The questions involved how much can you get away with (before deadlock) if you don't have enough virtual channels. Also is it ever worth extra buffering outside of the VCs. Also, how to get more bandwidth if one VC does not provide enough. The TSR used source routing (a list of turns on the head flit I think..), so how do you compute the routing list for arbitrarily incomplete meshes?
It's interesting that Feynman was involved in this field of interconnection networks, although for actual papers I do find his son's writing on the CM-5.
A good counterpoint to the "I don't care if you landed a spacecraft on a comet, you're still a sexist pig" crowd.
Something that I think really complicates these kinds of discussions is our propensity to think of people in zero-sum and reductionist ways. Examples: "I don't care if you landed a spacecraft on a comet, you're still a sexist pig!", "I don't care what a sexist pig you are, you landed a spacecraft on a comet!".
The one does not somehow "cancel out" or "make up for" the other; both facts ("sexist pig", "landed spacecraft on comet"[1]) can exist and be considered simultaneously. We contain multitudes, etc.- something that the female engineer quoted clearly understood. She made no bones about the fact that she found certain aspects of Feynman's behavior toward her offensive, but was also clear that there were other aspects that she found admirable. This is how socially mature human beings think and talk about one another, IMHO.
1: Or, in the case of Feynman, "had horrifically retrograde and damaging opinions about women's roles in society" and "was ahead of many of his peers in some respects".
What is wrong with requesting girls to do that? Maybe he just find them charming, cute, enjoy the interaction with them. It is always the person who is being asked's responsibility to accept, deny or counter offer the request.
Asking a girl to get soup for you does not make one a sexist pig!
I do find these political correctness is being taking way out of hand for political reasons to dived up groups.
This is a great way to explain why the term <subject matter expert> irritates me so much. Sometimes knowing nothing is a good thing.
Amateur astronomers still make meaningful contributions, especially in the realm of variable stars.
Amateur archaeologists and paleontologists are often welcome at many digs. Not only are they free labor: they provide watchful eyes and minds.
Like http://www.opm.gov/FAQS/QA.aspx?fid=a6da6c2e-e1cb-4841-b72d-...
Did anyone see where I put my sandwich?
I now have a low opinion of you.
My heart is broken that you think less of me <//3
