For example, and I'm not sure if this is true everywhere, attempting to log onto a comcast broadband connection with IP6 enabled on a windows adapter has failed me every time. This was not true when I attempted the same on Time Warner or Cable vision networks. If major parts of the internet backbone still need to support it, it may be a while before it really gets to a self sustainable level.
to actually get something valuable from the article, look up the words kinesthesia or proprioception. Apply beyond the limited frame of reference of a person's own being.
The way I've seen it, C++ would be the way to go, particularly if you force exposure to namespaces and the precompiler.
Java basically amounts to a really clean API over C++ with some minor nuance differences. C doesn't expose you to object oriented programming, which although will give you a better understanding of memory manip, will not give you the experience a typical company will hope you've exposed yourself to.
C# is another step away from C++ and is likely not too bad to pick up as an extension off it.
As for topics to consider, really look into the weirdness that unions introduce (playing with floating point numbers on a bit level is a good way to get into this). Figure out how to deal with collections, including an overview of the differences between search and sort algorithms. You don't need to know how to write them as much as how to select one or figure out how to write them when you need to. Cover synchronization on multiprocessor architectures. Get a VERY good feel for inheritance and UML. It sucks to learn and the tools for it are usually quite painful to play with, but the time it can save in the end when working in a team of 10 on 100,000 lines of mixed languages is remarkable.
Remember that working on a piece of code that is 100k lines or more is going to take you months to get used to, will be too large for you to think about in its entirety unless you've been working on it since the beginning and have forgone anything resembling a social life, and will also be complex and challenging and possibly very fun.
You should get used to version control. Try RCS, not because it's the latest and greatest, but because you're likely to see it. CVS is newer (old) and more likely to be the incumbent tech at an arbitrary company. Subversion is great and if you get into a place that uses that, you should be quite happy. I've also seen perforce and a couple others. Cultural choice, and it's dependent on the size of the code and how many engineers drive decisions at a high level. It also depends on how often the company picks up new projects.
For an idea of what I do, my primary language of choice is AVR assembly. I like playing close to hardware in bit gritty RISC architectures. From there, it's C (smaller file sizes than C++ by far unless you're crafty), C++, Java.
Java makes for a very nice prototyping language, and it encourages some commenting and coding practices in a way I can approve of, even if its "we'll take care of it" view of memory management is something I don't quite agree with.
But if you consider what the post is actually saying, this is not a cave on amazon's part. They're actually holding their ground. This basically says that if a publisher or author decides they don't want TTS on kindle, then they have to make that decision on a choice by choice basis. While it does sting Amazon to a degree, it hurts the author in question more, since Amazon is still earning a profit off the TTS support it has for all authors who do want it. It sounds like the goal is to hope only a minority actually block it.
Pirating in this case, or preventing it, falls in the hands of the authors and publishers instead of amazon, which is where it belongs. If they want to prevent pirating and catch the market share that they're missing, they can tell Amazon they would like to open up the TTS service. Otherwise, screw them.
I can see the headlines now: IBM sued when bodyarmor snaps wearer's spine. Bodyarmor electrocutes soldier in field New body armor provides new technique for weightloss Can't touch this, hammer time
Which lends itself well to a self created DDOS attack. You get a system like that to respond to a normal packet from the net and all of a sudden the amount of processing power expended to analyze the packets increases in response, which leads to greater susceptibility to flooding the system with crap.
It's also important to realize that this technology wasn't just described in Batman and Robin. It was in Sim City 2000, which is significantly more likely to have a viable prediction of the future in it.
To be fair, the nuclear submarine was a pipe-dream when 20,000 leagues was written.
Which would be ok if the numbers for cellphones were a different bank than those given to landlines. The last time I was in Japan, you could distinguish between cell and land line numbers.
There are many solutions to the problem, I'm just interested in one of them being implemented. I'm doubtful any will until it costs the cell companies some serious $$ to not do so.
The thing is, recipient pays has never been an issue for land lines, so why it's suddenly back in cell is beyond me. Gotta love the double dipping. I have no love of the cellular industry in the US at this point.
It gets better, consider the fact that nowadays, modern cellphone companies allow you to email to a phone number. If you don't have an unlimited call plan, receiving messages in this way costs the receiver for every message received. Combine this with a gentle DDOS attack that doesn't break the server routing to the phone in question and?
Why does it cost money to put blocking on these services?
In the same breath, if there was a way to mod this article up, I would do it. Nothing like someone taking responsibility for this sort of thing. Its rare, and very very welcome. What people don't notice are the vast number of half assed articles out there which lack in research and don't apologize for that.
Might be interesting if you could look at a giant mirror five billion lightyears away reflecting back on us. You have to wonder what sort of bizarre lensing or TIR based effect would be needed to allow us that.
Granted, if there was a federally operated internet, tampering with data online could be as much of a federal crime as tampering with the mail...
Who thinks it would be a good idea to have a public wireless internet managed by a division of the US Postal service, rather than as a media model like the FCC manages television and radio?
I'm just going to put this out here, I would like to see some sort of link or reference to support what you're talking about.
This is partially because I believe that if you are going to make a claim, you need to defend it, and it's partially because I have no idea who Kieth (Keith?) Windshuttle is.
Privacy is necessary when personal accountability is no longer naturally regulated by group size. If someone can do something with information you have that would be detrimental to you, it makes sense for you to not want to share it. Beings or groups who do not need to share information that could be used against them have an advantage over those who must share information with everyone. Assuming that all information you could disseminate is harmless is naive. Keeping protections against infiltration of privacy in place is important, because it is a LOT easier than getting them back.
I beg to differ, Evolution will only pick off the ones who aren't able to MATE while living lazy. They also have to have heart attacks early enough to prevent their successfully having children to allow evolution to work. If evolution has stopped for humans, it would mean that human kind produces no genetic variation. It hasn't stopped, but is being driven by non natural causes. In the absence of genetic advantage, we will see small, sporadic mutations across the populace until some of them are considered an advantage. If the non-genetic advantages over power the effects of the genetic advantages, some of these will be taken up regardless of whether they have a positive impact on the species.
It sucks, but you could make the argument that modern medicine is killing our species while it saves lives, because the genetic defects it masks make us increasingly dependent on the presence of the technology.
An example of where this has already happened is our distinct lack of fur. Most people could not survive in the wild without clothing for an extended period of time. Many would die of exposure.
You may hate me for this, but I think Idiocracy was actually a lot closer than it should be.
Be careful what you wish for. Between endianness, encryption, and the ambiguity of translation from binary to base four where any of the digits could match up, there is a chance you could find that exact phrase in the DNA of an arbitrary animal. If you've ever heard of the bible code or nostradamus, you should realize that provided a large enough body of work and enough leniency in your analytical methods, it is possible to find anything you're looking for.
Slashdot Mirror
Here's the kicker...
In the US, there are still channels transmitted via radio waves.
In Ireland, are there?
Would a radio count if there were?
For example, and I'm not sure if this is true everywhere, attempting to log onto a comcast broadband connection with IP6 enabled on a windows adapter has failed me every time. This was not true when I attempted the same on Time Warner or Cable vision networks. If major parts of the internet backbone still need to support it, it may be a while before it really gets to a self sustainable level.
to actually get something valuable from the article, look up the words kinesthesia or proprioception. Apply beyond the limited frame of reference of a person's own being.
The way I've seen it, C++ would be the way to go, particularly if you force exposure to namespaces and the precompiler.
Java basically amounts to a really clean API over C++ with some minor nuance differences. C doesn't expose you
to object oriented programming, which although will give you a better understanding of memory manip, will not
give you the experience a typical company will hope you've exposed yourself to.
C# is another step away from C++ and is likely not too bad to pick up as an extension off it.
As for topics to consider, really look into the weirdness that unions introduce (playing with floating point numbers
on a bit level is a good way to get into this). Figure out how to deal with collections, including an overview of
the differences between search and sort algorithms. You don't need to know how to write them as much as how to
select one or figure out how to write them when you need to. Cover synchronization on multiprocessor architectures.
Get a VERY good feel for inheritance and UML. It sucks to learn and the tools for it are usually quite painful to
play with, but the time it can save in the end when working in a team of 10 on 100,000 lines of mixed languages is
remarkable.
Remember that working on a piece of code that is 100k lines or more is going to take you months to get used to, will
be too large for you to think about in its entirety unless you've been working on it since the beginning and have
forgone anything resembling a social life, and will also be complex and challenging and possibly very fun.
You should get used to version control. Try RCS, not because it's the latest and greatest, but because you're likely
to see it. CVS is newer (old) and more likely to be the incumbent tech at an arbitrary company. Subversion is great
and if you get into a place that uses that, you should be quite happy. I've also seen perforce and a couple others.
Cultural choice, and it's dependent on the size of the code and how many engineers drive decisions at a high level.
It also depends on how often the company picks up new projects.
For an idea of what I do, my primary language of choice is AVR assembly. I like playing close to hardware in bit gritty
RISC architectures. From there, it's C (smaller file sizes than C++ by far unless you're crafty), C++, Java.
Java makes for a very nice prototyping language, and it encourages some commenting and coding practices in a way I can
approve of, even if its "we'll take care of it" view of memory management is something I don't quite agree with.
Otherwise, good luck!
I see it as them taking one of three stances:
all, nothing, or what they did.
Sounds like they made the right decision to me.
But if you consider what the post is actually saying, this is not a cave on amazon's part.
They're actually holding their ground. This basically says that if a publisher or author
decides they don't want TTS on kindle, then they have to make that decision on a choice by
choice basis. While it does sting Amazon to a degree, it hurts the author in question more,
since Amazon is still earning a profit off the TTS support it has for all authors who do
want it. It sounds like the goal is to hope only a minority actually block it.
Pirating in this case, or preventing it, falls in the hands of the authors and publishers
instead of amazon, which is where it belongs. If they want to prevent pirating and catch
the market share that they're missing, they can tell Amazon they would like to open up the
TTS service. Otherwise, screw them.
I've gotta give props to that move.
I can see the headlines now:
IBM sued when bodyarmor snaps wearer's spine.
Bodyarmor electrocutes soldier in field
New body armor provides new technique for weightloss
Can't touch this, hammer time
It's clear how you would treat them considering your choice of words.
'sub-human' versus 'semi-human'
Great way to hold no bias at the opening of THIS discussion.
O_o
Don't forget to spay or neuter your cat-girls
Which lends itself well to a self created DDOS attack. You get a system like that to respond to a normal packet from the net and all of a sudden the amount of processing power expended to analyze the packets increases in response, which leads to greater susceptibility to flooding the system with crap.
It's also important to realize that this technology wasn't just described in Batman and Robin.
It was in Sim City 2000, which is significantly more likely to have a viable prediction of the future in it.
To be fair, the nuclear submarine was a pipe-dream when 20,000 leagues was written.
Which would be ok if the numbers for cellphones were a different bank than those given to landlines. The last time I was in Japan, you could distinguish between cell and land line numbers.
There are many solutions to the problem, I'm just interested in one of them being implemented. I'm doubtful any will until it costs the cell companies some serious $$ to not do so.
The thing is, recipient pays has never been an issue for land lines, so why it's suddenly back in cell is beyond me. Gotta love the double dipping. I have no love of the cellular industry in the US at this point.
It gets better,
consider the fact that nowadays, modern cellphone companies allow you to email to a phone number.
If you don't have an unlimited call plan, receiving messages in this way costs the receiver for
every message received. Combine this with a gentle DDOS attack that doesn't break the server routing
to the phone in question and?
Why does it cost money to put blocking on these services?
In the same breath, if there was a way to mod this article up, I would do it.
Nothing like someone taking responsibility for this sort of thing. Its rare,
and very very welcome. What people don't notice are the vast number of half
assed articles out there which lack in research and don't apologize for that.
I approve.
Might be interesting if you could look at a giant mirror five billion lightyears away reflecting back on us. You have to wonder what sort of bizarre lensing or TIR based effect would be needed to allow us that.
There is a term for this 'tax'
Protection money,
You pay the money, or you'll need protection.
It's been the subject of mob and mafia movies for decades.
How are the RICO cases against the RIAA going btw?
Seconded,
Granted, if there was a federally operated internet, tampering with data online could be as much of a federal
crime as tampering with the mail...
Who thinks it would be a good idea to have a public wireless internet managed by a division of the US Postal
service, rather than as a media model like the FCC manages television and radio?
I'm just going to put this out here,
I would like to see some sort of link or reference to support what you're talking about.
This is partially because I believe that if you are going to make a claim, you need to defend it,
and it's partially because I have no idea who Kieth (Keith?) Windshuttle is.
This is key
Privacy is necessary when personal accountability is no longer naturally regulated by group size. If someone can do something with information you have that would be detrimental to you, it makes sense for you to not want to share it. Beings or groups who do not need to share information that could be used against them have an advantage over those who must share information with everyone. Assuming that all information you could disseminate is harmless is naive. Keeping protections against infiltration of privacy in place is important, because it is a LOT easier than getting them back.
If the second pic was properly attributed to the site it came from I don't think it matters, but since it isn't, it either should be or be removed.
Seconded!
Fair enough.
Good to remember both sides of the coin when flipping it, I suppose.
This is what I get for spending too much time in wintry places.
I beg to differ,
Evolution will only pick off the ones who aren't able to MATE while living lazy.
They also have to have heart attacks early enough to prevent their successfully
having children to allow evolution to work. If evolution has stopped for humans,
it would mean that human kind produces no genetic variation. It hasn't stopped,
but is being driven by non natural causes. In the absence of genetic advantage,
we will see small, sporadic mutations across the populace until some of them are
considered an advantage. If the non-genetic advantages over power the effects
of the genetic advantages, some of these will be taken up regardless of whether
they have a positive impact on the species.
It sucks, but you could make the argument that modern medicine is killing our
species while it saves lives, because the genetic defects it masks make us
increasingly dependent on the presence of the technology.
An example of where this has already happened is our distinct lack of fur. Most
people could not survive in the wild without clothing for an extended period of
time. Many would die of exposure.
You may hate me for this, but I think Idiocracy was actually a lot closer than
it should be.
wood storage in places with little water should do it.
There's a whole belt of desert going around the planet, why not bury it there.
Grow trees,
Build underground desert housing,
???
profit!
(runs to patent office)
Be careful what you wish for.
Between endianness, encryption, and the ambiguity of translation from binary to base four where any of the digits could match up, there is a chance you could find that exact phrase in the DNA of an arbitrary animal. If you've ever heard of the bible code or nostradamus, you should realize that provided a large enough body of work and enough leniency in your analytical methods, it is possible to find anything you're looking for.