There are two common models of interprocess communication: the message-passing model and the shared-memory model. In the message-passing model, the communicating processes exchange messages with one another to transfer information. Messages can be exchanged between the processes either directly or indirectly through a common mailbox. Before communication can take place, a connection must be opened. The name of the other communicator must be known, be it another process on the same system or a process on another computer connected by a communications network. Each computer in a network has a host name by which it is commonly known. A host also has a network identifier, such as an IP address. Similarly, each process has a process name, and this name is translated into an identifier by which the operating system can refer to the process. The get_hostid() and get_processid() system calls do this translation. The identifiers are then passed to the general-purpose open() and close() calls provided by the file system or to specific open_connection() and close_connection() system calls, depending on the system's model of communication. The recipient process usually must give its permission for communication to take place with an accept_connection() call. Most processes that will be receiving connections are special-purpose daemons, which are system programs provided for that purpose. They execute a wait_for_connection() call and are awakened when a connection is made. The source of the communication, known as the client, and the receiving daemon, known as a server, then exchange messages by using read_message() and write_message() system calls. The close_connection() call terminates the communication.

Many operating systems provide a time profile of a program to indicate the amount of time that the program executes at a particular location or set of locations. A time profile requires either a tracing facility or regular timer interrupts. At every occurrence of the timer interrupt, the value of the program counter is recorded. With sufficiently frequent timer interrupts, a statistical picture of the time spent on various parts of the program can be obtained.

Many system calls exist simply for the purpose of transferring information between the user program and the operating system. For example, most systems have a system call to return the current time() and date(). Other system calls may return information about the system, such as the version number of the operating system, the amount of free memory or disk space, and so on.

Once the device has been requested (and allocated to us), we can read(), write(), and (possibly) reposition() the device, just as we can with files. In fact, the similarity between I/O devices and files is so great that many operating systems, including UNIX, merge the two into a combined file–device structure. In this case, a set of system calls is used on both files and devices. Sometimes, I/O devices are identified by special file names, directory placement, or file attributes.

The various resources controlled by the operating system can be thought of as devices. Some of these devices are physical devices (for example, disk drives), while others can be thought of as abstract or virtual devices (for example, files). A system with multiple users may require us to first request() a device, to ensure exclusive use of it. After we are finished with the device, we release() it. These functions are similar to the open() and close() system calls for files. Other operating systems allow unmanaged access to devices. The hazard then is the potential for device contention and perhaps deadlock, which are described in Chapter 8.

We may need these same sets of operations for directories if we have a directory structure for organizing files in the file system. In addition, for either files or directories, we need to be able to determine the values of various attributes and perhaps to set them if necessary. File attributes include the file name, file type, protection codes, accounting information, and so on. At least two system calls, get_file_attributes() and set_file_attributes(), are required for this function. Some operating systems provide many more calls, such as calls for file move() and copy(). Others might provide an API that performs those operations using code and other system calls, and others might provide system programs to perform the tasks. If the system programs are callable by other programs, then each can be considered an API by other system programs.

The file system is discussed in more detail in Chapter 13 through Chapter 15. Here, we identify several common system calls dealing with files. We first need to be able to create() and delete() files. Either system call requires the name of the file and perhaps some of the file's attributes. Once the file is created, we need to open() it and to use it. We may also read(), write(), or reposition() (rewind or skip to the end of the file, for example). Finally, we need to close() the file, indicating that we are no longer using it.

For example, under acidification, fleshy seaweeds outcompete calcareous species

The native mussel T. hirsuta grew more under warming (Fig. 1; ANOVA Species × Temperature F1,32 = 6.13, P < 0.05; Supplementary Table 2). In contrast, M. galloprovincialis grew the same at ambient and elevated temperatures (Fig. 1; Supplementary Table 2). There was no effect of elevated pCO2 on growth in either of the mussel species (ANOVA CO2 F1,32 = 0.53, P > 0.05; Supplementary Table 2).

not only can such freedom be granted without prejudice to the public peace, but also, that without such freedom, piety cannot flourish nor the public peace be secure.

How many evils spring from luxury, envy, avarice, drunkenness, and the like, yet these are tolerated

I mean the pace of the finished film, how the edits speed up or slow down to serve the story, producing a kind of rhythm to the edit.

ther ways cinema manipulates time include sequences like flashbacks and flashforwards. Filmmakers use these when they want to show events from a character’s past, or foreshadow what’s coming in the future.

The most obvious example of this is the ellipsis, an edit that slices out time or events we don’t need to see to follow the story. Imagine a scene where a car pulls up in front of a house, then cuts to a woman at the door ringing the doorbell. We don’t need to spend the screen time watching her shut off the car, climb out, shut and lock the door, and walk all the way up to the house.

He wants you to feel the terror of those peasants being massacred by the troops, even if you don’t completely understand the geography or linear sequence of events. That’s the power of the montage as Eisenstein used it: A collage of moving images designed to create an emotional effect rather than a logical narrative sequence.

he audience was projecting their own emotion and meaning onto the actor’s expression because of the juxtaposition of the other images. This phenomenon – how we derive more meaning from the juxtaposition of two shots than from any single shot in isolation – became known as The Kuleshov Effect.

ilm editing and how it worked on an audience. He had a hunch that the power of cinema was not found in any one shot, but in the juxtaposition of shots. So, he performed an experiment. He cut together a short film and showed it to audiences in 1918. Here’s the film:

but it is the juxtaposition of that word (or shot) in a sentence (or scene) that gives it its full power to communicate. As such, editing is fundamental to how cinema communicates with an audience.

When patterns of specialization become unsustainable, theindividuals affected can face periods of unemployment. Theyare like soldiers waiting for new orders, except that the orderscome not from a commanding general but from the decen-tralized actions of many entrepreneurs testing ideas in searchof profit.

Look at the list of ingredients in the cereal. Those ingre-dients had to be refined and shipped to the cereal manu-facturer. Again, those processes required many machines,which in turn had to be manufactured. The cereal grainsand other ingredients had to be grown, harvested, and pro-cessed. Machines were involved in those processes, and thosemachines had to be manufactured.

While navigating through the text, you’ll notice that the major part of the text you’re working within is identified at the top of the page

Define important concepts such as: authority, peer review, bias, point of view, editorial process, purpose, audience, information privilege and more.

men would daily be thinking one thing and saying another”—a practice that will weave deceit and hypocrisy into the social fabric, thereby permitting “the avaricious, the flatterers, and other numskulls” to rise to the top.

he “justly cedes the right of free action, though not of free reason.”

Unlike many earlier defenders of toleration, he did not exclude atheists, Jews, Catholics, and the like.

The sovereign’s obligation to respect the liberty of his subjects is solely a matter of self-​interest; to mistreat subjects is bound to generate resentment and possibly seditious tendencies, and those sentiments, in turn, will render the sovereign’s authority less secure than it would otherwise be

The filmmakers behind Deadpool (2016), for example, shot 555 hours of raw footage for a final film of just 108 minutes. That’s a shooting ratio of 308:1. It would take 40 hours a week for 14 weeks just to watch all of the raw footage, much less select and arrange it all into an edited film![2]

When the screenwriter hands the script off to the director, it is no longer a literary document, it’s a blueprint for a much larger, more complex creation. The production process is essentially an act of translation, taking all of those words on the page and turning them into shots, scenes and sequences.

economics is inherently a social subject. It’s not just technical forces liketechnology and productivity that matter. It’s also the interactions and relationshipsbetween people that make the economy go around.

Needless to say, this state of affairs was not socially sustainable. Working peopleand others fought hard for better conditions, a fairer share of the incredible wealththey were producing, and democratic rights. Under this pressure, capitalismevolved, unevenly, toward a more balanced and democratic system. Labour lawsestablished minimum standards; unions won higher wages; governments becamemore active in regulating the economy and providing public services. But thisprogress was not “natural” or inevitable; it reflected decades of social struggle andconflict. And that progress could be reversed if and when circumstances changed –such as during times of war or recession. Indeed, the history of capitalism has beendominated by a rollercoaster pattern of boom, followed by bust.

Is our present economy a good economy? In some ways, modern capitalism hasdone better than any previous arrangement in advancing many of these goals. Inother ways, it fails the “good economy” test miserably. The rest of this book willendeavour to explain how the capitalist economy functions, the extent to which itmeets (and fails to meet) these goals – and whether or not there are any better waysto do the job.

The Scottish writer Adam Smith is often viewed as the “father” of free-marketeconomics. (This stereotype is not quite accurate; in many ways Smith’s theories arevery different from modern-day neoclassical economics.) And his famous Wealthof Nations (published in 1776, the same year as American independence) cameto symbolize (like America itself) the dynamism and opportunity of capitalism.Smith identified the productivity gains from large-scale factory production andits more sophisticated division of labour (whereby different workers or groups ofworkers are assigned to different specialized tasks). To support this new system, headvocated deregulation of markets, the expansion of trade, and policies to protectthe profits and property rights of the early capitalists (who Smith celebrated asvirtuous innovators and accumulators). He argued that free-market forces (whichhe called the “invisible hand”) and the pursuit of self-interest would best stimulateinnovation and growth. However, his social analysis (building on the Physiocrats)was rooted more in class than in individuals: he favoured policies to undermine thevested interests of rural landlords (who he thought were unproductive) in favour ofthe more dynamic new class of capitalists.

Why? Because even the short-changed partneris still better off (by one penny) than if they had rejected the offer – and that’s allthey care about. So there is no rational reason for the offer to be rejected.In practice, of course, anyone with the gall to propose such a lopsided bargainwould face certain rejection. Experiments with real money have shown that splitsas lopsided as 75–25 are almost always rejected (even though a partner rejectingthat split forgoes a real $2.50 gain). And the most common offer proposed is a50–50 split. That won’t surprise many people – but it does, strangely, surpriseneoclassical economists! In short, the real-world behaviour of humans is notremotely consistent with the assumption of blind, individualistic greed.

Homo sapiens have existed on this planet for approximately 100,000 years. Theyhad an economy all of that time. Humans have always had to work to meet thematerial needs of their survival (food, clothing, and shelter) – not to mention,when possible, to enjoy the “finer things” in life. Capitalism, in contrast, has existedfor around 250 years. If the entire history of Homo sapiens to date was a 24-hourday, then capitalism has existed for three-and-a-half minutes.What we call “the economy” went through many different stages en route tocapitalism. (We’ll study more of this economic history in Chapter 3.) Even today,different kinds of economies exist. Some entire countries are non-capitalist. Andwithin capitalist economies, there are important non-capitalist parts (althoughmost capitalist economies are becoming more capitalist as time goes by).I think it’s a pretty safe bet that human beings will eventually find other, betterways to organize work in the future – maybe sooner, maybe later. It’s almostinconceivable that the major features of what we call “capitalism” will exist for the

Some jobs link compensation directly to work effort. Piece-work systems, whichpay workers for each bit of work they perform, are one example of this approach; soare contract workers (hired to perform a specific task, and paid only when that taskis completed). This strategy has limited application, however: usually employerswant their workers to be more flexible, performing a range of hard-to-specifyfunctions (rather than simply churning out a certain number of widgets per hour).Even in straightforward jobs, piece-work systems produce notoriously bad quality,

Curiously, even though capitalism dominates the world economy, the term“capitalism” is not commonly used

The UN defineshuman development on the basis of three key indicators: GDP per capita,life expectancy, and educational attainment.

An “efficient” economy is one which maximizes, throughexchange, the usefulness of that initial endowment

Real wages stagnated in most countries, in the face ofhigher unemployment, attacks on unions, and reductions in income securityand other measures that supported workers’ bargaining power. Yet productivitycontinued to grow, thanks both to employers’ renewed power in the workplace andto continued technological progress. Figure 8.1 illustrates the sharp divergence ofreal wages from labour productivity in the US economy that coincides perfectlywith the arrival of neoliberalism.

There is still much debate and controversy within economics today – althoughnot nearly as much as there should be. Economics instruction in most English-speaking countries conforms especially narrowly to neoclassical doctrine; thereis more diversity in economics in continental Europe, Latin America, and a fewother countries.

Creative companies can devise all sorts of different ways of earning profits.Some are useful: developing higher-quality new products, and developing better,more efficient ways of producing them. But competitive markets can also rewardcompanies for doing things that are utterly useless, from the perspective of humanwelfare (see Table 7.3). And if lax laws and regulations allow them to, profit-seekingcompanies will do things that are downright destructive to workers, communities,customers, and innocent bystanders.

Has your income increased faster than the prices of the things you buy?

List yourapproximate monthly income.

Economics and politics have always gone hand-in-hand. Indeed, the firsteconomists called their discipline “political economy.” The connections betweeneconomics and politics reflect, in part, the importance of economic conditions topolitical conditions. The well-being of the economy can influence the rise and fallof politicians and governments, even entire social systems.But here, too, the influence goes both ways. Politics also affects the economy– and economics itself. The economy is a realm of competing, often conflictinginterests. Determining whose interests prevail, and how conflicts are managed,is a deeply political process. (Neoclassical economists claim that anonymous“market forces” determine all these outcomes, but don’t be fooled: what theycall the “market” is itself a social institution in which some people’s interests areenhanced at the expense of others’.) Different economic actors use their politicalinfluence and power to advance their respective economic interests. The extent towhich groups of people tolerate economic outcomes (even unfavourable ones) alsodepends on political factors: such as whether or not they believe those outcomesare “natural” or “inevitable,” and whether or not they feel they have any power tobring about change.Finally, the social science which aims to interpret and explain all this scrabbling,teeming behaviour – economics – has its own political assumptions and biases.In Chapter 4 we’ll review how most economic theories over the years have beenmotivated by political considerations. Modern economics (including this book!) isno different: economics is always a deeply political subject.

he economy must be a very complicated, volatile thing. At least that’s how it seemsin the business pages of the newspaper. Mind-boggling stock market tables. Chartsand graphs. GDP statistics. Foreign exchange rates. It’s little wonder the media turnto economists, the high priests of this mysterious world, to tell us what it means,and why it’s important.

Economics encompasses several sub-disciplines. Economic history; moneyand finance; household economics; labour studies and labour relations; businesseconomics and management; international economics; environmental economics;and others. A broad (and rather artificial) division is often made betweenmicroeconomics (the study of the economic behaviour of individual consumers,workers, and companies) and macroeconomics (the study of how the economyfunctions at the aggregate level)

Economics is the study of human economic behaviour: the production anddistribution of the goods and services we need and want. Hence, economicsis a social science, not a physical science.

The special effects make-up for the gory bits of your favorite horror films can sometimes take center stage.

The dataset was normalized to 10000 counts per cell, Log1p transformed and filtered to contain2000 highly variable genes. The first important observation is that state-of-the-art approaches,except CPM

There are so many facets of and variations in process control that we next use two examples—one involving a single-tasking system and the other a multitasking system—to clarify these concepts. The Arduino is a simple hardware platform consisting of a microcontroller along with input sensors that respond to a variety of events, such as changes to light, temperature, and barometric pressure, to just name a few. To write a program for the Arduino, we first write the program on a PC and then upload the compiled program (known as a sketch) from the PC to the Arduino's flash memory via a USB connection. The standard Arduino platform does not provide an operating system; instead, a small piece of software known as a boot loader loads the sketch into a specific region in the Arduino's memory

Quite often, two or more processes may share data. To ensure the integrity of the data being shared, operating systems often provide system calls allowing a process to lock shared data. Then, no other process can access the data until the lock is released. Typically, such system calls include acquire_lock() and release_lock().

A process executing one program may want to load() and execute() another program. This feature allows the command interpreter to execute a program as directed by, for example, a user command or the click of a mouse. An interesting question is where to return control when the loaded program terminates. This question is related to whether the existing program is lost, saved, or allowed to continue execution concurrently with the new program. If control returns to the existing program when the new program terminates, we must save the memory image of the existing program; thus, we have effectively created a mechanism for one program to call another program. If both programs continue concurrently, we have created a new process to be multiprogrammed. Often, there is a system call specifically for this purpose (create_process()).

A running program needs to be able to halt its execution either normally (end()) or abnormally (abort()). If a system call is made to terminate the currently running program abnormally, or if the program runs into a problem and causes an error trap, a dump of memory is sometimes taken and an error message generated. The dump is written to a special log file on disk and may be examined by a debugger—a system program designed to aid the programmer in finding and correcting errors, or bugs—to determine the cause of the problem. Under either normal or abnormal circumstances, the operating system must transfer control to the invoking command interpreter. The command interpreter then reads the next command. In an interactive system, the command interpreter simply continues with the next command; it is assumed that the user will issue an appropriate command to respond to any error. In a GUI system, a pop-up window might alert the user to the error and ask for guidance. Some systems may allow for special recovery actions in case an error occurs. If the program discovers an error in its input and wants to terminate abnormally, it may also want to define an error level. More severe errors can be indicated by a higher-level error parameter. It is then possible to combine normal and abnormal termination by defining a normal termination as an error at level 0. The command interpreter or a following program can use this error level to determine the next action automatically.

System calls can be grouped roughly into six major categories: process control, file management, device management, information maintenance, communications, and protection. Below, we briefly discuss the types of system calls that may be provided by an operating system. Most of these system calls support, or are supported by, concepts and functions that are discussed in later chapters. Figure 2.8 summarizes the types of system calls normally provided by an operating system. As mentioned, in this text, we normally refer to the system calls by generic names. Throughout the text, however, we provide examples of the actual counterparts to the system calls for UNIX, Linux, and Windows systems.

hree general methods are used to pass parameters to the operating system. The simplest approach is to pass the parameters in registers. In some cases, however, there may be more parameters than registers. In these cases, the parameters are generally stored in a block, or table, in memory, and the address of the block is passed as a parameter in a register (Figure 2.7). Linux uses a combination of these approaches.

System calls occur in different ways, depending on the computer in use. Often, more information is required than simply the identity of the desired system call. The exact type and amount of information vary according to the particular operating system and call. For example, to get input, we may need to specify the file or device to use as the source, as well as the address and length of the memory buffer into which the input should be read. Of course, the device or file and length may be implicit in the call.

The caller need know nothing about how the system call is implemented or what it does during execution. Rather, the caller need only obey the API and understand what the operating system will do as a result of the execution of that system call. Thus, most of the details of the operating-system interface are hidden from the programmer by the API and are managed by the RTE.

Another important factor in handling system calls is the run-time environment (RTE)—the full suite of software needed to execute applications written in a given programming language, including its compilers or interpreters as well as other software, such as libraries and loaders. The RTE provides a system-call interface that serves as the link to system calls made available by the operating system. The system-call interface intercepts function calls in the API and invokes the necessary system calls within the operating system. Typically, a number is associated with each system call, and the system-call interface maintains a table indexed according to these numbers

Why would an application programmer prefer programming according to an API rather than invoking actual system calls? There are several reasons for doing so. One benefit concerns program portability. An application programmer designing a program using an API can expect her program to compile and run on any system that supports the same API (although, in reality, architectural differences often make this more difficult than it may appear). Furthermore, actual system calls can often be more detailed and difficult to work with than the API available to an application programmer. Nevertheless, there often exists a strong correlation between a function in the API and its associated system call within the kernel. In fact, many of the POSIX and Windows APIs are similar to the native system calls provided by the UNIX, Linux, and Windows operating systems.

As you can see, even simple programs may make heavy use of the operating system. Frequently, systems execute thousands of system calls per second. Most programmers never see this level of detail, however. Typically, application developers design programs according to an application programming interface (API). The API specifies a set of functions that are available to an application programmer, including the parameters that are passed to each function and the return values the programmer can expect. Three of the most common APIs available to application programmers are the Windows API for Windows systems, the POSIX API for POSIX-based systems (which include virtually all versions of UNIX, Linux, and macOS), and the Java API for programs that run on the Java virtual machine

When both files are set up, we enter a loop that reads from the input file (a system call) and writes to the output file (another system call). Each read and write must return status information regarding various possible error conditions. On input, the program may find that the end of the file has been reached or that there was a hardware failure in the read (such as a parity error). The write operation may encounter various errors, depending on the output device (for example, no more available disk space).

Once the two file names have been obtained, the program must open the input file and create and open the output file. Each of these operations requires another system call. Possible error conditions for each system call must be handled. For example, when the program tries to open the input file, it may find that there is no file of that name or that the file is protected against access. In these cases, the program should output an error message (another sequence of system calls) and then terminate abnormally (another system call).

Before we discuss how an operating system makes system calls available, let's first use an example to illustrate how system calls are used: writing a simple program to read data from one file and copy them to another file. The first input that the program will need is the names of the two files: the input file and the output file. These names can be specified in many ways, depending on the operating-system design

System calls provide an interface to the services made available by an operating system. These calls are generally available as functions written in C and C++, although certain low-level tasks (for example, tasks where hardware must be accessed directly) may have to be written using assembly-language instructions.

Although there are apps that provide a command-line interface for iOS and Android mobile systems, they are rarely used. Instead, almost all users of mobile systems interact with their devices using the touch-screen interface. The user interface can vary from system to system and even from user to user within a system; however, it typically is substantially removed from the actual system structure. The design of a useful and intuitive user interface is therefore not a direct function of the operating system. In this book, we concentrate on the fundamental problems of providing adequate service to user programs. From the point of view of the operating system, we do not distinguish between user programs and system programs.

In contrast, most Windows users are happy to use the Windows GUI environment and almost never use the shell interface. Recent versions of the Windows operating system provide both a standard GUI for desktop and traditional laptops and a touch screen for tablets. The various changes undergone by the Macintosh operating systems also provide a nice study in contrast.

The choice of whether to use a command-line or GUI interface is mostly one of personal preference. System administrators who manage computers and power users who have deep knowledge of a system frequently use the command-line interface. For them, it is more efficient, giving them faster access to the activities they need to perform. Indeed, on some systems, only a subset of system functions is available via the GUI, leaving the less common tasks to those who are command-line knowledgeable

Because a either a command-line interface or a mouse-and-keyboard system is impractical for most mobile systems, smartphones and handheld tablet computers typically use a touch-screen interface. Here, users interact by making gestures on the touch screen—for example, pressing and swiping fingers across the screen. Although earlier smartphones included a physical keyboard, most smartphones and tablets now simulate a keyboard on the touch screen

Graphical user interfaces first appeared due in part to research taking place in the early 1970s at Xerox PARC research facility. The first GUI appeared on the Xerox Alto computer in 1973. However, graphical interfaces became more widespread with the advent of Apple Macintosh computers in the 1980s. The user interface for the Macintosh operating system has undergone various changes over the years, the most significant being the adoption of the Aqua interface that appeared with macOS. Microsoft's first version of Windows—Version 1.0—was based on the addition of a GUI interface to the MS-DOS operating system

In one approach, the command interpreter itself contains the code to execute the command. For example, a command to delete a file may cause the command interpreter to jump to a section of its code that sets up the parameters and makes the appropriate system call. In this case, the number of commands that can be given determines the size of the command interpreter, since each command requires its own implementing code.

The main function of the command interpreter is to get and execute the next user-specified command. Many of the commands given at this level manipulate files: create, delete, list, print, copy, execute, and so on. The various shells available on UNIX systems operate in this way. These commands can be implemented in two general ways.

Most operating systems, including Linux, UNIX, and Windows, treat the command interpreter as a special program that is running when a process is initiated or when a user first logs on (on interactive systems). On systems with multiple command interpreters to choose from, the interpreters are known as shells. For example, on UNIX and Linux systems, a user may choose among several different shells, including the C shell, Bourne-Again shell, Korn shell, and others

Protection and security. The owners of information stored in a multiuser or networked computer system may want to control use of that information. When several separate processes execute concurrently, it should not be possible for one process to interfere with the others or with the operating system itself. Protection involves ensuring that all access to system resources is controlled. Security of the system from outsiders is also important.

Logging. We want to keep track of which programs use how much and what kinds of computer resources. This record keeping may be used for accounting (so that users can be billed) or simply for accumulating usage statistics. Usage statistics may be a valuable tool for system administrators who wish to reconfigure the system to improve computing services.

Resource allocation. When there are multiple processes running at the same time, resources must be allocated to each of them. The operating system manages many different types of resources. Some (such as CPU cycles, main memory, and file storage) may have special allocation code, whereas others (such as I/O devices) may have much more general request and release code.

Error detection. The operating system needs to be detecting and correcting errors constantly. Errors may occur in the CPU and memory hardware (such as a memory error or a power failure), in I/O devices (such as a parity error on disk, a connection failure on a network, or lack of paper in the printer), and in the user program (such as an arithmetic overflow or an attempt to access an illegal memory location).

Communications. There are many circumstances in which one process needs to exchange information with another process. Such communication may occur between processes that are executing on the same computer or between processes that are executing on different computer systems tied together by a network

File-system manipulation. The file system is of particular interest. Obviously, programs need to read and write files and directories. They also need to create and delete them by name, search for a given file, and list file information. Finally, some operating systems include permissions management to allow or deny access to files or directories based on file ownership.

Program execution. The system must be able to load a program into memory and to run that program. The program must be able to end its execution, either normally or abnormally (indicating error).

An operating system provides an environment for the execution of programs. It makes certain services available to programs and to the users of those programs. The specific services provided, of course, differ from one operating system to another, but we can identify common classes.

We can view an operating system from several vantage points. One view focuses on the services that the system provides; another, on the interface that it makes available to users and programmers; a third, on its components and their interconnections. In this chapter, we explore all three aspects of operating systems, showing the viewpoints of users, programmers, and operating system designers. We consider what services an operating system provides, how they are provided, how they are debugged, and what the various methodologies are for designing such systems. Finally, we describe how operating systems are created and how a computer starts its operating system.

Another advantage of working with open-source operating systems is their diversity. GNU/Linux and BSD UNIX are both open-source operating systems, for instance, but each has its own goals, utility, licensing, and purpose. Sometimes, licenses are not mutually exclusive and cross-pollination occurs, allowing rapid improvements in operating-system projects. For example, several major components of OpenSolaris have been ported to BSD UNIX. The advantages of free software and open sourcing are likely to increase the number and quality of open-source projects, leading to an increase in the number of individuals and companies that use these projects.

The free-software movement is driving legions of programmers to create thousands of open-source projects, including operating systems. Sites like http://freshmeat.net/ and http://distrowatch.com/ provide portals to many of these projects. As we stated earlier, open-source projects enable students to use source code as a learning tool. They can modify programs and test them, help find and fix bugs, and otherwise explore mature, full-featured operating systems, compilers, tools, user interfaces, and other types of programs. The availability of source code for historic projects, such as Multics, can help students to understand those projects and to build knowledge that will help in the implementation of new projects.

Solaris is the commercial UNIX-based operating system of Sun Microsystems. Originally, Sun's SunOS operating system was based on BSD UNIX. Sun moved to AT&T's System V UNIX as its base in 1991. In 2005, Sun open-sourced most of the Solaris code as the OpenSolaris project. The purchase of Sun by Oracle in 2009, however, left the state of this project unclear

As with many open-source projects, this source code is contained in and controlled by a version control system—in this case, “subversion” (https://subversion.apache.org/source-code). Version control systems allow a user to “pull” an entire source code tree to his computer and “push” any changes back into the repository for others to then pull. These systems also provide other features, including an entire history of each file and a conflict resolution feature in case the same file is changed concurrently. Another version control system is git, which is used for GNU/Linux, as well as other programs (http://www.git-scm.com).

Just as with Linux, there are many distributions of BSD UNIX, including FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and DragonflyBSD. To explore the source code of FreeBSD, simply download the virtual machine image of the version of interest and boot it within Virtualbox, as described above for Linux. The source code comes with the distribution and is stored in /usr/src/. The kernel source code is in /usr/src/sys. For example, to examine the virtual memory implementation code in the FreeBSD kernel, see the files in /usr/src/sys/vm. Alternatively, you can simply view the source code online at https://svnweb.freebsd.org.

BSD UNIX has a longer and more complicated history than Linux. It started in 1978 as a derivative of AT&T's UNIX. Releases from the University of California at Berkeley (UCB) came in source and binary form, but they were not open source because a license from AT&T was required. BSD UNIX's development was slowed by a lawsuit by AT&T, but eventually a fully functional, open-source version, 4.4BSD-lite, was released in 1994.

The resulting GNU/Linux operating system (with the kernel properly called Linux but the full operating system including GNU tools called GNU/Linux) has spawned hundreds of unique distributions, or custom builds, of the system. Major distributions include Red Hat, SUSE, Fedora, Debian, Slackware, and Ubuntu. Distributions vary in function, utility, installed applications, hardware support, user interface, and purpose. For example, Red Hat Enterprise Linux is geared to large commercial use. PCLinuxOS is a live CD—an operating system that can be booted and run from a CD-ROM without being installed on a system's boot disk. A variant of PCLinuxOS—called PCLinuxOS Supergamer DVD—is a live DVD that includes graphics drivers and games. A gamer can run it on any compatible system simply by booting from the DVD. When the gamer is finished, a reboot of the system resets it to its installed operating system.

As an example of a free and open-source operating system, consider GNU/Linux. By 1991, the GNU operating system was nearly complete. The GNU Project had developed compilers, editors, utilities, libraries, and games—whatever parts it could not find elsewhere. However, the GNU kernel never became ready for prime time. In 1991, a student in Finland, Linus Torvalds, released a rudimentary UNIX-like kernel using the GNU compilers and tools and invited contributions worldwide.

The FSF uses the copyrights on its programs to implement “copyleft,” a form of licensing invented by Stallman. Copylefting a work gives anyone that possesses a copy of the work the four essential freedoms that make the work free, with the condition that redistribution must preserve these freedoms. The GNU General Public License (GPL) is a common license under which free software is released. Fundamentally, the GPL requires that the source code be distributed with any binaries and that all copies (including modified versions) be released under the same GPL license. The Creative Commons “Attribution Sharealike” license is also a copyleft license; “sharealike” is another way of stating the idea of copyleft.

To counter the move to limit software use and redistribution, Richard Stallman in 1984 started developing a free, UNIX-compatible operating system called GNU (which is a recursive acronym for “GNU's Not Unix!”). To Stallman, “free” refers to freedom of use, not price. The free-software movement does not object to trading a copy for an amount of money but holds that users are entitled to four certain freedoms: (1) to freely run the program, (2) to study and change the source code, and to give or sell copies either (3) with or (4) without changes. In 1985, Stallman published the GNU Manifesto, which argues that all software should be free. He also formed the Free Software Foundation (FSF) with the goal of encouraging the use and development of free software.

Computer and software companies eventually sought to limit the use of their software to authorized computers and paying customers. Releasing only the binary files compiled from the source code, rather than the source code itself, helped them to achieve this goal, as well as protecting their code and their ideas from their competitors. Although the Homebrew user groups of the 1970s exchanged code during their meetings, the operating systems for hobbyist machines (such as CPM) were proprietary. By 1980, proprietary software was the usual case.

In the early days of modern computing (that is, the 1950s), software generally came with source code. The original hackers (computer enthusiasts) at MIT's Tech Model Railroad Club left their programs in drawers for others to work on. “Homebrew” user groups exchanged code during their meetings. Company-specific user groups, such as Digital Equipment Corporation's DECUS, accepted contributions of source-code programs, collected them onto tapes, and distributed the tapes to interested members. In 1970, Digital's operating systems were distributed as source code with no restrictions or copyright notice.

There are many benefits to open-source operating systems, including a community of interested (and usually unpaid) programmers who contribute to the code by helping to write it, debug it, analyze it, provide support, and suggest changes. Arguably, open-source code is more secure than closed-source code because many more eyes are viewing the code. Certainly, open-source code has bugs, but open-source advocates argue that bugs tend to be found and fixed faster owing to the number of people using and viewing the code.

Starting with the source code allows the programmer to produce binary code that can be executed on a system. Doing the opposite—reverse engineering the source code from the binaries—is quite a lot of work, and useful items such as comments are never recovered. Learning operating systems by examining the source code has other benefits as well. With the source code in hand, a student can modify the operating system and then compile and run the code to try out those changes, which is an excellent learning tool.

The study of operating systems has been made easier by the availability of a vast number of free software and open-source releases. Both free operating systems and open-source operating systems are available in source-code format rather than as compiled binary code. Note, though, that free software and open-source software are two different ideas championed by different groups of people (see http://gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html for a discussion on the topic).

A real-time system has well-defined, fixed time constraints. Processing must be done within the defined constraints, or the system will fail. For instance, it would not do for a robot arm to be instructed to halt after it had smashed into the car it was building. A real-time system functions correctly only if it returns the correct result within its time constraints. Contrast this system with a traditional laptop system where it is desirable (but not mandatory) to respond quickly.

Embedded systems almost always run real-time operating systems. A real-time system is used when rigid time requirements have been placed on the operation of a processor or the flow of data; thus, it is often used as a control device in a dedicated application. Sensors bring data to the computer. The computer must analyze the data and possibly adjust controls to modify the sensor inputs.

The use of embedded systems continues to expand. The power of these devices, both as standalone units and as elements of networks and the web, is sure to increase as well. Even now, entire houses can be computerized, so that a central computer—either a general-purpose computer or an embedded system—can control heating and lighting, alarm systems, and even coffee makers. Web access can enable a home owner to tell the house to heat up before she arrives home. Someday, the refrigerator will be able to notify the grocery store when it notices the milk is gone.

These embedded systems vary considerably. Some are general-purpose computers, running standard operating systems—such as Linux—with special-purpose applications to implement the functionality. Others are hardware devices with a special-purpose embedded operating system providing just the functionality desired

Embedded computers are the most prevalent form of computers in existence. These devices are found everywhere, from car engines and manufacturing robots to optical drives and microwave ovens. They tend to have very specific tasks. The systems they run on are usually primitive, and so the operating systems provide limited features.

Certainly, there are traditional operating systems within many of the types of cloud infrastructure. Beyond those are the VMMs that manage the virtual machines in which the user processes run. At a higher level, the VMMs themselves are managed by cloud management tools, such as VMware vCloud Director and the open-source Eucalyptus toolset. These tools manage the resources within a given cloud and provide interfaces to the cloud components, making a good argument for considering them a new type of operating system.

Cloud computing is a type of computing that delivers computing, storage, and even applications as a service across a network. In some ways, it's a logical extension of virtualization, because it uses virtualization as a base for its functionality. For example, the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (ec2) facility has thousands of servers, millions of virtual machines, and petabytes of storage available for use by anyone on the Internet.

Skype is another example of peer-to-peer computing. It allows clients to make voice calls and video calls and to send text messages over the Internet using a technology known as voice over IP (VoIP). Skype uses a hybrid peer-to-peer approach

Peer-to-peer networks gained widespread popularity in the late 1990s with several file-sharing services, such as Napster and Gnutella, that enabled peers to exchange files with one another. The Napster system used an approach similar to the first type described above: a centralized server maintained an index of all files stored on peer nodes in the Napster network, and the actual exchange of files took place between the peer nodes

Another structure for a distributed system is the peer-to-peer (P2P) system model. In this model, clients and servers are not distinguished from one another. Instead, all nodes within the system are considered peers, and each may act as either a client or a server, depending on whether it is requesting or providing a service. Peer-to-peer systems offer an advantage over traditional client–server systems. In a client–server system, the server is a bottleneck; but in a peer-to-peer system, services can be provided by several nodes distributed throughout the network.

Two operating systems currently dominate mobile computing: Apple iOS and Google Android. iOS was designed to run on Apple iPhone and iPad mobile devices. Android powers smartphones and tablet computers available from many manufacturers. We examine these two mobile operating systems in further detail in Chapter 2.

To provide access to on-line services, mobile devices typically use either IEEE standard 802.11 wireless or cellular data networks. The memory capacity and processing speed of mobile devices, however, are more limited than those of PCs. Whereas a smartphone or tablet may have 256 GB in storage, it is not uncommon to find 8 TB in storage on a desktop computer. Similarly, because power consumption is such a concern, mobile devices often use processors that are smaller, are slower, and offer fewer processing cores than processors found on traditional desktop and laptop computers.

Today, mobile systems are used not only for e-mail and web browsing but also for playing music and video, reading digital books, taking photos, and recording and editing high-definition video. Accordingly, tremendous growth continues in the wide range of applications that run on such devices. Many developers are now designing applications that take advantage of the unique features of mobile devices, such as global positioning system (GPS) chips, accelerometers, and gyroscopes. An embedded GPS chip allows a mobile device to use satellites to determine its precise location on Earth.

Mobile computing refers to computing on handheld smartphones and tablet computers. These devices share the distinguishing physical features of being portable and lightweight. Historically, compared with desktop and laptop computers, mobile systems gave up screen size, memory capacity, and overall functionality in return for handheld mobile access to services such as e-mail and web browsing. Over the past few years, however, features on mobile devices have become so rich that the distinction in functionality between, say, a consumer laptop and a tablet computer may be difficult to discern. In fact, we might argue that the features of a contemporary mobile device allow it to provide functionality that is either unavailable or impractical on a desktop or laptop computer.

Traditional time-sharing systems are rare today. The same scheduling technique is still in use on desktop computers, laptops, servers, and even mobile computers, but frequently all the processes are owned by the same user (or a single user and the operating system). User processes, and system processes that provide services to the user, are managed so that each frequently gets a slice of computer time. Consider the windows created while a user is working on a PC, for example, and the fact that they may be performing different tasks at the same time. Even a web browser can be composed of multiple processes, one for each website currently being visited, with time sharing applied to each web browser process.

In the latter half of the 20th century, computing resources were relatively scarce. (Before that, they were nonexistent!) For a period of time, systems were either batch or interactive. Batch systems processed jobs in bulk, with predetermined input from files or other data sources. Interactive systems waited for input from users. To optimize the use of the computing resources, multiple users shared time on these systems. These time-sharing systems used a timer and scheduling algorithms to cycle processes rapidly through the CPU, giving each user a share of the resources.

At home, most users once had a single computer with a slow modem connection to the office, the Internet, or both. Today, network-connection speeds once available only at great cost are relatively inexpensive in many places, giving home users more access to more data. These fast data connections are allowing home computers to serve up web pages and to run networks that include printers, client PCs, and servers. Many homes use firewalls to protect their networks from security breaches. Firewalls limit the communications between devices on a network.

Today, web technologies and increasing WAN bandwidth are stretching the boundaries of traditional computing. Companies establish portals, which provide web accessibility to their internal servers. Network computers (or thin clients)—which are essentially terminals that understand web-based computing—are used in place of traditional workstations where more security or easier maintenance is desired. Mobile computers can synchronize with PCs to allow very portable use of company information. Mobile devices can also connect to wireless networks and cellular data networks to use the company's web portal (as well as the myriad other web resources).

As computing has matured, the lines separating many of the traditional computing environments have blurred. Consider the “typical office environment.” Just a few years ago, this environment consisted of PCs connected to a network, with servers providing file and print services. Remote access was awkward, and portability was achieved by use of laptop computers.

The power of bitmaps becomes apparent when we consider their space efficiency. If we were to use an eight-bit Boolean value instead of a single bit, the resulting data structure would be eight times larger. Thus, bitmaps are commonly used when there is a need to represent the availability of a large number of resources. Disk drives provide a nice illustration. A medium-sized disk drive might be divided into several thousand individual units, called disk blocks. A bitmap can be used to indicate the availability of each disk block.

A bitmap is a string of n binary digits that can be used to represent the status of n items. For example, suppose we have several resources, and the availability of each resource is indicated by the value of a binary digit: 0 means that the resource is available, while 1 indicates that it is unavailable (or vice versa). The value of the ith position in the bitmap is associated with the ith resource.

One use of a hash function is to implement a hash map, which associates (or maps) [key:value] pairs using a hash function. Once the mapping is established, we can apply the hash function to the key to obtain the value from the hash map (Figure 1.21). For example, suppose that a user name is mapped to a password. Password authentication then proceeds as follows: a user enters her user name and password. The hash function is applied to the user name, which is then used to retrieve the password. The retrieved password is then compared with the password entered by the user for authentication.

One potential difficulty with hash functions is that two unique inputs can result in the same output value—that is, they can link to the same table location. We can accommodate this hash collision by having a linked list at the table location that contains all of the items with the same hash value. Of course, the more collisions there are, the less efficient the hash function is.

A hash function takes data as its input, performs a numeric operation on the data, and returns a numeric value. This numeric value can then be used as an index into a table (typically an array) to quickly retrieve the data. Whereas searching for a data item through a list of size n can require up to O(n) comparisons, using a hash function for retrieving data from a table can be as good as O(1), depending on implementation details. Because of this performance, hash functions are used extensively in operating systems.

A tree is a data structure that can be used to represent data hierarchically. Data values in a tree structure are linked through parent–child relationships. In a general tree, a parent may have an unlimited number of children. In a binary tree, a parent may have at most two children, which we term the left child and the right child. A binary search tree additionally requires an ordering between the parent's two children in which left_child <= right_child. Figure 1.20 provides an example of a binary search tree. When we search for an item in a binary search tree, the worst-case performance is O(n) (consider how this can occur). To remedy this situation, we can use an algorithm to create a balanced binary search tree. Here, a tree containing n items has at most lg n levels, thus ensuring worst-case performance of O(lg n). We shall see in Section 5.7.1 that Linux uses a balanced binary search tree (known as a red-black tree) as part its CPU-scheduling algorithm.

A queue, in contrast, is a sequentially ordered data structure that uses the first in, first out (FIFO) principle: items are removed from a queue in the order in which they were inserted. There are many everyday examples of queues, including shoppers waiting in a checkout line at a store and cars waiting in line at a traffic signal. Queues are also quite common in operating systems—jobs that are sent to a printer are typically printed in the order in which they were submitted, for example. As we shall see in Chapter 5, tasks that are waiting to be run on an available CPU are often organized in queues.

A stack is a sequentially ordered data structure that uses the last in, first out (LIFO) principle for adding and removing items, meaning that the last item placed onto a stack is the first item removed. The operations for inserting and removing items from a stack are known as push and pop, respectively. An operating system often uses a stack when invoking function calls. Parameters, local variables, and the return address are pushed onto the stack when a function is called; returning from the function call pops those items off the stack.

Linked lists accommodate items of varying sizes and allow easy insertion and deletion of items. One potential disadvantage of using a list is that performance for retrieving a specified item in a list of size n is linear—O(n), as it requires potentially traversing all n elements in the worst case. Lists are sometimes used directly by kernel algorithms. Frequently, though, they are used for constructing more powerful data structures, such as stacks and queues.

After arrays, lists are perhaps the most fundamental data structures in computer science. Whereas each item in an array can be accessed directly, the items in a list must be accessed in a particular order. That is, a list represents a collection of data values as a sequence. The most common method for implementing this structure is a linked list, in which items are linked to one another

An array is a simple data structure in which each element can be accessed directly. For example, main memory is constructed as an array. If the data item being stored is larger than one byte, then multiple bytes can be allocated to the item, and the item is addressed as “item number × item size.” But what about storing an item whose size may vary? And what about removing an item if the relative positions of the remaining items must be preserved? In such situations, arrays give way to other data structures.

Some operating systems have taken the concept of networks and distributed systems further than the notion of providing network connectivity. A network operating system is an operating system that provides features such as file sharing across the network, along with a communication scheme that allows different processes on different computers to exchange messages. A computer running a network operating system acts autonomously from all other computers on the network

The media to carry networks are equally varied. They include copper wires, fiber strands, and wireless transmissions between satellites, microwave dishes, and radios. When computing devices are connected to cellular phones, they create a network. Even very short-range infrared communication can be used for networking. At a rudimentary level, whenever computers communicate, they use or create a network. These networks also vary in their performance and reliability.

Networks are characterized based on the distances between their nodes. A local-area network (LAN) connects computers within a room, a building, or a campus. A wide-area network (WAN) usually links buildings, cities, or countries. A global company may have a WAN to connect its offices worldwide, for example. These networks may run one protocol or several protocols

A network, in the simplest terms, is a communication path between two or more systems. Distributed systems depend on networking for their functionality. Networks vary by the protocols used, the distances between nodes, and the transport media. TCP/IP is the most common network protocol, and it provides the fundamental architecture of the Internet. Most operating systems support TCP/IP, including all general-purpose ones

A distributed system is a collection of physically separate, possibly heterogeneous computer systems that are networked to provide users with access to the various resources that the system maintains. Access to a shared resource increases computation speed, functionality, data availability, and reliability. Some operating systems generalize network access as a form of file access, with the details of networking contained in the network interface's device driver. Others make users specifically invoke network functions.

Within data centers, virtualization has become a common method of executing and managing computing environments. VMMs like VMware ESXand Citrix XenServer no longer run on host operating systems but rather are the host operating systems, providing services and resource management to virtual machine processes.

Virtualization allows operating systems to run as applications within other operating systems. At first blush, there seems to be little reason for such functionality. But the virtualization industry is vast and growing, which is a testament to its utility and importance.

Even though modern operating systems are fully capable of running multiple applications reliably, the use of virtualization continues to grow. On laptops and desktops, a VMM allows the user to install multiple operating systems for exploration or to run applications written for operating systems other than the native host

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drought and global warming

don’t care about your education

You can and should be building knowledge, thinking, and reasoning

human-produced work without permission

you’re missing opportunities for learning.

most K–12 teachers andhigher education instructors receive more training in their content area than on the processesof teaching and learning

In capitalist countries, the changes are made by writers and moviemakers not so much for ideological reasons as for financial ones.

: the love shared in mutuality by mother andinfant can be the model for sexual love between adults

The physically unequal mother in all cultures typically breast-feeds andprotects, rather than bullies or browbeats, the vulnerable infant and child. The powerfulmother nurtures so as to give life and create growth in the weak. She does not impose so asto inscribe her will

Girls and women saw the world as made up not of separated, self-seeking individuals, butof interrelationships, connections webbing everyone together in communities of concern;they made moral decisions not through abstract reasoning from rules but by balancingthe infinitesimal and acute needs of everybody concerned (25-63)

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at's because the appetite for "content" is at least as much about creating new targets for advertisingrevenue as it is actual sustenance for human audience

Our relationship to the written word is fundame

“Macroeconomics and Misgivings” argues that it is a mis-conception, albeit one that is well entrenched in the mindsof both professional economists and the general public, tothink of the economy as an engine with spending as its gaspedal.

“Finance and Fluctuations” deals with the misconceptionsabout finance that are common among economists, who oftenfail to appreciate the process of financial intermediation. Thissection looks at the special role played by financial intermedi-aries in enabling specialization. Intermediation is particularlydependent on trust, and as that trust ebbs and flows, the finan-cial sector can amplify fluctuations in the economy’s ability tocreate patterns of sustainable specialization and trade.

“Specialization and Sustainability” exposes the misconcep-tion that we must undertake extraordinary efforts in order toconserve specific resources. This section explains how the pricesystem guides the economy toward sustainable use of resources.In contrast, individuals who attempt to override the pricesystem through their individual choices or by imposing gov-ernment regulations can easily miscalculate the costs of theiractions.

“Machine as Metaphor” attacks the misconception held bymany economists and embodied in many textbooks that theeconomy can be analyzed like a machine. This section looksat a widely used but misguided approach to economic analysis,treating it as if it were engineering. The economic engineersare stuck in a mindset that grew out of the Second WorldWar, a conflict that was dominated by airplanes, tanks, andother machines. Their approach fails to take account of themany nonmechanistic aspects of the economy.

He knows that his breakfast depends upon workerson the coffee plantations of Brazil, the citrus groves ofFlorida, the sugar fields of Cuba, the wheat farms ofthe Dakotas, the dairies of New York; that it has beenassembled by ships, railroads, and trucks, has beencooked with coal from Pennsylvania in utensils madeof aluminum, china, steel, and glass.

How much commerce andnavigation in particular, how many ship-builders,sailors, sail-makers, rope-makers, must have beenemployed in order to bring together the differentdrugs made use of by the dyer, which often come fromthe remotest corners of the world! What a variety oflabour too is necessary in order to produce the toolsof the meanest of those workmen!

The woollen coat, for example, which covers theday-labourer, as coarse and rough as it may appear,is the produce of the joint labour of a great multitudeof workmen.

The roundabout process (or high capital intensity) creates agap of time between the initial steps in the production pro-cess and the final sale of goods and services. During thattime gap, workers involved in the early stages of the pro-duction process must receive income before consumers havemade purchases. (Think of the producer of farm equipment,which must receive payment from a farmer before the farmercan use the equipment to harvest a crop.) That preconditionrequires financial intermediation. As the economy becomesmore specialized and the production becomes more round-about, the financial sector takes on more significance.

The steel must be transported,which may require a railroad or a ship for transportation.And so on. Most of the people whose work enables thefarmer to harvest wheat have no idea that they are partof the wheat production process. The Austrian school ofeconomics would describe this multistep production pro-cess as very roundabout.

Improvements in transportation accompany specializa-tion. The farther that you can cheaply transport goods,the more specialization you will see. Before the adventof the railroad, water transport was relatively efficient,so that specialization tended to be most extensive neargood harbors and navigable rivers. Improvements intransportation have connected the world’s regions moreclosely, promoting greater specialization

Trade accompanies specialization. The more you spe-cialize, the more you need to trade to obtain what youwant. In a society where people specialize, you will findthem exchanging goods and services.

If Cheryl’s bank no longer needed a mortgage paymentprocessing system, her value would be reduced. If her bankwent completely out of business, her value would be reducedmore. If the mortgage servicing industry consolidated, usingfewer systems, her value would be reduced more still. And ifcomputers suddenly became much more expensive and bankswent back to using mechanical calculators, her value wouldbe reduced still more. That last hypothetical is extreme, butthe point is that specialization is subtle, deep, and highlydependent on context.

The machines were made out of materials that hadto be mined and transported. That transportation requiredmany other people and machines. The transportation equip-ment itself had to be manufactured, which required miningand shipping materials to the place where the transportationequipment was manufactured

Picture yourself watching news on cable television whileeating a bowl of cereal. However, instead of giving you thenews, the TV announcer asks you to consider what you wouldneed to do to make your cereal completely from scratch.You would need to grow the cereal grains yourself. If youuse tools to harvest the grain, you would have to make thosetools yourself

Even more strikingis the fact that almost everything you consume is somethingyou could not possibly produce. Your daily life depends on thecooperation of hundreds of millions of other people.Just as it is inconceivable that human society would haveevolved to its present state without language, it is inconceiv-able that we would have gotten to this point without special-ization and trade. Moreover, in order for society to progressfurther, patterns of specialization and trade must continue toevolve.

always asks, “How do you know that?” The MIT approachsuppresses that question and instead presumes that economicresearchers and policymakers are capable of obtaining knowl-edge that in reality is beyond their grasp.2 That is particu-larly the case in the field known as macroeconomics, whosepractitioners claim to know how to manage the overall levelsof output and employment in the economy.

Early in 2015, I came across a volume of essays edited byE. Roy Weintraub titled MIT and the Transformation ofAmerican Economics.1 After digesting the essays, I thought tomyself, “So that’s how it all went wrong.”Let me hasten to mention that my own doctorate in eco-nomics, which I obtained in 1980, comes from MIT. Also,the writers of Weintraub’s book are generally laudatorytoward MIT and its influence.Yet I have come to believe in the wake of the MIT trans-formation, which began soon after World War II, that econo-mists have lost the art of critical thinking. The critical thinker

Increased wealth accompanies specialization. Our ances-tors were much less specialized than we are. As recentlyas the 18th century, many households still sewed theirown clothes, built their own homes, and grew much oftheir own food. As of 1700, nearly everyone in the worldlived in economic misery by today’s standards. Even in theUnited Kingdom, the most advanced economy at the time,the average income per person was only about $2,500 intoday’s dollars.4 Today, in the United States, a householdwould need twice that average income to even reach th

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Strikes challenged American industry throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Workers seeking higher wages, shorter hours, and safer working conditions had struck throughout the antebellum era, but organized unions were fleeting and transitory. The Civil War and Reconstruction seemed to briefly distract the nation from the plight of labor, but the failure of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 convinced workers of the need to organize. Union memberships began to climb. The Knights of Labor enjoyed considerable success in the early 1880s, due in part to its efforts to unite skilled and unskilled workers. The Knights welcomed all laborers, including women (they only barred lawyers, bankers, and liquor dealers). By 1886, the Knights had over seven hundred thousand members. The Knights envisioned a cooperative producer-centered society that rewarded labor, not capital, but, despite their sweeping vision, the Knights focused on practical gains that could be won through the organization of workers into local unions.

Skills mattered less and less in an industrialized, mass-producing economy, and their strength as individuals seemed ever smaller and less significant when companies grew in size and power and managers gained wealth and political influence. Long hours, dangerous working conditions, and the difficulty of supporting a family on meager and unpredictable wages compelled workers to organize armies of labor and battle against the power of capital.

“The Depression”. The Panic began with the failure of the largest bank in America, owned by railroad speculator Jay Cooke. The United States government’s decision to stop  coining silver dollars in 1873 and return to the gold standard in 1875 exacerbated the financial distress, and lower wages and deflation led to labor disputes like the Great Railroad Strike of 1877.

The injured ankle should be positioned and supported in the maximum dorsiflexion allowed by pain and effusion. Maximal dorsiflexion places the joint in its close-packed position or position of greatest congruency, allowing for the least capsular distention and resultant joint effusion. With ankle sprains, this position approximates the torn ligament ends in grade III injuries to reduce the amount of gap scarring and tension in grade I and II injured ligaments.

To say a notion is imprinted on the mind, and yet at the same time to say that themind is ignorant of it, and never yet took notice of it, is to make this impressionnothing. No proposition can be said to be in the mind which it never yet knew, whichit was never yet conscious of

There is nothing more commonly taken for granted, than that there are certainprinciples both speculative and practical (for they speak of both) universally agreedupon by all mankind: which, therefore they argue, must needs be the constantimpressions which the souls of men receive in their first beings, and which theybring into the world with them, as necessarily and really as they do any of theirinherent faculties

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This study has found that T. hirsuta may be displaced by M. galloprovincialis in a future ocean, causing a shift in the biogenic habitat of the Australian shores. Such a shift in habitat may affect the infauna; future conditions may cause infauna to prefer specific mussel habitats (either T. hirsuta or M. galloprovincialis) and lead to an overall decline in infaunal molluscs.

Polychaetes generally had a positive response to climate change scenarios. Warming and elevated pCO2 interacted to increase the number of species of polychaetes in the elevated pCO2 treatment at ambient temperature (Fig. 4; ANOVA Temp × CO2, F1,32 = 11.03, P < 0.02, Supplementary Table 4). Under warming, there were fewer polychaete species recruiting to T. hirsuta compared with that observed at ambient temperature, but there was no effect of warming on the number of polychaete species that recruited to M. galloprovincialis (Supplementary Table 4). When T. hirsuta and M. galloprovincialis were present in the same mesocosms, there were significantly more polychaetes under ambient temperature than under warming (Fig. 4; ANOVA Temp × Presence, F1,32 = 4.66, P < 0.05; Species × Presence, F1,32 = 4.66, P < 0.05, Supplementary Table 4). There were no significant effects of any treatments on the number of species, the number of individuals of Crustacea and the number of species of Mollusca (Fig. 4; Supplementary Table 4). Molluscs were negatively affected by elevated pCO2 but unaffected by warming (Fig. 4).

This study has shown that the invasive M. galloprovincialis was more tolerant of elevated pCO2 compared with the native T. hirsuta. We have also shown that the two mussel species possess unique infaunal communities, which are also altered by climate change conditions.

Species do not exist in isolation but rather in communities where they interact. These interactions can be broadly grouped into interactions that reduce the overall abundance of species i.e. “negative interactions” (e.g. competition and predation) or interactions that increase their abundance i.e. “positive interactions” (Bertness et al., 1999).

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