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Compression Algorithms for Real Programmers

Compression Algorithms for Real Programmers

Peter Wayner

Peter Wayner. [Sol97] [Sto88] [Tha96] [var98] [Wal91] [Wat93] [Way95] [Way96] [ Way97] [WC92] Stephen J. Solari. Digital Video and Audio Compression. McGraw- Hill, New York City,New York, 1997. James Storer. Data Compression.
Free for All

Free for All

Peter Wayner

Read this story of how a loose-knit group of programmers, dreamers, philosophers, geniuses and fools discovered the fact that that they could write better software in less time by just giving it all away.
Agents Unleashed: A Public Domain Look at Agent Technology

Agents Unleashed: A Public Domain Look at Agent Technology

Peter Wayner

The text also encompasses the instructions on how to use the XLISP agents. Software agents will find the book invaluable.
Java and JavaScript Programming

Java and JavaScript Programming

Peter Wayner

Teaching how to program using Java and JavaScript, this text also discusses when it is most advantageous to use one or the other. The author focuses on developing the type of applet that users are likely to develop themselves.
Digital Cash: Commerce on the Net

Digital Cash: Commerce on the Net

Peter Wayner

The creation and use of Internet-based monetary exchange systems is a growing area of concern for a wide variety of companies who desire to utilize the Net for business and/or banking purposes.
Disappearing Cryptography: Information Hiding: Steganography ...

Disappearing Cryptography: Information Hiding: Steganography ...

Peter Wayner

Wojciech Mazurczyk and Krzysztof Szczypiorski. Steganography of voip streams, 2008. Robert P. McEvoy, Michael Tunstall, Colin C. Murphy, and William P. Marnane. Differential power analysis [Mur06] [MvV97] [Nas49] [NCS93] [Neu64] ...
Java Beans for real programmers

Java Beans for real programmers

Peter Wayner

An advanced Internet developer's guide to Sun's Java Beans API technology shows how to incorporate Java Beans into application development, outlines the rules for building Java Beans, and illuminates the strategy behind creating Beans. ...
Digital Copyright Protection

Digital Copyright Protection

Peter Wayner

An introduction to major digital techniques that can be used by copyright holders to defend their copyright discusses encryption methods, key-based systems to lock data, network-based key systems, tagging methods, counterfeit protection, ...
Understanding Religious Ethics

Understanding Religious Ethics

Charles Mathewes

I think especially of Sarah Azaransky, Ann Duncan, Karen Guth, Jon Malesic, Michelle Meyer, Gordon Steffey, and Chad Wayner, but I know there are many, many others. Also, colleagues here at UVA and far away helped in many ways as  ...
The Kershner families of Maryland, 1731-1977

The Kershner families of Maryland, 1731-1977

Mary Kershner Maxwell

Peter Peter Peter Peter (M) Nicholas Nicholas *l20 ac Nicholas *128 ac Nicholas *l28 ac Nicholas Nicholas Nicholas *5 persons Peter Peter* Anth'y* blksmith l50 a Peter *l76 a Peter* BPS Anthony *l50 a Anthony *150 a Anthony Martin *0 ...
Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Laurence J. Peter

From the author of the multimillion-selling The Peter Principle, and The Peter Prescription, here is a timeless collection of some of history's greatest and best-expressed thoughts.
Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Dr. Laurence J. Peter

From the author of the multimillion-selling The Peter Principle, and The Peter Prescription, here is a timeless collection of some of history's greatest and best-expressed thoughts.
Peter Pan - Hello, my name is Peter

Peter Pan - Hello, my name is Peter

Robert Steiner

Sixty years after the original story, Wendy must face her fears and weaknesses and return to Neverland to rescue Peter from certain doom in this final and most touching chapter of the ever youthful legend of Peter Pan.
Before I Met You: A Novel

Before I Met You: A Novel

Lisa Jewell

Peter Lawler. He sounded like he might be a financial adviser. Or a solicitor. The intercom crackled, and the sound of an elderly lady's voice emerged. “Yes?” “Oh, hello. I'm looking for a Peter Lawler.” “Who?” “Peter Lawler.” “Peter Morler?” “No ...
The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong

The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong

Dr. Laurence J. Peter

With the wit of Mark Twain, the psychological acuity of Sigmund Freud, and the theoretical impact of Isaac Newton, Dr. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull’s The Peter Principle brilliantly explains how incompetence and its accompanying ...
The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to ...

The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to ...

Paul Dickson

280 Peter's Paradoxical Paradox of incompetence; every post tends to be filled by an employee incompetent to ... Peter's Theorem: Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence. (Dr. LaurenceJ. Peter and Peter Hull, from their book ...
Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), ...

Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), ...

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Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), ...

Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), ...

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6/Boundary Marker 59931 B Peter Strauss Ranch Entrance Arch 59932 C Peter Strauss Ranch Swimming Pool 7 59933 C Peter Strauss Ranch Water Tank 59935 B Peter Strauss Ranch Terrazzo Dance Floor 59935 C Peter Strauss Ranch ...
Complex Population Dynamics: A Theoretical/empirical Synthesis

Complex Population Dynamics: A Theoretical/empirical Synthesis

Peter Turchin

Many people provided extensive comments on previous book drafts, or draft chapters: Alan Berryman, Lev Ginzburg, Roger Nisbet, Peter Hudson, Alexei Sharov, Peter Kareiva, Mauricio Lima, Peter Abrams, Jason Matthiopoulos, Larry Mueller ...
Peter's Almanac

Peter's Almanac

Laurence J. Peter

Providing support and encouragement for enduring the occasional lunacy of modern life, Dr. Peter brings together, in the form of an almanac, a collection of appropriate adages, epigrams, one-liners, and little-known historical facts
God Had Me In His Hands All The Time

God Had Me In His Hands All The Time

Willie M. Graham

Peter was Nan's nephew and Lulla's grandson. Peter was a baby when he came to live with Lulla. He was her only grandchild because Lulla only had one child, a son. Peter's mama didn't want him when he was born. They say Peter's mama told Peter's daddy, “I don't want no black baby and if you don't come and git th bastard I'm gonna git rid of him. I don't care what you do wit him you can throw him in th river forwhatIcare. Jes git him away from me.” Dey say she was white or half ...
Peter Between Jerusalem and Antioch: Peter, James, and the ...

Peter Between Jerusalem and Antioch: Peter, James, and the ...

Jack J. Gibson

John Strazicich writes: The apostle (Peter) does not yet understand the universalistic interpretation of 110;"53. It is obvious that, for him, 'all flesh' has a distinctive Jewish interpretation, since on the Day of Pentecost he is addressing his own ...
Peter Hujar: a retrospective

Peter Hujar: a retrospective

Peter Hujar

Peter Hujar, a New Yorker of Ukrainian descent, died of AIDS in 1987.
In Heaven Everything is Fine: The Unsolved Life of Peter ...

In Heaven Everything is Fine: The Unsolved Life of Peter ...

Josh Frank

Maybe we'll lunch at the Harvard Club on me—Thanks, Alan, say hi to Fam— Love, Peter Peter set his head down on the table ... He had written a letter to Alan Siegal with an update about the recent developments with his screen-writing and  ...
James, 1 & 2 Peter, and Early Jesus Traditions

James, 1 & 2 Peter, and Early Jesus Traditions

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The author of 2 Peter is no exception to that rule as he evokes the gospel tradition as a source of reliable testimony which ... Philosophical Quarterly 47 ( 1997), pp.227–32; Peter Lipton, 'The Epistemology of Testimony', Studies in History and ...
South Asia: An Environmental History

South Asia: An Environmental History

Christopher V. Hill

... I hope they all know how much their support and assistance has meant to me: Daud Ali, Rich Barnett, Peter Brumlik, ... Jim and Becky Menlove, Rila Muckerjee, Pashendra Satyal Pravat, Peter Robb, Pushkar Sahoni, Peter Schmitthenner, ...
The Oxford Handbook of Austrian Economics

The Oxford Handbook of Austrian Economics

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Boettke, Peter J., and Rosolino Candela. 2014. “Hayek, Leoni, and Law as the Fifth Factor of Production.” Atlantic Economic Journal 42, no. 2: 123–131. Boettke , Peter J., Christopher J. Coyne, and Peter T. Leeson. 2008. “Institutional ...
Haunted London

Haunted London

Peter Underwood

Peter Underwood. unidentified Frenchwoman accompanied by her ghost dog that used to haunt the old houses behind St Peter's church in Cranley Gardens. A huddled form, thought to be the ghost of Catherine Eddowes, a Jack the Ripper ...
Constitutional Mythologies: New Perspectives on Controlling ...

Constitutional Mythologies: New Perspectives on Controlling ...

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Boettke, Peter, and Peter Leeson. 2004. “Liberalism, Socialism, and Robust Political Economy.” Journal of Markets & Morality 7(1): 99–111. Boettke, Peter. 2009. “Institutional Transition and the Problem of Credible Commitment,” The Annual ...

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