SciFi Now, Issue 99 (2014)

The award-winning SciFi now could be the last word per thirty days advisor science-fiction and delusion. providing particular behind-the-scenes gains, on-set reviews, A-list interviews and extra, the journal offers readers important perception into the ever-changing undefined. each factor additionally contains a certain unfashionable sci-fi part devoted to the simplest and infrequently worst motion pictures and indicates of sci-fi previous in addition to a bit dedicated completely to the superior in SF literature making SciFiNow the best option for someone who’s ever desired to wield a lightsaber.

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Exploring IBM SOA technology & practice : how to plan, by Bobby Woolf

By Bobby Woolf

The quickest solution to find out about IBM procedure and know-how due to the fact October 2002, IBM has been laser all for a sweeping method referred to as "On call for Business." when you consider that then, each IBM product line and repair supplying has been gradually infused with the know-how and serve as essential to aid the On call for enterprise version. during this freshly up-to-date "Third variation" of "IBM On call for know-how Made Simple," renowned know-how writer Jim Hoskins starts off through describing the IBM imaginative and prescient often called On call for enterprise so that you can see the large photograph and know the way your enterprise can gain. We then circulate in for a better examine the computing infrastructure essential to aid an On call for enterprise. you'll come away with a brand new figuring out of ways you could evolve your present computing infrastructure to accomplish the flexibleness so important within the on call for period. This MaxFactsTM Guidebook offers an easy-to-read review of key construction block items comparable to IBM servers, garage, printer, and software program together with WebSphere, DB2, Tivoli, Lotus, Rational and Linux from an On call for company point of view. you are going to know about the IBM platforms schedule which publications the advance of all IBM server and garage product strains. you will discover how virtualization might be leveraged to enhance usage and decrease bills. you'll find the best way to evolve your infrastructure in the direction of the objective of end-to-end integration by means of leveraging and software program that clings to open criteria. that will help you remain present, this e-book will give you a private password for getting access to the better half website which bargains up to date On call for company information, "More on the net" hyperlinks highlighted through the ebook, and extra assets. This booklet might help you: * Get within IBM's companywide On call for enterprise technique * See how top to adapt your infrastructure for the long run * replace your wisdom on key IBM server, garage, printer, and software program product traces * comprehend the place IBM is headed with Linux * remain present throughout the "members merely" better half site

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Sound and Safe: A History of Listening Behind the Wheel by Karin Bijsterveld, Eefje Cleophas, Stefan Krebs, Gijs Mom

By Karin Bijsterveld, Eefje Cleophas, Stefan Krebs, Gijs Mom

Do you get pleasure from hearing tune whereas using? Do you discover radio site visitors details quintessential? Do you're keen on to sing in addition to no matter what you love as you drive?

This booklet tells the interesting tale of the way, over the process the 20 th century, we grew to become vehicles from deliberately noisy instruments into spheres of auditory privateness that make us suppose sound and secure. It explains how engineers within the car came across satisfaction in making vehicle engines quieter after they discovered that noise stood for inefficiency. And, after the auto had develop into a closed car, it follows them as they struggled opposed to sounds audible in the vehicle.

The ebook additionally lines how noise is associated either to fears - fears of noise-induced fatigue, fears in regards to the risk of the automobile radio and drivers' awareness spans - and to desires, exploring how drivers at one aspect truly wanted to hearken to their cars' engines for you to diagnose mechanical difficulties and the way they now enjoy radio site visitors details. And it means that their disdain for the ever-expanding variety of roadside noise boundaries made them lengthy for brand new kinds of in-car audio entertainment.

This publication additionally permits you to peep behind the curtain of foreign standardization committees and automobile attempt benches. What did and does the automobile do to safe the sounds attribute for his or her manufacturers?

Drawing on documents, interviews, appealing old car advertisements, and writing from cultural background, technology and know-how reports, sound and sensory stories, this e-book unveils the hidden historical past of a regular phenomenon. it really is in regards to the sounds of vehicle engines, tires, wipers, blinkers, caution indications, in-car audio platforms and, finally, approximately how we turned used to listening whereas using.

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Make: Getting Started with Adafruit FLORA: Making Wearables by Becky Stern, Tyler Cooper

By Becky Stern, Tyler Cooper

This ebook introduces readers to development wearable electronics tasks utilizing Adafruit's tiny flowers board: at 4.4 grams, and in simple terms 1.75 inches in diameter, and that includes Arduino compatibility, it's the main beginner-friendly technique to create wearable tasks. This booklet indicates you ways to plot your wearable circuits, stitch with electronics, and write courses that run at the plant life to regulate the electronics. The plant life kin contains an collection of sensors, in addition to RGB LEDs that allow you to upload lighting fixtures for your wearable initiatives.

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Thinking About America's Defense: An Analytical Memoir by Glenn A. Kent, David Ochmanek, Michael Spirtas, Bruce R.

By Glenn A. Kent, David Ochmanek, Michael Spirtas, Bruce R. Pirnie

Lieutenant common Glenn A. Kent was once a uniquely acute analyst and developer of yankee protection coverage within the moment 1/2 the 20th century. His 33-year profession within the Air strength used to be through greater than two decades as one of many prime analysts at RAND. This quantity isn't really a memoir within the basic feel yet quite a precis of the handfuls of nationwide safeguard concerns within which Glenn used to be for my part engaged over the process his occupation. those matters incorporated developing the one built-in operational plan (SIOP), best DoD's respectable evaluate of strategic defenses within the Nineteen Sixties, constructing and reading strategic nuclear palms keep watch over agreements, assisting to carry new weapon platforms to lifestyles, and so on. every one vignette describes the analytical frameworks and, the place applicable, the mathematical formulation and charts that Glenn built and utilized to realize insights into the difficulty handy. the writer additionally relates his roles in a lot of the bureaucratic pulling and hauling that happened as matters have been addressed in the executive.

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The Science of Navigation: From Dead Reckoning to GPS by Mark Denny

By Mark Denny

In today's international of on-line maps and commute instructions added wirelessly to hand held units, getting from position to put calls for little inspiration from so much of us'which is an effective factor, on account that actual navigation may be tough. Get your bearings with Mark Denny'an professional at explaining clinical recommendations in non-technical language'in this all-encompassing examine the historical past and technology of navigation.Denny's travel kicks off with key evidence concerning the earth and the way its actual houses impact shuttle. He discusses cartography and early mapmakers, revealing attention-grabbing tidbits akin to how adjustments over the years of the course of real north, in addition to of magnetic north, impacted navigation. Denny info the evolution of navigation from the times of coastal piloting to GPS and different modern day applied sciences. He explains the medical breakthroughs in obtainable, fun phrases and offers an insightful examine their results on societies, cultures, and human development. all through, Denny frames the lengthy background of navigation with striking stories of such humans as Pytheas, an historical Greek navigator, and Sir Francis Drake and of such discoveries because the magnetic compass and radio course finding.Whether you are interested in orienteering and geocaching or need to know extra concerning the serious function navigation has performed in human survival and growth considering that historical humans realized to take advantage of lodestones, The technological know-how of Navigation is for you. With it you'll eventually comprehend the why of wayfinding.

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