Today's game players expect increasingly realistic interaction within games. "Introduction to Game AI" teaches readers who are new to game AI the skills they need through hands-on projects based on small, understandable games. While there are many books that take a more advanced approach to this topic, this is one of the only...
MICROSOFT WINDOWS 2000 SERVER ADMINISTRATOR'S COMPANION brings network administrators, systems engineers, and other MIS professionals up to speed on the latest features of Windows 2000 Server, including Active Directory(tm) services, Microsoft Internet Information Server 4.0, the new, integrated console for administrative tools, and more. It's the...
Pro Hibernate 3 is the first book to offer complete coverage of the open source lightweight Hibernate 3 and its new features. Authors Dave Minter and Jeff Linwood discuss the new persistence layer and share design tips and best practices. And the duo goes beyond just explaining "how to" use parts of Hibernate; they probe well...
Stealing the Network: How to Own the Box is a unique book in the fiction department. It combines stories that are fictional with technology that is real.While none of these specific events have happened, there is no reason why they could not.You could argue it provides a roadmap for criminal hackers, but I say it does something...
Face it: Poorly designed, static Web sites just don't cut it anymore. The Web (not to mention the technology surrounding it) has been around long enough, and people have grown accustomed enough to dealing with it, that folks want (and expect) a little razzle-dazzle when they go online. For just $12.99, this compact guide...
This book presents a practical guide that enables enterprise customers to take advantage of Microsoft® .NET Enterprise Servers. The focus is on providing solutions to common e-business problems faced by medium to large enterprises. Today, Microsoft .NET Enterprise Servers provide solutions to a broad array of scenarios. To address this large...
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Discovering Computers 2011: Complete, provides learners with a current and thorough introduction to computers by integrating the use of technology with the printed text.
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Pro VS 2005 Reporting Using SQL Server and Crystal Reports offers a proven methodology for building reporting solutions. The authors focus on SQL Server 2005 and Crystal Reports, but also cover other popular technologies like Oracle and ActiveReports, to give you a thorough grounding in the reporting field. The book presents the...
It was almost midnight, and the crowd’s excitement was palpable. The line had wrapped around the electronics store, getting longer with each passing hour. As the clock ticked closer to midnight, the pack grew more and more electric. In just a few minutes, it would be in their hands. Was the crowd waiting to buy a new CD? Was a new Star Wars...
Flying sharks and robots...More fun than the Bible!
What would you expect to find if you traveled back in time to the Garden of Eden? Adam and Eve? The tree of knowledge? A wicked serpent? How about some giant fucking flying sharks! That's right, I said sharks. Biblical sharks. Sharks that are bigger than city buses....
