Comments on: What we [think we] need

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 03:31:48 +0000

It’s true. I remember when I used to think you were crazy for saying stuff like that (or anything else even vaguely “liberal”). Now other people think I’m crazy.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 02:44:15 +0000

Hooking on the economics lesson here: if people were to think of others over themselves, socialism/communism would be the ideal economic system. Since people tend to not think of others over themselves, it turns out that capitalism is the de facto “best” economic system in a free society, although it is very much less than ideal.

By: Nate Powell

Nate Powell — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 19:20:37 +0000

Heh… In Operating Systems we learned that when scheduling processes to run, we give the processor to processes that don’t need (as much of) it, such as those that are doing I/O so will be blocking on some device and can give up the processor while they wait. This way they are out of the way and we can let the other, more needy processes run longer uninterrupted and it works out more efficiently.

By: Laura

Laura — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:37:47 +0000

…tell you what, I’ll go there and fix your computers, you come here and lecture everyone about the above post. And we’ll both, in the end, be relatively sane. Perhaps.