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...islands. He found himself spending hours giving each one a detailed, working infrastructure--tiny people in tiny factories loading products onto tiny ships. "Pretty soon," he remembers, "I figured out I was having a lot more fun creating these little islands than I was bombing them." Eureka: the original Sim. Wright had discovered a new way to have...
...vast mazes where it's "70 hours before you come back to the same place," says Bodman, as he pilots a flying saucer along a network of tunnels. If action isn't your bag, you can try a real-life simulation like SimCity. It's really "a management sim[ulation]," says Bodman. You are "town planner, chief executive, deity even," supplying roads, housing, electricity, employment. The exhibition's section on The Sims, the virtual dollhouse bought by more women than men, shows original designs for characters and decor, as well as artwork by painter Ocean Quigley, who has worked...
Massages, full-length beds, restaurant-style gourmet meals?why bother with first class? "We worry that business class is cannibalizing our first class," says Singapore Airlines' manager of product development, Sim Kim Chui. "But ultimately our first-class passengers seek the exclusivity and space that comes from being one of 12 in a cabin, not one of 50." These days, however, even second class is first-rate...
What's the best way to disable a stolen phone? At present, a victim of cell-phone theft contacts the operating network to block the subscriber identity module, or sim card, to prevent further calls from that number. The handset, however, will remain operational if a new sim card is inserted. So current attempts to combat the use of stolen cell phones are also focusing on the handset's IMEI, or international mobile equipment identifier, an individual serial number for each phone that is transmitted when a call is made from that handset. Mobile phone operators could pool information...
Difficult to tell. Even with national stolen IMEI databases on the way, a person who steals a phone in France could probably still use it - with a different sim card but the same IMEI number - in Germany, at least until a pan-European database for stolen IMEIs is constructed. Or until the rightful owners chance upon their property again - perhaps during a late-night visit to a cell-phone shop in Prague...