The celebration welcoming the second half of the 21st century on 31 December
2050 was subdued in the Persian Gulf. The major cities of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait,
and others were dark. No fireworks or other signs of jubilation. Even those among
them who had diversified their economies by investing in tourism, technology parks,...
The Kinect sensor provides a genuinely new way for a computer to make some sense
of the world around it. The fusion of a camera, a directional microphone system,
and a depth sensor into a single, mass-market device provides an opportunity for
software developers to advance the field of computer interaction in all...
If you've discovered Prezi in the last few years or even very recently, you have joined
part of an interesting movement that's rapidly changing how ideas are shared. If
you're reading this now then there's no doubt in our minds you're completely sold
on the fact that business presentations need to change....
Your website has just crashed, and you’re losing money. The application is
built on Rails, runs on MRI, and is served up with Mongrel and Apache.
Having this kind of infrastructure means that you’re managing more processes
than you can count on two hands.
Have you ever wondered how electronic products are created? Do you have an idea for a new electronic gadget but no way of testing the feasibility of the device? Have you accumulated a junk box of electronic parts and now wonder what to build with them? Well, this book will answer all your questions about discovering cool and innovative...
Ruby on Rails has taken the web application development world by storm.
Those of us who have been writing web apps for a few years remember the
good ol’ days when the leading contenders for web programming languages
were PHP and Java, with Perl, Smalltalk, and even C++ as fringe choices.
Either PHP or...
In early 1994, Tim Berners-Lee put out an open call for a virtual reality specification for
the Web; Mark Pesce and I answered. Only being able to afford one plane ticket, we sent
Mark to Geneva to present our Labyrinth prototype at the first-ever World Wide Web
Developers’ Conference. With typical bombast,...
The future of high-performance computing (HPC) lies with large distributed parallel systems with three levels of parallelism, thousands of nodes containing MIMD* groups of SIMD* processors. For the past 50 years, the clock cycle of single processors has decreased steadily and the cost of each processor has decreased. Most applications would...
Although our planet is characterized by water, the extent to which water in its
frozen state plays a role in the functioning of the Earth is perhaps underappreciated.
Snow and ice cover about a sixth of the Earth’s surface, as snow
lying on the ground, as glaciers and larger masses of terrestrial ice, including
the huge...
I am glad that Richard Siddaway decided to sit down and write a book on WMI. I have
had the privilege of working with Richard over the last several years since becoming
the Microsoft Scripting Guy, and I have long been impressed by his technical prowess.
Whether Richard is speaking at a user group or conference or...
I first discovered the secrets of getting along with
people during my career as a fashion and advertising
photographer. Whether it was working with a single
model for a page in Vogue or 400 people aboard a ship to
promote a Norwegian cruise line, it was obvious that for
me photography was more about clicking with people...
