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The Fractal Structure of Data Reference: Applications to the Memory HierarchyFor purposes of understanding its performance, a computer system is traditionally viewed as a processor coupled to one or more disk storage devices, and driven by externally generated requests (typically called transactions). Over the past several decades, very powerful techniques have become available to the performance analyst attempting to... | | How Do Hybrid Cars Work? (Science in the Real World)In recent years, there has been much concern about the world's reliance on nonrenewable resources, such as oil. Scientists are attempting to decrease our dependency on oil - something cars require to work. Hybrid cars, which run on alternative energy sources like sunlight, corn, and biofuels, may be the key to using less oil. "How Do Hybrid... | | Going to War: Creating Computer War Games
Do you want to learn how to create computer war games, but don't know how to get started or don't have any experience with game programming? "Going to War: Creating Computer War Games" shows you how to use the drag-and-drop game engine, Multimedia Fusion 2, to make your very own computer war games to play and share. After an... |
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| | | | Algorithms and Computation: 11th International Conference, ISAAC 2000, Taipei, Taiwan
The papers in this volume were selected for presentation at the Eleventh Annual
International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2000), held
on 18{20 December, 2000 at the Institute of Information Science, Academia
Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. Previous meetings were held in Tokyo (1990), Taipei
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Mac OS X Lion: Visual Quickstart Guide
Mac OS X Lion—or also simply called OS X
Lion—is the latest version of the computer
operating system that put the phrase
graphic user interface in everyone’s
vocabulary. With Mac OS, you can point,
click, and drag to work with files, applications,
and utilities. Because the same
intuitive interface... | | Linux+ Guide to Linux Certification
As Eric S. Raymond reminds us, Open Source Software will continue to shape the
dynamics of the computer software industry for the next long while, just as it has for the
last decade. Coined and perpetuated by hackers, the term “Open Source Software” refers
to software in which the source code is freely available to... | | Arduino Wearables
At a young age, I lived very close to my grandmothers and I used to visit them often. Both of my
grandmothers were very skilled in textile handcrafts and, along with my mother, were firm believers that
sewing is one of those basic skills that everyone should know. One grandmother was amazing at
crocheting and needlepoint, and the... |
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| | The Driver: My Dangerous Pursuit of Speed and Truth in the Outlaw Racing World
On his deathbed, Alex Roy's father dropped tantalizing hints about the notorious Cannonball Run of the 1970s, the utterly illegal high-speed nonstop race from New York to L.A. that was nothing at all like the one portrayed in the Burt Reynolds movie.
Inspired by his father's dying words, and against the advice of his loyal,... | | Treatise on Process Metallurgy, Volume 2: Process Phenomena
Process metallurgy provides academics with the fundamentals of the manufacturing of metallic materials, from raw materials into finished parts or products.
Coverage is divided into three volumes, entitled Process Fundamentals, encompassing process fundamentals, extractive and refining processes, and metallurgical process... |
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