now, what were you saying, again?
I wish that Microsoft will up the ante and remove the memory and size limitations!