Half-Life (computer game) - Half-Life (computer game) Half-Life is a first-person shooter computer game developed by Valve Software and published by Sierra On-Line in 1998, based on a heavily-modified core Quake I game engine. It was first published for PCss running Microsoft Windows, and was later ported to Sony's Playstation 2 video game console (a version for Sega's Dreamcast was completed, but never released commercially). Half-Life was heralded by computer game critics for its gripping storyline, which would influence the development of other first-person shooters in the years to come. In the game, you play a scientist named Gordon Freeman who is a survivor of an experiment gone horribly wrong, allowing aliens from another planet to invade Earth. As you try to escape the destroyed facility you soon discover that.
Half-life - Half-life The half-life of a radioactive isotope is the time it takes for half of the atoms in a pure sample of the isotope to decay into another element. It is a measure of the stability of an isotope; the shorter the half life, the less stable the atom. The decay of an atom is said to be spontaneous as one can only determine the probability of decay and not predict when an individual atom will decay. (Refer to the last section on the generalization of the concept of half-life to other scientific subjects) All the atoms of a particular radioactive species have the same probability of disintegrating in a given time, so that an appreciable sample of radioactive material, containing many millions of atoms, always.
List of computer and video games by category - List of computer and video games by category Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Adventure 2 Educational 3 Fighting 4 First-person shooters 4.1 Game-controlled environment 4.2 Player-controlled environment 5 Maze games 6 Platformers 7 Puzzle 8 Racing games 8.3 Simulation style 8.4 Arcade style 9 Rhythm games 10 Role-Playing Games 11 Serious 12 Shooters 13 Shoot 'em ups 14 Simulation 15 Sports 16 Strategy 16.5 General Strategy 16.6 Turn-based 16.7 Real-time (RTS) 17 Survival Horror 18 Third Person Shooters 19 Notable People 20 Traditional Adventure Colossal Cave Adventure Day of the Tentacle Full Throttle Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade King's Quest series Legend of Zelda series LOOM Maniac Mansion Monkey Island series Sam and Max Simon the Sorceror series Star.
List of computer and video games by name - List of computer and video games by name This is a list of computer and video games, arranged alphabetically by name. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z .hack 688 Attack Sub The 7th Guest A Abashera Abrams Battle Tank Ace of Aces Ace Combat Aces of the Pacific ADOM Adventure (Atari 2600) (1979) Adventure Construction Set Adventure Island 2 The Adventures of Willy Beamish Aero Biz Afterburner Age of Empires series (Ensemble, 1997, 1999) Age of Mythology (Ensemble, 2002) Age of Wonders series Age of Wonders 2: Shadow Magic Airborne Ranger Air Bucks Air Warrior All Star Baseball 2003 Alone in the Dark series Alpha Centauri Alternate.
TRS-80 Color Computer - TRS-80 Color Computer The Radio Shack TRS-80 color computer (also called Tandy Color Computer, or CoCo) was a home computer based around the Motorola 6809 processor and part of the TRS-80 line. Origin and history The Coco started life as a Motorola reference system, and was meant to be used as a Videotext terminal. In fact, a cut-down version of the Coco was sold as a Videotext terminal using the same case and keyboard. The original Coco came in 4k, 16k and 32k versions, though hobbyists quickly figured out how to make the 32k systems into 64k systems by enabling the second bank of RAM (which was disabled in the factory). The original battleship-gray case and chiclet keyboard of the CoCo I were dropped in favor of white and.
Worms (game) - Worms (game) Worms is a series of computer games, consisting of the original Worms game, Worms DC, Worms 2, Worms Armageddon, Worms World Party and Worms 3D, as well as a number of smaller spin-offs including Worms Pinball and Worms Blast. These games have been released regularly since the mid-1990s, and are available for Windows-based computers, Sega Dreamcast, Nintendo 64, Nintendo Game Boy, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, and probably others. The game was invented by Andy Davidson of Team 17 originally for the Commodore Amiga computer. It was written in Blitz BASIC. It is part of a genre of turn-based games in which each player controls one or more characters, on a two-dimensional landscape (one horizontal and one vertical dimension), who attack each other with projectile weapons..
January 8 - in the United States for the first time (National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC). 1964 - President Lyndon Johnson declares a "War on Poverty" in the United States. 1973 - Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of placing bugs in Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins. 1975 - Ella Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, becoming the first woman to serve as a Governor in the United States who did not succeed her husband. 1982 - AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions. 1992 - President of the United States George H. W. Bush becomes ill on a visit in Japan and vomits on the Japanese Prime Minister. 1996 - An Antonov 32 cargo jet crashes into the central market in Kinshasa, Zaire killing more than 350 1997.
January 2003 - news for January, 2003. See also: Preparations for 2003 invasion of Iraq for events leading up to the 2003 Iraq War Afghanistan timeline January 2003 January 31, 2003 January 30, 2003 Would-be shoe-bomber Richard Reid is sentenced to life in prison for trying to down American Airlines Flight 63 from Paris to Miami. Reid had previously pleaded guilty. [1] January 29, 2003 A false rumor that Thai actress Suvanant Kongying had told a reporter that the temple ruins at Angkor really belong to Thailand led to a riot in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, causing the destruction of the Thai Embassy and dozens of Thai-owned businesses, hotels and factories. January 28, 2003 An election in the state of Oregon to pass an temporary three-year income tax failed with 54% of the votes voting.
John Carmack - 1970) is a widely recognized figure in the video game industry. A talented programmer with an entrepreneurial spirit, Carmack co-founded id Software, a video game development company, in 1991. Carmack is noted for his aptness with 3D graphics and is recognized as a leading figure in the field. John D. Carmack II grew up in Kansas City and became interested in computers at an early age. He attended the University of Kansas for two semesters before dropping out to work as a freelance programmer. Softdisk in Shreveport, Louisiana hired Carmack uniting him with John Romero and other future members of id Software. At Softdisk, they produced the first of the Commander Keen series of games in 1990 before Carmack and the rest of the team left to create id. Carmack's programming.
Hacker - namely programming or electrical engineering. As will be discussed below, there is a trend in the popular press to use the term to describe computer criminals, and others, whose motivations are less pure than the traditional hacker. This trend greatly annoys many of those old-school computer/technology enthusiasts. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Origin of the term at MIT 2 Hacker -- Brilliant Programmer 3 Hacker -- Computer Criminal 4 Hacker -- Grey Hat 5 Hacker -- White Hat 6 How Some Hackers Define Themselves 7 Notable Hackers 8 Notable Crackers 9 See also 10 External Links 11 Other meanings of the word "hacker" Origin of the term at MIT The term originally developed at MIT long before computers became common; a "hack" meant a simple, but often inelegant, solution. The term.
History of Africa - is datable to about the first century, so could not really be the origin of the name. Others have suggested it is from a name Afer, related to the modern name Berber. Egypt was considered part of Asia by the ancients, and first assigned to Africa by the geographer Ptolemy, who made the isthmus of Suez and the Red Sea the boundary between Asia and Africa. As Europeans came to understand the real extent of the continent, the idea of Africa expanded with their knowledge. Prehistory For the evolution of hominids, which occurred in East and Central Africa, and particularly of Homo sapiens, see under paleontology and other entries. The earliest human migration out of Africa and within the continent are indicated by linguistic and cultural evidence, and increasingly by computer-analyzed.
February 2003 - the University, and also cited items from Al-Arian's 50 count indictment. A representative from the American Association of University Professors indicated that the AAUP does not feel that due process was followed in Al-Arian's case, and that the organization will likely formally censure USF at its June meeting. [1], [1] February 25, 2003 US plan to invade Iraq: The United States, Britain and Spain present to the UN Security Council a much-anticipated second resolution stating that Iraq "has failed to take the final opportunity" to disarm, but does not include deadlines or an explicit threat of military force. Meanwhile, France, Germany, and Russia offer a counter-proposal calling for peaceful disarmament through further inspections. Both major parties of Kurdistan, an autonomous region in Northern Iraq, vow to fight Turkish troops if they.
First-person shooter - shooter (FPS), is an action video game where the player's on-screen view of the game world simulates that of the character. The term first-person shooter derives from the game's first person perspective, and from the fact that the gameplay tends to emphasize shooting. In its most basic sense, the phrase simply means any shooting game with a first person perspective (which would mean games like Wing Commander, Crossbow'' and many combat flight simulators, etc.). However, the vast majority of people use the phrase to describe a very specific genre which id Software spawned (no pun intended) with Wolfenstein 3D. In this genre, the person shooting is not in a vehicle (though recent FPS games such as Operation Flashpoint, Battlefield 1942, Delta Force: Blackhawk Down, Joint Operations, and Halo have combined vehicular.
Deep Thought - Deep Thought Deep Thought is a fictional computer in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. Warning: Wikipedia contains spoilers. Deep Thought was created to come up with the ultimate answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything. When, after seven and a half million years of calculation, the answer finally turns out to be 42, Deep Thought's creators sheepishly realize that they don't know the question. Deep Thought itself does not know the ultimate question to Life, the Universe and Everything, but offers to design an even more powerful computer (the Earth, note the Earth in fiction) to calculate it. After ten million years of calculation, the Earth is destroyed by Vogons five minutes before the computation is complete. In the original radio series, Deep Thought was voiced by Geoffrey.
Danny Hillis - 2 Danny Hillis: Pragmatic Visionary 3 Early Life 4 Hillis in the Heyday of Parallel Computing 5 Hillis's Philosophy of Mind 6 The Demise of Thinking Machines Inc. 7 Businessman, Mature Techno-visionary 8 The Wide-Open Future Synopsis W. Daniel Hillis (born September 25, 1956, Baltimore, Maryland) is an American computer scientist. Hillis wrote The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work (Basic Books, 1998 ISBN 0465025951) and is interested in unconventional theoretical computers such as parallel computers, which might be far more powerful than conventional ones. Danny Hillis built a computer that played tic-tac-toe made of tinkertoys while a student at MIT. This accomplishment was mentioned obliquely in K. Eric Drexler's book Engines of Creation. Hillis is a member of the Global Business Network and founded Thinking.
1942 - city of Kharkov back from the German Army. May 15 - World War II: In the United States, a bill creating the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) is signed into law. June 4-7 - World War II: The Battle of Midway June 9 - World War II: The US Philippine Department surrenders to Japan July 1 - July 27 - World War II: the First Battle of El Alamein July 9 - Holocaust: Anne Frank's family goes into hiding in an attic above her father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse. July 13 - World War II: German U-Boats sink three more merchant ships in Gulf of St. Lawrence. July 16 - Holocaust: On order from the Vichy France government headed by Pierre Laval, French police officers round-up 13,000-20,000 Jews and imprison.
1989 - 23 - Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann announce cold fusion at the University of Utah. March 23 - A 1,000-foot diameter Near-Earth asteroid misses the Earth by 400,000 miles. March 24 - The Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska April 7 - Soviet submarine Komsomolets sinks in the Barents Sea April 15 - Hillsborough disaster, one of the biggest tragedies of European football, takes place May 30 - Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: The 33-foot high "Goddess of Democracy" statue is unveiled in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators. June 1 - The SkyDome stadium is opened in Toronto June 4 - Tiananmen Square massacre takes place in Beijing and is covered live on television. June 4 - Solidarity wins first free Polish election since WWII, inspiring a succession of peaceful anti-communist.
April 2003 - force and uniform pre-departure health screening in airports. Israeli forces assassinate three Palestinian militants in Gaza, including Nidal Salamah, a leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The action prompts accusations that Israel is trying to sabotage the Palestinian government's attempts to transform itself. Mahmoud Abbas is confirmed as the first Palestinian Authority prime minister after winning a vote of confidence from the Palestinian legislature. The United States announces that it will be reducing its military presence in Saudi Arabia to a handful of advisors. Lynn Htun, suspected of being the head of the Fluffi Bunni computer cracker ring, is arrested in London. [1] Quebec premier-elect Jean Charest is sworn in and names his cabinet. [1] April 28, 2003 The World Health Organization announces that SARS has peaked.
Aquemini - and distinctively Southern slang and diction throughout. At the time, mainstream rap was almost entirely West Coast or East Coast, both dominated by a monolothic style of production and delivery. OutKast's sound, while outwardly similar to some other Southern rappers like Master P or Goodie Mob, was distinct, yet hook-laden and accessible, and sounded fresh at a time of stagnation in the hip hop community. Key songs: "Rosa Parks", "Liberation", "Skew It On the Bar-B", "SpottieOttieDopaliscious", "Synthesizer" The intro is called "Hold on, Be Strong"; it is an ominous and forbidding orchestral wordless-chant, setting the tone and pace for the rest of the album. "Return of the 'G'" begins with a portentous, booming beat and Dre rapping about his desire for a peaceful life and criticizing "them niggas that's on that.
Ars Electronica Center - of the museum but it can also be rented for meetings or certain events. The bar has occasionally been used as the studio for the Newscast of the local TV branch of the Austrian national TV organization ORF. The speciality of the "Sky Media Loft" is the marvellous view over the Nibelungenbrücke and the main place of Linz at the other side of the Danube which functions as background of the Newscasts. The second Floor is also called the floor where people can "Get in Touch" with the exhibits. There are Musicbottles filled with different sorts of music or Pingpongplus which is a Ping-Pong game on a desk with virtual Water on its surface waiting for the visitor to be explored. The first floor offers the world that had been hidden.
