Not everyone is actually all that enthralled by linear cinematic games like Uncharted 3 or heavily story-driven games like Mass Effect.
Consider how scientists, mathematicians, psychologists and meteorologists have had tremendous success when they step outside the stiff boundaries required by linear thinking.
The first movie showcases one end of the asteroid pockmarked by craters, sculpted by linear grooves and littered with boulders about 50 meters (165 feet) across.
Then, as Davidson learned about the Internet, he realized his idea would have more room to grow in an environment unlimited by linear scheduling, allowing him to run many different programs or types of content simultaneously.
The novel's structure, which follows the seasons over the course of a year, is not driven by a linear sense of plot.
All dose limits are presently determined by using the Linear No-Threshold dose hypothesis (LNT).
The newest Forbes billionaire, Bent Jensen, built his fortune by designing and manufacturing linear actuators.
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Strategic planning is a seemingly logical, linear, step-by-step process that focuses on analysis.
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How about providing different ways to structure and experience stories (blowing up the linear narrative flow defined by motion pictures).
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Linak Headquarters in Nordborg, Denmark The newest Forbes billionaire, Bent Jensen, built his fortune by designing and manufacturing linear actuators.
After all, MMORPGs and sports games are inherently social games with non-linear gameplay and are competitive by nature.
External beam radiation involves zapping a patient with high-dose X rays generated by a machine called a linear accelerator.
They could be caused by any kind of object with a parallel linear design, he said.
At first Quantum wasnt sure what to do with the product line, which went by the brand name DLT(for digital linear tape).
And by the way, the schedules are not linear.
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Not just any old periodic table, but the most photographically breathtaking version ever created, encased in sturdy plastic and enlivened by "lenticular technology, " the technique that uses linear lens elements laminated over a specially processed image to create a convincing 3D effect.
In my version, Harvey was dying meaningfully, in linear fashion, within a scenario stage-managed and scripted by the people around him.
The Welsh exam board WJEC, whose exams are taken by students in England and Wales, is to produce both linear and modular GCSEs.
Antonini, who was involved in the "Mortal Kombat" digital series, was approached by Microsoft and 343 about transforming an interactive story into a linear one.
Leadership in a Wiki World by Rod Collins talks about in terms of the transition from a linear world to a wiki world.
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Gurus focused most of their selling fury on technology stocks, starting off in the chip sector by cashing out of semiconductor equipment company Applied Materials and integrated circuit maker Linear Technology.
In addition to the cash payments described above, Verizon and TiVo are exploring, among other things, future distribution of Internet video services developed through Verizon's joint venture with Redbox by making content distributed via that service part of the diverse selection of linear and broadband-delivered content accessible to users of TiVo's retail DVR products.
The significance of the linear law is discussed here to introduce the property called the entropy S possessed by our system of billionaires.
Totaling in excess of 5, 000 linear feet, UMG's gift is the largest single donation ever received by the Library's audio-visual division and the first major collection of studio master materials ever obtained by the nation's oldest cultural institution.
One possibility is that mathematical expertise, a character trait possessed by many investors and typically seen as a desirable feature for that vocation, promotes linear thinking.
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By helping employees develop future scenarios the leaders at Google identify far better solutions than the linear, historical planning approaches.
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Linear aims to preserve high margins and will sacrifice business to do so, as it did by falling out of the iPad supply program.
In this case, however, the light is polarised in a different linear direction for each eye, so as to match the polarisation of the two side-by-side projectors used to show the film.
We also shared an interest in the "cradle-to-cradle" concept developed by Bill McDonough and Michael Braungart that proposes a way in which we can shift from a linear way of using resources to one that keeps all resources in closed cycles so nothing is wasted and no pollution is emitted.
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