eventbased programming taking events to the limit

... shipment of General Electric rotors to European turbine facturers was halted.7 Given the limited supply of the rotors in Europedelivered prior to the December sanctions, the pipeline project faced ... sanctions NATO Communique (Jan 11, 1982) No sanctions were adopted at the NATO meeting, but the foreign ministers affirmed the intention not to undermine the minis-sanctions of others Id. 11 THE ECONOMaST, ... 399). 7 The American-manufactured rotors were a key component in the gas turbines that drive compressors which pump the natural gas from one compressor station to the next along the length of the

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... (denoted by the symbol “⊗,” (2)) before providing excitatory input into the photoreceptor’s membrane po-tential (symbol “P,” (1)) The photoreceptor potential in turn feeds back into both of the “gain ... a feedback mechanism which allows the photoreceptor to regulate the strength of its own excitatory input In addition, the excitatory drive of the photoreceptor is also a decreasing function of ... completely inactive The protein opsin is then de-phosphorylated, and retinal is reduced to all-trans-retinol The retinol is isomerized to the 11-cis-isomer outside the photoreceptor (in the adjacent

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... If the three dupacks is due to packet reordering then the sender need not retransmit the packets by reducing the size of cwnd On the other hand, if the three dupacks is caused by random loss, the ... segment leaves the sender, the field TSval stores the current time of sending packet If that seg-ment reaches the receiver, it stores the TSval When the receiver sends ack, it attaches the time of ... (Th-Val), the TCP sender confirms that the dupacks is due to network congestion and proceeds as TCP NewReno otherwise the sender assumes that the dupacks is due to non-congestion events and delays the

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... Street, Indianapolis, Indiana 46290 Taking Your Talent to the Web A Guide for the Transitioning Designer Trang 2Taking Your Talent to the Web: A Guide for the Transitioning Designer Copyright ... Standards—They’re Not Just for Geeks Anymore 27 Point #1: The Web Is Platform-Agnostic 27 Point #2: The Web Is Device-Independent 29 Point #3: The Web Is Held Together by Standards 29 The 18-Month ... Typography 62 The 97% Solution 62 Points of Distinction 63 Year 2000—Browsers to the Rescue 64 Touch Factor 65 Appropriate Graphic Design 65 Accessibility, the Hidden Shame of the Web 65 User

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... designers and art directors are eager to take their talents to the Web but aren’t sure how On the other, web agencies could not find enough good web designers to get their work done The Populi program ... TV Visitors not only link from page to page at their discretion, they also can post their own content to some sites, shop at others, play games, or alter the design ele-ments to suit their tastes ... article.cgi?id=46&page=1 Outside the corporate web sphere, personal sites go offline when their cre-ators get bored or they move to a new location, and the creator neglects to leave a forwarding address There are as

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... enlarges what the Web can be There is stupidity (and there is a lot of it) And then there is innovation and creative rule-breaking that sometimes leads to greatness 11 Taking Your Talent to the Web ... happened to HTML was not unlike what happens to legislation intro-duced in the U.S Congress A legislator wants to change the speed limit in his home state By the time it gets out of committee, the ... difference Where’s the Map? Books, magazines, CDs, and videocassettes do not need to explain them-selves Most of us read from left to right and top to bottom; we turn the page We insert the disc or

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... technologies, the W3C worked to develop recommendations that looked beyond the “Browser Wars.” At times, the W3C seemed to be out of touch with what was actually taking place in the market Back then, the ... developers Refer back to Figure 2.3, Assembler.org, for an example of the way frames work The bottom frame contains a menu; the top frame con-tains the content Clicking the menu changes the content by ... straining the computers used to serve web pages (servers), because the technology worked in the user’s browser instead of having to be processed by the server itself—the way Perl scripts and other

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... of the menu bar on each page, the visitor must download new graphics with every page, thus slowing the site expe- rience (and adding to the toll on the server). 49 Taking Your Talent to the ... at the bottom for the task bar, while the top of the screen is taken up with browser chrome (the buttons and text entry fields that allow users to navigate the Web) In Mac OS, the ... least 100 seconds to download to the user’s computer. The greater a for- mat’s compression ratio, the fewer kilobytes (or megabytes) your visitors have to download and the sooner they can start

Ngày tải lên: 03/07/2014, 07:20

... toward simulating the effect of the “touch.” For instance, when you move your mouse over or press the buttons at www.k10k.net, they seem to respond to your touch—like buttons in the real world Intuitive, ... In other words, you can tog-gle from Mac to PC gamma whether you’re working in Photoshop, using a browser, or simply have the kooky urge to push a Command key in the mid-dle of a slow day The ... calibrate their monitors, set their machines to sRGB, and find something else to worry about Trang 5There are three ways for Mac-based web designers to compensate for gamma issues The simplest is to

Ngày tải lên: 03/07/2014, 07:20

... designers and art directors take their talent to the Web, their consummate understanding of the power of the image would seem to position them as the ideal architects of the sites they design After ... sentence because they alienate potential readers, members, or customers rather than reas-suring them that they’ve come to the right place Good web design plunges the visitor into the exact content ... better how to focus and deliver the appropriate message before the consumer has time to click the browser’s Back button? In good shops, skilled web designers are empowered to do what they do best,

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... may be time to present the Trang 8reader with an arrow (or other page indicator) allowing them to move onto the next page of text Doing so can relieve eye fatigue, enhance the drama of the presentation ... visitor with new GUI elements, those elements have the potential to brand the site while offer-ing visitors a sense of identity and place These elements also have the potential to confuse the ... and you can toast your superiority to the rest of humanity and then hurry on to the next failure When bad web designers die and go to Hell, they will spend eternity search-ing for the Heaven option

Ngày tải lên: 03/07/2014, 07:20

... signs to track their location in space Web users rely on navigation Well-designed sites cue the visitor to her location within the site’s hierarchy For instance, if the visitor is within the Breedssection ... the flesh of cows; it sells food, folks, and fun Marlboro sells the myth of the freedom of the Wild West Camels are not for everybody, but then, they don’t try to be Branding is not limited to ... iden-tity Making sure that the navigation fully supports the company’s brand identity is crucial to the success of the site (and sometimes to the success of that company) Build the most navigable, information-filled

Ngày tải lên: 03/07/2014, 07:20

... Netscape introduces the tiled background image in Navigator 1.1 Warner Brothers’ “Batman Forever” site is among the first to make intelligent use of the feature, hacking it to create the illusion of ... around the world will join together to cre-ate a newer, better version of the Netscape browser The open source proj-ect for the Netscape Navigator source code is named Mozilla The Department of Justice ... (www.alistapart.com/stories/ie5mac/) 121 Taking Your Talent to the Web Trang 7The year web standards broke, 2Netscape 6 is released in the wee hours of November 14 It supports XML, and the W3C DOM as well as the

Ngày tải lên: 03/07/2014, 07:20

... be covered in the very next chapter Go there 133 Taking Your Talent to the Web Trang 5chapter 6What Is a Web Designer, Anyway? W E ’ VE EXPLORED THE STRENGTHS AND LIMITATIONS of the Web as a unique ... either the client has fundamentally misunderstood his market (it happens), or your design is sending the wrong messages To build sites that clearly convey what they are about and how they are to ... research and marketing folks to find out who is expected to visit the site and what they will demand of it You’ll be translating the anticipated needs of projected visitors into functional and attractive

Ngày tải lên: 03/07/2014, 07:20

... this point, the job of a web designer may appear too difficult How is it possible to reconcile the needs of the user with the demands of the client and the heritage of the brand—not to mention ... essential throughout the process If the client does not trust the web designer in the beginning of the cycle, the project will begin to self-destruct further down the line 152 WHO: Riding the Project ... without a map They may reach their destination safely, but it will be six months too late They may end up in Timbuktu, trying to convince the client they’re in Kansas The following story is true:

Ngày tải lên: 03/07/2014, 07:20

... smooth transition from the web team to the client Trang 7The updating gameIn the early days, clients viewed the web designer as a species of magician They knew they had to have a web presence, ... and they felt that you held their fate in your hands Not only were they eager to approve what you created (because it was all magic to them), they also were more than willing to retain you as the ... instructed the client never to touch it Yet every time he updated the front page, the Style Sheet reverted to an early, inferior vision, and the client was constantly contacting us to ask why the site

Ngày tải lên: 03/07/2014, 07:20

... Navigator, Opera, and iCab The table is used not to present tabular data (such as the con-tents of a spreadsheet) but rather to hold images in place Setting the bor-der to “0”disguises the tabular ... </p>before starting the image <IMG>tag, the browser has to guess whether you intend the image to be part of the para-graph or to follow it Depending on what the browser guesses, your ... are to cyberspace what street addresses are to the real world—no two addresses are exactly the same UNIX was used to serve most sites at the dawning of the Web, and conse-quently, URLs follow the

Ngày tải lên: 03/07/2014, 07:20

... the browser to load named frames if they are not already visible on the page Thus when Aunt Moira (the old biddy) blunders her way into companypolicy.html, the browser is instructed to load the ... when visitors click in a menu area, we want the content they’ve chosen to show up in the content frame—not in the menu frame Assigning a target name to each Trang 4frame enables us to write links ... regardless of the visitor’s monitor size View Marc Klein’s Creative Repub-lic (www.creative-republic.com) to see this in action, and then view the source to see how Marc crafted his framesets One other

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... Dicing To turn a comp into a web page, most professionals find themselves slic-ing the comp into smaller component images and usslic-ing HTML markup to put the pieces back together Photoshop ... take the time to learn this simple, logical markup lan-guage before moving on to the more exciting stuff (The exciting stuff begins in the very next chapter.) 207 Taking Your Talent to the Web ... Hey!” in Chapter 2, “Designing for the Medium.”) Preparing Typography Photoshop, together with Illustrator, enables you to prepare typographic images for the Web Photoshop has become so adept at this

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... attempting to com- prehensively communicate or represent their knowledge. In addition, actors might just be too busy to document what they know due to the com- plexity of the task and the time ... IMS captured in their applica- tions. In order to highlight the limitations of these so-called knowledge-management systems and further assess their capabilities to capture, store, and transfer ... 1998). There is therefore an impera- tive to capture the ontological and epistemological perspectives of IS developers if the product of their development efforts are to be fully understood. IMS’s...

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