Bring new life to your graphics and easily create and publish movies, sound files, presentations, interactive web content, and much more with help from this step-by-step guide. How to Do Everything with Flash 8 shows you how to get the most from this tremendously powerful multimedia design tool through easy-to-follow and well-organized...
This book comprehensively surveys the results of research investigation and technologies used to secure, verify, recognize, track, and authenticate objects and information from theft, counterfeiting, and manipulation by unauthorized persons and agencies. This book will draw on the diverse expertise in optical sciences and engineering, digital...
This book is designed for a first course in microprocessors or it may be used as a reference for practicing engineers. The book is unique in presenting a balanced, integrated topic coverage of assembly language programming, microcontroller programming via the C language, and hardware interfacing. Programming topics are discussed using both assembly...
It was not long ago that clinicians would say,“study ed at the 1975 meeting revealed. Among them was the late complications of cancer treatments we give to one based on data collected by the Late Effects Study children? You must be joking! We can start worrying Group, an international consortium that consisted about that when we start...
SQL (Structured Query Language) is a standard programming language for generating, manipulating, and retrieving information from a relational database. If you're working with a relational database--whether you're writing applications, performing administrative tasks, or generating reports--you need to know how to interact...
When you pick out something to wear in the morning, you choose the clothes that best fit your mood and personality that day. Same with the music we listen to and even the cars we drive. We instinctively surround ourselves with the things that are reflective of our personalities, so why not our computers? Skinning Windows XP will show you how to...
As the Internet continues to evolve, so too does the necessity for a language that addresses the functionality needs of the Internet’s web viewers. Over time, some programming languages have come and gone, and others have continued to evolve. Several languages have moved into the lead in the race for supremacy. Although...
Programming is about the creation of software to solve problems. Problems come in many forms: simple to complex, small to large, I/O-intensive to compute-intensive. Over the past four decades, we’ve tried to solve a lot of different types of problems with software. At some, we have been exceptionally successful and the...
Open Sources 2.0 is a collection of insightful and thought-provoking essays from today's technology leaders that continues painting the evolutionary picture that developed in the 1999 book Open Sources: Voices from the Revolution .
Continuous media streaming systems will shape the future of information infrastructure. The challenge is to design systems and networks capable of supporting millions of concurrent users. Key to this is the integration of fault-tolerant mechanisms to prevent individual component failures from disrupting systems operations. These are just some of...
Take your 3D game programming skills to the next level! "Advanced 3D Game Programming All in One" uses the Torque Game Engine to teach experienced 3D game programmers advanced concepts. You'll use the Torque Game Engine to learn each new skill, maximizing your game engine experience. Quickly conquer TorqueScript, simulation techniques,...
There are numerous textbooks detailing almost every aspect of the different laparoscopic procedures. However, in this era of evidence-based medicine, a text focusing on the controversies from the laparoscopic as well as the general surgeon's point of view is missing.
This book is not intended to be yet another textbook of laparoscopy;...
