blocking send or receive for messages means that the sender and/or reciever is blocked until the message is delivered. In a nonblocking send/recieve, neither the sender or reciever has to wait.
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He causes the reader to distrust the narrator.
An oar. Similar to a paddle, an oar is a device with a flat blade used in water propulsion. One distinction between a paddle and an oar is that oars are usually connected to the vessel while paddles are not.
Yes. Those are illegal programs, and they are usually combined with other illegal activities. Note: What you might get from those may technical not be a "virus", but a malignant program all the same. The technical distinction between a "virus", a "worm", and a "Trojan", need not concern us here.
There's not really an answer to this question. A book could have no words, or it could have hundreds of thousands. If it helps, the Nebula Awards make a distinction between "works of between 17,500 and 40,000 words" and "works of 40,000 words or more", calling the former novellas and the latter novels. Both novels and novellas have been published as books... Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, for example, has about 26,500 words.
Something in between. Something in between. Something in between.