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by Cory Doctorow
Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future.Hailed by Bruce Sterling as ‘a political activist, gizmo freak, junk collector, programmer, entrepreneur, and all-around Renaissance geek,’ the Internet’s favorite high-tech culture maven is celebrated with the first collection of his infamous articles, essays, and polemics. Irreverently championing free speech and universal access to information-even if it’s just a free download of the newest Britney Spears MP3-he leads off with a mutinous talk given at Microsoft on digital rights management, insisting that they stop treating their customers as criminals. Readers will discover how America chose Happy Meal toys over copyright, why Facebook is taking a faceplant, how the Internet is basically just a giant Xerox machine …
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The Minimum You Need to Know about Java and xBaseJ
by Roland Hughes
This book provides a much needed tutorial for the xBaseJ project. Even if you know little about Java and nothing about XBASE data storage you will be banging out applications like a pro by the end of this tutorial. The book is written in the same informative and entertaining style as the rest of ‘The Minimum You Need to Know’ book series. Roland Hughes is the president of Logikal Solutions, a business applications consulting firm specializing in VMS platforms. Hughes serves as a lead consultant with over two decades of experience using computers and operating systems originally created by Digital Equipment Corporation (now owned by Hewlett-Packard).
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