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...smoother than Tony Bennett...
...most part, the $5 billion-a-year electronic-games industry is playing follow the leader. Shoot-'em-ups are modeled on Quake and Tomb Raider. Battle-strategy games behave like Warcraft. Flight simulators tend to resemble Microsoft's. To be sure, this year's new games are faster, smoother and compatible with accelerator cards that deliver superior 3-D effects. They also tend to require Olympian amounts of RAM. SimCity 3000, will need a minimum of 32 MB, though the payoff is splendidly rendered, 3-D, skyscraper-bejeweled cities that one can zoom in on, right down to the level...
...example, when Microsoft's Windows 95 shipped in the summer of 1995, there were a number of problems with and limitations to the operating system. Since then, Microsoft and other companies have created freely available patches and bug fixes and optimization utilities. You could behaving a smoother PC experience if you knew about these tools...
...eldest sons of Ibn Saud, who rule Saudi Arabia today, have accumulated their wealth mainly by diverting huge sums, directly or indirectly, from the government's extravagant oil revenues. As a Riyadh businessman puts it, Alwaleed's branch of the Saud family tree has always been considered a little smoother and a little straighter than the rest. His father Talal, a former Ambassador to France, was one of the "free princes" who demanded democratization and went into temporary exile during the troubled 1953-64 reign of King Saud. Alwaleed's mother, Princess Mona, is the daughter of Riad Solh...
...spokesman Greg Shaw. "They probably came from the same source that said we were buying CBS." As proof that the rumors are baseless, company insiders pointed to several upcoming MSN initiatives, including the release this week of a new upgrade, MSN 2.5, that offers better E-mail service and smoother integration with Microsoft's latest Web browser, Internet Explorer...