He knelt down and crawled from the switch rails to the frog of the crossover, sliding his hand along the running surface and the head of the rail and feeling for possible corrugations or dents, or burrs shaved off by the wheels of the locomotives.
And the technology running below the surface, allowing BioWare to bring this epic story to life, is Unreal Engine 3.
The trainees discovered the advantages of levelling the steep slopes into horizontall terraces, in order for the rain to penetrate the hillside rather than running off the surface.
This is the x86 version of the Surface tablet running full Windows 8 and starting with 64GB of storage.
For one thing, this month the company is only launching the Windows RT version of Surface, running on an ARM-based processor.
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Aside from the crunch of crampons on ice, the only sound is meltwater running over the glacier surface in a perfect zigzag stream.
Independent Daytime Running Lights (DRLs) are fully integrated into the upper bumper surface to complete this unique new design.
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Video of the annual riderless race in Ronciglione shows that horses there do make turns, although the surface is slippery and they don't seem to be running at full speed.
It is perhaps not surprising that Microsoft's retail users are slow to migrate from the familiar (PCs running Windows 7 and XP) to the unfamiliar (PCs running the radically different Metro interface, and a new product category in Surface).
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What strikes me is the way that personal issues can now bubble up to the surface, be spread swiftly by the media, and send candidates running for cover.
It could be a bluff by Icahn, but on the surface it seems Ackman made a mistake by publicly reinvigorating his long-running fued with Icahn.
Sure, it put out the occasional Zune, but most of the tech running Redmond's desktop and mobile operating systems traditionally comes from its partners -- the Surface being the exception, of course.
Mario Ploner, the managing director of Tecnomeccanica Biellese, says the ship-based system will use external booms running parallel with the vessel's sides to channel oil onto wool that has been spread over the surface of the sea.
The Cortex-A15 has been benchmarked running twice as fast as the quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3, which, coincidentally, is used in the Surface and the Google Nexus tablet.
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