My deal is that your preferences are based on dumb criteria.
I feel sorry for the hundreds of thousands of people running Apache, sendmail, bind, Linux, FreeBSD, Samba, and so on. Boy are they _dumb_. All of them. Dumb! You should notify them of their stupidity.
I give up -- you're incorrigable. I prefer open source software for my purposes.
Of course commercial software is higher quality -- look at how stable and secure Windows is! Look at how stable MacOS was. That's wonderful high quality stuff there.
Wow! You are just on a logical fallacy rampage here aren't you?
Free software is usually a nine-tenths solution.
You pulled that out of your ass as if it was a fact. The only fact here is that you are confusing your opinion with fact.
That's why I said it ranged from zero (useless) to about seven
Arbitrarily assigning numbers does not cause truth to emerge from your comments. Your comments are worth from 0 to 0.5 on a hundred point scale. See what a fun game it is?
As for your opinion about having the source, I'm quite certain that the vast majority of computer users...
Huh? _I_ was talking about _my_ home computers. Who cares what the majority of computer users want? They don't pay my bills so they can't decorate my apartment. Personal preferences aren't allowed anymore?
I don't know what your deal is, but you've got deeper issues here than peoples' software preferences.
It makes you an idiot for the same reason that preferring cars whose names start with vowels.
What a fantastic straw man. Use logic much?
Free software (by that I mean "open source", preferrably GPL if that's where you're getting confused) is fundamentally different than commercial software.
The rest of your comments amount to little more than online masturbation.
I agree. Either they're fun and you learn nothing. Or they're not fun and you learn nothing.
I don't think educational games are necessary or even useful teaching tools.
Though some learning is fun, a lot of the learning process is work. I think kids should be disciplined to get used to the work part so it doesn't seem like such an effort to *gasp* go to the library and read books and articles.
How do you think the people who write these games learn the material?? Cut out the middle man and read the books yourself.
I was talking about a hybrid design, not pure select. Of course you are right about the limitations of pure select. Thread per client starts to bog as the number of simultaneous clients increases.
It's not practical to serve hundreds/thousands of clients with a thread per client model. A typical machine can't handle the load well because it has limited resources. It will thrash. By having a thread pool you place a limit (throttle if you will) on resource utilization. Most high performance, highly scalable web and app servers use this model or a variant.
There is another architecture based on event driven state machines aka SPED (single process event driven) that is high performance and single process/single thread in its pure form. The Zeus web server does this.
Compuserve (format inventor I believe) said it was to be prounced jiff. I have always pronounced it like gift because that seems more logical (G in Graphics has a guh sound not a jih sound).
Pentium IDs were bad, but CD IDs are good? Come on.
When I buy a book or a magazine or whatever I don't want it to point to me for its existence. I sell my CD and some dude pirates it and they track it back to me? Hey maybe the Windows CD player can send this ID to RIAA every time I play it and then they can send "targetted" junk mail/email to me.
Consumers shouldn't put up with this privacy invasion just so the wealthy recording cartel can squeeze a few extra bucks out of people. They can get stuffed.
I agree, plus SpamAssassin uses an extremely unintelligent weight system. There must be a dozen ways to do better with various AI and statistical techniques. 90% is not good enough.
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I feel sorry for the hundreds of thousands of people running Apache, sendmail, bind, Linux, FreeBSD, Samba, and so on. Boy are they _dumb_. All of them. Dumb! You should notify them of their stupidity.
-Kevin
Of course commercial software is higher quality -- look at how stable and secure Windows is! Look at how stable MacOS was. That's wonderful high quality stuff there.
-Kevin
Free software is usually a nine-tenths solution.
You pulled that out of your ass as if it was a fact. The only fact here is that you are confusing your opinion with fact.
That's why I said it ranged from zero (useless) to about seven
Arbitrarily assigning numbers does not cause truth to emerge from your comments. Your comments are worth from 0 to 0.5 on a hundred point scale. See what a fun game it is?
As for your opinion about having the source, I'm quite certain that the vast majority of computer users...
Huh? _I_ was talking about _my_ home computers. Who cares what the majority of computer users want? They don't pay my bills so they can't decorate my apartment. Personal preferences aren't allowed anymore?
I don't know what your deal is, but you've got deeper issues here than peoples' software preferences.
-Kevin
What a fantastic straw man. Use logic much?
Free software (by that I mean "open source", preferrably GPL if that's where you're getting confused) is fundamentally different than commercial software.
The rest of your comments amount to little more than online masturbation.
-Kevin
I don't see how preferring free software makes me an idiot.
In fact, I'm certain that I am not an idiot. You however, fine sir, are questionable.
-Kevin
-Kevin
-Kevin
That doesn't mean much though -- Suns are usually servers which has a whole different set of requirements than desktops like we're talking about here.
-Kevin
Yeah, so?
So...you can keep it. I don't want it :).
-Kevin
That's your opinion, not mine! I'll stick with Linux.
-Kevin
Whoopdeedo. Unless you can run them at faster speeds than 1.25 GHz, it doesn't matter. G4s trail the pack.
-Kevin
Hardly!
1) it's a commercial OS.
2) it runs on overpriced slow hardware
3) it has a sluggish eyecandy GUI
-Kevin
-Kevin
I don't think educational games are necessary or even useful teaching tools.
Though some learning is fun, a lot of the learning process is work. I think kids should be disciplined to get used to the work part so it doesn't seem like such an effort to *gasp* go to the library and read books and articles.
How do you think the people who write these games learn the material?? Cut out the middle man and read the books yourself.
-Kevin
-Kevin
It's not practical to serve hundreds/thousands of clients with a thread per client model. A typical machine can't handle the load well because it has limited resources. It will thrash. By having a thread pool you place a limit (throttle if you will) on resource utilization. Most high performance, highly scalable web and app servers use this model or a variant.
There is another architecture based on event driven state machines aka SPED (single process event driven) that is high performance and single process/single thread in its pure form. The Zeus web server does this.
-Kevin
-Kevin
Compuserve (format inventor I believe) said it was to be prounced jiff. I have always pronounced it like gift because that seems more logical (G in Graphics has a guh sound not a jih sound).
Unisys has a patent on LZW compression which is used in the GIF format.
That was my first thought. It's some Linux guy though. *shrug*
LMAO
-Kevin
Pentium IDs were bad, but CD IDs are good? Come on.
When I buy a book or a magazine or whatever I don't want it to point to me for its existence. I sell my CD and some dude pirates it and they track it back to me? Hey maybe the Windows CD player can send this ID to RIAA every time I play it and then they can send "targetted" junk mail/email to me.
Consumers shouldn't put up with this privacy invasion just so the wealthy recording cartel can squeeze a few extra bucks out of people. They can get stuffed.
-Kevin
-Kevin
Not.
-Kevin