Posted by redflag on 01/22/08 22:51

No wonder you use an anonymous remailer:

You're a complete asshole.

You're probably a Unitedstater,
lover of Bush and his gang of assassins and a
supporter of U.S. genocide throughout the world.

Yeah, if you sound like an asshole; you must be one.

Nomen Nescio wrote:
> Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
>
>>> The USB bus isn't interrupt-driven -- it's polled (as I wrote),
>> Do not see any significant difference. The poller would set up a
>> wake-up call, which would generate an interrupt. [And, BTW, why my
>> PCI hardware view shows that USB controllers use interrupts?]
>
> Wow. You are one thick headed individual. Perhaps an analogy....
>
> An Interrupt driven system would be like me using a baseball bat to get
> your attention, and then telling you what to do.
>
> A polled system would be like me wasting my time standing around
> waiting for you to muddle through the jumble of "thoughts" in your head,
> until you finally looked up with a blank stare on your face and asked
> me what to do.
>
>>> which is why latency can be an issue.
>> Could you explain how latency is related to polling?
>
> Could you explain how it's NOT?
>
> Sheesh!
>

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