Monthly Archives: March 2009

Happy Birthday to Emmy Noether

Posted on March 23, 2009 by admin

March 23.  So much for you, Larry Summers, mere economist.

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Software comes from the sky and labor is overpaid: NOT!

Posted on March 9, 2009 by admin

John Dvorak concludes an otherwise sensible  article on the effect of Linux/Office-clone packages combined with netbooks with the following: If Intel can provide users with powerful little systems for $99 and has been pushing prices lower and lower over the … Continue reading →

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Program structure and threads

Posted on March 5, 2009 by admin

Threads were initially used for telephony systems where each request to connect could be given to a new thread to manage. The simplification was, in theory, dramatic. The programmer could just write the code for handling a single line, and … Continue reading →

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