Word: bits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were a little worried, but in the end we wanted it a little bit more," defensive linemen Chris Smith said...
...mistaken for more than encouragement. And at the center of the sexual harassment scandal sweeping Maryland's Aberdeen Proving Ground, members of the 143rd Ordnance Battalion--whose motto is "Professionals in Gear"--may want to consider changing their mascot from the acronymic PIG to a creature a bit less loaded with symbolism...
...second reason for our choice is in what all this bit power has been harnessed to achieve: simply the most realistic and compelling three-dimensional experience ever presented by a computer. The machines' first hit game, SuperMario 64, paints from an electronic palette so rich that using the game machine on your TV almost seems as amusing and entertaining as renting a movie or watching a ball game. The 3-D effects are what game pros call immersive, that is, real enough to make you forget the 4-ft. space between you and your TV. Nintendo's smart-chip technology...
...surprise then that the world--or at least the world's allowance-bearing teens--are beating a track to Nintendo. The 64-bit machines show every sign of being the over-the-top smash-hit consumer-electronics item of the year. Released on Sept. 29, the machine has sold half a million units in just over a month; in its first week alone, it sold as many units as its competitors combined did in all of September...
...older and feeling none too happy about it--the rules have always been simple: organisms are born, they live a more or less prescribed number of years and they die. If you watch your weight, eat right and get plenty of exercise, you can perhaps negotiate the terms a bit, squeezing out a bit more time here and there. But tripling life-spans? Quadrupling life-spans? Eliminating the very idea of life-spans? Not an option...