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Real-Time Collision Detection (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive 3-D Technology)

Morgan Kaufmann, 2004

Written by an expert in the game industry, Christer Ericson's new book is a comprehensive guide to the components of efficient real-time collision detection systems. The book provides the tools and know-how needed to implement industrial-strength collision detection for the highly detailed dynamic environments of applications such as 3D games,...

OpenGL(R) Programming on Mac OS(R) X: Architecture, Performance, and Integration

Addison Wesley, 2007

The Mac has fully embraced OpenGL throughout its visual systems. In fact, Apple's highly efficient, modern OpenGL implementation makes Mac OS X one of today's best platforms for OpenGL development. OpenGL^® Programming on Mac OS^® X is the first comprehensive resource for every graphics...

The Book of Wireless: A Painless Guide to Wi-Fi and Broadband Wireless

No Starch Press, 2008

Broadband wireless networks bring us closer to the Internet's ultimate destiny of interconnecting everyone, everywhere. But wireless networking can be a bit geeky and nerve-wracking without a proper guide. Let's face it: Networking can be hard.

If you're one of the last holdouts still connected to the Internet by a wire, The Book of...

Refactoring SQL Applications

O'Reilly, 2008

What can you do when database performance doesn't meet expectations? Before you turn to expensive hardware upgrades to solve the problem, reach for this book. Refactoring SQL Applications provides a set of tested options for making code modifications to dramatically improve the way your database applications function. Backed by real-world...

Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004 PC for Dummies

For Dummies, 2003

Welcome to Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004 PC For Dummies. What a mouthful! But each word is important, nay, critical! This book is about Microsoft’s next generation of operating system, Windows XP. But this is not an ordinary piece of software — Media Center 2004 is Microsoft’s major push to merge the computing and...

The End of Software: Transforming Your Business for the On Demand Future

Sams Publishing, 2004

Twenty-five years ago, the high-tech business was small, computers were largely relegated to accounting, and the money major corporations spent on information technology barely made a dent in their overall budgets. Today that has all changed. High-tech businesses are some of the largest in the world. The Dow Jones Industrial Average includes four...

Wireless Security Essentials: Defending Mobile Systems from Data Piracy

John Wiley & Sons, 2002

Protect your wireless systems from attack with this clear-cut guide on how to implement proven security methodologies

Effective security is the most important element now missing from most wireless networks. Vulnerabilities in these networks leave them open to eavesdropping, session highjacking, data alteration and manipulation,...

Hacker Debugging Uncovered (Uncovered series)

A-LIST Publishing, 2005

Hacking is a natural need of many sentient beings. They pass along the thorny path of understanding the true essence of surrounding things, bent on destruction. Just look around: Atomic scientists split atoms, analysts split long molecules into lots of smaller ones, and mathematicians actively use decomposition. And not one of...

Information Security Applications: 7th International Workshop, WISA 2006, Jeju Island, Korea, August 28-30, 2006, Revised Selected Papers

Springer, 2007

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Information Security Applications, WISA 2006, held in Jeju Island, Korea in August 2006.

The 30 revised full papers presented were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement from 146 submissions. The papers are organized in topical...

Apple Training Series: Mac OS X Deployment v10.5

Peachpit Press, 2008

Apple Training Series: Mac OS X v10.5 Deployment v10.5 uses a combination of task-based instruction and strong visuals to teach intermediate and advanced users how to deploy a wide range of files and systems to multiple users in a large organization. Author Kevin White takes readers through the deployment of software, ranging from individual...

DW 2.0: The Architecture for the Next Generation of Data Warehousing (Morgan Kaufman Series in Data Management Systems)

Morgan Kaufmann, 2008

First book on the new generation of data warehouse architecture, DW 2.0--by the "father of the data warehouse".

Data Warehousing has been around for 20 years and has become part of the information technology infrastructure. Data warehousing originally grew in response to the corporate need for information--not...

Spatial Analysis, GIS and Remote Sensing: Applications in the Health Sciences

CRC Press, 2000

This new book explores the rapidly expanding applications of spatial analysis, GIS and remote sensing in the health sciences, and medical geography. For the practitioner or researcher this book is full of useful techniques if your work applies to environmental and public health, biostatistics, epidemiology, health services, medical geography,...

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