Re: Traffic junctions as a metaphor for understanding the STM?

2010-10-18 Thread michele
There is a difference between having limitations and not being applicable. The movement of cars through a road intersection is a metaphor for processes that simultaneously want to change a resource. The traffic signal is there to hinder these cars to crash, i.e. to make changes in an uncontrolled

Re: Traffic junctions as a metaphor for understanding the STM?

2010-10-17 Thread Sam Aaron
On 17 Oct 2010, at 8.54 am, michele wrote: > > Well, there are intelligent beings with the ability to make decisions > entering the traffic junction, not exactly the same as with the STM. Of course, all analogies have their limitations; I wasn't proposing this as a perfect model, just somethin

Re: Traffic junctions as a metaphor for understanding the STM?

2010-10-17 Thread michele
Well, there are intelligent beings with the ability to make decisions entering the traffic junction, not exactly the same as with the STM. On Oct 16, 11:07 am, Sam Aaron wrote: > This might be slightly off the wall, but I recently watched a tiny > documentary about an experimental congestion

Traffic junctions as a metaphor for understanding the STM?

2010-10-16 Thread Sam Aaron
This might be slightly off the wall, but I recently watched a tiny documentary about an experimental congestion control strategy in the UK where at a busy junction they disabled the traffic lights. Interestingly it reminded me of Clojure's STM (except on car crashes a big robot arm would scoop u