Word: duked
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Going digital was a much rockier road in the U.S., mainly because the FCC chose to let competing technologies duke it out in the market. The result: Qualcomm, Ericsson and others squabbled over whose standard would "win." None did, so we're left with a hodgepodge of incompatible networks and a gaggle of abbreviations (GSM, CDMA, TDMA, IDEN) that are not only confusing but also confining, restricting us to a particular carrier's coverage area and delaying the roll-out of advanced services...
...DUKE OF SLUR It took Buckingham Palace less than three hours to issue an apology after the Duke of Edinburgh, touring an electronics company, said a fuse box looked like it was "put in by an Indian." The palace has had practice. Some of the Duke's bons mots...
...year, has vaulted into the top spot. On the vaunted U.S. News & World Report "Best National Universities" list, Stanford has dropped two places to No. 6. And Johns Hopkins, relegated in 1998 to shameful second-10 status, is back on its feet at No. 7 in a tie with Duke and UPenn, both of whom are a rung lower than last year. But don?t freak out, aspiring teens and parents, the world of top-flight universities isn?t undergoing some seismic shuffle. The rankers at U.S. News are just having fun tweaking their criteria. "In general, the changes...
...crowd, of course, may at any moment become a mob, devolving into a single, violent mind. It's too bad that the Doofus of Mayhem (to give the idiot a title, like the Duke of Windsor) got loose at this third Woodstock...
...most intense technological competition in the games industry takes place in the genre dubbed the "first-person shooter" -- games like Quake, Unreal, and Duke Nukem in which players run around in 3-dimensional virtual mazes, shooting monsters and occasionally each other. But the competitive atmosphere of the industry is changing, as more and more companies choose to license an existing "game engine" -- the core of the game that generates its 3D virtual world - from another company rather than develop their own. MORE...