Thomas Streeter, "The Net Effect: Romanticism, Capitalism, and the Internet"
240 pages | 2011 | ISBN-10: 0814741150, 0814741169 | PDF | 41,2 MB
This book about America's romance with computer communication looks at the internet, not as harbinger of the future or the next big thing, but as an expression of the times. Streeter demonstrates that our ideas about what connected computers are for have been in constant flux since their invention. In the 1950s they were imagined as the means for fighting nuclear wars, in the 1960s as systems for bringing mathematical certainty to the messy complexity of social life, in the 1970s as countercultural playgrounds, in the 1980s as an icon for what's good about free markets, in the 1990s as a new frontier to be conquered and, by the late 1990s, as the transcendence of markets in an anarchist open source utopia.
Advanced Effect Maker Free Edition - a free program to create flash animation with ready-made applets. Many of you, I think, ever tried to create their own sites (and maybe you even own a very popular portal). Either way, each faced with the problem of spectacular design of the web-pages. And, as a static HTML-code is gradually receding into the past, many now turning their attention to such popular technologies like javascript and Flash. They allow you to create beautiful animated dynamic pages with advanced functionality.
The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
English | MP3 | 15 hrs | 643 Mb
What makes good people do bad things? How can moral people be seduced to act immorally?
Where is the line separating good from evil, and who is in danger of crossing it?
Renowned social psychologist Philip Zimbardo has the answers, and in The Lucifer Effect he explains how–and the myriad reasons why–we are all susceptible to the lure of “the dark side.” Drawing on examples from history as well as his own trailblazing research, Zimbardo details how situational forces and group dynamics can work in concert to make monsters out of decent men and women.
In this tutorial we’ll create an invisibility effect using 2D footage by displacing different alpha and luminance values.
To transition the effect on and off we will generate a fractal pattern to combine with an additive dissolve.
The Art of Mass Effect Universe English | PDF | Pages 184 | 153.9 Mb
The Mass Effect series is a groundbreaking epic that has immersed gamers in one of science fiction''s richest universes. Now BioWare and Dark Horse are proud to invite fans deeper than ever into the Mass Effect saga with The Art of the Mass Effect Universe! Featuring concept art and commentary by BioWare on the games'' characters, locations, vehicles, weapons, and more - Mass Effect 3 - The Art of the Mass Effect Universe is the most complete companion available to gaming''s most compelling series.
The new Mass Effect 3 game will be the third and final in the series, will be arriving in just two months time, and is currently being developed by BioWare and published by Electronic Arts.