Beyond the sheer horsepower of the machine, the feature that may do the most for realism is the PlayStation 2's special graphics chips.

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Sega's machine will also ship with a 33.6 kps modem, 16 MB of memory and a host of technical tricks that will make its graphics ability comparable (or even better) than a-top-of-the-line desktop PC, even one decked out with special 3D graphics hardware.

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The result is a display of eye-popping 3-D graphics, without special glasses.

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Andreessen Horowitz has named Ken Coleman, former executive at Silicon Graphics, as a special advisor.

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In other words: It displays eye-popping 3D graphics, without the use of special glasses.

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Huang used an iPad and MacBook Air to access rich computer-aided design files and special effects software that typically require a burly graphics processor running on a dedicated workstation or server.

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Ru, has launched a special Kursk site, while a slick English-language site displays computer graphics of the salvage plans.

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When teaching numeracy, the facilitators focus on teaching numbers and the idea of quantity, grouping and interpretation of measurement units, arithmetic operations, special forms and orientation, and content interpretation, such as reading tables and graphics.

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Second, Ari Rapkin, a computer graphics software engineer at ILM, introduces an amazing paradox: What the special-effects crews are doing is often not emulating physics but tweaking it--because storytelling is better served by showing the audience what it expects, not what would actually happen if a 3-foot-tall creature drew his light saber.

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