My friend Wendy was annoyed because when her husband was watching their daughter, he put her in a baby swing while he played computer games.
But the groups who played the computer game showed a clear improvement compared with the normal loss of cognitive function as people age.
As such, an album of cover versions played on computer simulations of the sounds chips of contemporary games systems and computers is the perfect blend of musical precision and gratuitous technomacho fiddling.
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Moreover, as a result of owning their tablet, 40% of tablet gamers played games less often on a laptop computer while 39% played less often on a desktop computer.
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Instead, the computer played this very quiet move that constrained all of Kasparov's pieces, sucking the life out of his position like a boa constrictor.
Sharon Stone goes cold in this botched thiller maybe from the effort of pretending that her character, a beauteous book editor, would fall for the preening young computer wizard played by the vacant-and-proud-of-it William Baldwin.
Young engineer Nolan Bushnell sat down in the mid-1970s, looked at the falling prices of memory chips, extrapolated where they would be in a couple years and precisely predicted when computer games played on college computers would be cheap enough to operate in bars.
Being the musically driven person I am, I also modified the Commodore 64 to have a second sound chip (which doubles the amount of simultaneously played instruments) inside the computer.
The experiment's subjects were 166 UCL students who played at being shoppers in a computer game.
In both cases clever designs of computer hardware and software played a role.
Patents played almost no role in protecting the first computer operating systems.
Computer games as we know them are played on powerful computers and are rich with big-screen graphics, movie-like soundtracks and fast action.
That said, it's been many years and several epic steps in computer technology since I've actually played the game (it debuted in 1989).
Tsarnaev led authorities to look there, the source said, and others who may have knowledge of the computer's whereabouts or may have played a role in disposing it also provided leads that prompted the search.
Then, in 1997, Kasparov played his rematch against Deep Blue, the strongest chess computer on the planet.
Why does a city and a country which have played such a huge part in the history of the computer, still produce so few world-class technology companies?
One gaming website voted him the joint 18th-most-influential person in computer games, quite an honour for someone who hardly played them.
When songs are copied to a computer, this watermark will govern how a song may be copied and played and who has to pay for it and when.
Gamification is in fact already gaining a foothold in education, and some would argue that it has always played a prominent role in one form or another, even in the pre-computer era.
Mr Gray was as big a celebrity among computer geeks as Mr Fossett is among thrill-seekers, and the story played out in the same way.
To get around the always-on requirement, some players have tinkered with the game's computer code to trick it into thinking it is connected when it is being played offline.
OnLive's cloud-based video compression technology has revolutionized the way video games are played, both in the home and on mobile devices, as a user's computer or device becomes nothing more than a means for display and input.
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Not surprisingly, the flights leave some areas unmonitored, and so computer models have been used to fill in the blanks and to estimate the role played by these patches.
At the time, people were unfamiliar with the concept of a computer password, which required structuring a scene early in the film in which the main character, played by Matthew Broderick, sneaks into his high-school principal's office to check out a piece of paper showing a list of random words.
The fact that human error played such a part casts a shadow over previous franchise bids, although they would have been decided using a different computer model.
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