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  • Oct. 2nd, 2008 at 11:59 PM
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1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 56.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next seven sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

"What time zone do you want it in? Greenwich Mean, Mid-Atlantic, which we're in, what it was back in Morocco or what it will be when we land?" the man responded.
Dr. Mubari let off a laugh. "You know. That's one hell of a question."
"True," the man said. "I'm kind of strange about time."
"Doesn't exist anyway," Dr. Mubari said simply.

...
[and I continue]

"Come again?" the man said.
"Time, it doesn't exist," Dr. Mubari said, relaxed from the drink and conversation.
"How could you say that time doesn't exist?" the man asked, almost sounding offended.
"Well," Dr. Mubari started, "let's start with this whole time zone thing. Think about it, if time was a real thing, why would it be so fleeting, so easily changed that a ten hour flight would cause a loss of five hours?"
"Okay, okay," the man said. "I'll give you that. Our labels for a particular time are silly, but time itself? Things have a linear chronological order; effect follows cause."
"Causality?" Dr. Mubari rebutted. "It is an old myth made by people with only what they observe to guide them. Cause and effect often invert themselves or co-exist, or one or the other is just invented later for logic's sake."

Good book. ^^
~Sammy-Joe

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[info]scrapdog wrote:
Oct. 3rd, 2008 01:18 pm (UTC)
The following diagram represents this.

First, the CLR allocated memory for objects A, B, and C on the managed heap. Next the reference to object B was released by the application. Finally, memory for object D was allocated on top of the previously allocated memory (object C) and the reference to the end of the heap allocations was incremented accordingly.

You may be, "Sure allocations are fast, but what about memory fragmentation"? For example, the previous figure showed that object B is no longer referenced. However, memory for object D was allocated on top of the object C even if memory for object D could have instead been allocated between object A and C.
[info]sra33 wrote:
Oct. 3rd, 2008 02:45 pm (UTC)
I actually understand most of that. ^^ A diagram would probably help drive the point home, though...

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