Les aventuriers de l'an 2000

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Abdul Kasim ... [et al

Carrier Ethernet is rapidly becoming the de facto platform for offering the next generation of high-bandwidth multimedia applications...[this book] provides an in-depth assessment of the various network solutions that can be used to deliver Carrier Ethernet services...based on extensive real-world deployments and is written by globally renowned experts...addresses each underlying technology, its benefits and pitfalls, deployment approaches, ongoing developments, economic assessments, and key vendors promoting the solution...[Explains how] Carrier Ethernet is delivered over: copper, HFC (Hybrid Fiber-Coax), PONs (Passive Optical Networks), TDM (Time Division Multiplexing), Fiber and WDM (Wavelength Division Multiplexing), Optical wireless mesh network/free space optics, SONET (Synchronous optical NETworking) / MSPP (Multi-Service Provisioning Platform), RPR (Resilient Packet Ring), Bridging/switching, MPLS (MultiProtocol Label Switching), WiMAX/WiMAC.

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Elena Passarello

From Farinelli, the eighteenth century castrato who brought down opera houses with his high C, to the recording of "Johnny B. Goode" affixed to the Voyager spacecraft, Let Me Clear My Throat dissects the whys and hows of popular voices, making them hum with significance and emotion. There are murders of punk rock crows, impressionists, and rebel yells; Howard Dean's "BYAH!" and Marlon Brando's "Stella!" and a stock film yawp that has made cameos in movies from A Star is Born to Spaceballs. The voice is thought's incarnating instrument and Elena Passarello's essays are a riotous deconstruction of the ways the sounds we make both express and shape who we are--the annotated soundtrack of us giving voice to ourselves.

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Thomas DePrima

"Unable to operate under its own power, the GSC Light-Destroyer Perry is to be transported back to Earth for necessary repairs. A Board of Inquiry will conduct an investigation into the events that transpired along the Clidepp Border. Lieutenant (jg) Sydnee Marcola has acquitted herself with honor and distinction, but she fears the Board may not appreciate some of the tactics she employed in carrying out her duty. As the Perry nears Earth, rebels fighting the Clidepp Empire oligarchy are making plans for a terrorist attack. Greatly disturbed by the Galactic Alliance's intervention into their affairs, they decide retribution is in order. That they were performing illegal acts inside GA space is immaterial. They feel the GA must pay for sticking its nose into their business, and the GA Trade Conference provides the perfect opportunity for payback. When the event is bombed, all evidence points to the rebels, but the Clidepp Empire refuses to take any action against identified suspects, so a decision is made by the Admiralty Board to take matters into their own hands."--Provided from Amazon.com

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Erich Neuwirth

This multimedia product (book) lets the reader investigate the mathematical foundations of musical tuning systems as theory and as audible experience. The embedded acoustical examples help to establish immediate connection between the formulas and the acoustical characteristics of different musical scales. The musical temperaments covered in the document are Pure, Pythagorean, Meantone, and Equal, the historically most important tuning systems. For each one of these temperaments the construction principles are explained in detail and with interactive visual aids, and whenever a mathematical formula for an interval is derived, this interval is made audible and can easily be compared with similar intervals in the different tuning systems. The sound examples in the multimedia version cover intervals, scales, and chords in the different tuning systems, and some examples even allow to listen to different scales simultaneously on the two channels of a stereo system. Besides being an introductory text with sound the document also contains a reference part which gives easy access to all the sound examples in a systematic way. System requirements: IBM PC or compatible, 8 MB RAM, CD-ROM drive, Soundcard, VGA Graphic Adapter, 16 colours, 40 MB free diskspace; Windows 3.x, Windows 95, Windows NT 4.0 European Academic Software Award 1996!