Nazism is not as far from socialism as you can get. The problem is you are thinking of this as a straight line. It's more helpful to think of it as a circle. You have capitalism and communism on opposite ends (say - at 12 and 6 o'clock) and totalitarinism and democracy at opposite ends (say - at 9 and 3 o'clock).
That's a more accurate way of defining things. If you go "too far" towards the right, you'll end up in totalitarianism, just as if you go too far to the left.
The Nazi's were right at 9:00. They were totalitarian, but the government was effectively majority stakeholder in all private enterprise. So while it wasn't outright capitalism, it wasn't communism either. Effectively, the difference between socialism and communism is purely semantic. In one the government owns everything, and in the other the "people" own everything. The problem is, they both work out to the same result in the final analysis (the government).
The Soviets were at about 8:00. The US is somewhere around 2:00.
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Stop thinking in terms of single applications. All machines (SMP and Uni) run LOTS of processes. More CPU's means more things can run simultaneously.
BTW, even for single applications, multi-threading is tricky, but not THAT hard. Any second year CompSci student can do that.
Interesting thread.
Nazism is not as far from socialism as you can get. The problem is you are thinking of this as a straight line. It's more helpful to think of it as a circle. You have capitalism and communism on opposite ends (say - at 12 and 6 o'clock) and totalitarinism and democracy at opposite ends (say - at 9 and 3 o'clock).
That's a more accurate way of defining things. If you go "too far" towards the right, you'll end up in totalitarianism, just as if you go too far to the left.
The Nazi's were right at 9:00. They were totalitarian, but the government was effectively majority stakeholder in all private enterprise. So while it wasn't outright capitalism, it wasn't communism either. Effectively, the difference between socialism and communism is purely semantic. In one the government owns everything, and in the other the "people" own everything. The problem is, they both work out to the same result in the final analysis (the government).
The Soviets were at about 8:00. The US is somewhere around 2:00.
This is a much better scale, IMO.