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...years, LCDs had a problem with something called response time; that is, the time it takes for the pixels on the screen to change. When the response time is greater than 10 milliseconds, your eyes can perceive the lag, and things can look streaky. Sometimes objects get an unintended halo. The Bravia has an 8ms response, and the Aquos has it beat with a 6ms response time. But I can tell you that, for both companies, the problem appears to have been eliminated. I did not notice any response time issues...
...Imam, Shi'ism's version of the Messiah. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been reported as saying in official meetings that the end of history is only two or three years away. He reportedly told an associate that on the podium of the General Assembly last September, he felt a halo around him and for "those 27 or 28 minutes, the leaders of the world did not blink ... as if a hand was holding them there and it opened their eyes to receive" his message. He believes that the Islamic revolution's raison d'tre is to prepare...
...three other games in their entirety. Meanwhile, girls of the same age are learning how to tie their shoes and dreaming of True Love. So what is it about the male brain that gives us enough eye-hand coordination to aim a sniper rifle perfectly in the video game Halo, but an inability to write a word neatly enough that 50 percent of its readers can decipher its meaning? According to Tyre, “Sometime in the first trimester, a boy fetus begins producing male sex hormones that bathe his brain in testosterone for the rest of his gestation...
...Brian Wice, a Houston attorney and legal analyst during the trial, told TIME: "Her halo was probably knocked askew... but she dusted herself off." Skilling and Lay will get their chance to directly counter Watkins as they are both expected to testify before the end of April...
...over. Miller often plays “Halo” with 16 people, using Harvard’s network to link four different XBoxes.Timothy D. Turner’s ’09 room has likewise become a “hub” for playing “Halo.” “It’s become a kind of tradition…people ask me, ‘Hey, are we playing ‘Halo’ tonight?’” he says. For Turner, who describes himself...