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Release Dates Viewer Access Site
568 wordsThe one website that I am adamant about visiting regularly is the video game publication Next Generation's site, located at web It is, what I believe, to be the most comprehensive website devoted to video games, both PC and console, their development, and up to the minute news concerning release dates, company mergers / buyouts , and groundbreaking technology. Next Generation, the magazine and the website, are both affiliates of Imagine Media. Next Generation's website is updated twice daily, si...
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Richest Man In The World Person In The World
1,338 wordsOn October 28, 1955, William Henry Gates, lll, was born. Gates and his two sisters grew up in Seattle, Washington. His late mother was a teacher and his father is a lawyer. Gates went to public school until junior high in which he attended Lakeside School, where he met Paul Allen. In 1968, at the age 13, Gates began programming computers. Soon afterward, Gates, Allen, and some other students convinced a computer company to give them full access to a new minicomputer; in exchange they would try t...
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Escape Reality Role Playing
1,007 wordsHeroes, villains, love, betrayal, friendship, evil, romance, fantasy, adventure these are the ingredients of the excitement found in an RPG, a Role-Playing Game. What makes RPGs so great? RPGs allow the player to escape from reality, leaving behind all the stress and problems of today. RPGs are an outlet for our imaginations and become addicting as they attract gamers like flies to a flytrap. Having a great combination of story line and graphics, RPGs keep growing in popularity and have many hig...
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Corporation Has Changed X Box System
387 wordsThe Microsoft Corporation has changed the way we look at computers, but can they change anything else? Of course they can. Microsoft has expanded into the gaming world outside of the PC. They are now in competition with Nintendo, Sega, and other major gaming corporations. Microsoft has introduced their new gaming system X-Box, by far the most advanced and powerful system on the market. The first question that many people were asking Microsoft was, why move from the PC platform to a console syste...
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Massive Amounts Hard Drives
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Competition Among Processor Makers Amd And Intel
1,260 words... c. AMD describes 3 d-NOW as "The AMD Athlon processor's enhanced 3 Dnow! Technology takes 3 D multimedia performance to incredible heights and builds on the 21 instructions of AMD's original 3 Dnow! Technology the first x 86 instruction set to use superscalar SIMD floating point techniques. Enhanced 3 Dnow! Adds 24 new instructions- 19 to improve MMX integer math calculations and enhance data movement for Internet streaming applications and 5 DSP extensions for soft modem, soft ADSL, Dolby D...
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Speed Of 500 Mhz X 800 Xt Processor
1,022 wordsBuilding a new computer can be quite complicated and time consuming. You should take just as much care in researching each component as you would installing them into your system. It is crucial that the component fit your purpose, provide stability, and work well with the other components you select. For my system, I have chosen components that have been thoroughly tested and approved by respected people in the technology field. The centerpiece of this system is of course the motherboard. I want...
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Playing Cards Video Game
1,202 wordsEnglish p 17 1301 Nintendo the Survivor 'Work hard, but in the end it's in heaven's hands. ' This is a quote from Game Over about the meaning of the word 'Nintendo. ' In the video-gaming market, though, it was really in consumers' hands. Nintendo has always needed to adapt to survive in the market. Nintendo always needed to be on top; it was a company that needed to be ahead of the rest. Nintendo had to set new standards, or improve on an existing product or idea. The Dutch and Portuguese first ...
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Hand Held Video Game
1,247 words... Entertainment System, or the NES (Company History). The original designs of these systems were sleeker in appearance and the hand-controllers for the system used infrared technology. Nintendo wanted to separate themselves from their main competitor: Atari, which by 1985, had virtually ran themselves bankrupt by having too many bad games. Nintendo did not want their customers to be turned off by Nintendo's game system just because Atari couldn't manage well. So Nintendo identified various par...
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Slot Machines High Price
542 wordsThe Lakeside Casino Resort deals a lot with selling items as well as experiences. Every aspect of running the casino as well as all the other operations that keep the casino running has to be priced right and reasonable, from playing the casino games to ordering the food for the Wheelhouse Buffet. Casino Floor: Every game on the casino floor has to be purchased from a dealer. A blackjack table alone costs between $ 1, 500 to $ 4, 000 dollars, and on the floor there are 8 tables. Other games such...
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Packet Switching End User
558 wordsA communications controller running (normally) the LAP-B protocol. Rather than use an external device, such as a PAD, most computers use an internal interface to directly connect to the packet-switching network. These interfaces and their corresponding software drivers provide much of the same function provided by a PAD. The advantage to putting these interfaces into a computer is that computer software can directly access the link (whereas in the PAD the link was external and, for the most part...
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Case Analysis Harrahs Entertainment Inc Loyalty Management
1,198 wordsCase Analysis: Harrahs Entertainment, Inc Loyalty Management Introduction Times have changed and our thinking about the way we manage our improvement activities has to change. Good is not good enough. Only the very best will attract customers in todays competitive environment. We have to excel in all parts of our organization. We have to have an organization that wows the customer, not just satisfies them. (Harrington, 2005) Facts From 1937 and up till now Harrahs Entertainment, Inc. has been on...
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Yada Yada Didn T
871 wordsCasino, one of the most prolific movies of the mid nineties. This is a movie of betrayal, money, sex, lies, videotape, and yada yada yada. No, seriously, this is an excellent movie. This is why I picked this movie for my major critique. This movie is coming from the point of view of Sam (Robert Dinero) and Nick (Joe Pesci). There is certain parts of the movie were Sam is the narrator and there is others were Nick is the narrator. For instance, the scene were Sam was trying to get his gaming lice...
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Compulsive Gamblers Lottery Tickets
1,345 wordsHow Does Gambling Effect Society? Its just another Saturday night in just about any common town in America. The family sits around the television discussing how much money the twenty tickets in their hands are going to make them. The jackpot is fourteen million. Before the numbers have been shown, the family discusses how to spend the money and how much better their lives are going to be after they win the money. Then finally, the moment of truth. The numbers come across the screen. The first on...
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U S Government Native Americans
1,391 wordsIndian tribes existed as sovereign governments long before European settlers arrived in North America. Treaties signed with European nations and later the United States in exchange for land guaranteed the tribes continued recognition and treatment as sovereign nations. Historically, state governments have been hostile to the concept of recognizing and dealing with tribes as sovereign governments. The United States negotiated numerous treaties which they continuously violated in pursuit of the In...
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Corporation Has Changed X Box System
394 wordsThe Microsoft X Microsoft X-Box The Microsoft Corporation has changed the way we look at computers, but can they change anything else? Of course they can. Microsoft has expanded into the gaming world outside of the PC. They are now in competition with Nintendo, Sega, and other major gaming corporations. Microsoft has introduced their new gaming system? X-Box, by far the most advanced and powerful system on the market. The first question that many people were asking Microsoft was, why move from t...
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Amount Of Money Legalized Gambling
757 wordsThe gambling industry of the United States has grown at a spectacular rate since the 1980 s. Billions of dollars are spent on various forms of gambling each year from the $ 1 lottery ticket at the gas station, to the roulette wheel on the strip in Las Vegas. With this enormous growth has come a debate on whether gambling is a good public policy or an addictive, dangerous sport. I feel that gambling in America creates lower productivity, disrupts family lives, creates burdensome debts, and involv...
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Player Must Decide Plans For Sim City 4000 Game
937 wordsAmongst the shelves that are packed with the latest computer software, sits a genre of games, that does not get the recognition that it deserves. Simulation games. These games do not give the player level after level of mind-boggling graphics, blood and gore, or even the feeling of accomplishment. Their one purpose is to give the control to the player, that they would normally not get in their everyday lives. By definition a simulation game is a game where the player must take on a role that is ...
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Third Party Operating System
1,347 wordsPCs Surpass Macs Over the years there has been much of controversy over which computer platform to buy. The two major contenders in this competition were the PC, with its Windows environment, and the Macintosh. The major arguments supporting each side have been that the Macintosh is far easier to use than the PC; however, the PC has greater hardware flexibility and more software available than for the Macintosh. These central arguments for each platform swayed consumers to one side or the other ...
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J R R Tolkien Attention To Detail
638 wordsThe desire to write the great American novel has plagued writers since the onset of modern literature; now with the onset of the computer age, programs have attempted to create the great American game. Since the advent of computers the endeavor to write the great American game has prompted software writers to envision the creation of the most sophisticated and entertaining computer game that the world has ever known. Their dream has come closest to fruition with the advent of Heroes of Might and...
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