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. . . . . . . . . . . .113 C H APT ER 5 Canvas 115 Canvas basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .118 Drawing paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .122 Using transformers: pixels in disguise . . . . . . . . .124 Capturing images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .126 Pushing pixels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .130 Animating your canvas paintings . . . . . . . . . .134 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .140 C H APT ER 6 Data Storage 141

and joy” (13) 50 scouts travelling 1000 Channels and More Regardless of the plethora of options available on the market the bottom line is people want to be entertained. This may mean watching a program on one of the hundreds of specialty channel that cater to a very specific audiences; watching a movie on an iPod; taking in a basketball game or user created content on YouTube. The fact remains that now more than ever entertainers have to provide a compelling offering to…

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I pictured it that way too, some hell-bound red dragon, shadow and fire, carving a path of utter ruin. The doctors had another name for it: early onset Alzheimer’s. I watched him closely, and I wondered if he saw anything, if the words and images turned to smoke as he looked on, helpless. Or if it was more like trying to open a deleted file on the computer, something you thought was there last time but couldn’t be certain, and all you got was that annoying message, over and…

short-term increase in demand for your products doesn’t make economic sense, either. Business users and IT developers are drawn to the ease of acquiring IaaS services. They simply go to a self-service interface and provide a credit card number, and an image of compute or storage services is provided almost instantly. The truth is that the traditional methods of acquiring computing resources simply haven’t kept pace with business urgency. These materials are the copyright of…

her baby held out — as in how many used heavy Kleenex, spit-back candies, wads of chewed-out gum in how many theaters, airports, backseats, tournament lounges? O. stood there, he says, hefting a cold clod, playing with the Velcro on his puffy coat, watching as the Moms, bent way down to me, hand reaching, her lowering face with its presbyopic squint, suddenly stopped, froze, beginning to I.D. what it was I held out, countenancing evidence of oral contact with same. He remembers her face…

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Computer ......................................................................... 55 Preparing the Reference Computer with the System Preparation Tool .................... 55 Creating an Image of the Reference Computer ....................................................... 56 Transferring and Setting up the Image on Multiple Computers ................................ 56 Turning on Windows Disk Protection on All Shared Computers .............................. 57 Using Windows…

really use the Web scanning, satisficing, and muddling through Why are things always in the last place you look for them? Because you stop looking when you find them. —children’s riddle I n the past ten years i’ve spent a lot of time watching people use the Web, and the thing that has struck me most is the difference between how we think people use Web sites and how they actually use them. When we’re creating sites, we act as though people are going to pore over each page, reading

Coordinator, Cover Lynsey Stanford Copy Editors Susan Christopherson Kim Cofer Proofreader Nancy Carrasco Carrie Hunter, Word One Editorial Director Robyn B. Siesky Indexer Robert Swanson Editorial Manager Mary Beth Wakefield Cover Image PhotoDisc/Punchstock Production Manager Tim Tate Acknowledgments The more I write the more I am indebted to the people who have helped me. These are my acknowledgment of thanks and gratitude for those people. Thanks to…