According to the page that you have linked, "Below is a partial list of categories in which people have published after joining Google. There is also a list organized by year, and an atom feed is also available. "
These are not research projects specifically funded by Google, but rather published by people working at Google.
Put simply, when you have many independent bits of code competing for finite shared resources/time within the kernel (this is different than code just running in user space), you have to put locks on them so that only 1 thread can access them at a time. Once a lock is released then the another thread gets a turn. With a big lock, only one lock exists for every resource. Although a thread may only need access to a single resource, all of the resources get locked.
The alternative is to implement more fine-grained locks on each resource or set of resources. This allows two threads that are using different kernel resources to potentially execute in parallel. The danger is it's more complex and requires careful coding to avoid deadlock or race conditions. That help?
May God have mercy on his soul. The only reason Notes should go open source is so its users can download the code and have the pleasure of deleting one file at a time.
I listened with my speakers and I couldn't understand either. Headphones improved this slightly. Also, some of the phrases seemed to have multiple speakers and I wasn't sure if I needed to transcribe both speakers words.
Holy crap! Not being able to un-minimize an app with cmd-tab has always driven me crazy! Every other mac user I've ever asked has said it's not do-able. Thank you for posting this!
The only thing that really bothers me about this story is that it was detected so close to the impact time. I hope that's only due to the relative small size of the object.
I find it ironic that people tagged this story with "obvious" and "duh." They essentially have the same meaning, but one is much more immature than the other.
I agree with you 100% up until you say that the games will be $10 more. Blu-ray players can play normal DVD's & CD's too. Most games, at least in the first generation, won't need the full space of Blu-Ray. Therefore, they can be produced as DVD's and escape the new format tax. They'll just saddle movie consumers with that extra $10s. I still say, "screw you Sony"; you've let your arrogance consume you. Maybe we'll get to see some folks throw themselves on their swords. Oooo! New idea for minigame for xbox arcade!? "SONY Excutive Slash!" Once you get the CEO, middle management commits seppuku. That might be enough to make me buy a 360.
I'm guessing you're a gambling man? Blue-Ray is an unproven format, and you are essentially paying Sony for the privilege of helping them win in the market. HD-DVD players are available NOW and are only $500. (Sony is using you!) What will they be when the PS3 arrives? Are you betting that Blue-Ray will be the format of the future? What if it's the next beta-max? Oh yeah and those blue-ray discs are more expensive to make, which will probably cause the ps3 games to go for a premium. Yay $70+ games, that sounds like fun... or maybe that's too cheap as well!
BTW, the best thing consumers can do in the HD format war is stay home! Our dollars make the difference; we should send a clear message that we don't want incompatible formats.
If you think that the ps3 will have significantly better graphics than the 360, you're fooling yourself. I'm not trying to be a jerk here. You should go read all of the technical evaluations. Add to that the fact that most games will have to be cross-platform to be profitable at today's budgets and you're left with games that will look pretty much the same; no matter the console. The "exclusive" titles end up being the ones that get the better graphics because the advantage of working on one platform is specific optimization as opposed to making things more generic for multiple platforms.
Underwhelming 360 showing? Obviously you have seen all of the Halo fanboys having a field day with the new trailer.
I'm not a ravenous fan of either, but I do own an original xbox and a ps2, and I think Sony has jumped the shark with this one. If there's anything next gen in my house, it'll be a 360 and probably a Wii.
Oh and that missing HDMI port on the cheaper model pretty much makes it useless for a blue-ray player. Once the studios push the ICT (Image contraint token), every movie played on it will be downsampled to normal DVD quality. I think Sony has made a huge fumble here and after the nasty sutff they've pulled over the last year or so, I think karma might be catching up to them.
Actually Tesla was on the AC side of things. Edison and his company Westinghouse were huge proponents of DC because they had huge amounts of money invested in it already. In fact they're the reason you could still find DC outlets in New York city back in the 1980's. Tesla's "power over the air" idea was something that he had proposed and continued to work on, but he sat firmly in the camp of AC.
Dear god I wish I had mod points to mod you a TROLL. You speak like you have the ability to read people's minds and that everything you say is a flat fact. You are simply speculating like everyone else on here. "Allways right" attitudes like yours are the reasons people think it's ok to blow themselves up in crowds of civilians. Please do the world a favor, grow up lose the arrogance.
Since this has been posted to/., is everyone looking at his blogs clicking on a adword? If so his check next month might be even larger. Perhaps that would constitute another definition of the/. effect.
What is your problem? Do you work for symantec? Do you own stock? The links I posted WERE historical tests going back over 5 years. Put the crack pipe DOWN and go click the links I posted.
Actually I found NOD32 thru the Virus Bulletin. Maybe YOU should go check Virus Bulletin, as far as I can tell the look about the same. So yeah, I'll take the one that doesn't bog my system down. Come back when you have some facts troll.
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According to the page that you have linked, "Below is a partial list of categories in which people have published after joining Google. There is also a list organized by year, and an atom feed is also available. "
These are not research projects specifically funded by Google, but rather published by people working at Google.
Put simply, when you have many independent bits of code competing for finite shared resources/time within the kernel (this is different than code just running in user space), you have to put locks on them so that only 1 thread can access them at a time. Once a lock is released then the another thread gets a turn. With a big lock, only one lock exists for every resource. Although a thread may only need access to a single resource, all of the resources get locked.
The alternative is to implement more fine-grained locks on each resource or set of resources. This allows two threads that are using different kernel resources to potentially execute in parallel. The danger is it's more complex and requires careful coding to avoid deadlock or race conditions. That help?
http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2010/11/linux-2637-kills-the-big-kerne.html
Not that I'm aware of, but I used White Knight software back in the day to log onto BBSes.
May God have mercy on his soul. The only reason Notes should go open source is so its users can download the code and have the pleasure of deleting one file at a time.
I listened with my speakers and I couldn't understand either. Headphones improved this slightly. Also, some of the phrases seemed to have multiple speakers and I wasn't sure if I needed to transcribe both speakers words.
Holy crap! Not being able to un-minimize an app with cmd-tab has always driven me crazy! Every other mac user I've ever asked has said it's not do-able. Thank you for posting this!
The only thing that really bothers me about this story is that it was detected so close to the impact time. I hope that's only due to the relative small size of the object.
I find it ironic that people tagged this story with "obvious" and "duh." They essentially have the same meaning, but one is much more immature than the other.
I have a really nice 1st-gen backpack blower from Echo that's still going strong. ;-)
I agree with you 100% up until you say that the games will be $10 more. Blu-ray players can play normal DVD's & CD's too. Most games, at least in the first generation, won't need the full space of Blu-Ray. Therefore, they can be produced as DVD's and escape the new format tax. They'll just saddle movie consumers with that extra $10s.
I still say, "screw you Sony"; you've let your arrogance consume you. Maybe we'll get to see some folks throw themselves on their swords. Oooo! New idea for minigame for xbox arcade!? "SONY Excutive Slash!" Once you get the CEO, middle management commits seppuku. That might be enough to make me buy a 360.
Fascinating! Thanks for the posts guys!
BTW, the best thing consumers can do in the HD format war is stay home! Our dollars make the difference; we should send a clear message that we don't want incompatible formats.
Underwhelming 360 showing? Obviously you have seen all of the Halo fanboys having a field day with the new trailer.
I'm not a ravenous fan of either, but I do own an original xbox and a ps2, and I think Sony has jumped the shark with this one. If there's anything next gen in my house, it'll be a 360 and probably a Wii.Oh and that missing HDMI port on the cheaper model pretty much makes it useless for a blue-ray player. Once the studios push the ICT (Image contraint token), every movie played on it will be downsampled to normal DVD quality. I think Sony has made a huge fumble here and after the nasty sutff they've pulled over the last year or so, I think karma might be catching up to them.
"It seems most won't - and at least not Sony" Seems to me you forgot the "...for now."
Actually Tesla was on the AC side of things. Edison and his company Westinghouse were huge proponents of DC because they had huge amounts of money invested in it already. In fact they're the reason you could still find DC outlets in New York city back in the 1980's. Tesla's "power over the air" idea was something that he had proposed and continued to work on, but he sat firmly in the camp of AC.
thank you
With a 1kW PSU of course...
Agreed... Where are the pictures? But more importantly where are the build diary and plans website? And you dare call yourself a nerd!
Dear god I wish I had mod points to mod you a TROLL. You speak like you have the ability to read people's minds and that everything you say is a flat fact. You are simply speculating like everyone else on here. "Allways right" attitudes like yours are the reasons people think it's ok to blow themselves up in crowds of civilians. Please do the world a favor, grow up lose the arrogance.
Since this has been posted to /., is everyone looking at his blogs clicking on a adword? If so his check next month might be even larger. Perhaps that would constitute another definition of the /. effect.
This just reinforces my theory that you can't read. The site is FREE. Free registration!
What is your problem? Do you work for symantec? Do you own stock? The links I posted WERE historical tests going back over 5 years. Put the crack pipe DOWN and go click the links I posted.
NOD32: 32 Success / 3 Failure / 5 No Entry
NAV: 28 Success / 6 Failure / 6 No Entry
http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/archives/products.xm l?eset.xml
http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/archives/products.xm l?symantec.xml
If this thing gets popular, how long you figure before someone writes a virus that triggers it?