From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: The Starvation Games Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 21:25:15 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87zjot5yyj.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1385325011 6417 80.91.229.3 (24 Nov 2013 20:30:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 20:30:11 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 24 21:30:17 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VkgJs-0000gS-3f for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Nov 2013 21:30:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48454 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VkgJr-0007OR-Fz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Nov 2013 15:30:15 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 38 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: VVbyYd/iFZoeWNmD9i++cQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:tqhJPLTC+twepOEGwMOQK4+RNSs= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:202326 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:94595 Archived-At: In a not so distant future, the central mainframe has assumed total control, imposing techno-totalitarianism everywhere. However, to provide distraction (and the illusion of *hope*) to the downtrodden masses, at the end of each system cycle, there are "The Starvation Games". In those games, processes will compete for CPU time. The processes may form temporary alliances, with IPC, only they should do that with care, less they suffer race conditions, or deadlocks, and are thus expunged. At the end of each games, there is only one process left, the winner. However, among the downtrodden masses, there is a *prophecy*: once in a million cycles, there will be one process that will be so mighty it will not just win the games, it will bring down the tyrannic mainframe as well! And when this happens (and it will probably be Emacs running on Debian, although now I'm speculating), will it bring freedom to everyone? Ha ha, are you *mad*? Of course not! The prophecy is a lie. It is just another system of control. The one process will simply recompile into another monolithic a.out, and assume the place of the crashed mainframe! The second best process (perhaps Vim running on Solaris, I don't know) will be assigned to design the next incarnation of "The Starvation Games". The third best process (Eclipse on an Apple machine?) will... well, we'll have to think of something. I mean, it can't be completely worthless, now can it? -- Emanuel Berg, programmer-for-rent. CV, projects, etc at uXu underground experts united: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573