Technology
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-17 | Author:Clancy, Tom - Net Force 01 [01, Clancy, Tom - Net Force]

"Uh, okay, sure," came out of Tyrone's mouth. Who said that? Are you insane? Death! Dismemberment! Destruction! Aaiiee! screamed the voice of selfpreservation as it tried to dig a hole ...
( Category: Espionage March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-05-29 | Author:Lightstorm [Lightstorm]

“It’s their job, and they’ve been warned about a possible intrusion, they’ll be watching the whole time.” “Not necessarily. You’re not taking human nature into consideration. What happens tomorrow night? ...
( Category: Fantasy & Magic March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-05-31 | Author:David Baldacci [Baldacci, David]

“Uh, in jail,” answered Howie meekly. “Jail!” “It’s a long story, Nanny Boo-boo,” said Freddy wearily. “I’ll get even with you if it’s the last thing I do, Freddy,” said ...
( Category: Intermediate Readers March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-07-22 | Author:David Baldacci [Baldacci, David]

When Dubowksi saw his dogs meekly following Curly, the cigar fell out of his mouth. From the top of the fence, Si yelled, “Atta boy, Curly. You sure have a ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-05-09 | Author:Clay Shirky

Kelly’s conclusion that defaults allow the designer to steer the system is critical. Defaults don’t drive the system, because they don’t create the motivations to use it. They simply steer ...
( Category: Communication & Media Studies March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-23 | Author:Jules J. Berman

Normalizing and Adjusting Data When extracting data from multiple sources, recorded at different times, and collected for different purposes, the data values may not be directly comparable. The Big Data ...
( Category: Data Processing March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2013-05-07 | Author:Jaron Lanier [Lanier, Jaron]

PART SIX Democracy CHAPTER 16 Complaint Is Not Enough Governments Are Learning the Tricks of Siren Servers A revolutionary narrative is common in digital politics. Broadly speaking, that narrative counterpoises ...
( Category: Popular Culture March 26,2014 )
epub |eng, eng | 2012-07-31 | Author:Christopher Steiner

TO BUILD CUNNING WITH CODE Sandholm is an expert in game theory, the field of math concerning complex problems that include unknown variables and multiple parties with differing interests. Game ...
( Category: Computer Simulation March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2006-03-25 | Author:Marc Levinson [Levinson Marc]

Chapter 10 Ports in a Storm The Coastwise Steamship Company had been created to serve the paper industry. Since the 1930s, its ships had picked up rolls of newsprint from ...
( Category: Industrial Design March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Vaclav Smil [Smil, Vaclav]

Figure 19 James Watt’s steam engine (left) and detail of separate condenser (right) The typical power of Watt’s engines was about twenty-five horsepower (about 20 kW); the largest engines, built ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-06-02 | Author:Douglas Rushkoff [Rushkoff, Douglas]

The Real World Back in the 1960s, the psychologist Stanley Milgram was horrified and inspired by the trial of Adolf Eichmann, who engineered the transport of Jews to Nazi death ...
( Category: Workplace Culture March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-04-12 | Author:Steven Levy [Levy, Steven]

PART FIVE OUTSIDE THE BOX The Google Phone Company and the Google TV Company 1 “They already hate us—what’s the downside?” You might say that the seeds of the Google ...
( Category: Company Profiles March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-05-07 | Author:Arthur Herman [Herman, Arthur]

Unlike Knudsen, Donald Nelson was no industrial production man. He was a chemical engineer, with a degree from the University of Missouri—a handy degree when later he had to look ...
( Category: Company Profiles March 26,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2009-03-25 | Author:Douglas Rushkoff [Rushkoff, Douglas]

Central Currency The economy in which we all participate is no more natural than the game scenarios John Nash set up to test the Rand Corporation’s secretaries. It is a ...
( Category: Workplace Culture March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1999-01-02 | Author:Eugene Cernan [Cernan, Eugene]

17 The Magnificent Beast DON RRICKLES, WHO MADE his living needling the high and mighty, did me no favor one evening during his freewheeling comedy act in Las Vegas. Alan ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight March 26,2014 )