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...slipping toward the safer appliance. For example, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 video game console is a powerful computer, but, unlike Microsoft’s Windows oper... ...ance relationship with a vendor. However, they could do only the tasks their designers anticipated for them. Firms could buy Flexowriters outright and... ... detach wires linking individual components to one another, reconfiguring the board to imi- tate any number of appliances: radio, doorbell, lie detecto... ...paper-based filing systems to shame. 15 Entirely new applications like video games, beginning with text- based adventures, 16 pioneered additional use... ...based adventures, 16 pioneered additional uses of leisure time, and existing games—such as chess and checkers—soon featured the computer itself as a w... ...ulator,” sending private e-mail to fellow subscribers, messaging on bulletin boards, and playing rudimentary multiplayer games. 9 But if a subscriber ... ...lcome, just as user- contributed content in the CB simulator or on a message board produced rev- Battle of the Networks 23 enue if it drew other user... ...available and freely shared from the earliest moments of its development. If designers dis- agreed over how a particular protocol should work, they wo... ...commercial purposes, but by 1991 was eager to see it privatized. 36 Internet designers devised an en- tirely new protocol so that the backbone no long...

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... Trust XIX. Scavenger Economies, Predator Economies XX. Notes on the Economics of Game Theory XXI. Knowledge and Power XXII. Market Impeders and... ... Account Deficit XXVI. Anarchy as an Organizing Principle XXVII. Narcissism in the Boardroom XXVIII. Is Education a Public Good? XXIX. The Demise ... ... "The Economist" has recently proposed yet another dimension of risk: "The Chicago Board Options Exchange's VIX index, a measure of traders' expect... ...d. A CATs risk index is published by and option contracts are traded on the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT). Options were also traded, between 1997 an... ...iled design specifications instead of setting minimum performance requirements for designers to achieve any way they wish. Then there was the comm... ...turing technology can quickly become de-skilled as automated tools get developed so designers can harness the technology's power without having to u... ...s efficiently to new information. But it is also "closed" because it is a zero sum game. One investor's gain is another's loss. The distribution ... ... pursued. These economies are predatory in the sense that they engage in zero-sum games. A contract gained by a Slovenian company - is a contract ...

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...ract, but there is nothing much that we can do about it. These are the rules of the game. Thus the two remaining questions: (a) can this specific c... ...tional, patterns of action. It is the pursuit that matters, the hunt more than the game and the game more than victory or gains. Serendipity cannot... ...lic - is frequently marginal. Shareholders meet once a year to vent and disperse. Boards of directors are appointed by management - as are auditor... ... Managers will always rob blind the companies they run. They will always manipulate boards to collude in their shenanigans. They will always bribe a... ...seems to be natural: some people are born more clever and stronger than others. The game is skewed in their favor not because of some sinister cons... ...inst Third Class passengers. The boats sufficed only to half the number of those on board and the First Class, High Society passengers were preferre... ...led design specifications instead of setting minimum performance requirements for designers to achieve any way they wish. Then there was the commo... ...turing technology can quickly become de-skilled as automated tools get developed so designers can harness the technology's power without having to u...

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...nance and customer and visitor services. Despite these heavy outlays, site designers are constantly criticized for lack of creativity or for too much... ... • Facilitating research and discussion about Web credibility. • Helping designers create credible Web sites." • Examples of current projects: ... ...phy and Computers of the American Philosophical Association. He is on the board of governors of the International Consortium for the Advancement of ... ... number of highly respected academics willing to serve on their editorial boards. As measured by impact (citations) or informal prestige, some onlin... ...om litigation because, hitherto, it enjoyed the same status that Bulletin Boards Services (BBS) and other, free for all, communities have. In short:... ...ith a dictionary, thesaurus, chart maker, searchable index of quotations, games, and an Encarta Kids interface. Installation is easy. The Encarta is ... ...des a dictionary, thesaurus, chart maker, searchable index of quotations, games, 32 Discovery Channel videos, 25,000 photos and illustrations, 2800 ... ...bed Encarta Kids with age- appropriate, appetizingly presented content and games to boot! The 2007 Encarta's User Interface is far less cluttered th... ... is a major net exporter of engineers, programmers, systems analysts, Web designers, and concepts analysts. Internet penetration in these countries ...

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...d by juveniles; blind destruction, as if killing was just play, a computer game, or a unique, exciting, extreme experience. A final experience. Wester... ...s of thousands of baht. This house of mine is built from teak; I sawed the boards myself from tree trunks, and now, if I was to sell this house and as... ...ures of angels and religious stories and Thai decorations carved into teak boards. Stylish Thai decoration. I spent 10 years altogether in Chian Rai, ... ...ung men rode around in the forests on sturdy-framed bicycles carrying teak boards between their legs. The trees were felled in the night and sawn into... ...se styles were gleaned from construction magazines, and professional house designers appeared in provincial cities, even some trained architects, crea... ...d business people, and young people visit internet cafes and shops to play games and surf the Internet. However, at the time of interviewing, there we... ...try; in the new cyberworld, animals are Donald Ducks, monsters in computer games, ever jolly animal clowns or scientific miracles restored from extinc...

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...eir four-pronged flowers, remembering—remembering Alcaeus after his field games, his javelin and discus throwing, his flushed face, his eyes lit, hi... ...poetry, dreamer, lovely singer. Plays lyre and flute equally well. Adores games, trees, flowers, swimming, archery. Wants to travel, be a priestess.... ...out Charaxos, his heavy drinking, then the darkness and torches, the wild games and dances higher up the mountain... “I shouldn’t have gone with hi... ...monkey-man dove for shells, youngsters swam from small boats, hailing us, boarding us, some bringing fish as gifts. A blond, husky body, his shoulde... ...coins. I have one with a porpoise leaping. The Greeks were master minters-designers. Francesco says he knows a place in Paris that sells Greek antiq... ...uld to my family’s upkeep in Stratford. Then came the day when the school board asked me to find another job; so it was back to London again, to Jon... ...alize certain scenes on the stage and sometimes strange actors walked the boards and stole my lines, fixing them with their own personalities. Alleyn...

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...es, purse, even her earrings. Asian people love to show off logos; I'm sure designers are having a field day with all that free advertising. I know ... ...ection agent. Why is the airbag on my side so small? It's like the size of a Game “ Boy, Gabriel asks. He's the type of person that demands an answer... ... over to his house to play Nintendo. Back then, the Japanese had the newest games to hit the market. So Gabriel made a lot of new friends in no time... ...red. For those of you that are not cognizant of Street Fighter, it's a video game that started out in the late 80's to become the greatest fighting g... ... can hope for is to not get a beating from the good, old feather duster. Now Boarding: Flight 6025, Los Angeles to... I hear the audio announcement fo... ...ncement for our “ ” flight, loud and clear, which means that we're ready to board an unbearably agonizing 15 hour, non-stop flight, while watching f... ...ding the same differential calculus textbook that she was reading before we boarded the plane. She's a machine, my little sister. My parents are stil...

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...uenced it. That influence remains. Beyond the academy, my main debt is to the board members and staff of Creative Commons, Science Commons, and ccLearn... ...f Creative Commons, Science Commons, and ccLearn. Creative Commons, on whose board I am proud to have served, is the brainchild of Larry Lessig and Ha... ... exist today. Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia and another Creative Commons board member, also provided key insights. Finally, but for the leadership... ... the word “Olympic” and will not permit gay activists to hold a “Gay Olympic Games.” The Supreme Court sees no First Amendment problem with this. 3 Ma... ... on his father, my son had long since wandered off in search of a basketball game to watch. But I have to admit his question was something of an epiph... ...t design protection but relies heavily on the trademarks accorded to favored designers and brands. There are “knockoffs” of Armani or Balenciaga, but ... ...not be triggered by the footsteps of individuals. It was reserved for bigger game. This was no accident. The law of intellectual property placed its t...

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...old shower, this defused the situation for a time. Now back at the drawing board, God was busy town planning and allocated a plot of earth for a smal... ...n look like your next-door neighbour to something dreamed up by pc gaming designers. They greatly tower the low establishment and prefer to wear bla... ...e ride to the top of Mt Ararat where he remained for centuries until a 8 board rotted away and his horns where finally freed. The only reason the bi... ...s repulsively affectionate towards other creatures that consider her fair game to unload their personal garbage on. She enjoys listening to gossip a... ...e tackers captive in some areas. I have sent in a crew to introduce a new game for the tiny creatures to play; vandalism will keep them occupied for... ...outside like spoilt children. They amused themselves with their favourite game, ‘Russian roulette’, imp style; the gun goes off every time. As the go... ... quickly verbalised a message on his window to go up on the public notice board. To Sludge City. Warning! Stella Brown surpasses Teflon; nothing stic...

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...ough arbitration, an employees' council, trustees or an employer-employee board. Unconventional Modes of Work Work used to be a simple affair o... ...national collective agreement for the economic sector between CCM and the Board of Employers of the Economic Chamber of Commerce of Macedonia. Anot... ...l be granted effective control of the shop floor and participation in the board of directors of firms. A tripartite social contract will increase ... ...ctivities - from afar. Distributed manufacturing, virtual teams (e.g., of designers or engineers or lawyers or medical doctors), multinationals - ar... ...l policy. The former wishes to ensure the conditions and the rules of the game - the latter to recruit the players, train them and win the game. The...

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...ich concepts they deem causally relevant. The FCM seems merely to encode its designers' biases and may not even encode them accurately. FCM combin... ...: sickness of players, referee’s mistakes, atmospheric conditions during the game). These parameters act on players’ psychology. 25 As in this ... ...d in the Madras State Legislative Council to form a Hindu Religious Endowment Board with a view to put an end to the age-old monopoly and exploitati... ...d it. Hotels in run by the Brahmins were called ‘Brahmin Hotel’ in the name boards, giving the impression that it was a superior caste. Periyar wa... ...press and are not a part of any other public work or trade or government. The board that carries out this work should be renewed once in every five ...

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...bitterness of the cup I drink! But I bow submissive. God must have done right. I do not want to feel less, but to acquiesce more simply. There were so... ...siness and failed to make it answer. In a word, those streets looked so dull, and, considered as theatrical streets, so broken and bankrupt, that the ... ...e centre of these, in a desk or pulpit cov- ered with red baize, was the presiding minister. The kind of rostrum he occupied will be very well underst... ...e no railroads in the land, I left it in a stage-coach. Through all the years that have since passed, have I ever lost the smell of the damp straw in ... ...interesting. As I looked in at this window for twenty minutes by the clock, I am in a po- sition to offer a friendly remonstrance—not bearing on this ... ...er; consisting of a slice, a cell, and a wedge. The slice is assigned to the two clerks, the cell is occupied by the principal, and the wedge is devot... ... young fellow who had sisters and young country friends, and who gave them a little party that night, in the course of which they played at Blindman’s...

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...ing now peeled off or reddened, covers the walls. The ceiling is of wooden boards artistically joined and painted and gilded. The gold is scarcely not... ...y. Three English guns equally suitable for chase or war, three sabres, two game-bags, the utensils of a huntsman and a fish- erman hang from nails upo... ... indifferent to fatigue, firm in his saddle, sure of his shot whatever the game might be,—deer, hare, or a bird on the wing,—intrepid in face of obsta... ...ill at that point in Guerande. 34 Balzac IV A NORMAL EVENING M OUCHE IS A GAME played with five cards dealt to each player, and one turned over. The ... ...been limited to geography and the circum- spect history of a young ladies’ boarding-school, the Latin and Greek of seminaries, the literature of the d... ...Here we see the carved wooden bedstead painted white, with the arched head-board surmounted by Cupids scattering flowers, and the canopy above it ador... ...ight have sat for those contrasting portraits in “keepsakes” which English designers and engravers seek so persistently. Here were the force and the f...

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...r its beautiful sites, for the fa- mous chateaux which princes, monks, and designers have built, such as Cassan, Stors, Le Val, Nointel, Persan, etc.,... ...n been to your house in the rue de la Chaussee d’Antin to carry baskets of game,” said Pierrotin, “but I’ve never had the advantage, so far of seeing ... ...ining the fruits and vegetables of the season, chickens, eggs, butter, and game. The steward always paid the carriage and Pierrotin’s fee, adding the ... ... ing to the eye. The floors, never waxed, were of that gray tone we see in boarding-schools. When Pierrotin came upon Monsieur and Madame Clapart at t... ...lady who lives in the rue de la Cerisaie, to whom I often carry fruit, and game, and poultry from Presles. She is a Madame Husson.” “Who is that man?”... ...chnical schools; and, besides, where could I get the three thousand francs board-money which they ex- tract? This is life as it is, my child. You are ... ...whose work he now did wholly. He had a salary of eight hundred francs with board and lodging. Consequently, uncle Cardot, who went privately to Desroc...

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...; Chatelet, elegant, and as much at home as an actor treading the familiar boards of his theatre, in two days had recovered all the ground lost in the... ...nt almost al- ways has recourse. Here you beheld no piles of straw-stuffed game never destined to make the acquaintance of the spit, no fantastical fi... ... 1840. Mutton cutlets and fillet of beef at Flicoteaux’s repre- sent black game and fillet of sturgeon at Very’s; they are not on the regular bill of ... ...orchon,” he said, addressing a shopman. He had read the names on the sign- board—Vidal & Porchon (it ran), French and foreign book- sellers’ agents. “... ...his position. In one month or thereabouts he had spent sixty francs on his board, thirty for lodging, twenty more francs in going to the the- atre, an... ...rancs! why, you will give a bowl of punch to your friends, or win an extra game of billiards, and there’s an end of it!” “Finot’s savings will cost hi... ...ence with the sultan of the publishing trade. Printers, paper-dealers, and designers were catechizing Dauriat’s assistants as to present or future bus...

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...led; even his garden was upon a yearly tenancy, and overshadowed by a huge board that proclaimed it not so much a garden as an eligible build- ing sit... ...houses and more, more shops, more competition, plate-glass shops, a school-board, rates, omnibuses, tramcars—going right away into London itself—bicyc... ...s still not built upon and unchanged, except for a couple of advertisement boards, one recommending a two-and- sixpenny watch, and one a nerve restore... ... resolutely Londonward. He did not once look back. “That’s the end of that game!” said Bert. “No more teuf- teuf-teuf for Bert Smallwavs for a year or... ...of an adequate equipment for a balloon ascent: a ham- per which included a game pie, a Roman pie, a cold fowl, tomatoes, lettuce, ham sandwiches, shri... ...filth. The attack upon America was to be the first move in this tremendous game. But no sooner had it started than instantly the aeronautic parks were... ...nts with its own devices were limited by the needs of secrecy. None of the designers of airships and aeroplanes had known clearly what their invention...

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...t lead a real attack, since he was used to leading such enterprises on the boards. My father was brave; he ac- cepted the post, led the insurgents, an... ...t might be at least as useful to herself as to the sick woman. Between two games of boston, or out walking in the Jardin Turc, the old beldames with w... ...ith checkered lattice-work and the hideous garlands due to the uninventive designers of the time. Still, if harmony at least had prevailed, if the fur...

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...interesting adventure occurred. The Prince of Orange, after playing a fine game of chess with our army, suddenly invested Namur with a large force, le... ... pected an easy victory but, to their astonishment, he gained almost every game, won back much more than he had lost, and then laughed in the faces of... ...our at which he would see it. The reception, however, was to take place on board a large Dutch vessel that he was going to examine. There were two amb... ...lace rather an odd one, but were obliged to go there. When they arrived on board the Czar sent word that he was in the “top,” and that it was there he... ...ti and the Grand Prieur were playing, and a dispute arose respect- ing the game. The Grand Prieur, inflated by pride on ac- count of the favours the K... ... procuration, and set out on the 13th for Nice, where she was to embark on board the Spanish galleys for Barcelona. The King of Spain, meanwhile, afte... ...r best general officers on horseback, and a larger number of engineers and designers on foot, profited by these ridiculous colloquies to put upon pape...

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...figure out to each other; some had spoken to him, a few young men had made game of him, but his stolid manner showed entire contempt for these aimless... ...r, while we are not in yours. Silence and submission! or I shall join your game and upset the skittles. Lucien de Rubempre is under the protection of ... ... so much had they been spoiled by the vulgarest household tasks. The young boarders began by being jealous of these mar- vels of beauty, but they ende... ... 40 Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life equally horrible, exhausted the convent-boarder. The coolest rest, the calmest nights, taking the place of crushing... ...d. She regretted nothing; she wanted nothing. The Superior, puzzled by her boarder’s answers, did not know what to think when she saw her pining under... ...for her persistently; and as he could not find her, she became to him what game is to the sportsman. Could Herrera understand the nature of a poet’s l... ... said Nucingen. 185 Balzac By chance this carpet, by one of our cleverest designers, matched with the whimsicalities of the Chinese curtains. The wal...

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...he piled trucks of brown and white stone banging behind them till the side-boards were unpinned, and with a roar and a grumble a few thousand tons mor... ...ty-center transient—a wall-eyed, yellow frame-house of a horse, sent up to board from a livery-stable in town, where they called him “The Lamb,” and n... ...sence then till I come here, I’ve run away with more men than ‘u’ d fill a boardin’-house. Why, the man that sold me here he says to the boss, s’ he: ... ...ears of ex- periments and improvements in framework and machinery; and her designers and owner thought as much of her as though she had been the Lucan... ... oil-lamps the talk turned as usual to the unfailing subject of shikar—big game-shooting of every kind and under all sorts of conditions. Young Chinn ... ...o alter them on the way. Because the savage and the child who plays lonely games have one horror of being laughed at or questioned, the little folk ke... ...b- able, but bird-skins, butterflies, beetles, and, above all, news of big game pleased him. In other respects, too, he lived up to the Chinn traditio...

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...nscious- ness of the new dissent. They are absorbed in the long stand- ing game, the getting in, the turning out, the contests and governments, that h... ...lation to the new perception of affairs, to the real drift of life, as the game of cricket with the wheel as a wicket would have to the des- 23 H G W... ...ket would have to the des- 23 H G Wells tinies of a ship. They find their game highly interesting and no doubt they play it with remarkable wit, skil... ...ps inde- pendent. He tells me that it is the practice of many large school boards in this country to dismiss women teachers on marriage, or to refuse ... ...ease. But now comes a curious thing that those who praise the good old pre-Board School days—the golden age of virtu- ous innocence—ignore. The Illegi... ... between Sutton and Banstead, to what is perhaps preferable, the system of boarding-out little groups of children with suitable poor people. Provided ... ...and some with a proclivity for drawing and design would become architects, designers of appliances, and the like. The idea of the ordinary develop- me...

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...ides for the others in the circling tiers the enter tainment of the great game. There is no other participant, of course, than each of the real, the ... ... very extent of our occasion, however, lay in the fact that, unlike wanton designers, we had, not to “create” but simply to recognise—recognise, that ... ...te of waters, a—what do you call it?—a consort. I don’t ask you to stay on board with me, but I must keep your sail in sight for orientation. I don’t ... ...t with which she rejoiced to supply her friends. These friends were in the game—that of playing with the disparity between her as pect and her charac... ...gh windows of a Roman palace, of an historic front by one of the great old designers, thrown open on a feast day to the golden air. His look itself at... ...r husband’s exaggerated emphasis was his box of toy soldiers, his military game. It harm lessly gratified in him, for his declining years, the militar... ...usly, tenderly, as those of a chess player rest, a few sec onds, over the board, on a figure he thinks he may move and then may not: small florid ancie... ...hem. For a good long stay in the old way and on the old terms: ‘as regular boarders’ Fanny used to call it. That is if they’ll come.” “As regular boar...