“…In this book, you'll learn what the Edge space is, the capabilities to look for when selecting a solution to operate in this realm, and how AWS Outposts delivers. …”

“…A comprehensive introduction to 3D modeling, from the fundamental ideas of topology to in-depth examples that will help you take your projects to the next level Key Features Overcome complex topology problems while working through projects Learn to topologize quad-based and non-quad-based meshes with step-by-step examples Optimize your models by reducing the triangle count to improve performance Book Description This book is an introduction to modeling and an in-depth look at topology in Blender, written by a Blender topology specialist with years of experience with the software. …”

“…This is true across sectors, from immersive theatre to vinyl records, and although digital will undoubtedly dominate our future, there are pockets of resistance. This book will look at contemporary artisans who are deeply influenced by the digital world in which we live, but who reject processes such as 3D printing as a final output. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…You, you darlin' (3:19) -- Jack the bear (3:15) -- Ko-ko (2:39) --Morning glory (3:15) -- So far, so good (2:50) -- Conga brava (2:54) --Concerto for Cootie (3:19) -- Me and you (2:54) -- Cottontail (3:08) -- Never no lament (3:15) -- Dusk (3:19) -- Bojangles : A portrait of Bill Robinson (2:50) -- A portrait of Bert Williams (3:09) -- Blue goose (3:21) -- Harlem air shaft (2:57) -- At a Dixie roadside diner (2:45) -- All too soon (3:28) --Rumpus in Richmond (2:46) -- My greatest mistake (3:27) -- Sepia panorama (3:20) -- There shall be no night (3:05) -- In a mellotone (3:19) -- Five o'clock whistle (3:18) -- Warm valley (3:20) -- The flaming sword (3:06) --Across the track blues (2:58) -- Chloe : song of the swamp (3:24) -- I never felt this way before (3:23) -- The sidewlaks of New York (3:14) -- Flamingo (3:22) -- The girl in my dreams tries to look like you (3:19) --…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 1.2 Structure of a Discounted Cash Flow Spreadsheet -- 1.3 The Cash Flow Projection -- 1.4 Discount Rate -- 1.5 Market Value and Forward-Looking (Ex-Ante) Analysis -- 1.6 Backward-Looking (Ex-Post) Analysis -- 1.7 Conclusion -- Chapter 2 Economics of the Discounted Cash Flow Valuation Model: Understanding the Discount Rate is Critical -- 2.1 Choice of Discount Rate -- 2.2 Differences between Discount Rate, Opportunity Cost of Capital, and Internal Rate of Return -- 2.3 Net Present Value -- 2.4 Relationship between Discount Rate, Growth Rate, and Income Yield -- 2.5 Relationship between Discount Rate and Risk -- 2.6 Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Future Scenarios Matter: We Need to Recognize that Future Projections are Uncertain -- 3.1 The Standard Discounted Cash Flow Model Appears to be Deterministic -- 3.2 We Live in a World of Uncertainty -- 3.3 Discounted Cash Flow Pro Forma Cash Flows Are Expectations -- 3.4 Flexibility and Options -- 3.5 Conclusion -- Chapter 4 Scenario Analysis: Future Scenarios can Significantly and Surprisingly Affect the Present Value -- 4.1 Discounted Cash Flow Scenario Analysis -- 4.2 Scenarios Affect Value -- 4.3 Flexibility Has Value -- 4.4 Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Future Outcomes Cover a Range of Possibilities: We Can Describe Uncertainties in Real Estate Using Probability Distributions of Possible Future Outcomes -- 5.1 Distribution of Future Outcomes -- 5.2 Quantifying Input Distributions…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Viewing the kernel space stack of a given thread or process -- Viewing the user space stack of a given thread or process -- [e]BPF - the modern approach to viewing both stacks -- The 10,000-foot view of the process VAS -- Understanding and accessing the kernel task structure -- Looking into the task structure -- Accessing the task structure with current -- Determining the context -- Working with the task structure via current -- Built-in kernel helper methods and optimizations -- Trying out the kernel module to print process context info -- Seeing that the Linux OS is monolithic -- Coding for security with printk -- Iterating over the kernel's task lists -- Iterating over the task list I - displaying all processes -- Iterating over the task list II - displaying all threads -- Differentiating between the process and thread - the TGID and the PID -- Iterating over the task list III - the code -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 7: Memory Management Internals - Essentials -- Technical requirements -- Understanding the VM split -- Looking under the hood - the Hello, world C program -- Going beyond the printf() API -- VM split on 64-bit Linux systems -- Virtual addressing and address translation -- The process VAS - the full view -- Examining the process VAS -- Examining the user VAS in detail -- Directly viewing the process memory map using procfs -- Interpreting the /proc/PID/maps output -- The vsyscall page -- Frontends to view the process memory map -- The procmap process VAS visualization utility -- Understanding VMA basics -- Examining the kernel segment -- High memory on 32-bit systems -- Writing a kernel module to show information about the kernel segment -- Viewing the kernel segment on a Raspberry Pi via dmesg -- Macros and variables describing the kernel segment layout -- Trying it out - viewing kernel segment details…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Dynamically controlling debug_level via procfs -- A few misc procfs APIs -- Interfacing via the sys filesystem (sysfs) -- Creating a sysfs (pseudo) file in code -- Creating a simple platform device -- Platform devices -- Tying it all together - setting up the device attributes and creating the sysfs file -- The code for implementing our sysfs file and its callbacks -- The "one value per sysfs file" rule -- Interfacing via the debug filesystem (debugfs) -- Checking for the presence of debugfs -- Looking up the debugfs API documentation -- An interfacing example with debugfs -- Creating and using the first debugfs file -- Creating and using the second debugfs file -- Helper debugfs APIs for working on numeric globals -- Removing the debugfs pseudo file(s) -- Seeing a kernel bug - an Oops! …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- What Has the Euro Done for Its Members? -- 1-4 China -- 1-5 Looking Ahead -- Appendix: Where to Find the numbers -- Chapter 2 A Tour of the Book -- 2-1 Aggregate Output -- GDP: Production and Income -- Nominal and Real GDP -- GDP: Level versus Growth Rate -- 2-2 The Unemployment Rate -- Why Do Economists Care about Unemployment? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Summary -- Key terms -- Questions and problems -- THE OPEN ECONOMY -- Chapter 17 Openness in goods and financial markets -- 17.1 Openness in goods markets -- 17.2 Openness in financial markets -- 17.3 Conclusions and a look ahead -- Summary -- Key terms -- Questions and problems -- Further reading -- Chapter 18 The goods market in an open economy -- 18.1 The IS relation in the open economy -- 18.2 Equilibrium output and the trade balance -- 18.3 Increases in demand - domestic or foreign -- 18.4 Depreciation, the trade balance and output -- 18.5 Looking at dynamics: the J-curve -- 18.6 Saving, investment and the current account balance -- Summary -- Key terms -- Questions and problems -- Further reading -- Appendix: Derivation of the Marshall-Lerner condition -- Chapter 19 Output, the interest rate and the exchange rate -- 19.1 Equilibrium in the goods market -- 19.2 Equilibrium in financial markets -- 19.3 Putting goods and financial markets together -- 19.4 The effects of policy in an open economy -- 19.5 Fixed exchange rates -- Summary -- Key terms -- Questions and problems -- Appendix: Fixed exchange rates, interest rates and capital mobility -- Chapter 20 Exchange rate regimes -- 20.1 The medium run -- 20.2 Exchange rate crises under fixed exchange rates -- 20.3 Exchange rate movements under flexible exchange rates -- 20.4 Choosing between exchange rate regimes -- Summary -- Key terms -- Questions and problems -- Further reading -- Appendix 1: Deriving the IS relation under fixed exchange rates -- Appendix 2: The real exchange rate and domestic and foreign real interest rates -- BACK TO POLICY -- Chapter 21 Should policy makers be restrained? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Only two work -- Chapter Ten Selecting Long-Term Winners: Don't Look for the Needle-Buy the Haystack -- A fund failure rate of almost 80 percent -- A death in the family -- The odds against success are terrible: Only two out of 355 funds have delivered truly superior performance -- The Magellan Fund story -- The Contrafund story -- Living by the sword, dying by the sword -- Look (forward) before you leap -- Don't look for the needle, buy the haystack…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Using the SELECT statement for generating a new dataset -- Making flexible queries using parameters -- Time for action - getting orders in a range of dates using parameters -- Adding parameters to your queries -- Making flexible queries by using Kettle variables -- Time for action - getting orders in a range of dates by using Kettle variables -- Using Kettle variables in your queries -- Sending data to a database -- Time for action - loading a table with a list of manufacturers -- Inserting new data into a database table with the Table output step -- Inserting or updating data by using other PDI steps -- Time for action - inserting new products or updating existent ones -- Time for action - testing the update of existent products -- Inserting or updating with the Insert/Update Step -- Eliminating data from a database -- Time for action - deleting data about discontinued items -- Deleting records of a database table with the Delete step -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Performing Advanced Operations with Databases -- Preparing the environment -- Time for action - populating the Jigsaw database -- Exploring the Jigsaw database model -- Looking up data in a database -- Doing simple lookups -- Time for action - using a Database lookup step to create a list of products to buy -- Looking up values in a database with the Database lookup step -- Performing complex lookups -- Time for action - using a Database join step to create a list of suggested products to buy -- Joining data from the database to the stream data by using a Database join step -- Introducing dimensional modeling -- Loading dimensions with data -- Time for action - loading a region dimension with a Combination lookup/update step -- Time for action - testing the transformation that loads the region dimension -- Describing data with dimensions…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Knowing Your Options: Other Business Structures -- Going it alone: Sole proprietorships -- Being a sole proprietorship -- Shouldering full liability: The buck stops with you -- Exploring some more disadvantages -- Losing LLC benefits with disregarded entity taxation -- Adding a partner: General partnerships -- Doubling the trouble by doubling the partners -- Finding out other disadvantages -- Filing taxes with partnership taxation -- Throwing in a little legal protection: Limited partnerships -- Meeting the black sheep of the partnership family: LLPs and LLLPs -- Limited liability partnership (LLP) -- Limited liability limited partnership (LLLP) -- Separating yourself from your business: Corporations -- Creating a legal "person" -- Dealing with the blow of double taxation -- Easing the tax burden: S corporations -- Obtaining pass-through taxation, corporation style -- Complicating matters with IRS restrictions -- Getting Personal: Using an LLC to Achieve Your Specific Goals -- You're running a small business -- Relying on insurance - to a point -- Taking your business seriously so that others will too -- Combining all the perks in one entity: LLCs -- You want to work for yourself -- You're looking to raise venture capital -- Forming your business as a corporation to attract investors -- Knowing when an LLC will work -- You want to maximize your real estate investments -- Knowing when corps can kill -- Protecting real estate with LLCs -- You're looking to keep things in the family -- You need to protect what you've earned -- You're enrolling others in a project -- Part 2 Your First Steps: Forming Your LLC -- Chapter 4 Making a Few Key Decisions -- Stepping into the Driver's Seat: Making Essential Decisions Before Forming Your LLC -- Choosing the initial members -- Deciding how you want your company to be managed -- When the members manage…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- About This Book -- Foolish Assumptions -- Icons Used in This Book -- Beyond the Book -- Where to Go from Here -- Book 1 An Accounting Primer -- Chapter 1 Principles of Accounting -- Looking at the Purpose of Accounting -- The big picture -- Managers, investors, and entrepreneurs -- External creditors -- Government agencies -- Business form generation -- Reviewing the Common Financial Statements -- Income statement -- Balance sheet -- Statement of cash flows -- Other accounting statements -- Putting it all together -- Examining the Philosophy of Accounting -- Revenue principle -- Expense principle -- Matching principle -- Cost principle -- Objectivity principle -- Continuity assumption -- Unit-of-measure assumption -- Separate-entity assumption -- Adding a Few Words about Tax Accounting -- Chapter 2 Double-Entry Bookkeeping -- Using the Fiddle-Faddle Method of Accounting -- Finding Out How Double-Entry Bookkeeping Works -- The accounting model -- Talking mechanics -- Looking at Almost a Real-Life Example -- Recording rent expense -- Recording wages expense -- Recording supplies expense -- Recording sales revenue -- Recording cost of goods sold -- Recording the payoff of accounts payable -- Recording the payoff of a loan -- Calculating account balance -- Using T-account analysis results -- Adding a Few Words about How QuickBooks Works -- Chapter 3 Special Accounting Problems -- Working with Accounts Receivable -- Recording a sale -- Recording a payment -- Estimating bad-debt expense -- Removing uncollectible accounts receivable -- Recording Accounts Payable Transactions -- Recording a bill -- Paying a bill -- Taking some other accounts payable pointers -- Looking at Inventory Accounting -- Dealing with obsolete inventory -- Disposing of obsolete inventory…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Tools for Competitive Intelligence -- Tools for Intelligence on Your Own Site -- This One Will Blow You Away -- Low-Cost Insights -- Using Video Effectively -- Chapter 13 Your Team -- The Question Before the Question -- Your Hiring Process -- Traits We Look for in New Hires -- References -- Alternatives to Hiring -- Chapter 14 Eyes Wide Open -- Small Hinges Swing Big Doors -- When Circumstances Change, Take Time to Think -- Count Yourself In -- Execute on the Fundamentals, Even When They Are Tiresome to You -- Don't Suffer in Silence -- Beware of Shiny Objects -- Epilogue: When to Abandon the Dream? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Validating Your Claims -- The Dos and Don'ts During Meetings -- Managing the Flow of Information -- What to Look for in the Potential Buyer -- What Information Is The Buyer Asking For? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- About This Book -- Foolish Assumptions -- Icons Used in This Book -- Beyond the Book -- Where to Go from Here -- Part 1 Using Your Camera Straight out of the Box -- Chapter 1 Introducing Android Smartphone Photography -- Becoming Familiar with Your Android Camera -- Single-lens models -- Dual-lens models -- Triple-lens models -- Models with more than three lenses -- Taking a Look Around the Camera App -- Taking a Picture -- Viewing Your Photo -- Editing Your Photo -- Sharing Your Photo -- Chapter 2 Taking an In-Depth Tour of Your Camera -- Holding Your Phone Properly for Steady Photos -- Using Different Ways to Open Your Camera -- Zooming In to Your Subject -- Using the digital zoom -- Trying optical zoom instead of digital zoom -- Capturing Selfies with and without Background Blur -- Understanding When to Use (and Not to Use) the Camera Flash -- Photographing with the Camera Timer for Sharp Photos -- Landscape photography using your timer -- Family portraits -- Selfies with a tripod or stand -- Chapter 3 Altering Your Camera's Settings and Storing Your Photos -- Opening and Activating Google Photos -- Choosing Storage Options for Your Photos -- Deciding on photo upload quality -- Managing on-device photo storage -- Transferring photos to a PC or Mac -- Being Mindful of Cellular Data Over-Usage -- Allowing Your Camera to Track Your Location -- Chapter 4 Taking a Deep Dive into the Camera App -- Preparing to Take Selfies -- Lighting and background -- Selfie sticks and stabilizers -- Taking Selfies -- Choosing the Portrait selfie mode -- Adjusting background blur amounts -- Adding facial skin smoothening -- Choosing your favorite selfie effect -- Adding Live Filters to your selfies -- Adjusting selfie zoom to add your friends into the picture…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…We're Going to Fail-It's a Question of When and by How Much -- Designing the Right Thing -- There's Nothing Wrong About Being Wrong -- We Seek Intelligent Failures -- Risk Factors -- Conclusion -- Summary -- Chapter 5 - Create, Discover, Analyze -- Overview -- Begin at the End -- The Artifact Provokes Discovery -- Analyze What They Mean, Not Just What We Heard -- Taking the Low Road -- High-Fidelity Artifacts Look and Feel Like Finished Products -- Low-Fidelity Artifacts Cost Less -- Risk Factors -- Effort -- Reality, Timidity, and Incrementalism -- Missing the Point -- Focusing on the Small -- Hiding in Plain Sight -- Diminished Value -- Summary -- Chapter 6 - Make Assumptions Explicit -- Overview -- Revealing Assumptions Isn't Easy -- Discussing Solutions, not Assumptions -- Released Product is No Place to Learn What Stakeholders Need -- Nonsensical Artifacts Generate Useful Results -- Good Assumptions are Hard to Find -- Ass.U.Me-Implicit Assumptions Make Us All Look Stupid -- We Really Want to Believe -- We Don't Know Anybody Else's Assumptions Either -- Risk Factors -- Insincerity -- Not Getting to Yes -- Summary -- Chapter 7 - Iterate, Iterate, Iterate! …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Creating a Table -- Changing the Look of a Table -- Working with Tables -- Navigating in a table -- Selecting parts of a table -- Adding new rows or columns -- Deleting rows or columns -- Moving a table -- Working with the Total Row -- Removing duplicate rows from a table -- Sorting and filtering a table -- Sorting a table -- Filtering a table -- Filtering a table with slicers -- Converting a table back to a range -- Chapter 6: Worksheet Formatting -- Getting to Know the Formatting Tools -- Using the formatting tools on the Home tab -- Using the Mini toolbar -- Using the Format Cells dialog box -- Using Different Fonts to Format Your Worksheet -- Changing Text Alignment -- Choosing horizontal alignment options -- Choosing vertical alignment options -- Wrapping or shrinking text to fit the cell -- Merging worksheet cells to create additional text space -- Displaying text at an angle -- Controlling the text direction -- Using Colors and Shading -- Adding Borders and Lines -- Adding a Background Image to a Worksheet -- Using Named Styles for Easier Formatting -- Applying styles -- Modifying an existing style -- Creating new styles -- Merging styles from other workbooks -- Controlling styles with templates…”

“…We'll also take a closer look at WSUS, containers and see how to handle modules that are not directly compatible with PowerShell 7. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Business Cycle -- 1.1 Stylized Facts -- 1.2 A Closer Look at Unemployment -- 1.3 A Closer Look at Inflation and Deflation -- 1.4 A Stylized Business Cycle -- 2. …”