One Reader Writes

Why CMAJ writes editorials.

Truly Non-blocking Writes

Writing data within user or operating system memory often encounters the classic read-before-write problem whereby the page written to must first be read from the backing store, effectively blocking the writing process before modifications are made. Unfortunately, the large gap between memory and storage access performance adversely affects workloads that require substantial readbefore-write op...

From one historian to another: George Mackinnon Wrong writes to Harvey Cushing.

Non-blocking Writes to Files

Writing data to a page not present in the file-system page cache causes the operating system to synchronously fetch the page into memory first. Synchronous page fetch defines both policy (when) and mechanism (how), and always blocks the writing process. Non-blocking writes eliminate such blocking by buffering the written data elsewhere in memory and unblocking the writing process immediately. S...

The Resourceful Reader The Resourceful Reader :

for Communication Yearbook 15. The resourceful reader:Interpreting television characters and narratives The television viewer is an active interpreter, not a passive recipient, of programs. Viewers'interpretations of programs mediate television effects. The 'active viewer' is accepted by bothtraditional and critical mass communication scholars, allowing for a possible convergence<lb...