“…Drawing on the disarticulate figures in modern fictional works such as Billy Budd, The Sound and the Fury, Night wood, White Noise, and The Echo Maker, among others, James Berger shows in this intellectually bracing study how these characters mark sites at which aesthetic, philosophical, ethical, political, medical, and scientific discourses converge. …”

“…Author Peter Royal equips you with sound guidance to follow as you evolve your existing systems, as well as examples of how to build those systems using modern techniques in Spring, Java, and PostgreSQL. …”

“…As improbable as it may sound, an illuminating way to understand today's China and how it views the West is to look at the astonishing ways Chinese intellectuals are interpreting-or is it misinterpreting?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Building a Siri-Like Chatbot in ROS -- Social robots -- Building social robots -- Prerequisites -- Getting started with AIML -- AIML tags -- The PyAIML interpreter -- Installing PyAIML on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS -- Playing with PyAIML -- Loading multiple AIML files -- Creating an AIML bot in ROS -- The AIML ROS package -- Installing the ROS sound_play package -- Installing the dependencies of sound_play -- Installing the sound_play ROS package -- Creating the ros_aiml package -- The aiml_server node -- The AIML client node -- The aiml_tts client node -- The AIML speech recognition node -- start_chat.launch -- start_tts_chat.launch -- start_speech_chat.launch -- Questions -- Summary -- 4. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Repairing Email -- Chapter 3 Video: The Personal, Rehumanizing Tool -- Relationships Are the Whole Point -- Millennia of Human Brain Training -- Our Faces Speak the Same Language -- The Eyes Have It -- Talking With Your Hands -- The Warmth of Your Smile -- Outsmarting Our Mental Shortcuts -- Chapter 4 Six Signs This New Approach Is for You and Your Business -- Sign 1: You Teach, Train, Sell, or Serve -- Sign 2: You Drive Opportunities Toward Face-to-Face Meetings -- Sign 3: You Want to Improve Customer Experience -- Sign 4: You Risk Disintermediation by Web Apps, Tools, and Automations -- Sign 5: You Benefit From Word of Mouth -- Sign 6: You Win More Opportunities Face to Face -- Six Signs That You Need Personal Video -- Part 2 When to Rehumanize with Video -- Chapter 5 Nine Stories of Sales Acceleration and Better Customer Experience -- Author Dan Pink and Professor Dan Smith -- The Most Important Sound in Any Language -- Leadership, Video, and the Handwritten Note -- Appreciation You Can Feel -- More Sales Replies and Fewer Support Replies -- Even More Success in Customer Success…”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…; 4.5 How to Use the APIs; 4.6 Examples: SoundTouch and SoundStretch; 4.7 Known Limitations, Issues and Workarounds; 4.8 Summary; 5 Writing Hybrid Code…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Process For Creating Great Content; 5.1 Analyzing Current Traditional Media; 5.2 Considering Content on Two Levels; 5.2.1 Network Identification with Consistent Guidelines; 5.2.2 Concept Creation and Storyboards; 5.3 Building Great Content; 5.3.1 Preproduction; 5.3.2 Production; 5.3.3 Postproduction; 5.4 Sound or No Sound?; 5.5 Summary; 6. Specifications For Content; 6.1 Aspect Ratios: How Content Shapes Up; 6.2 Screen Zones: To Subdivide or Not?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Quiz -- Understanding I/O Ports -- USB -- SCSI -- Serial (COM) -- Parallel (LPT) -- IEEE 1394 (FireWire) -- PS/2 (Mini-DIN) -- Centronics -- 1/8-inch Audio Mini-Jack -- SPDIF Digital Audio -- MIDI Port -- RG-6 Coaxial -- Understanding Input Devices -- Keyboard -- Mouse and Pointing Devices -- Bar Code Reader -- Biometric Devices -- Touch Screens -- Understanding Multimedia Devices -- Webcam -- Digital Camera -- MIDI Music and MIDI Ports -- Sound Card -- Microphone -- Video Capture Card -- Installing Input and Multimedia Devices -- Installing a Keyboard -- Installing a Mouse or Other Pointing Device -- Installing a Bar Code Reader -- Installing a Webcam -- Installing a Digital Camera -- Installing a MIDI Port -- Installing a Microphone -- Installing a Biometric Device -- Installing a Touch Screen -- Installing a Sound Card -- Installing a Video Capture Card -- Troubleshooting Input and Multimedia Devices -- Troubleshooting Keyboards -- Troubleshooting Mice and Pointing Devices -- Troubleshooting Touch Screen -- Troubleshooting Sound Card -- Troubleshooting SCSI Devices -- Troubleshooting I/O Ports -- Troubleshooting USB Ports and Devices -- Troubleshooting IEEE 1394 Ports and Devices -- Troubleshooting Parallel (LPT) Ports and Devices -- Troubleshooting Serial Ports and Devices -- Maintaining Input Devices -- Maintaining Mice and Pointing Devices -- Maintaining Keyboards…”