Many books have been written about the Vietnam War. Most of them are just overviews of events and often focus on the political aspect of the conflict. Rarely is an individual under the rank of general mentioned, except for a paragraph or two about individuals who earned the Medal of Honor. Some books have been written by individuals who actually saw combat. They often name people who engaged the enemy. These are people whose boots were not spit shined and uniform did not have starched crea...

Are your feelings, thoughts and beliefs created mainly by intuition and the subconscious mind? Or are they a product of your intellect and cultural/social programming? The former supports and enhances the natural flow of your life energy; while the latter can shape, direct or even block it.In Awakening the Genie Within author Bill Carpenter deliberately invokes the word “programming” to convey how a lack of conscious involvement in your own life and fixed belief systems prevent you...

If a video game rendered every single highly detailed object in a massive city simultaneously, the graphics card would instantly overheat and shut down. To survive this immense mathematical burden, game engines employ a brilliant, invisible optimization technique: Occlusion Culling. Unlike frustum culling (which deletes objects that are behind the player's camera), occlusion culling deletes objects that are physically in front of the camera but currently hidden behind another solid object....