If a tree falls in the forest, and there s nobody there to hear, does it make a sound? This classic conundrum was coined by George Berkeley (1685-1753), the Bishop and influential Irish philosopher whose primary philosophical achievement is the advancement of what has come to be called subjective idealism. He wrote a number of works, of which the most widely-read are Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (1710) and Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous (1713) (Philonous, the "lover of the mind," representing Berkeley himself).
C in A Nutshell
Learning a language--any language--involves a process wherein you learn to rely less and less on instruction and more increasingly on the aspects of the language you ve mastered. Whether you re learning French, Java, or C, at some point you ll set aside the tutorial and attempt to converse on your own. It s not necessary to know every subtle facet of French in order to speak it well, especially if there s a good dictionary available. Likewise, C programmers don t need to memorize every detail of C in order to write good programs. what they need instead is a reliable, comprehensive reference that they can keep nearby. C in a Nutshell is that reference.
Overview of component creation
This chapter provides an overview of component design and the process of writing
components for Delphi applications. The material here assumes that you are familiar
with Delphi and its standard components.
• Class library
• Components and classes
• Creating components
• what goes into a component?
• Creating a new component
• Testing uninstalled components
• Testing installed components
• Installing a component on the Component palette
Imagine that you are a web developer (which is probably not a stretch if you are reading
this book) and you are being encouraged to add some Ajax features to a site you’re
working on. Maybe the originator of this request is your boss or your boss’s boss, who is
not even sure what Ajax is, let alone what kinds of features might be useful.And maybe
you’re not sure yourself. Imagine that your prior experience has mostly been on the
server-side, developing in Java or some other server-side technology, and your experience
with HTML and JavaScript has been fairly limited.This is the scenario we will explore
over the next several chapters as you are introduced to the Dojo Toolkit.
The all mighty mouse: you can have more memory, you can have blue-ray discs but you are still using the mouse (and the keyboard) to control your computer.
The mouse pointer lets you select objects on the screen and operate on them. what and how you operate with the mouse is pretty simple: there s an arrow on the screen that moves when you move the mouse - screen edges are the border - the area where you mouse lives. When you click it, it does something.
Because WDM networks are circuit switched loss networks blocking may occur because of lack of resources. Also in circuit switched networks many paths use the same links. This toolbox answers the question how different paths with different loads influence on each other and what is the blocking on each of the defined path. Toolbox is capable of computing blocking for three different WDM network types: with no wavelength conversion, with full wavelength conversion and with limited range wavelength conversion. It is worth noting that case for full conversion can be usefull for any circuit switched network without additional constraints (i.e. wavelength continuity constraint in WDM), for example telephone network.
Toolbox contains also scripts for defining network structures (random networks, user defined networks) and traffic matrixes. Three graph algorithms for shortest path computation are also in this toolbox (they are used for traffic matrix creation).
This article discusses some issues that a typical Windows C++ programmer will encounter when approaching
Symbian OS for the first time. Our experience in developing for three successive versions of Symbian OS has
given us considerable perspective on what can be difficult when working in this otherwise rich and stable
environment. While one reason for Symbian s success may be the desire of many mobile phone manufacturers not
to be tied to Microsoft, the other reason is that Symbian has put together a lightweight, elegant system that
succeeds in providing a very impressive range of functionality. Here are some pointers to help ease the transition to
successful Symbian OS application development.
Mastering the Requirements Process, Second Edition, sets out an industry-proven process for gathering and verifying requirements with an eye toward today s agile development environments. In this total update of the bestselling guide, the authors show how to discover precisely what the customer wants and needs while doing the minimum requirements work according to the project s level of agility.
The Kalman filter is an efficient recursive filter that estimates the state of a linear dynamic system from a series of noisy measurements. It is used in a wide range of engineering applications from radar to computer vision, and is an important topic in control theory and control systems engineering. Together with the linear-quadratic regulator (LQR), the Kalman filter solves the linear-quadratic-Gaussian control problem (LQG). The Kalman filter, the linear-quadratic regulator and the linear-quadratic-Gaussian controller are solutions to what probably are the most fundamental problems in control theory.
This is a book about a revolution that quietly began a few years ago.
It is about change in a function that you may not have given much
thought to: your payment function. It may not be very different
today from what it was 5 or 10 years ago. But here’s a guarantee:
It will be very different 5 or 10 years from now. And best of all,
it will cost less!
