Like fixing any jumble, software gets organized by putting like things in boxes--a process called "abstraction"--and it flourished in the coming years through techniques like object-oriented programming, which shapes the Internet's Java language.
Marks imagines the potential for user-generated content when users can use the controllers to take a standard 3-D object like a sword, and grab, stretch and deform it on-screen to create new custom objects with new properties.
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In this scenario, the gamma ray burst was caused by a large, comet-like object that fell into a neutron star.
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In this example, the surface is not simply connected and any smoothed-out object looks like a torus with at least one hole.
According to the physicists, when a large black hole captures a smaller object like a medium-sized star the process causes gravitational radiation to be emitted in a preferential direction.
Because the Mac team has always understood that really great design makes an object seem like a hitherto-unknown part of oneself, a new way to encounter and express yourself in the outside world.
Three years later, they've got a phone on the market: a cute, palm-sized object that looks a bit like it's derived from the original Apple Computer (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) iMac, all curves and transparent tinted plastic.
While 1km-size and bigger asteroids are thought to hit only once every 500, 000 years, on average, rocks 50-100 metres across, like the Tunguska object, are thought to hit the planet once every thousand years.
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The equation smoothes out the irregularities of an object, transforming it mathematically into something that looks like a uniform three-dimensional sphere.
Like Andy, I came up against a seemingly immovable object like Nadal when I played Pete Sampras in my first two semi-finals.
"As much as Baghdad might like to object, economy (sic) reality necessitates that it go along with the Kurds -- for now, " wrote Joost Hiltermann, an Iraq expert with the International Crisis Group, in a recent article on Foreign Policy.com.
This asteroid, like the one that will fly by on February 15, is considered a near-Earth object.
"How the sound reflects off this reflecting surface with this composite object on it - which is pretty big and has a cloaking shell on it - really reflects... just like a flat surface does, " Dr Cummer said.
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