Imagine the electromagnetic halo this would produce:
A team of six soldiers wearing millimeter-wave radar capable of detecting supersonic objects the size of a marble, said objects traveling several thousand feet per second. I'm no expert in radar, but I imagine that this team of soldiers would be broadcasting their location for miles in every direction.
You wouldn't need a sniper rifle; a HARM Missile would work just fine, thanks. You can't dodge a high-explosive shockwave.
Closed source, but freely downloadable. Free as in, you don't have to pay for it because the company lets you download it without a charge. Not free as in I downloaded it from thepiratebay.org.
And, um, it's free for Linux too, because Adobe releases it in.rpm format.
So, they may be evil, they're definitely closed source, but Reader doesn't try to lock you into MS products. It even detected I was running linux when I went to their download page. Huzzah.
Did the Author's Guild overlook Adobe's Reader's freeRead Out Loud feature? This has been around since at least version 8, as far as I can tell.
Perhaps more of a publicity gimmick than an actual worry about someone infringing on their work? A small laptop with a copy of Adobe Reader is no different than the Kindle in terms of functionality, but who would cover a story regarding Adobe Reader? The Kindle is popular, it's in the news, so let's attach ourselves to it and get a free publicity ride.
Ah, so instead of golf being horridly mind-numbingly oh-god-please-change-the-channel-before-I-gouge-my-eyes-out boring, perhaps it will be only slightly less than tolerable with the addition of a few litres of alcohol.
But then again, what isn't improved by the addition of a few litres of alcohol? It sure works for baseball.
A "reputable book series?" O'Reily? Ok, good information. Someone might thank you for that.
A "well-respected tutorial site?" Wasn't this the point of the question in the first place? To seek out well-respected tutorial sites with which to begin? This smug little reply did a pretty good job of emphasizing my point - namely, that there is a ton of information out there but not many people know exactly where it is. Many people CLAIM to know this, and then tell you arrogantly to go find it.
Do you, perchance, have the NAME of a well-respected tutorial site for Java that's not full of blinky banner advertisements or embedded malicious code? Or do you like to just hint at the vast wealth of information that you keep as a jealously guarded secret?
Changing the last mile over to fiber is quite difficult considering just how much has to change. The average home builder employs guys that have intelligence barely above that of an average chimp.
Woah there now, let's climb down off our high horse and stop pretending that technology workers are somehow superior to other types of workers or skilled tradesmen.
Maybe that is overly harsh, but changing the communication infrastructure of an average residential house to fiber optics and deploying the devices to use it is not as easy a task as one might think. It is understandable why residential houses are still relying on copper as it really is easier to use.
Likewise, running plumbing or ductwork or wiring an electrical system that will not electrocute you the second you touch your kitchen sink are not as easy as one might think, but no more difficult than wiring a house for fiber. It would simply become another skilled trade. Once you teach someone how to do something like this, then it becomes so routine that a chimp CAN do it. The installers would not have to understand the underlying technology, or actually configure anyone's home network. Just put the infrastructure in place, like running a few phone jacks. Once someone buys the home it's up to them to get themselves the rest of the way onto the intertubes.
Just last week, when about 2 million people suddenly had to get out of New Orleans. Were there are not many miles long traffic jams on at other times perfectly serviceable roads? In LA, and other large cities, are the freeways not often long parking lots during rush hour? Why should the Internet be any different? After all, it has been called the information HIGHWAY.
Let's retire this old analogy once and for all. It should remain in the 90's, where it belongs.
Besides, everyone knows it's not a highway, it's simply a series of tubes. You can't just go dumping things on it like it's a big truck. Of COURSE it will get backed up. Haven't you seen the episode of Married with Children when Al plugs up his toilet? It's similar to that. There's far too much excrement in these tubes.
Oh yes, because obviously a simple google search for "java" will point him in the right direction.
google java...
Results 1 - 10 of about 480,000,000 for java
Damn. Well, I bet I can narrow down that list by being a bit more specific...
google java book...
Results 1 - 10 of about 7,810,000
Now that's more like it. Instead of half a billion hits, I'm down to a managable 7.81 million.
See how easy it is? Clearly, asking Slashdot is an utter waste of time when there is so much information freely available to anyone with a browser and this interweb series of tubes at their disposal.
Before you know it, you'll be well on your way to the sort of satisfied smugness that you can only know by feeling and being far superior to all others around you. Huzzah!
Agreed. I find it reprehensible people are able to celebrate this guy's death knowing full well that he first shot his wife and both of his daughters.
I, too, would gladly manually filter a lifetime of spam if it would somehow reverse this man's stupidity.
Nobody deserves to die for sending an email, ever, under any circumstances. Or, for that matter, billions of emails. Anyone who thinks differently needs to take a long, hard look at their morality. If such a trade-off is acceptable to you, the least of your worries is a few hundreds imaginary letters in a digital mailbox somewhere.
Wouldn't the proper term be "multiple libraries of Congress"? Similar to how we're supposed to say "Courts martial" instead of "Court martials" or "Attorneys General" instead of "Attorney Generals." I won't pretend to understand it, but it was written in a condescending tone by an angry English major in a forum on the internet somewhere, so it must be true.
...from the folks at Valleywag. What kind of entry level job (See job #7) requires 5 years experience?
Does valleywag have editors? Or writers, for that matter?
One thing for sure, they have *SOMEONE* who knows how to drive the ad engines with a once-per-week slashdotting.
Nothing to see here, move along.
Come on now! If that basic setup is not in your arsenal of internet tools, then you're in trouble. Better a harmless auto-start video than some malicious piece of embedded code. This is something that everyone should be doing anyway.
Consider it a litmus test for vulnerability. If that video plays as soon as you hit that site, then you need to re-examine your security setup.
Those are pretty exhaustive requirements. Based on my observations made driving here in the US of A, I'm fairly certain they give away drivers licenses free in boxes of breakfast cereal.
Or if you want to do it the hard way, you need to be 18 years old, pay $80, and pass a 40 question test with 70% accuracy. That's only 28 out of 40 that you need to actually get right. Scary, eh?
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Imagine the electromagnetic halo this would produce:
A team of six soldiers wearing millimeter-wave radar capable of detecting supersonic objects the size of a marble, said objects traveling several thousand feet per second. I'm no expert in radar, but I imagine that this team of soldiers would be broadcasting their location for miles in every direction.
You wouldn't need a sniper rifle; a HARM Missile would work just fine, thanks. You can't dodge a high-explosive shockwave.
Fail.
Closed source, but freely downloadable. Free as in, you don't have to pay for it because the company lets you download it without a charge. Not free as in I downloaded it from thepiratebay.org.
.rpm format.
And, um, it's free for Linux too, because Adobe releases it in
So, they may be evil, they're definitely closed source, but Reader doesn't try to lock you into MS products. It even detected I was running linux when I went to their download page. Huzzah.
Did the Author's Guild overlook Adobe's Reader's free Read Out Loud feature? This has been around since at least version 8, as far as I can tell.
Perhaps more of a publicity gimmick than an actual worry about someone infringing on their work? A small laptop with a copy of Adobe Reader is no different than the Kindle in terms of functionality, but who would cover a story regarding Adobe Reader? The Kindle is popular, it's in the news, so let's attach ourselves to it and get a free publicity ride.
Yep it's down. Loading for 5 minutes and still nothing.
Ah, so instead of golf being horridly mind-numbingly oh-god-please-change-the-channel-before-I-gouge-my-eyes-out boring, perhaps it will be only slightly less than tolerable with the addition of a few litres of alcohol.
But then again, what isn't improved by the addition of a few litres of alcohol? It sure works for baseball.
Apparently my sarcasm was lost in translation.
But see, it proves my point exactly.
A "reputable book series?" O'Reily? Ok, good information. Someone might thank you for that.
A "well-respected tutorial site?" Wasn't this the point of the question in the first place? To seek out well-respected tutorial sites with which to begin? This smug little reply did a pretty good job of emphasizing my point - namely, that there is a ton of information out there but not many people know exactly where it is. Many people CLAIM to know this, and then tell you arrogantly to go find it.
Do you, perchance, have the NAME of a well-respected tutorial site for Java that's not full of blinky banner advertisements or embedded malicious code? Or do you like to just hint at the vast wealth of information that you keep as a jealously guarded secret?
Changing the last mile over to fiber is quite difficult considering just how much has to change. The average home builder employs guys that have intelligence barely above that of an average chimp.
Woah there now, let's climb down off our high horse and stop pretending that technology workers are somehow superior to other types of workers or skilled tradesmen.
Maybe that is overly harsh, but changing the communication infrastructure of an average residential house to fiber optics and deploying the devices to use it is not as easy a task as one might think. It is understandable why residential houses are still relying on copper as it really is easier to use.
Likewise, running plumbing or ductwork or wiring an electrical system that will not electrocute you the second you touch your kitchen sink are not as easy as one might think, but no more difficult than wiring a house for fiber. It would simply become another skilled trade. Once you teach someone how to do something like this, then it becomes so routine that a chimp CAN do it. The installers would not have to understand the underlying technology, or actually configure anyone's home network. Just put the infrastructure in place, like running a few phone jacks. Once someone buys the home it's up to them to get themselves the rest of the way onto the intertubes.
Just last week, when about 2 million people suddenly had to get out of New Orleans. Were there are not many miles long traffic jams on at other times perfectly serviceable roads? In LA, and other large cities, are the freeways not often long parking lots during rush hour? Why should the Internet be any different? After all, it has been called the information HIGHWAY.
Let's retire this old analogy once and for all. It should remain in the 90's, where it belongs.
Besides, everyone knows it's not a highway, it's simply a series of tubes. You can't just go dumping things on it like it's a big truck. Of COURSE it will get backed up. Haven't you seen the episode of Married with Children when Al plugs up his toilet? It's similar to that. There's far too much excrement in these tubes.
We're gonna need a bigger pipe.
Oh yes, because obviously a simple google search for "java" will point him in the right direction.
google java...
Results 1 - 10 of about 480,000,000 for java
Damn. Well, I bet I can narrow down that list by being a bit more specific...
google java book...
Results 1 - 10 of about 7,810,000
Now that's more like it. Instead of half a billion hits, I'm down to a managable 7.81 million.
See how easy it is? Clearly, asking Slashdot is an utter waste of time when there is so much information freely available to anyone with a browser and this interweb series of tubes at their disposal.
Before you know it, you'll be well on your way to the sort of satisfied smugness that you can only know by feeling and being far superior to all others around you. Huzzah!
Agreed. I find it reprehensible people are able to celebrate this guy's death knowing full well that he first shot his wife and both of his daughters. I, too, would gladly manually filter a lifetime of spam if it would somehow reverse this man's stupidity. Nobody deserves to die for sending an email, ever, under any circumstances. Or, for that matter, billions of emails. Anyone who thinks differently needs to take a long, hard look at their morality. If such a trade-off is acceptable to you, the least of your worries is a few hundreds imaginary letters in a digital mailbox somewhere.
Wouldn't the proper term be "multiple libraries of Congress"? Similar to how we're supposed to say "Courts martial" instead of "Court martials" or "Attorneys General" instead of "Attorney Generals." I won't pretend to understand it, but it was written in a condescending tone by an angry English major in a forum on the internet somewhere, so it must be true.
Seriously, reading for comprehension isn't hard, people.
Cult: A small, unpopular religion.
-torgis
I find this whole thread to be shallow and pedantic.
...from the folks at Valleywag. What kind of entry level job (See job #7) requires 5 years experience? Does valleywag have editors? Or writers, for that matter? One thing for sure, they have *SOMEONE* who knows how to drive the ad engines with a once-per-week slashdotting. Nothing to see here, move along.
Come on now! If that basic setup is not in your arsenal of internet tools, then you're in trouble. Better a harmless auto-start video than some malicious piece of embedded code. This is something that everyone should be doing anyway. Consider it a litmus test for vulnerability. If that video plays as soon as you hit that site, then you need to re-examine your security setup.
Firefox + NoScript + that little mute checkbox in your sound control panel. Problem solved.
the second rule of research is that you do NOT talk about research!
I, for one, welcome our new cybercriminal overlords. Hail Linus!
Or if you want to do it the hard way, you need to be 18 years old, pay $80, and pass a 40 question test with 70% accuracy. That's only 28 out of 40 that you need to actually get right. Scary, eh?
-torgis