This x64 edition offers a comprehensive introduction to Intel assembly language, building on the success of its predecessor. It provides updated content that reflects the latest advancements in x64 architecture, making it suitable for both beginners and those familiar with assembly language. The book emphasizes practical applications, with clear examples and exercises designed to enhance understanding. It's an essential resource for students and professionals looking to deepen their knowledge of low-level programming and system architecture.
It's the summer of 1966. Family camping is the rage. Boomer kids are everywhere. Star Trek is brand-new. Smartphones and social media haven't even been dreamt of yet. So summer crushes happen the old-fashioned way: young face to young face. While scoping out sites for stargazing at Castle Rock Lake, 12-year-old Eric meets a girl from the next campsite over. Charlene and Eric are both gifted, highly articulate students: Eric in math and science, Charlene in art and composition. He shows her the constellations in the ink-black Wisconsin night sky; she sketches him and writes him poems. An attraction neither has ever felt before soon blossoms between them. Eric's sensible parents caution him that 12 is too young to fall in love, while Charlene's parents barely speak to each other, let alone her. She aches for the love she sees in Eric's family, and takes strength from the attention and kindness that Eric offers her. For Charlene has a secret, one that cuts to the heart of who and what she is. When the conflict in her family threatens to end the campout early, she must explain that secret to Eric, and begs him to accept the vision she has of her own future. Facing the possibility that they may never see each other again, Eric and Charlene struggle to put words to the feelings that have arisen between them. They discover the answer in the language they both speak, and had spoken together all along: Complete sentences.
Jeff Duntemann began writing about technology in the mid-1970s, at the dawn of the microcomputer era. In his role as a technical magazine editor and early blogger, he wrote literally thousands of essays, editorials, blog posts, and humor pieces, many of which exist only in paper magazines from decades ago. In response to requests from his fans, he's collected the best of his non-technical writing, and thrown in a little memoir to cast some light on the odd man behind these truly odd lots. Some highlights: His favorite writing tips His prediction of Wikipedia in 1994 His prediction of selfies in 1983 How nanotechnology might eventually create computers as small as dirt particles How dogs helped early humans survive their genocidal impulses, making civilization possible What tweener boys learn from monster movies The challenges of truly long-horizon thinking The benefits of contrarian thinking Why tribalism may be the worst problem facing humanity Where anger came from and how it kills What it means to be truly free ...and much else, including a number of items never before published
Having dropped an alien-contact anthropologist on a newly discovered inhabited planet to establish a relationship with the aliens, starship Richard M. Nixon and its crew returns two years later on a trade mission. The corporations of the Tripartisan Economic Combine are eager to buy the aliens' epoxy glue, which is among the best ever seen in known space. Vincent Icehall, the starship's young shuttle pilot, has little to do during the mission but hang out with what he assumes is the alien community's jester and village idiot. Icehall can't pronounce the alien's name and dubs him "Turkey," but slowly begins to realize that Turkey is anything but. Ignoring all of Turkey's warnings for the crew to leave the planet immediately, Icehall stumbles on a plot by the anthropologist and the aliens' chieftain to steal the Nixon 's shuttle for use as a weapon of war.
Focusing on security awareness, this book addresses common questions newcomers have about protecting themselves online. With a humorous tone, Duntemann simplifies complex security issues, guiding readers through both obvious and subtle threats. Each short, targeted feature provides practical advice, making it accessible and engaging for those looking to enhance their understanding of online safety.
