And a small but growing number of "Second Life" users, known as "in-world entrepreneurs, " are making a living off "Second Life" income, even quitting their real-world jobs.
Neither I nor any other reviewers have had a chance to test the battery life in real-world conditions.
No other game has created quite such a life-like game world as regards the movement of hair, breakable objects - anything and everything - and the sheer amount of eye-candy.
ChinaCache will fall short of doubling its annual revenue for the first time in 2009, Xu says, instead of increasing revenue between 75% and 85%--figures that sound disappointing only in China's larger-than-life Internet world.
For real-life operatives during World War II, what they wore could mean the difference between life and death.
The Japanese have the highest life-expectancy in the world - 83.6 years for women and 77 for men.
Like so many CEOs in Northeast picking up the pieces, I would soon find out whether the Core Values on our wall would come to life in this real-world test.
Open to the public since January 2009 as a two-year project, it was created within the multi-user virtual world Second Life but possesses a charmingly post-apocalyptic visual sensibility all its own.
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Mr. Taleb is fascinated by the rare but pivotal events that characterize life in the power-law world.
Seth Berkley joined the GAVI Alliance as CEO in August 2011, as it launched its five year strategy to immunize a quarter of a billion children in the developing world with life-saving vaccines by 2015.
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Qaradawi has parlayed his platform as the host of Al Jazeera's popular "Shariah and Life" program into a prominence in the Muslim world that makes such statements life-threatening to those he criticizes.
Meanwhile, the Sylvari region is a gorgeous Eden-like world filled with larger-than-life, uber-colorful plants.
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The Fujitsu Group is proud to promote the recycling of end-of-life ICT products in Japan and around the world to help create a recycling-minded society.
It draws the young, the old, families, singles -- all stripes of life -- from all over the country and from around the world.
Now, in a sign that virtual issues increasingly are bleeding into the real world, some "residents" of Second Life are taking virtual property rights to real-world court, citing California consumer protection laws to make their case.
But once that new and tiny and oh-so-photograph-able life comes into the world, do it a favor.
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Richard Parker immediately evoked for me a real-life tiger in the negotiating world.
Canada has one of the largest long-life oil deposits in the world and is a stable and secure source of supply.
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She suggests that profits from "game worlds" such as "World of Warcraft" be taxed with a "cash out" rule but gains in commodified worlds such as "Second Life" be subject to in-world taxation.
Usain Bolt: The man whose name sounds preordained by the Gods, a real-life superman, the greatest sprint showman that ever lived, the world-record holder and the newly crowned double Olympic champion.
The potential to get lost in a vast role-playing-world also exists, as do many other potential real-life great escapes.
Women in the Arab world have work-life balance nailed and their productivity is through the roof because their priorities are clear.
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In spite of all the challenges and obstacles that our young people may face out there in the world -- because life is hard, right?
While Google chose not to take advantage of the situation to show the unicorn Nexus to the world, real-life units have been discovered floating around Moscone West.
With the magical mix of spectacular scenery, delicious food and drink and world class sea-life, it is a no-brainer to hire a car and get down there fast.
The average age of the last five popes at death has been above 70 for nearly all of the last four centuries older than world-wide male life expectancy at birth today.
Reagan, whose life spanned from the pre-Federal Reserve world at the time of his birth to the era of computer-driven financial innovation during his presidency, appreciated how difficult it was to achieve lasting monetary stability because he had seen the ups and downs of most of the twentieth century.
Rip-roaring adventure, vividly drawn characters, exotic locales in the immediate post-World War I era provocatively, hypnotically brought to life are trademarks of the most underrated, little-heralded novelist of our time.
Samsung's 85-inch UHD TV, the world's largest commercialized UHD LED TV, boasts life-like picture quality in ultra HD resolution with over 8 million pixels, four times the resolution of Full HD displays.
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Regulators are trying to restore confidence in the British life industry, the world's third-largest.
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