Chances are he just reinvested the majority of it.

and some of the worst inventions come from crackpots everyday.

I did find a couple of implementations of semaphores that implemented fifo outside of the core libraries, but the implemetation seemed very slow with lots of context switches. Reviewing comments on the java implemention, "fair" semaphores are also a lot slower than non-fair.

Shamefully, I will admit that I assumed they were always fair, so I definitely learned something.

Thanks for responding. The fairness parameter is interesting - I would love to see how it was implemented in java on Windows since all of the kernel objects (mutex, semaphore, etc) are not guaranteed to be processed fairly. I may have to go do some investigating.

I admit it has been a few years since I developed in Java, but I wouldn't mind reading what your specific concerns are about collections and concurrency in .Net. Here is astarting point for concurrency and one for collections.

I would also be interested in hearing what you think is missing from the .Net ecosystem.

The client workstations all need .Net and IIS for the application to work.

Find a new company. Quick.

I'm not sure which jurisdictions you've looked at but you may want to look again. Usually there are five elements of a valid contract:

1. Valid offer and acceptance
2. Legally competent parties
3. Consideration
4. Genuine intention
5. Lawful object

Consideration is exactly what the gp post was talking about. Of course, never take legal advice on slashdot.

Siebel?

Wow. So in your over-generalized world, scientists are smart and good and businessmen are evil and stupid. I'm shocked that you choose to side with the scientists.

In my experience, people at the level of a Scrum Master may have the responsibility to shield the team but they rarely have the authority. If the Scrum Master, or even a level higher, is unable to deliver to management's expectations, don't believe management is meeting to decide how they failed or how to replace themselves.

a majority shareholder would have > 50%+1!

An unacceptable one off error, please test boundary cases before checking in your comments ;)

My experiences are the exact opposite when it comes to liquor distribution. In Calgary, stores have good specials on beer, wine and hard liquor all the time if you shop around. I can also get fantastic service at several specialized wine shops. I spend about twelve weeks a year in the B.C. Interior and the liquor store hours are terrible (still closed Sundays and holidays, only open until 6 pm every night except Friday until 9 pm. I find the prices in B.C. very similar to Calgary's regular prices, but then B.C. adds an additional 7% tax at checkout. I don't know anyone who goes to B.C. without buying their booze in Calgary first. If you are paying less in B.C. you're probably not shopping around for the best deals. We figured out that we saved over $100 by buying $500 worth of booze in Calgary before heading out last summer. That wasn't even including the 7% PST in B.C.