Word: virtualization
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...full-fledged role playing game. The soundtrack comprises some of the most vivid medieval-themed music yet committed to the videogame medium, conjuring a distinctly Old World atmosphere. Each landscape is rife with textural and architectural detail that makes it seem like an actual site rather than a repetitive virtual board. These maps are overrun by baddies (in dungeons and remote locations) and by amusing communities (in friendly towns) in which you’ll sell goods, hear completely mundane gossip and play with children. In between levels, you’ll receive letters from your family and have...
PHOTOSITE This new online photo site stands apart from competitors like Ofoto and Snapfish by offering better-looking albums with a variety of virtual frames, styles and background colors. To create an album, download the PhotoSite Album Builder software from photosite.com Next, select the pictures you want to post online, design the look of your album and click the publish button. Friends will receive an e-mail invitation to view the pictures, which they can save to their computers easily and at no charge. PhotoSite is free for the first 150 photos or $70 a year for an unlimited number...
...wasn't a vote of confidence. A national study found that virtual colonoscopy, a computerized-imaging technique that offers a less invasive way to screen for colon cancer, was significantly less effective at finding polyps than standard scans. Yet only months ago, another study, using more advanced equipment, showed it to be just as good as traditional colonoscopy at detection. The disparity prompted J.A.M.A. to editorialize that the difference between virtual colonoscopy's potential and its results in normal practice is "so great that physicians must be cautious." Both technique and training need improvement...
...chanting her name. Typically, her first words to adoring online auctioneers are, "This is about you." In a sense, she's right: eBay would not be what it is today--one of the fastest-growing companies in America, collecting more than $2 billion in annual revenue--without its virtual community of approximately 30 million active users. They are the ones who are trading $900 worth of goods and services a second on her website...
...ready for a terrorist attack with smallpox, preparing for the next influenza pandemic and battling the growing obesity epidemic among America's young all at the same time. It also means being able to think globally. During the SARS crisis, for example, the CDC became part of a pioneering virtual lab in which researchers from different continents collaborated via computer to detect, identify and analyze the agent responsible for SARS in record time. Such openness to collaboration is a hallmark of Gerberding's style and will remain the key to how the CDC handles future crises. --By Alice Park